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Paris DJs Soundsystem - Bag Of Goodies Vol.9
14 July 2012, 19:30
A full month's worth of promotionnal CDs, vinyl, WAVs and MP3s sent to us at the beginning of this summer 2012 is nearly 200 records. As usual we tried to carefully listen to them all, made a first selection, then chopped it down to… three mixes! So here's the first one, on a Bag Of Goodies eccentric & eclectic tip, soon to be followed by some more soulful house and breakbeat hop menus. Yes...
Grant Phabao and Djouls - Are Molesting Laura Again! Vol.2
03 July 2012, 16:52 2
This month's selection dives into folk & blues territories, with covers of Elvis Presley, The Melodians, Canned Heat, The Black Keys, Albert King, Duke Ellington, Technotronic, Bob Dylan or Dave Brubeck... among others. Because Laura's got the blues: she's only be molested twice this year. In January by Grant Phabao and Djouls and last month by Chicha Libre, even though we had made a promise...
Paris DJs Soundsystem - 21st Century Blaxploitation Vol.4
27 June 2012, 19:15 5
So many cool 21st Century Blaxploitation-sounding tracks have been released recently that Paris DJs couldn't pass on concocting a new imaginary soundtrack of their famous Pam Grier-illustrated series. This new selection gathers Blaxploitation Funk & Soul, car chase themes, old school Hip Hop, Afrofunk, Jamesbrownisms, some jazz, breakbeats and more thrilling grooves… Respect to the friendly...
Miles Cleret - Nigerian Rock
23 June 2012, 17:11
The worldwide 70s Afro revival in music has to be credited first of all to a few diggers and record collectors, who have ignited a flame all over the world that should be burning for many years. Miles Cleret is one of them, he launched the Soundway Records label 10 years ago whose influence cannot be denied (check our article). We wanted to celebrate this anniversary in a special way, with 4...
Paris DJs Soundsystem - Bag of Goodies Vol.8
09 June 2012, 17:55
Even though we're gathering a quite explosive selection of Afrofunk, Latin, Jazz, R'n'B, indonesian Bass, Hip Hop, Rock, Soul, Electro and Brazil vibes in the same hour, our recipe is not that complex. This month's Bag of Goodies' selection started with a playlist of 1000+ tracks and a stack of vinyls and CDs. After some careful digging, Djouls extracted 50 tracks, gave them to Loik to sort out...
Chicha Libre Are Molesting Laura
02 June 2012, 18:12
Brooklyn's psychedelic tropical and surf-cumbia act Chicha Libre are specialized in deviant covers since their very first album Sonido Amazonico. They've just released a fantastic new album called Canibalismo with a similar spicy recipe. In that respect they belong to the great chicha (Peru's own version of the cumbia) fusion's tradition with elements of literally every kind of existing music:...
Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Spectacular Vol.3
25 May 2012, 16:40 1
When I was younger you couldn't find funky, soulful or psychedelic Afro music at all in France. Then I stumbled upon a used Fela CD and with the arrival of the 21st century I discovered Antibalas. Both rocked my musical world and changed my life forever. Flash forward to 2012 and I now run the Paris DJs music agency, producing with label partner Grant Phabao the same kind of Afro music I fell in...
Andrew Jervis - California Dreaming
18 May 2012, 20:05 1
Andrew Jervis invited us to do a mix for his brand new website The Sport of Selection (info here), we couldn't pass on inviting him back on Paris DJs… "I wanted to do a mix of folksy soul music that felt Californian, and captured a sunny Springtime vibe. Not all the artists featured come from California. But as I discovered when I moved here, few people are truly from California. We just...
Hazmat Modine - Blues & Brass Songbook
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....
Cultures Of Soul - Jungle Funk
09 May 2012, 19:22
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 up at your favorite independent retailer or...
