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For the last 15 years the label, founded by Goldie, Kemestry (RIP) and Storm, brought so many good releases that their discoggraphy looks more like the yellow pages instead of a label catalog...

If you want to be part of this crazy birthday and party next to Goldie, Storm, Noisia and the almost full label crew, you know where to go THIS THURSDAY!

Our friend dj One87, promoter of this crazy event, was kind enough to offer 5 free tickets to our readers!

All you need to do is answer this simple question:

How many Metalheadz do you see in the picture?

Send us your answer and your full name (before thursday 12pm) to info@inyourbass.com and we will pick up 5 names in the list of the correct answer.

Good luck!

More info : http://www.187-dnb.be/

For the occasion,  Thavius Beck (Mush Records/Big Dada) will be opening the night. To refresh people’s memory, that dude has been working with The Mars Volta, Nas, Saul Williams, Nine Inch Nails, just to mention these ones, and is a member of Lab Waste, the group he has created with Giovanni Marks aka Subtitle.
Also, the APC show will be open by the screening of a documentary : “Out Of Focus – Consortium In Gravitation” which has been directed by someone living in our lovely town of Brussels, Caroline Lessire. For the occasion, she asked Beans and MSayyid to make some special shout outs for In Your Bass. And, Man, they rocked it !
So, go there if u wanna see live talented and passionnate people improvising on electro-hip hop tunes. Also, for the occasion, all K-town will celebrate the night, to begin with De Kreun that is going to party all night long...

Some links :
APC : http://www.myspace.com/antipopny
Thavius Beck :  http://www.myspace.com/thavius

http://dekreun.be/live/event/anti-pop_consortium/

Too bad Samiyam cancelled on this, but The Gaslamp Killer and the mighty Flying Lotus will make this a quality night!

Place to be: De Kreun - Conservatoriumplein 1, 8500 Kortrijk

Doors 8:00 pm
The bartender´s Psycho-trip 8:20-9:00pm
The Gaslamp Killer 9:00-10:00 pm
Flying Lotus 10:00-11:30 pm ….

See u there!

Check out this interview with Flying Lotus for XLR8RTV:

Something else but definitely worth to check is the new video of Daedelus, another artist that should make a return to Belgium soon!

 I have to give Andy & Mari a big hug because they took good care of me while at the station, J-Wave Ichiban!!!  From there we did our last shopping, first to Asakusa, an area with a few temples and too much of a tourist spot for me, I heard too much english and too much french haha.  I mean, if you come to Tokyo you must visit Asakusa, the temples of course but also the other side of the river with the crazy buildings, the craziest being the one with a big golden flame on the top.  It’s a place where you will find the little cat figurines and samurai costumes and tons of other shit .

Then we headed towards our favorite sushi spot in Shinjuku, right behind the station, couple of blocks towards Tokyo’s Park Hyatt hotel, right there we enjoyed the sushi the most, I love to see those plates move in front of me, like the food is dancing while i’m eating haha.  Shinjuku is also the station to get your ticket to the airport by Narita Express aka the N’EX and the place for 3 million people a day to catch their trains to work.

But where we really wanted to end our day was of course Shibuya, for its extreme human overcrowded condition, its atmosphere, the lights and the shopping.  Of course I passed by the family shop @ Jazzy Sport to say bye to Gaku and Shigeru, one of the people we lived with for two weeks.  Then we went to look for my girls’ shoes, she has a 39size and weird enough sizes stop at 38 here and start again at size 40, how unlucky can you be right?  Yeah I felt bad for her…  Anyway, moving on… we went to Disk Union and HMV, you probably will ask yourself why since it’s not supposed to be more interesting than any other music chain store in the world; well, I dunno, it might be the most underground/alternative chain store i’ve seen in my life for real.  I’ve never seen such shit like that before except in small local recordstores specialised in a few genres.  I went straight to the world music, the hiphop and the soul and what I saw was simply amazing.  They had everything, the best music in front of me, the best hiphop recommendations were mostly independent, underground, make sure to check the video out for more.  Then, there was a cool staff member who recognised me from the saturday gig and called me behind the counter showing me the party pictures with me (and Edson) from the Jazzy Sport blog, that was really funny good looking out man.  I really wanted to do a topic on the bikes here in Tokyo, crazy fixed gears I’ve seen here.  If you don’t know what i’m talking about make sure to check pedalmafia, very nice site on fixed gear bikes.

Last store to hit was Tokyu Hands, the store with everything for the home.  A famous name in Tokyo, and several stores around the city, big shop with many floors.  This store has about everything you would search for days/weeks in Belgium haha.  From rare batteries and cables for your computer to special pens and paper for school to paper frames for pictures, I mean, what you need….is there!  Shibuya don’t stop even on our last day, the music rocks all over the neighbourhood and the lights on every building, every screen and every corner is definitely not good if you suffering from a severe headache, which was not my case, thank God.  Heading back towards our home, need to settle for a minute right before moving again with our other supadupa cool roommate Kosuke.

