Records from Mexico
Already back for more than a month from an amazing 3 week trip to Mexico, an intensive tour with Dany-E and De Dupe playing 8 gigs in 5 cities. Of course I needed to go record hunting, although I wasn’t… Continue Reading
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Record Fair Mix
For this article on Thump (in Dutch) I was digging on the famous Record Fair in Utrecht last Sunday with 70 euros in my pocket and I thought it would be fun to record a mini mix with the fresh… Continue Reading
More Synthetic Zouk
Can’t get enough of that West-Indies sound.., mostly referred to as Zouk, a synthesised version of Compas music, invented and made popular by the guys who founded Kassav’: Jacob F. Desvarieux and brothers Pierre-Edouard and George Décimus, Jacob and George… Continue Reading
Jackie Mittoo – Dance Baby Dance
Ooof, has been too long since I posted something, but I made an edit of this Dance Baby Dance 7″, which is extremely rare and extremely nice to play in spring and summertime 🙂 The song is by the Jamaican… Continue Reading
Hector Zazou (& Bikaye)
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
The Sound of Cabo Verde
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
What is Rumba
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
Congolese sound from Japan
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
Diggin’ in India
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
Get Up and Party 7″
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