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Hazmat Modine - Blues & Brass Songbook

We are a kind of post-modern-ethno-Jugband says Hazmat Modine's frontman Wade Schuman in the long interview we've just published (read it here). A man of many passions, Wade composes his unique and rich sound like a golden age painter would choose different colours, textures, frames and materials. It's a variegated world full of strange or mundane...

Cultures Of Soul - Jungle Funk

Cultures of Soul are proud to bring you an exclusive mix featuring unreleased material from the Afro Kelenkye Band. The mix is full of classic and rare african funk. The unreleased material by the Afro Kelenkye Band is being released by Cultures of Soul Records in a two x 45 set housed in a collectible jacket coming out on May 8th. You can pick it...

J-san And The Big Mean - Moving Too Fast (Grant Phabao Remix)

Brooklyn-based soul, dub, electronic artist/producer Jay Spaker aka J-san's musical journey has been a shape shifting experience spanning 20 years of soul & roots music. Son of radical vietnam veteran father & Okinawan mother J-san was raised on the road, living with artists, musicians, ganja growers and hustlers. He was an original member...

Paris DJs Soundsystem - Bag of Goodies Vol.7

This past month was quite heavy on the Afro side of music, we've published and prepared many mixes, with more than 3 hours to be aired soon. We've also reviewed 12 records (check our monthly playlist), two of those got played in this short mix (half an hour) that Loik and Djouls recorded this weekend one day before the 2nd round of the election....

A Conversation with Neal Sugarman (Daptone Records)

Daptone Records, a funk and soul independent record label from Brooklyn, New York, formed by Gabriel Roth and Neal Sugarman, have been celebrating their 10 year anniversary and thanks to our promoters friends What The Funk we've been able to catch the latter last week for a video interview right after the Charles Bradley show in Paris, right...

Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Spectacular Vol.2

Afrobeat is a form of music that's already been perfected and there are many bands who are just trying to attain that, most of the time writing their own compositions which reflect their own influences. Sometimes they'll play a Cuban clave or something else which somehow or other still fits. So unless Fela comes back to them and says Don't play...

Paris DJs Mixes

Hazmat Modine - Blues & Brass Songbook

Monday 14 May 2012, 11:45

We are a kind of post-modern-ethno-Jugband says Hazmat Modine's frontman Wade Schuman in the long interview we've just published (read it here). A man of many passions, Wade composes his unique and rich sound like a golden age painter would choose different colours, textures, frames and materials. It's a variegated world full of strange or mundane animals, filled with tiny sounds from nature. Even if the core of what Hazmat Modine does is blues, the musical influences spectrum and tastes of the band, revealed in this exclusive mix, are almost infinite. You'll meet some longtime Hazmat friends and collaborators (Natalie Merchant, Gangbé Brass band, The Wiyos...) as well as living or dead harmonica blues legends... Don't miss the band as it is back in Europe this Spring (Gigs details here), beginning its tour in Paris May 24th at Le Studio de L'Ermitage!

Virtual Releases

J-san And The Big Mean - Moving Too Fast (Grant Phabao Remix)

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 18:32

Brooklyn-based soul, dub, electronic artist/producer Jay Spaker aka J-san's musical journey has been a shape shifting experience spanning 20 years of soul & roots music. Son of radical vietnam veteran father & Okinawan mother J-san was raised on the road, living with artists, musicians, ganja growers and hustlers. He was an original member of John Brown's Body in the 90s, then went on to form dub rock/jam band J-san & The Analogue Sons during the the next decade, a band described as Bob Marley meets M.I.A. produced by Manu Chao… After a few featurings, including vocalist on 10ft Ganja Plant's album Bush Rock released in 2009, J-san has launched two new bands, Double Tiger, an electronic dub / dubstep project who's just released the No Give Up single on Hydra Records Japan, and J-san and The Big Mean, a rock/reggae/afro project fusing the rhythms of Afrobeat and R&B with the sounds of Dub and Soul to make your body move. When their first afro-reggae single Moving Too Fast reached Paris DJs' shores, we contacted J-san right away, offering him to try and have Grant Phabao dress the song with pure Jamaican roots vibes. The man was already a Paris DJs follower and we hooked up instantly. This deadly rough & tough remix is the another step for Paris DJs in their ongoing collaborations with brothers from Brooklyn and we can hope that J-san and Grant Phabao will do a proper EP together at some point!

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Music News

Monophonics - In Your Brain - out on Ubiquity Records

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 14:40

Monophonics - In Your Brain
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Ubiquity Records UR299, 2012-05-15

Monophonics are a San Francisco soul/funk band we've been following quite some time. We played their afrofunk track Ageless feat. Karl Denson from their 2010 album Into The Infrasounds (check here), we've selected for the upcoming third volume of the series their epic afro/funk/jam thing Baobab Tree from their 2007 album Playin & Simple, and since we received this fan-tas-tic third album to be released on Ubiquity Records mid-may, we've also played their soul burner There's A Riot Going On in last month's Bag of Goodies selection and kept a few other marvels on the side for some upcoming selections… Their cover of Bang Bang will surely fit a Molesting Laura mix soon, for example… The Monophonics sound is deeply rooted in 70s Funk & Soul, but with a lot of fuzzy psychedelics and bits of 60s garage rock, nods to afrofunk and blaxploitation, rather close to the best productions from Orgone or Daptone's studios, and it's quite understandable that the band left their self-releasing politics to join a worldwide label such as Ubiquity! This one won't leave the Paris DJs stereo for weeks… and vinyl is recommended, as always.

Interviews (English)

Interview with Wade Schuman (Hazmat Modine, english version)

Thursday 10 May 2012, 12:56

Wade Schuman (Hazmat Modine)
(Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau, for Paris DJs - May 2012)

Wade Schuman is Hazmat Modine's frontman and founder, an incredible 8-piece and two-harmonicas blues band from NYC that sounds truly like no other. These adventurous musicians use unusual instruments and pour countless musical traditions, sounds and influences in their musical recipe (African, Caribbean, Klezmer, Gypsy, New Orleans... ). For a long time since their 1998 beginning, Hazmat Modine has been NYC's best kept secret until they finally release their first LP Bahamut in 2006 (Jaro Medien/Barbès Records). Last year they came back with Cicada (Jaro Medien/Barbès Records), a new masterpiece praised in many reviews worldwide and finally awarded 'best 2011 blues album' by the prestigious Charles Cros Academy in France. Wade Schuman is not only a formidable multi-instrumentalist, he's also a fine arts teacher, a painter, an amateur zoologist, a professional hedonist and a very special Nature sound engineer. All these qualities makes him a delightful and obvious candidate for an in-depth exclusive interview. Hazmat Modine come back for an european tour this spring and summer (starting in Paris on May 24th) with new songs. To celebrate this, Wade has just cooked a great blues and brass mix. It will be online on Paris DJs very soon, so stay tuned!

Hazmat Modine - Blues & Brass Songbook

Cultures Of Soul - Jungle Funk

J-san And The Big Mean - Moving Too Fast (Grant Phabao Remix)

Paris DJs Soundsystem - Bag of Goodies Vol.7

A Conversation with Neal Sugarman (Daptone Records)

Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Spectacular Vol.2

Hazmat Modine - Blues & Brass Songbook

J-san And The Big Mean - Moving Too Fast (Grant Phabao Remix)

Monophonics - In Your Brain - out on Ubiquity Records

Interview with Wade Schuman (Hazmat Modine, english version)

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