This week I’m gonna drop a great mix from one of the producers featured on the upcoming Bluevibe studio EP, magOwl .

I actually hooked up with magOwl through myspace and asked him to remix one of the new tracks. He’s an amazing Swedish producer who has been in the game for a while and makes some real cutting edge tracks ranging from old skool hiphop to some nasty nasty dubstep bizness.

Make sure you head over to his blog, sowl.org to check out what he’s up to and also check his myspace to grab some of his remix albums including a killer wu-tang mashup.

The new Bluevibe studio EP – This life volume.1 is finally finished and I’ll be uploading some tracks for you all to check out next week so stay tuned for that. In the meantime this mix by magOwl is a killer blend of some classic tracks and unreleased remixes so check it out and let us know what you think.

It’s a blessing to have magOwl remix one of my tracks and I owe him a debt of gratitude. Look out for future collaborations between the Bluevibe studio and magOwl, keepin it deep.

Track list

01-Grantby-Grimble Bullrushes
02-Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators-The Night Rose Of Sherron
03-Rusko-Gone 2 Far
04-Kvartersakuten feat. Sunflake-Striking Distance
05-Masta Ace Inc.-Jeep Ass Niguh
06-Jean Grae-Hater’s Anthem
07-The Reavers-Empire
08-edIT-Ashtray
09-Yusef Lateef-Love Theme From The Robe
10-Phuture Assassins-Before Dawn (4 AM Mix)
11-DJ Zinc-Super Sharp Shooter
12-Ben & The Goodies-Manzara
13-Cimarons-Hear Talk Of Inflation
14-K’Naan-Smile (Live)
15-magOwl vs. Despot-Substance D
16-magOwl vs. Abdominal-Pedal Pusher
17-Qwel and Kip Killagain-Adam and Eve
18-Depth Affect-Junior International
19-Eddie Holman-Four Walls
20-The Chambers Brothers-So Tired
21-Wisp-Beadumægen
22-Hannu-Sumu
23-Venetian Snares-Szamár Madár
24-Johnny Bristol-Woman Woman

If you like the mix please forward it on to some of your friends and spread the magOwl goodness, collaborate and communicate people.

This week I wanted to feature my all time essential radio show which has been broadcasting for over 10 years and is available as a podcast from a huge number of websites, Soul searching, The Compost radio show hosted by Michael Ruetten.

An essential show for lovers of soul, funk, jazz, hiphop, house and pretty much any beat driven genre. The Compost radio show comes straight out of Frankfurt and is always an eclectic blend of genres with weekly special guest mixes. It’s also a great place to hear fresh NZ tracks getting the props they deserve and being beamed out to a worldwide audience. Head over to samuarai.fm to listen online or milk.audio to subscribe to the podcast. You can also grab some of the old shows too and I would strongly recommend grabbing show 500 with a special mix by Theo Parish. Nice.

Put together for New Zealand Music Month, Wellington’s Jewel School DJs dig deep to bring you the best of NZ’s homegrown underground music scene. Hosted on the fabulous straightup.com.au – part 1 of the podcast features the first track from the upcoming Bluevibe studio EP.

High Times – Bluevibe Studios Feat. LP and Lewis McCallum

Click here to jump over to straightup.com.au and checkout the goodness.

Just wanted to  give a huge shout to all the amazing local artists featured on both podcasts including:

• Electric Wire Hustle
• Opensouls
• Ota
• Julien Dyne
• Eru Dangerspiel
• Adi Dick
• Lisa Preston

Really want to give a special thanks to Adi Dick, LP and Kerry Adams for all their help and advice plus a shout to the Jewel School for playin the track and supporting an amazing local scene. Nice.

This mix has been put together by my good friend Kerry Adams under his Bromide Dub moniker and features the first airing of the Bromide Dub remix of High Times featuring Lisa Preston from the upcoming “Bluevibe studio presents” EP. Kerry is an amazingly talented producer who releases music under many different production names including Tech and the Filter brats. He also runs a a great blog called The Proof where you can check out all his music and read production tutorials and gear reviews. Check it out and leave me a comment, it’s great to get some feedback on the tracks and make sure you head over to The Proof and get your heavy heavy bass fix womp womp womp booooooom tish.


Track listing

Vaccine – Side Effects
Skream – Make Me
Skream – Clock Watching
Bromide Dub – High Times
Djuna – Ites
Martin Buttrick – Well Done (Papa Ench Remix)
Tech – Snowflakes (Bromide Dubs Remix)
Telefon Tel Aviv – I lied
DZ – Strong on Ya
Excision – Warning
Ghilslain Poirier – Blazin (Modeselector Remix)
Bromide Dub – Call and Response

Skyman was the first band project to come out of the Bluevibe studio and this gig was recorded back in 2004 if my memory is correct. We had a core of 4 members but expanded out to 8 members depending on who wanted to come and join in when we played live. We played quite a few gigs but only ever recorded one of them so I thought I’d get it online so you could check it out.

Skyman was based around core song elements played live from a sampler and a lot of instrumental improvisation. Each gig was completely individual and the songs never got played the same twice.

The skyman idea was based around writing a core set of elements for a song and then giving all the members of the band copies of the rough songs to have a listen to and come up with some more elements. We then had a practice to run through the songs, have a jam on the ideas, see how everybody was doing, more social than musical usually. We would then turn up to the gig, decide on a set list and play.

Here’s a run down of how it all worked at the podcast gig from the St James in Auckland:

• all the beats and samples run from the Yamaha rs7000 sampler and consist of loops which can be remixed live.
• I ran the sampler and played guitar.
• Kerry Adams also ran the sampler as well as jumping on the decks for the cuts.
• Ryan Marshall on bass, core member of the team and always smooth and solid.
• Deb Toko on vocals, great voice and ability to improvise every time.
• Johnny Flurry on the chapman stick which is basically used to either play bass or gat and trigger samples from Johnny’s rack. Stunning skills and one of the most talented people I’ve ever worked with.
• Graham on percussion, exciting percussionist (mean cricketer too!!)
• finally we had Shanti join us on stage for this gig, amazing mc with some of the deepest lyrics around, mad skills for a young un.

As you can probably tell from the tracks this was recorded as a two track straight out of the desk so the mix is all over the place but still gets across the “impro” nature of what we tried to achieve on the night. Let me know what you think, if you’ve got any questions on the gear or players then hit me up. enjoy.

Monotape Internet Radio is a great collection of freshly updated podcasts put together by Onur Engiin. Onur describes it as “join the dots between nu-jazz, broken beat, hip-hop, electro-funk, jazzy house,etc…”

Make sure you subscribe to the podcast, the recent Jay Scarlet mix is killer and the back catalogue available is well worth trawling through.

I’m always on the look out for fresh new podcasts site’s, drop me a comment if you can recommend anything in a similar style to Monotape.