Have a listen to sets by Shane Burmania, Juha, Breakfast of Champions, Deluge, and Mark from Middlesex. Playing roughly (in the same order) contemporary and avant garde music, future Vrieshuis (Amerika), 80’s & 80’s baby’s, the newest beats, soul & jazz, and electronic stuff from all over the place.

There are a couple of technical difficulties here and there and there’s not a lot of talking, but all music is really nice, and we had a good time doing this. Some track lists are below.

Enjoy!

Red Light Radio Day 5 – Future Vintage @ 5 Days Off 03-11-2012 by Red Light Radio

Shane:

Deluge:

Ta-Ku – When I Met You
Union – Indian Girl
Daniel William – Brainscratch (Demo)
Radio Galaxy – Feel Trip
QwertyMusique – Moonglasss
Mark de Clive-Lowe & Nia Andrews – More Than A Woman
Floating Points – Marilyn
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #5
Stalley – Everything New

The last weeks we’re a bit chaotic, but inspiring. It felt like we fought the Dutch art cuts and played at the International Radio Festival in Zurich at the same time, which we did, kind of.

The news has probably reached you somehow, and as I write this Radna is in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, at the kick off of a big demonstration against the Dutch cuts on art funding. Cuts on funding may be necessary, but it feels a bit like a wrong message is sent with these cuts on art funding. Almost as if people working in culture are lazy, and profiting inappropriately from governmental support. With Future Vintage we experienced quite the opposite, and haven’t ever seen people working so hard for a thing they’d love to share with others. Like Viral Radio taking the risk of booking artists like Flying Lotus, Mike Slott, Hudson Mohawke, Ras G and many more at the beginning of their carreer in the unique classic jazz setting of the Bimhuis.

Or Hugo and Orpheu of Red Light Radio, who luckily saw their private investments and free time in the studio rewarded with an endorsement by Voordekunst. This resulted in a lot of money raised by you and other listeners of Red Light Radio to keep us on air for another year, and maybe even beyond. We won’t forget the Van Gogh Museum, the NAi, Foam and Museum ‘t Dolhuys either, museums who all programmed off the beaten track and gave us the chance to meet new and old listeners in another environment than the usual club/studio setting.

Meanwhile in Zürich -at the International Radio Festival- we had a lot of fun. Fresh (not so) of the night train we did two hours, and Hugo and Orpheu did one hour with the best Red Light Radio moments. After that, we tasted the especially designed Red Light cocktail (energy drink and red Martini…) went to a lovely dj gig of Urgent FM’s Gerd De Wilde, and lost Orpheu in a complicated taxi thing afterwards. Good times. Hope these shows will be online soon, and we’ll share these as soon as we have them. Promised.

Will you support? DONATE

The goods news there’s already 80% of the money that’s needed to continue, here at crowdfunding platform voordekunst. More than 130 people donated, so please join them and donate something at the website. There’s just 3 days left! And also visit the Red Light Radio benefit party, this Thursday at Boom Chicago Social Club (Amsterdam). Future Vintage is playing upstairs from 22.30 – 00.00, we’re looking forward, and don’t want this to stop.

Recently we got in touch with Jules Inkswel, a diverse producer who stayed in Amsterdam for a while, playing at parties like Boogie Bash and Daisy Age, digging records and working on new music. He just got back to Australia, but was so kind to make a mix for us, with both his own productions as personal favourites.

In our last show you could already listen to ‘She Likes Techno’ – that’s coming out on 12″ via the new Boogie Bash label in March. The A side ‘Get To My Party’ even features one of our special listeners Gary Davis. For fresh disco/hiphop/house/funk flavours in the mix, press play!

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Inkswel mix for FUTURE VINTAGE RADIO by INKSWEL

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

“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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“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)

PIPS:LAB has been experimenting with the combination of technology and music for the past 10 years, taking theater into the year 3000. The past decade they’ve created 3 crazy shows and a number of special installations, of which one allows you to do graffiti by simply using lights?! When they created this ‘light-graffiti-technology’ back in 2003-2004 it was vastly copied by several advertising companies inserting it into commercials for Onitsuka Tiger and even Dutch Public Television.

With the coming of the dutch ‘Parade’, an on-tour event visiting the major cities, they decided to create a new show called Archie & The Bees. This performance centralizes the primary colors red, green and blue and links them to the elements of rhythm. The upcoming show of sunday was supposed to feature an interview with Daniel van West, one of the main characters of the new show, but due to technical difficulties this unfortunately failed..
Never the less we would still like to give away 2×2 tickets for the ‘Archie & The Bees’ show next week on the 5th of August (wednesday) during the Amsterdam Parade. The only thing which is keeping you and the tickets seperated is the answer to the following question: “WHO PLAYS ARCHIE IN THE UPCOMING SHOW?”.
Easy right ?  Just email the correct answer to info@futurevintage.net and get sorted !

If you’re still trying to figure out what the PIPS:LAB shows are all about maybe this helps:

Or just take a peek at: www.pipslab.org

Not every visitor of this blog might know that Future Vintage is able to produce a new show every week, because of the fact that it’s being broadcasted on the Dutch radiostation Radio 6. This station provides us with a recordingstudio and with a small budget, which enables us to make reports, to do interviews, to spend enough time to (re)search music, and to reach out to our audience online.

Sadly, last Friday we were unpleasantly surprised when Radio 6 told us that the show has to stop because of budget restrictions. To be specific, the financial situation of our broadcasting company demands that all freelancers will be fired. And eventhough we’re quite a lowbudget show, all three of us are freelancers which means we have to leave end of August, together with a few other shows.

In the current Dutch radiolandscape, it’s very hard to find a spot that still allows you to play whatever you want. 99% of the DJ’s nowadays has to use a playlist, compiled by the radiostation. Especially in times like these we feel that a show like Future Vintage, which has a carte blanche and tries to share a passion for music in an unpolished way, deserves a spot somewhere – even if it’s in the middle of the night. We all grew up with radio that felt personal, inspiring and that lets you discover new (and sometimes old) music. It would be a shame if this kind of radio would be gone for ever.

For now we’re not sure how to continue. We might look for another public radiostation, or forget the FM, and broadcast strictly online. While we’re developing a new plan, support from you is more than welcome. If you’re a Future Vintage listener and want the show to continue, please leave us a comment below or e-mail us (Dutch or English, whatever you prefer). We’d like to hear what you think, it helps us to develop a new way of continuing the show. So thank you, and stay tuned!

Yours truly,

Future Vintage team
(Radna, Boye, Melodee)