STREETNOTES!
Hi-lighting some of the artists that we played on today’s show:
Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided. “Most of the best music ever made [...]

STREETNOTES!
This last few weeks I have been really getting into my new discovery Hollie Cook, she sounds like a real reggae diva from the Trojan area but a new fresh approach she embodies the feel and style of our show!
Hollie Cook was born and bred in West London in a household dominated by music. She [...]

STREETNOTES!
This week marks the release of Grace Jones’s 2008 release “Hurricane”, re worked dub wise on Wall of Sound records
I think many people were wondering why in “A View To A Kill” James Bond was  kissing a man. Grace Jones played the androgynous villainess May Day whom according to the writers was ‘the product of [...]

STREETNOTES!
This week I decided in dig inside of the crates and play some classics and rarities as well as highlight some new releases, but in general I would say this week’s show has more of a funky soul vibe, I guess I was just ‘feelin it!
Our first track “Boogie” is the creation of Bruno “Patchworks” [...]

Gil Scott Heron died May 27th at the age of 62. As far as popular culture is concerned he wrote one poem and then fell off the face of the earth.  Now, much as I appreciate how his death has led many writer, critics, and bloggers to write about Gil Scott-Heron as a man (who [...]

Todays show was chock full of exciting new releases here are a few highlighted…
SOWAT Music dips further into the fertile dance music talent pool of its home base of Istanbul. This time the label emerges with Pair Of Dirty Shoes, the collaboration of Kaan Duzarat (Shrimpy) and Emrah Arslan (Fattish), two veterans of the growing [...]

Mark Farina’s Mushroom Jazz 7 is released tomorrow (November 9th) and to celebrate there are promotions galore happening all over this ‘ere interweb thing! We’ve got in on the action too, having released 4 exclusive ringtones from MJ7 last week. You can grab your iPhone or Windows/Droid tones to make your phone sound the shizzle here.
Today [...]

There’s only one more week to wait until the 7th installment of Mark Farina’s iconic Mushroom Jazz series hits record stores around the globe, and a world of expectant and thirsty music aficionados are waiting with baited breath!
It’s been almost 3 years since the last volume was released, and 15 years since the first installment [...]

Mark Farina is a dance music legend. Yes, yes… we know it’s a rediculously overused term, but this man truely is the real deal. A globetrotting, superstar DJ (just voted #16 in the America’s Best DJ poll), one of the world’s most talented and versitile producers, owner of multiple, highly esteemed labels and a Gunners [...]

A few months ago we hosted an old Mark Farina Percussion mix that really hit the spot with you guys… and why not, it’s a beauty! We got back in touch with Mark’s people over at Dope Den Productions recently, and with a little bit of wheeling and dealing we got our mits on a [...]