what's new at mondomedeusah creative:

we have now entered what is known as our "high season". it's spring, the weather is warm, summer is just around the corner and project deadlines must be met. although it is hectic around here, we are still publishing our e-magazine to keep you all in the loop. our main web site has been updated to currently run mondomedeusah {engine 4.2} which will house some great online industry resources. special thanks & a big welcome going out to Nokia USA and Roots Canada. we have recently updated our syndicated rss/xml feeds and we have some new additions:

mondo.syndicated New York Times Fashion feeds and the New York Times Art feeds as well. a cool blog that caught our eye which we have added and encourage you to check out: wristfashion.com

if you are iPod geeks like us, then you must check out Roots on the mondo.portal for some really cool iPod leather cases. iPod your mondo with style. while you are downloading some cool music to your iPod you can now check out our newly added iTunes releases. updated daily as new releases are published, you can stay in the loop with the latest and hottest mixes on our web site. our new releases are powered by mondo and are currently syndicated in the USA, Canada, UK, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and our super big mondomedeusah fans in Spain!

we've been receiving an enormous amount of e-mail from readers who are not too familiar with rss and xml feeds and are unable to subscribe to our feeds. to simplify things, we've converted our syndicated feeds to hyper text mark up language so that everyone can enjoy them. so if you are not technical savvy, no problem, just copy this link into your favorites and check it out weekly to view our new additions. you can even listen to our podcasts from there also. for all you geeks out there who currently subscribe to our feeds via news aggregators, nothing has changed. we hope that everyone can enjoy our podcasts now....feel free to tell a friend and bookmark our mondo feed link: http://www.mondomm.com/mondo.php

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Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 and ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is a lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn development tool focused exclusively on Web development. Inside, you will find everything you need to begin building exciting, dynamic Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0. It provides:

* Visual designers that make creating Web applications easy via an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface

* Powerful code editor with rich functionality such as IntelliSense that makes writing code and HTML faster

* Quickly create data-driven Web applications using the built-in data controls and integrated access to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express

* Support for multiple languages, including Visual Basic, C#, and J#

* Get started using the built-in, fully functional starter kits like the Personal Web Starter Kit

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 are now available! It is now simple to build and deploy sites using the latest technology - read the Go-live license and take your applications into production today.

(1) MSDN Developer Centers

MSDN Developer Centers pull together content and resources around specific products and technologies. They connect you to code samples, community sites, technical articles and documentation, upcoming events, and much more. Each Developer Center gives you a clear road map to understanding and working with your technology of choice.

(2) Move beyond the web to mobile phones, instant messaging, and more...

ColdFusion MX 7 introduces event gateways, a powerful new feature that allows ColdFusion applications to interact with more than just web browsers and web services. Using the same, easy-to-use CFML for creating web applications today, developers can now build gateway applications that interact with a host of other protocols that are common in today's networked world. Developers can create their own gateways or build applications using the several prebuilt gateways available in the product.

Short Message Service

Included in ColdFusion MX 7 is a Short Message Service (SMS) application gateway. SMS is a way to send short text messages to and from wireless devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, and pagers. The Associated Press reported in September 2004 that the world will have almost two billion mobile telephone users by 2006. In China alone, the number of new subscribers is rising by four to five million each month.

While SMS applications can be built today with complex Java on highly customized servers, event gateways allow developers to leverage the productivity of ColdFusion so they can bring applications to this vast new market with unparalleled ease.

ColdFusion SMS applications let end users use cell phones to interact with applications such as the following:

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* Voting, such as popularity voting for reality television shows
* Remote interaction with traditional web applications, such as approving a purchase order when out of the office

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Always Keep Learning

By Alejandro Herryman

Becoming satisfied with your skills and present business position is one of the worst things you can do. If you want your business to grow, you must always keep learning. Always think ahead and be on the lookout for new marketing skills and ideas. Try a new way to market your product or service each month. It doesn't need to be some amazing new technique - just something you've never tried before. You should be advertising with several different methods every day. This advertising should include a few old and proven resources, as well as at least one new method. Never think you don't need to advertise. If you stop advertising, your business will stop growing. Evaluate your advertising efforts and your business every few months. Where are you compared to where you were when you first started or where you were a few months ago? If you're not where you want to be, don't become discouraged! Just learn a new way to promote your business, make some small changes, and then reevaluate. If you are reading this article -you have what it takes to be successful! You are demonstrating that you understand how important it is to keep learning. CONGRATULATIONS!

