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Earlier this week, I managed to reconnect with a friend in Spain who I lived with as an exchange student 10 years ago.   We got to reminiscing about the trip, and later on I happened to remember an art print that I bought at the Prado.  It was “Saturn Devouring his Child” by Goya.  For some reason, the painting resonated with me at the time.  Instinct says that as a 16 year old high school student, it was probably just because it was a dude eating a kid, but I like to think that I was a bit more refined than that.   It just so happens that the painting is still resonating really hardcore right now. Anyhow, by some happy coincidence, pop surrealist Luke Chueh has remixed the Goya painting into his trademark style for his new show, “From Light Cometh Darkness” out in LA. Chueh has long been one of my favorite contemporary artists so to see him take on, and do justice to, a classic like this warms my cockles.  I’m not gonna be able to get out to LA to see this stuff, so hopefully they’ll have prints available.  Superb blog Arrested Motion has more preview pics.

Closer to home, worth checking out are Elger Esser @ Sonnabend, Yoshitomo Nara @ Marianne Boesky, and Myoung Ho Lee @ Yossi Milo.

Great piece of music right here.  Jimi Tenor’s a Finnish musician with a rather extensive discography.  For his 18th [jeez] album, he teams up with German afrobeaters Kabu Kabu to churn out a hell of a release.  Jimi’s got a very distinctive, whiny voice that somehow doesn’t get annoying. Grind! is a particularly killer cut that’s an early favorite for me. The album’s yet another disconcerting instance of German’s droping the funkiest of the funky.  But hey, whatever works.

Check out jimi’s track-by-track breakdown at his site (note that he plays the sax, flute, string machine, synth, noise box, and organ on the album) then download it at amazon.

Thanks again to Billy and Al over at undulate recordings for having me on.  Here’s a tracklist and download link.

Tracklist:
1. The Foreign Exchange – Daykeeper
2. Freddie Cruger – Keep on Knockin
3. Nicole Willis – Blues Downtown
4. The Bamboos – Move On
5. The Sweet Vandals – Nites Lites
6. WAR – The World is a Ghetto
7. Lee Sankey – The Man (Abstrakt Knights rmx)
8. Jon Kennedy – 110%
9. DJ Day – Manha
10. Lizzie Parks – Ode to St. Cecile
11. The Natural Yogurt Band – Chapter One
12. Luniz – I Got Five On It
13. Hardkandy – My Morphine
14. The Ranjahs ft. CeeLo- InspHERation
15. Aldo Vanucci – What Would I Do (JP’s Edit)

download it here

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I prepared a special guest mix for di.FM’s Exposure NYC radio show that will be airing tomorrow, March 3rd, at 2PM.  It’s an hour of old and new deep funk and mellow soul with some other choice downtempo goodies throw in.  Big shout to DeepSpell for giving me the opportunity.

More details available at  http://www.di.fm/exposurenyc/

Tracklist coming tomorrow.

Technorati Tags: dj mix, di.fm, downtempo, funk, soul