(Deel 304 hiero ) Grace Jones - La vie en rose label: Island jaar: 1977 kant a: La vie en rose kant b: I Need a Man www.theworldofgracejones.com

The very recent passing of West End Records founder and Paradise Garage backer Mel Cheren causes me slightly less to reflect upon Mel's legacy and more so upon genius DJ/Producer Larry Levan's . Larry was the resident DJ at Mel's infamous nightclub and handled a good amount of the 12" mixes for the West End label. In the 80's Larry went on to work the mixing boards for a plethora of artists on a wide range of Disco labels including Salsoul and his own Garage [...]
So I need some help from my loyal fanbase once again. I'm working on assignment for my journalism class about digital music distribution and I need to talk to some of "the people". If you bought Radiohead's latest through their website I would like to talk to you briefly either over IM or email. Basically I need to know what you paid for it, what you thought of them releasing their album like they did and related shit. The story is not going to be printed in the college newspaper (trust me on that) but it will be online at [...]

No, I am not dead. Not yet. But I'm here to show you some damn good music by some life-impaired musicians. Not quite the style we usually show around here but hey, it's almost Halloween and zombies are always good taste in this time of year. So! I present you Zombie Zombie, a french Psychedelic / Experimental / Japanese Classic Music (!?) band. They have a nice b-movie feel to their sound. The perfect soundtrack for a horror movie. The exact feeling you get [...]

saw grace jones this week having lunch in the west village. there was nothing "super" or "model" about her. but the guy... i mean girl sure can sing. Grace Jones "Slave to the Rhythm (Serge Santiago's Special Edit)"

i was returning the rental car and overheard the clerk talking excitedly with someone on the phone about getting played. it seems a guy had hit several car rental places that morning and got away with 20 bucks each time by posing as a blockbuster employee (?!). too lame a scam to waste space on, let's just say it took advantage of the usual human foibles of greed and shiny objects. what caught my ear was the way he talked about it. "he on top of his game," the owned clerk said authoritatively, like some kind [...]

It's back! The Guess Who feature that had my email blown up last time, and I 'preciated the love. Since the man pictured left is dropping in two weeks, click the image to peep his music video, and peep the prizes below Prize Pack A: 1 Autographed "Traffic Jam" vinyl 1 Regular "Traffic Jam" vinyl 1 Regular "Hey Baby" ft. Mos Def CD single Prize Pack B: 1 Regular "Traffic Jam" vinyl 1 Regular "Hey Baby" ft. Mos Def CD single [...]

For some reason the "I Shot Ya (Remix)" by LL featuring everybody has been looping in my mind all week, so here's a few tracks that were sampled by Mr. Ladies Love and a waaay too young to be talking about her ill na na, Foxy Brown. Speaking of "I Shot Ya", what ever happened to the dope hip-hop posse cut? 1. Steve Arrington - " Nobody Can Be You " from LL Cool J - "Nobody Can Freak You" 2. Angela Winbush - " I'll Be Good " [...]

Tom Moulton â€" A Tom Moulton Mix The record isn’t a mix, it’s the songs themselves that have been mixed by this legendary, um, fashion model, the guy credited with popularizing the remix, if not inventing it himself. There are well-known tracks, like “More, More, More,†and historically important tracks, like “Love Is the Message.†But get this record for the gritty soul like “I’ll Be Holding On,†and the brilliantly executed “La Vie En Rose,†definitely one of my favorite tracks of the 70s. If you have an open mind for real disco, not the [...]
First there was TTC, then came Cuizi Cuiz AKA Young Cuiz AKA Ciuzinier your girlfriend's boyfriend (and not to mention his faithfull sidekick Le Geneven Heathen) and now comes Tekitek AKA Teki Latex. His first single comes out tommorow and most everyone has heard the Spank Rock remix (if not you can cop it from Scattermish or Dem Fluo Kids . Now don't get me wrong, Spank Rock have been responsible for some of the best tunes and remixes this past year but its the original of Disco Dance With You that's the shit. You can either [...]