Karnival!

Il y a de bonnes soirées qui se préparent à Montreal pour les semaines à venir! D’abord Masala Sono #1 qui s’en vient pour le samedi 29 août avec les membres Montréalais de Masala (+ d’infos très vite) et aussi (ex Ghislain) Poirier qui va lancer une nouvelle soirée régulière, un nouveau Bounce Le Gros en quelque sorte, qui s’appelle KARNIVAL. Gardez-bien ce nom là en tête.
Dub Boy, un des invités de Karnival V1 (samedi 3 octobre au Club Soda) vient de sortir un mix justement dénnomé Karnival, checkez ça:

Dub Boy – Karnival Mix by Dub Boy
1. Lil Silva – Seasons (white)
2. Rymez ft Jusa – African Air Horn Dance (cdr)
3. Atki2 – Black Eyed Susan (unreleased)
4. Suncycle – Around The World (Atki2 Remix) (unreleased)
5. Top Cat – We No Inna (Atki2 Remix) (unreleased)
6. Emvee – Nocturnal (wireblock)
7. Mad Cobra & Tina Star – Real Thug (jah snowcone)
8. Beenie Man ft Ms Thing – She’s Horny (jah snowcone)
9. Atki2 – Juniper (unreleased)
10. Geeneus – Yellowtail (rinse)
11. Bubblez ft Cecile & Lady Saw – Loser (white)
12. Magic Fly ft Ricky Rankin – Those Two Sounds (Mr Benn Remix) (bastard jazz)
13. Baobinga & Killa Benz – Wine Up (forthcoming steak house)

There’s some good parties lining up in MTL in the next few weeks! First of, the Montreal Masala crew is starting a new night at Zoobizarre called Masala Sono! Launching is set for August 29th, more info soon! On October 3rd, Poirier (Ex Ghislain) is launching his new regular night called KARNIVAL, the new Bounce Le Gros! Keep that Karnival word in mind people and check out that Dub Boy (Bristol) mix, appropriately named Karnival! Dub Boy will be Poirier’s party first guest!

RDB bootleg Lil Wayne

La semaine dernière pour inaugurer ma vie torontoise comme il se doit, j’ai été voir RDB (Rythm Dhol Bass) en concert gratuit au Harbourt Front Center. C’était une nuit à l’humidité intense et les lumières faisaient ressembler la tour CN à un OVNI vu d’en dessous. Le concert était déjà commencé lorsque nous sommes descendus du taxi et arrivés à quelques dizaines de mètres du lieu, on entendait les cris des jeunes filles et le gros son de basse/dhol. Ca promet…

Et franchement on a pas été déçu même si la grande partie du show était du lipsync, l’enthousiasme du public a comblé le manque de performance et Kuly, le membre canadien de RDB, a fait un excellent boulot de MC. Quant à Nindy Kaur, elle donnait plus l’impression de ne pas savoir ce qu’elle faisait sur le stage… RDB c’est 3 frères Sikh qui font dans le bhangra urbain depuis plusieurs années déjà et ça fait un petit bout qu’on les suit ici à Masala. Allez faire un tour sur notre série spéciale Bhangra de 2007, vous y trouverez plusieurs tracks de RDB: Bhangra Post 1, 2, 3, 4.

Download RDB ft Lil Wayne – Paisa (A Milli)

Download Nindy Kaur ft Timbaland – Par Laga Dhey Veh

RDB vient de sortir un mini-cd de bootleg et mash-up club et urbain qui s’appelle “Exclusives – The Biggest Club Remixes of 2009” dont sont tirés ces deux morceaux. Il y en a 6 autres sur la compile dont 5 sont téléchargeable gratuitement sur le site web du groupe. Je trouve le bootleg de Lil Wayne vraiment très réussi et j’ai vraiment hâte de le jouer en soirée! Je l’aime tellement en fait, que je l’ai mis dans mon top 10 du mois d’août! Bon les collabos entre RDB et les rappeurs américains ne sont toutefois toujours réussi, car même si cette video en est à presque 500 000 views, on peut pas dire que Snoop Dogg soit à son meilleur, même si c’est un Snoop Dogg Millionaire…