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{the arts}

mondomedeusah recommends the Bonnefanten Museum - click here


Ongoing and Upcoming International Art Fairs:


European Media Arts Festival (EMAF)/Osnabrueck, Germany/ Apr 20-May 15, 2005

Boston CyberArts /Boston, USA/Apr 22-May 08, 2005

3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005/Icheon, Gwangju, Yeoju, South Korea/Apr 23-Jun 19, 2005

Futuresonic/Manchester, England/Apr 27-May 08, 2005

Europ'Art/Geneva, Switzerland/Apr 27-May 01, 2005

NOVA/Chicago, USA/Apr 28-May 01, 2005

Art Chicago/Chicago, USA/Apr 29-May 02, 2005

The Stray Show/Chicago, USA/Apr 29-May 02, 2005

Glasgow Art Fair/Glasgow, Scotland/Apr 28-May 02, 2005

Fire of Latin: International Latin Festival/Seoul, Korea/Apr 29-May 01, 2005

Art Frankfurt/Frankfurt, Germany/Apr 29-May 2, 2005

Interzum 2005/Cologne, Germany/Apr 29-May 03, 2005

Reconceptualizing the History of the Built Environment in North America/Harvard Design School, Cambridge, MA, USA/Apr 29-Apr 30, 2005

TOAST: Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour/New York, USA/Apr 30-May 02, 2005

ArtO3/Western Australia




The war of art
KEVIN NANCE

The tension has been building for months. The saber-rattling is deafening. The generals are in position, surveying their troops and staring each other down. There are threats and counterthreats, trash talk, cries of dirty pool -- all preparatory to the big rumble.

No, this isn't a military campaign or some pro wrestling smackdown. Welcome, instead, to what might be called the Chicago Art Fair War. In this long-simmering struggle, culminating this weekend, a grizzled veteran, Art Chicago -- once one of the international art market's leading fairs but in recent years embattled and vulnerable -- is being challenged by two competing fairs: Chicago Contemporary & Classic, which has usurped Art Chicago's old home at Navy Pier, and the Nova Young Art Fair, a West Loop upstart focusing on emerging artists.


Petal artwork wins Beck's award
by bbc news

The Oxford-born artist's work, Version 2: Part 1, was praised by judges for being "subtle, poetic and complex".

Her installation is a wooden frame holding two projectors to display video and slide shows of flower petals.

Mackie beat five other artists - Donald Urquhart, Luke Fowler, Ryan Gander, Lali Chetwynd and Daria Martin. Judge and former Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans said her work possessed a "resistance to snap reading" and became richer with each viewing.

Mackie spent her childhood in Canada but moved to London to study at St Martins School of Art and has held a number of solo shows since 2000. The other shortlisted artists also received a share of the £40,000 prize fund.


Street Art Goes Global, Online
Rachel Metz

Not everybody can stroll the streets of Melbourne, Baghdad or Vilnius, Lithuania, looking for street art, but one website lets everybody do so virtually, by bringing international images of spray paintings, stickers, stencils and more to the masses.

Known as the Wooster Collective, the New York City-based site houses an array of graffiti and street art from around the world. Artists and camera-happy passersby send in photos of their works and sightings, and site creators put them up in blog-style postings that ensure the pictures take center stage.

The Wooster Collective is the brainchild of New York City's Marc Schiller and his wife, Sara. When the two moved to Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood in 2001, they started noticing graffiti and street art while walking their dog around the area, Schiller said.

"A few years back, we were blown away that there isn't a block in the area we live, SoHo, the Lower East Side, the East Village, (that) if you look closely isn't exploding with original art that artists are placing on the streets," he said.

In May 2001 they began the site, which documented what they saw and shared it with others. It grew from there, he said. The site, which is updated constantly, now includes many things besides photos of street art and graffiti. There are events, books, podcasts, cell-phone content and pictures and information on street art from around the world.

It's currently garnering about 45,000 to 75,000 visits per day, Schiller said, and its popularity has grown entirely by word of mouth.