He took us to a grill, and we enjoyed it so much, I think it was our best meal since we arrived haha, unfortunately it’s our last one , they had a coal grill they put in front of you and you just throw the meat, mostly beef and chicken on there, really good and melting in your mouth, wow!  We home now, and try to get some sleep (it’s 1am) and knowing we need to wake up in 5 hours and hustling these big bags we have through a massive travelling crowd at rush hour, ow Lord I’m going to stop thinking about this.   Well, people I hope you enjoyed this voyage as much as I did, I’m coming anytime soon to spin another couple of records, word!  Tokyo Ichiban… sayonara.

Thank you Taro / Masaya / Gaku / Kosuke / Shigeru / Grooveman Spot / Mitsu & Gagle / Mari & Andy @ J-Wave / Sound Engineer at the studio driving the Volkswagen / Budamunky / the friends I met in Belgium from Tokyo / And everybody who helped us to have a great time in Tokyo. You guys rock!!

And a video:

They told me Osaka was the 2nd biggest city in Japan, my guide tells me it’s Yokohama, anyway you really can feel the difference, Yokohama is not so hectic, at least that’s my experience of it, people are also different and Yokohama has the biggest “China Town” in the country.  That’s actually where we were going to right after our walk in a nice park by the Yokohama bay.  There, my girl and I witnessed something interesting, on the dock in front of us there was a big machine spider, probably build in Japan to be exported somewhere, so watch out for a movie about a big spider in the near future, I gave you the scoop aight?!

 This park gives you a nice view on Yokohama’s skyline, with one of the tallest, if not the tallest building in Japan.  From there we went to “China Town“, it is big actually but I thought it would be even bigger, I was a bit dissapointed, although we had a good Chinese meal I didn’t see a lot of interesting things except panda gadgets and Chinese outfits.  And if that wasn’t enough, rain fell from the sky, rain like in rainforests, hard and non-stop so we decided to leave Yokohama as soon as possible to Tokyo.

Arriving in Tokyo we were searching the store dedicated to workmen, something we couldn’t find 2 years ago.  Workmen? Yes, because they have the craziest style ever, wearing these large pants and the ninja shoes, they are actually the only ones wearing that shit.  I found a couple of pants there, i don’t think i’ll wear them here but once i’m home I might sport these pants hard, dope style.  Anyway, after that I passed by the Jazzy Sport shop to say hello to Masaya, Grooveman Spot, Gaku and Shegiru, I also got introduced to Coma-Chi, the female rapper an fly-girl on Jazzy Sport who was on the Shibuya billboard screens for two weeks, say whuuuut!!  Ow, and forgot to tell you about these two cops who came to me in Shibuya, “hello Sir“, they asked me a lot of things in Japanese and I was completely lost in translation on that one, then I said the magic word, “you need I.D.?“, they said “yes, yes!!!!” and asking me “sightseeing, sightseeing?“, (I heard the cops are in “alert mode” or something like that), it was all good when my girl came back next to me and cops asked me “wife?” and i said “kinda…” haha.

Rainshowers hit Tokyo tonite and we had an appointment with roommate Kosuke, he’s into fixed gear bikes and all that stuff, showing me movies like skate movies but then about bikers in the streets, interesting.  We would meet at the Roppongi station, actually at the Mori tower, the same building that hosts J-Wave radio station and where I’ll do a radioshow on thursday.  The theatre looks futuristic, with projections on the wall at the entrance, water coming down the walls, trailers playing behind the counter, everything looks clean, we checked “The International“, good movie on banks and corruption, really makes you realise how deep we’re into this shit.  The movie finished around midnite, catched a metro who was so crowded by people coming from their jobs, and got finally home wet like I jumped in a pool with my clothes on and sitting here to write you this story…isn’t it great haha?

Sayonara

you know, the girls all dressed up, gothic, barbee, baby, there’s no particular dresscode, they are dressed the way they like .  Yoyogi is also the place for chillin’ in the park, at the entrance you have the typical rockabilly dancers, really funny and so serious at the same time…they really don’t want you to do a picture with them.  Another thing I had never seen before (I actually got to see it from friends we met over here), it’s the dancers, like 50 or 100 of them dancing, choreography but without music, yes, they all do the dance perfectly like a boys band would do but no sound.. that’s magic!

We were there to meet some friends of my girlfriend, so we hooked up and got to chill for a minute in the area before moving to our sunday “spend-money-sunday-rich man style” spot, the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku, you know…the one Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson used to hook up in Lost In Translation.  Very beautiful building, only 8 floors are used as a hotel, that’s crazy, with a swimming pool on top of the middle tower (yes, the building is 3 buildings next to each other) and the famous bar on the 52nd floor.  We had cocktails (no alcohol for me of course) and a sausage snack, I was really starving, had to eat something anyway.  We had a nice view on the city, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Tokyo Tower, you could see the major parts of Tokyo’s hotspots.   It’s definitely a thing to do when you’re in the area on a sunday, having a drink on top of the building.

As we continued our trip (with the friends) we started to feel a bit hungry and ran into a nice sushi bar, the plates were turning around the counter and you could choose of many different plates moving in front of you.  Every plate with the sushi’s on had another color or picture, depending on the price of it, which makes it really easy to count when you got like 6 or 7 little plates.  I’m not really into sushi, but I can enjoy the salmon/rice/wasabi sushi and preferably a bit roasted, that way it melts in your mouth like chocolate.  They really tried to fool us because every time we asked about a plate they tried to give us the most expensive one, that’s also the good thing about those colored plates, when it’s green you just don’t take haha (the cheapest being white!).  Food was great, my lady loved it, she’s really into that kind of sushi bar. I don’t even think we have one like that in Brussels.

