Episode 95: somethinksounds presents: Hang the DJ
Sometimes we get lazy. I know, hard to believe, but while we may spend most of our time in outerspace, we are human after all. That’s why we haven’t posted a podcast in over a month even though we’ve have this amazing episode ready since late August. Maybe in this case though, it’s a blessing. Because this episode, oh loyal clappers, is all about the Summer of Love 2011. And who better bring back that warm sunshine vibe than 2 young guns that were there for almost all the big moments Kazim Kazim Kazim & ThomThom from Hang the DJ.
If you were at the “quite” pool party at Garden Fest in Croatia, that sweaty loft party in London, or numerous intimate Berlin gatherings, then you remember these guys dropping some of these jams. This eclectic style, “girls at the front, dudes at the back” attitude and priority to getting butts moving rather than long mixing, made the whole Hang the DJ crew the perfect addition to our parties, but the story actually started well before the summer began. Kazim also runs the label called somethinksounds and way back in Miami last winter he asked us to remix a track by Lucky Paul. I checked it out and daymn was it dope, but we were in the midst of mixing DJ Kicks so I passed it to Greg Paulus from No Regular Play, who turned out a beautifully deep house version. Then Kaz sent us another Lucky Paul track that Gadi and I spent about one night turning into our Money vs. Gold remix that you heard us dropping all Kicks tour. Once we got to Berlin where the young Brits live we hit it right off and they became staples. They’ve been part of the Adventure and you can be too 
In their own words:
THIS IS NOT A DJ MIX. THIS IS A PARTY.
To honour meeting with WLSC guys this summer, our mutual Dj styles and party fetish, we have done a mix which should hopefully describe our somethinksounds and Hang the Dj parties pretty well. Be warned, if you’re expecting 4 hours of house music with no vibe, you’re gonna be disappointed. This mix is all over the place, and tries to recreate the vibe of our parties… pull backs, no mixing, chicks on tables screaming and fella getting down, real nasty.
Tracklisting:
1. Tiny Brixton – dsb
2. Lucky Paul – Thought We Were Alone (Gang Colours Remix)
3. Erykah Badu – Fall In Love
4. Jon Phonics – The One
5. Leyo – Barcelona Boogie
6. Doc Daneeka – Hold On
7. Lucky Paul – Thought We Were Alone (Eliphino Remix)
8. Luca C & Brigante – Different Morals (Clockwork Remix)
9. Eliphino – More Than Me
10. Groove Chronicles – Stone Cold
11. Eliphino – I Just Want You
12. Outkast – She Lives In My Lap
13. Eve – Let Me Blow Your Mind
14. Slum Village – Tainted
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Episode 94: 39 Minutes of Funk with MAM
As we’ve said before, one of the best perks of DJ around the world is meeting other amazing DJs and producers. This is really what The Adventures of Soul Clap Podcast is all about and this episode is definitely one of the crowning achievements of our mission. MAM (Matt Hughes & Miguel Campbell) are a duo based in Leeds, England. The two producers met online via their mutual love for Daft Punk and in 2007, decided to join forces and recreate that classic French Touch sound. Unless you live under a rock you’ve heard of Miguel Campbell and his beautiful summer anthem “Something Special“, but if you’ve been paying attention you’ve heard his music in almost every one of our sets since we met him at an after party in Leeds almost 2 years ago!
Miguel is one of those people that you say “it couldn’t have happened to better guy”. His productions (both solo and with MAM) have brought back French Touch and always bring the funk in the unique way that we were waiting for, he runs his own label called Outcross (which is already 19 releases deep!), but he’s also one of the nicest, most grounded dudes we’ve met in this game. With Matt, he forms a production powerhouse that have been turning out some of the sexiest and most solid edits around and scored them the most recent Wolf + Lamb Black release. Now we have the honor of feature their first mix together in years right here on our podcast, but that’s not all… next week we’re doing our next FreE.P. of MAM edits all for you!
For this mix Matt and Miguel have turned out 39 of minutes of MAM tracks and captured their amazing sound of funk, disco and of course house. So we leave you with their own words, “Love, Lights, Music and More…”
Tracklist:
MAM – Music And More (replayed / LIVE edit )
MAM – Might And Magic
MAM – Starlight Music
MAM – Throw Down
MAM – Lucky Star (dub)
MAM- Missing Love
MAM – Traffic
MAM – Falling Skies
MAM – Man And Man
MAM – Air City
MAM – Devine
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Episode 93: Lovins and Dry Rubbins by Sappho & The Perfect Cyn
It is always such a pleasure when we get to shine our intergalactic spotlight on those hard working DJs who make our beloved scene happen. This latest installation comes from way out west in Portland, Oregon where a couple of lady DJs from the Alga-Rhythms crew, Sappho & The Perfect Cyn, have been keeping the fire burning booking acts from around the world and hosting some of the best after-hours house parties we’ve encountered. Cities like Portland are a total wildcard, you never know what to expect, and coming from Boston we totally get that. Well ladies, you’ve definitely impressed us with your DJ skills and you’ve managed to build something really special out there, so it is our pleasure to dedicate this Adventures Of Soul Clap moment to you two!
Here’s some words from Sappho & Cyn:
Going back over the tracks we included, we realized that a lot of them are about love and friendship. That’s appropriately so, since we’ve been friends and playing the same shows around the Pacific Northwest for better part of 8 years. From both playing at a Canadian iceberg in 2003, to dive bars around Industrial NW Portland, to most recently at a rave on Caterpillar island between Oregon and Washington, it’s been an adventure we’ve both been lucky enough to experience.
