We decided to celebrate the end of 2009 with a little party in our new cosy studio. Recorded on Christmas Eve (with some wine, cheese and kerstkransjes) 4 DJ’s got carte blanche to play their favourite songs of 2009, obscure christmas songs and even their own productions. First up is INT, producer of La Melodia, who’s also working on solo-projects and presents you a Christmas Wonderland. Second DJ playing is Reinier, the newest member of the Future Vintage family. Our third guest is Job de Wit, allround music journalist, former VPRO radio host and now also a club DJ,  who’s specialised in disco music. Number four is Tom Trago, the original DJ of Future Vintage from 2007, who released his first solo album Voyage Direct last year. So there you have it: 2 hours of beats, disco, soul, jazz, & funk selected by four tastemakers. Happy new year!

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Track list:

PT. 1
James Pants – This Christmas Girl
James Pants – Seven Seals Theme
Moon & Sun – Hunt
Food of the Gods – Boy From Brazil
The Please – Untitled
INT-Wonderfull Christmas Bells
INT-What do u do..A Lonely Christmas
INT-Last Christmas With Aretha..
INT-Jamella Umbrella Loop Remix
INT-Merry Christmas Everybuddy
INT-That Magic Of Christmas
INT-Afrosessions#3
INT-1975 UFO Files
INT-The battle for earth
INT-660 Blue Dollar (presentatie)
Van Dyke Parks – Acappella
Daru Jones – Jacilla (feat. Pat Farrell & Andy Lloyd)
Clipse – I’m Good
Sa-Ra – Powder Bump
Rare Essence – Back up against the wall
Funktionaries – Kiss My Funky
The Fall – L.A.
PT.2
Linkwood – Falling
Simian Mobile Disco featuring Beth Ditto – Cruel intentions (Maurice Fulton Remix)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15 to 20 (The Glimmers Remix)
Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Baby Can’t Stop
The KDMS – Never Stop Believing (Nicky Siano Remix)
Tom Trago DJ Set (tracklist unknown)

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Last summer a friend invited me to a rooftop concert. One of the artists performing was Freschard, a French singer who travels guitarless to shows and likes to make things up as she goes along. Her small songs are charming and witty, and it was a great experience seeing her perform. Usually her music is only available at shows, but now Amsterdam based label Conky released her album Click Click (2006) on heavyweight vinyl. And Mr. Conky was so kind to make a mix of Freschard songs especially for Future Vintage. It has a different vibe than the music we usually play, but when in the mood for simply beautiful songs that make you smile, please check it out.

“Here’s a selection of favourites from CD’s that I’ve picked up at the various shows I’ve attended. The mix contains album tracks from Freschard, next to a few Calypso’s and some beautiful cover versions of Bonnie Prince Billie and Nick Cave amongst others. I’ve also included a particularly fine Herman Dune song, sung by the artists formally known as Andre Herman Dune, and recorded for BBC radio in 2005. This is followed by smashing cover of Stanley Brinks by David Tattersall of the Wave Pictures… it’s all wrapped up with a song from Freschard’s most recent CDR, Moonstone. I hope you enjoy the songs and you get to see these fascinating performers playing somewhere near you, very soon….”

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25 years ago, KC the Funkaholic had his first DJ gig. In the years that followed, he saw different music styles come, go, and come back again – but always followed his own taste. A taste that goes above thinking in genres, but is all about selecting the right tracks from the broad spectrum of soul, funk, jazz, house and hiphop music.

KC played basicly everywhere; at the legendary RoXY club, festivals, abroad and Paradiso. But apart from playing music, he’s also the founding father of clubnights like Bassline, Paradisco and Luv Dancin. Plus the Kindred Spirits nights and recordlabel. When it comes to booking artists and giving artists a platform for their first release, he often took risks, simply because he believed in the music.

A few years ago it was KC  who got Melodee, Tom Trago and me together to ask if we would like to do the radioshow that is now Future Vintage. He helped us a lot with the first shows, and his knowledge and amazing record collection are still a big inspiration. Thank you KC!

