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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
CBLS 117 - Compost Black Label Sessions Radio guestmix by TJ Kong
Feygin - Saying goodbye (Dairmount and Berardi dub remix) // Iori - Spatiotemporal // TJ Kong & Eric de Man - Gajes // Martyn - Viper (London arches edit) // DJ Sodeyama - Life // DJ Pierre & Green Velvet & Phuture - Acid Trax 2011 (Angel Alanis Remix) // Art Bleek - Dweep // Rennie Foster - Roughshod (Paul Mac Remix) // Paul Woolford - Razor Burn // Superpitcher - White Lightning
Co/Lab - Los Angeles Artist Run Initiatives at Art Platform-Los Angeles
Artra Curatorial to Present
Co/Lab - Los Angeles Artist Run Initiatives at Art Platform - Los Angeles
Los Angeles 2011: Co/Lab is a new and unique event bringing together 19 non-profit art institutions, alternative spaces and independent art initiatives under one roof at the inaugural edition of Art Platform-Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles from September 30 – October 3, 2011.
At the Co/Lab event, artists, gallerists, curators and collectors can survey the thriving art landscape of Los Angeles and allow art lovers to discover new talents from some of the most exciting new spaces showcasing emerging artists today. Co/Lab is organized by ARTRA Curatorial, in conjunction with Art Platform-Los Angeles, producers of The Armory Show in New York.
In its first ever edition Co/Lab will explore the new "cool school" of the Los Angeles art world. With Los Angeles’ new found reputation as THE dynamic city for contemporary art Co/Lab will present an unforgettable celebration of why ART IS THE NEW BLACK!
Co/Lab participants include: Actual Size; Artist Curated Projects; Control Room; Durden and Ray; Emma Gray HQ; JAUS; LA Pedestrians; Las Cienegas Projects; Materials and Applications; Monte Vista Projects; Night Gallery; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum;Statler-Waldorf Gallery; Summercamp's ProjectProject; RAID Projects; Slanguage; Weekend; WPA; Workspace
The Art Platform-Los Angeles art fair will demonstrate the rich and diverse cultural landscape of Southern California and underscore Los Angeles’ influential position within the contemporary art world.
Co/Lab, presented by ARTRA Curatorial, in conjunction with Art Platform - Los Angeles September 30 – October 3, 2011
1933 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90007
contact : Colton Stenke / p. 818 635 3626 / info@artrala.org
Basic Soul Radio Show with Simon Harrison 12-09-11
download : Basic Soul Radio 12-09-11
Weldon Irvine - Music Is The Key [RCA/Get On Down] // Weldon Irvine - Walk That Walk; Talk That Talk [RCA/Get On Down] // Herman Kelly & Life - Time After Time [Alston/Get On Down] // Hackney Colliery Band - House Arrest [Wah Wah 45s] // Alex Wilson - Ariel [Salsa Veritas] // Deep Street Soul - Look Out, Watch Out [Freestyle] // Shigeru Tanabu feat. Akane Del Mar - El Camino (Mute Speaker Mix) [Falk] // Victor Davies - Somebody (Dimitri From Paris Remix) Ashley Thomas - Kept On Runnin' [Counterpoint] // Peven Everett - Sweetness Is [Bombay] // Agnès presents Cavalier - Napoletano [Drumpoet Community] // Osunlade - No Way [Defected] // DJ Cam - Swim [Inflamable] // Raphaël - Archangelo [Heavenly Sweetness] // Freddie Hubbard - The Melting Pot [Blue Note] // Leon Ware - Sure Do Want You Know [Elektra] // Push - It's Over [Push] // Pajaro Sunrise - Old Goodbyes (Charles Trees Remix) [Love Monk] // Colonel Red - Each and Every Way [Tokyo Dawn] // The Soul Session feat. Karl Frierson - Soul Desire [Agogo] // Erykah Badu - Telephone (Freddie Joachim Remix) // AZitiZ - What Is Love (Telepathe Mix) [Carbon Logic] // B.Lewis - Trouble [Jus Like Music] // Paul White feat. Jehst - Indigo Glow [One Handed Music]
Friday, September 09, 2011
mp3 : Villa Rosa (Muja Messiah & Maria Isa) -"Watch Out"
download : Villa Rosa (Muja Messiah & Maria Isa) -"Watch Out".mp3
download : Villa Rosa (Muja Messiah & Maria Isa) -"Watch Out" (Radio Edit).mp3
New from Muja Messiah & Maria Isa, Villa Rosa. Villa Rosa's debut Blue Diamond Island (Black Corners), out Sept. 20th. The first track "Watch Out".
