This week on the Mr Elephant Radio show we’re with Marc Reck who’s taking us through 2 diverse mixes, some brand new promo’s and a whole host of genres.
Hope you enjoy the show, please check out any artists you like with the last fm links below and hope you can join us next next monday live on Rhubarb Radio at 6pm – 8pm
After kicking off to a great start with Quantic back in June, Cinephonic well and truly settled into its groove with it’s second outing this month. It was a monster weekend with the Mr Elephant team also ramming the bull’s head the night before with a funk flavoured Party Rockin Mammal Session. A little sleep later and we’re back again at the Hare and Hounds for a very different animal.
Video by Jack Brabant
As always with Cinephonic we base the visuals of the night around a theme. This time around it was all about the road movies. Marc Reck opened us up with a great bit of chilled trip-hop, the room nicely filling up to the warm sounds of artists such as Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation & Barry Adamson.
Rhurbarb Radio favourites Skeleton and Dolhasz perfectly translated their radio show ‘The Beat Suite” http://thebeatsuiterhubarbradio.blogspot.com/ into a live environment. Covering a massive range of genres just like a certain resident of ours loves to do, the experimental pair seemed a perfect match for Marc and the night.
The Beat suite’s 1st set saw some great scratching from Skeleton & some seamless blending from Dolchasz. Taking it from the trip hop into the hip hop and building up into choice dubstep and big room breaks, their style, vibe and mixing was 2nd to none and kept the tension building and the party rockin vibe flowing!
Despite the soaring temperature the place was nice and full by 11:00 and our DJ’s responded accordingly cracking the tunes up and getting everybody moving. The visuals hit overdrive with some feedback powered cliff driving, motorcycle acrobatics, and Lawnmower action for good measure.
Midnight came and it was time for Marc’s 2nd set. Starting from breaks and switching it up with each track, it seemed our resident was looking for what was the crowd wanted in order to set the place off.
After breaks, a little swing, it was the huge bite from the liquid drum and bass which set the place on fire and took us into a great hour of crowd pleasing jungle & drum & bass!
Blendstates visuals were creating a filmic visual narrative that bought the cinema to the dancefloor with impressive skill and inspiring imagination! Skeleton & Dolchaz took to the decks for their 2nd set and displayed why they are two of the moste versatile djs in brum, effortlessly jumping from jungle to drum and bass, from breaks to dubstep, dropping in some cheeky numbers and keeping the floor locked and jumping all the way through.
Massive thanks to all those who came out and created a truly lovely vibe creating a proper night to remember. Also special thanks the venue for staying open an extra half hour allowing our DJ’s a unanticipated B2B set at the end!
Cinephonic will return on the 10th October with details to follow soon. If you’d like to keep posted automagically, please subscribe to the rss, or join the facebook group (invites for each event)
On a totally electronic tip this week with an exclusive mix from Dfrnt in honour of his excellent forthcoming album Metafiction, and an old mix from Marc Reck found on the hard drive earlier in the day
#Tracklist 01 Hatcha – Flippin’ (DFRNT Remix) [Dub]
02 Adam Johnson – 4 Squares (DFRNT Remix) [Dub]
03 DFRNT – 808 State of Mind [Dub]
04 DFRNT – On The Move [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
05 DFRNT – Tripped (Synkro Vocal Mix) [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
06 DFRNT – Decay [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
07 DFRNT – Sectioned [Dub]
08 DFRNT – Tenfold (DFRNT Less Is More Edit) [DFRNT.co.uk]
09 DFRNT – Dark Jazz (DJ Madd’s Even Darker Remix) [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
10 DFRNT – An Early Place [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
11 DFRNT – The Warmest [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
12 DFRNT – Wake Up [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
Some exclusive live recordings this week from our 1st Live & Free event back in April, followed by a Mr Elephant Mixtape “Mr Elephant’s Journey Around the World”
1. The mighty Thievery Corporation start us off. A Washington DC-based production and DJ duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton and their supporting artists. Their music can be characterized as downtempo/electronica with influences of dub, acid jazz, indian classical and brazilian styles fused together with a lounge aesthetic, and they really know how to produce bass!
2. Then it’s to the city of Birmingham with the inspiring Friendly Fire Crew, reggae collective, featuring the talented Paradox on the vocals and Robin Giorni on the production, with this proper track called “Web Of Deceit”
3. Down into the the south of Spain we find the beautiful voice of Yolando Rayo, with an equisite traditonal salsa track “Salsa Con Sabor”
4. Then its to the bright lights and big show tunes of Broadway, with Catherine Zeta Jones blasting out her rendition of “All That Jazz” from the musical Chicago (reedited for full dancefloor effect)
5. Thrown onto the streets of London with this dirty classic track from Noonsday Underground
6. Going Deeper into the capital for the inspired fusion of Tricky (with great vocals from Martine), with their seminal track “Black Steel” from the album Maxinquaye.
8. Staying East we get treated to the combined musical skills of Shankar and the Epidemics.
9. Then lush African Marimba sounds from Batanai Marimba with a track called Shangara.
10. To the streets of Barcelona is where we find the Minimal Acoustic Band, and their track “Saraha”. Mainly using traditional didgeridoos from Nepal, and steel pans from Jamaica their fusion is/was a highlight from the Catalunyan streets.
11. Then its a quick trip back to the U.K to catch the hugely talented fusion that is Nitin Sawhney, with this title track from his Beyond Skin Album.
12. Then were off all the way across the globe to New Zealand with a brief stopover in Australia and a classic track from Crowded House
13. Over to now Europe for two short vists. One is to France to see the excellent French Hip Hop Sounds of Nuttea
14. And then over to Germany to check out a light hearted Dauerfisch
15. A business trip to Japan allows us to let our hair down and catch the pure funk of Major Force, with this wicked track taken from Thievery Corporation’s “Outernational Sound Mix Album”
16. Then its over to the west coast with a little bit of deck skills from Dj Shadow with this bit of Walkie Talkie,
17. and then NWA give us a slice of Compton life with the classic “Fuck Da Police”
18. Manu Chao is a Latin folk singer of Galician origin, fusing all sorts of …well you probably heard of him too.
19. Over to the continent of Africa to visit Mozambique for a Maputo based multi generational collective. Mabulu are one of a number of nu-generation African bands balancing dance music, traditional roots sounds, and the verbal acrobatics and conscious social lyrics of rap and hip-hop. This track is called Aids.
20. Then of course, The Pink Panther from North American composer Henry Mancini
21. And to bring us back home, we haved the inspirational soundtrack esque Barry Adamson, with the very cool “Jazz Devil”
Its Valentines day, and so we’re on a suitable love theme with Mr Elephant’s Falling in Love Mixtape & some live footage of Rich Batsford performing some of his forthcoming album Valentine Court @ a packed out gig at the Old Joint Stock back in 2007.
Marc Reck is your host, and you can listen again, dload the show and comment all from this post. Artist tracklistings are also below to aid in finding music you like via last fm. This will be our last Friday night show as Marc’s own djing commitments mean we will be moving to a different day. As soon as a suitable slot is available we’ll be back with the show.
P.s Apologies for not posting the other shows. These last 3 were the only ones that were recorded. When we return we will record and post each show.
P.P.S – Re the audio quality of the gig, it was recorded on binaurul microphones as opposed to any sort of live feed. While it doesn’t sound too bad, it obviously doesn’t do justice to the rich sound that rich creates.
If you listened to or downloaded this mix, please drop us a comment below, and if you like any of the artists, please think about buying one of their tracks.
