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New entry: Juki "The Juks Show"

Today's new enrty is also the first female entry on ViaSound web Radio. Don't miss The Juks Show, which will be broadcasted the first and third Friday every month at 17:00-18:00  (+2 GMT) with house music being the main genre of her production, but with a touch of soul, funk, jazz and hip hop.
Juki: music producer/remixer, vocalist, keyboardist & DJ, born in Estonia, now settled in London. Juki was always involved in music some way or another. She developed her interest in music production at an age of 16 and recently established Juks Records to release all the work she’s been doing over the years, individually or in collaboration with other artists from around the world as a vocalist, producer, songwriter or sound engineer.
Juki spins around London regularly and her past gigs include venues like Ministry of Sound, Lightbox, 93 Feet East, Cafe 1001, Aquum, Inigo, Gigalum, Underbelly, Exit Bar, Adam St Club, Desmos Studios, Camden Rock, Brixton Bar & Grill, The Lane Bar and many others. 'The Juks Show' besides ViaSound web Radio, is hosted on Where's The Culture House Music Radio, on SS Radio and Housebox Radio. Stay tuned!

Links:
http://jukijuks.com
http://mixcloud.com/juki
http://www.soundcloud.com/juki
http://twitter.com/juksjuki
http://myspace.com/jukijukijuki
Facebook: Juki Juks

   

Interview: Techno & Dubstep Producer Scuba / Hotflush label


London-based dubstep/techno producer and pioneer Scuba's label Hotflush Recordings held the helm of one of three rooms at last week's infamous Eastern Electrics night. Getting together with the likes of San Francisco's Dirtybird label and Germany's Kompakt, Scuba played alongside the likes of Joy Orbison, whilst room two was be at the command of wonky tech-house legends Claude VonStroke, J. Phlip, and Justin Martin versus Mulletover and the main room was headlined by the legendary Michael Mayer. 52 year-old producer and musician Thomas Fehlmann supported alongside Robag Wruhme of the 'Wighnomy Brothers' - also performing together. He was intervied by Flora Yin-Wong for Dazed Digital.

DD: Do you think the merging of dubstep and Berghain techno was a natural progression in music for you, including the SCB stuff?
Scuba: Well the SCB stuff doesn’t have much to do with Dubstep to be honest. That whole project was really just a result of being out at clubs in Berlin, mainly Panorama Bar actually, and getting into the music and the atmosphere and taking that into the studio. Generally the whole dubstep/techno thing has become a bit of a cliché, it doesn’t really have much meaning any more. All the interesting things happening in electronic music at the moment are amalgamations of various different genres anyway, not just in a bilateral sense.

DD: Your music often tends to be quite dark (and epic), is this intentional? What were the inspirations behind this if so?
Scuba: I don’t really see it as dark, and actually I wouldn’t say the new album is dark at all. Maybe you could say it’s introspective, but I wouldn’t call it dark. Having said that, my DJ sets can get pretty dark but that’s a different thing entirely.

DD: In terms of your label, how do you pick your artists? Is there a common thread that runs through all your signings or a particular sound you're looking for?
Scuba: I’ve always been able to tell a Hotflush record pretty much straight away, but there isn’t a set process to choosing what to put out. A lot of the time it flows through what I’m playing as a DJ but I find that the less dogmatic you are about the whole thing the better. It’s a cliché but the only aim the label has is to release good music, regardless of the genre. I know it’s seen as being a dubstep label, but we’ve hardly released anything that most people would call dubstep in the last couple of years.  

DD: What/who are you listening to at the moment? Anyone you want to work with but haven't yet?
Scuba: I’m not listening to much electronic stuff really. I was just coming back from the studio and had the first New Young Pony Club album on, and on the way there I was listening to The Immaculate Collection, and that’s pretty typical at the moment. I do check a lot of tunes just to keep up with stuff but if I’m actually going to listen to something I tend to put on an album, and there’s hardly any electronic albums worth listening to. I haven’t worked with anyone on music for over ten years and I have plans to change that at the moment.

DD: What's next for 2010/11?
Scuba: Remixes I’ve done of Phil Kieran, Booka Shade and Will Saul will be out in the autumn, + a new SCB 12” and a special edition of Triangulation with a bonus CD of different interpretations of album tracks by myself and other producers.

