Soon to be inducing me into unstoppable head nodding and trips to the dancefloor from the DJ booth: ‘Criticize’, Maxxi Soundsystem’s masterful rework of this Alexander O’Neal song.
Category: Stuff We Like
One Hundred Records
A couple weeks ago, Madteo hipped us to 100records, a Berlin collective of musicians, DJs and visual artists. The video says it all: deep, strange and absolutely impossible to stop watching. If you’re into it, check the podcast on Made Like A Tree.
Other Nights of the Week: Remixed Record Covers and Gonzales
While we’re not giddily holding our breath for this Saturday’s joint party with Spank, here are a couple other things we’ll be doing.
Tonight, BAM opens an exhibition of contemporary artists’ takes on record covers. We don’t know any of the artists’ names, and we don’t know what albums they’ve chosen, but we love BAM, so we’re down. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we’ll get our live music fixes, first with Caveman, a harmonizing lo-fi quintet; then with post bob saxophonist Joe Lovano; and finally with silly, virtuosic pianist Gonzales.
Sunday, in the aftermath of whatever transcendence occurs on Saturday, we’ll go check out Stephane Wrembel at Barbés. Hopefully this time there will be dancing. Monday is a holiday after all. Continue reading “Other Nights of the Week: Remixed Record Covers and Gonzales”
Dance Party Circa 1944
Last night, I went down to Barbés to watch Stephane Wrembel, a French guitarist specializing in hot jazz a la Django Reinhardt. It struck me that the music being played was very much for dancing, and were it not 2011 but the earlier half of the 20th century, everyone in the room probably would’ve been swinging (and definitely puffing cigarettes). It made me nostalgic for a time way before my own, and so I did what any modern man might do: search youtube. I found this video of Django and band playing at the Bal Tabarin in Paris in 1944. Complete with crowd noise and all, it gives a sense of the music in context. You can almost smell the smoke.
Eamon’s Top Five Tracks of the Year
One the most talented break through artists of 2010, Kassem Mosse aka Gunnar Wendel, gets the remix treatment from a master and Mister Saturday Night favorite: Omar S. Powerful stuff.
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