15 May 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-04-11: On a Sunday Night in April

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I’ve just browsed through some nice music on a Sunday evening in April… It resulted in a mix between cool jazzy, Latin, Balkan and Bollywood tunes, I hope. One of my all-time favourites is the track I Love My Baby by the United Future Organization, here in a Norman Cook & Ashley Slater remix. The track got a new reverence by the The Jivers on the Jazz & Milk-Compilation Jazz & Milk Breaks Vol. 3. Recently, I listened to the remix compilation I Like It Like That of Fania Latin classics in more detail. I already had put the [...]

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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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30 October 2009 | /span

Late harvest

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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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