23 May 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-05-13: Ascension

Iskra - Funkenflug 2010-05-13: Ascension [en thumb]

Ascension. The trip starts in Argentina, we stay over in Damascus, make a detour to Berlin, then we travel along the Eastern highway. The journey ends on a strawberry field where we together with Zoe meet very closely the levitating president. The music on our trip? Cumbia, Arabic and Indian sounds between jazz and electronics, German pop, bass-driven music between drum’n’bass and dubstep as well as Beatles sounds from Mumbai, Istanbul and Washington. Remark: I ran riot during the Headhunter & Djunya vs. Indigo‘s tracks. As already mentionend in the Flying Sparks post before, here now both the Milanese [...]

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15 May 2010 | /span

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

Iskra - Funkenflug 2010-04-11: On A Sunday Night [en thumb]

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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