In search of the simple, not shallow

North Sea Jazz festival 2010. For one night the Yukon stage is transformed into Hyperrhythm, bringing together four descendants of the beat generation, each with an individual style. After Mike Slott, Dorian Concept and Hudson Mohawke, the final part will be in the hands of Dimlite. His music feels superconcentrated, looking for new shapes, without losing the emotion. Unknown rhythm patterns, haunting voices, alway relevant – the Swiss  musician was often ahead of his time, but never much on the forefront. The people who know, know. Before Dimlite goes on stage, we have a little chat. While his early releases from 2005 still sounds fresh, I ask what has changed recently.

Dimlite: So much has changed. The music itself has changed ofcourse. And I have changed, I guess. Hopefully, no certainly. I can’t even describe because it’s my own music, it’s very subjective and personal.

R: I wonder if the older things were more sampled?

D: Simple?

R: No sampled.

D: Yeah, the older things were more half/half. And now there is no sample at all anymore, but not for the reason I would hate samples. I did this one song recently, where I took a whole song from the sixties and I kind of extracted the vocal track of it and I made a beat underneath it and a couple of chords, very simple. I released it as an mp3, as a gift for people who bought a digital single, and it seems people like this song more than the stuff that is closer to my heart. That is I think partly because I uses portions of someone else’s music, which is kind of funny.

R: And maybe a little bit painful too…

D: No it’s not painful at all, it made me grin. My flatmate asked if he could release the song on vinyl. And I explained him I don’t want this to come out on a serious format because I don’t want to sample anymore, I don’t want to release music that Continue reading »

Summer has arrived and the city feels a bit more #zimzimma, #oochiewallie, #partyhard. So I’d like to share two mixes with you to get in this vibe and play on a summerjam. Reinier made a dedication to the rise of UK Funky for VPRO Dorst – which gets me in the mood for London’s Notting Hill Carnival in August. And those new boys on the block called L’Afrique Som Systeme mixed dancehall, dipset with a dubstep twist and fresh African music  for Metro54.

Tomorrow Metro54 hosts a blockjam under station Bijlmer feat. Zwart Licht, 22Tracks, Viral Radio and Radna playing her favourite records + many more. It’s free, from 3PM-11PM,  swing by!

PS: did you see the Appelsap line-up?

DORST – UK FUNKY

L’AFRIQUE SOM SYSTEME – METRO54

Like every year, we get in the mood for the North Sea Jazz Festival by making a preview show. We built a little studio in Radna’s livingroom, and had a cup of tea while playing some of the highlights of the festival. Friday will be hectic, since our friends from Viral Radio programmed a stage called Hyperrhythm, featuring Mike Slott, Dorian Concept, Hudson Mohawke and Dimlite. But at the same night there’s also Shafiq Husayn, Gil Scott Heron and José James. What to do? And what to do with the worldcup finals Sunday? Hopefully we can celebrate Dutch victory with Stevie Wonder, and otherwise I’m sure his music will console us.

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Track list:

Heralds of Change – Spotted
Caetano Veloso – Um Canto De Afoxé  Para O Cloco De Ile
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Spottie
José James – Nola
Lee Fields – My World
Herbie Hancock – Butterfly
Stevie Wonder – Girl Blue
Shafiq Husyan – Le’Star
Ornette Coleman – Lonely Woman
Hudson Mohawke – Speed Stick
Dorian Concept – Nod Navigators
Dimlite – Kalimba Death Swamp
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Flipside
Gil Scott Heron – We Almost Lost Detroit

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Because I missed recording Future Vintage (we are in doubt if and how to continue, because our new studio didn’t work out as hoped for – got ideas?) I started playing records on Ustream the last 2 weeks, just when I felt like it. If you missed the live broadcasting; here’s the hour I played last Sunday night. All improvised, all vinyl. Download here.

Track list:

Maxmillion Dunbar – Loveloop (Bonus Socket)
Moondog –
Elmore Judd – There’s a War Going on Outside
Gray – So Far So Real
The Long Lost – Art of Kissing
Ahmad Jamal – Too Late Now
James Pants – In Love With You
Roisin Murphy – Prelude to Love in the Making
Wu-Tang Clan – Ice Cream (instrumental)
Gary Davis feat. MC Chocolate Star – The Pop
J Dilla – Crushin’ (instrumental)
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Spottie
Madlib – Steppin’ Again
Moodymann – Freaky MF
LCD Sounsystem – 45:33 (Theo Parrish remix)
Andres – A5
Truth is Light – Stayed Away
California Flight Project – California Flight
Maxmillion Dunbar – Wouldn’t Matter
Midnight Express – Danger Zone (demo version)
Talking Heads – Warning Sign

Sunday June 13 by Radna by FutureVintage

Pssst, just a little heads up about Seeing Sounds this thursday, since I think Future Vintage listeners will like this one especially. Seeing Sounds #4 is dedicated to the music and ideas of legendary jazz composer Sun Ra. Born on Saturn and known for his cosmic philosophy, the mythical Sun Ra touched the entire history of jazz, from swing music to electronic experiments. His film Space is the Place (1974) is an entertaining mix of blaxploitation, afro-futurism and avant-garde jazz, where Sun Ra saves Afro-Americans by transporting them outerspace through music. Max Cole, who in the past interviewed bandmembers of Sun Ra’s Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra, gives an introduction and plays a selection of Sun Ra’s extensive music catalog.

