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Monday, November 03, 2014

The Breakbot experience

Since I managed to survive the previous stroke and attend yesterday's party without a heart attack, I might as well tell you a few things about my Breakbot experience.

I 'll be honest: there have been Breakbot sets that have absolutely blown my mind in their full duration, track by track. Yesterday, in The Kids are Alright party, I can say that I got the chills with 3-4 tracks that have never heard before, had minor strokes with 1 or 2 awesome unknown tunes (and the fact that they still remain unknown doesn't help my condition), danced a lot, came face to face with Breakbot -and without realizing it I think I froze and goggled-, but in the end I didn't totally get that "mind blowing" feeling.

I think it's because Breakbot's set was just 1 hour and a half -or a bit longer- and during that time he had to warm up, harsh it up, disco it down, bring back the old skool, play a few hits and close down. Too many things to do, too little time. But to tell you the truth, I don't care. Mind-blowing or not, I had a great time. Breakbot can do that to you, even with the worst one of his sets. And this man's talent of incorporating producing skills into a dj set is just beyond me.

Highlights: The I'm glad that you're here track, Breakbot's intro track (see video below), Michael Jackson's Thriller track with people from the crowd dancing on stage -they should have danced like zombies though, that would be fun- and the whole nostalgic '90s part of the set with Snap, Robin S and stuff.

                                             (ok this actually was more than mind-blowing, I admit it)

 (This is the Thriller track I mentioned, but that's it, sorry. No more videos. I prefer spending the night dancing than recording...)

After Breakbot, Busy P took over. He started off well with a really dirty edit on Imagination's Illusion and a bit of disco mood, but then things got too harsh for my ears, so I didn't stick around much longer. After all, I'm like 100 and if the music can't speak to me, I get tired and hungry.

Thursday, October 03, 2013

Keziah in town

I've got some good news and some bad news. Good news: Last night Keziah Jones was in town for the 1st Nigerian Festival in Athens. Bad news: We only enjoyed him for 3 songs, because of the rain. Good news: We saw artists from Nigeria like Adedeji Adetayo and the well-known and really warm-hearted Greek-Nigerian MC Yinka (just found out he's a neighbor). Bad news: It was the first cold day of autumn and we froze our asses off. Good news: There was nigerian kitchen for us to indulge in. Bad news: The waiting line was expanding from here to eternity.

With these mixed feelings and a runny nose, I 'm stuck wondering today what it would be like to listen to this live yesterday, one of my favorite tracks ever from Keziah - who, I must say, moves like hell.


For now I'll just have to wait for his new album "Captain Rugged", which is about to drop worldwide on November and in the meanwhile I'll hang on a few memories from last night. Like this one with Keziah singing Bob.


tracks' info:
-Keziah Jones - Where's life
Blufunk is a fact
Delabel 1992

-Bob Marley & the Wailers - War, performed by Keziah Jones
Rastaman Vibration
Island 1976

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