Gisteravond ging het redelijk mis bij de uitzending van Future Vintage, gelukkig hebben we de juiste opname nog weten te achterhalen. Het is een ruwe mix van de show, dus alvast onze excuses voor de geluidskwaliteit, beetje een sloppy start, maar de tracks maken alles goed.. enjoy! Future Vintage 2009:

Future Vintage – EP 01 – 2009
HELLO TOMORROW

Moodymann – Hello 2morrow [kdj]
Theophilus London – Cold Pillow [cdr]
Flying Lotus – Roberta Flack (Mike Slott remix) [warp]
Elmore Judd – There’s A War Going On [above the clouds]
Joey Smulders - Hello Goodbye Farewell [cdr]
Madlib a.k.a. The Beatkonducta – Lifeline [stones throw]
Kanye West – Paranoid [roc-a-fella]
Dam Funk – Rollin’ [cdr]
Theo Parrish – Chemistry [sound signature]
JAGG – Take Time [delirium]
*3 is the Magic Number*
Marc Moulin – Humpty Dumpty [blue note]
Freddie Hubbard – Red Clay [cti]
Isaac Hayes – Ike’s Mood 1 [stax]
*3 is the Magic Number*
Mayer Hawthorne – When I Said Goodbye [stones throw]

Er wordt gewerkt aan een downloadbare versie van deze show via iTunes, voor nu check de link in de comments.

English readers please check below.

Gisteren hebben Radna, Melodee en ik voor het eerst in maanden weer het mediapark te Hilversum betreden om de eerste ‘officiële’ Future Vintage show van 2009 op te nemen. Wel eens waar een uur korter maar nog altijd even sterk !
Vandaag drop ik een preview op de show die morgen avond tussen 23:00 - 00:00 te beluisteren is op RADIO 6. Uiteraard zal hij de volgende dag online staan, hopelijk in zowel in podcast formaat (itunes) alsmede streaming (via deze blog) en download link.
Anyway! Let’s get down to business….

Veel ga ik niet verklappen, maar een nieuw onderdeel van de show genaamd ‘3 is the magic number’ zal morgen een hommage brengen aan een aantal overleden legendes van 2008.
Wegens de beperkte zendtijd konden we niet iedereen bespreken, vandaar dat ik hier nog eventjes wil terugblikken op Norman Whitfield.. De songwriter van o.a. The Tempations, Undisputed Truth en Edwin Starr die op 16 September 2008 is overleden.
Geboren in Harlem (New-York) en later verhuist naar Detroit (Michigan) vond Whitfield zich op 18-jarige leeftijd werkzaam bij een relatief klein soul-label in Detroit genaamd Thelma Records. Al snel wist de jonge songwriter zichzelf in de spotlights te werken bij de hitmachine van Detroit: Berry Gordy’s Motown en in 1962 werkte hij als songwriter bij Hitsville.
De rest is geschiedenis, met The Temptations als zijn hoofdproject wist Norman Whitfield voor Motown talloze hits te schrijven. Deze kwamen uit op zowel Gordy’s (Berry Gordy’s supplement label voor meer mainstream R&B en soul muziek) evenals Motown en Tamla (sub-labels daar gelaten). Na verloop van tijd besloot Norman Whitfield om zijn eigen label te beginnen en stichte in 1973 Whitfield Records. Hierop schreef en produceerde hij nummers voor artiesten als Rose Royce, The Undisputed Truth en beheerde hij het studio proces voor diverse releases van Willie Hutch (tip: check ook de OST die Hutch maakte voor de film THE MACK).
Een aantal van Norman Whitfield’s meest bekende hits zijn: I Heard It Trough The Grapvine, Carwash, Ain’t To Proud To Beg, War en Papa Was A Rollin Stone.
Een aantal ‘minder’ bekende tracks zijn de gene die het voor mij doen o.a. Message From A Black Man (The Temptations / The Whatnauts / The Spinners) en Sandman door The Undisputed Truth. Laatstgenoemde is een underground classic geworden en is ge-edit door diverse mensen o.a. Carl Craig op het disco-edit label Moxie Recordings. Oordeel zelf. Norman Jesse Whitfield RIP.