Back to Shinjuku station, had to go back home because our homeboy Taro was waiting for us; he will be in Brussels tomorrow actually, staying at my crib while I’m here…sounds like a foreign exchange haha.  Jazzy Sport in Brussels, representing for Tokyo.  When we got home, the whole family was there, Mitsu, sound engineer and his girl and baby, Taro, Cro-Magnon, Sheguro, Kosuki!!! That’s beautiful, classic moments.  Went upstairs listening to some productions in the studio, I heard some interesting things like the “Scrabble” remix Mitsu is working on (What’s up Luigiiiii…haha!), I sleep right under the studio!  Anyway, I won’t tell too much about that, just that Mitsu The Beats is one hell of a producer, when I listen to his beats I see Tokyo (although he’s from up north, not Tokyo), mellow, funky, he’s the man.

When everybody thought this would be the end of our day and my girl went to sleep we received a phone call at 01am from the sound engineer asking if we wanted to roll, night ride through Tokyo… I was definitely down with that, taking my camera, going to the bay, on the other side to have a beautiful view of Tokyo via the Rainbow Bridge.  Unfortunately, lots of the lights in the city were already out, Tokyo tower lights were out, Rainbow Bridge, but not everything.  That way I could enjoy a view I had never seen before, from the other side, what an impressive city, crazy.  I was dead tired actually and thought we would go back home but instead of that, the boys talking in Japanese I couldn’t understand a word until we drove to Yokohama haha. Man, I’ve never seen so much water and many huge bridges in my life, we were so high in the sky on these bridges.  We passed through Kawasaki and thought it was fog but it was pollution, at least that’s what they told me, and I could see it coming out of industrial buildings, really scary for our environment if you ask me.  The ride was actually supposed to take me to a big 2km graffiti wall of fame but when we arrived they cleaned it up. Nothing, can you imagine 2km of beautiful graffiti just gone, foetsy…  Yokohama seems to be a nice town, i’m heading back over there on Tuesday to check out their big China town they got, the tallest building of the country and the bay, this “nightshop on every corner” city is interesting.

Back home, it’s 4:15am. Sayonara, I’m dead!

Good music on J-Wave overall, good shows and nice interviews, they host Gilles Peterson’s show too, Worldwide 15.  Mari is a very nice lady and does a good job for Gilles and Brownswood Recordings there, she asked us to go with her see Robert Glasper on monday night which we accepted of course haha. Have you seen Robert Glasper? He’s dope live and if you saw the Q-Tip performance in your city, it was him behind the keys.  We might go back on wednesday to do some work and collect Japanese shout-outs I asked them.


Our day was a short one as we had to meet the Jazzy Sport boys at the house for a ride to the venue.  The club Solfa is in Naka-Meguro, a very hip and nice neighbourhood with lots of nice little restaurants and style shops.  Once I arrived I got introduced to the boss and the crew, nice people there working.  The club is really nice and small, it’s in an “L” shape, one part is lounge, but really lounge with ambient sounds of nature, birds and water through the speakers, yeah funny really, it at least doesn’t make you scream in the other ones’ ear, I hate when they do that.  The other part of the club is big speakers and seats in the back, a very compact and good sound and a soundman that installs everything for you, that’s the way I like it, a perfect set-up, turntables, Pioneer CDJ800 and a pair of CDJ’s, what can you ask more…?  Screenings on the wall and a very nice and aware crowd in the beginning watching the hands of the starting dj, our roommate Shigeru (do I write it right?) haha.

I was glad to see the people I met on a train from Brussels to Gent in Belgium.  Back then I saw 3 Japanese youngsters lost at Brussels North station and helped them out and did all the way together to Gent.  I told them I’d spin in Tokyo and they all came down the spot, really appreciate that.  Had a couple of other roommates who came down, Kosuki, our main bicycle guy in the building, but what definitely made me smile was to see Edson from Amsterdam’s Patta in the building with his wife, that’s always a funny thing to see people you know from home abroad.  That’s why I put Opgezwolle during my set in Tokyo, that’s right, just to represent the Benelux a bit and they actually really liked it, Tokyo was feeling Zwolle, it’s like me loving Gagle and I don’t understand shit.  The party was organised by Jazzy Sport for the release party of their next release Budamunky.  Very nice and well-speaking Japanese artist, they are all actually nice people, I haven’t seen any weirdo or strange person since my arrival.

Talking about Gagle, we left the building for a couple of hours to pick up Gagle at the hotel, they had a birthday party little gig in Shibuya we went to.  Good atmosphere in that club too, they had a very tiny basement, i felt like in a manga for a minute, really, I think alcohol makes these people very happy and funny.   Saw a couple of local hiphop shows, a completely crazy deejay but oh so funny, we don’t have dj’s like that; stopping the music for a minute or two and start talking to the crowd about records and the group coming next and in between that I think he was telling jokes… everybody seemed to enjoy!  Then came Gagle’s moment, on stage they rippin’ it, if you want an outernational group for a festival or something like that, and you’re lucky it’s low season on flights then book the guys, definitely dope.  Mitsu and his brother Hunger (killer mc) on the mic and deejay Mu-R on the decks for a very enjoyable set.  Using Mitsu’s beats and b-sides, a very nice combination I think and the crowd there was really into it too.  Tracks from the last album “3 peat“, some other gems like “yuki no kakumei” and “kurofessional mc“… I think Jazzy Sport has the perfect group to reflect the Jazzy Sport way, Gagle is very fresh and tight too.  I think Jazzy Sport just signed another great mc from Japan called Twiggy, 2 years ago he had an album entirely produced by Prefuse 73, interesting stuff. Can’t wait to hear that.  Ow by the way, expect a very nice record by Grooveman Spot, a new album with very nice artists.


