Tuesday Night Jazz

A wonderful gem was found last night at the Continental Club in south Austin. My friends Dino, Erick and I parked my car and started walking around for a joint to chill out at but first wanted something to eat. So we end up walking around yeying or neying some spots and end up out of choice outside the Continental Club on south Congress and I see a group of young nice lookin peoples and I decide to get a recommendation on food since I didn’t know the area very well. Then the nice lady named Lisa or something tells us we should try Zen the Japanese restaurant that relatively cheap and great taste but also tells us we should come back around 10 for this jazz trio that would be playing in the upstairs of Continental Club and man did she do a great job of persuading us to check it. By the end of her talk we all looked at each other thinking wow, we have to check it out.

That is when an hour later we checked out mr. Ephraim Owens. By far one of the best trumpet players I’ve ever seen and trust me he was amazing. This little joint was a lil off to the side of the main club so it’s like a hidden treasure as Lisa said. It was only 30 or so of us but Ephraim shows up w/ his trio every Tuesday and fills the house w/ his jazzy sensations of smoothness and cool…the original way. If I could place myself in 1939 Harlem and imagine what a bluesy night w/ jazz would be like…it would be like last night and man can he blow that horn so sweetly. I was in love with that sound and I’ll always be. It always makes it better though when someone who knows the trumpet like the back of their hand, tunes it up to its pure beauty. Thank you Mr. Owens for the lovely evening.

If you are in Austin anytime in the future and you’re bored on a Tuesday night, for sure check out the Continental Club on South Congress and check out The Ephraim Owens Experience and tip these guys cause they’re not charging covers at all.

SxSw[the greatness of austin tx]

I’ve been out here in my home town of Austin and basically going nuts over all the great music I saw. What a great time. Even though I got here way late on Friday night, I was still able to make it out to Black & Tan for an evening of good Rock…no synth craze, but it was worthy of attention and dancing. But the highlight of my sxsw experience came when I paid $15 to check out the Official Fool’s Gold Jamboree which started out w/ Nick Catchdubs, Jokers of the Scene, Kid Cudi(which was fantastic btw), Flosstradamus, Kid Sister, A-Trak then closed the evening w/ Chrome-chrome-chromeo-o-o-o….so if u know what I’m talkin about then you can imagine how awesome of a night it was. Which included meeting and conversing w/ some really nice and really cool people. Another great time in Austin, thank you. Hopefully the pics do my experience justice…

check out their myspace for all their tunes

Live Music

We were fortunate enough last night to have the duo Johnny Faa over at the studios and they played some authentic beautiful Irish music that was geared more towards the traditional music. It was Chris Smith and Steve Cooper that came in the studio and brought their flute and bouzouki to educate and entertain us for the first hour of our show with their delightful music. They also played a few songs from their cd’s they were kind enough to share with us and I’ve posted a few of them in zip file you can download from zshare to get the songs played last night. I apologize for the late posting but I had a chunky paper due this morning that I stayed up all night for…so the afternoon nap was necessary.

We also played more of IAM and CFCF and Noudi played some Royksopp and Alif Tree remixd by Felix Laband.

In other news, make sure to show up at BASH’S on Wednesday night for the Old Time Relijun, The Oh Sees & Clipd Beaks show…I know it’s gonna be badass and for it will so much more once I finish the night with a lil set I’ve prepared to ROCK yo face off….seriously, it’s gonna get hot and smokin tmrw night, you won’t wanna miss this. I’m excited so that means it’s gonna be great. I’ll try at least.

We’ll be back for sure after spring break but I’ll post tunes up in between now and then, so no worries. But I’ll be Austin so if anybody knows of any good shows I don’t know bout, for sure leave a note. I’ll be checkin out Chromeo on saturday night so find it on their myspace for more info bout that. Talk to you soon kids.

zip mp3: MIX 23 RHYTHM RUE

CFCF

cfcf is Mike Silver from Montreal, Canada. His official remix contest winning version of ‘air war’ by crystal castles is one to really enjoy. He has the very exquisite taste of slower than usual dance beats, trust me you’ll wanna know some of his songs so when I play them next time at a party, you’ll want to recognize and say “I know this song, I have this song, lets DANCE”…then finish the binge you were on. Influenced by daft punk, alan braxe, fleetwood mac, todd rundgren and the nintendo entertainment system, cfcf gives you analog vintage synth video game soundtrack music with a french house twist!

mp3:Cassie Me and U remix CFCF

mp3:Crystal Castles-Air War CFCF remix

TCO

For today’s selection, I bring you TCO. The aptly named Cinematic Orchestra (TCO) were formed by 30 year old J. Swinscoe back in 1999. At the time Jay was still an employee at Ninja Tune in South London, where he was responsible for export sales at the long-standing independent record label. Swinscoe arrived at London Bridge from Scotland via Yorkshire and Cardiff with a background playing bass and guitar in bands and DJing, as well as a head full of ideas and influences, such as his love of jazz bass players, rhythm sections and film soundtracks.

The tune for you this evening is called “All that you give” featuring Fontella Bass. Here is a good selection for the blog because both me and Noudi have this song and I was going to play it but she already had it on her list. It’s a lovely mix of Fontella Bass and TCO’s great skills of composition. Fontella Bass is one of the great soul sistas that’s still active in the business. She’s originally from St. Louis but started out her big career in Chi-town.

mp3:The Cinematic Orchestra-All that you give ft. Fontella Bass

Mix 22 [3.03.08]

Music of the world for the evening of March 3rd in the year of our lord 2008.

