MIMS Guide to Igloofest 2013 – Week 3
This upcoming Igloofest weekend might very well be the one we here at Music Is My Sanctuary, are the most excited about. Not only will we have another opportunity to enjoy the festival with the many thousands of people who gather each night to witness the sound of electronic music …
DOM SERVINI “Forgotten Treasures Mix #06”
We are really happy to present the sixth instalment of our MIMS forgotten treasure mix series. After great mixes from Zed Bias, Taku, Fred Everything, Tall Black Guy and Jesse Futureman our 6th mix comes from none other than Dom Servini. Pillar of the London eclectic scene and WahWah45′s label boss, Dom takes us …
MIMS Guide to Igloofest 2013 – Week 2
Igloofest did not lose any time shifting into gears to begin the new year, starting off strong in its first weekend of festivities with a diversity of sounds from both the past and the future. From the tech-house of veterans Josh Wink and DJ Sneak to the Piu Piu of …
HMV Closes Shop in the UK (for the moment)
You might have heard the news: HMV, the last major music store chain in the world, has closed its doors (for the moment) and entered administration protection. All the UK stores and websites are currently closed. Following the closure of other music chains like Tower, Virgin and many others, HMV’s troubles …
Future Classic: José James “No Beginning No End”
I’ve been on the Jose James bandwagon since day 1 so let’s just say I am a bit biased when it comes to talking about one of his new releases. Ever since I bought the white label copy of “Equinox” vinyl in a London record shop in 2006, I have …
Future Classic: Mark de Clive-Lowe & the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra “Take The Space Trane”
I’m really excited to share this one with the MIMS fam (and it’s about time since I’m on my 9th listen already). Mark de Clive-Lowe hooks up with the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra to incorporate powerful big band aesthetics to his consistently lush productions and as you may have guessed: the …
DJ Mitsu The Beats “Solid Black” – a Black Jazz mix
via SOTU: In conjunction with Snow Dog Projects and Black Jazz Records, Jazzy Sport crew member DJ Mitsu The Beats has composed a seamless mix of tracks selected from the Black Jazz catalog. Well-known for his hip-hop mixes, Mitsu takes a 20+ year veteran DJ’s perspective here, more often than …
Future Classic: Ryan Hemsworth “Last Words”
What I like the most about this time of year (no, it’s not eggnog) is that I can catch up on some music I might have missed; one exemple is the Last Words EP by Ryan Hemsworth, a 9 track affair that was released in September (although at 37 minutes, …
Classic Mixes: J Rocc “Sex Machine Today” (2001)
It’s no secret to all you frequent MIMS readers that we have tons of love for J-Rocc, the world famous Beat Junkie. One of THE dudes we love as much behind the decks and the production board. We posted an article a few days ago about a new J-Rocc track …
The Jackson 5 “Love Trip” – The Rare Pearls
So many times when compilations are released of a band’s vault material, the listener is left unfulfilled. The Jackson 5 dispelled that theory with a batch of twelve songs in 2009 on I Want You Back: The Unreleased Masters with a set of songs that any artist on Motown would …
Forgotten Treasure: Nightlife Unlimited “Peaches & Prunes” (Ron Hardy Edit)
This is a really funny one because we posted this years ago and I’ve been playing the track for ages now and I somehow got the titles of the A and B sides of the white label vinyl completely mixed up. We even played this on one of the earliest …
D’Angelo “Left & Right (Moodprint Remix)” via Soulection
Recently we were listening to one of Lefto’s recent radio shows and discovered this blissful remix of D’Angelo’s ‘Left & Right’. Immediately we began to research the track and discovered that it was an unreleased gem created by the Leuven (Belgian) duo Alectric and Poldoore who go by ‘Moodprint’. We …