Saturday night OSC-001 and myself are going to be repping the Cold Crush Wreckin’ Cru on support duties for none other than West Coast king Egyptian Lover along with Detroit pervert Jimmy Edgar, who are playing at the Civic Hotel. Me and OSC are both abso-fucking-lutely pumped!

Check out Cold Crush for more info on both nights, see you on the floor there Sydney cats

Cold Crush flyer hand drawn by my baaaad self! (Cold Crush logo by the man Crazy Kade) | Cold Crush event page on Facebook

Egyptian Lover + Jimmy Edgar event page on Facebook

Zapp & Roger – More Bounce To The Ounce

B-Boys B-Ware… Cold Crush is the electro funk driving ya’ll crazy and it is back this Friday night at 202 boogie down Broadway. We got Melbourne mix master Hysteric, the Cold Crush Mob — that’s me, OSC-001 and Simon Caldwell, and special guest, boogie king Sage One. We are gonna have asses shaking and bodies poppin’ and lockin’ from 9pm till late. We got more bounce to the ounce baby!

I just did an interview with Hysteric last night, and posted a fresh electro mix from him for Cold Crushin’ Mixes. Dude has been collecting records and doing his thang for many years now, so it’s a pretty cool interview for anybody into electro or record collecting… check it out over at Cold Crush.

I also just wrote an article for Cold Crush on punk pioneer and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who you may not know also recorded a couple of very cool old school hip hop records. Check it out the Buffalo Gals video clip, it is amazing… featuring bboying by the Rocksteady Crew but what is really incredible is the rare footage of all time graffiti style king Dondi White painting a public style burner reading Buffalo Gals in his trademark funked out style. Dudes letters are untouchable to this day, Style Master General is the word!

Anyway, see ya’ll Sydney cats Friday night, i’ve been pretty busy with some other stuff but i’m working on some stuff for this site too so i’ll hopefully get around to a few posts this week. I’ve got a new mix on the way too for Cold Crushin’ Mixes so stay tuned!

Zapp & Roger – More Bounce To The Ounce

Newcleus – Destination Earth

Got some sad news today that Chilly B, from New York old school rap crew Newcleus died yesterday of a stroke, at only age 47. It’s sad news for all electro funk and old school hip hop fans, Newcleus had some really huge hits in the early 80s…classic old tracks like Jam On It, and Jam On Revenge, I Wanna Be a B-Boy, Computer Age and I Am Not a Robot.

I’ve picked one of their lesser known tracks, from their first album Jam On Revenge, released in 1984. It’s much deeper and darker than most of the electro of its time, with live bass guitar (played by Chilly B), beautiful dark strings and arpeggio synth lines over a heavy drum track. It’s atmospheric and a little melancholy, and really I think it sounds more like the electro being produced in the last few years as opposed to something that’s nearly 30 years old now. A real future jam.

RIP Chilly B, my thoughts to your family and the rest of Newcleus.

For a better look at the history of Newcleus (and one of their classic party jams to listen to) check out this article over at Cold Crush: Chilly B of Newcleus: A Tribute

Ps, there are a whole stack of Newcleus albums for sale at the official Jam On Productions online store. Check it out because by buying from there you are supporting the artists directly so go on and show a little love!

Newcleus – Destination Earth

Nancy Fortune – First Operation

Happy birthday et joyeax anniversaire Nancy Fortune!

For the unaware, Nancy is a French electro singer and producer, who happened to make my favourite record on The Hague electro/disco label Viewlexx; The Secret Life of Nancy Fortune. I paid a small fortune for the 12″, a few years before it was repressed along with several other rare Viewlexx records, and it’s not left my record box once since.

I don’t think there is a single bad record on Viewlexx, but this one particularly stands out to me…unusual (and heavy) drums and rhythm patterns with dark dark but hauntingly beautiful synthesizer-lines, with vocals to match — Nancy has a great voice but the vocals on this record are something else; they have a real other-wordly quality, strong female vocals but with a ghostly edge which i’ve often heard described as if they were recorded under water. But instead of sounding horrible and overproduced like it could have easily done, it compliments Nancy’s unique voice and music.

I always thought the music was written by I-F and the vocals by Nancy, the beats certainly have a bit of an I-F sound, but I found out later that the tracks are credited as being written and produced by Nancy herself, and engineered by S-Y-D from Clermont-Ferrand, though I wouldn’t be surprised if I-F did play at least some part in the production.

Since the 12″ was repressed, you can probably pick up a copy for a reasonable price, though it’s sold out over at Clone. They do however have available the record she recently did with my homeboy from The Hague Mr. Pauli, a classic industrial edged disco funk/track where Nancy did vocals back and forth with Fred Ventura. The other tracks are banging too, so check it out here: Mr. Pauli – Jap Fab.

First Operation also appeared on Nancy’s recent album Crystallised, which was originally meant to be an LP on Viewlexx sublabel Holographic, but was unfortunately released as digital download only for now (though i’m hoping that Viewlexx or Clone might press it to vinyl *cough* do it).

You can buy the album from iTunes, and definitely should — every track on it is amazing (My highlights would be the last track Walking which is just beautiful, it really blew my mind, along with Coeur Synthetique and another old favourite Holographic Voice with I-F).

Nancy Fortune – Crystallised

Nancy Fortune – First Operation

Electro Mix: RETALI8 – A Long Way To Heaven

01. RETALI8 – A Long Way From Heaven (Intro)
02. Giorgio Moroder – Liebes-Arie (Love Song)
03. Novamen – Try to be a Novaman
04. Carl A. Finlow – Anomaly [Device]
05. Anthony Rother – God of the Gods
06. Luke Eargoggle – Nya Regler
07. Franck Sarrio – Skyscraper
08. Silicon Scally – Magnified
09. Johannes Heil – Brotherhood of Snakes
10. Los Hombres Nova – El Corredor De Las Dunas
11. Luke Eargoggle – Worship Services
12. I-F – Theme from Murdercapital
13. Legowelt – Berlin Ostbahnhof
14. Novamen – There’s No Escaping
15. Luke Eargoggle – Japanese Whisky
16. Rude 66 – Machine
17. Dexter – I Program

A deep and melodic electro funk trip. Perfect for late night driving and chillout hours. As heard on the Cybernetic Broadcasting Systems

More mixes coming soon!!!

Yo! Welcome to RETALI8 STILL KILLS THE OLD WAY.

You might have read some of my articles over at Cold Crush by now, where I write about electro funk & old school rap music, and graffiti.

This is my new personal blog where I will write about music that doesn’t fit in with the Cold Crush sound – from minimal wave, electro and ebm to hip hop, rock, new wave and even classical. As you will soon discover my musical tastes are broad and usually pretty obscure. Not to mention more on graffiti, design, fashion photography, beer, and whatever else I feel like writing about.

Enjoy!

RETALI8 MF ONE