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Paris DJs Playlist - January 2013
31 January 2013, 16:14
With big outlet FNAC usual wrongdoings, which we warned about 7 years ago now, and Virgin Megastores closing, with some crookery from the distributors hiding their losses and rushing headlong into the wall, record labels are dying in France. Well not many have ever existed over here, but now they're disappearing at an accelerated speed. Warp Records was among the first ones. Numero Group, Daptone,...
Shawn Lee - The Word Jam (Digital Single, Paris DJs)
29 January 2013, 14:56
From monkey boy to tiger man… Paris DJs contacted Shawn Lee last summer offering the man a spot on the Afrofunk/Tropical album project they were working on. He sent two breakbeat soundtrack funk tracks, 'The Word Jam' and 'Bushy Haired Man', which didn't really fit the proposed theme, but which they thought would make a great 2-tracker! Illustrator Ben Hito couldn't pass on designing a cool and...
Paris DJs Soundsystem presents Beyond Radio & Pop-Flavoured Covers
18 December 2012, 15:34 1
This is the first is a series of 10 mixes of thematic covers hosted on 10 different blogs/websites, announcing or celebrating the Paris DJs mix #400 to be aired at right after christmas… First of our supportive friends to air on of those guest mixes from us is Kweeper, a cool online library collecting service available in both French and English. This mix, as the title implies, is all about...
Paris DJs Playlist - June 2012
05 July 2012, 12:25 2
June 2012 was really amazing releases-wise: we received nearly 200 albums on all formats, including 85% of digital links, 10% of CDs sent by friendly labels BBE, Culture Clash, Far Out, Légère, Lovemonk, Perfect Toy, Q-Sounds and Ubiquity Records, one comic book with a soundtrack CD from Big Pimp Jones a 7 inch from Gizelle Smith, and the upcoming new album from The Herbaliser to be released in...
Clutchy Hopkins - The Interview That Never Happened
17 May 2012, 16:03
Clutchy Hopkins - The Interview That Never Happened Questions by Djouls & Nicolas Ragonneau for Paris DJs, early 2012 Who is Clutchy Hopkins? The question still remains unanswered. We met with Shawn Lee in Paris this month, and asked him about his tweet saying he was representing Clutchy Hopkins for booking purposes… The man smiled and replied that he had no idea what we were talking about....
Souleance - La Belle Vie - out on First Word Records
09 April 2012, 10:35
Souleance - La Belle Vie (CD/Digital) First Word Records, 2012-04-09 Beatmaker Fulgeance (Musique Large) and DJ Soulist (What The Funk) have now partnered quite some time ago under the Souleance guise. We introduced them in 2009 with a cool Souleance - Le Mix and they're now back with their first full length album, La Belle Vie, out April 9th on First Word Records. Three things characterize...
Paris DJs presents The 10 Best Albums of 2011
31 December 2011, 23:59
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras (Heavenly Sweetness) info | mix 1 | mix 2 Bio Ritmo - La Verdad (Electric Cowbell) info | mix Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (Dunham/Daptone) info | video Garage à Trois - Always Smile but Stay Evil (The Royal Potato Family) info | interview Lucas Santtana - Sem Nostalgia (Mais Um Discos) info Mr. Chop - Switched On (Now-Again) info...
Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band - Tabla Rock - out on Ubiquity Records
17 December 2011, 21:25
Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band - Tabla Rock (CD/LP/Digital) Ubiquity Records UR293, 2012-01-17 Tabla Rock is a new and epic episode in Shawn Lee's mental saga. Do we have to mention that this album is his third release in six months? Further to his Hits the Hits series, the unpredictable funkateer covers Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band's Bongo Rock in its entirety - plus two more tracks...
Adrian Younge presents Something About April performed by Venice Dawn - out on Wax Poetics Records
29 November 2011, 01:23
Adrian Younge presents - Something About April - performed by Venice Dawn (CD/LP/Digital) Wax Poetics Records, 2011-11-29 A few years ago multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge composed an original score for the Blaxploitation tribute and parody Black Dynamite - one of the most hilarious movies of the past decade. And now he's back with a new cinematic project under the mysterious name of Venice...
AM & Shawn Lee - Paris DJs Betamix
15 September 2011, 02:10
AM & Shawn Lee - Paris DJs Betamix (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2011-09-15 Fine songwriter AM and funkateer Shawn Lee have just released a psychedelic electro-soul record called Celestial Electric on ESL music, loaded with killer tunes. The album was conceived between London and Los Angeles, AM and Shawn Lee sending files to each other until they were happy with the result. You can read...
