Laid Back Radio
Hello my friends!
I have some very exciting news to share with you! I have had the honour to be asked to do a guest spot on Laid Back Radio! For those of you who have never heard about these amazing guys, here is a little introduction I “borrowed” from their website:
We focus on everything urban related be it music, art, lifestyle or whatever topic we feel like to discuss. While music wise, we play everything from Soul, Funk, Jazz, Psych Rock, Disco and Latin music to Hip Hop and much more.
Everything has started in March 2002 with a FM radio show broadcasted in the Brussels area (Belgium). In order to get in touch with a larger audience, we launched the Laid Back website in January 2005. In addition to our radio programs, the Laid Back website also provides articles and visual galleries related to the vibes that we are trying to spread.
The Laid Back show is currently broadcasted every Wednesday between 10 and 11pm (GMT+1) on FM Brussel (Belgium) and on 057 Radio (Croatia). Next to our FM activities, we are also running LBDK an online radio station playing the best in urban music from the last 40 years and hosted on the Radionomy platform.
Apart from the Laid Back crew, they also have shows from the mighty and wonderful Lefto, BlastKid (the oh so groovy jazz kid), Onda Sonora and many more. They have had guest spots from the guys over at MOOVMNT and Radna, who is one of the co-founders of Future Vintage (to name a few). All pretty cool and very talented people if I may say so myself.
As you can imagine, being asked to do this is a very big deal in “Orsii World” and I almost fell of my chair when I read the email. I am a bit nervous, but I really hope people will like my humble little selection of tunes.
The show will air tomorrow
Friday 7th August 2009
2pm LONDON time
3pm Stockholm/Brussels time.
However,the guest spot will be played over a three week period, so if you can’t tune in tomorrow, check the grid to see what time it might be on another day. Will let you know when my guest blog post is up on their blog too. Much love! x
You are all cordially invited to my birthday celebrations this Saturday!
For more information, visit the Download This event page on Facebook.
MUCH LOVE!
I am still waiting with great anticipation to read and listen to Domu’s “Under the influence” post over at CubikMusik. And when I thought I would run out of patience, this little blog post popped up from the man himself:
Well, for what was supposed to be a quiet summer of blogs I have certainly managed to keep quite a few coming up. I’m not going to promote any gigs or tell any anecdotes this week, it’s literally a couple of lines to direct you to some summer treats. First of all check http://cubikmusik.com/ over the next few days for a mixture of some of my early inspirations from the 90’s. Then I am going to give away a bit of music. Feel free to blog it, pass it on and do whatever you feel. Since my hard drive crash I have lost the parts to all of these, so I just thought I would give them away, I can’t work on them anymore. Most are from my Myspace and Soundcloud accounts, so you may have heard or even own some of them already. Anyway I am treating it as a fresh start and a chance to freshen up my sound a little. So here you go. Please let me know if you have enjoyed them from whatever methods you use to contact people these days. You can give me a ring if you want. Whatever, I just hope this little burst of freeness is appreciated, because otherwise they are all going in the bin. So check you laters, yeah?
And there you have it folks, enjoy it to the fullest, I know I will! Please do take the time to visit the TrebleO website and if you like the music, give the man a shout or follow him on twitter!
Good morning sunshines!
Hope you’re well this Wednesday morning. It has been a very busy 5 days, and it doesn’t look like it will calm down until at least Sunday. I haven’t had time to write about this, but I woke up with a smile on my face and decided I wanted to share the love with you.
Bullion released vol. 2 of one of my favourite mixes out there, “Mixed Up In Love”, on Monday and it was like the cherry on top of the great weekend I had & a perfect birthday present (even if it wasn’t made especially for me).
Tracklisting for Mixed Up In Love II:
01. Free Spirits Intro
02. Sweet And Innocent – Express Your Love
03. Iron Butterfly – It Must Be Love
04. The Moody Blues – I Don’t Mind
05. The Manhattans – Follow Your Heart
06. Birtha – Feeling Lonely
07. The Bee Gees – To Love Somebody
08. ELO – Telephone Line
09. Joni Mitchell – Solid Love
10. The Four Tops – Still Water (LOVE)
11. Let’s Kiss Blonde Coeds Interlude
12. Adrian Baker – Is This Love
13. Ned Doheny – A Love Of Your Own
14. Tony Grey – She’s My Love
15. The Koobas – Woe Is It Love My Dear?
16. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – More Love
17. Free Spirits Outro
This guy just get’s better and better I tell you! If you don’t have vol.1 of Mixed Up In Love, you better hurry up and get it now! I can promise that you won’t be disappointed. Spread the love and have a great day! x
Morning my friends!
Sorry it has been a while since I wrote something, but it has just been a bit manic over here lately. As some of you know it was my birthday this weekend and I’d firstly like to say thank you so much for all the birthday wishes! It was absolutely overwhelming and I wasn’t expecting it at all.
The weekend as a whole was absolutely amazing, and it actually started off on Thursday night. I went to Vibe bar to meet up with some music friends, and then rushed off to celebrate Ravi who was turning 35. I didn’t have a very messy night (like some of the others…) but it was very nice to see some of the Airlock crowd again.
On Friday I had my friend Colin, who runs cubikmusik, visiting from Dublin. It was his birthday so we met up after work, headed down to the southbank to see one of his DJ mates, and then hurried over to Plastic People to check out the launch party of Beat Dimensions. I didn’t really know what to expect, even though I’ve heard their stuff, I wasn’t sure if it would be my cup of tea “live”. But my oh my was I wrong. Safe to say that the brilliant soundsystem at plastic always aids the experience, but I was literally blown away by the heavy beats & sounds. Cinnaman took my breath away… I remember sitting by the speakers, having a breeze of pure bass caressing my face and the only reaction I could produce was a silly little grin of pure satisfaction on my face.
On Saturday we went for one of the best steaks I have ever had at this tiny Argentinian restaurant on Broadway Market, and after filling up our belly’s with some heavenly meatness, we strolled over to Victoria Park to attend the one day festival called Field Day. We started drinking around 1pm, hiding from the rain, and enjoying some fantastic music from the likes of TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS, DRUMS OF DEATH (you seriously need to check out those two!), Rusko, Santigold (although the sound was shit), Skream (big disappointment that they cut his set short for Mogwai, not impressed!) etc. And after approx 8 hours of drinking and dancing, we fled the festival and ended up at Plastic People again, this time to enjoy the legend that is Theo Parrish. I can honestly say that I could not have wished for a better way of starting my birthday than with Theo. He was playing one great tune after the other, and you were left there thinking “Damn…this man is fantastic”, and when you thought he couldn’t possibly beat the tune he was just playing, the next song would be even more amazing, and yes. An absolute pleasure.
Sunday we were feeling like death. Managed to get out of bed around 2:30pm, basically crawled down to the Breakfast Club in Shoreditch to have some hangover brekkie. And when our energy levels were restored and we felt semi-human again, we walked up to Korsan Bar for a chilled out afternoon/evening with some tunes, drinks & a bbq. I had the pleasure of being joined by James (check Space Invader Radio), Graham (check Grey Matter Beats), Adam (check iyrie), Rob (check Soul-Identity Music) and of course Colin, and I have to admit that it was the most perfect chilled out birthday Sunday you could wish for. I had so much fun and the boys were lovely.
So once again, THANK YOU to all of you who made this weekend one of the best birthday weekends of my life! Much love! x
