The Private Lives Of Enso, Yao and Kid Fresh

Learn more about what’s on DJ Enso‘s iPod when he is boarding the MTR to Sha Tin at 8AM. Will he go “big truck” this weekend? What’s Yao‘s preferred shower-music these days? Is Oakland really going superhard about thizz faces and ghostriding whips? Does Kid Fresh secretly listen to Turkish folk music from the 70s under the influence of full moon while sipping on cheap, German wine? What will he have for breakfast tomorrow? Does it never snow in the jungle? Why can’t spiders talk? Do men cheat? Can you pause toast? Do fish really have fingers? Why do molecules diffuse?

Find out this Saturday at YUMLA
http://yumla.com

In case you prefer staying at home (it’s ok, we don’t really give a fuck):

CLEAN THE CAT’S LITTERBOX!
CHANGE YOUR LIGHT BULBS!
LISTEN TO THE LIVE STREAM ONLINE!

Hong Kong: 11PM
London: 3PM
Berlin: 4PM
San Francisco: 7AM
New York: 10AM

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Kowloon lobster sauce

I’m packing up my belongings, getting ready for relocating to the northern side of Victoria Harbour! Excited! So long glitzy island life, hiya urban country side! A) more space B) lower rent C) more street cred. And still only 10 minutes from the islet. Now take a minute to envy me for my new Kowloon penthouse view.

PS that’s Lion Rock Country Park in the background.

So. After you’ve finished eating my heart out, go peep my future housemate Yao‘s SOLOS podcast, cause bruva’s got MAD soul.

Yao – Live DJ set @ Heavy HK, 11/18/2009

Tracklisting:

Black Panta – The Upsetters
Song My Mother Used To Sing – Dennis Brown
Heavy- Jaylib
Mythsysizer- J Dilla
Gluetooth- Hudson Mohawke
Reggae- Skepta
Beauty- Silkie
Zumpi Huntah (Remix) – Terror Danjah
Percession – Skream
Hard- Breakage ft. David Rodigan
Serious- Noah D
Spliff Dub (Rustie Rmx)- Zomby
Rainbow Rd.- Gemmy
Like a Dream- 2562

Me and my homies, we tighter than a glove

As you probably figured, I done did some bloggin’ about my very recent trips to Baltimore and NYC already, so let me rewind a bit to the past to continue right where I ended – September 11th at JFK airport!

Flighttime between NYC and SF is a proper 6 hours. I slept like a puppy on goatmilk and arrived in San Fran just in time for the most San Franciscan of all lunches

with ma homeboy Yao.

The Sucka Free is still somehow my dearest destination in the US (NYC don’t be mad, I kinda <3 u too), so I appreciated the freedom to spend some time there, before hopping on the next plane. SF vista from Twin Peaks, anyone?

The following glimpse shows a view of the infamous Bay Bridge, as seen from Pier 7, which used to be THE skateboarding spot back in the late 90s.

No more, unfortunately, since the city of San Francisco has a zero tolerance policy for shredding these days.

Kind of a sad move to ignore and trying to suspend an entire culture from a city that is still being referred to as the Mecca for that particular movement. I used to shred there myself a while ago, and had the wonderful opportunity to see an SFPD cop car from the inside. Here’s to the good ol’ days.

MP3 Download Extravaganza:

Rappin’ 4-Tay – Playaz Club

Bookworms – African Rhythms

My fave Bay Area label SOLOS is back on the track with their first digital release:

In the mix are traces of garage, broken beat, and funky, but this is not reverent bass nostalgia: ‘African Rhythms’ pushes past fashion to wire a new set of rhythmic histories and spaces: the track sounds equally tuned to solitary late night rollage and body-dense warehouses.
The A side of this digital single is backed by two remixes: a 4×4 tuff melancholy Theo Parrish-style banger by Yao, and an ambient, abstracted daydream by Fat Transfer, whose disorienting EQ and filter work take the original even further out.

MP3s:

Bookworms – African Rhythms (Original)

Bookworms – African Rhythms (Yao Remix)

Bookworms – African Rhythms (Fat Transfer Remix)

Hi-bitrate versions available on iTunes now.

Also check out:

Solos Records

Bookworms

Yao

Fat Transfer

Lemonade Remixtape Free Download

I’ve been bumping this one heavily on my iPod in the last 2 days.
San Franciscan indielectronica band Lemonade‘s Remixtape is
available for FREE DOWNLOAD HERE.
Including remixes by some of my homies / fave SOLOS RECORDS artists
Roche, Yao and Bookworm.
Cop that shit.

SOLOS IN STEREO II

Our favorite San Francisco based Indie label SOLOS just released it’s 2nd Compilation called SOLOS IN STEREO vol. II !

The entire SOLOS roster is bringin’ some serious HEAT, so don’t sleep on this bay area jewel!

SOLOS IN STEREO vol. II can be purchased HERE or digitally via ITUNES.

Here’s Roche‘s remix of CB Radio‘s “Muevete”

off the SOLOS IN STEREO II compilation:

Free Download:

CB Radio – Muevete (Roche remix)

Bonus:

This is a 12 minute promo mini-mix, featuring bits of

some of my favorite tunes off the compilation.

Recorded in 2 hours, at 1000% humidity,

with sweaty palms, under the influence of coconut soymilk

and with the nasty smell of dried marine products in my nose

at Enso‘s HK crib. Enjoy!

Free Download:

Solos in Stereo II – Mini-Mix by Kid Fresh

CB Radio will be flying in all the way from New York City

to spin a set at our next PIMPIN’ AINT EASY show on Friday August 29th @ CLIQ in Hong Kong! Stay tuned for details!