Recent Posts Tagged With 'roots'

• ROOTS&FUTURE10: A Night With Stevie Wonder

  Posted on Wednesday September 26th, 2007 at 20:08 in soul, techno, funk, roots, stevie wonder, woman in red, soul clap, a wonder summer's night, al satterwhite, all i do, bank of america pavillion, bootyballzbounce

  This image taken in 1974 by Al Satterwhite This story goes all the way back to the middle of Boston’s unofficial Techno week (last Thursday), on September 20th. It was a very special day for a few reasons, namely because my girlfriend finall...

• ROOTS&FUTURE9: Pig & Dan

  Posted on Tuesday September 18th, 2007 at 16:23 in future, roots

  When asked how they describe “Imagine” the new album just released on Cocoon records, Mallorca based Pig & Dan (aka Dan Duncan & Igor “Pig” Tchkotoua) explain that “it covers all grounds from Minimal Techno to A...

• REBLOG: James Stinson/Drexciya on The ill-ec-tro-nic

  Posted on Sunday September 2nd, 2007 at 21:08 in roots

  There’s an amazing spotlight on Detroit techno/electro legends Drexciya over on The ill-ec-tro-nic in honor of the 5 year anniversary of member James Stinson’s untimely death. The ill-ec-tro-nic dudes have been on it for awhile now, but...

• Raving Like It’s 1991!

  Posted on Saturday September 1st, 2007 at 11:28 in roots

  YouTube Direktvideo link Speedy J live at Plus 8 Rave in Rome in 1991. That’s Richie on the mic. CRAZZZZZ! Thanks to R.A. for the link (they also have one of the best podcasts around so check it). ...

• ROOTS&FUTURE8: Roule Records

  Posted on Tuesday August 21st, 2007 at 16:58 in roots

  I know. We’re probably 2 weeks late on Daft Punk posts, given that they’re already done with their way to short north America tour, but we had to bring it back for the kids that just got on the bandwagon. Imagine it’s 1995 and Daft...

• SVVVVENNNNNNNNNNNNN!

  Posted on Tuesday August 21st, 2007 at 15:18 in roots

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• ROOTS&FUTURE7: Romanthony

  Posted on Thursday August 16th, 2007 at 16:25 in roots

  Romanthony is a a house music rarity, a prolific vocalist and prolific producer. His smooth Jersey garage sound with a dirty Chicago twist transcended the splintering house scene and was featured on a ton of early Azuli records and helped spread sou...

• Song Of The Summer X Siedah Garrett

  Posted on Thursday July 19th, 2007 at 22:21 in future, roots

  If you don’ know. “I Want Your Soul” by Armand is probably the song of summer ‘07 (it killed France for us). And now there’s a video that takes it back to 1992. Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul But, the song it s...

• ROOTS&FUTURE6: Hollis P. Monroe

  Posted on Thursday July 19th, 2007 at 18:34 in future, roots

  Welcome to the new and improved ROOTS & FUTURE! The new style is to get artists we love to talk to us about what they’re about and what they got coming up and give us some dope tracks to post for a week. For the first edition I had the hon...

• mixTAPE Time 4: Jazz…We Got

  Posted on Monday July 16th, 2007 at 17:43 in roots, mixtape time

  I’m smashing it today, right? Pics from DOTC2 and a new podcast live from Monaco so far and now something totally different. So I went to high-school with Ross The Boss (F.K.A. DJ Rook) who is a seriously dope bedroom hip-hop DJ and has a he...

• DJ Bruno Turns 20

  Posted on Friday June 22nd, 2007 at 13:49 in roots

  DJ Bruno is one of the originators of house music in Boston and it's time to pay your respect. As resident at the legendary Loft Bruno and Armand Van Helden shaped the sound of our city, but even before that he was a pioneer and he continues to be o...

• mixTAPE Time 3: Justin Johnson - Fractured Breaks 7

  Posted on Thursday June 21st, 2007 at 12:00 in roots

  It's been too long since we did mixTape Time and also we finally started ripping tapes from the old collection. I think I got this in 1998 and it's one of my favorite funky breaks mixes of all time for sure. The speed garage basslines on a few of th...

• SCLAP.EDITS1: Love Light (Fuel Injected Dub)

  Posted on Monday June 18th, 2007 at 13:16 in future, roots, Tracks

  We've been playing around with edits for awhile now and it's finally time to start sharing. There was ridiculous response to the Todd Terje ROOTS&FUTURE post so hopefully yall are into what we're doing on a similar style. All feedback is appreci...

• THE NINETIES 5: Armand Part 3 - Strictly / Nervous

  Posted on Thursday June 7th, 2007 at 19:29 in roots

  Ok, just woke up from a week long blog coma. Sorry to keep all the Armand fanatics at bay. So next up we've got Armand's first releases on Strictly Rhythm and Nervous Recs, both of which ironically are back in buisness. For those that didn't know,...

• THE NINETIES 4: Armand Part 2 - Cutting / Henry St.

  Posted on Thursday May 31st, 2007 at 17:59 in roots

  So I was gunna do all Armand's '94 house works in one post, but there are too many tunes and the 4 labels he was on are too long to fit in one line of the post title. So I'm breaking into 2 parts, but here's a little info that applies to this post...

• Alix Alvarez + Arnold Jarvis = Into Elysium

  Posted on Wednesday May 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 in roots

  I'm starting to really get pumped for Alix Alvarez on Friday. If you're not familiar, the SOLE channel label is a crucial player in carrying on the sound of NYC deep house. Alix's production is mad versatile, but no matter if he comes tracky, dub...

• BLOWYOURBRAINS1 - Speak into my good ear'

  Posted on Wednesday May 16th, 2007 at 14:23 in future, roots

  Welcome to a new mp3 series appropriately titled BLOW YOUR BRAINS… why is it that we punish ourselves with music? what is it about the quest for all that is utterly smashing? I mean it hurts… bad… sometimes it even makes us sic...

• THE NINETIES 2 - Early Subliminal

  Posted on Tuesday May 15th, 2007 at 00:02 in roots

  Before he was a superstar meathead favorite Erik “More” Morillo was another young gun at Strictly Rhythm, where producing under too many aliases to name he carved out a niche as one of the best club house producers around (more on this...