Teeko & Diamond Ortiz – Real Ones (SFC) – NTTG-001 – 7″ 45rpm
Our first limited release with Teeko featuring Diamond Ortiz.
Scheduled for official release on Friday, Dec. 16th. Items will ship on Tuesday, December 13.
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ABOUT THE RELEASE
Teeko is a San Francisco based producer & DJ and half of the the future funk duo Starship Connection. On this collaboration he’s joined by native Bay Area funkster Diamond Ortiz (MoFunk) for a fine serving of synthesized boogie/funk fresh out of California. Teeko performs on a Roland JX3P, Mini-Moog Voyager, & Talkbox. Diamond Ortiz performs vocals with a Microkorg XL with a Rocktron Banshee Talkbox. Real Ones is a lively vocoder slapper written & performed by Teeko with DJ friendly instrumental on the B side.
UPCOMING EVENTS
| Date | Artist | Location | Venue | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/1/16
12/3/16 12/5/16 12/6/16 12/8/16 12/9/16 12/10/16 12/14/16 1/14/16 03/10/17 |
Aki Kumar
Diamond Ortiz Aki Kumar Aki Kumar Aki Kumar Aki Kumar Allen Johnson RyStylz, Basura, Allen Johnson, Dave Ma Aki Kumar, Basura, David Ma, Allen Johnson Teeko |
Campbell, CA
Los Angeles, CA Aptos, CA Fremont, CA Campbell, CA Martinez, CA San Jose, CA San Jose, CA San Jose, CA San Francisco, CA |
Little Lou’s
EICid Aptos Street BBQ Mojo Lounge Little Lou’s Armando’s Headley Club Cafe Stritch Cafe Stritch Mezzanine |
7:30 PM
9:00PM 6:00 PM 8:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM 9:00 PM 9:00 PM |
MUSIC BITES
DJ PLATURN
DJ PLATURN – Oakland, CA.
DJ – Producer -Record Collector – Promoter
DJ Platurn is a 24-year veteran of the music industry whose work has taken him all over the globe— Asia, Australia, Europe, Canada, South America, Scandinavia, and countless venues throughout the US as well as his home base in the San Francisco Bay Area. A native of Iceland, his handle is a literal translation that fittingly means “Plate Turner.” With a substantive client list including Red Bull, Toyota, Pandora, Adidas, Pixar, Monster Cable, MTV, Rane, and the Golden State Warriors (amongst others) he’s built a reputation as a tastemaker and community advocate for his hometown of Oakland, preserving crucial aspects of DJ culture as founder of the Oakland Faders (with partner DJ Spair) and The 45 Sessions (founded in 2010) which is now recognized as the preeminent outlet for 7-inch (45-rpm) culture on the West Coast United States.
Platurn has played alongside some of the biggest names in the industry, including De La Soul, Prince Paul, A-Trak (Fools Gold), Janelle Monae, Z-Trip, Fishbone, ?uestlove (The Roots), DJ Premier (Gang Starr), MF Doom, Pete Rock, Mixmaster Mike (Beastie Boys), Nu-Mark (Jurassic Five), DJ Craze, Zion I & The Grouch, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Das Efx, Hieroglyphics, Boot Camp Click, DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill), Jazzy Jay, DJ Scratch (EPMD), Spinderella (Salt & Pepa), and many more.
In addition to being an avid record collector and DJ, Platurn has also collaborated with filmmakers, producing original music for award winning documentarians, Grammy nominated vocalists, and groundbreaking visual artists. He also composed score to the feature length documentary A Lovely Day (as The Midnite Sons) and was a musical contributor to Michael Rapaport’s Tribe Called Quest documentary, Beats, Rhymes, & Life.
This year, he released a lifetime’s worth of obscure, groove-based Icelandic music from his and his father’s record collection, expertly aligning songs onto a project called Breaking The Ice, released on Needle To The Groove records in 2018. Platurn’s attention to detail and relentless work ethic has gained him notoriety for over two decades—with much more on the horizon.
Aphex Twin – T69 Collapse – Video
Aphex Twin – T69 Collapse – Video
Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin returns in 2018 with a brand new single capturing his signature unique sound and visual aesthetic with “T69 Collapse”. Aphex Twin drops a mind-bending track and video by his long term visualist, Weirdcore.
The song comes with no surprise, as James has never been a conformist to sell his music. “T69 Collapse” displays his immutable drill ‘n’ bass signature. A style that has widely dissipated, yet Aphex Twin continues to revitalize his sound within each new electronic scene and has been doing so for the past 28 years. “T69 Collapse” carries Aphex Twin’s rubbery modulations, builds into a chaotic oscillation crescendo, and somehow manages to balance the mayhem with cerebral and melodic synths, maintaining a trance-like rhythm.
Alongside being Aphex Twin’s right hand man, Weirdcore has been his underground visual consultant for decades. Weirdcore has done many visual works for prominent artists, such as Radiohead, Miley Cyrus, and Tame Impala. The video starts out with perhaps email exchanges between Weirdcore and Aphex Twin, consulting on the visuals and ideas for the video. It seamlessly transitions into bit codes and into the hallucinatory world of Weirdcore which is deemed to challenge it’s viewer and manages to keep up with Aphex Twin’s chaotic symphony. As if civilization is collapsing into the black hole of Aphex Twin, we glide through glitched cityscapes and overlays of bit code, strobes and 3D scanned textures. In an interview for fastcompany.com, Weirdcore mentions, “These render engines opened the door to different looks and technique – But I feel I’m still merely scratching the surface and just getting started with this new look. Definitely more and better of this look to follow.”
This prequel to his new EP is an incredible feat that had to take hours of tedious after effects processing to execute and yielded an intimate peek into the minds of two prolific electronic artists. Be on the look out for Aphex Twins’ new album, “Collapse EP” out September 14th, 2018.
by Tucker Gootee – 2018