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Guest Mix: KOBAL “Haiti Legba Sound” (Forgotten Treasures from Haiti)

KOBAL is one of Montreal’s best and most respected music diggers and DJ’s. In the past 15 years you could find him anywhere in the city where vinyl records are sold. He is currently part of the Canicule Tropicale collective of DJ’s in Montreal. We asked him to put together a …

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Dj Mixes

Mix of the Day: La Mano Peluda “Calavera Volume 1”

Montreal and tropical music have a strange ongoing attraction dynamic. People of many cultures have left records here to be discovered and many of them have formed bands on this soil. (as exposed in this tropical mix featured on MIMS) However our city also attracts tropical collectors of the highest …

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Dj Mixes

Mix of the Day: Montreal Terre de Soleil

This is a truly Montreal-centric tropical mix of music recorded in Montreal by musicians originating from Haïti, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Mostly from private pressing or small labels, these tunes are treasures that were found in the miscellaneous “world” section of many montreal stores and its what makes digging in this …

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Stephen Encinas “Disco Illusion” (Invisible City Editions)

Stephen Encinas “Disco Illusion” (Invisible City Editions)

via Invisible City Editions: “For many this is the ultimate Disco Illusion; a record that should have been epoch making in its day, something that would have been a staple for David Mancuso, Larry Levan & Ron Hardy had it ever gotten distribution when it was originally released 34 years …

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Dj Mixes

Mix of the day: J Rocc “Best of Quantic Mix”

Quantic is living the dream, an avid record collector, Will Holland has taken it a step further by creating music through different styles (Soul, Dub, Cumbia) and with various projects (Combo Barbaro, Quantic Soul Orchestra) reuniting legendary musicians in the process (Spanky Wilson, Alfredito Linares). He has already released an …

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Future Classics

Future Classic: Bunji Garlin “Differentology”

This past winter being what it was, only one thing helped me cope with the meteorological cruelty: Soca. Following some kind of Cosmic Alignment touched by the gaze of a loving Creator, our winter’s harshest month coincides with Trinidad‘s yearly Carnival season. If you ever find yourself in need of …

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Dj Mixes

Mix of the Day: Uproot Andy “Worldwide Ting Mixtape”

Big up to faithful MIMS reader Simon for the heads up on this one! Uproot Andy‘s “Worldwide Ting” Mix is a preview of tracks forthcoming on Que Bajo Records! For more info visit the Que Bajo website Tracklist: 1. Worldwide Dembow (ft. Pablo Piddy) – Uproot Andy 2. Homenaje a Justino …

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MIMS Lists

“My Favorite Record Stores” by QUANTIC (Columbia / UK)

In honor of all the great record stores in the world still doing their (essential!) thing. We asked some of our favorite artists out there to give us a little run down of their personal favorites. Here are some of QUANTIC‘s personal favorites. Favorite Hometown Record Store : The Discery, …

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Dj Mixes

Quantic “Beautiful and deep dancing songs”

via Quantic! “Heres a special selection to start of 2013 featuring African, Caribbean & Eastern sounds. An all vinyl roots mix to warm up laptops and ipods.”

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Free Download: Poirier “Kidnap Riddim”

By now it should not be a surprise for anyone keeping an eye on Poirier‘s catalog to see him take apart and then reconstruct different genres to redefine well-established boundaries. The surprise lies more in which ones will be the target of the producer’s attention this time around. The latest …

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Poirier - Alert Riddim EP

Poirier “Alert Riddim EP” (Man Recordings)

Montreal ambassador and all-around bouncy riddim representative Poirier celebrates the coming of the summer season by releasing his latest EP, Alert Riddim, on Man Recordings. Following in the success of his previous EP — Soca Road — focused around the 165BPM power soca of Trinidad, his latest release of 120BPM …

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Poirier “Soca Road EP”

Poirier “Soca Road EP” (Mixpak)

Pretty much any release coming out of the Mixpak camp is newsworthy enough to get a shout from us, they’ve put out tons of dope material from people like Sticky, Dubble Dutch, Vybz Kartel. But it’s especially big when we heard the new EP was coming for our main man …

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