It was a good playlist of Mauritius, Jamaican, Australian and so much more…as usual : )

Artist-Song (Origin) for Part 1

Cassambo-Mo Zeneration Dan Sega (Mauritius)
Ras Mayul & Ras Carosin-Zotsa Leritaz nu Ancet (Mauritius)
Serge LeBrasse-Maurice Mo Pays (Mauritius)
Serge LeBrasse-Cyclone Carol (Mauritius)
Serge LeBrasse-Madame Euzene (Mauritius)
Touch and Go-Life’s a Beach (England)
PNAU-Baby.Breakbot Remix. (Australia)
The Concretes-Keep Yours.Pacific! Remix (Sweden)
Aretha Franklin & Rolling Stones-A Deeper Love.Chew Fu&Steve Clisby Vocal Mix. (America)
The Upsetters-Lizard Stick (Jamaica)
Lee Perry-Soul Fire (Jamaica)
The Flames-Zion (Jamaica)
The Heptones-Crying Over You (Jamaica)
Estelle ft. Kanye West-American Boy (England)
mp3 zipfolder: Mix 22

Z Basement PARTI!

Mr. Erick Stowe over at the newly dubbed “The Basement” threw a party two weekends ago and it took place in his and his roommate’s basement. An actual basement here in Lubbock, which is pretty rare, made the party even more interesting. Though it got hot once in a while the crew kept going and back to the basement and made the night an eventful one. The whole idea was the bless the night with our dancing skills and drunkenness. Here are some pics from that night. A little montage you might say.

Incase you’re interested, we’re having another one this Friday night the 8th. Leave a comment if you wanna show up.

Yael Naim

Another remake better than the original. That’s right. Yael Naim’s version of “Toxic” by Britney Spears is quite the opposite of its original essence. I really don’t get how these pop songs remade with a bit slower beat per minute, added with some sweet sounds of dreamy and gloomy instuments can make one hell of a song. A remake on top of that. This time it is Yael Naim, the French-Israeli musician that grew up in Tunisia, Israel and Paris. She started out in the Israeli Air Force Orchestra and after serving started recording her own lovely music. The shitty thing though is that I’m going to miss her appearance at SXSW, I’m quite sad about that. Thanks Texas Tech for changing our spring break week. But if you are going to be in Austin on March 14 or 15, check her out at the Driscoll Hotel or Bush Square Park. I’m sure it’s going to be great.

Check her out, we had a few callers asking who it was when Noudi played her on the air.

mp3:Yael Naim-Toxic

Crayz Times

Man this week has been as hectic as it can get for a last week of February. I finally got done with Night In Africa and it was a great success. Thanks for everyone that came out Friday night and supported the show. We had a great time. It was all Africa in the air and we did awesome dances from the west, east, south…you name it we had it. I also did a little presentation of “The Africa they never show you”, which I will post up hopefully soon, once I get the dvd back for sure.

So I will apologize for the late posting of last Monday’s show but like I said, the days leading up to Friday’s show were a little too much for my usual chill pace of going about mi days and I hope you understand. I have for you a great mix of tunes from Macedonia, Romania, Cali, London, New Zealand (Flight of the Conchords), Puerto Rico, Mexico…and the list goes on. Here it s and enjoy it.

Artist-Song (Origin)
Doctor Rockit-Café De Flore (London)
Cortijo Y Su Bonche-Agua Que Va A Caer (Puerto Rico)
Cortijo Y Su Bonche-Tiempo De Amor
Macedonian Gypsy Zurle and Tapan Dance Music (Macedonia)
Cigan Muzigi-Mustafa Kandirali (Turkey)
Nicolas Sosa-El Carpintero viejo (Mexico)
Nicolas Sosa-El Trompo (Mexico)
Theory Of Everything-Taking It Back to Edo (Oakland, CL)
Romica Puceanu-Cinenustie (Romania)
Romica Puceanu-Parinti (Romania)
The Upsetters-Teachers Dub (Jamaica)
Billie Holiday-The Very Thought of You (Harlem/Baltimore)
The Invisible Force-Underdround (Dj Food Mix-London)
The Beach-New Order (Dj Food Mix-London)
Chromeo-Needy Girl (Bloc Party Remix-England)

mp3:Rhythm Rue 21

Sladjana Milosevic for Philip Pride… He will kick ass.

If you’re one of us good kind folks who care for the future of Lubbock, Tx even though we won’t be here after too long, then cast your stones by next Wednesday night midnight for Mr. Philip Pride. He’s by far the best candidate for SGA President this year and probably for a long time here at Tech. The opposing candidate is worth nothing in my opinion. I don’t know the person but it doesn’t matter cause the person apparently is going to get 1500 automatic votes cause of the sorority and what not they’re in…and I think that’s perfectly fine, except we the people of America need to know what it is to be a good role model and a good president of the student government. We don’t need some rich kids money to get a good president of the students in office. We got guts and balls that can take down anyone, anytime, anyplace. Philip has worked hard ever since he’s stepped his sexy sandles on Tech’s campus.

Just check out his facebook group page and read for yourself. I’m just helpin out a brother here. Laytas.

Philip Pride for SGA president-Facebook Group

mp3:Sladjana Milosevic-Miki Miki