Mocht je geintresseerd zijn in de formule en de mensen achter de hits van Motown zorg dan dat je de docu Standing In The Shadow of Motown weet te bemachtigen.

Vergeet dus niet morgen avond te checken FUTURE VINTAGE op RADIO 6 we’re back !

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Tomorrow Future Vintage will broadcast a brand new episode via  RADIO 6. Finally we’re officially back in effect! Yesterday Radna, Melodee and me spent a the whole afternoon in the studio selecting new tracks and creating a full hour of banging radio business.
The show also contains a brief flashback to 2008, honnoring the legendary muscicians who past away 2008. Due to the timeframe we couldn’t treat everybody, thats why I’m posting something about Norman Whitfield, the legendary Motown songwriter who past away in September 2008.
He produced many hits such as I Heard It Trough The Grapevine, Carwash & War. But there are several tracks which stand out for me. 2 of them are Message From A Black Man by The Whatnauts (originally played by The Tempations and later on covered by The Spinners). And Sandman by Undisputed Truth, which is a classic banger. Both can be checked out via the youtube links stated above.
Stay tuned for a new Future Vintage episode!
Check it tomorrow night between 23:00 - 00:00 (AMS time) via  RADIO 6 or wait untill monday for the streaming link via this blog.

In these days it’s quite hard to find airtime on Dutch public radio if you want to decide what to play, instead of following the station’s playlist. We’re very happy that after Lijn5 left the NPS, the same broadcasting company will now give us airtime on Radio 6, the station that’s specialized in ‘jazz, world, cross over and culture’. While we played the most ‘old’ music on Lijn5, we’ll be probably one of the youngest shows on Radio 6 - but why think of music in boundaries?

The first show will be on the 4th of january. For now we don’t know what the podcast possibilities will be, but we’ll work on that. You can listen to Future Vintage on Radio 6 online, or through Dutch cable radio. FutureVintage.net will expand as the portal to more information about the show, the music we play and news about interesting people and events that we like to share with you.

Thank you for your patience and support thusfar, let’s step into tomorrow!

Donald Byrd - Steppin’ Into Tomorrow

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It’s the end of the year, the time that music aficionados all get crazy with their top-whatevers. Some people can discuss endlessly about it, but the Future Vintage crew keeps it quite simple.

I asked people who were involved with the show somehow, to make a Top 5 of 2008, but also mention artists we should look out for next year. You know, 2009, the year that Future Vintage will be back on air. More about that very very soon!

Please let us know what your favourite tracks, albums, concerts or moments of last year were, we’re curious as ever.

LEFTO (De Hop, Appletree)
1: Miles Davis 50th Anniversary Boxset - Kind Of Blue (Blue Note)
2: Q-Tip - The Renaissance (Motown)
3: Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza
4: Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior (Tempa)
5: Illa J - Yancey Boys (Delicious)

Buy of the year: BUARI - 1975 (RCA) < > Promising for 2009: Jay Electronica (Control Freaq), Kaidi Tatham (Freedom School), Phlash & Friends (Archive), Jose James (Brownswood), 14KT (A-Side), Opgzewolle (TopNotch), D’Angelo (Okayplayer).