Reliable Disappointment: Megan Foster and OUT:Tom Kotik
2005-04-29 until 2005-06-06
Black and White Gallery
Brooklyn, NY, USA United States of America



Brooklyn, NY. Black & White Gallery is proud to present RELIABLE DISAPPOINTMENT (recent paintings) - the second solo exhibition by the New York based artist Megan Foster and OUT (maximum volume) - a site-specific sound installation by a New York based artist Tom Kotik. Megan Foster, in her new body of work, continues to explore the theme of hollow “housescapes”, trying to elicit subtle yet uneasy feelings from the spectator. Tom Kotik continues to explore the dynamics of power and repression, expressed through music, architecture and minimal forms. OUT (maximum volume) - an interactive sculptural installation is a soundproofed minimalist box. By opening the lid of box, a loud torrent of musical sound is unleashed into the gallery space.

Focusing on the American suburban experience, Megan Foster omits the figure from the canvas, leaving vacant interiors to stand out as a sign of something hidden. By depicting parts of households that are familiar to us such as the empty couch, the messy bathroom or the wrecked kitchen one can not help but ask what lies beneath these sunken scenes.

The viewer is forced to fill in the blanks and answer the question: “What exactly is going on here?” Through the paintings the artist makes a journey into the troubled heart of American suburbia via a mix of architecture and design, sterile mediated images and domestically constructed televisual scenes.

The work of Megan Foster raises key contemporary issues such as displacement, abandonment, suburban sprawl. The canvas becomes an arena for hidden lives and secret unacknowledged longings.

Megan Foster is a recent graduate of Columbia University with an MFA degree and a BFA degree from Rhode Island School of Design. She is a recipient of many distinguished awards, including LeRoy Neiman fellowship from LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, G.W. Hodge Ritchie Award for Excellence in Printmaking Division of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, John A. Chironna Endowment Fund Division of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Robert Gore Rifkind Scholarship sponsored by the Pont-Aven School of Art, Los Angeles, California. In 2004 her work was included in the Liverpool Biennial – Independent section and “Domestic Odyssey” at the San Jose Museum of Art.

In OUT (maximum volume), Tom Kotik continues his dialogue with music to emphasize a sense of unleashed repression - the psychological - and its intangibility, something he experiences while playing in his rock and roll band. "We all contain sides of ourselves that long to be revealed, but usually choose the safest appearance. My work explores these tensions between image and desire", Kotik writes in his statement. His work purposefully avoids narrative; it is a powerful combination of absence and highly structured presence.

Tom Kotik is a graduate of Hunter College with a MFA degree in Sculpture (2004) and NYU with a BS degree (1993). Most recently, Tom has exhibited at Miami Museum of Science, Sculpture Center and Socrates Sculpture Park in LIC, NY. Tom is currently a resident at the LMCC studio program, NYC and plays music with his "Mighty High" band.

