Black Coffee, uno de los DJ's más geniales de la escena surafricana

In our latest ORIGINS film, produced in partnership with SONOS, we trace the roots of Black Coffee, a South African national icon. Watch the trailer ahead of the film's October 20th release.


Según la Wikipedia:

Black Coffee (born Nkosinathi Maphumulo on 11 March 1976) is a South African multi award winningrecord producer and DJ. Black Coffee began his career back in 1994 and has released four albums and onelive DVD under his Johannesburg based record label called Soulistic Music. He is arguably one of the most influential musicians in Africa. Black Coffee got his big break shortly after being chosen as a South African participant in the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy held in Cape Town.


Según Resident Advisor:

Considering his meteoric rise to fame, it would be easy to stereotype Black Coffee as just another black diamond, a BEE beat magnet out to mine the insatiable upwardly mobile urban house-party market. But as he proved on his South African Music Award-winning album Home Brewed, this DJ and producer defies convention. Sidestepping Afro-house clichés and stage-managed highs in favour of restrained sophistication, Black Coffee’s penchant is for true Afropolitan house: home-brewed but trendsetting, fashion-conscious and future-focused. Expect almost sculptural balance and beauty.

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Aurora Halal is a New York-based musician, video artist, photographer, and event producer. She is the creator of NYC’s underground party series Mutual Dreaming, and co-creator of Sustain-Release, a 700-person music and arts festival in Upstate NY. Since 2011 she has been touring the US and Europe, performing live music and visuals at festivals, universities and respected clubs. All her projects use immersive, experimental and non-commercial approaches to powerful effect. As a video editor she worked full time for Vice and since then has been working freelance with clients including record labels like Planet Mu, RVNG, and Absolut, Red Bull, and more.

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ZZK Films presents - The Nu LatAm Sound - Trailer 1.0

6 de octubre 2014

ZZK Records has brought you the newest in Latin American music for the last 6 years, with a strong focus on the emerging scene in Buenos Aires & Argentina. Now we're ready to open up the door even wider and tell the story of the whole region, in a new format - ZZK FILMS. 

There's a musical and cultural renaissance happening all around the world. With the accessibility of the internet and democratization of information and technology, humans are creating like never before. Nowhere is this more and alive and kicking than in Latin America.

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Creator/Producer - Grant C. Dull http://grantcdull.com/
Director Pablo Mensi http://www.pablomensi.com/

Roman Flügel on XLR8R

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2014/10/roman-fl-gel

Podcast 363: Roman Flügel

• Words: Shawn Reynaldo
 
• Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski

At this point, it's almost easier to talk about what Roman Flügel hasn't done than it is to list his various projects and accomplishments from the past two decades. The veteran German producer has dabbled in house, techno, electro, ambient, IDM, and more over the course of his career, working both as a solo artist (using his own name and a myriad of aliases) and in tandem with others in a number of collaborative projects. He's also had a hand in running a triumvirate of Frankfurt labels that includes Playhouse, Klang Elektronik, and Ongaku Musik. Still, despite all of this experience, it was only in 2011 that Flügel released a proper debut full-length, Fatty Folders, and he's recently followed that up with a second album, Happiness Is Happening. In the midst of that, not to mention preparing for a North American tour that kicks off this week, Flügel somehow found the time to put together an exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series.

Although Flügel continues to experiment with an assortment of styles, much of his production work in recent years has centered around slow-burning, groove-driven house, and that sound is at the center of his podcast. Over the course of an hour, Flügel weaves in bits of funk, disco, electro, and more, but there's a steady pulse at the center of the proceedings that maintains a steady sense of momentum throughout. As such, the session has more of a gradual build than a series of peaks and valleys, but that's more of a testament to Flügel's steady hand than anything else. At this stage in his career, he doesn't need to rely on flash or theatrics; he's simply focused on building and maintaining a quality vibe, and is happy to do so at his own pace.

