Listen to: Theo Parrish - Train Wreck Mix

Ahead of Theo's performance tonight at Motion (Bristol), we are starting the day with his awesome Train Wrack Mix recorded for Red Bull Music Academy. The mix runs for two hours and really portraits all about Theo: Soul, Groove, Jazz, Funk, Disco and anything else you can mix in between. A good taster for what is meant to be an unforgettable night.

Listen to Awesome Tapes From Africa via RBMA

This is an awesome mix that portraits inspiring music from one of the most soulful places on Earth: Africa.

Excerpt from RBMA:

"Through his blog, Awesome Tape From Africa, Brian Shimkovitz proves the point over and over again. While researching the local music scene in Ghana on a Fulbright scholarship, Brian discovered the regional cassette tape merchants. Upon listening and realizing that the music was often unlike anything else going in the globe, he decided to put some of the songs up on a blog he eloquently dubbed Awesome Tapes From Africa. Thus began the eternal quest for strange, and quite often incredible African cassettes. Since then, the blog has developed a cult following, and Shimkovitz often finds himself DJing his collection at parties all over the globe. And he often DJ’s using only cassette decks. And to further his populist approach, every song he plays is available to download on the blog."

Watch: Egyptian Lover - How was 'Egypt, Egypt' made?

Egyptian Lover is one of the godfathers of the early West Coast sound known as "electro". Together with Afrika Bambaataa and other pioneers, he established himself as a true legend and a music innovator. He still tours the world banging his machines live... Watch below how 'Egypt, Egypt' was created...

"Key Tracks is a new series presented by Red Bull Music Academy in which musical pioneers, mavericks and legends walk us through the making of their signature tunes. For this debut edition, produced along with dublab, we speak to the king of the West Coast electro sound, Egyptian Lover, as he shows us the backstory – and the 808 beat – behind his 1984 classic “Egypt, Egypt”." (Quote from RBMA)

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Read: The Perfect Storm - New York Techno in the early 90s

We love surfing the web looking for nice articles based in good journalism (no, we don't do journalism, this is just a blog)... something not very common these days. Red Bull Music Academy seems to be doing a great job tho. Just read this great article by Michaelangelo Matos.

The Perfect Storm: New York Techno in the 90s.

"It was 1989 and Frankie Bones was looking forward to his first trip to England. Karma Productions, a crew in London that threw gigantic warehouse and outdoor parties dubbed ‘raves’, had offered the 23 year-old Brooklyn DJ a slot in the lineup for their July party, Energy Part 2. These things had gotten some media attention, both in the English music press (which had declared 1988 a ‘Summer of Love’ and were on their way to doing the same for ’89) and the broadsheets (thousands of kids dancing to faceless machine beats in fields: what?). But in America they were still a distant rumour."

"Berlin, it seemed, was where the action was, and a lot of Americans moved there – including Chesler, Selway and Adam X. In 2009, Adam released a flurry of 12"s anonymously under the name Traversable Wormhole, tracks with the same unfettered forcefulness that once typified New York City techno."

Sunday Lecture: François K

We are pleased to offer you François K's radioshow for Red Bull Music Academy. A journey through some of his favourite records... You will listen to classics by Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and many more... All of them commented and reviewed by François himself. Whether you're hung over, coming down or having a chilled out Sunday afternoon, this will make your day!

Soul Statement

We were thinking about writing the leit motiv for this blog, what makes the difference between this and other thousands of music related sites. The reason becomes clear when we listen to KDJ's words in an old video interview. We can't explain the reason why we do this better than the man does in the clip below.