23 August 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2009-10-28: Yippie Yippie Yeah!

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Iskra - Funkenflug 2010-10-28: Yippie Yippie Yeah [en thumb]

Before there will be a new Flying Sparks mix set (soon), here a flashback to one from October 2009: At that time I searched my vinyls to prepare a party and found the following. I hope, you’ll like the mix set between Funk, Big Beats, mashups, Bollywood and Global Beats and with some references to film classics. The musical trip starts in the East (not the Middle nor the Far East), but in the eastside of Germany, because there is a really cool soundtrack of an espionage TV series (Das unsichtbare Visier) from the late 60′s. After that we [...]

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30 October 2009 | /span

Late harvest

File under: Review, Flying Sparks, Recent listening

The summer is gone. We have autumn now. But, let us look back to late summer time and to great music, I enjoyed in that time: First, there is the the long awaited debut album Rise from the project Black Canvas, who are Mr. Melody, Rider Shafique and King Chubby J., already well-known from the work with Pressure Drop. Some tracks were already published as 12″s, now the album with quite nice reggae, breakbeats, drum’n’bass and hip hop tracks. Lynx & Kemo gave a nice DJ & MC set in Icon club in Berlin some months ago. Their album [...]

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