HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Wishing you lots of fun, good music & nice people in 2011.

"I know that it's true

it's gonna be a good year"

And don't forget to come on our traditional carnival on January, 1st. Everybody knows that they are the best ones.

R.I.P. R&B LEGEND TEENA MARIE

Teena Marie

March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010

Thank you for your music and your amazing voice. Your music will last forever. R.I.P.

MERRY X-MAS TO ALL MY CATHOLIC READERS

MAIN SOURCE - LOOKING AT THE FRONT DOOR

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (DON VAN VLIET) – R.I.P.

Don Van Vliet

a.k.a. Captain Beefheart

January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010

R.I.P.

Thanks for music, art and inspiration you gave us.

COLOGNE TAPE - RENDER 2 (MAGAZINE EDIT)

Here is the wonderful slo-mo house jam I've found in the latest Beats In Space podcast with Superpitcher. It's a Magazine Edit on "Render 2" by Cologne-based electronic-supercollective Cologne Tape.
Members of Cologne Tape include Ada, Axel Willner (The Field), Jorg Burger, Jens-Uwe Beyer (Popnoname), John Harten, Philipp Janzen (Von Spar), Daniel Ansorge and Battles' drummer John Stanie. As you see, this is truly an epic project and I bet that just the names of it creators make you wanna check it.
All of the five tracks on "Render" EP are worth listening but I'd recommend you to start with "Render 2 (Magazine Edit)", 'cause it's definetely one of the main slo-mo house anthems of the year. I just don't know how I've overlooked it?

2010 RECORDS THAT I REALLY DIG - TOP 50 ALBUMS CHART

Well, 2010 was a pretty weak year in the musical history and there were no any remarkable masterpieces like Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973 or even Animal Collective's "Merriweather Post Pavilion" in 2009. Everything was very modest and poor.
Anyway, lots of nice qualitative music here. For example, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's "Before Today", Autechre's "Oversteps" and so on. Check out the list of my favourite 2010 albums to be sure:

1. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
2. Actress - Splazsh
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
4. Deepchord Presents Echospace - Liumin
5. Autechre - Oversteps
6. Sylvain Chauveau - Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
7. Scuba - Triangulation
8. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
9. Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
10. Oddisee - Traveling Man
11. The Knife In Collaboration With Mt. Sims & Planningtorock - Tomorrow, in a Year
12. Slum Village - Villa Manifesto
13. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
14. ShinSight Trio - Somewhere Beyond the Moon
15. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
16. The Black Dog - Music for Real Airports
17. Shit Robot - From the Cradle to the Rave
18. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
19. Onra - Long Distance
20. Paul White - Paul White & the Purple Brain
21. The Underbelly - Seven Feet Under
22. Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
23. Black Milk - Album of the Year
24. Deerhunter — Halcyon Digest
25. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Kings Ballad
26. The Chemical Brothers - Further
27. John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up!
28. PVT - Church With No Magic
29. John Roberts - Glass Eights
30. Blue Six - Neosis
31. Kuniyuki Takahashi - Walking in the Naked City
32. MGMT - Congratulations
33. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
34. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
35. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
36. Trentemøller - Into The Great Wide Yonder
37. Matthew Dear - Little People (Black City)
38. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
39. Shed - The Traveller
40. Alex Smoke - Lux
41. Toro Y Moi - Causers of This
42. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
43. Massive Attack - Heligoland
44. Richard Skelton - Landings
45. José James - Blackmagic
46. Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
47. Bonobo - Black Sands
48. Aloe Blacc - Good Things
49. Robert Hood - Omega
50. Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers

THE STONE ROSES - FOOLS GOLD (PHILIPPE VOUS AIME EDIT)

Made an easy edit of The Stone Roses' "Fools Gold" just to play at tomorrow's party. Pitched up the tempo, looped some moments and got rid of nearly 80 percents of vocal line. I really love Ian Brown's voice but in this case it ruins all of the track's drive which I need for a party.

As you see, not much work; but that's exactly what I need.

TOP-10 NOVEMBER TRACKS

Here is the top-10 of my favourite november tracks (in no particular order):

• Michael Franks - The Lady Wants To Know
• Anquette - I Will Always Be There For You
• Pacific! - From Lips Divine
• Meanderthals - Bugges Room
• Erik Satie - Trois Morceaus En Forme De Poire
• Mike Oldfield - In High Places
• David Lynch - Good Day Today
• Petar Ugrin - Silhueta Nekdanjosti
• John Cale - The Endless Plain Of Fortune
• Pawel - Coke

If you know Russian you can read my commentaries here but even if you are an English-speaking dude you should also follow that link to listen those tracks online.

FAD GADGET - SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

RYOJI IKEDA - DATA.MATRIX

SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU - A CLOUD OF DUST

THIS IS THE INSPIRATION MIX #1

Tracklist:

01. Ripperton - Solastalgia

02. Pantha du Prince - The Splendour (feat. Tyler Pope)

03. John Roberts - August

04. Clarisse Muvemba - Roses (Bangana Remix)

05. Patrice Bäumel - Sub

06. Pawel - Kramnik

07. Martyn - Miniluv

08. Tama Sumo & Prosumer - Rarified (The Oliverwho Factory Remix)

09. Caribou - Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)

10. TJ & DJ Raybone - Gone

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This is the first mix in my "This Is The Inspiration" mixtape series dedicated to the music that inspires me to create, live and have fun. It consists of tracks produced by my favourite modern techno/house producers including Pantha du Prince, John Roberts, Prosumer, Motor City Drum Ensemble, etc.

But it doesn't mean that every episode of "This Is The Inspiration" will be the same, no.

In my future mixes you'll hear absolutely different material in various genres ranging from ambient to abstract hip-hop, from smooth jazz to detroit techno and so on.

Sometimes I'll even put my own tracks and remixes as well as the music written by my friends. Maybe someday it will inspire someone too :).