That Juan MacLean is just a bundle of contradictions. Here he’s created one of the year’s best mix CDs—and not just a proper party mix, which it certainly is, but even what you might call an “important” mix, a timely lesson in the enduring spirit of house music—and how does he choose to describe the process of putting it together? As an “existential tailspin.”

“I really wasn’t joking in the liner notes when I said that in the six months I knew I was going to do this mix, I spent most of the time agonizing over the relevance of doing a DJ mix in 2010,” says MacLean, a cheerful neurotic who’s clearly serious about his craft. “So much about DJ-ing has changed in the last 10 years. It seems that anyone at home can make their own mix, whether they’re a proper DJ or not. Which begs the question, why bother putting them out at this point?”

“So at the end of the day I just came back to where I had started, which was basically wanting to do something that was representative of where I’m coming from in producing my own music, and also focusing on the current house music scene.”

That’s right: house music. Pumping, sweaty house music at its purest, from the churning pianos to the chopped-up vocals. Surprising? Maybe: DFA, the label MacLean calls home, is best known for post-punkish indie dance, and label co-founder James Murphy’s dance-floor tastes run mostly to vintage disco. But MacLean is undoubtedly DFA’s resident house aficionado, something you might have guessed from his anthemic 2008 single “Happy House,” a homage to ’90s piano house.

And ultimately, MacLean’s DJ Kicks is all about achieving that universal vibe, unconcerned with populist trends or trainspotters’ disdain.

A love-letter to house music penned by one of the music’s most sincere (and well-schooled) admirers, it’s a sweet, sweaty, wide-ranging set that wraps you up in chugging grooves. At a time of proliferating podcasts and fly-by-night mixtapes, it’s a welcome change of pace: a mix that makes its case the old-fashioned way, one perfect blend at a time.

TRACKLISTING

1. Juan MacLean – Feliz Casa (Ian Breno Dub)
2. Still Going – Spaghetti Circus
3. Andre Crom & Luca Doobie – Ebony
4. 6th Burough Project – Planets (The Revenge Lost Groove)
5. A+O – Take Me
6. Rick Wilhite – Get On Up!! (Theo Parrish’ Late Dub)
7. Florian Meindl – Here Today Gone Tomorrow
8. Armando – Don’t Take It (Thomos Edit)
9. Jee Day – Like a Child
10. Giom – I Know You Were Right
11. Alex Niggemann & Superlounge – Chip Chip
12. Manuel Sahagun – Pieces Of Me
13. Sonny Foderra – Everybody Get On The Decks
14. Danny Howells – Laid Out (Fully Horizontal Mix)
15. Shit Robot – Simple Things (Todd Terje Version)
16. The Juan MacLean – Feel So Good (DJ-KiCKS)
17. Rick Wilhite – Get On Up!! (Theo Parrish’ Late Dub)
18. Juan MacLean – Feliz Casa (Frankel’s Rhodes Workout)

Microsite:

www.juanmaclean-djkicks.com

Special Kind of Fool is Ty’s story. The tale of an artist who after ten years,
three critically acclaimed albums (Awkward 2001, Upwards 2003, Closer
2006), collaborations with the likes of Tony Allen, De La Soul, Damon Albarn
and Estelle, a Mercury nomination amongst other accolades, and a worldwide
army of fans, has always followed his heart.
A fool for all kinds of music, only the drum patterns give the instrumentation
on this album away as being hip hop, as Ty and his long time co-producer
Drew Horley play with a palette of classic funk, soul, two step, 80s synth pop,
and glitchy electro samples and sounds. Ty’s lyricism is as insightful as ever;
balancing thought provoking subject matter with uplifting messages (I Get Up,
and Something Big which features Lovers Rock legend Carroll Thompson),
and moving social observation (Heart Is Breaking featuring Sway and Roses
Gabor). It also sees Ty exploring his emotional depths (I’m Leaving featuring
Anthony Mills, and Emotions featuring the legendary Shaun Escoffery and
newcomer Sarina Leah), and of course telling some home truths (Special Kind
of Fool and Me, featuring Erik Rico). Peppered throughout with shrewd and
often hilarious cultural references, political issues, diverse stories, and an
empathetic sensitivity to every day peoples experiences, Ty remains a unique
and refreshing voice in hip hop.