RDB just released a mini-cd of bootleg and mash-up with club and urban tracks called “Exclusives – The Biggest Club Remixes of 2009” from which I took the 2 songs above. There’s 6 more songs on the compilation and 5 of them are downloadable on the band’s website. I find the bootleg with Lil Wayne very well done and can’t wait to play this at a party! I like it so much I put in my august top 10! But RDB’s collaboration with US rappers aren’t giving such a good result everytime, because even if the video below has almost 0.5 million views, I can’t Snoop Dogg is at his best, even though he’s a self proclaimed Snoop Dogg Millionaire…

BIG UP to my man Manish / DJ Publicity for rocking the afterparty!! He’s the best bhangra-club DJ in Canada right now, don’t let anybody tell you something else.

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Zoca Zoca – Som Do Zoca (Akwaaba – Sem Transporte)
F4 – Paracuca (Akwaaba – Sem Transporte)
Puto Prata Feat Buraka Som Sistema – Ta Vir
Dama S. – Danse avec moi! Kuduro
Luky Gomes – Zeze e Toto
Izé – Tronku Di Mundo
? – Moriba Yassa
Pitbull ft. Machel & Lil’Jon – Floor On Fire
Aziatic – Go!
Dipedro – Dame mas
Maluca – El Tigeraso
Tiwony – Gimme Di Weed
Collie Budz – Blind To You
Bigjay ft. Oscen – Pa K Vwey
Black Mandingo – reggaeton modulado
Sonido del Principe vs Coki & Benga – Night
Ministère AMER – Sacrifice de poulet
KRS – One – Sound of da Police
Byronn – Kay La Cho
Lieutnant – Big Up Ba Yo
Mighty Ki La – No Tchek
Beenie Man, Vybz Kartel – Gaza Mi Seh riddim
Beniton – BFF (G35 Riddim)
Elephant Man – Bedroom Killer (G35 Riddim)
Tifa – Dem Ting Nuh Good (G35 Riddim)
Busy Signal – Picante
El Bowen ft Caramel – Uju Remix
RDX – Bend Over
Elephant Man & Ding Dong – Dip Again
Kaya Kindou – ?
Mokobé ft Fally Ipupa – Malembe
Neba Solo – Téléphone
Cardinal,Sofistical & Ricky nastick – La Borrachera

stereotyp / When u hear the bassline

“Dancehall is the new dancehall” comme le dit /Rupture dans son post au sujet du nouveau remix du morceau “Cool Baby” de Busy Signal par Poirier. (Via Dutty artz)

Major Lazor est probablement le truc le plus remixé dans le temps qui court. Stereotyp de Vienne saute dans le train avec ce remix!

stereotyp / When u hear the bassline (major lazer rmx). by stereotyp

VALEO AUGUST TOP 10

Salut tous le monde, alors comme vous le savez peut-être j’ai récemment changé de nom de DJ, ciao Khiasma, welcome Valeo (ajoutez-moi sur myspace ou twitter). Pour marquer ça, j’ai décidé de faire un top 10 tous les mois histoire de partager mes coups de coeur, maintenant que je ne participe plus directement à l’émission. Alors voici le premier TOP 10 de Valeo sans ordre particulier; commentaires et liens ci-dessous! Bashment Party!
Hello everyone, as you may know I recently changed my name from Khiasma to Valeo (add me on myspace or twitter)! So in order to get it out there, I decided to start a monthly top 10. This will be helpfull also to share with you my favourites tunes as I’m not directly participating to the radio show anymore (moved from Montreal to Toronto). So here’s the first Valeo TOP 10 in no particular order, comments and links below! Bashment party!