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Real Scenes: Detroit

You can't talk about electronic music without mentioning Detroit. The city's DJs and producers birthed the genre we now call techno. Detroit, however, has always had a creative streak, due in large part to the boom and subsequent bust of the auto industry. Quite simply, Detroit is a city of extremes, and its music reflects that. Detroit's importance in the global electronic music scenes is often referred to in the past tense. With the recent emergence of Kyle Hall and other young Detroit producers, however, it's clear that a spark remains. When we visited, we found a number of artists with their eyes (and ears) firmly set towards the future. After our time there, it's clear that Detroit will endure and innovate for years to come.

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Music in order of appearance:
Scott Grooves- New Day (Part 1) [Soma Quality Recordings] 1997
Mike Huckaby- The Deep House World [Third Ear Recordings] 2010
Nick Speed for Nix Productions- Streets of Detroit [Nick Speed Music] 2011
The New Dance Show Theme- The New Dance Show (1988-1995)
Ectomorph- The Last Days Of Skylab [Interdimensional Transmissions] 1995
Norm Talley- Change (Mike Huckaby 2010 Remix) [Third Ear Recordings] (2010)
Electric Deluxe- Electric Deluxe [Plus 8 Records] 2000
Reference- Best Day in Detroit [Planet E] 2010
Drexciya- Devil Ray Cove [Tresor] 2000
Reference- Another Place [Planet E] 2011
Reuel Walker- Jazzy Hip Hop [Unreleased] 2011
Kyle Hall- Ghosten [Third Ear Recordings] 2010

Jace Clayton

http://www.jaceclayton.com/

Jace Clayton is an artist based in New York, also known for his work as DJ /rupture. He is currently writing a book on music for FSG. His most recent project, Enkutatash እንቁጣጣሽ, debuted in Washington D.C. on September 11th, the Ethiopian New Year (Ethiopia uses its own calendar system), and featured a choir singing a musical rendition of the Homeland Security color-coded Threat Level changes superimposed with modified East African harvest songs for lute and voice.


Jace Clayton lives and works in New York City. Clayton uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how sound, memory, and public space interact, with an emphasis on low-income communities and the global South. A rigorous conceptual framework grounds each project it moves across areas as diverse as software design, sculptural objects, or performance. Recent projects include Sufi Plug Ins, a free suite of music software-as-art, based on non-western conceptions of sound and alternative interfaces; and The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner, a touring performance piece for grand pianos, electronics, and voice.

From Portland OR, Dropping Gems

From the Bandcamp blog:
http://blog.bandcamp.com/2014/09/30/portland-where-young-people-go-to-make-music/

Dropping Gems

Dropping Gems was born in 2009 up the coast from Portland in Olympia, Washington. “Core members met while DJing parties, hanging at our college radio station and going to shows,” recalls Aaron Meola. “We began Dropping Gems because we felt there was no platform to showcase anyone’s work or a scene to fit in.” Meola migrated down the coast to Portland in 2010, taking the label with him and expanding to include a promotion company. Dropping Gems picked up more artists, including Seattle’s DJAO and local acts Philip Grass and Natasha Kmeto, and began the Gem Drops compilation series.

“It’s been gratifying to see the scene in Portland foster a solid community around experimental electronic music over the past several years,” Meola explains. “When Dropping Gems first took up operations in Portland, the dubstep label Lo Dubs, now defunct Anthem Records store, and associated club nights were a big inspiration. Fast-forward four years, and there are at least a dozen active collectives or labels. Most of the artists know each other and often play shows together and collaborate. Things like the Magnetic open deck and cassette DJ night are very much community-building events that cross-pollinate the scene.”

Beyond location and affordability, Meola points to “a supportive network of independent record stores, gear shops, material supplies stores, rental houses, warehouse spaces and venues” as enablers of the scenes. Add to that network the city’s creative population and liberal arts school and Meola reckons Portland to be “pretty special.”