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Paris DJs presents The 10 Best Albums of 2011

Saturday 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 & discography
Ocote Soul Sounds - Taurus (ESL) info | remix
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - World Of Funk (Ubiquity) info | interview
The Greg Foat Group - Dark is The Sun (Jazzman) info | interview | mix
The Natural Yogurt Band - Tuck In With... (Now-Again) info | mix | interview

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Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band - Tabla Rock - out on Ubiquity Records

Saturday 17 December 2011, 21:25

Tabla Rock Shawn Lee Incredible Tabla Band
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 of the band's second album. And he goes berserk one more time, for he does this cult-record in an Indian fun(ky) style, with incredible tabla taking the place of bongo (thanks to Prithpal Rajput aka 'Cyber' of the Asian Dub Foundation) and heavy keys (thanks to Style Council keyboard-man Mick Talbot on Apache). DIY-man Shawn Lee plays all the other instruments as usual, truly everything from drums, percussions, bass, sitar, tampura, to guitars, Indian banjo, etc., producing an unbelievably faifhtful rendition of the original. (Nicolas Ragonneau)

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Adrian Younge presents Something About April performed by Venice Dawn - out on Wax Poetics Records

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 01:23

Adrian Younge presents Something About April performed by Venice Dawn
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 Dawn, a killer concept album called Something about April. This is the soundtrack for a fictional film that hasn't been directed yet, in the fashion of the late 60s scores. Playing most of the instruments as he's done on his previous album (plus a very special keyboard of his own called the Selene), Younge is helped this time by Motown legend Dennis Coffey on guitar, funkateer Shawn Lee, italian OST specialists Calibro 35 and young soul singer Rebecca Jordan. Imagine Ennio Morricone meets Al Green meets Portishead and you will get a pretty precise idea of the highly romantic, heavy-soul and psychedelic flavours of the Venice Dawn project.
Check our exclusive interview with Adrian Younge on Paris DJs.

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AM & Shawn Lee Paris DJs Betamix

AM & Shawn Lee - Paris DJs Betamix

Thursday 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 the full story in a long and funny 'confessions interview' there. And here is an exclusive mix the two friends cooked, which put a special light on Celestial Electric's influences and background....

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Interview with AM & Shawn Lee (english version)

Thursday 15 September 2011, 01:48

AM and Shawn Lee
AM & Shawn Lee - The ‘Confessions' Interview
(Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau, for Paris DJs - summer 2011)

Vintage soundmaster Shawn Lee is back again and this time he's not alone. With brilliant guitarist and songwriter AM (bred in New Orleans but established in LA), they have just released Celestial Electric (ESL Music), one of the top pop albums of 2011. This funky, addictive and rather psychedelic record was born in Los Angeles where the two musicians have met eventually (Shawn Lee lives in London). Shawn Lee remembers: "During that L.A. trip, we listened to a lot of music together and bonded over our mutual love of vintage French and Italian library and film music and nuggest from the Finders Keepers record label. I suggested that we make an album together, and the rest is history". Celestial Electric was conceived as a transcontinental music files trade between AM in LA and Shawn Lee until each one was happy with the result. Both were kind enough to allow us a 'confessions interview' or a manner of 'questionnaire de Proust' just before they hit the road for their US Tour. Besides, they cooked an exclusive mix for us called AM & Shawn Lee's Paris DJs Betamix.

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Interview de AM & Shawn Lee (version française)

Thursday 15 September 2011, 01:43

AM and Shawn Lee
AM & Shawn Lee - L'Interview-Confession
(Interview par Nicolas Ragonneau, pour Paris DJs - été 2011)