VALEO TOP 10 AUGUST CHART
Jahdan Blakkamore, 77 Klash, Spoek – Dem Nuh Like It (Prod Matt Shadetek)[Listen]
Sticky Ft Marvin Brown – Jack It Up [Listen / Download]
Yolanda Be Cool – Afro Nuts (Douster rmx) [Listen / Download]
POIRIER ft YT – Let Them Hate (Video)
Flore ft Rodney – Rewind It (original mix) [Listen]
Dama S – Danse Avec Moi, Kuduro! (Prod Kuduro Sound System) [Listen / Video]
Dj Du Marcel – Tribal Sound [Listen]
Gappy Ranks – Stinkin Rich (Stefski Remix) [Listen & Download]
Major Lazer – Pon De Floor (ft. VYBZ Kartel) [Listen / Video]
RDB ft Lil Wayne – Paisa (A Millie) [Download]

So I’m really feeling the UK Funky drum pattern these days and Matt Shadetek brings his own take on the style with his excellent Wonton Garden Riddim. JahDan, 77 Klash and Spoek are even pushing it to the next level with just enough pop sensibility and attitude. While in the UK, Stiky is just killing it on the regular, and this joint with Marvin Brown is no exception. I’m loving it, just want to do dance choreography every time I hear this banger. On the other side of La Manche, Douster moved back to his home country France recently and keeps working hard on producing excellent dancefloor bombs that are mixing electro and carribean and african influenced drum patterns. And really, I’m a sucker for this sound in which I would put Switch‘s Pon De Floor as well as Du Marcel‘s Tribal Sound. Tribal sound is exemplifying that you can really find amazing techno tracks in Kuduro these days, but as Kuduro is slowly crossing over, there’s also more mainstream oriented songs coming up. Frédéric Galianno, the man behind Kuduro Sound System, is on a mission to spread out this music as much as possible and consider Dama S – Danse avec moi to be one of the WMD in his arsenal.

Now to finish with the tracks that arent faster than 125BPM, I put Poirier‘s next big tune with rising UK reggae star YT out of the upcoming EP called Run The Riddim (Itunes on Aug 25th). Check out the video below, I did during the Bridge Burner last june. Go also have a peak at Flore‘s myspace page to listen to some tracks of her upcoming album to be released in october on Botchit & Scarper. The first single with Ex-Yo Majesty! member Shunda K is also a killer. In the same electro dancehall vein, Stefksi revisit of Gappy Ranks remains in my recent favorites; still loving these keys! And finally, Canada/UK’s RDB are back with some bhangra-hip-hop remixes! I’ll dedicate a future post to this song, as I went to see one of their show last week-end here in Tdot.

Poirier plays his brand new track with YT @ Bridge Burner 09 from valeo on Vimeo.

Spreading Like Winter Bush Fire

It’s winter in South Africa and Spoek is in the lab prepping things to blow our minds once again this fall. He just sent out this mix and as you know, Masala is really feeling the funky sound these days and if you’re like us, well you’ll dig this mix as well (at least the first half héhé)! Then Spoek goes into more deep electo territories with some quality joints (from South Africa?).

SPOEK MATHAMBO – H.I.V.I.P UNITED STATES OF AYOBANESS MIX
http://www.mediafire.com/?dlzntuq3zx1
TRACKLIST
FEVER – SPOEK & SO CALLED FRIEND (HOSTAGE REMIX)
BONGO JAM – CRAZY COUZINZ (BOKBOK & L-VIS1990 REFIX)
AKUSE – ALCAPOEM
ALMIGHTY FATHER – SUNSHIP FT WARRIOR QUEEN (SOLID GROOVE REMIX)
WONTON GARDEN – MATT SHADETEK
DEM NAH LIKE IT – SPOEK MATHAMBO & JAHDAN BLACKAMORE & 77KLASH
BULLETPROOF – LA ROUX (FOAMO REMIX)
WARDANCE – FOAMO
DANCE, DANCE, DANCE – LYKI LI (BURAKA SOM SISTEMA)
BITCH MADE – KASI HOUSE MAFIAS
DREAMS – DJ WHAT WHAT
I’MA TELL YOUR MAMA ON YOU – RED THE HOMELESS GFUNK BEATBOX

Also, check out this track from his Sweat-X project that just popped on the Fader blog:

Spoek’s blog