We’ve loved every minute of being friends that DJ and we’d been paired up from time to time, but there was something brewing bigger than we realized. A light bulb went off about the time that Charlie and Eli visited us this year. As the two sole DJs in Portland’s event collective Alga-Rhythms, we thought, “Why don’t we play TOGETHER?” It just felt right! The more we played together the more the comments came, “You guys are AWESOME together!” We were continually encouraged by all our friends to make this leap to partner up as DJs on the regular. Then Charlie and Eli invited us to do this mix. So naturally, we wanted the listener to feel like we do when we go out to the club together, and soak up the energy there, and stay till the lights come up, and figure out where to go next. And next.
The mix is about three main parts. It starts out pretty bumpin’, like when you first get to the club and you’re anticipating everything that’s going to happen that night. Later the mix goes deepy, like when … the party gets loose. And weird, and wonderful. Then toward the end, the mix goes more party jam style, where every track is your favorite track, going between genres, when the sun is coming up and everyone has new best friend and a big ol’ smile on their face! Between our full time jobs, relationships, and responsibilities, we had a blast making this recording and hope listeners wanna play it over and over. Never mind the fact that we stayed home from work to write this bio!
Tracklist:
Alena – Changes (Ron Basejam Remix) – ISM
60 Thompson – Tanner Ross & Soul Clap – W+L
Josh T – Green Surprises – Hot Waves
S.A.S. – Straight off the Bone – Foot and Mouth
Kiko Navarro – Love Will Be Forever – House is the Cure
Inxec & Shadi Megallaa – Put a String on it – Leftroom
Pol_On – Secret Love – Kolour Recordings
Marc Chambers & Inxec – O so – Leftroom
6th Borough Project – The Fool – Delusions of Grandeur
Tigerskin – Unreal Thing – Dirt Crew Recordings
Daniel Bortz – Don’t Call – Suol
DJ Phono – Gone (David August Remix) – Diynamic
Roberto Rodriguez – I Got – Fina
T-Bone & Bubba – Bumpin’ for Love – Extended Play
Julio Bashmore – Batty Knee Dance – 3024
Egyptrixx – Chrysalis Records ft Trust – Night Slugs
Session victim – We want to Thank All of Our Friends – Wolf Music
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Episode 92: Davide From Sedma’s Mixtape For Heartbreak
So way back in April right after our DJ Kicks compilation was released and we were promoting our Lonely C single, !K7 and Bearport got together and asked us to curate a Mixcloud competition. Because Lonely C is all about loneliness (duh) and looking for love we decided that the comp should be a “mixtape for the brokenhearted”. Of course this is a very open ended theme just the way we like it here on the mothership and therefore we got a ton of diverse and beautifully painful entries (for some runner-up highlights click here), but the mix that won was simply described as “Love Saves The Day”. You know we believe in the power of love and one listen to Davide from Sedma‘s Mixtape for Heartbreak proved to us that our winner does to. Much like Tanner’s recent mix here on The Adventures of Soul Clap, Davide pushed aside traditional beat-matching techniques and chose to instead showcase the music. While some people poo-poo this style, we simply point them to David Mancuso and the legendary loft and to hear such a young DJ as Davide understand the history is super exciting to us. Even cooler… we actually met him when we played in his home town, Ferrara, Italy. So get cozy with your heartbroken self, or even sit down and cry with someone special and open your ears to the power of love…
Tracklist:
Chromeo – I Can’t Tell You Why
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Take Me I’m Yours
General Caine – For Lovers Only
The Temptations – I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
Bill Cosby – Yes, Yes, Yes
SECT – In The Park feat. Ben Westbeech
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Episode 91: Shopping With soho808
While I could write my own essay on the subject, the first sentence of their bio captures our love for soho808. “One of the best parts about raging at an after-hours is the people you meet.” I first met Nathaniel Jay, one half of this dynamic NYC based disco duo around 3 years ago at an afterparty and ended up back at his place dropping pitched down deephouse jams until the next afternoon and soon after he turned in his first wonderful episode of our adventures. Since then it’s been a pleasure to hear the pitched down sounds coming from him and his partner Dave Robertson as soho808. In fact we liked their “Just To See” track so much we included it on our Social Experiment mix and it’s now available to buy on its own. With their reputation continuing to grow it seemed the perfect time to bring the duo in for another adventure with us. So here it is, an all vinyl excursion into the wonderful worlds of pitched down deep house and disco through the eyes of 2 of NYCs deepest. Enjoy
Tracklist:
Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen – Forever Monna – Balance
Genius of TIme – Houston We Have a Problem – Royal Oak
Omar S – Day – FXHE
Dance Trax – Bring Me Down – Unknown Label
Bjak & Julio Bishop – Fashion (BC’s DeeperLuv mix) – Deep Explorer
Kool Vibe – Talkin’ About Love – My Love is Underground
Motor City Drum Ensemble – There is a Truth (feat Stee Downes) – MCDE
Brawther – GSM’s Life (MLIU Dub) – Balance Alliance
MK – Given – FXHE
Alex Agore – Don’t Need No One – Undertones
soho808 – Reach – Wurst Music Co.
Chez Damier – Can You Feel It – KMS
Jam Factory – One Night Stand – Jam Factory
Kevin Irving – Children of the Night – Trax
Master C&J – Face It (Leftside Wobble edit) – Harmless
soho808 – Pipe n’ Slippers – unsigned
Colourblind – Do You Feel Me – Slow to Speak
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