 Art, Arter, Artst! A unique 3-day festival blendin' music, poetry, art, theatre, dance and lots of other stuff... Platendraaier Skallie lays some jazz 'n funk on you on the first day during the reception, and in between concerts.. Check it out... 19, 20 & 21 septembre.. All free (except for dze drinks) www.canartfest.be The colleagues from Brussels keep on doin’ what they’re doin’. They just had their holiday break, but now the party with the ever great flyers recommences. Comin’ up -every second saturday of the month at le Bodega- in the next few… Defi J from the Zulu Nation and Raw Fusion’s Mad Mats, and of course resident dj’s Kwak & Bernard Dobbeleer. This month: the Run Dmc Issue !!?! Expect -as they say themselves- TIMELESS CLASSICS AND DISCOVERIES, RARITIES AND INSANITIES IN FUNK, SOUL AND BEYOND. Check that myspace!   Joy, Truck Turner and The Isaac Hayes Movement by The Man That Lives Forever... Our weekly sundayjazz evening at the Ziggy has been cancelled. Lisa decided that her public just wasn't up for it....That's sad, but hey no hard feelings... We do promise we're lookin' out for a new venue so K-Town at least got one proper regular jazz evening... Check these pages for any updates on this...   After the demise of our favourite music-rag Straight No Chaser, our hunger for letters on paper was only fed by Wax Poetics, a worthy substitute, but not exactly snooping out the latest trends in the development of the jazz spirit... Well, now Shook has come to the rescue ! Put together by some of the SNC regulars, Shook is exactly what the doctor ordered and we at BTJ wish them a long life and many copies sold. Be sure to get yours ! And for all you people getting hit by the credit crunch : all issues are now entirely downloadable...for free ! .jpg) Our fantabulous Grafic Designers from Animus (aka the Bone Factory, aka Gonzo & Elke) started their own bizniz! For all your visuals, designs, interior decoration, logos, publicity and custom made furniture, do check out animus-design.be, and hire them. You wont regret it!!!! |
 MUSTIK'S OCTOBER SMOKERS - smoke : aRTET (from ‘’Watts Up’’ de werf cd) just one of the great tracks from the debut album of one of Saxman’s innumerable projects.. - tap tap : DUSTY (from ‘’Keep It Raw’’ jazz&milk 12’’) top cinematic cut’n’paste samba groove. . . - locomotive (VALIQUE rmx) : MOP MOP (infracom mp3) groovy jazzdance with some extra oomph. . . - jazzhole : BINARIO (farout 7’’) freaky fusion from some crazy cariocas. . . - hole in one : AZYMUTH (from ‘’Butterfly’’ farout cd) some ‘crazy samba’ to make the summer last (or start ?). . . - spiral insight : NATIVE (from ‘’Just Four’’ face the music lp) modern beat, classic jazz, japanese combo, mmmh. . . - whiplash : MR SCRUFF (from ‘’Ninja Tuna’’ ninjatune cd) turn your speakers wayyy up and enjoy. . . - desire (MOODYMANN rmx) : JOSE JAMES (brownswood 12’’) mr. James gets ‘dancified’ by none other than. . . - summer time blues : COFFEE & CIGARETTES BAND (from ‘’Step’’ roots1 12’’) laidback samba snippets. . . - crosstown traffic : THE HI-FLY ORCHESTRA (from ‘’Mambo Atomico’’ tramp lp) fabulous funky cover version. . . - foxy lady (ROB TEX rmx) : JIMI HENDRIX (edr 7’’) rousing reggae cover version. . . - let me show ya : JAZZANOVA (verve 12’’) anything 4Hero can do, they can do (better?). . . - (i want 2 b a) modernaire : DEZ DICKERSON (citinite 12’’) long lost Purple Rain classic gets released from the vaults. . .  SpicyPimps All about the nujazz, soul, brokenbeat, dancefloor jazz 'n hiphop.. Lady Linn Check out the cool swing sound.. Metronomic family A labour of love by Philarmonix.. Damberd café Legendary Jazz Café in Gent..  Disco Connection, Shaft and Hot Buttered Soul !!! Can it get any better? Mustik put on a whole bunch of new reviews on our Review Corner. A wide selection of the hottest records, written in the insightful and hilarious style of the true music lover... New reviews include.... Soil & 'Pimp' Sessions, John Zorn, Jackson Conti, Jamie Lidell (of course), Thomas Dutronc (?.. !!), Toumani Diabaté, Sonar Kollektiv Orchester, the Jazz Liberatorz and then some.  AKA .COM&THNK Check the THNK podomatic right here! ROLLKAGE Demomx still available as a free download by dope demand! For promotional use only.. HERE you go!  |