IMAGE
Megan Foster
Outre, 2004
acrylic on canvas
45x55 inches

{music}

tracklisting show #61 EXCLUSIVE MIX BY STEFANO GHITTONI/ THE DINING ROOMS artist/title/label/lp Felix Laband - Whistling In Tongues - Compost Test Felix Laband - Miss Teardrop - Compost Test Solar Apple Quartet - Do You Love Me Too - Further Out Soil & "Pimp" Sessions - Wheel Within A Wheel - Victor Randy Watson Experience - You Got It Bad Girl - Test EXPERIMENTS IN AMBIENT SOUL A MIXTAPE BY STEFANO GHITTONI/THE DINING ROOMS Serge Gainsbourg - Black March/Instrumental - Universal Marvin Gaye - Main Theme From Trouble Man - Motown The Dining Rooms - Destination Moon - Schema Doug Hammond - Moves - Tribe The Dining Rooms - No Problem/7 Samurai Remix - Schema Johnny Pate - Shaft In Africa - N/A Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street - N/A The Dining Rooms - Diamonds & Conforts - Schema The Roots - Din Da Da - OK Player Serge Gainsbourg - Generique/Instrumental - Universal The Dining Rooms - Tunnel - Schema END OF MIXTAPE Steve Davis - La Lune Blanche - Soul Jazz Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio - Waves Of Infinite Harmony - Ninja Trickski - Hormony - Compost Black 01 Spandau Ballet - Chant No.1/US Remix - Virgin Troubleman - Intergalactic You, Intergalactic Me - Far Out Dancing Djedi - Body Surfin/Tel Me Mo Remix - CDR Jazzconductor - Entertainers - Gamm Enterprises Bossa Futura - Sol Y Luna - Further Out Recloose - Unknown Album Title - Loop CDR END OF SHOW NU World Radio - UK - Basic-Soul.co.uk - guest mix: DJ True - New York, NY - listen # Jeremy Ellis "Bombakiss" - Ubiquity # Stephane A. "Distant Planet" - Neroli # Chris Energy "Untitled Track" (Version 1) - Abstract Fusion # Zap Mama feat. Bahamadia & Lady Alma "Show Me the Way" (Seiji remix) - Giant Step # Domu "Mara Jade" - Diplu # Brian Auger's Oblivion Express "Whenever You're Ready" - RCA # Redd Holt Unlimited "Beware Little Girls of the Cannibals" - Paula # Osibisa "Take Your Trouble - Go" - WB # Manu Dibango "O Boso" - Fiesta # Art Farmer "Soft" (Kaoru Inoue rmx) - Comma # Seregio Mendes & Brasil '77 "Jogo De Roda" (The Circle Game) - A&M

"Where I Been - The Collection"

April 28, 2005 - Canada's infamous lyrical phenomenon - Eternia - introduces The Collection: five years' worth of gems mixed by the talented DJ Law. "Where I Been - The Collection" serves to bring listeners up to speed with Eternia's catalogue and features b-sides, exclusive joints, unreleased tracks, popular singles remixed, mixtape drops, dubplates, overseas collaborations, & more!

Featuring Production by: 9th Wonder, Jake One, Tone Mason, Tough Dumplin' Productions, No Mercy Productions, Arythmetic & more

Featuring Appearances by: Apathy, Cesar Comanche of the Justus League, Freestyle of the Arsonists, MC Collizhun, G-Knight, Classified, Big O from the Show, Daetona & more

listen to the preview now on Eternia.ca aslo check out:


iPod your mondo - New York Fashion Report click here
Eternia(Hip Hop) 'The Streets are watching Toronto' Eternia @ mondo.photo shoot w/ Donald K.
NU World Radio Show - Simon Harrison - Basic-Soul.co.uk: nu collectives: part 1 | part 2 | drum&bass mix part1 | part2
Fateless Flows Collective - genre: electronica/experimental / Los Angeles - iPod your mondo click here
Club Remedy - genre: Soul/House - Paris, France - iPod your mondo click here (also available on Samurai.FM - Tokyo, Japan)

dj jojoflores - Gotsoul Records, Montreal

Thurs. April 28th Therapy Puma House Classics (Jello Bar, Montreal)
Fri. April 29th Globe Supper Club (Montreal)
Sat. April 30th Time Supper Club (Montreal)
Thurs. May 5th, 2nd, 19th Therapy (Jelllo Bar,Montreal)
May 21st – 22nd Ginger, Vancouver (TBC)
May 26th Boston (TBC)
May 29th with Marques Wyatt at Boa (Toronto)

dj jojoflores - April Top 10

1. Nomarema ­ Nkosasana ­ Gotsoul Africa
2. Dave Murray ft Pharoah Sanders ­ Gwotet (Yoruba Soul Mix) - CDR
3. Robert Owens ­ Better With Time (Trackheadz Rmx) - CDR
4. Furry Freaks with Terra Deva ­ All Over The World ­ MISO CDR
5. Blvd. East ­ Love 4 Money - CDR
6. Glenn Underground ­ Man On Fire ­ Eargasm Promo
7. Osunlade ­ New Day (Quentin Harris Remix) ­ Yoruba Promo
8. Thievery Corporation ­ Heart’s the Lonley Hunter ­ ESI Music
9. Arnold Jarvis ­ Take Good Care ­ Sole Channel Promo
10. Henrik Schwarz - Leave My Head (Yoruba Soul) - CDR