Back to the club Solfa, taking Mitsu The Beats, Hunger and Mu-R with us, where they’re doing a dj set in front of tired people, it’s almost 4am and we just arrived…  It was probably the perfect set for that time, going back to back from hiphop to soul rare gems.  I’ve heard some nice tunes by Black Star “Little Brother” to Kev Brown stuff and then straight into some rare soul and tracks containing samples Mitsu used for his beats, I really enjoyed that part actually.  It goes on for another hour, before Mitsu decides to tell the people to go home and finishes with the Jose James track featured on Mitsu’s next album. 

Keep an eye on that one because when it drops it will hurt, it’s a very nice album.  Lights on, time for tons of photo sessions with the guys (my girl loves Gagle so she was pretty happy of course), broken english and drinks.  I can’t believe how fast daylight comes in, it’s past 6am or 30 hours as they say here haha, yeah they don’t stop at 24, they just go on until they go sleep.  Had a great time with Gagle, Taro, Shigeru, Edson and the people I met in Belgium who came to see me. True people.  There’s some pictures on the Jazzy Sport blog about the party, go check them out here. Sayonara

Today we started by going to Tokyu Hands in Shibuya, a big department store which has everything you might need, it’s a famous shop in Tokyo.  When we walked we didn’t plan to stay long but in the end it took us ages. It’s really interesting because you can find separate pieces of everything, from electronics to plastic parts for your bagpak; I mean, in Europe you go to the shop to tell them something broke on your bagpak and they will tell you to buy another bag, here they will find you the broken part and you can replace it.  There’s another good and big shop in the Shibuya neighbourhood called LoFt.  It has other types of things like portable mini-plastic cameras, stuff for school, fluo shower gadgets.. I mean, they really see life in color, not only inside in shops but you go outside and everybody is colorful, it’s really a pleasure for the eye.

2nd thing we went to is my friends’ shop called Jazzy Sport.  One of the top recordshops and labels in the world if you ask me; a wide range of black music, from hiphop to disco and house, it’s dangerous to enter this shop.  Wednesday is the new releases day so I found some nice gems of course, I bought a lotta stuff, good music overall…it’s necessary for recordshops since a lot closed down in Tokyo, I heard about 100 shops closed, yeah it really ain’t easy nowadays and that’s why we, the deejays, need to keep the ones still operating alive, buy from your local recordshop!

From there we decided to find a good restaurant called Las Chicas in the Harajuku neighbourhood; we have a hard time finding restaurants that can cook gluten-free (no bread, no pasta, no soja sauce, can’t eat anything flower based) since my girl can’t eat any of that at this time…very difficult in Japan. Las Chicas was nice, we had mushroom risotto and chicken.  Harajuku is a clash between Paris’ Champs Elysées and London’s Carnaby Street which means you can find big brands like Chanel, Fred Perry and Louis Vuitton and turn around the corner and you get nice sneakershops like Atmos.  It’s also the place where people go loose on style, especially on sunday.  You can find lots of strange shops, I found this shop who sold clothes for dogs, smokings, dresses, everything for dogs, even little socks haha.  It’s also close to Yoyogi, the park where the youngsters come together dressed Gothic on sunday, that’s a real tourist attraction but it’s also really a Tokyo thing.



Shinjuku, one of the main stations in Tokyo is a place to take many trains to the countryside or to other cities so we tried to get our tickets to Hakone, about 1h30 from Tokyo, the place to check the mount Fuji aka Fuji san, the volcano, the 1st symbol of Japan and one of the first things you will see from the plane.  I really want to see it, dunno why but it’s like the Fuji is calling me to pass by; I think everyone should go see the Fuji when in Japan, you can’t miss that one.  So, I was talking about the tickets right?  Well, we still need to figure out how to go there because there’s something like a Free Pass but it’s only available if you stay 2 or 3 days and we want to stay 1 day and get back to Tokyo because I need to be in town for a football game at midnight with the boys from Jazzy Sport, yeah I know, hard to the core… More about Hakone tomorrow until then I’ll finish our pasta we made yesterday, not bad but taste definitely not like home… Sayonara.

Phonetics on his mix: When they asked me to play on dubstep parties my selection goes from Dubstep, Grime to Garage, I like Dubstep in the direction of 2562, Kode 9 & Burial but I also enjoy Kromestar, Benga or the whole Grime, UK Garage & Bassline thing. On parties where other music gets played my record choice goes from Funk, Hip Hop, Breaks, Niche, Kuduro, Minimal, House and much more. I find it hard to focus on one genre, but Dubstep is an excellent genre to mix other music with, so that gives me the opportunity to make eclectic mixes by still playing just a "Dubstep set".