Since 2008, Maria Isa and Muja Messiah have released several tracks together including "Royalty" from Muja Messiah's 2008 release Adventures of BBoy DBoy, "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" off Muja Messiah's 2010 mixtape M-16's, and "Never Let Go" off Maria Isa's 2009 record Street Politics. There's a unique chemistry between the Latin firebrand MC, singer, actor, and activist Maria Isa and Muja Messiah, a veteran of the Minneapolis indie scene who brings a heavy dose of politically incorrect satire laced with humor and narratives of daily life. With Villa Rosa these two artists unite influenced by Spanish lyricism and Latino politics with hardcore street smarts to a full circle. Villa Rosa's 14-track debut Blue Diamond Island will be released in fall 2011 on Black Corners with production from Martin “Doc” McKinney (The Weeknd, Esthero), Benzilla (Brother Ali), Mike The Martyr (AG), and DJ Turtleneck. Blue Diamond Island finds the two MC's crafting a sprawling record influenced by Latin rhythms, reggae and left-field pop based in hip-hop sensibility.
Sept. 11th -Villa Rosa live on the Current 89.3 Local Show
Sept. 20th -Villa Rosa debut Blue Diamond Island in stores
Sept. 17th -Villa Rosa First Ave Record release show
Oct. 27th -Villa Rosa at the Walker Art Center -Get Scrappy (free thursdays)
www.facebook.com/villarosamusic
Thursday, September 08, 2011
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The Tribe & Big Cats - "One Call Away"
The Tribe & Big Cats operate on a simple philosophy: rap music can be fun without being stupid. It can be catchy without being formulaic. And when it’s done right, rap music will make you nod your head, whether because the MC is on point or because the beat is a banger-- or ideally, both.
BJ The Chicago Kid and Greg Grease guest star in "One Call Away".
CBLS 116 - Compost Black Label Sessions Radio hosted by SHOW-B & Thomas Herb
CBLS 116 - Compost Black Label Sessions Radio hosted by SHOW-B & Thomas Herb by compost
Detroit Urban Gardening Ensemble - Take Root - OHA // David August - True Romance - Coocoon // Daniel Bortz - I'm Talking - Circle // Rainer Trueby - Welcome To Our World - Compost Black Label // Lewie Day - Some Kinda Man - Melbourne Deepcast // Medlar - Terrell - Wolf Music // Rootz - B-Side // Brawther - Do It Yourself (Alternative Mix) - Secretsundaze // Marlow / Knixx / Comixxx - Put Off - RWav // Agnes - Frederiksborg - Drumpoet Community // Larry Heard - Winterflower - Rebirth // Tyree - Nuthin Wrong - Dance Mania // Sello - Real Love (Jacob Korn Remix) - Wazi Wazi
On the Lam
Greg Drasler // "Rain Dance", 2011
oil on linen, 40 x 44 inches, 101.6 x 111.8 cm
courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York
GREG DRASLER : On the Lam // September 8 until October 15, 2011 // Betty Cuningham Gallery // New York, NY
Today Betty Cuningham Gallery will open the season with Greg Drasler : On the Lam, an exhibition of new paintings and his third solo show at the gallery. An opening reception for the artist will be held this evening from 18h until 20h.
Drasler, in these highly polished uncanny paintings, constructs the elsewhere and disruptions of travel as if reinventing the wheel. With auto interiors, patterns and suspended objects, the manifold directions of the imagination is a back seat driver steering into bursts of symbolic coincidence. The objects have the capacity of vehicles and the vehicles are all interior. Littered with cameras, trailers, books, tents and a ski lift, the paintings remain unusually vacant yet preoccupied. This pile up of instruments, tools, patterns and apparel accumulates and reads as words in a sentence, a visual sentence, which is the painting.
Born in Waukegan, IL, Greg Drasler received a BFA and MFA from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. He has exhibited regularly in the US since the mid 80's. Widely collected privately, Drasler’ s work can be seen in the collections of Dow Jones, Inc., New York; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, New York and Thurston Twigg-Smith, Honolulu, HI.
Drasler has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1993 and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 1991. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and has also taught at Princeton University.
FERTILITY : Side by Side Gallery Akim Monet GmbH (Berlin)
Louise Bourgeois // PREGNANT WOMAN, 2008 // Gouache and colored pencil on gray paper
31.1 x 25.4 cm // image courtesy Side by Side Gallery Akim Monet GmbH, Berlin
FERTILITY // Marina ABRAMOVIC // Jonathan BOROFSKY // Louise BOURGEOIS // Tracey EMIN // George GROSZ // Ernst Ludwig KIRCHNER // Otto MUELLER // Pablo PICASSO // Auguste RODIN // Andres SERRANO // Daniel SPOERRI // September 9 until October 29, 2011 // Side by Side Gallery Akim Monet GmbH // Berlin
Fertility, in all its literal or metaphoric meanings, is cyclic and timeless. At its most basic, to be fertile is to bear fruit-whether humans making children or the land producing crops. In a broader sense, fertility speaks to inventiveness, abundance, possibilities, ideas. It is the terrain of artists directly engaged in the act of creation and a fitting concept for the inaugural show of Side By Side Gallery Akim Monet, an exhibition space interested in the tangencies and dialogues between artworks spanning time and place.
Grouping works dating from the late 19th century to the contemporary moment by eleven artists, the show looks at its theme from many angles - factual and symbolic, erotic and tender, visceral and humorous. The contemporary artist Marina Abramovic immediately commands attention with the assertiveness of her female imagery. Abramovic's 2005 chromogenic print "Women in Rain #2," taken from her video piece "Balkan Erotic Epic," shows traditionally dressed village women in a field lifting their skirts and thrusting their exposed vaginas to the heavens. In equal parts startling and comic, the image is part of Abramovic's exploration of ancient Balkan beliefs in the power of human genitalia to ensure the fertility of the land.
Serrano's "Frozen Semen with Blood" (1990) is precisely that - plumes of the red and white elemental substances isolated close-up against a black ground. It is both matter-of-fact in its literalness and also beautifully evocative of pigments suspended in an Abstract Expressionist painting. It finds resonance with the corporeal redness of Louise Bourgeois's three gouaches titled "Pregnant Woman" from 2008 and 2009. Bourgeois's works, each a silhouette of a bulbous torso, seem to flip between figurative totems and abstract rivers of live-giving fluids. These embodiments of the state of fertility, made when the artist was in her mid 90s, have their roots in Surrealism, as do Daniel Spoerri's 1990s collages using images of reproductive anatomy lifted from 19th-century encyclopedias and his 1995 bronze "La Coppia-Hr. Stossel und Fr. Muscheli." This couple is amusingly personified by surrogates for their sexual organs- a rubber stamp for Hr. Stossel, a conch shell for Fr. Muscheli, each anthropomorphically poised on a set of little legs.
Another conversation over time happens between Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "LiegendesPaar" (1908), a print of a couple lying in bed calmly post-coital, and Tracy Emin's 2009 monoprints "Suffer Love" of a woman furiously masturbating. Both are private glimpses of erotic intimacy, each daring in their own time, yet Emin's female is adamantly alone. While Emin's images suggest a kind of infertility of loneliness, at the same time they speak to the generative possibilities of her own hand as a means of self-preservation whether emotional or artistic.
Auguste Rodin and Pablo Picasso, two artists who saw their own virility as a font of creative power and viewed their prolific artistic output as a kind of offspring, each are represented by works overtly celebrating female sexuality. Rodin's bronze "Torsed'Adele" (1878) is a classically lyrical arched torso of his favored model Adele, who was in fact pregnant (although not obviously so) at the time of her sitting. In the etching "Raphael et la fornarina. II: Avec un voyeur cache" (1968), Picasso equates the erotic with the artistic enterprise as he imagines Raphael simultaneously seducing and painting his model.
Best known for his lurid street scenes of decadent Berlin, Kirchner also made wholesome scenes of maternal care including a mother and son playing with a train in the grass titled "Spielende kinder imgrasmiteisenbahn" (1924). Otto Mueller offers a harrowing counterpoint in his 1920 lithograph "Mutter und kind II." It is unclear whether boy cradled against the mother's body is only sleeping or in fact dead in a kind of pieta. Mueller's "Polnischefamilie" (1920-21), with a bony baby at the mother's breast and another child crouching under the table, illustrates that fertility can also be associated with destitution and failure to thrive. Their countryman George Grosz contributes an unsettling work on paper titled "Le Meilleur des mondes" (c. 1946-47) referencing Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel "Brave New World" about humans being relieved of their reproductive functions. Here Grosz presents a sardonic image of modernity with a grotesque embryo gestating in an anthropomorphic decanter towering over a naked woman robbed of her womb and a backdrop of glittering skyscrapers.
Jonathan Borofsky's contribution to the show takes a wide-angle view on the theme. "Human Structures (32 Figures)" (2002/2009), an indoor version of a large-scale piece done for the Beijing Olympics, is a freestanding cylindrical tower of alternating male and female figures, connected hand to hand and head to foot, each a different bright color of translucent molded polycarbonate. Here, the parts join like building blocks to create one universal, fertile organism. It is the eternal daisy chain of humanity.
- Text by Hilarie M. Sheets
Puro Instinct : TRUEEMERALD mix
There's alot of great music coming out now. Check out the Puro Instinct TRUEEMERALD mix that was created for Japan's oki-ni.
Basic Soul Radio Show 05-09-11 : guest mix by Rise [Futuristica Music]
He3 Project - Make It Sweet '75 [Family Groove] // Guelewar - Balla Jigi [Teranga Beat] // Afrobuddha Meets Kakatsitsi Drummers - Obame (Treat Mix) [Round In Motion] // Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Cobra [Heavenly Sweetness] // Diana Ross - You Were The One (Womack Rework) // Mark de Clive-Lowe feat. Nia Andrews - The Why [Tru Thoughts] // Tomson & Benedict feat. Bantu Soul - Blind (Opolopo Remix) [Tone Control] // Si Tew feat. Pete Simpson - Need To Grow (Yoruba Soul Remix) [Atjazz Rec. Co.] // Blacktrix feat. Rider - Between The Lines [Skreener] // Aroop Roy - Clickstrodinaire (Musicaholic Remix) // Suzi Analog feat. Dudley Perkins - The Program [Dopeness Galore] // Favorite Flava - Waterfall // BUG - Indigo Children [Jus Like Music] // Klic & Article.01 - Mustard Tiger (Gerry Read Remix) [Hit & Hope] // Guest Mix By Rise [Futuristica Music] Mecca:83 - Together(ness) // Roy Ayers - Funk In The Hole (Grandear Remix) // Chief - Anyway // Erykah Badu - Telephone (Freddie Joachim Remix) // Elaquent - Grimey & New // Fitz Ambro$e - Kassie // Hazel - Can't See You // Freddie Joachim - Waves // Knxwledge - Bight Lridge // Mecca:83 - Around Midnight // Jazz Chronicles - Bologna (Rise Spiritual Edit) // Creative Arts Ensemble - Unity // Takheiro Honda - Dij Dij Eitch Eitch // Sunrise Ltd. - Our Love Will Grow // Phil Cohran & Legacy - Theme
+++++ End Of Mix +++++
Laak - Hurt Me So [Austere] // Alton Miller - Find A Way [Vibe Boutique]
mp3 : Brown Shoe - "Late Nights"
download : Brown Shoe - "Late Nights".mp3
After the release of their first single, "Colt Rider," from their forthcoming full-length The Gift Horse, California rockers Brown Shoe have returned with their latest single, "Late Nights." Less upbeat, and more love stricken, "Late Nights" expands on the quintet's musically diverse sound, while offering a level of intimacy that pulls listeners in as close as possible.
Guitarist Aaron Baggaley describes "Late Nights" as being, "A song about being in that all-too-desperate situation in which you just can't give enough stimulation, adulation or attention to appease your short term lover. It's like trying to get a firm grip on a hologram -- the tighter you squeeze, the more you know it's not real."
Mayda - "Tusks In Fur" [Full Album Download]
download : Mayda - "Sylvia".mp3
download : Mayda - "Tusks In Fur" [Full Album Download].mp3
Mayda is a pop-funk artist from the Twin Cities. She writes and produces her own music with famed drummer/producer Michael Bland (Prince NPG, Soul Asylum) and is known for igniting a room with her energy, charm and contagious pop songs. Since being deemed 2010's Best R&B Artist by the City Pages, Mayda has toured South Korea, the Midwest and performed at SXSW. Her music has been nationally recognized on Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, MTV's The Real World, a KFC commercial and she even has been a featured artist on YouTube.
With one full-length (The Interrogation) and two EPs (Stereotype and Eyes on the Water) under her belt, Mayda is releasing her second full-length effort Tusks In Furs on Sept. 24th, 2011. The album features top players such as Michael Bland, Jacob Hanson (Halloween Alaska, Mason Jennings), Cory Eischen (ELnO), Tommy Barbarella (Prince, Johnny Lang), Mike Scott (Justin Timberlake), Sonny Thompson (Prince, Nick Jonas), Felix of Heiruspecs and more. Many of the songs have already been featured within the past month nationally on MTV's Jersey Shore (twice), The Challenge: Rivals, Showtimes The Real L Word, and Oxygen's Bad Girls.
Check the following dates:
9/9: "The Panthers" Video Release
9/12-18: Punch Pizza downloadable giveaway with purchase of pizza
9/16: Mayda Pizza Party at Punch in Stadium Village w/solo performance // 3PM
9/17: KARE 11 Morning News // 8AM
9/17: MyTalk 107.1 Appearance with Jason and Alexis
9/17: DJing the Villa Rosa Release Party at the Mainroom
9/23: In-Store Performance At Cheapo // 6PM
Album Release Party:
Sept. 24th @Cedar Cultural Center Official "Tusks in Furs" Album Release Party Hosted by Felix (Heiruspecs) w/Maria Isa and the Birthday Suits$8 in advance/$10 @the door, all Ages, 19h.
Patrick Palmer Art Exhibition Clapham
Patrick Palmer // September 8 until September 28, 2011 // Foss Fine Art // London, UK
Patrick will be in attendance painting in the gallery this Saturday and Sunday.
Patrick Palmer // Out of the Smoke // charcoal // 85 x 60 cm // £ 695
Patrick Palmer // "Sienna" // oil // 100 x 70 cm // £ 1,400
