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Author: Roeland Otten

Hector Zazou (& Bikaye)

February 5, 2016Roeland Otten

One of my favourite experimental electronic afro records is Noir et Blanc, I discovered it about 8 years ago, and in the meanwhile it has grown into an absolute classic amongst vinyl diggers. At that time it wasn’t so rare… Continue Reading →

Afro, Ambient, LoFi, new / minimal wave, Sounds, tropical

Keep the Noise Down (My Baby is Sleeping)

January 18, 2016Roeland Otten

First post of the year. Just before NYE was going through my new wave section picking records to mix with house and techno for my graveyard shift at BAR between 8 and 10AM the next morning (which was wild 🙂… Continue Reading →

Ambient, LoFi, mix, new / minimal wave, Sounds Keep the Noise Down

The Volta Break

December 9, 2015Roeland Otten

09-12-2015 UPDATE! VOLTA BREAK – IAN MARTIN REMIX PSYCHED is the best word to describe the remix version of The Volta Break Ian Martin sent me last week. I know Ian since the early days of the CBS forum, I-F‘s… Continue Reading →

Afro, disco, edit, remix

Ferdi ÖzbeÄŸen – Kalk Gidelim

November 26, 2015Roeland Otten

Half a year ago Mad’R gave me the Turkish track Kalk Gidelim by Ferdi ÖzbeÄŸen digitally, he suggested I could make an edit of it and here’s the result: I became curious for the meaning of the lyrics that are… Continue Reading →

edit, Turkish folk, psych, Turkish

The Sound of Cabo Verde

November 13, 2015Roeland Otten

My first introduction to Funaná – but I had no clue at that time – was probably 8 years ago, when I bought a second hand record of Bend’Nobo 83 with the album title Funaná at a local recordshop for… Continue Reading →

Afro, coladeira, disco, funana, reggae, rumba, tropical Cabo Verde

What is Rumba

October 27, 2015Roeland Otten

In order to create some insight in what Rumba is, as one of the oldest and main ingredients of Latin music, I decided to handle the text like I handle the records in this mix: I put 35 vinyls in… Continue Reading →

Afro, disco, mix, rumba, soukous, tropical Latin

Got fooled :)

October 13, 2015Roeland Otten

Haha, I got fooled yesterday by this new release I listened to at Clone recordstore. It has this text on it: “Public Notice! We apologize to Master & Teacher Chez Damier for finding his master edits and releasing them and… Continue Reading →

edit, house, remix

Congolese sound from Japan

September 21, 2015Roeland Otten

Last summer Nikolai, a good friend of mine – we’re regularly dj-ing and partying together in Amsterdam – went on holiday to Japan, and of course he was going for some digging over there, so I asked him to bring… Continue Reading →

Afro, mix, soukous, tropical afro

Diggin’ in India

August 31, 2015Roeland Otten

Finally I recorded a Bollywood mix of the most interesting finds from India. It took me a year to sort out more than a hundred records, because that Bollywood sound can get so annoying with the screaming vocals on top.… Continue Reading →

Bollywood, disco, mix, reggae, tropical

Get Up and Party 7″

August 25, 2015Roeland Otten

While digging for African singles on discogs, I stumbled upon a digger who lives in Amsterdam, and because I had no clue what’s on the 7″‘s he offered – that looked super interesting – I asked him if I could… Continue Reading →

disco, edit, LoFi, reggae, tropical

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