30 December 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-12-26: Explorations

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Usually, it’s time for a review in the last days of a year. However, the last Flying Sparks set of 2010 is not really a typical review because I selected too much new stuff as well as some more classic tracks. Anyway, the set represents the year from my point of view: musically, personally and professionally, somehow. Almost everything has been enclosed: Sweet sounds and brute bass storms. Slow and fast beats. Music for sunny days on the beach as well as for dark nights in the club. Mainstream and underground stuff. Downtempo, electro, breakbeat, dubstep, drum’n’bass, house, minimal. [...]

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6 September 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-08-23: UK Disco

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This time: music from the U.K., mostly as a pair, new & classic ones, UK Dance & Brit Pop, heroes of the 1990s and beyond. Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, brought the track Brimful of Asha by his remix to the dancefloor in 1997. In 2009, Tjindar Singh and Ben Ayers a.k.a. Cornershop have published a great feel good album with Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast which comprises all the best of their sound between Asian Beats and Brit Pop. The duo Goldfrapp always reinvent themselves anew. This was already the case when they have let [...]

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23 March 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2009 Review, Part 3: Global Beats

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We leave the Dubstep world by this set and slow down under 140bpm. The feeling keeps faster. Here some of my highlights between Tango, Baile Funk, Cumbia, Balkan, Asian Beats, Pop, Funk and Electro. What I like to call Global Beats. Here the links for a listening @ Mixcloud: Flying Sparks 2009 Review, Part 3a: Global Beats by Iskra on Mixcloud Flying Sparks 2009 Review, Part 3b: Global Beats by Iskra on Mixcloud [...]

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