TRACKLISTING
01. Don’t Cry feat. Corey Mwamba
02. Wait feat. Leo Ihenacho & Soweto Kinch
03. Heart is Breaking feat. Sway & Roses Gabor
04. Little Star feat. Wreh-asha
05. Something Big feat. Carroll Thompson
06. Emotions feat. Sarina Leah & Shaun Escoffery
07. Phantom of the Opera feat. Anthony Mills
08. Get to the Sky feat. Vula Malinga & Terri Walker
09. Happiness feat. Vula Malinga
10. I’m Leaving feat. Anthony Mills
11. Me feat. Erik Rico
12. I Get Up feat. D-Cross
13. Falling feat. Shaun Escoffery & Finn Peters
14. Special Kind of Fool feat. Erik Rico
15. Endtro feat. Leo Ihenacho & Robin MullarkeyI Need To
Understand
www.kanoti.com/tymusic/

Some ideas are just so good, they deserve a second chapter. Like Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson Vol. 1 album, released in 2008, which featured instrumental jazz versions of legendary techno and electronic tracks including Derrick May’s Strings of Life, Kraftwerk’s Trans Europe Express and Josh Wink’s Higher State of Consciousness.

Now the Munich-based drummer, DJ and producer returns with a second volume of inspired electro-organic cover versions. The musical mix remains ambitiously broad, from Carl Craig to Laurent Garnier, from Underground Resistance to Jean-Michel Jarre. Since the first album, the Drumlesson collective has grown from a studio concept to a fully working live band. Christian was also more directly involved in playing drums, piano and percussion alongside guitarist Uwe Karpa, keyboard player Roberto Di Gioia, percussionist Ernst Ströer, bass guitarist Christian Diener and drummer Matteo Scrimali. After the recording sessions, he also worked on each track in his studio, switching roles from live player to electronic producer.

Christian and his band have also applied their open-minded jazz attitude to the cream of European house, techno and electro. The minimalist throb of Groove La Chord by Stockholm’s Aril Brikha is reborn as a futuristic tropical samba. Sleepy Hollow by the Berlin-based Stefan Goldmann becomes a kind of avant-garde film-noir soundtrack. And High Noon is a cool, moody version of an early cut by those Viennese rhythm maestros, Kruder and Dorfmeister. A regular collaborator with Christian, Peter Kruder was involved in mixing both Drumlesson albums.

French music is also well represented, with a lush chamber-jazz reinvention of Laurent Garnier’s club classic Acid Eiffel and an alluring deconstruction of Jean-Michel Jarre’s immortal electro anthem, Oxygène Part IV. ”The Jean-Michel Jarre track is not a club classic but it’s an electronic classic,” Christian explains. “It’s still very popular as it helped to make electronic music a household name so I tried to keep the well-known melody, but also do more of an avant-garde arrangement around it, like a Tortoise tune.”

Bringing the album full circle, Drumlesson Zwei ends with Sandcastles, a sublime instrumental soundscape based on the club smash by Dennis Ferrer and Jerome Sydenham. Jazz meets house, electronic meets organic, Drumlesson Zwei is a testament to music’s limitless potential for inspiration and reinvention.

Drumlesson Zwei is not about narrow labels, fads or genres. Great music lasts forever.

TRACKLIST

1. Sandstorms
2. Groove La Chord
3. Sleepy Hollow
4. Isolated Syncopation
5. Acid Eiffel
6. Distorted Rudiments
7. Oxygène (Part IV)
8. Jaguar ( Part One)
9. Jaguar ( Part Two)
10. Distant Rhythm
11. High Noon
12. Sandcastles

Microsite:
www.christianprommer-drumlessonzwei.com

Okayplayer started as the online community that houses
left of center music artistssusch as: THE ROOTS,D’ANGELO, TALIB KWELI, DILATED PEOPLES
& ERYKAH BADU.
The Okayplayer brand has since expanded and has been associated with national tours,
the growing Roots brand, and has been responsible for introducing on left of center &
alternative urban culture.

