For this 4 hour mix at Honeycomb HiFi for my Jazz Kissa set, I chose to go a little more upbeat than the previous 2 mixes. You can check them out at my Mixcloud.
I’ve even played a Jazzy track by Led Zeppelin in this latest mix!
I’ll be traveling to India in September to hopefully attend the Jazz Weekender in Delhi on the 28-29th of September, and also get to play at the opening parties alongside The 264 Cru.
4Hr Jazz All Vinyl Mix
And we’re back.
Grateful to be invited to play my records every last Monday of the month at Honeycomb Hi-Fi in Dubai. It’s a little getaway treat being based now in Riyadh, which coincidentally is my birthplace that I lived in for my first few months on this planet .. so it’s a full circle after 41 years.
Anyway, I still get my records shipped to the UAE. This means that many of the records I play at the Jazz Kissa night are actually first-time plays.
Next gig is on the 26th of August.
Hope you enjoy the mix!
Here’s the setlist:
The Seatbelts – Cosmos
Nala Sinephro – Space 2
Greg Foat – The Dreaming Jewels
Greg Foat – Lament for Lamont
Greg Foat – Drifting
Matthew Halsall – An Ever Changing View
The Seatbelts – Cat Blues
Okvsho – Between Us
Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Jabore Pt. 3
BADBADNOTGOOD – Structure No. 3
Matthew Halsall – Salute to the Sun
EABS – Pingwin VI
Błoto – Mitomania
ECHT! – Permanent
Portishead – It Could Be Sweet
Àbáse – Home
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Now or Never feat. Nia Andrews
Neue Grafik Ensemble – Step To It (feat. Lord Apex)
BADBADNOTGOOD – Stark’s Reality
BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Arthur Verocai – Love Proceeding
Kamasi Washington & George Clinton & D Smoke – Get Lit
Shabaka Hutchings – Prints Tie
Kamasi Washington – Lines in the Sand
JAUBI – Satanic Nafs
EABS meets Jaubi – Raise Your Hearts, Drop Your Guns
BADBADNOTGOOD – Timid, Intimidating
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – When Will I See You Again?
ILL CONSIDERED – NORTHERN SPIRAL
BADBADNOTGOOD – Sour Soul
Greg Foat – Sapphire Dreams
Yusef Lateef – The Improvisers
EABS – Neo-Project #2
The Sorcerers – Opening Titles
Okvsho – Soulé
Yazz Ahmed – Jamil Jamal
Allysha Joy – Orbit
Okvsho – Cariño (feat. Sreya)
Ronin Arkestra – The Art of Altercation
Yussef Dayes – Turquoise Galaxy
Ezra Collective – Reason in Disguise (feat. Jorja Smith)
Blue Lab Beats – Montara
Jaubi – Mosty
Kokoroko – Tojo
Yusef Lateef – Hellbound
Tony Allen – Moanin’
Tony Allen – Night In Tunisia
Àbáse – Menidaso (My Hope)
Heya!
It just occurred to me that I should utilize my blog to post my sets and other Radyous related news!
I’ve come a long way and now playing at the first vinyl bar in Dubai, Honeycomb HiFi, every last Monday of the month for their Jazz Kissa night.
I bought a looooooong overdue recorder specially for that and took it with me for my first set (that was FIRE) … but I had the wrong cables. pwap pwap pwaaaaaaap. That set was pretty wild as I kept building up and playing some of my bass heaviest Jazz records at the last third of my set to test out their custom-made Devon Ojas sound system.
Learned my lesson and got the correct cables to my second gig which happened on the 24th of June. Most of the records that I’ve played have been bought individually from Bandcamp. You can find the setlist below.
I chose to go a bit mellow/spiritual on this set as I felt my first set was a bit too much for a “Jazz Kissa” night, although the staff even told me that it was the best Jazz Kissa night they’ve had.
Lemme know your thoughts!
