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Jan25

VTech Presents The Strange and Wonderful World of DJ Nu-Mark and the Release of “Take Me With You” (Video)

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VTech released a 20 minute snippet just before Christmas of DJ Nu-Mark’s Take Me With You mix. The mix is now available and is garnering rave reviews from other DJs and consumers alike.

Take Me With You for the win! Beautiful mix. – Rich Medina

“Nu-Mark is a genius. Incomparable style and skill to rock and teach simultaneously. Take Me With You is sublime; sugar for the ears.” – Garth Trinidad

“Nu-Mark is king, breaking aren’t just beats that go Boom Clap, they can go Racka-tack too!!!” – Quantic

Eric Coleman and Mike Park from Mochilla visited Nu-Mark in his North Hollywood studio to see what exactly makes the man tick. The answers are a little different …

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Dec08

A Decade of Mochilla (Part One) Mixed by Coleman (MP3)

VTech is proud to present, A Decade of Mochilla, an epic mixture, spanning Mochilla’s 10 Years Mixed into on mixture and shared with you in two parts.  This is part one…

Mochilla is really more than ten years old.   It was 1998 when Coleman and I explained to our Mexican producer on the set of the Control Machete video for lleso that we would only shoot with the equipment that fit in our backpack. It was a Jansport (for clarity!). He replied…”Oh ok, you guys are the Mochila guys, Mochileros.” Of course we loved the word mochilla (the Spanish for backpack) but apparently didn’t know how to spell it thus the two Ls!

In 2001 we released our first project commercially under that name. Keepintime was a photo-essay that …

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Jul30

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson : “Celebrate Tradition” Interview (Video)

Here are some of my shorthand notes based around a conversation I had with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson at his apartment in July 2010.  all of the quotes are not verbatim and are simply some of his thoughts jotted down by me. When I arrived at his home for our interview, the front door was ajar, “It’s actually perfect timing. I’ve been on the phone all day, booking rehearsals.” He admits once I walk inside, “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran grabs my eye on top of a stack of books, across from hundreds of CDs neatly lined against the wall. Framed posters of past masters frame the musical instruments in the living room, which has a shrine in the center.

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Jun04

Rapper Big Pooh and Roc ‘C’ – Young Americans Mixtape (MP3)

@RapperBigPooh : whatever happened to Czar Nok? they had that one jam, “Pimp Tight”

Wow, I so remember finding that instrumental in a box full of promo cds and random vinyl at Record Surplus. Speaking of records, Rapper Big Pooh has a new mixtape with Oxnard’s own Roc “C” : The Young Americans – The Audition. Courtesy of VTech, with production from Khrysis, Dj Khalil, Hezekiah and more. Make sure you bump “Purple Tape” if you missed the screening of Purple Rain at Hollywood Forever this weekend. …MORE

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May27

VTech and Mochilla Present – Mulatu Astatke Slide Show (Video)

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“Ene Alantchi Alnorem (I Can’t Live Without You)”

It is sometimes easy to forget that Timeless is the brainchild of two photographers and a promoter.  But for those lucky enough to see the shows live, there was always photographs there to remind you.  For Verocai, we had an amazing slide show of a recent trip to the North East of Brasil, Suite for Ma Dukes was presented complete with a tough look at Dilla’s Detroit and of course Mulatu’s show was resplendent with a slide show of Ethiopian photographs.

In 2004, Miles Cleret of Soundway Records, Will “Quantic” Holland and B+ spent three weeks in Ethiopia. The plan was to meet Mulatu and dig for records. B+ shot some 120 rolls of …

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