Future Classic: Miles Bonny & Taku “Down to earth club music”
Every now and then when I’m working on my upcoming podcast I get these little writers block I guess you can call them. A couple of days where I’m just lacking the motivation to continue my digging efforts. Then a song like this comes along and unclogs my creative juju …
Music Is My Sanctuary – 50 tracks for 2010
Ok, so I totally wussed out of making this list into a podcast. Reason #1: I’ve been playing some of these tracks so much in DJ gigs and one year worth of podcasts that I wasn’t super motivated to play them yet another time. Reason #2: Picking the list was …
2010 – Top Posts on MusicIsMySanctuary.com
2010 was a really great year for Music Is My Sanctuary. Musically there was tons of amazing discoveries to share with you all and the audience grew about 5x in a year! I really feel blessed to have this platform to share all this great content with you all. According …
ANDY WILLIAMS presents “My Favorite South African Tracks”
My good friend Andy Williams just finished his collaboration with the Pan African Space Station festival in South Africa. The P.A.S.S is an annual 30 day radio intervention and of course who better to represent us over there than the teacher himself. Andy has been hanging out with people like Dudley …
Forgotten Treasure: Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band “Sunshower”
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band was a big band and swing-influenced disco band, formed in the Bronx, New York. They are best known for their #1 US dance hit, “Cherchez la femme” sampled by Ghostface Killah on his Supreme Clientele record. Their 1976 song, “Sunshower”, has been sampled by a …
Live House Music: Tortured Soul & Peven Everett
Has anyone ever been to a live house show (not a DJ set) ? I mean have you ever seen a live house band ? About 4 years from now at the ‘Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire’, I went to this crazy Red Bull Music Academy Party organized by …
Mary Anne Hobbs’ Final Show on BBC Radio 1
Download and complete tracklist for Mary Anne Hobbs’ epic last show on BBC Radio 1. Featuring guests Burial and Kode9.
Show Review : The Roots @ MTL Jazz Fest
Hip-Hop’s last standing group deliver another scorcher of a show to the Montreal Jazz Fest audience. The Roots Live are a sure thing, like Michael Jordan with the last shot in the 4th quarter… It was the fourth time I’ve seen the Philly group so it would only be normal …
Show Review and Interview: Jose James @ MTL Jazz Fest
The Montreal audience got their first taste of the much hyped Jose James. He was in town to tour his current project and first release on a US label (on Impulse! no less) along with a really exciting young talent, Jef Neve, a pianist from Belgium. US born and London …
Show Review: Gil Scott-Heron @ MTL Jazz Fest
Very touching concert at Montreal’s Jazz Fest from one of true living legends of American music: the criminally underrated “godfather of rap” mr. Gil Scott-Heron The show started a full two hours late but the crowd waited very patiently and hung outside the venue. I think people were this patient …
A Copa Do Mundo (De Música) 2010
MusicIsMySanctuary presents the 2010 Copa do Mundo de MUSICA! We take the 32 teams and base our choices based on their musical output and heritage! Intense discussions encouraged!
My 2010 MUTEK Recap
When I looked at the MUTEK lineup a couple weeks ago I think it had the potential to be one of the best editions, speaking from my perspective of course. Even though the rain did kind of spoil the fun of the outside shows, it didn’t stop me from having …