Due to many relationships THE ROOTS have, and the strength of the Okayplayer brand
true notes vol 1 features some of the best names in Hip Hop. From the old school sounds
of the lead single “take it back” by Skillz, to the west coast vibes contributed
from dilated Peoples & Hieroglyphics, this album has a little bit of everything

Tracklisting
01. ?estlove – Intro
02. Aceyalone & Madlib – 2 from the West
03. Little Brother – Shake it
04. Dilated Peoples ft Defari – Okay
05. Jean Grae – Fall back
06. Blackalicious – Just what could happen
07. The roots – Y’all know who
08. Skillz – Take it back
09. Little Brother – On an on
10. Hieroglypics – Respect Deez
11. Niclay ft Supastition – The williams
12. Skillz – Pastor Skillz
13. RJD2 – Act 2
14. Jean Grae – Scarface
15. The Chapter – It’s the Chapter Crew
16. Truck and Mac – Bang Bang
17. Dice Raw – I do what I like

Oh that lady, lord, she let me go She laid me down, in pure white snow
But in the spring time, I’ll go down to São Paulo

From the classic rock echoes that hang heavy like the reefer smoke in the rafters of Detroit’s
Cobo Hall, to the soul reflected in the alleys and small faces of London’s Heavy Load scene to
the exile off Main Street, few bands channel the sonic groove generated at the headwaters
of our rock-and-roll DNA like Deadstring Brothers. They know that rock-and-roll is both disease
and redemption, penalty and reward, intoxicant and hangover. They know that a powerhouse
hook exhilarates even as you’re getting kicked in the heart. The Brothers, in their leather boots and
frayed jeans, tenaciously trudge through the oil slick puddles of a dying city, the hard light
splitting into prismatic rainbows, finding beauty in decay.
Lying at the (battered) heart of the record is singer/guitarist Kurt Marschke. When he sings
“I can kneel down, but I just can’t pray” on “It’s a Shame,” you’re hearing a man bloodied
and bowed. “Yesterday’s Style” is the sound of a soul breaking, a glassyeyed
1,000 yard stare, the ache coming through the speakers. Somehow, though, he manages to pull
together the remaining shards of his dignity to look forward and carry on in the closing track
“Always A Friend of Mine,” a song so good it should skate into
the pantheon of country rock classics.
TRACK LISTING:
1. São Paulo
2. Smile
3. Houston
4. Can’t Make It Through
The Night
5. Adalee
6. The River Song
7. It’s A Shame
8. The Same Old Rule
9. Yesterday’s Style
10. Always A Friend Of Mine

There are few musical styles that have such an extremely conservative image as blues. Blues is supposed only for old men with long beards, who always repeat the same twelve bars while smoking and drinking. Besides guitar, piano and blues harp all other instruments seem to be “prohibited”. Musically, it always revolves around itself for generations, like a hamster wheel.
Of course, there were and there are blues artists who try something new, but outside of the blues scene no one cares. Until 1995, the French House producer St. Germain is the first, who ventures to merge Blues with House with the title “Thank you Mum”. From then on the world knows, that it is possible to combine blues with electronic music.
Meanwhile much has happened: Skip McDonald has done it with his band Little Axe in England, merging blues with Dub. A similar attempt comes from the Danish team Banzai Republik and the British duo Up, Bustle & Out. The Canadian one-man-band Son Of Dave combines blues with folk-punk, the Vienna band Mummer presents blues in a downbeat context like it comes from Germany by Boozoo Bajou, Darjee, K_Chico and Amir Arab. Gabin come from Italy, from the Netherlands Gare Du Nord, but in the U.S. there are relatively few productions combining blues with trip-hop elements.

It would be foolhardy to say, that Blues-House and Blues-Downbeat are the the new, upcoming trend, because both styles are too specific. But in the clubs they are celebrated enthusiastically. The audience in metropolitan areas is happy, that it finally gets to hear something new, for hitherto blues voices and blues guitars had never been heard in house clubs. The conservative blues audience goes completely crazy, but the club scene is celebrating its new insider style.
This excellent double sampler “Future Blues Club Night” is compiled by DJ ralph “von” richthoven, the Global-Electronica specialist from Bremen, Germany. For years he composes with high competence the popular “Club Night” series for the Global Beat label LOLA’S WORLD RECORDS.