Let’s celebrate 25 years of sharing music this saturday in Trouw, where KC plays all night long and you can show him some love on the dancefloor. More info here.

This is not your typical Future Vintage show, since for once, we recorded the show on location. At the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam we played music from different cities, as part of the exhibition Open City. So in 2 hours, we travel from Los Angeles, to Detroit, London, a bit of Sao Paulo, to end in Rotterdam. Apart from music you’ll also hear artists like Madlib, Waajeed and Dizzee Rascal talk about their cities and how it influenced their music. Shoutout to DJ Thelonious (Strange Fruit) for playing the records and bringing Rotterdam tracks, Samira who keeps us updated on the London music scene, Reinier for  recording and making pictures, Jorn and the whole NAi crew for inviting us, and Martijn and Neville for passing by.

Track list:

Melton Brothers – Living in the city
Snoop Dogg – ?
Ice Cube – Today was a good day
Dam Funk – Love is here 2nite
Sa-Ra – Hollywood
Flying Lotus -  GNG BNG feat. Gaslamp killer
Jaylib  –  LA To Detroit
Jay Dee – Welcome To Detroit
Quelle – Special Ingredient
J Dilla – Walkinonit
Theo Parrish – The Motor City
J Dilla – B.B.E.
Cybotron – Allies of my mind
Wiley – Eskimo
Dizzee Rascal – I Luv  U
Donaeo – Party Hard
Zed Blas & Tawiah –Further Away
Mala – Alicia
2000Black – Puzzled
Towa Tei – Dubnova (pt.1 & 2)
Moreno – Sertao (Honey On The Golden Dots Mix By Takako Minekawa)
Mike Tibbert – Time For Love
Children of Spacefunk – Mess Up Your Mind
Mike Tibbert – Dangerzone
Fes feat. Blackbird – To Live
Taras van de Voorde – Music Kills
ABC Brassband (live @ NAi)

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For bikerides through Amsterdam I’m always looking for nice podcasts. I was pleasantly surprised that the bPm (from the Brownswood crew in London), who listens to Future Vintage but never understands what we’re saying, started a radioshow himself. Together with d’Wala and Martin Kemp.

At the blog holdboxflat you can find 7 different episodes now of transmit // box // flat, that cover a wide range of music. Moody and mysterious, but always with a warm feeling – the kind of things you want to hear when it’s getting dark early in wintertime.

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PS: Did you already see Fatima’s homemade video for Lil’ Girl? Click.

The next episode of Future Vintage will be recorded on a very special location. On december 11th, we move to Rotterdam to do a show in the NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute) as part of the Sound(s) of the City programme. While you can check out the Open City exhibition, Sound(s) of the City is all about the way music is related to the architecture and atmosphere of specific cities. In our show we’ll explore music from Los Angeles, Detroit, Sao Paulo, London and ofcourse Rotterdam.

The programme:
15.00 – 17.00 Future Vintage recording with Melodee, Radna, & DJ Thelonious
17.00 – 19.00 Debate on the sound of Rotterdam + music
19.00 – 20.00 Bring your own records + DJ Thelonious (Strange Fruit)
Sound(s) of the city = Free entrance! Exhibition: €8,- / students €5,-

How do you think cities influence its music scenes? A big inspiration is the beautiful little video where Theo Parrish explains the sound of Detroit. Continue reading »

And we’re back. This time from a cosy studio in Amsterdam, we recorded the first Future Vintage episode for our new homebase VPRO 3voor12. Instead of one hour, we bring you a 2 hour show. Since we were off air for a while, we had lots of new music we wanted to play, by artists such as Shafiq Husayn, James Pants and FunkinEven (pictured above). But also two tracks by the talented Dutch producer Dean High, who collaborates with Fata Morgana. We’re getting the iTunes podcast back up and running soon, but the show is ready to stream and download right here, right now.