BTJ's radioshow on Urgent 'FREESTYLE FUSION' hosted by Sir Dancelot now has his weekly spot on friday. For all your FutureFunk, BreakBeat, Balearic, Drum ’n Bass, House,Brasil, Eclectro, Idm, Ambient, Jazz, Funk and Groovy tunes, tune in to www.urgent.fm . That's every friday from 10 till 11 pm.  WEEKLY SATURDAY JAZZ EVENING WITH THE BTJ-DJ'S.... august23.. Elek'tricia august30.. Soon september06.. Giovanni september13.. Platendraaier Skallie Starts around 9pm. Romen, Nonnenstraat, Roeselare! FULL CALENDAR ON CALLING ALL CATS.  A new BIG, AFFORDABLE, and GOOD SOUNDING speaker is born. We know JBL from those days they were the only real speaker-builders on the market. If you had no JBL, you were not hip nor did you have a good sound in your house. After decades of trying out new ranges and models, we didn’t hear much good from JBL with their low-cost models for the consumer market. You had to go for a JBL PRO monitor or a high-end – and accordingly high price – model to get good performance. Over the last 15 years they must have had over 30 lines with over 100 types of speakers, from small bookshelf speakers to large surround systems. One of the last ranges that had an ‘acceptable’ sound and were ‘affordable’ was the so called ‘Northridge’ series. But no one I know who heard them was actually enthusiastic about them. So they upgraded the line a bit and called them the E-series. These E-series still are available, but now there is the new line ES-series. The added S stands for “Super-tweeter”, but this can’t be the only thing that has changed. One way or another, by changing the cross-over frequencies, they managed to get a sweet sounding system that just reveals enough to call them almost ‘high-end’. In the ES line, there are small bookshelf speakers, subwoofers, large speakers and also ‘very large’ speakers. We are not that fund of subwoofers, so a speaker that gives the bottom octave without a subwoofer would be nice, and here JBL managed to make a speaker system capable of delivering real bass without loosing the transparent medium and detailed highs for a price of about 900 Euro (pair) ! All right, 900 Euro for a set is not that cheap, but considering what you get, it is. So here is a short description : 5 loudspeakers in one cabinet of 1.5 meters high. Two 10” woofers, a 4” medium, an aluminium dome tweeter and a Super Tweeter ! Two 10” woofers ??!! Yes ! And they can deliver enough power to make you feel in a live concert ! Whether you like to play them soft or loud, listen to jazz, classics, rock, disco or dub, the power is there, details are there and what’s most important, it is always fun ! I won’t go deep into specs nor sound descriptions but these words should cover it : Relaxed listening while hearing details, you are ‘in’ the music (yes, audiophiles will say this is a contradiction : relaxed listening and ‘forward sound’, but the ES100’s manage to deliver both), no dynamic compression, full range and deep bass, good “sound staging” though not expressively ‘present’. I enjoy these speakers over many other more expensive hi-fi sets. I put them under my old good 4312 MKII studio monitors. They are a great stand for them, and more than half the time they do the job of delivering full bodied grooves. More goodies and specs on www.jbl.com. (°august2008, JL Daumerie) .jpg) JBL ES100. 4-way dual 10" floorstanding loudspeaker. Can't get enough of the BTJ sound.... Can't wait for a new show on yer BTJ*RADIO... Then check out this cool thing.. It's called a pod and you can play music on it. In other words, we've put some old and other shows on the BTJ*PODOMATIC and you're invited for a spin. Only 4 dollar 99, so check it out now. Well, we couldn't be the only ones out of the loop, now could we... Yes people i'm talking about the phenomenon called MySpace. Granted, we haven't been the first to jump on the bandwagon, but it must be said that it sure is an easy way to find like-minded people from all over the globe. Find our page here.... Oh, be sure to check out our friends there, as we're connecting (??!) to the most interesting artists and bands...for example : The Naciente Quartet (one of the hottest tickets...), Rory More (he of Les Hommes...) or Pink Monkey Flower (some Paulistas onna housey trip...) If you're good, who knows you'll even make it to our "top friends" (arf, arf) ! |
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