CD 1 – BLUES-HOUSE

1. Jon Flores – Feel My Blues (Original Mix)
2. Joe Lewis Walker – Blues of the Month (Busy Remix)
3. Harold Heath – Mercury Blues (Kirby Remix)
4. Dirty Harry – Big City Blues
5. Big Mojo – Deep Passion
6. Franck Adam – Mombassa Blues (Main Mix)
7. Jon Flores – Feel My Blues (Mr Danny Remix 08)
8. Big Mojo – Downside Away Blues
9. Submantra feat. Francesca – Get Down (Big Mojo Juke Joint Remix)
10. Miguel Migs & Jay-J feat. Jo Jo Hailey – Friend Of The Blues (Dub Mix)
11. Dark Comedy aka Kenny Larkin - Chicken Blues (Part 2)
12. St. Germain – Walk So Lonely
13. Glenn Underground – The Blues (aka Tribute to GSH)
14. Motorcitysoul – (You Don’t Know) The Blues

CD 2 – BLUES – DOWNBEAT
1. Little Axe – Midnight Dream
2. Boozoo Bajou – YMA
3. Gare Du Nord – Pablo’s Blues
4. Johnny Farmer – Death Letter (Organized Noize Remix)
5. Banzai Republic – Gamblin’ Man
6. King Britt pres. Sister Gertrude Morgan – Take The Lord Along With U
7. Up, Bustle & Out – Rebel Satellite
8. Son Of Dave - Old Times Were Good Times
9. St. Germain – Thank U Mum 4 Everything You Did
10. Amir Arab feat. Artus Unival – Berlin Sunrise (Blues Mix)
11. Darjee – Nobody Knows
12. Baqua – Terrapin Blues
13. Gabin feat. Jho Jenkins – It’s Gonna Be
14. Son Of Dave – Nike Town
15. Dark Comedy aka Kenny Larkin – Chicken Blues
16. Big Mojo – Please Have Mercy On Me
17. MUM – Boychild
18. K Chico – Hey Hey

One of the most successful compilation series of recent years goes into the third round: “Sunday in Bed – Sexy Sounds for Lazy Lovers”.
As always, the makers use in their selection solely the best of the delicatessen department …
Music for the hedonist, pleasantly worn-out by his club visits of the weekend, for snuggeling couples or just for the friends of good music. They also should at least elevate their legs at the first contact with this compilation and make themselves comfortable on the couch. Distinctive relax is on the agenda!
“Sunday in Bed” owes its unique position in the increasingly unclear market of compilations the particular mix of top-notch pop, special casual Independent and Underground tracks and the best songs from the newer electronic lounge corner. A cliché free zone! Need examples?
An incredible groovy remix of “Lisztomania” the French superstars of “Phoenix,” next “Easy Confession,” a recent production of Michael Sauer, the longtime DJ of the legendary Hamburg MOJO Club, the Womack & Womack classic “Teardrops” in a stunning retro-punk version of the British media darlings “The XX”, along with Billy Idol’s “Adam in Chains”, a song, which finally here gets the honor it had deserved at its first appearance in 1993 (!).
Note: With “Sunday in Bed Vol. 3″ you make discoveries.
Greg Haptor, singer-songwriter from LA, who managed with a self-production to be in the U.S. Billboard charts, but was never heard in Europe. Or, Kaki King, in the United States a celebrated lesbian icon and praised to the skies by the magazine “Spiegel” as the best female guitarist of all time. M. Ward, a hero in the Indi-scene, but escaped up to now a larger audience from mysterious reasons…
And again, on “Sunday in Bed Vol. 3 “, there is a duel of crooners: Italian Mario Biondi vs. the British Ashley Slayter. Both stunning! We think: undecided.
Additionally a brilliant jazz number by Eddie Roberts, the guitarist of the “New Mastersounds”, cultivated sound by the Swiss NuJazz Minus 8, relaxed electro-blues of Monte La Rue.
From the department of “New Stars in the Sky”: R&B-Mastermind Rayn Leslie, Britt-Popper Just Jack and Calvin Harris, Prince of the dance-floor.
“Sunday in Bed Vol. 3″ is again a collaboration between the labels “Star Club” and “25 Records”. Planning the concept, the keywords quickly became clear: Music for the head, abdomen and tapping toes, a wholly unique track listing, many different genres, audible as a whole and mixed as a unified entity.
Whether that is successful? Listening makes smart!

