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GUY GERBER AND FRANCESCA LOMBARDO IN THE LAB

After a lot of hard work and devotion these days super star Guy Gerber has the kind of artistic freedom he's always wanted, and it shows. Supplement Facts is more adventurous than ever, melding organic with electronic sounds. Meanwhile, he's embarked on his most unexpected project yet: an album with P Diddy, who hired him for some remixes and took him on more permanently after hearing the results. Now the hip-hop icon flies Gerber out to his studio in LA to work, where he gives him “2000% artistic freedom.”

Francesca Lombardo London based DJ, Vocal Techniques graduate and accomplished pianist first surfaced under the Jackie Misfit guise. With this alias, she DJed at various underground parties plus clubs like Brixton Academy and The Drom in the English capital,... but also released on labels like Lokomotiv Recordings and started her own imprint, Echolette Records.

This week's Mixmag lab guarantees to be a musical master class as two truly fantastic producers presents you the best in electronic music!

The new generation seal the words and proves his case

DIPLO, SKRILLEX, & A-TRAK TEAM WITH ICONICTV TO CREATE YOUTUBE MUSIC NETWORK "POTATO"

Globally acclaimed DJs Diplo, Skrillex, and A-Trak have partnered with IconicTV to create POTATO, a web-based music network on YouTube that aims to bring back the spirit of early music television for the digital and mobile era. Recognizing that there is a parallel between today's YouTube explosion and the early days of cable TV, the trio developed a music outlet that echoes MTV’s initial mission statement: "You'll never look at music the same way again." The channel launches on YouTube in Fenruary the 15th. 2013

Potato’s programming will give voice and vision to the immensely diverse and ever-growing field of music, recognizing that there no longer is a divide between musician and fan.

Potato is a joint venture with management companies TMWRK & Blood Company and IconicTV, which is run by Larry Aidem (former President & CEO of the Sundance Channel) and Michael Hirschorn (CEO of Ish Entertainment and former head of programming for VH1).  The channel's general manager is Hallie Harris, a former music manager and music publishing exec. The Director of Programming is Mike Ostolaza, who was an integral part of developing MTV Clubland. Its creative director is the photographer & video director Shane McCauley.

Check bellow the first BANG! episode with spotlight segment on techno-rooted city of Detroit, with interviews by Skrillex, Boys Noize and pioneering producer-DJ Kevin Saunderson. Also i recommend to follow after Blow Your Head series, and check the new mixes name Potato Mix Series with first guest mix by MOBY. Visit Potato tv

Kalbata and Mixmonster in Jamaica.

In 2011 Producers Kalbata and Mixmonster recorded a purely analog album, recorded live to tape using no computers reviving original Jamaican studio technics considered extinct in today's production world. A year later, they traveled to Jamaica to find the original artists who once ruled the dance hall, Together they created new tracks, combining the spirit of early dancehall with foreword thinking bass music.

This is their story.
The making of Kalbata & Mixmonster's album in Jamaica.


Kalbata & Mixmonster in Jamaica Trailer from kalbata on Vimeo.

Magit Cacoon session on Be-At TV

Magit Cacoon is a DJ and producer behind the label Girl Scout. She also released music on Upon.You Records and Be As one.

Magit Cacoon has been connected to electronic music since her early years in Tel Aviv, and since relocating to Berlin, has set herself apart with that rare combination of a performer’s charisma and a trained ear that can recognize what’s “next level” in the global electronic dance realm. After three years as resident at Sweat Lodge Radio , Magit's has now launched her own label Girl Scout and has teamed up with the Upon.You crew to release her productions. Outside the studio, she DJs regularly in Berlin and throughout Europe with an extremely fluid approach to mixing, weaving together different styles such as house, techno and soul music.

Magit Cacoon had developed quite a broad perspective on dance music, playing in the city’s most notorious clubs as well as in leading European venues, linking her up with some of the freshest DJs and producers around. In 2011, with a keen sense for the sounds that move our souls on the dancefloor, she realized the next natural step was to create a home for her own productions by founding a record label: Girl Scout was born. With a handful of releases so far and more to come, Girl Scout is the home for some of her tracks and remixes, as well as from friends such as P.Toile, Nunu, Astronivo, &Me, Nico Purman and Tigerskin.

