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Paris DJs Playlist - April 2013
08 May 2013, 18:09
April 2013 was not the most active month we've had so far on the CD and vinyl front from other labels and artists. Thankfuly Nik Weston sent us a trilogy of his latest and upcoming releases on Mukatsuku Records, Ping Pong Promotion in France fed us with news from the Ninja Tune and Big Dada labels and the expanded edition of the Pepe Deluxé album, Tru Thoughts Recordings, Tramp Records and Analog...
Jungle By Night X The Gaslamp Killer present Brass Sabbath (7", Kindred Spirits)
03 May 2013, 16:06
A 100% collaborative effort between Netherlands' premier Afrobeat band Jungle By Night and and Californian heavy psych DJ/producer The Gaslamp Killer, this new single injects some voodoo New Orleans spirit into a destroy covers of English heavy rock band Black Sabbath and 70s Turkish singer/guitarist/producer Selda!! The limited Record Store Day 7 inch is definitively one to hunt down…...
Paris DJs feature on Bandcamp's homepage
29 April 2013, 12:19
"Julien Lakshmanan heads up a prestigious music blog and promotions company. Having overseen the production of over 400 musical podcasts, his label now aims to release one record per week on Bandcamp." says Andrew Jervis as an introduction to Djouls' interview about Paris DJs on Bandcamp. Read the full interview here...
Movements 5 - Compiled by Tobias Kirmayer - out on Tramp Records
22 April 2013, 10:28
Just one year after the Volume 4, Tobias Kirmayer is back with a new episode in his series of the 'Movement' compilations, on a 16-page CD booklet including detailed liner notes and unseen photographs, or deluxe double-gatefold Vinyl - properly mastered from original 45s. Tobias is one of the greatest soul, funk, R&B & jazz diggers in Europe, relentlessly searching for the supacool rare...
Shake-A-Leg Vol.2 - Compiled by Jerker Kluge & Tobias Kirmayer - out may 13th on Perfect.Toy
15 April 2013, 18:03
Take a professional DJ, vinyl digger and label owner, Tobias Kirmayer, add a latin/jazz producer, Jerker Kluge. Have them run together a monthly club-night in Munich, 'Shake-A-Leg'. After a few years, ask them to manifest the concept of the party on a compilation. Enrich the worldwide Funk, Soul and Jazz community with their research work. Does this sound like a formula? Yes it does. Is this...
Paris DJs Playlist - March 2013
03 April 2013, 14:25
March 2013 was an exceptional month, with MANY independant labels and artists keeping on hitting us with download links and promotional records. Here's our selection of the best vinyl and CDs we received, a large one for a change (25 releases reviewed!), including of course the fantastic four Paris DJs releases of each of the four previous week, you know the deal by now! We also received an...
Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics + Rikki Ililonga, Jagari Chanda & Karl Hector and The Malcouns Live in Paris!!
28 March 2013, 12:22 13
The Banlieues Bleues festival has outdone itself with this amazing double-bill on april 6th in Aubervilliers, near Paris. First there will be the Nigerian afro-soul pionner Orlando Julius backed by psychedelic groove masters The Heliocentrics, followed by Zambian rock legends Rikkim Ililonga and Jagari Chanda, backed by German afro-funk kings Karl Hector & The Malcouns!! If you've never heard...
TONIGHT!! Chicha Libre en Paris con Las Ondas Marteles, Studio de l'Ermitage
26 March 2013, 13:54 2
Many here in Paris have planned to watch the soccer game tonight (France-Spain), but we've got a better plan for those in love with music… Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf and psychedelic pop inspired by Peruvian music, mixing up covers of Peruvian Chicha with original compositions in French, Spanish and English, re-interpretation of 70's pop classics as well as cumbia versions...
Paris DJs Playlist - February 2013
04 March 2013, 13:50
February 2013 was a short month, as every year, but that didn't stop independant labels and artists to overwhelm us with download links and promotional records. As usual, we've focused on the vinyl, the glorious vinyl that some inflexible producers keep on putting out, from the Mocambo Records camp who hit us with delicous raw funk, from Mr Bongo Records who's just reissued two Ebo Taylor gems...
Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago Mixtape
28 February 2013, 14:04
The long-awaited 'Archipelago' mixtape is now ready to go, almost a year after the last one ('Flight Mixtape', which recently earned Hidden Orchestra top spot in Paris DJs 'most downloaded mix of the year' for the second year running). Like previous mixes it features all the variety of music that Joe Acheson has been listening to in the last year or so, much of which he has added to or remixed,...