   

Josh Brent aka Schatrax new release: Champagne Dancer

This is a bit of a special one – it isn’t very often that Josh Brent aka Schatrax comes out of retirement these days or gives permission for anyone to re-release his back catalogue of pretty stunning, classic deep house but, down to a devoted passion for the track and a kind of numbing persistence from Fear of Flying, Josh relented and not only granted permission but also went back into the studio for a nick and a tuck on his ‘2010 Edit’. Justin Drake provides the modern house sheen on the flip. ‘Champagne Dancer’ is a track that’s sat in our record boxes for many a year now, often overlooked for better known Schatrax fare, this track featured on the triple vinyl ‘Greatest Schats’ compilation but was sorely missing from the CD release. Simplicity is the absolute key here – indeed, there’s not much more than a kick drum, a bassline and a melancholic piano riff, but we dearly love it so!

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FeedBack:
Lars Sandberg  Funk D Void / Soma "fucking awesome."
Anthony Collins  Freak n Chic / Various "original is so dope"
Orde Meikle  Slam / Soma "Fucking A - superb - great stuff"
Ashley Beedle  Xpress 2 / Skint "It's still the original. Sublime house music."
Kevin Griffiths  Tsuba / Issst! "ace release and a top drakey mix to boot!"
Colin McBean  Mr G "2010 EDIT ...........SWINGING LIKE A MONKEY, LOVE IT"
Matt Tolfrey  Leftroom / Crosstown Rebels / Stealth "SICK SICK SICK!!!
Ola Smith-Simonsen  Olanskii (Sunkissed, Norway) "Loving this. The 2010 edit is a great update!"
Josh Wink  Ovum  "Man. Original still rocks! LIke the 2010 edit. Brings it up to time with keeping the integrity of the track."
Jimpster  Freerange / The Bays  "That's what i'm talking about right there! Original and new edit are just timeless, beautiful house at its best. i'll be playing this for sure."
Martin Landsky  Poker Flat  "big schatrax fan here...still love the original so much, hard to beat that..."
Roual Faith  "schatrax is one of Britains finest. If only he'd start producing again the scene would be a lot better for it"
Matthew Krysko / Warehouse Project  "always loved the original but WOW! the 2010 edit really is stupidly good... hypnotic, relentless yet still amazingly delicate... in the crate fo-fucking sure."
Michael Doddman  Huxley (Ethyl & Huxley)  "love the original mix, but it's Justin's mix i'll be playing!"
Vincent Lemieux  Musique Risquee  "The original is still the best version. Good job on the remixes though. Thanks for the promo"

   

Jay U with guest Greg Wilson & his older but golden historic mix.

Tonight we start early on ViaSound radio. Read the following two articles and discover for yourselves today's special program!

First things first, at 16:00 (+2 GMT) Jay U and his "Workout" show host the legendary Greg Wilson. Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester's majorly influential Legend. He was a pioneer of mixing in the UK and in 1983 he became the first ‘dance music’ DJ hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester's now legendary Hacienda club. Greg was instrumental in breaking the new electronic, post-disco records coming out of New York, a sound he has dubbed ‘Electro-Funk’. For more info on his outstanding & multiyear career, visit his myspace page


Greg Wilson "Monastic Mix" (1996)
37 minutes only, but what a shocker! Recorded in 1996 to promote Greg's residency at the then new Monsatery party in Merseyside, UK, this mastermix features snippets of a whole lot of artists, spanning 30 years of music in styles as various as 60's Soul, 70's Funk, Indie Dance, Hip Hop, Trip Hop, Drum'N'Bass, Electro-Funk, Rock and more. Some of the artists you'll hear in this mix :
Bar Kays,
DJ Food,
Led Zeppelin,
The Beatles,
Kool & The Gang,
The O'Jays,
Liquid Liquid,
Jimmy Castor Bunch,
Marvin Gaye,
Lou Reed,
Bob Marley,
The Doors,
Otis Redding,
Beastie Boys,
Pink Floyd,
Public Enemy,
Sly & The Family Stone and many others... This mix is trully a piece of History!

   

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