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This week’s show had a lot of new music, and I have to admit that I’m really becoming a fan of Brazilian DJ/producer Gui Borratto. The show also had a lot of samba in honor of Carnival, which officially starts next week in Brazil, but which apparently is already underway.

If you have a chance, I’ll be DJing tonight (Saturday, 6 February) at a masquerade ball in Vršovice, in the Prostor Pilot, Donská 168, Praha 10. I’m playing alongside my friend and longtime DJ partner Tony Ozuna, so you know we’ll be bringing the groovy beats from all kinds of places.

Check out the flier here.

This week I also had a chance to find a few of the videos for the songs I played. So here’s the playlist as a spreadsheet.

Here are lots of the videos from that setlist, in more or less chronological order.

Ada – Lovestoned

ADA – LOVESTONED from Jakob on Vimeo.

John Tejada – The End of It All

The Doves – Brazil (Aeroplane remix)

Metro Area – Dance Reaction

Los Amigos Invisibles – Vivire Para Ti

Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move

Prince – When Doves Cry

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim feat. Santigold – Please Don’t

DJ Jesus – Escolhe Outra

Charlotte Gainsbourg – Somewhere Between Waking and Sleeping

Soulstice – All Right

Jamiroquai – Too Young To Die

Corduroy – Something In My Eye

Los Amigos Invisibles – Oyeme Nena

Marisa Monte – Meu Canario

Luca Mundaca – Day By Day

Gui Boratto – Azzurra

Rosa Menina Rosa – Ceu

Rosa Menina Rosa – Jorge Ben

Suba – Samba do gringo paulista

Grupo Batuque – Taruma

This week’s show had a lot of new music, and I have to admit that I’m really becoming a fan of Brazilian DJ/producer Gui Borratto.  The show also had a lot of samba in honor of Carnival, which officially starts next week in Brazil, but which apparently is already underway.

If you have a chance, I’ll be DJing tonight (Saturday, 6 February) at a masquerade ball in Vršovice, in the Prostor Pilot, Donská 168, Praha 10. I’m playing alongside my friend and longtime DJ partner Tony Ozuna, so you know we’ll be bringing the groovy beats from all kinds of places.

This week I also had a chance to find a few of the videos for the songs I played. So here’s the playlist as a spreadsheet, but here also are lots of the videos from this week.

Ada – Lovestoned

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John Tejada – The End of It All

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The Doves – Brazil (Aeroplane remix)

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Metro Area – Dance Reaction

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Los Amigos Invisibles – Vivire Para Ti

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Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move

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Prince – When Doves Cry

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David Byrne and Fatboy Slim feat. Santigold – Please Don’t

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DJ Jesus – Escolhe Outra

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Charlotte Gainsbourg – Somewhere Between Waking and Sleeping

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Soulstice – All Right

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Jamiroquai – Too Young To Die

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Corduroy – Something In My Eye

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Los Amigos Invisibles – Oyeme Nena

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Marisa Monte – Meu Canario

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Luca Mundaca – Day By Day

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Gui Boratto – Azzurra

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Rosa Menina Rosa – Ceu

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Rosa Menina Rosa – Jorge Ben

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Suba – Samba do gringo paulista

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Grupo Batuque – Taruma

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This week I had a special guest in the studio – my daughter Joey. She helped me put together this week’s setlist, especially a special setlist of children’s music that isn’t completely painful to listen to. There are quite a few good compilations of children’s music, especially the “Playground” series by Putumayo Records. There are quite a few of these now in various genres – African Playground, Latin Playground, etc.

It was really fun having Joey in the studio, and judging from the warm reaction from listeners, they enjoyed it too.

The entire setlist is here as a Google spreadsheet.

Like most of Europe at the moment, Prague is in the middle of a major snowstorm. We’ve  had about 25cm in the last 24 hours, and they’re predicting another 25-30 over the weekend, so this week’s show had a mini-set that I hope served as a soundtrack to the snow. The centerpiece of it was Emiliana Torrini’s “Snow” from her outstanding 2005 album “Fisherman’s Woman:”

Click here for the entire setlist in Google Spreadsheet format.

My show this week was devoted entirely to music issued in 2009. The Notorious bWg has noted that music usually gets better in harder economic times, and 2009 was no exception. For me, what was surprising how a lot of indie groups embraced house and disco, and how a lot of house and techno DJs turned their sights to rock for inspiration.

It was also great to see up-and-coming groups, DJs and producers come from countries we usually associate with traditional music – some of my favorite remixes came from Brazilian DJ duo The Twelves, for example.

For me, the single of the year has to be Sia’s “You’ve Changed,” from her upcoming album “We Are Born,” which should be out in early 2010. Here’s the video:

2009 was a very good year musically. I can’t wait to see what 2010 has in store.

As always, the entire show’s setlist is available as a Google Spreadsheet here.

This week I was surprised to look out the studio window to see my first snow of the season (there was some snow in October, but I wasn’t here to see that ).

The standout tracks this week were Oona’s “Tore My Heart,” Gui Boratto’s minimal “Notations,” Jose James’ “Blackmagic (Untold Remix) and two outstanding African tracks, Ebo Taylor’s “Twer Nyame (excerpt)” and Carlos Lamartine’s “Muji Imoxi ix’Moxi.”

Among the other great tracks were Orchestra Baobab’s “Ray M’bele.” I couldn’t find a video for that track, but here they are playing live in Poznan, Poland:

The entire setlist is here as a Google Spreadsheet.

Regular listeners have probably figured out that the tone of show in recent months has moved away from strictly latin and downtempo. This isn’t because of any change in my tastes, but rather because of all the new music that’s coming from all corners of the world that doesn’t exactly fit narrowly-defined boundaries.

Take for example the Rio de Janeiro-based producer duo The Twelves. While they’re most certainly Brazilian, their remixes aren’t exactly what you’d think of when you think of Brazilian music – and that’s a very good thing. I’m a big fan of The Twelves, and this week I played two of their more recent tracks, the excellent remix of Fever Ray’s “Seven” and their remix of Israeli electro group Terry Poison’s “Comme Ci Comme Ca.”

Another example of this border-hopping and genre-bending is the Japanese pop group Cubismo Grafico, who play a rather fetching mix of pop and bossa nova.

Another of the themes this week was girl groups, and the new single by Swedish singer Lykke Li, a cover of the Shirelle’s “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” is stunning. You can download it here from her website. The video is also amazing.

Anyway, as usual, the entire setlist is here as a Google Documents spreadsheet.

It was great to be back in the studio after a six-week hiatus due to all the traveling I’ve been doing lately. Such pauses are always great because there’s an embarrassment of new music to play; the vast majority of this week’s show was new stuff – at least new to me.

So many tracks, but two deserve special mention: Ipacuba, by Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band, and this track, The Melody, by classical pianist Francesco Tristano remixed by Detroit techno god Carl Craig. This video is excellent, btw.

Francesco Tristano & Carl Craig – The Melody from Arno [Input Selector] on Vimeo.

The setlist for the show is here as a Google Documents spreadsheet.