Best New York vinyl digger out there!

I've for a long time been a huge Madteo fan. Have also been posting material about his releases earlier on the blog. For me personally I sort of either like one's dj skills or his/her producer skills. Madteo have both skills one could say. To the extreme. Of course there are many good dj/producers out there, but I rarely see people with this amount of digging skills or patience if you will. Collecting wax.

If you're not familiar with who I am talking about Madteo or Matteo Ruzzon is out of North Eastern Italy and has been living in Queens, New York for something like 20 years doing house and techno. As a teenager going to numerous raves in local Italian town Remini he met up with fellow American dude who invited him to the USA. The rest is history. Before that he was doing a semester in California discovering reggae and dub. This was sort of a shape shifter within his musical preferences.

I guess if I was to pinpoint what I like about his music that would be his ability to balance the mellow with the jolly. Major vs minor. There's a strong affection towards the darker and moodier textures. However, this combined with bits from disco, dancehall, soul, latin or whatever makes IMO his stuff quite special. Highly original.

As you are able to hear in his sets and especially on his $TREET WAX series there has been a lot of digging putted this. You don't hear the usual house or techno stuff here. It's impressive how he's able to transfer some old, cheap records into something quite magical.
This very set starts quite mellow, gradually turning into something like New York in the 70s. Give it a listen.

New album from Danish dj Kölsch

Danish dj Rune RK alias Kölsch is back with his forthcoming album 1989 somewhere mid September. I'm not perfectly clear on the specific date. The album will be released on Cologne techno imprint Kompakt as the third album in the trilogy.
The tech house album "1977" came out in 2013 and two years later followed by the techno album "1983". Personally I'm a huge fan of 1983. It has certain similiarities to the former trance releases on sister label Speicher. All 3 albums are to be seen as autobiographical whereas the last one has a more sentimental grey'ish vibe to it. Several of the future tracks are titlet "grey" in different languages. The album is tackling and focusing on darker childhoold memories such as his parent's divorce and the difficulties within adolescence.

I find this album and in fact the whole trilogy quite important. This dj has always been a hit banger doing all sorts of interesting and not so interesting electronic music. To be honest. He has been involved in numerous project. All of them leaning towards the happier side of artistic expression one could say. Also the Artifical Funk project together with brother and industrial designer Johannes Torpe are classic fast forward productions. I like it, don't get me wrong.
Rune RK started playing the drums in various funk bands i early 90s and soon after that he spent three years producing hip-hop tunes for Copenhagen rappers. The funkiness of his releases has always been quite visible. Maybe that is why I find this trilogy so important, because this is something else.
Please leave a comment when you get a chance to have a listen.
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