InYourBass asked me to do an eclectic mix (like I did on the IYB New Years party). The mix starts of with some UK Garage that goes to 4*4 Bassline Garage, then makes a small trip through Grime and Dubstep followed with some Crunk. After that I'm moving into some Soca with then again some Crunk and in between unexpected tunes. For this mix, I tried to make it as versatile as possible but still with the UK Bass as the main influence.


Enjoy!

and remember:
KEEP ON BUYING RECORDS
 

IYB#5 BY PHONETICS - Eclectism

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01. D-Tune: Just An Organ.
02. Isaac Cristopher: Love With Me.
03. Box Clever: Talk To Me.
04. Monie Love: Slice Of Da Pie (ELB Dub Mix)
05. White Label
06. Dub Syndicate: Feel The Music
07. Asylum Seekers: Olde Garage
08. Dj Nrg Ee: Playing With Knives
09. Genuis Crew: Boom Selection Remix
10. Tiny Tempa: Tears (BurgaBoy Remix)
11. Dj Tex: Hot Pants
12. Frederic Galliano Kuduro Sound System: Ate Quando
13. Smasher: Back In The Days 4*4 Remix
14. Dexplicit: Steamtrain
15. Newham Generals: Tetsuya's Theme
16. White Label
17. TLC: Silly Ho
18. DMZ: Haunted
19. Geeneus Ft. Riko, Wiley & Breeze: Knife & Gun
20. Joker & Rustie: Play C
21. T-Pain Ft. R. Kelly, Pimp C, Too Short, MJG, Twista & Paul Wall: Im In Love (Wit A Stripper)
22. Lil Jon Ft. Lil Scrappy: What U Gon' Do
23. Dj Godfather: Like A Ho
24. Iwer George: Gimme Ah Bligh
25. Doug La: Massive Gosine
26. Benjai: Over & Over
27. Dizzee Rascal: Jus A Rascal
28. Dem Franchize Boyz: Riddin' Rims
29. Twista Ft. Juvenile & Speedknot Mobstaz: Out Here
30. The Killah Kuts: Make That Ass Talk

More about phonetics : http://www.myspace.com/thedjphonetics

artwork by http://www.myspace.com/n_rv

Tomorrow Check The Rhyme tour will hit Belgium.

And we want to make sure this doesn't get unnoticed!

De Hop and Democrazy offer you a line up with

• Paris
• The Beatnuts
• Jeru The Damaja
• The Alkaholiks
• Lords of the Underground

and Belgium will be represented by

• Dj Lefto
• Madfingaz

All the acts on the line up will make it clear that you cannot forget about your 80's and 90's hiphop classics.

Don't forget to wear your baggy pants, throwback jerseys, caps and nikes.

C u there!

Remember these? 

Who's behind the kaboooom bang bang parties?

Me Klodia; I handle the bookings, the promo and the overall organization of the events.
In addition, u have the resident dj's Dave Luxe et Kesmo aka dirty K, both really good dj's with different kind of influences  (house, rock, hip-hop, electro, ghetto tech, baltimore, booty bass pop, new wave, grime, etc… )
And then a group of happy party people on the lookout for good parties. They are the key of the mood of the kaboom parties. And most often it's BANG BANG ,p

What is the concept of the kaboooom parties?
It's really simple: right now, I'm booking forthcoming artists (no big names). But after a while I think I'll start to book some big headliners, but I'll always keep the idea that it's important to make people discover new artists.
Artists that are still in a phase when they appreciate the music they play. They got the party mood in them. And more important, they are dj's  who look at the party people to check if the alchemy is present. I'm using the promo text as a cooking receipt :

"Mix a blast of electronic beats with explosive visuals and a crowd of party monsters ready to celebrate 'til dawn.Add a pinch of glam and a hint of rock'n'roll attitude. Spice it up with some krazy, raging, relentless, sensational magic.Those are all the ingredients it takes to get an explosive night. Shake it all fast and you'll get "KaBoOm"!!!

I have the feeling the big dj's often loose their passion once they reach success.
A dj is booked to play his style, but most importantly to make the crowd have fun, it's important to keep that in mind!


How do you define the music played on the parties?
"ça crash un max!!! "
From house, club, rock, hip-hop, electro to ghettotech, baltimore, booty bass and grime.

Who are the people that attend the kaboom parties?
The new generation, young people who are discovering clubbing.And the old skool generation, always ready to have fun.
Straight, gays, cool people ,) Belgian heads you can say ,)

Why in Brussels?
Because it's my hometown and I love my city! Some years ago, Brussels was the place to be for clubbing, it was on the same level as Paris or London. The real clubbers came to our country. Our capital isn't the place to be anymore, with the help of some Brussels promotors we are trying to make this clubbing vibe relive again.
Parisian people often come over to party in Brussels. London is another story, the parties there are really too high level to make London people come over here.

Kaboom resident's and guest's that blessed your parties?

Dave luxe (kaboom/regulators)
Kesmo aka dirty k (kaboom /bootycall)
Mavy da pimp (bootycall)
Kaptain cadillac (bootycall )
Lazy flow (clekclekboom )
Raziek (top billin /databass)

And the guest for the 21st are :

Digikid 84 (folistar/playerz/fr)

From the hip hop movement, he quickly discovered the art of beatmaking and took influences  out of that  to make an electric sound.

