Forgotten Treasure: Clyde Alexander “Got To Get Your Love” (1980)
This song reminds me of playing at Blizzarts on fridays around 2007 with good friend Dj Kobal. I discovered the song with a re-edit that Kenny Dope did on his Kay-Dee label. Hands down one of my favorite disco tracks ever… “Got to get your Love” came out in 1980 …
Future Classic: Halves “Stavrogin”
I love Halloween in Montreal but what comes after really sucks. We adjust time for that daylight savings thing and all of a sudden it’s dark at 4:30. Recently, I’ve attacked by those weird producers with that garage, post-dubstep sound. Starvrogin, is a producer from London who got signed by …
Future Classic: Teebs “Collections 01”
An absolutely outstanding new record from Teebs just in time for the beginning of what we like to call the winter blues in Montreal. The hours of sunlight in the day are getting ridiculously short, it’s dark at 4:30pm. Real depressing. On days like this, we stay inside drink warm …
Future Classic: B.Lewis & Xperiment “See-Saw Kids”
I’ve always loved B.Lewis and his synth driven beats. So I was happy to listen to this new beat tape called the “See-Saw Kids” with Xperiment. I don’t really know who does what on this between the two producers, but it’s in the same vein as previous B.Lewis production. The …
Future Classic: Mosca “The Wavey EP” (3024 Records)
Pretty dazzling EP from Mosca who is quickly becoming everyone’s IT producer in 2011! Deadly modern techno from one of the best! Dom Perignon’, a cavernous roller with a gravity inverting bass drum and dub-infused atmospherics – a nice locked-in groove. ‘Orange Jack’ , is a deep skeletal booty bass …
Forgotten Treasure: Lee Dorsey “Yes We Can” (1970)
I remember playing this one out this summer at a street jam outside. I was hanging with a fellow digger Ilya and he was surprised about this track. He didn’t know that “Yes We Can” popularized in 1974 by the Pointer Sisters was actually originally written by New Orleans funk …
Forgotten Treasure: David Ruffin “I Want You Back” (1971)
Motown Records was pretty famous for having tons of artists have a go at the classics of the label. Guess it’s save a lot of money on the rights and when you’ve got all tons of classics it’s just good business. There are a couple of versions of ABC’s “I …
Future Classic: Himuro Yoshiteru “Thread incoming”
My good friend Sevdee put me on to this one right here. Like me he’s deeply rooted in traditional hip-hop but as the co-founder of ARTBEAT MONNTREAL, he knows how to spot really interesting more experimental stuff. We were talking about our next event (Artbeat #4 on November 17th – …
Future Classic: Onra “No Matter What” – Free Download (Chinoiseries #2)
The release date of the second instalment of Chinoiseries is almost upon us but Onra and the good people at All City are kind enough to lace us with a second free download from the upcoming record. “No Matter What” is actually one of my favorite jams on the record! …