December 28, 2006
- Dilla’s last ever concert in Ghent. Musically maybe not the best but emotionally off the scale. - J Dilla / Jay Dee – Donuts. For those who doubt the man’s genius. Headphone classic.
- Marc Mac, another true genius. Just listen to these records: Marc Mac - How About a Game of Chess, The Visioneers - Dirty Ol’ Hiphop, Marc Mac - It’s Right to Be Civil
- Madlib - BeatKonducta Volumes 1-2: Movie Scenes. Another fine example of the art of sampling.
- Rush Hour Family. Kid Sublime, Aardvarck, Tom Trago and Antal playing at our parties. The constant stream of fine records they are releasing. The great selections they sell at their shop. Visiting their parties is planned for 2007.
- Onda Sonora going stronger than ever. Meeting the nicest people, having plenty of fun. Now that both of us live in Schaarbeek it even gets more fun.
- Our little RSCA-fanclub. Makes going to the matches so much more enjoyable.
- Collecting Panini stickers. An old hobby revived.
- Southport Weekender 39. Absolutely the best 4 days of my year. Enjoying the nicest music with the nicest people in the nicest conditions healed my soul more than a little.
- Getting involved in the Brussels nightlife. They haven’t seen the best of Onda Sonora yet. - Opening at Decadance for Roy Davis Jr. and discovering the royal art of warming up.
- Nice gigs I checked: Tortured Soul at Pukkelpop, Dilla at De Centrale, Slum Village at Charlatan, Lefties Soul Connection at Sojo, Nina / The Opposites at AB, Reel People at Southport.
- Memorable dj-sets I’ve seen: Kerri Chandler at Stereosushi, Larry Heard at Charlatan, DJ Deep at Decadance, Jazzy Jeff at Petrol, Theo Parrish at 10DaysOff, Kenny Dope & Keb Darge at Silo, Rainer Trüby / Titou Mariani / Phat Phil Cooper / Lefto / Roy Davis Jr. / Aardvarck / Tom Trago, Antal / Red D / Kid Sublime / Mr. Critical and all our friends at JH Eenders and too much to even sum up at Southport.
- Taylor McFerrin – Broken Vibes EP – Rude Movements. Absolutely massive broken beat workout.
- Discovered the fabulous world of Doctor Who and Torchwood. Science fiction with a comic twist. Totally my thing.
- Hip House revived. Wahoo’s “make ‘em, shake ‘em” was a hint to this revival but it’s Mr. V who took it to the next level. “V gets Jazzy”, “Beat that Bitch – Mr. V remix”, “Put Your Drink Down”, … all dancefloor bombs. But Wahoo coming back strong with their remix of Three Kings “Shake Dat Booty”. Loving it.
- Kerri Chandler, Dennis Ferrer, Jerome Sydenham, Ame, Henrik Schwarz, Tickski and co. Trippy house with massive build-ups and ditto breakdowns. “Rej”, “So let the wind come”, “Drumstick and a Lightfixture”, “Camino del Sol – Joakim remix”, etcetera. All good. Really looking out to Karizma’s LP in 2007.
- Me rediscovering vocal house. To close down this triumvirate of house genres. Dennis Ferrer “Church Lady”, Blaze “Found Love – Fanatix mix” (always gives me the goose bumps), Shuya Okino feat. Blaze an Phil Asher ‘Love is the Key”, Markus Enochson feat. James Ingram ‘Day and Night”, Ben Westbeech “So good Today – Osunlade mix” and the Tortured Soul LP. Thank you Southport.
- 1982 - 1983. Electrofunk. Greg Wilson. Check his mixes, check his re-edits, check his playlists. We need that man for a set in a Belgian club. Now.
- Benji B. Deviation. Best radioshow. No discussion. Other fine radioshows: Lost in music (FM Brussel), Worldwide (BBC Radio 1), De Hop (Stubru).
- Myspace and blogs. As you might have noticed.
- Taking the huge mental step of dj’ing with CD’s. You can’t deny evolution nor the many pro’s. Although I tried, for a very long time. Still keeping it real though. Still buying vinyl like a madman. But now I’m able to promote stuff from my friends. A very big plus.
- Birth of Alexander. On a personal tip. And the understanding and pure friendship I get from some people. Thanks.
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Now that’s what I call a list!
Not so sure about the hiphouse revival though, but I’m keeping my ears open!
My personal additions to the list would have to be
RSS
the Belgian expo scene going strong
Comment by alex aka lloyd — December 28, 2006 @ 1:38 pm
RSS is my thing for 2007 … just discovered it and still exploring … hiphouse is hot … buy Mr. V’s LP
Comment by Administrator — December 28, 2006 @ 2:12 pm