May Top 10 2005

1. Roy Ayers – Virgin Ubiquity II – BBE Promo
2. Soul Creation Feat. Kenny Bobien - Thru The Rain - CDR
3. Sting - It's Probably Me (Quentin Harris) - Promo
4. KB - Feelin U (Yoruba Soul) - Promo
5. Thambiswa - Kwanele (Mbuso Remix) - Promo
6. Theo Parrish - Green Pickles - Sound Signature
7. Dave Murray ft Pharoah Sanders Gwotet (Yoruba Soul Mix) - CDR
8. Sydenham & Nordgren - Stockholm GO Bang! - IBADAN
9. Karizma - Da Bangah - CDR
10. Trackheadz (Nick Holder & Kaje) - Album Promo




mondomedeusah Japan Music Review by Nik Weston

Konichiwa kiddies….

Well …..by the time you get to see this page ill be back from my latest expedition to the land of the rising sun having been over to DJ & promote a new Japan only CD compilation called ‘Nu Style’ for the Nuro label. www.nuro.jp that actually isn't out till June ! It’s packed with exclusive tracks or edits never released before all from european artists. Can’t reveal too much as the track listing hasn’t yet been finalized but no doubt they’ll be more news soon in the next edition of the Nippon Nik column. Japan is hotting up with the south of the Island basking in 70 degrees temperature but it seems that the earthquakes are getting more and more common now which gives something for the locals to concern themselves with…. Music wise lots is happening…..

Hajime Yoshizawa the keys man with Kyoto Jazz Massive & Sleepwalker spent two weeks in April/May locked up in a London studio making tracks for a soul type project he’s recording for the Pioneer Label .Infamous characters seen coming out of his studio (actually the studio is actually below my office so it wasn’t exactly celebrity snooping ! ) sighted included Vanessa Freeman ,Chris Franck & Nina Miranda (Da Lata etc), Jason Yarde , Nathan Haines & Face. Ryota Nozaki & his vocalist Aya were also in London recording tracks for not one future album but two (!) on Tokuma. His current long player release for Pantone ‘Samurai’ has had some great reviews Ryota tells me he’s got 60 demos he’s working on at the moment. Blimey said I ! Recently married Aya has an album (that Ryota has a helping hand with)due at some point this year for the Gate label. Pantone also plan to release albums from Japanese artists Jafrosax & Yukihiro Fukutomi in the summer and a Jazztronik single with a S.U.M.O mix is out now along with a Fukutomi single Equality featuring the dolcet tones of Rich Medina in original & Blackbeard mixes with another track ‘Road to Nowhere’ on the flipside.
www.pantonemusic.com

On the mighty Especial Distribution label licensed via Oakum Jazz gets remixed by Louie Vega for his ‘Madrugada’ track. Two remixes and two originals on the 12’’. This should be in those shops (you know the ones! ) by early June. If you have any trouble locating a copy of this (or any other Japanese 12’’ release for that matter ) then email skip@therecordroom.co.uk and see what he finds.