CD 1
1. Greg Haptor – Everything
2. Phoenix – Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
3. Marcheselli Produzioni – Allo
4. Minus 8 feat. Miriam S. – Wonderland
5. Ashley Slater – Husband
6. Ryan Leslie – You’re Fly (Album Version)
7. Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
8. Just Jack – 253
9. Billy Idol- Adam In Chains
10. The XX – Teardrops
11. Troubleman feat. Nina Miranda – Paz
12. Michael Sauer – Easy Confession
13. Blue Pilots Project – Gods Gift
14. Calvin Harris – Loves Souvenir

CD 2
1. Jonny Blender – Thinking Of A Better Day
2. Boom Clap Bachelors – Combinér
3. Cooking On 3 Burners – This Girl
4. Monte La Rue – In The Mood
5. The Christians – Born Again
6. Rinôçérôse feat. Mark Gardener – Weekend Of Sin
7. Eddie Roberts – Every Goodbye
8. The Bas Lexter Ensample – Great Day
9. Kaki King – Life Being What It Is
10. Mario Biondi & The High Five Quintet – This Is What You Are
11. Brenda Boykin – Be My Lover
12. M Ward – For Beginners
13. Lusine – Operation Costs
14. Bent – Silent Life (Album Version)7

Here comes the third part of the series called “Fashion House”.
These double compilations focus on the fashion metropolises of the world and on the contemporary house sound and is addressing to supermodels, super lovers, fashion victims, dancers and loungers.
After the first two editions that aimed to Milan & Dubai the journey goes to the fashion and party metropolis and one of the birthplaces of house music: New York.

CD1 “Big Apple Movin”, hosts the current bigroom sound. To start off some love to the whole country is shown with Hana Hais “I love America”, the Hip Hop shootingstar Kid Cudi, based in Brooklyn, teamed up with Sharam of Deep Dish to take over. The American soul diva Jocelyn Brown presents her classic evergreen “Somebody elses guy” in a slammin new house mix by Baggi Begovic. New York house diva Barbara Tucker keeps it in the city with her house anthem “I get lifted” in a funky fresh David Tort remix.
Westcoast finest Andy Caldwell meets Mr V, who gave a face to hip-house from NYC, and you can bet they know what´s guud. The 2009 remix of the 90s classic “That feeling” is on board, same as the highly hyped & top of all download charts Michael Jackson tribute “Thriller”. Axwell delivers a stunning remix of “In the Air”, Kaskade & Deadmau5 are on, as well as Moony´s summer smash hit “I don´t know”, the brandnew 2009 remix of Superfunk´s classic “Lucky Star”, Hoxton Whores banger “Sunrise” and David Penn´s Remix of “Mundo” that features the vocals of another NYC house legend: Cevin Fisher.

CD2 “NYC Deep” is the deep house side, perfect for a relaxing day in the jacuzzi, or for those fashion cocktail parties. It kicks of with Larse & Fish´s “Cesenatico”, which carries a Moroder disco vibe. Nacho Marco expresses how he likes you to move, before Matt Flores and the hip-house pioneer Tyree Cooper take over. New York is definitely in the house when Roland Clark gets deep. Pimp Jackson spits out some Brooklyn madness for Loco Dice and all this comes in the Luciano remix.
Marc Romboy & Smokin Jo are on this silver disc, Mahan, Catz´n´Dogz and us shooting star Pezzner.
Milton Jackson is changing the Timewriter´s rhythm while Filippo Moscatello & Quarion take DJ Pierre´s wildpitch NYC classic “What is house music” into a new dimension. Seb Davdison & Estroe show us their vision of proper deep house before New Jersey´s finest Blaze present the stunning 20/20 vision remix of their “Lovlee Day”.
At the end Tiger Stripes spoil us with their “New York, New York” and DJ Meme brings back the summer feelings one more time.
Enjoy the music !

