The Sounds of VTech

We’re ending our week here at VTech and Mochilla on a positive note. Our good friend and supporter over at BBC-Radio1 Gilles Peterson has given us some big love. We’re a part of the All Winners Show of 2009. This list represents the hottest music from the first four months of this year and we couldn’t be prouder of Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson for “Fall in Love” which was performed during the Suite for Ma Dukes, Timeless Series.  Also making an appearance are Quantic and Mulatu.

Congratulations to everyone on the list.

Please click here: Gilles Peterson/BBC Radio 1 to hear his broadcast of the show

All Winners 2009 Part 1

2:00

LD – Traumatic Times (Hyperdub)
Kafka – The Kafka Anthem (Mighty Highness Records)
Miguel Atwood Ferguson & Carlos Niño - Fall In Love (Mochilla) **
Sa Ra – Cosmic Ball (Ubiquity)
Jam Da Silva – Dia Santo (3014)
Elmore Judd – Staring (Test)
Oumou Sangare - Lyo Djeli (World Circuit)
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Mensequo (Strut)
Beirut – The Akara (Ba Da Bing)
Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu – Global Party (Sahko)
Jack Penate - Today’s Tonight (XL)
Nacho Patrol – African Space Program (Kindred Spirits Electronic)
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro – The Dreaming Mind Part 1 (Tru Thoughts)
Mos Def – Quiet Dog (Downtown)
Jay Electronica – Candyman (Test)
Bullion – Time For Us All To Love (One Handed)
Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So Maybe No (Stones Throw)
Alice Russell – Let Us Be Loving (Little Poppet)
Sound Species Ft Ahu – Can We Call It Love? (CDR)
Theophilus London – Cold Pillow (Test)

3.00

Foreign Exchange – Take Off The Blues (Fat Beats)
Jonathan Jeremiah – It Doesn’t Bother Me (Island)
Elan Mehler - New Breed (Brownswood)
The Long Lost – Amiss (Ninja Tune)
Rasmus Faber – Never Figure Out (Victor)
Mocky – Jinti (Crammed Discs)
Hudson Mohawke – Monde (Warp)
General Elektriks - Cottons Of Inertia (Discograph)
Harry Whitaker – Come See Through My Eyes (Smalls)
Doom – Gazillion Ear (Thom York Remix) (Lex)
Dobie – The New Madness (Brownswood)
DOP – Romeo (Blanche Neige)
Martyn – Elden Street (3024)
Manuel Tur – Patchworks (Freerange)
Manuel Tur – Stay (Freerange)
Floating Point – Like This (Eglo)
Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Re-edit) (Tirk)
Phlash & Friends – Do It Up (Archive)
Toddla T – Better (1965) 

Feb 22nd 2009
VTech, Mochilla and ArtDontSleep present

Suite for Ma Dukes : Miguel Atwood- Ferguson & Carlos Nino with a 40-piece orchestra.

James Yancey will be forever be known as J Dilla.  He was born in Detroit. His music was the most revered sound in hiphop from the mid-nineties until today.  He had worked with everyone from Tribe called Quest to Busta Rhymes, De la Soul, Common even Janet Jackson. His two solo albums for BBE records are classics and his Donuts album for Stones Throw is considered genre defining. Donuts, his final album,  was completed during one of his extended hospital stays. Dilla suffered from Lupus. It was released on February 7, his 32nd birthday. Three days later, while at his Los Angeles home with his mother (MaDukes), he passed away.

Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood Ferguson have chosen to pay tribute to Dilla by interpreting his music in a contemporary chamber music style that they been developing.  Their EP “Suite For Ma Dukes” will be released and performed live for the first time.  Very special guests to be announced.

Opening Dj Sets by J.ROCC and House Shoes
Very Special Guests TBA

Sunday, February 1, 2009
7-11pm / All Ages / $32.50

*Tickets Available via WWW.TICKETMASTER. COM

Presented at The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex located on the campus of Cal State University Los Angeles. 5151 State University Drive. Los Angeles. 90032

March 15th 2009
VTech, Mochilla and ArtDontSleep present:
Arthur Verocai with 30 piece orchestra featuring Airto Moreira, Ivan “Mamao” Conti, Jose Bertrami, Carlos Dafe and many more…

Folk-jazz composer/arranger Arthur Verocai was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1945.He has created challenging arrangements and compositions for Brasilian artistsfrom Jorge Ben (Negro é Linda) to Ivan Lins (Agora) to works from Leny Andrade and Gal Costa. Verocai is best known however for his eponymous 1972 album. It is a stunningly innovative effort.  It puts Verocai into a rarified field with the heavy string oriented music of Charles Stepney and David Axelrod. Released in a dark period of Brasilian history, the album fared poorly. Subsequently the album has become an oft sampled highly influential classic - see Ludacriss and Little Brother.

Opening sets by Madlib and Dj Nuts
Very Special Guests TBA

Sunday, February 1, 2009
7-11pm / All Ages / $22.50

*Tickets Available via WWW.TICKETMASTER. COM

Presented at The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex located on the campus of Cal State University Los Angeles. 5151 State University Drive. Los Angeles. 90032

April 5th 2009
VTech, Mochilla and ArtDontSleep present:

The Music of David Axelrod live with 26 piece orchestra.

Born in Los Angeles, David Axelrod defines composer/arranger. He was a Grammy winning producer for Capitol Records in the 1960s and ’70s.  He has recorded everyone from Stan Kenton to Lou Rawls from the Electric Prunes to Cannonball Adderley. David Axelrod has forged a distinctive dramatic musical style.  His music lives and breathes Los Angeles.  His pair of solo albums based on the visionary, mystical poetry of William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience) have influenced so much of hiphop.  His string heavy sound has been sampled by everyone from Dr. Dre (Next Episode) to Lauryn Hill and Lil Wayne (Dr Carter).

Opening sets by J.ROCC
Very Special Guests TBA

Sunday, February 1, 2009
7-11pm / All Ages / $32.50

*Tickets Available via WWW.TICKETMASTER. COM or please call the Luckman box office.

Presented at The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex located on the campus of Cal State University Los Angeles. 5151 State University Drive. Los Angeles. 90032