Track list:

Shafiq Husayn – Le’ Star
Little Dragon – Never Never
FunkinEven – Mad Swing
Fata Morgana – Speciaal
Jack Splash – Charlie Wilson
Dam Funk – Mirrors
Nite Jewel – Want You Back
Paul White -  Funk Positive
James Pants – Thin Moon
Tax Free Band – Paranoid Love
Talking Heads – Slippery People
Johnny Guitar Watson – I’m Gonna Get You Baby
East of Underground – Smiling Faces
Halo – Let Me Do It
Michael Jackson – Butter Cup
Build an Ark – World Peace Now
Tribe – How Do We End All This Madness
Paul White – Highlife
Dean High – Spacebaloon
FunkinEven – Kleer
Floating Points – Truly
Joy Orbinson – Hyph Mngo
OJ Simpson – The Paper
Samiyam – Catch me riding dirty
Black Roc – Stay off the f**king flowers
Flying Lotus – Aunties Lock
Sa-Ra – Cosmic Ball

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From this week, Future Vintage starts recording new radioshows again. It took us a while, but we’re very delighted to have a new studio (this time in Amsterdam) and to collaborate with VPRO 3voor12. We’ll record a new 2 hour show every 2 weeks, that you can stream/download/podcast from this blog as usual, or listen to at the 3voor12 website. Melodee and I will present and select the music, together with various DJ’s. 3voor12 is also the public broadcasting station where our friends from Viral Radio are doing their bi-monthly show – so you’ll have an new Viral Radio or Future Vintage episode every week. Promotors, musicians, producers: please send your new music to info [at] FutureVintage.net. UPDATE: Show goes online monday tuesday.

Also we’re looking forward to recording a show in the NAI, Netherlands Institute for Architecture, in Rotterdam. On December 11th Future Vintage will make a special episode there on sounds of different cities, as part of the Open City exhibition.

Probably most of you already heard about Domu leaving the music scene. The 31 year old producer, who was on the forefront of UK broken beat music since an early age, has decided it’s time to quit. Because of a lack of inspiration, the loss of  joy in making music, and a feeling there’s not much to add anymore. My words don’t really count here, what really hit me is the way Domu is explaining it himself, on his weekly blog.

“I once believed in all of it, that I made and played music for a certain type of person, for people who didn’t want to adhere to the ‘normal’ way of life, the free thinker, the independent or open minded type who was bored of the genres, the staples, the blueprints or the formulae. The underground. But I just don’t truly believe I am needed in this battle anymore. It has been passed down to another generation, who are doing it their way, and I have no desire to try and edge in and start proclaiming to be fighting a fight that is no longer mine. I am a 31-year-old man.”

I think his whole statement says a lot about music nowadays. It’s the first time I read about an artist who decides to quit so out in the open, before fading away or going in a wrong direction. It’s a bit harsh, being 31 it’s time to leave it to a new generation. But I mainly see this decision as a vey honest one. On the brighter side, KC the Funkaholic is celebrating his 25-year DJ career in club Trouw soon, during a party called Forever. Everyone is coping different with getting older, experiencing new genres and revivals in music come and go – going for a short or livelong career in music, is a personal and probably difficult choice to make.

Domu Mix – When I’m Feeling Down (2006, via Back and Forth)

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I’m not really a gamefanatic, but when its soundtrack is one of the most exciting albums of the year and Whitney Houston is doing the voice-overs, I’m a fan. Yes, I’m talking about Butterstar Galactica, the game that Warp recently launched to celebrate Butter, the debut album of Hudson Mohawke.

This friday Hudson Mohawke has his album release party in Trouw at Viral Radio, where he’s accompanied by Mamiko Motto’ and Ras G, and ofcourse Juha and Cinnaman. The day after, on the 7th of November, Mamiko will also provide the soundtrack for the opening of Museum Night (n8), which involves a lightprojection on the courtyard of the Hermitage museum in Amsterdam. With 42 locations (from the Planetarium to the Olympic Stadium, and from the Pianola Museum to the Van Gogh Museum), there’s a lot happening, so please visit the website for more info. For now I’ll leave you with Cosmic Tones 4 Mental Therapy Vol. 1 by Ras G (featured on Dublab before):

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Ready to play Butterstar Galactica and reach for the mother butter?

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