The BPM of DG84 goes faster and the sound is changing into a sweet mix of pop, hiphop, new wave.

He's always been a fan of the 80s and everything connected to to it
( A-HA, Boy Georges, Michael Jackson, TOTO, Eurythmics, ..) even the old cartoon's "generic" music where the old generation is still attached to.

Digikid84 gives us an anthology of all the music he likes and he mixes it with heavy and powerful drums to give a maximum of effect.

French Fries (clekclekboom/street tease/fr)
AT the age of 14 MR FRENCH FRIES aka "Valentino Canzani" listened to hiphop made beats for some rappers and touched for the first time a pair of turntables, mixing hip hop , funk and FAVELA CHIC.

At 15 he's a resident DJ and started producing BAILE FUNK, BALTIMORE CLUB MUSIC, and concentrate himself on ELECTRONIC and B-MORE CLUB.

He participated in the making of the music for the movie "Cherche Fiancé Tous Frais Payés". At 16 he was invited to be part of an online music store (www.clekclekboom.com) with artists like DJ SANDRINHO, KAZEY & BULLDOG, DJ GERO, TOMB CREW...

In 2008, he got signed by STREET TEASE  for his compilation. At that time he started to play in several music clubs like  PARIS PARIS, RESPECT ETE D'AMOUR, LE REGINE, REX CLUB, FAVELA CHIC...
 

Why should we come to a kaboom party?

To have fun, listen to bumpy sounds, to forget the week before.

What's your plan for the future?

At the end of march, beginning of april there will be a Kaboom 6.
In may I'm planning a big kaboom in collaboration with a crazy promotor, but I can't say more right now.
I'm developing a new party concept, and maybe a residency of kaboom in a cool bar.
All is still to be confirmed, but i ll stay in touch with u

Place to be on the 21st 

Barrio

Place de la Chapelle 6

1000 Brussels

Info

http://www.myspace.com/kaboombangbang

www.myspace.com/vanlooklodia

http://www.myspace.com/daveluxe

http://www.myspace.com/dirtyk1

The mix consists of a collaboration of KWISTAX (Freaks&Geeks), TMI (Radio Ara) and l'ETRANGLEUR (Neb). Popstep or a refreshing mix of dubstep (TMI) and some kuduro, bmore and electro influences (Kwistax) covered in a nice design by l'Etrangleur.

If u were at Freaks & Geeks (CBS) last friday, u could witness how well this eclectic mix goes of on the dancefloor. No wonder the party was packed!

If you are in the neigbourhood of either one of these two shops:

- LOST IN MUSIC (Plattesteenstraat 3 1000 BXL BE)

- EXTRABOLD (Avenue de la Liberté 24 1930 LUX LU)

don't forget to grab a cd and support your local scene! They are limited to only a 100 copies, so be quick.

Spearheading the movement was the track 'Sound of kuduro', a collaboration of Buraka Som Sistema, M.I.A. and Luanda luminaries DJ Znobia, Puto Prata and Saborosa that combines the raw energy of the original African style with the more refined production standards of its progressive European offshoot. The aptly titled 'Luanda Lisboa', also a Buraka/Znobia collab, is another fine example of this particular fusion. Due to colonial ties Portugal has a large Angolan community in which kuduro music was able to blossom and evolve up to the point where it got picked up by some adventurous dj's who introduced it to a whole new - i.e. non-African - audience. While the genre was building up momentum in the Lisbon club scene inevitably word got out in bloggoland. Already boasting a couple of vinyl releases, a compilation cd and a firm live reputation local boys Buraka Som Sistema, named after a Lisbon suburb, in no time became a hot ticket anywhere in the world.

Another European pioneer is Frédéric Galliano, a French producer with a rather more academic approach to the genre. He went to Luanda for what turned into a two-week production workshop with DJ Kito Da Machina meticulously teaching him the specifics of traditional kuduro beat programming until he deemed his foreign guest worthy of having a go at it himself. These efforts culminated in the critically acclaimed 2006 album 'Frédéric Galliano presents Kuduro Sound System' successfully marrying the contributions of a busload of Angolan artists to an intricate, slightly glossy production esthetic not unlike that of the Jazzanova collective. In this mindset producers respectfully arrange their snares, claps and hi-hats according to the patterns of the original carnival music that laid the foundations for the kuduro groove, notably zouk and soca from the Caribbean and semba and kilapanga from Angola. Not strictly adhering to this set of rules may result in producing what is derogatorily referred to as "white man's kuduro".

This dismissal is somewhat ironic as the spark that started the whole kuduro movement was European house and techno. Angolan producers tried to make their own electronic dance music and back in 1996 a guy called Tony Amado decided to add traditional carnival percussion to popular tunes of the time like Reel 2 Real's "I like to move it" to spice them up a bit, Angolan style. He came up with the name describing a silly dance routine he had developed after seeing a film in which at one point Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a particularly stiff and awkward choreography, much to Amado's exhilaration. Kuduro is a Kimbundu word that in Portuguese can be understood as "hard bottom" and actually refers to the tight-assed dance moves of the legendary "Muscles from Brussels" in this film. That's right, both the name and the original dance moves of kuduro boil down to funky African dudes making fun of how bad white people are at dancing! Here's an interview with Tony Amado in Portuguese, jump to 1:30 for the Van Damme clip.
The creation of Kuduro by Tony Amado


The way in which an African perspective on this banal little movie scene combined with a shared fascination for the thumping backbeat of western civilisation gave birth to an entire subculture of highly creative producers, rappers and dancers in under a decade is as unlikely as it has been successful.