CINNAMAN (Beatdimensions, Viral Radio)
1: Joker - 80’s
2: Flying Lotus - Interference
3: Hudson Mohawke - Speedstick
4: Dorian Concept - The Fucking Formula
5: Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)

Buy of the year: Moog - Little Phatty < > Promising for 2009: Dorian Concept

MELODEE (La Melodia, Future Vintage)
Best shows of 2008 (en ik heb er veeeel gezien & gedaan!
1: Busta Rhymes @ Melkweg
2: Erykah Badu @ Paradiso
3: Stevie Wonder @Ahoy
4: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings @ North Sea Jazz festival
5: La Melodia @ Ekko Utrecht

DELUGE (PunchDouble, Sterile Action Figures)
1: MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (eigenlijk 2007 maar omdat ie nogmaals uitkwam in 2008 telt ie nog 2. 2:Tawiah - In Jodi’s Bedroom EP
3: La Melodia - Chemistry (unreleased)
4: Hollyweerd
5: Blaqstarr

Buy of the year: 2000black - A Next Set A Rockers.. zo lang op gewacht. < > Promising for 2009: Steve Hartley, Aeon, Hollyweerd, Suzi Analog’s Producties.

BOYE (Kindred Spirits, Future Vintage)
1. (concert) Mulatu Astatke concert in London, Cargo samen met de Heliocentrics KILLER!! 27 maart ook in Paradiso.
2. (album) Theo Parrish Sound Sculptures vol.1, na de triple LP komt hij ook nog eens even met een dubbel cd vol nieuwe bangers, Love Thriumphant, Going Downstairs en The Interplanetary Gangster Edit!
3. (oeuvre) James Pants! Ook in 2008 kwam hij met 1 van de meest frisse sounds! Live ook te gek.
4. (tracks) Midnight Express – Danger Zone, bangende boogie reissue + Hudson Mohawke – Star Crackout + Jackson Conti – Papaya
5. (dvd) Arthur Russel – Wild Combinations, prachtige film/docu over een bijzondere muzikant

2008 was, muzikaal gezien, een prachtig jaar en een top 5 is te weinig voor alle hoogtepunten vandaar zeker noemenswaardig: Linkwood, Aardvarck, Flying Lotus, The Hooter Listens, Bulion, Erykah Badu (New Amerykah)

Buy of the year:  Emerson – Sending All My Love Out (80’s boogie 45 die me aardig wat geld heeft gekost maar is zijn geld dubbel en dwars waard.) Daarnaast nog heel veel ander second hand boogie / disco geweld. < > Promising for 2009: Dorian Concept…. Multi-instrumentalist komt in 2009 met zijn album When Planets Explode waar, nu al, wereldwijd naar uit wordt gekeken. En Dam-Funk!, kom maar door met die Rhytmn Trax nog eventjes voor het eind van 2008!

JUHA (Viral Radio, Non-fiction)
Best music of 2008 (in no particular order):
Everything from Hyperdub (Kode9, Rustie, Zomby, Ikonika, King Midas Sound)
N/A – An introduction to Not Applicable – Not Applicable
Hudson Mo – Star Crackout – All City Records
Mike Slott – 23 Halfs (unreleased)
Harmonic 313 – Quadrant 3 (Warp 2009)

Beste concerts (in no particular order):
Alog and Philip Jeck in Lantaren/Venster - jan 12
24 Hour Drone People in Fylkingen, Stockholm - febr 23
Beat Dimensions at the Bimhuis : Flying Lotus & Hudson Mohawke - may 2
Beat Dimensions at the Bimhuis: Mike Slott, Dimlite & Take - oct 24
Squarepusher at the Melkweg - nov 28
Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O’Malley & Machinefabriek at the Bimhuis - july 4
Viral Radio Festival at the Bimhuis and 11: Kode9, the Bug w/ Ricky Ranking, Icarus, Moritz von Oswald trio, Darkstar, Samiyam, Martyn, Ras G, Take, Ikonika en Zomby - june 23
Parker/Barret/Vatcher at the Bimhuis - febr 20
Morton Feldman 4-daagse at the Muziekgebouw - febr 7-10
Ryoji Ikeda at de Kop van het Java-eiland, Holland Festival

RADNA (Future Vintage, n8)
1: James Pants - Green Rivers / She’s Out Of My Life
2: Erykah Badu - The Healer
3: Yaw - Where Will You Be
4: Clark - Dew On The Mouth
5: Too Short - I Ain’t Trippin (James Pants remix)

Buy of the year: The Raincoats - Animal Rhapsody 12″ < > Promising for 2009: More James Pants please, Dam Funk, the comeback of D’Angelo?, Andre3000 solo album, Matthew David.