CD 1
1. Hanna Haïs “I Love America” (DJ Memê Main Club Mix)
2. Sharam feat. Kid Cudi “She Came Along” (REUP Club Mix)
3. D.O.N.S. vs Jocelyn Brown “Somebody Else’s Guy 2009” (Baggi Begovic Remix)
4. Barbara Tucker “I Get Lifted” (David Tort Remix)
5. Andy Caldwell & Mr. V “It’s Guud”
6. Stuffa “A Million Secrets” (Club Mix Dub Edit)
7. DJ Chus pres. The Groove Foundation “That Feeling” (DJ Chus 2010 Revisited Mix)
8. Diva & Jones “Thriller” (David Jones Remix)
9. Tv Rock feat. Rudy “In The Air” (Axwell Remix)
10. Kaskade & Deadmau5 “Move For Me” (Original Mix)
11. Moony “I Don’t Know Why” (Dj Chus & Jerome Isma-Ae Superdub Mix)
12. Ron Carroll & Superfunk “Lucky Star 2009” (D.O.N.S. Remix)
13. Hoxton Whores feat. Krysten Cummings “Sunrise” (Hoxton Whores Remix)
14. Prok & Fitch feat. Cevin Fisher “Mundo” (David Penn Remix)
CD 2
1. Larse & Fish “Cesenatico”
2. Nacho Marco feat. Aqeel “Move You”
3. Matt Flores & Tyree Cooper pres. Goosebumpz feat. Wayne Darrin “Shining Lights” (Dub Version)
4. Dj Leroi feat. Roland Clark “I Get Deep”
5. Loco Dice “Pimp Jackson Is Talkin’ Now!!!” (Luci Gets Loco Remix by Luciano)
6. Marc Romboy vs. Smokin Jo „What Is This?”
7. Mahan “Memory Box“
8. Catz N Dogz feat. Pol_On “Me“
9. Home & Garden “Domesticated” Pezzner Remix
10. The Timewriter “Revealing The Sound” (Milton Jackson‘s Dark Matter Remix)
11. Filippo Moscatello “Houz” (Quarion´s Start And Stop Remix)
12. Sebastian Davidson & Estroe “Swabian Pancakes” (Estroe’s Raisins Remix)
13. Blaze “Lovelee Dae” (20:20 Vision Remix)
14. Tiger Stripes “New York New York” (Main Mix)
15. DJ Meme “Chanson Du Soleil 2009” (Andy Sant Remix)

For several decades, Hip Hop is a huge business for the music industry. Since “Rappers Delight” Hip Hop is just re-invented several times. The Jazz-Hip Hop of the 90s has inspired the students, the liaison with other popular styles were also very fruitful. But probably most important is the fact, that young people around the world realized, that you can practice Hip Hop in almost any language. Even young musicians, who have no money for their own instruments, can express themselves through Hip Hop. While gangster Hip Hop in the U.S. was booming, the politically disillusioned youth in Latin America and Africa discovered Hip Hop as a very effective means of expression to the ruling system. And in Europe, Hip Hop is used as a voice for the immigrant youth, Algerians in France, Latinos in Spain, Turks in Germany, in England Africans and in Sweden Arabs. With Hip Hop, anyone can provoke the hated world of adults, while the Hip Hop perfectly binds together its subculture with its own break dancing and graffiti.
For decades Hip Hop was decried as the epitome of American cultural imperialism. But when this style is practiced by migrants, living in Europe or in Africa, in Latin America or Asia, it is suddenly seen as torch-bearer of cultural resistance. The only problem is, that most global-beat lovers respond almost allergic to any form of Hip Hop and in all good faith, they are hardly prepared to deal intensively with this expression of youth culture.

“HIP HOP WORLD” is an extremely exciting journey with Hip Hop from Sweden, Turkey, Senegal, Greece, Spain, Chile, Canada, France, Austria, Mexico and even with some titles from the U.S.. DJane Gülbahar Kültür has brought thousands of titles to the public in the whole world for the label LOLA’S WORLD RECORDS, that would likely otherwise never have been released outside their cultural area. DJ ralph “von” richthoven is an expert on “Global Electronica”, i.e. the intersection of Club Sounds and World Music. “HIP HOP WORLD” is their first mutual double sampler. Even people who hate Hip Hop, will love the outcome of this collaboration!