Ever since the pc took centre stage in the typical Luanda studio setup, new compilation cdr's come out on a weekly basis, introducing fresh talent at a high pace.

Much like is the case with baile funk in Brazil popular tunes are frequently rerecorded by other artists but at the same time remain ignored by the mainstream media because of the harshness of the lyrics, both sexually and politically. Nevertheless, being the soundtrack of choice of taxi-drivers and shopkeepers alike, the kuduro rhythms permeate daily life in Angola with both determination and ease, thus serving as an off-grid platform for fundamental social commentary.

In a party setting kuduro dancing involves the ladies backing up their behinds to the guys - what did you expect? - but more characteristic to the genre are the dance battles young men engage in. Incorporating elements of breakdance, mime and choreographed fighting into a dazzling display of acrobacy, wit and groove is definitely the type of skill that can get you a solid street cred in downtown Luanda. Some of the sickest moves I've seen are featured in the video for Buraka Som Sistema's 'Sound of kuduro' but apparently the embedding function has been blocked for this one so you'll have to google it yourself. For the lazier reader here's some other dudes showing off.


With high profile releases such as the Frédéric Galliano curated ep on top notch American label Flamin Hotz and Buraka Som Sistema's eagerly anticipated 'Black Diamond' album readily available around the world, the sound of kuduro is by now firmly established as one of the most exciting regional explorations of the art of moving butts. It shares bloodlines with genres as diverse as samba, grime, rave and reggaeton and is a vibrant part of an ancient tradition that through constant evolution and reinterpretation connects the likes of Armand Van Helden and N.W.A. with medieval troubadours, shamanistic ritual and the pounding of tribal drums. In the meantime boundary pushing breaks, dubstep or house producers like Tayo, Reso and Radioclit have already incorporated kuduro type drum patterns in well-received club tracks while America's remix champion Diplo devoted the entire ninth edition of his Hollertronix bootleg series to the genre.

More importantly, in all its brutally engaging vivaciousness this music offers arguably the most direct of all electronically manufactured translations of what I suppose is the oldest music on earth - people shouting and banging sticks, having the time of their lives, completely immersed in the moment - and it's out there waiting for you. The team behind Belgium`s most dangerous club night LOW UP for instance has never been shy of throwing some kuduro in the mix and on saturday the 10th of January they have invited the exotic beats specialists of Tupolev Sound Crash for a steaming set of worldwide party favourites. Come check it out!

By 319 for LOWUP

FlyLo rules the world
First strike and most visible representative is Flying Lotus himself, alias Steven Ellison. Story is well know : After an album on Plug Research (1983), the Los Angeles musician has been signed on Warp Records in 2007 : great Reset EP on warp, and then the release in june of his LP “Los Angeles” with amazing tracks. Self described as a computer man and a child of the Nintendo generation, “FlyLo” is now definitely the icon of this new weird hip-hop.
But Beatnick got a wider point of view...
After some research on the web, I luckily found a guy who could give me more informations : Mr Beatnick, alias Nick Wilson, from London, 26 years beat producer (first loop at sixteen on amiga 500), dj (a warm up for madlib and jay dilla at the Montreux festival...), makes frequently great set on deepfrequency.org , has released “I know all the bitches” with featuring by Ahu / Dolly (who made some feat on flylo album), underground activist, party promotor, related to other great hip-hop producers Bullion & Paul White and to Gilles Peterson from BBC/radio1. As if it was not enough, coCreator with Charles II of Shhhh records mix series. The guy knows the “business” , got a good intuition and deep knowledge of this “new” beat scene : “I have watched it evolve around me from years”.
“Not surprisingly the main artists that people have heard of are Flying Lotus and his L.A. cohorts - Samiyam, Gaslamp, says Beatnick, obviously with the amount of promo / coverage for FlyLo / brainfeeder they are getting lots of attention. But actually the dark wonky electronic beats exist all around the world. For him, FLyLo doesn’t resume everything : “brainfeeder release (release of FlyLo warp LP in London - ndlr) was only the top of iceberg” What really matters is the whole community sharing this nu vibe via the web, with each time particular unique voices. “Its all around ! its a bunch of friends, a lifestyle, people community sharing music”.
Let’s appreciate his unexhaustive list made by Nick :

Hudson Mohawke, Mike Slott, Rustie, Lucky Me crew, All City Records dublin for Scotland & Ireland.

Labels in

Amsterdam / Netherlands: Eat Concrete, Kindred Spirits, Cinnaman, Tom Trago, Mamiko Motto aka 1.1 (check for her radio shows on Samurai.fm).

London / England: Lukid, 2Tall, Morgan Zarate, Steve Spacek , Jackhigh, Mark Pritchard (Harmonic 313), Danny Breaks, Bullion /Paul White, Soundspecies, Burntprogress // CDR crew, Analog Jones, Tightface.