Shawn Lee, le maître incontesté des sons vintage, l'un des musiciens les plus prolixes qui soient (jusqu'à 4 albums par an!) est de retour, et il ne revient pas seul. Associé à AM, guitariste et songwriter de grand talent élevé à la Nouvelle-Orléans mais résidant à Los Angeles (voir l'album Future Sons and Daughters, AM Sounds, 2010), il publie Celestial Electric (ESL Music). Excellent de bout de bout, psychédélique, pop, funky et addictif, Celestial Electric est une magnifique réussite. La genèse du disque remonte à la rencontre des deux musiciens à Los Angeles. Shawn Lee, qui vit à Londres, se souvient: "pendant ce voyage à LA, on a beaucoup écouté de musique ensemble et on s'est trouvé une passion commune pour les BO et l'illustration sonore française et italienne, mais aussi pour les perles du label Finders Keepers". Celestial Electric a été conçu par Shawn Lee à Londres et AM à Los Angeles, par échanges transcontinentaux de fichiers successifs, jusqu'à ce que les deux compères soient pleinement satisfaits du résultat. En pleine préparation de leur tournée américaine, ils nous ont accordé une interview à la manière des entretiens-confessions à l'anglaise ou du Questionnaire de Proust, tout en concoctant un mix exclusif pour Paris DJs, AM & Shawn Lee's Paris DJs Betamix.

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AM & Shawn Lee - Celestial Electric - out on Eighteen Street Lounge Music

Tuesday 06 September 2011, 12:59

AM and Shawn Lee Celestial Electric
AM & Shawn Lee - Celestial Electric
(CD/Digital) Eighteen Street Lounge Music ESL184, 2011-09-06

The L.A. to London, transatlantic musical collaboration between AM and Shawn Lee was conceived after AM heard Lee's Music And Rhythm album on the radio in Los Angeles and reached out to him via email. The two became quick friends sharing a love for vintage grooves and 60's and 70's soundtrack music and decided to embark on making an album 21st century style. With AM in Los Angeles and Shawn Lee in London the two began bouncing tracks back and fourth resulting in Celestial Electric; a musical match made in cyberspace propelling the duo into their best work yet. AM's honeyed vocals ride a driving percussion section straight into walls of shimmering guitars and glassy keyboards pulling elements as disparate as Gary Numan, Jorge Ben, and Ariel Pink into perfect future pop.

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Versus Paris DJs Extra Flavor Mix

Versus - Paris DJs Extra Flavor Mix

Sunday 24 July 2011, 16:35 3

Versus - Paris DJs Extra Flavor Mix Selected by Donnie Bass, mixed by Jesus Crise (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2011-07-19 The Versus French band has only limited a few EPs out right now, but a full-length album is scheduled for this autumn! This band includes some of our long-time friends and collaborators so we're quite proud to have them here as guests. Besides the obvious Herbaliser Band influcences, their music is a real French take on Manchester's mid 90s hip hop/club scene from Grand Central, Ninja Tune, Rob's Records, etc. Here's a snapshot of their vision of today's music, with...

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Paris DJs Soundsystem In The Footsteps of the Ethio-Jazz Innovator

Paris DJs Soundsystem - In The Footsteps of the Ethio-Jazz Innovator

Sunday 27 February 2011, 20:23 1

Paris DJs Soundsystem - In The Footsteps of the Ethio-Jazz Innovator (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2011-02-27 Next thursday evening in Paris will be a BIG date at La Bellevilloise, thanks to our friends from the Soul Train parties, who produce an Ethio Jazz Night with Strut... featuring Mulatu Astake and The Heliocentrics playing live!! You DON'T want to miss this show and as an appetizer here's a small tribute to the father of Ethio-Jazz, on the 21st century side of the genre and beyond. [comment faire?/how to?] Tracklisting : 01. The Gaslamp Killer - When I'm In Awe (feat....

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Shawn Lee - World Of Funk - out on Ubiquity Records

Monday 07 February 2011, 09:50

Shawn Lee World Of Funk
Shawn Lee - World Of Funk
(CD/2xLP) Ubiquity Records, 2011-02-08

Here's the first listen to a new Shawn Lee record, set for release in Feb 2011. Lee says he lives in a World of Funk, and invited friends from around the globe to make his point; Brazilian singer-multi instrumentalist Curumin (Hailing from Sao Paulo, and of Japanese/Spanish Brazilian background,) British/Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas, Chhom Nimol - singer with the band Dengue Fever, Bardo of Chicano Batman and Cava, from LA, plus Truth and Soul Recording artist Michael Leonhart, NOMO bandleader Elliot Bergman, and Lee's mother-in-law (aka Nanny Jee)!

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