The Remix Artist Colletcive ( RAC) have been pleasing the indie and dance music communities since the 2007. Andre Anjos, Andrew Maury, and Karl Kling celebrate their early successes with this years release of Chapter One – a retrospective remix compliation album. Featuring remixes of Temper Trap, Penguin Prison, The Shins – plus a host of other indie bands – it is a reminder of how adeptly the trio can shape and swivel a track into it’s most rythmic and joyous form. Are you ready for some RAC treatment?
Laura Mvula, a 25year old Birmingham retro soul singer with a gospel background, has produced a stunning debut album with Sing the the Moon ( released March 2013) . A mix of dreamy melodies, stomping beats, sleazy trumpet, martial drumming, striking violins and heavenly harp. Reviewers have compared her to Nina Simone, Billy Holiday & Janelle Monáe but we think she has very much her own voice and proves it with this striking original album.
Might have to be the album of the day… Pretty much been on repeat all day! ‘Dimitri From Paris Back In The House’, is a double mix release that sees the laid-back maestro fusing material from the likes of Soul Clap, Storm Queen, Miguel Campbell, Tiger & Woods and Marshall Jefferson into pitch-perfect disco-infused beatdown. A bespoke collection of sophisticated recordings exquisitely blended just like the finest Martini.
LE COQ TO LAUNCH IN PARIS
Press release for the new bar in Paris to open in Oct 2012.
A collaboration with Eric Fossard and Thierry Daniel and Tony Conigliaro, Le Coq will take inspiration from the glamorous era of 1970s. Situated in the 10th arrondissement in the heart of the French capital, Le Coq (French for Cockerel) will be Tony’s first private venture outside of London. His partnership with two of France’s leading drinks industry experts promises to result in one of the most hotly anticipated launches for 2012 and a new destination bar on the Parisian cocktail scene.
Moving away from the current trend for speakeasy bars, Le Coq will channel the relaxed yet exuberant glamour of the 1970s. Inspired by iconic fashionistas and musicians such as Marianne Faithful, Yves Saint Laurent and Bianca Jagger, the bar will intertwine references from the art world with those of popular culture.The boutique cocktail menu will reflect Tony’s signature, future-retro style offering contemporary and provocative twists on classic recipes, plus some very new ideas.
Keep an eye on their face book page Bar Le COQ for further details!
“Londoner Mala, producer and DJ, is one half of the dubstep duo Digital Mystikz . He discovered reggae in his teens, but it was a later fascination with drum’n’bass and jungle that opened his eyes to the all possibilities of rhythm and bass. Thanks to jungle’s love of sampling different genres, Mala was turned on to jazz, funk, and other genres which he incorporated when returning to reggae. He spent the early 2000s spinning dubstep before forming the DMZ club night, which evolved into the DMZ label. Everyone from John Peel to Gilles Peterson have showed their support with Peterson signing Mala him to his Brownswood Recordings label. Mala and Peterson went on a rhythm-finding trip to Cuba and recorded basic track with Cuban musicians, which Mala later added his unique touch. Brownswood released the results in 2012 as Mala in Cuba”
Each month The NEXTMEN will bring you a new instalment of dancehall, drum’n’bass, dubstep, reggae, roots, instrumental and actual hip hop, soul and soulful low-end boomp, funk & (UK) funky, indie, leftfield, ambient, pop and straight-up party jacking pleasers.
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Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child has been named the greatest guitar riff of all time, 41 years after it was recorded, in a poll by website Music Radar.
TOP FIVE ROCK RIFFS
1. Voodoo Child – Jimi Hendrix
2. Sweet Child o’Mine – Guns N’ Roses
3. Whole Lotta Love – Zed Zeppelin
4. Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple
5. Layla – Derek and the Dominos
The only tracks released in the last decade that made the cut were Muse’s Plug in Baby, at 11, and The White Stripes grimy Seven Nation Army at 15. The bone crunching AC/DC classic back in Black landed at number six, followed by Metallica’s Enter Sandman and the chiming riff of The Beatles Day Tripper at eight. At number nine was Nirvana’s four chord wonder Smells Like Teen Spirit, while The Rolling Stones (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction rounded off the top 10.
Nouvelle Vague, New Wave and Bossa Nova: three things that – in their respective languages – all mean exactly the same thing. Three passions that Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux have been attempting – since 2004 – to marry together via their Nouvelle Vague project. The group’s modus operandi is as follows: transpose classic songs and help people to (re)discover obscure new wave tracks with a fresh take, decidedly modern. This simple formula has been a huge success worldwide with hundred of thousands of records sold and six years of continuous extensive touring. Here they present a compilation of exclusive and unreleased original songs from Nouvelle Vague main singers own projects.
The Singers showcases the singers who have thrilled crowds with their originality, sensuality and elegance over the years. The selected songs play to the vocalists’ individual strengths and styles, straddling genres. Flitting from the melancholic seductive opener ‘Peut-Etre Pas’ (Melainie Pain) to the plinky plonky piano jazz of ‘At the moment’ (Nadeah Miranda), it is a gorgeously endearing album. Each track creates a new mood, overlaid with exemplary vocals. In ‘Fade Out Lines’ the soft rawness of Phoebe Killdeer voice (who was allegedly kicked out of Nouvelle Vague for bad behaviour!) drifts over dripping 70’s Doors – esque instrumentals whilst the dirty urgent beats in “Private Meeting’ are echoed by Shana Halligan’s sultry teasing voice.