MAMIKO’ MOTTO
1: Actress - Hazyville [Werkdisc]
2: Hudson Mohawke - 7×7 - All City
3: Aardvarck - Pigstyle - Nod Navigators
4: MCDE - Raw Cuts ♯1; ♯2; ♯3; ♯4 - MCDE
5: James Pants - Rhythm Trax Vol.1 / She’s Out - Stones Throw

Now it’s your turn, so please comment below.

Different Strokes is his third exhibition of Calligraffiti-works (indeed a combination of calligraphy and graffiti). Coming from the streets, Niels Meulman still tries to ’stay away from those clinical gallery spaces for the elite.’ The works he present at Rush Hour are titles, some of them are of existing tracks from the Rush Hour label, while others ask the viewer to imagine their own complementary sound. So drop by, the exhibition is on view from 19 december - 18 january. Bonus: Watch Shoe working on Calligraffiti.

There’s no podcast from home this/last week, but there are fortunately a lot of alternatives to bless you with interesting music. Take for example Dublab.com. This LA based collective believes in new forms of radio, online and independent that is, with no boundaries to their playlist. Among the many contributors to Dublab are people like Daedelus, Carlos Nino and Flying Lotus. Often they’ll play futuristic and spaced out electronic music, but also dreamy folk and even hints of post-punk. If you look a bit on their website you’ll discover lots of podcasts, a live radiostream and dj mixes, but also articles such as ‘A day in the life of Moondog’ by Frosty, or an interesting online exhibition where Dublab combines music with visual art. The interesting thing is that Dublab gives podcasts and mp3’s away for free, but kindly ask the listener for a donation.

To get a little taste of the music they play, here’s a Flying Lotus remix of Woebegong by The Long Lost:

While some films might be very hiphop in the 4 elements sense, others are more about hiphop culture in a broader perspective. See for example Living The Hiplife , about highlife/hiphop music in Ghana, presented by AfricanHiphop.com (also check their weekly radioshow). Dutch filmmakers are respresented as well, see Rio Cruizero (by Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koolhaas) and the very first film by my friend Bibi Fadlalla, Stars In His Eyes.

And then the afterparties; Future Vintage collaborator Lefto (BE), TY (UK), Rich Medina (NYC) and DJ Spinna (NYC) are all there! Spinna will do a soul slam party, Michael Jackson vs Prince style on the 6th of december. Hop skip to the website for more details.

Because we both went to see the beautiful and delicate voiced Mia Doi Todd performing in Paradiso last sunday, the show contains her song River Of Life and more folk related music, by Gaby Hernandez and Terry Callier. But Boye is also a boogie fan, and couldn’t resist to play uplifting tracks like Bite The Apple. Update: we finally discovered the title of the last song, since Deluge’s iPhone recognized it was sampled by Rae and Christian. Oh well, just listen! Stream below or download here.

Playlist:

Brief Encounter – Get A Good Feeling
Mia Doi Todd – River of Life
Hudson Mohawke – Star Crackout
Dorian Concept – Be Tween
John Robinson – Touch Me
Terry Callier – Can’t Catch The Trane
Gaby Hernandez – When Love
Doug Carn / Abdul Rahim Ibrahim – Tropic Sons
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face
O’zone – Giggolette
Kleeer - Tonight’s The Night
Rainbow Team - Bite The Apple
The Gathurs feat. Willie Tee – Concentrate

That’s quite amazing, and more than enough reasons to see the documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, that got released earlier this year. See the trailer here. I haven’t seen it myself, but hope to change that this week. It’s out on DVD, but if you prefer a bigger screen, Wild Combination is now on show at SMART Project Space.

Have a dance on ‘Go Bang’ by Dinosaur L (produced by Arthur Russell) from 1982: