To be honest, due to different reasons I have been neglecting my duties concerning this page in the last months a bit. But things shall change in 2014!
To start off the new year, there will be a special show looking back on 2013. As most of you have probably gone through at least a few of these “Best of”-lists already, I have decided to follow a different concept: I have asked music maniacs from different countries and backgrounds to name me a piece of music that they personally connect to 2013 for whatever reason. I am happy to have received some replies with great music that in part I didn´t know myself yet! Some tunes are from 2013, some are older. For sure they add up to a very special selection for me!
The show will be online very soon. In the meantime, you can still listen to a show that I have done in Amsterdam in early December for the awesome internet station “Red Light Radio”.
Late summer and autumn is quite a good time of the year I think. Looking forward to lots of upcoming concerts and extended walks in the forest! Here´s some new tunage to accompany you on your journeys!
Tracklist:
01 Colm K – Spaced (feat. Walshy) (Bastard Jazz)
02 George Duke – Sister Serene (MPS)
03 Earl Sweatshirt – Sunday (feat. Frank Ocean) (Odd Future)
04 Bonobo – Eyesdown (ARP 101 Remix) (Ninja Tune)
05 Flako – Eclosure (Five Easy Pieces)
06 Vakula – New Romantic (Firecracker)
07 Uku Kuut – Mayday (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
08 King Sunny Ade – 365 Is My Number/The Message (Island)
09 Funkinevil – In The Grid (Wild Oats)
10 Simoncino – Saber (Mathematics)
11 Rocketnumbernine – Rotunda (Smalltown Supersound)
12 Vakula – In My Head (Firecracker)
13 The Poets of Rhythm – Path Of Life (Daptone)
While the new year hasn´t brought too much astonishing weather so far, there is some music of this kind already now! The latest episode of the V-Files brings you new Electronica from Falty DL, Syclops and Toro y Moi as well as
two Womack & Womack-Songs in remembrance of Cecil Womack, 80ies Celluloid-Stuff from a forthcoming label retrospective on Strut and much more. Plus you can win tickets for the upcoming DJ Amir-Show in Heidelberg on February 6!
The full tracklist reads:
01 Toro y Moi – Grown Up Calls (Carpark Records)
02 Kendrick Lamar – Poetic Justice (Interscope)
03 James Pants – Now, Let Me Brush You (Stones Throw)
04 The Blackbyrds – April Showers (Fantasy)
05 flako – Mating Dance (Five Easy Pieces)
06 Nini Raviolette – Suis-Je Normale (Celluloid/Strut)
07 Womack & Womack – Baby I´m Scared Of You (Elektra)
08 Falty DL feat. Ed Macfarlane – She Sleeps (Ninja Tune)
09 Syclops – Karo´s B (Bubbletease/Running Back)
10 The Last Poets – Mean Machine Chant/ Mean Machine (Celluloid/Strut)
11 Toro y Moi – Say That (Carpark Records)
12 Womack & Womack – Maze (Elektra)
13 GB – Seven In Twenty Four (All City Records)
14 Falty DL – Korban Dallas (Ninja Tune)
15 Melvyn Price – Voodoo Love Dance (Mel-dor Records/BBE)
To win the tickets or just get in touch drop a mail to hello[a]caresscaress.net. Enjoy!
01 / 2013
Happy new Year and a lot of these songs they call Big Tunes for all of us in 2013!
The new show will be online soon with all new things like the Robert Glasper-Version of “Think Twice” by Little Dragon, new Falty DL stuff and more! To let you know already, there is a nice concert coming up in Heidelberg on February 8 by Mr. James Pants! Really looking forward to the greatest One Man Show from the Stones Throw stable! As it will happen in a special cozy place there aren´t too many tickets so hurry up!
The Brainfeeder camp returns with Flying Lotus and the Gaslamp Killer, Plug Research introduces Thavius Beck and Naytronix and Kid Koala drops a blues album on Ninja Tune! The turntable wizzard also takes “12-bit Blues” on tour, don´t miss this! For his show in Mannheim at Alte Feuerwache on October 3 we are giving away 2×2 FREE tickets! To win, drop us a mail to hello[a]caresscaress.net and tell us in which country the Kid they call Koala is chewing eucalyptus leaves and cutting records…
Tracklist for this month:
01 Thavius Beck – Whether Or Not (Plug Research)
02 Flying Lotus – The Nightcaller (Warp)
03 Erimaj – Nothing Like This (Don´t Cry Recordings)
04 Kid Koala – 4 Bit Blues (Ninja Tune)
05 Jessie Ware – Sweet Talk (Universal Island)
06 Naytronix – Robotic (Plug Research)
07 The Gaslamp Killer – Mother (Brainfeeder)
08 Heaven 17 – Soul Warfare (Virgin)
09 Cooly G – Up In My Head (Hyperdub)
10 Anton Zap – Fade To What (Ethereal Sound)
11 Mala – Cuba Electronic (Brownswood)
12 Smallpeople – Move With Your Vision (Smallville)
13 Theo Parrish – Pop off (Running Back)
14 Alicia Myers – I Want To Thank You (Geffen)
15 Nas – Stay (Def Jam)
As always, feel free to drop us a line with your thoughts. Enjoy!
The latest edition of the V-Files starts kind of political in the 70ies and ends with some brandnew house business. In between we have Afrobeat excursions from Damon Albarn and friends, some classic Rocksteady from Lee Perry, contemporary Soul from The Internet and much more.
The Soundtrack in between your daily dose of football so to say. Feel free to drop us a line with your opinion on the programme or even on silly underarm tattoos… So here´s the Junebug!
01 Experience Unlimited – Peace Gone Away (Black Fire)
02 Pleasure – Ghettos Of The Mind (Fantasy)
03 The Internet – Web Of Me (Odd Future)
04 Rocket Juice & The Moon – The Unfadable (Honest Jon´s)
05 Jodeci – Freek `N You (Tokimonsta Remix)
06 Rocket Juice & The Moon – Check Out (Honest Jon´s)
07 Lee “Scratch” Perry – Solid As A Rock (Heartbeat Records)
08 The Internet – She DGAF (Odd Future)
09 Squarepusher – Stadium Ice (Warp)
10 Fur – Knots (Uno)
11 Vakula – Trip To Bo (Ethereal Sound)
12 GB presents The Abstract Eye – Analogous (Eglo)
13 Bang The Party – Bang Bang You´re Mine (Full Vocal Remix) (Warriors Dance/Strut)
14 Marlow – Need U (Room With A View)
15 Los Hermanos – Birth Of 3000 (Los Hermanos)
Really looking forward to the upcoming week! Radna & Reinier from Future Vintage are visiting from Amsterdam to drop some tunes with me! Together they are doing one of my favorite radio shows, check it at www.redlightradio.net or www.futurevintage.net!
On Thursday April 26 you can catch us at the Dolce Amaro (Friedrichsplatz 13, Mannheim), we will start at 8:30 p.m..
On Saturday, April 28 we will take part in www.mittenindernacht.de. After the movie “Purple Rain” (ODEON Cinema, starting at 10:30 p.m., free entrance!) we will play tunes from that Prince-era and beyond at Café ODEON (G7,10, Mannheim). Hope to see you there!
Finally, I managed to put up a new edition of the V-Files!
The first half of the show has got quite wintery with beautiful songs and moody records that fit the snow and cold weather, at least for me. The second half is more uptempo and brings new electronica as well as some classic stuff by the likes of Photek. Enjoy and feel free to drop me a line if you like what you hear!
01 Sonnymoon – Goddess (Plug Research)
02 White Elephant – Peace of Mind (NYC Records)
03 Gonjasufi – Timeout (Warp)
04 Gonjasufi – Skin (Warp)
05 Arca – Spira (Uno)
06 LAL – Background (Public Transit)
06 Tyler The Creator – Untitled 63 (XL Recordings/Odd Future)
07 Frank Ocean – Novacane
08 Liquid Liquid – Lock Groove (In) (99 Records/Domino)
09 Fudge Fingas – Mass X (Firecracker)
10 Orlando Voorn – Closer (Subject Detroit)
11 Photek & Kuru – Fountainhead (!K7)
12 Photek & Robert Owens – Can´t Come Down (Virgin/Science)
13 Falty DL – Discant (Planet Mu)
14 Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto – In the Basement (Part One) (Chess)
01 Nicholas Payton • By My Side (In & Out)
02 Marc Mac • Colorful Administration (Omniverse)
03 Medeski, Martin & Wood • Smoke (Blue Note)
04 Kode 9 & The Spaceape • Hole In The Sky (Hyperdub)
05 DJ Cam • Fontaine Bleau (Inflamable Records)
06 Solar Bears • To Be With Her (Planet Mu)
07 Tom Browne • Charisma (Arista)
08 Thundercat • Walkin´ (Brainfeeder)
09 Inga Copeland • Trample (White)
10 Swamp Children • You´ve Got Me Beat (Factory Records)
11 Moomin • Valentine (Smallville)
12 52nd Street • Look Into My Eyes (Factory Records)
13 Osunlade • Yeku Yeku (Yoruba Records)
14 A Made Up Sound • Sun Touch (AMS)
15 M.C.D.E. • L.O.V.E. (Kyle Hall Remix) (K7)