Of course Magit also enjoys being part of a greater framework beyond Girl Scout, having previously released on Shlomi Aber's Be As One Label and Upon.You Records, remixed the UK band Porcupine Tree, working on future releases in Girl Scout and Upon.You Records. Meanwhile, she continues to perform worldwide, always refining her style and gaining inspiration along the way.

Guy J Talk about his new label

Guy J with new interview for Elek Tronique talks about his connection with John Digweed and his inspiration from the Trance and Techno music in the 90s, artists such as Guy Gerber and James Holden. How & when he was starting to producing, About his studio equipments and the new 2012 label Lost & Found.

Guy J: "This is something that you do from your heart, Just keep on trying, you enjoying making it, you don't create it specific for the cause you don't create music to sale, You create music cause you love it"  
 
Elek Tronique™ with Guy J from Adam Al Sened on Vimeo.

UPZ and Black Motion Sweeping Africa nation

Afrika Wo-man is the next single from the acclaimed “Pioneers of House: UPZ” CD. The single see's UPZ (aka Avi Elman) from Tel-Aviv, Israel collaborating with South African producers Black Motion, featuring the vocal talents of Theo Lawson from Ghana with backing vocals by Delight from Nigeria.

The first half of the video was shot with UPZ, Theo and Delight in Tel-Aviv. The video captures the street life of South Tel-Aviv with its multi-cultural immigrant population... here you will find races and cultures from the Philippines, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan and Turkey interspersed among the native israeli population, which is in itself in many ways non-homogenous & multicultural.

Both Theo and Delight emigrated from their respective countries several years back and have adapted Israel as their new homeland. Saturdays is when many of the immigrants attend Church due to Sunday being a normal working day in Israel, and it is mostly during one Saturday mid-summer that we shot the footage for 'Afrika Wo-man' whose lyrics are not about African ladies or females as such, but actually calls for the empowerment of the African people, where the word 'Wo-man' means 'Nation” in Ga, one of many Ghanian dialects.

UPZ than travels to South Africa and meets up with the Black Motion duo who reside in the township of Soshanguve just north of Pretoria. It is here the second part of the video is mostly shot and to continue the overall vibe set in Tel-Aviv, the main aim is to capture daily life in the township... driving in a taxi, returning from school or work in the cities, basic grocery shopping or hanging at the local Shisanyama. The video peaks with a spontaneous street party of UPZ & Black Motion in Soshanguve, interspersed with Black Motion in action from one of their dynamic live show performances.

In these coming days the Afrika Wo-man video will be broadcasting on all SA TV music video channels such Channel O, Trace Africa, MTV Africa, CLub 808 and more.



Directed by Yaron Amitai
Video produced by Avi Elman for soWHAT records
Shot in Tel-Aviv, Israel & Soshanguve, South Africa
Single taken of “Pioneers of House: UPZ” out now on Soul Candi records. 
The single is available on Traxsource

The Promotion Clip

Club life and culture are merging together, they depend on each other.  Video Clip often invites us more easily, we can identify with it and escape for few minutes to another world of imagination & fantasy. 

We have very strong minds in the Israeli local nightlife scene that apply all accessible tools, webs device, people and staff for the benefits of the act, they aware to this trends which became a common and routine behavior for nowadays promoters.

I gather some impressive works by the leading clubs, promoters, groups and figures who deeply involved in the nightlife scene, Including video clips by Dana ve Anat , Bootleg Club, The Cat and The Dog club, Hargol & Simi N Yuli, Shirazi FFF, Our Darkness.

Plug-IN crew hit the street

Plug-IN crew, Dj S.T.A.M and D-Soul are spinning Vinyls around 4 years all around the country ,during which they collaborated with various crews and DJs.The range of Drum And Bass sub-genres played by the crew is very wide : From Atmospheric and Liquid ,Dubwise and Jugnle,also Uplifting and finally Neuro Funk and Dark side of DNB and other heavy stuff!

The main priority is to bring Drum&Bass to the young and positive people at all ,and of course to spread the love to Drum&Bass/Jungle !

Check out this latest street party in collaboration with Municipality of Haifa, J-Viewz band and Plug-IN crew in downtown of Haifa(Israel). Friday, June 29, 2012