A while ago I went to the Position Normal website and ordered the Goodly Time LP (buy it! It’s only five quid and it’s wonderful!). Position Normal’s music is difficult to describe, it is as English as a cup of tea and a buttery crumpet, and uses guitar, samples, loops and extracts that recall Britain of a bygone era. It is a sound that is deliberately lo-fi but at the same time very evocative. It is the predecessor of the sound that has been labelled “Hauntalogical” and that the label Ghost box  has gone on to develop and explore. Listen to the ASDA mix by Moon Wiring Club at TheWire.co.uk, and you can hear the influence.

I started exchanging some e-mails with the aforementioned Mr. Normal, and he showed a curiosity about our own Man Recordings, Daniel sent him some Schlachthofbronx track parts and below is the result. I like this a lot, it’s someone who is worlds away from the Man universe putting their own stamp of eccentricity on what is already a bonkers Bavarian baile pile up. vive la différence!

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Schlachthofbronx – Vem que tem (Position Normal Remix)

Yessir, we are serious. It’s the second issue of Man FM, the Man Recordings podcast and we are already relaunching the whole thingy!

Me, Tim Turbo, turned anchorman and moderator (no hateration ’bout my spoken englisch!), the podcast got itself some real radio show swagger and we will dedicate every show to an upcoming Man Recordings release from now on. You’ll get exclusive first listens to all our new releases, Interviews with all our Artists, DJ mixes by special guests plus brand new tracks and classics that inspire us. Man FM is your access to selected Man Recordings content!

This month’s guests are DJ Beware and Motorpitch, presenting their upcoming EP entitled “El Toro”, giving us all the key facts in an interview, an exclusive listen to the tracks and, like last month, a premium DJ mix. Welcome to a brand new Man FM, enjoy the show!

Man FM 002 – El Toro

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Hi my dear Man Recordings fellowship,

I’m Tim Turbo and I will take care of the new monthly Man Recordings podcast series Man FM from now on. In rotation with the infamous asian invasion DJ Beware we will give away an exclusiv DJ mix every month, brimful with the music we think you need.

Today’s first issue of Man FM is put together by DJ Beware and Motorpitch and will demonstrate you how great Kwaito and UK Funky can dance hand in hand. Brand new Kwaito meets the very best of UK Funky. Let the rhytm catch you!

DJ Beware & Motorpitch – Township Funky – Man FM 001

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01 N.B Funky – Riddim Box
02 DJ Killer – Trap
03 APPLe – Messed
04 DJ Bigga – Boeke Anthem (Bubbling)
05 Mastiksoul – Bofe De Elite
06 Funkin Matt – Zee! (Original Mix)
07 Laidback Luke & Diplo – Hey! (Sidney Samson Remix)
08 Gilles Peterson presents Havana Cultura – Chekere (Seiji Rerub)
09 Efdemin/Martyn – Acid Bells (Martyns Dark Mix)
10 Beware & Motorpitch – Poraroca
11 DJ Killer – True House
12 Swimming Pool – Brickz

“Babarabatiri”, originally a 1950s tune by Mambo don Perez Prado, just won´t die. Picked up by Todd Terry in the early 00s and remixed by Masters At Work and other house bigsters, the tune recently returned. Since big horns became the latest craze, a couple of new “Babarabatiri” remixes surfaced, one of my favourite versions is by DJ Critikal from Talinn – our “Kid Conga” remix contest winner, and new signing to Man Recordings. His debut EP is on Man Recordings as Bert On Beats is scheduled for a spring 2010 release. In the meantime, grab his baile funk version here:

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DJ Critikal – Babarabatiri Funk

Man Recordings and Fairtilizer bring you the 3rd Man Recordings remix contest. This edition
features Ku Bo , the new project by Vienna bass-meister Stereotyp.

“Tsu Bo” features Ghanian-Austrian singer Anbuley on the microphone and presents the sexy and dubbed out tropical-tec for which Ku Bo has become famous for. “Tsu Bo” feat. Anbuley was recently featured on the upcoming  “Fabric Live 49″ Mix-CD by Buraka Som Sistema and is considered one of the hottest Afro tunes of the moment.  Early December we´ll release the Ku Bo Remix EP (Man 043) featuring remixes by DJ Manaia, Batida, Bert On Beats, Lazy Ants, Flore, Robot Koch and Daniel Haaksman. Until the remix EP will be released, you have the chance to remix the original version of “Tsu Bo”.

THE RULES

1. Listen to the orginal here:

2. Download the parts here (the track is 140 BPM) : Ku Bo Remix Contest Folder

3. Remix the song the way you like.

4. Upload your remix on Fairtilzer and name it “Tsu Bo” and your remix name and add “Man Recordings Remix Contest” in the tags. Note: You have to register to Fairtilizer to be able to upload a track (it takes 30 seconds and it’s free).

5. The winner will be selected by Man Recordings.

Prize: The best remix will be released in digital format on Man Recordings + gets bonus goodies package by Man Recordings and Fairtilizer. Bert On Beats, the last winner in the Man Recordings Remix contest for Daniel Haaksman´s “Kid Conga” even scored a record deal with Man Recordings and will release his debut EP on Man in spring 2010!

Submission deadline: Dec 1st, 2009.

We just got the okay from Diplo to post Ku Bo´s remix for Spanish Mad Decent artist El Guincho. This remix has been a steady part of my DJ sets for a while now, it´s about time it gets played by more peeps. File it under tropical tec.

Grab it from here:

EL GUINCHO – KU BO REMIX

Ok, so the first of a series of interesting (non-baile) Brazilian releases that you can download for your xmas/new year’s entertainment. Here we have “Charque Side of the Moon”, which is Floyd’s proto-ambient classic covered by musicians from the city of Belem in the state of Pará in Amazonia.

The “charque” refered to in the title is a type of beef jerky that is eaten but is also an affectionate name for the female genitalia, hence the charming cover.

The project was put together by Luiz Félix, guitarist and vocalist of the band La Pupuña, who basically had the idea to redo the album but with a strong “paraense” influence and the album has contributions from fifteen members of the paraense music scene. Perhaps most interestingly it has the vocal talents of Gaby Amarantos – a technobrega singer from the band Tecnoshow, on “The great gig in the sky”

“Time” also has some nice heavy percusssion from the carimbó group, Os Baioaras, and “Any colour you like” has merengue percussion, for you music anthropologists out there.

The idea of redoing “Dark Side Of The Moon” is not an original one. The has of course been “Dub side of the moon” by the Easy All Stars, but here it has a distinct Paraense flava, a sound which starting to come into its own now and is worth investigating further.

CHARQUE “MONEY”

Download the whole album here or here is a torrent (courtesy of Som Barato)

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