CD1: compiled by dj ralph “von” richthoven

01 TİRO DE GRACİA (CHİLE) Suenos
02 DON DİEGO (SWEDEN) Fagnani (Min Far)
03 MALA RODRÍGUEZ (SPAİN) Fuerza
04 DAARA J. (SENEGAL) Number One
05 CONTROL MACHETE con RANDY EBRIGTH (MEXİCO) Ahora (Album Version)
06 SHUGA WUGA (SPAİN) Ya No Tengo
07 ONE SELF (UK, USA) Bluebird
08 K-OS (CANADA) The Love Song
09 LORD KOSSİTY (FRANCE) My World
10 PEARL & DON DİNERO (PUERTO RİCO) Tenemos El Juego Lockeao
11 MİCHAEL LANGOTH FEAT. DA FONZ (AUSTRİA) Grounding (Original)
12 DİSİZ (FRANCE) Il Est Déjà Trop Tard
13 ALLIANCEN (DENMARK) Okay
14 EASTENDERS feat. SULTAN TUNÇ (GERMANY/TURKEY) Taxici
15 MANGU (DOMİNİCAN REP) Calle Luna, Calle Sol
16 MANDOZA (SOUTH AFRİCA) Nkalakatha

CD2: compiled by Gülbahar Kültür

01 GOIN’ THROUGH & CHILDREN CHOIR OF SPYROS LAMPROU (GREECE)
Kalimera Elada (Album Version)
02 DEZZ DENİZ FEAT. BEEJAY (GERMANY/GHANA) Ez Keç Im (I Am A Girl)
03 HARD KAUR (UK/INDIA) Nobody Knows
04 MAKALE FEAT. OZMAN (SWISS/TURKEY) Sabahın Korkusu
05 KWAL FEAT. ASA (FRANCE/NIGERIA) Elle
06 DJ VADİM FEAT. JUİCE LEE & RJAY (RUSSIA/USA) That Lite
07 SPEECH DEBELLE (UK) Key
08 LETOYA (USA) Lady Love
09 NOVA EMAD FEAT. ARABESQUE (IRAQ/CANADA) Desert Desert
10 THE ROOTS FEAT. PATRİCK STUMP (USA) Birthday Girl (Album Version)
11 EMMANUEL JAL (SUDAN) Baaki Wara
12 MAMELO SOUND SYSTEM (BRASIL) Maioria 100
13 SİSTER FA (SENEGAL) Poum Poum Pa
14 SNOW BLACK FEAT ELENA RİSTEVSKA (USA/MACEDONIA) Come On And Get Me
15 KOALAS FEAT. FOREİGN BEGGARS, LHABANERO & KORBO (GERMANY/UK/BURKINA-FASO) Negro
16 ARMEN BALYAN FEAT. MOBELINI (ARMENIA/CANADA) Throw Ur Handz Up

“Imagine if the strangest folks behind the sunshine pop records of the ‘60s swallowed Syd Barrett’s LSD stash and rocked out underwater with the Electric Light Orchestra while breathing helium. Then envision something even more fantastical” Spin

The Danish quintet – Aske Zidore (guitar, vocals), Malthe Fischer (vocals, guitar), Nis Svoldgaard (bass, vocals), Nicolai Koch (keyboards) and Kristoffer Rom (drums) – harness an epic, chiaroscuro psychedelia, forging it into dazzling gems of otherworldly pop brilliance. The burnished tunes belie an apocalyptic lyrical bent, the combination recalling an even more tripped-out MGMT, Flaming Lips or Caribou, liberally sprinkled with elements of George Harrison’s Beatles songs, Sparks and the lofty ambition of Kate Bush. With a formidable command of maximalist melodies that seemingly pulsate in 3D and cascade in waves of decadent pleasure, Oh No Ono are set to turn 2010 a baroque shade of day-glo.
Now with Eggs, their debut for The Leaf Label (on Brooklyn’s Friendly Fire in America, and Morningside and the mysterious 01-11700170 in Denmark), Oh No Ono have the rest of the world in their sights. In love with the power of pop, their subversive thrill in pushing new ideas under the radar is highly contagious.

With a terrific visual aesthetic directed by the band and artist Malene Mathiasson, featuring a series of darkly sexual paintings that would make Hieronymous Bosch and Francis Bacon blush, their multi-layered, minutely detailed artwork will doubtless prompt much analysis. Unsurprisingly, the Kubrick-esque video clip – think The Shining with a bevy of romantically adventurous nurses – for first single ‘Swim’ (directed by Adam Hashemi) hit number one on the Pitchfork video chart this last summer.

TRACKSLISTING
1. Eleanor Speaks
2. Swim
3. Internet Warrior
4. Icicles
5. Helplessly Young
6. The Wave Ballet
7. The Tea Party
8. Miss Miss Moss
9. Eve
10. Beelitz

EGGS MICROSITE