“I’m here on the planet, you might say, for a mission. That means that I have to be careful what musicians I use.” – Sun Ra

“Black power and free jazz collided with the fashion sense of Superfly” – New York Times

Listen to this Sun Ra mix by Max Cole and 1.1. (DOWNLOAD here) check the program on Facebook, see the video, and come along!

See you there? Seeing Sounds #4 | June 10 2010 | De Verdieping | Wibautstraat 127 | 20:00 uur | Entrance 4,-

To celebrate a new night at the SJU Jazz stage in Utrecht, the three gentlemen of Zick Zack Soundsystem present a mix dedicated to the musical diversity of UK soundsystem culture. If you’re into deep street soul, freestyle jazz, heavy bass funk, Caribean sounds and new electronic vibes from London, you’d probably love this.

June 11, the soundsystem plays in the bassment of SJU and hopes to bring a fresh flavour to the Utrecht music scene. This mix and the artwork (made by Hoax) are a promising start. Fudge special 11 juni by ZickZacksoundsystem

Summer didn’t really took off here the last weeks, so both Reinier and I were hiding in the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam (where I took the pictures above). Curly teeth, the distant sound of steelbands and some tropical heatwave inspired us to make a mix for you. So check it out, still don’t make no sense. Making flippy floppy, trying to do our best. DOWNLOAD

A Melotropical Mix by FutureVintage

This saturday, Strange Fruit, our kindred spirits from Rotterdam, celebrate their 5th birthday. With quite a line up: Theo Parrish will be playing a 4 hour set, and Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf will also dig deep in the crates. Live act is Spec Boogie from Brooklyn, New York. If you don’t know him yet, check out the refreshing Bed Stuy. You’d like to be there? The good news is we have 2 tickets to give away. If you e-mail us the right answer to the question: Which Spike Lee film is sampled in Spec Boogie’s song Bed Stuy (mentioned above)? We wish Thelonious &  Lucky Dubz a happy birthday.

E-mail us before wednesday, winners will get the news thursday.
May 14th – Strange Fruit – Westkruiskade 26 – Watt Café & Basement – €13,50

Get in the mood: 120 mins of Theo Parrish for RMBA Radio (2008)

Dear listeners, we’re having a little springbreak at the moment, so there’s no show this week. Radna will be travelling to London in a few days, Melodee is finishing  her new album, and Reinier is in the middle of squatting a building (and working on the tropical airwave mix, more on that soon). We won’t leave you with empty hands though. You can still download La Melodia’s ‘Come and get it‘ at Nalden.net. Or scroll through our archive of more then 100 shows over here and here. Then we’re also enyoing the recent radioshows of our friends from Holdboxflat and Hepcatradio. And James Pants just dropped a fresh Stones Throw podcast inlcuding some new tracks. Not to forget Antal is still diggin’ at Crazybirds. In the meantime even a new blog started of, dedicated to Nodnavigators, the little sister label of Kindred Spirits that is releasing Mweslee’s Eurocarne EP. Spring has arrived, and time is flying. R.I.P. Guru, and R.I.P. Steve Reid, who’s honoured with this mix by More Tea Vicar.

After the first edition of Seeing Sounds about the no-wave scene in Downtown New York, #2 is again about a city in crisis, that plays an essential role in recent music history. Detroit, the city of Motown soul and the automobile industry, is also known as the birthplace of techno music. Two short VPRO documentaries are screened: Kraftwerk & Detroit Techno and Detroit, Comeback City, while DJ Darco Cezveciyan plays music by pioneers of the techno movement. Also William de Bruijn, director of Detroit, Comeback City (1998) will be present to talk about the relation between the economics and architecture of Detroit and the music that originated there. “A complete mistake…like George Clinton and Kraftwerk caught in an elevator, with only a sequencer to keep them company.” We’re going underground this time, so I hope to see you in de Verdieping tomorrow, the space below club Trouw Amsterdam.

To get in the mood, here’s a playlist of Detroit techno compiled by Underground Resistance. And some essential reading, 3 great interviews with techno’s founding fathers Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. More info on Facebook and Twitter. PS: If you’re into this, you also don’t want to miss Disco3000 in Trouw this saturday, with Urban Tribe live, featuring Moodymann aka Kenny Dixon Jr, Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir & DJ Stingray – all from the D.

#2 | 22 april 2010 | De Verdieping | Wibautstraat 127 | Entrance 4,- | Doors open: 20.00 | Introduction starts 20:30