Here’s the setlist:
Space 8 – Nala Sinephro
Ethiopia – Kibrom Birhane
A Japanese Garden in Ethiopia – Matthew Halsall
Interstellar Low Ways – EABS
All Ways – Joe Armon-Jones & Mala
Ti-de – KOKOROKO
Mountains, Trees and Seas – Matthew Halsall
Space 4 – Nala Sinephro
Prostactwo – Błoto
Champi – ECHT!
PROFESSOR – ILL CONSIDERED
Crumar – Jazzbois
There Is No Time – Kuzich
Song 4 Da Universe – Magic Carpet
Land Of Ra – Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
The Last Slave Ship – Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
Utopia And Visions – Sarathy Korwar
Dikeledi – Thandi Ntuli
Diarabi – Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin
Satori Ways (feat. Brandee Younger) – Web Web x Max Herre
Taking Flight (feat. Brandee Younger) – Resavoir
Man vs Machine – Greg Foat
Six Degrees ft. Danny Brown – BADBADNOTGOOD x Ghostface Killa
Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony) – Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela
Hyssop of Love (Feat. Mick Jenkins) – BADBADNOTGOOD
All Caps – Madvillain
Early Days of Space Travel Pt. 2 – Black Flower
Mind The Gap (feat. Lex Amor) – Alfa Mist
Long Walks (feat. dylan.negativ & Asé) – Okvsho
Belonging – Ezra Collective
Bagna – Błoto
HTC – Jazzbois
Little Steps – KAU
Lamina – Selebeyone
Czarne ziemie – Błoto
Discipline 27 – EABS
Hora de Aksum – Black Flower
People in Between – EABS meets Jaubi
Ironside – Ruby Rushton
Tioga Pass (feat. Rocco Palladino) – Yussef Dayes
Go See – Joe Armon-Jones
Hyde – KAU
People Saved – Ezra Collective
Living On Stolen Land – Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
It’s been almost 5 years since my last blog post … and LOTS has happened since, both personally and musically.
Me and a bunch of friends created The 264 Cru, which changed the clubbing landscape in Dubai and introduced a different sound to the city, then I worked at a failed music start-up, and started DJing and collecting vinyl!
Since lockdown began and not being able to share music as much as before, I decided to start uploading full recordings of some of the records I receive.
This record was my first play after receiving it fresh. It’s by a band called Magic In Threes. Discovered the band through a YouTube channel now called Proved Records – previously known as Provocative Educative !, Is a YT channel dedicated to dig out the underground gems of Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk, Electronic & other genres of music.
I would like to take some time here to give a very special shout-out to Bandcamp for being the leading beacon that’s truly keeping the music industry alive. I’ve tried to reach out last year with a new pivot in mind for them, which could’ve been a flaming success now in this new pandemic digital landscape, but unfortunately couldn’t reach anyone there.
I host a show on this leading Indian online community radio station called Boxout FM, where I share my latest finding and purchases from Bandcamp appropriately called the Bandcamp Hour.
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“The key to the piece was devising a visual system who’s form and compositional dynamics matched the response to music.”
So basically, this is your brain on Burial’s music :
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/124047433″>What Need Angel</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/petercrnokrak”>Peter Crnokrak</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>Sound interacting with matter.
You may have seen these experiments in separate videos that I have posted before .. but these guys take it to the next level! The perform as a band dealing with the different elements of matter.
Sick!
I don’t have the words to describe this … except awesome and spectacular!
Satisfied me aurally and visually … Enjoy!
“Doctors would normally fix a tremor like Roger Frisch’s by keeping him awake during surgery, inserting electrodes deep into his brain until the trembling appeared to stop. But for a concert violinist, even the slightest remaining tremor would mean the end of the career, so in 2009 doctors at the Mayo Clinic designed a special violin for Frisch to play through his surgery. An accelerometer at the tip of the bow measured Frisch’s trembling, allowing doctors to fine-tune the placement of their electrodes.
By turning on a battery and sending a current into his brain, Frisch can now switch off his tremors whenever he needs to play.”
via The Verge
Anita Collins made a TED-Ed video lesson describing what really goes on in a musicians head while playing an instrument and goes on to state all the benefits of it . Continue reading
Aural Porn 