When LWE started its podcast series back 2008 it was impossible to tell how the series would progress; but its basis was in providing our readers with quality music, not just the handouts of the biggest names we could find. Now that we're about to reach our 100th regular podcast it seems safe to say we achieved this goal, pleasing and challenging listeners and occasionally landing a few big name podcasts as well. In celebration of our fast approaching 100th exclusive podcast, LWE's staff has taken a look back at the first 99 and showcased some of our favorites so [...]
Buy These Tracks Download "After 10 vinyl only singles the DIAL sublable LAID releases a selection of essential House Music masterpieces for the first time on CD. Since DIAL brought up its eccentric family business in 2000 the love for true House Music was always one main inspiration. Highly inspired by the US based music [...]
[ Soul People Music ] ( buy vinyl ) One thing the nominally New York house scene does better than most is various artists 123s. Often you will find Jus-Ed sharing a side with another kindred spirit on UQ, or the whole crew assembled for a remix project. DJ Qu's Strength Music imprint issues various artists comps with aplomb, and Fred P's Soul People Music jumped in the game with the Earth Tones series. Last year's Earth Tones could have been one of the biggest records of the year, [...]
For our 29th exclusive podcast, NYC's Fred P (aka Black Jazz Consortium) mixed together a two-hour odyssey of deep house and techno. This one cannot be missed - grab it before it returns to the ether this Friday, November 26th at 10am CST .
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Là dessus je ne vous apprendrai rien : on entend beaucoup parler de house New-Yorkaise ces derniers temps. Au point mort depuis le début des années 2000, on assiste depuis 2 ans à sa renaissance, dynamisée notamment par des labels comme Wolf+Lamb, mais également par Jus-Ed et sa structure Underground Quality , autour de laquelle [...]
[ Laid ] ( buy vinyl ) In only a handful of months the still fresh Laid imprint has made quite a name for itself. Despite being born in the shadow of its older brother label, Dial, Laid has quickly established its own area of expertise, pummeling record buyers with five solid singles of dance floor-primed house music while Dial vascilates between floor friendly and leftfield sounds. The sixth record to don a lux Laid sleeve is the first showcasing multiple artists' originals, for which they've collected some of the freshest names [...]
It seems once again artists have looked past shriveling album sales and pooh poohed format worries while creating a truly outstanding crop of longplayers. Whether exploring the sinews connecting electronic music and jazz, amalgamating traditional African and house sounds, gearing up a set of club bangers or diving into unknown recesses in listeners' heads, the 10 albums LWE's reviewing staff chose represent the best 2009 had to offer. We have only one regret: last year we voted DJ Sprinkles's breathtaking Midtown 120 Blues as 2008's #3 album of the year , which disqualified it from being included [...]
10. Black Jazz Consortium, "New Horizon" [ Soul People Music ] ( buy ) Though we techno nerds often tout a preference for music that's emotionally restrained, hardly anyone can resist a tour de force like Black Jazz Consortium's "New Horizon." Even if you spend most of your time listening to beat work-outs made "emotive" or "melancholic" by just handful of minor chords (not least other tracks by BJC), this kind of climactic bomb is pretty much impossible to deny. It grabs your attention from the very first a beat, a perfectly EQ'd, leathery [...]
For many listeners, Fred P. was one of 2009's major discoveries. Less a young upstart than a veteran finally getting his due, Fred Peterkin has become one of the key players in New York City's resurgent house scene. His affiliations with Jus-Ed and Move D - both of whom are contributors to upcoming releases on Peterkin's Soul People Music imprint - hint at his elegant deep house style, but his releases for the past two years as Black Jazz Consortium have established his unique voice. Fred took off from working on his ever-expanding label and his own productions not only [...]
Photo by Tamara Lichtenstein One of the great joys of going to your local record shop (or, er, scrolling through menus of WhatPeoplePlay ) is the anticipation, nay, expectation of discovering something or someone you had never hear of before. As Innervisions boss Dixon says of their bright young hope, Culoe de Song, "Sometimes tracks appear from somewhere you would never expect." So far, 2009 has been no different, with a host of fresh and (more often than not) astonishingly young talent breaking through. Narrowing it down was a tough job, but [...]
[ Soul People Music ] ( buy CD ) As "deep house" overtook "minimal" these past couple years as dance music's catch-phrase du jour, a certain formula has become apparent. Slow down the tempo, loop a bass line, throw some jazzy pads on top, and add an intermittent sample of an African-American male voice saying "yeah." Though there are some great tracks fitting the stereotype, it is hard not to crave some greater inventiveness. Fortunately, Fred P, a.k.a. Black Jazz Consortium, brings precisely this to his production work, of which 11 [...]
Chart courtesy of The Economist 01. Black Jazz Consortium, "Whats Up With the Love" [ Soul People Music ] ( buy ) Fred P brings Structure , his second album as Black Jazz Consortium, to a close with the question, "What's up with the love that you're giving me?" Without any other lyrics to provide context for who he's asking or why, listeners are left to drawn their own conclusions on the basis of the luscious instrumental sweeping beneath Fred's filtered vocals. [...]
[ Soul People Music ] ( buy vinyl ) (buy mp3s tk) Fred Peterkin's chosen moniker for this and many other releases seems to take for granted a point that, for some critics and listeners in the world of dance music, remains controversial. Even more so than your average deep house record, the "New Horizon EP" has a lot more to do with jazz, particularly jazz fusion, than it does with European electronic music. It's an EP that can comfortably stand alongside the most jazz-influenced work of Juan Atkins, Mad Mike, Carl [...]
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