After a fun night of drinking wine, eating pizza and digging through some Hip-Hop records with some friends, I decided to come back to making mixes and publishing them on my Mixcloud. If you didn’t know already, I’m a Hip-Hop head and as much as I listen to a whole lot of styles and genres, […]
Music
Jianbo’s Chinatown
British Chinese-Vietnamese rapper Jianbo is back with a new track produced by Sly Diggers & Slimmoney entitled Chinatown Alley. The video below is meant to be part of a three-part thriller lead by Jianbo himself – in a story of vengeance, love, hate & redemption. His debut single S.H.A.O.L.I.N. explored his East Asian heritage while […]
Rolling & Rocking
After curating my 100 favourite Rap songs, I’ve made the decision of doing the same but with Rock music. I’ll admit that it is a bit all over the place in terms of styles but hey… That’s how I roll! As always you can love the playlist on Spotify if this is your thing. Have […]
Making Music: Back to the Bap
The last time I wrote about making music, I mentioned how I started thanks to rap. I started making music on my mom’s Windows Pentium 4 computer in the early 2000s with a loop arranger called Hip-Hop EJay. I loved making beats. Sure all the loops were in the software and all I needed to […]
Spinning Mixes #01
In my last post, I wrote about Tammy Lakkis’new release and explained how I first heard of her thanks to a mix she did with Shigeto. Since then I thought it would be nice to share some of my favourite mixes. Jeff Garlin’s Blue Note special mix for NTS Radio L.A This is an only […]
Noticing Tammy Lakkis
Tammy Lakkis is the daughter of Lebanese immigrants. She grew up in Windsor, Ontario and Dearborn Heights, Michigan and is now based in Hamtramck. She is a singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ. Lakkis is also known for her all-hardware sets and singing bilingually in both English and Arabic. I first heard of her last summer […]
On making music
Making music is reasonably one of the greatest things you can do. I don’t say that because making music is cool. It sure is, but that doesn’t really matter. Nor do I believe that we start making music for the sake of being famous or being signed on a record label. Of course, being signed […]
303 Day is Acid Day
Today is the 3rd of March – 3/03 – which is a special day for us techno lovers. It is special because it is the day that we celebrate one of the most popular synthesizers ever made, Roland’s TB-303. It was first released in 1982 and aimed towards guitar players to simulate bass guitars. However, […]
100 rap songs that I love
The last playlist I made was focused on French Rap. Sorry if you were expecting a more eclectic playlist this time around. I’ve made another rap playlist featuring my 100 favourite rap songs. If you don’t already know, I am a huge Hip-Hop head and have been since I was a kid. My first rap […]
My favourite releases from 2020
At the end of each year, I create a playlist with my favourite songs of the year and publish it Spotify. I also try to have a list of favourite releases. I am happy to announce that the list is finished. However, this year I tried something different. I decided not to write anything as […]