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My partner in crime, Itokim, and Fine Art Recordings bring you a little gift for Christmas. You can download the Itokim mix of Buset’ "Stay" here:

Buset – Stay (Itokim Snowed Under mix)

Buset – "Stay" is now available on NYLVI here: www.nylvi.com/nitzan

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

Friday, January 2, 2009

Café Capital, Antwerpen | Doors open at 11pm | One free entrance per one paying person

• FABRICE LIG
• LEE HOLMAN
• WILL O’BRIEN

SUB-SCAPE Escalators Fabrice Lig, Will O’Brien & Lee Holman select their favourite underground tracks of 2008 for your dancing pleasure on Friday 2nd January at Café Capital, Stadspark, Antwerp.

Reduced entrance price with pre-mail from info@sub-scape.com

SUB-SCAPE escalators, Fabrice Lig, Lee Holman and Will O’Brien, are set to play at Antwerp Expo, Go For Happy, on NYE.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Antwerp Expo, Antwerpen | Doors open at 9pm | €25 in advance / €30 on door

• FABRICE LIG
• WILL O’BRIEN & LEE HOLMAN

Here’s the list of our favourite singles and albums of 2008:

singles

• Ican – Pa’ Mi Gente [Planet E]
  Rather special.
• Soul Designer – Evolutionism (part two) [Third Ear]
  The wonderful thing about Fabrice Lig is he’s funky, funky, funky.
• Niko Marks – West 8 Mile [Logos]
  Inspired and inspiring.
• Pedro Cali – Misty [Fine Art]
• Francesco Tristano – The Melody [Infiné]
• Fabrice Lig – Purple Raw Part One [Versatile]
• Quince – Expanding / Contracting [Delsin]
• DJ Bone – No Sleep (True To Da Roots) [Sect]
• Niko Marks – Hueman Density [U2X Productions]
• Santiago Salazar – Materia Oscura [Rush Hour]
• Chymera – Ellipsis [Figure]
• Tribe – Livin’ In A New Day [Planet E / Community Projects]
• Los Hermanos – Traditions & Concepts [Submerge]
• Jeff Mills – Alpha Centauri [Axis]
• DJ Bone – Circus World [Subject Detroit]
• Laurent Garnier – Back To My Roots EP [Innervisions]
• Master-H and François Dubois – Melody [Komplex De Deep]
• Rennie Foster – Good Time Charlie [Subject Detroit]
• Stephen Brown – Subject Scotland 2 [Subject Detroit]
• Kevin Saunderson – History Elevate 2 [KMS / Planet E]

albums

• Francesco Tristano – Auricle / Bio / On [Infiné]
• Soul Designer – Evolutionism [Third Ear]
• Raiders Of The Lost Arp – Tema5 [Nature]
• Shed – Shedding The Past [Ostgut Ton]
• Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky – Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald [Polydor]
• Octogen – Gindofask [Soma]
• The Black Dog – Radio Scarecrow [Soma]
• Octave One – Summers On Jupiter [430 West]
• Kenny Larkin – Keys, Strings, Tambourines [Planet E]
• X-102 re-discovers The Rings Of Saturn [Tresor]

Santiago Salazar plays two dates in Los Angeles this week – he will bring his exclusive Drexciya set to the Underwater Dream this Friday. Don’t miss them !

• Dec 19. – Dream, Los Angeles
  
• Dec 20. – Vlagrant, Eagle Rock
  

Here’s the list of our favourite remixes of 2008:

• Pedro Cali – Misty (Rodriguez Jr. remix) [Fine Art]
  Dancefloor – 10 out of 10, Radio – 10 out of 10, Personal – 10 out of 10.
• Pedro Cali – The Way (The Duplex way) [Fine Art]
• Francesco Tristano – The Melody (C2 remix) [Infiné]
• Itamar Sagi – One Million Oaks (Funk D’Void remix) [Soma]
• Erell Ranson – Sense Of Our Life (Arne Weinberg remix) [MySelf]
• Kevin Saunderson – Bassline (Joris Voorn mix 07) [KMS / Planet E]
• Rennie Foster – Devil’s Water (The Youngsters remix) [Rebirth]
• Ican – Caminos del Niño (Martyn’s Oscuro mix) [Ican Productions]
• Polar Pair feat. Cornelius Harris – This Is What Happens (Mark Flash rmx) [Unreleased]
• Master-H and François Dubois – Melody (François Dubois The Chord mix) [Komplex De Deep]

Here’s the list of interviews we’ve done with Underground Resistance:

Here’s the list of our favourite labels of 2008:

• Subject Detroit
  No hype / trends – 100% independent label. I’m really into what they are doing.
• Infiné
  The freshest label I’ve heard in a couple of years.
• Planet E / Community Projects
  I’m a big fan of everything Carl Craig’s done. Great to see the Tribe collective as well.
• Ican Productions
  I really like guys like S² and Esteban Adame, both of who are good at keeping a techno sensibility but also have some influences / chords in there too.
• Fine Art
  A label to watch this year.
• Delsin / Ann Aimee
• Rush Hour
• Innervisions
• 20:20 Vision
• Melodika

As Mark Flash mentioned before, Mark Flash, De’Sean Jones and Raphael Merriweathers Jr. are teaming up for a new live high tech jazz trio called Satori 3. Electronic Directory catches up with UR and Tunnel 7 man Raphael Merriweathers Jr. to talk about the Satori 3 project, his forthcoming collaborations, and Underground Resistance.

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• (in no particular order)
• Fabrice Lig – Cosmic Bootey [MVSICA]
• Francesco Tristano – Auricle / Bio / On [Infiné]
• Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky – Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald (New Mixes by Ricardo Villalobos & Carl Craig) [Deutsche Grammophon]
• Itamar Sagi – One Million Oaks [Soma]
• Rennie Foster – Devil’s Water [Rebirth]
• Gideon – All Day All Night [Sino]
• Orlando Voorn – Yes We Can ! [Voorn Kollektiv]
• Tokyo Black Star – Bit Commander EP [Innervisions]
• Octave One – Summers On Jupiter [430 West]
• 365 Blak featuring Niko Marks – It’s About Time [U2X Productions]