Japan: Circulations (label), Jazzysport (label) - roster includes Grooveman Spot, Budamunky, Dj Mitsu The Beats.

Turkey: Onur Engin, Ahu aka Dolly.

Bulgaria: 1000 names .

Are you still there? Or already myspacing? Obviously a lot more than the L.A. stuff as you see. “Right now, in this "beat" music all you have is people combining lots of influences their own feels and inspirations”.
It has been a challenge to make the connection : “someone like Paul White sounds nothing like Rustie but if you like one, you might quite like the other”. And that is an evidence that you can hear. For Beatnick, The first one who made the link between those people is Andrew Meza. Andrew made a show on a college radio (www.btsradio.net). He was the first to play Hudson Mohawke, Flying lotus , etc. This young 23 years old guy has really connected the dots between nu beatmakers.

Beatmaking
So what is that music, what’s the connection between all those producers ? According to Nick, this is not really a genre. For him “it might be more a way of thinking”. Everything starts from the beat. Its about beatmaking “beatmaking is the process. the result is all about personality”. Even if it’s at a final point a lot more than beats, you can't name it otherwise then “making beats”. This is the starting point. Nothing else.
To get more in this, let me recommend to read the article written by our guest, on Shook Mag : “From Tokyo to Tashkent, Paris to Glasgow, Los Angeles to Lisbon, a new made-up sound is mashing up bedroom speakers, influenced equally by classic hip-hop productions, ’80s film references, Nintendo library sounds and a shaolin self-discipline… From Flying Lotus to Hudson Mohawke, ill dubbio to 1000names, Bullion to Pursuit Grooves, this is the beat generation smashing things up”.

Foundations
Mr Beatnick’s hip-hop memories are the story of this offbeat music : Lets rediscover hip-hop history with him : roots in Afrika Bambaataa, Diamond D, Jam Master Jay, Raymond Scott. Right after those foundations, second wave with Run DMC, The Wu, etc. was the time when beat production has been invented in the modern sense. “and later that morphed into enjoying mowax, and early ninja stuff; and all that stuff in the tradition of early hip hop, which was progressive in the "prog" sense as well as being, the roots of the style as a production art lots of raw breaks, mad synth samples. Then later, I went to shows and watched those same artists from the mowax era innovate this london music, or this west london music, "broken beat" which was a crap tag line for what was a really innovate music style. the early work there by dego, seiji, alex phountzi, phil asher, daz and especially kaidi tatham really caught my ear” As you see, this is a long story that has lead to the offbeat, and those words would need many more to be complete.
However everything in music got a long story. We may say: hip-hop has made a new turn with this weird/wonky nu sound that has now “a wider audience". That part is definitely true. And now the “beat scene” is deeply reaching and gaining Europe.

Now, what about dubstep ?
When you ask Beatnick what is happening exactly in London between dubstep and offbeat. He says: For me, Flylo broke through and has merged the audiences a lot. At FWD parties, Alex nutt for example plays fresh beats . Mark Pritchard, big fan of dubstep is also signed on Warp. And that is correct, examples are not missing : Samiyam EP on Hyperdub, Gaslamp mixing DMZ stuff in L.A., Kode9 vs Flying lotus mixes (the famous versus mix on rinse fm...) and remixes... lots of people are joining the worlds since end 2007 or help cross them.
For the London release of the Los Angeles LP at Brainfeeder, Flylo had indeed decided to invite some monsters from LA and some unbeatable local heroes : Kode9 & DMZ from London, and some Glasgow killers as Rustie and Hudson Mohwake. Insane party... as you can imagine. This party has mixed with happiness the bass and the beats as wanted by Flylo. The first time both worlds were consciously merged. This may be, or not, the end of the first wave of dubstep producers (and when you see Skream and Benga on stage at the Red Bull Academy show in Barcelona...well, you could think you are far away from the Brixton the spirit), the beginning of a second era ? Let’s see what is gonna happen now. Exciting isn’t ?

Conclusions:
1 : Buy a plane ticket and go directly to Low End Theory club in L.A.; the basecamp of LA offbeat.
2 : Enjoy London side of the offbeat with Mr Beatnick : monthly last Friday Shhhh party @ Gramaphone or Burntprogress parties CDR @ Plastic People. Check Beatnick for more underground informations cause offbeat music doesn’t come in usual venues...
3 : Maybe easier and certainly less expensive : don’t miss FLyLo live performance @ Botanique on 26th November... I’ll be there, will you ?

• http://www.myspace.com/mrbeatnick
• http://www.myspace.com/flyinglotus
• http://www.myspace.com/samiyambeats
• http://www.myspace.com/1000names
• http://www.myspace.com/ahudolly
• http://www.myspace.com/hudsonmo
• http://www.myspace.com/rustiebeetz
• http://www.myspace.com/btsradio

Youtubes
Low end Theory Club http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fSAjHlmM0
Flying Lotus at Low End Beat Invitational http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=s08nXwtCgsc
Samiyam live @ Brainfeeder Festival London http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDhFUONrao

 

Labels
http://www.shhhhh.co.uk

Press
http://www.shook.fm – look for Beats topic...

Venues
http://www.myspace.com/lowendtheoryclub - LA
http://www.burntprogress.com/ - London

Radio
http://www.deepfrequency.org