Press Release: Parisian abstract maestro DJ Cam is well known for his radical reinventions, a life-long musician who's groundbreaking work established him as a pioneer in the worlds of underground hip-hop, trip-hop, and the dance scenes stretching from New York to Paris to Tokyo and beyond.
Drawing inspiration from the hypnotic trance of voodoo culture, Public Enemy, dub and easy-listening jazz, Cam's style assumes a new identity with each and every project since he first hit the scene in 1994 with his debut Underground Vibes and continues to redefine many of the sounds he had a hand in creating throughout his career.
2011 & 2012 promises big things for DJ Cam as he returns this August with Seven, a new album linking themusical styles of Radiohead and Massive Attack and his first album since 2002's Soulshine. Cam will also be hitting the road as a DJ early on in the year and then featuring his new live project come spring. Redefinition once again.
Burial is back with Four Tet with a the deep dub stylings we all love from him, very nice composition of haunting sounds. The vocals are deep and the beats are more on the 4/4 scale of beats, which crosses over even into house music territory. It's always a breath of fresh air when a producer breaks the mold of what he is known for, and breaks out of the box the press & fans have branded him with.
March 10th The Gasparilla Music Festival debuts in Tampa, Fl. outdoors at Curtis Hixon Park Downtown.
This has to be Downtown Tampa's first outdoor music festival with three stages of live music! From Ra Ra Riot, Deertick, Le Spam All Stars, Tortured Soul, Infinite Groove All Stars, and more it's looking to be the most organized event of this nature to hit Tampa in a very long time. Myself (Selekta Chang), and Blenda will be djing in the VIP tent sponsored by Red Bull in between bands the whole day! For more info on tickets, lineup, and times hit the Gasparilla Music Festival website!
I recently uploaded a old mixtape I did back in 1997, mainly 90s House Music in content. This was originally on a cassette as you will notice on the quality. Listening to this again brings back alot of memories especially the days when I used to be the resident at Simons back from 1993-2000. All I can say is alot of these old house tracks still sound good to this day, man I got to get some these tracks out of storage! Sorry no tracklist cause I cant remember half of the music I mixed on it.
Diggin this new release from Whisky Pickle, a nice variety of disco indie infused dance grooves that will lift the soul. Im especially crating the Walter Jone's remix of "Broken," with its lush synths & cosmic disco groove, and "Skrewhead" with it's big room drive! Look out for it!
Coming Soon From Whiskey Pickle ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Broken 2. Broken (Walter Jones Remix) 3. Topshelf 4. Skrewhead
Johnny Blackouts’ Boozehound EP is an orchestral stupor through dark city streets. It’s an ivory-suited John Travolta stepping out with his Saturday night swagger and a pocketful of psychedelic fever for the disco. Colors change with every footfall. Unsuspecting horns blare out of alleyways. Crumpled men nestled betwixt rusty trash cans raise their heads momentarily, spurting out humanity’s wrongdoings. But the walk continues just as it started - easy, undisturbed, embracing adventure around every corner. Johnny Blackouts’ Boozehound EP is flawlessly structured to complement a rich and heavy population of sounds, generating the bloodline of an animated metropolis.
Elevating in effect, "Broken" harmonizes organic, woody sounds with the whizzes and whirs of the future. Blackouts’ track is headstrong and undeniably rousing - an ideal accompaniment for the journey outward.
Walter Jones knows you want more woodblock. In his take of "Broken," the DFA recording artist adds a sprinkle of boom-snap, neatly reigning the cornucopia of the original into a candy-covered Tootsie Roll center. Grand sweeps and key-filled crescendos heighten the Jones’ experience.
In "Topshelf," red and blue lasers turn away from each other, slicing through the fog. There are ripped t-shirts and flashes of patent leather canvas purple eye shadows and hot pink cheek streaks. The white-clad outsider wipes the whiskey from the corners of his mouth, as a malformed David Lynch character does a sideways tip-toe across the room, and a saxophone laments in the distance. Chained together by a golden thread, "Topshelf" is a cinema of soundscapes.
Johnny Blackouts spares no expense when it comes to cerebral coitus. Laden with jarring samples and a frenzied tempo, "Skrewhead" ties up the Boozehound EP nicely. The peppy stroll around the way peaks with an intoxicating tempest of sounds..
Blacktroniks on Tokyo Dawn Records take a listen for yourself eclectic urban underground transmissions surpassing many bpms! Im not gonna go on a literary rant of a review, this is dope!!