Speaking of Especial, Vanessa Freeman tells me that she will go to Japan in the summer to sing again for a repeat performance of the PLAY KJM party that rocked 2,000 people at YEBISU Garden Place last December. You might have read the piece that Bembe & Vanessa wrote about the gigs in Japan in the last issue of Straight No Chaser Magazine . Jazzysport have been busy and there’s a flurry of 12’s due as I write. Apar from 2 Sa Ra 12’s with instrumentals there’s a couple of DJ Mitsu the beats 12’s –one featuring Roddy Rod & Kev Brown, one 12’’ on PPP 12’’ on P Vine and an album I think through Ki/oon (sub label of Sony )by Breakthrough –an outfit comprised of DSK Invisible,DJ Jin & Masaya Fantasista. The album is chokka bloc full of surprise guests including Bembe Segue,Count Bass D,Bahamadia,Maspyke,DJ Mitsu The Beats,Grap Luva,Mark De Clive Lowe,Jneiro Jarel,Amp Fiddler,Khemet & Pushim. Masaya will be djing at Onward International at Ruby Lo with Tokyo’s Jazzy Sport Stax Groove Dancers on 30th June with a big event in London Cargo on 3rd July. More gigs are planned in Amsterdam etc so maybe check the jazzysport website for more info or email me and I’ll share what I know. One time K Creative & Galliano member and session musician supreme Ski Oakenfull released an album on Pony Cannon in March which is well worth checking out.www.skioakenfull.com. He tells me that at the moment the album is CD only ..Japan only at the moment but he’s talking with a uk label (I thought it could be Dome in the uk perhaps but Peter at Dome claims he’s not heard the album yet… )Its got Amp Fiddler on fine form on several tracks and also Earl Zinger & Valerie Etienne . Personally I think it’s really strong. There’s a big buzz on The Soil & Pimp Horns at the moment .A few lucky people managed to get hold of the first 12’’ and there’s been a flurry of activity lately as UK national Radio Gilles Peterson has just discovered them. Gilles called me with ‘so….er…what do you know about Soil & Pimp then ?’ as he’d never come across them..I gave him the second 12’’ from the band called ‘Pimpmaster’ and he’s been caining it ever since. He loves them describing them as a cross between the Lounge Lizards and Sleepwalker. Some of you may have come across the Izanami 7’’ that featured them on the flipside and well worth searching out.www.therecordroom.co.uk. I haven’t heard Gilles enthusing about a Jazz outfit like this for years and certainly there’s possibly a new Jazz (or Jazz influenced ) movement that seems to be happening not just in Japan with Sleepwalker, Soil & Pimp, Jazztronik, Izanami, Dazai Yuri,Ino Hidefumi & Sunaga T but all over the world…..For all our sakes lets hope so.

Another little 45 which caused quite a little stir which has been and gone is by a new artist from Fukuoka called Ino Hidefumi. He recently released a 45 with ‘Never can Say Goodbye’ flipped by Michael Jackson’s ‘Billy Jean’ but before you pass this by…don’t sleep.Trust me ! Reggae drums kick off for dirty little rhodes instrumentals that really really work. Not exactly peak time fodder but you watch the headz when you drop this baby. Kinda in a Madlib style but in tune ! The label informs me there’s a new 45 from Ino Hidefumi dropping soon. Lastly just received is a funky little 45 from Scoobie Doo with a drum heavy funk version of ‘Tighten Up’. It’s actually really good if you just get through the Japanese vocals and myself & Jazzman Gerald agreed it passed the test (even if it was ‘ just’ ! )It’s taken from the ‘Plus One More’ and the only way I can describe the album is think New Mastersounds +Japanese pop meets Japanese vocals. www.jvcmusic.co.jp/speedstar/

NIK WESTON NIPPON NIK’S MUKATSUKU CHART.

1.Various –Nu Style – Nuro
2.Breakthrough –Breakthrough –Ki/Oon
3.Jazztronik – Madrugada –Louie Vega Mixes – Especial Distribution
4.Jazztronik – Close Journeys – Flower
5.Studio Apartment – Journey –NWR
6.Ski album –Pony Cannon
7.Scoobie Doo – Tighten Up-Speedstar
8.PPP –Stay with me –DJ Mitsu the Beats Remix
9.Sa Ra –tracks…Jazzy Sport
10.Himuki –The Trip - Grooveman Spot Rmx-Trip Planet

as always you should be checking out the radio shows where we drop Japanese pressure each show !
www.milkaudio.com with myself & Mr Nigel Prankster &
nippon speedy express - Samurai.FM with myself & Dom Servini from Wah Wah 45’s
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mondo recommended BABYLON REWOUND & CHRIS JOSS VINYL NOW AVAILABLE

At long last, we now have the limited edition, double 12" remix EP, Babylon Rewound in stock. Culling tracks from their 2002 album, The Richest Man In Babylon, Thievery Corporation, Kid Loco and Manoah rewind the originals to give new interpretations of the songs. Rewound also contains the previously unreleased track 'Truth and Rights' featuring Sleepy Wonder.

Now available in a fine record store near you is the long awaited 12" from Chris Joss, Discotheque Dancing. This 12" contains Ursula 1000's glam rock-stomp version of "Discotheque Dancing" while " Wrong Alley Street (Part 1)"s blaxploitation funk gets reworked by The Fort Knox Five on the B-side.


Thievery Corporation is happy to announce several more live band appearances in Europe this summer. These new dates will see debut performances in Ireland, Scotland, Poland, and the Czech Republic , just to name a few. These will be live band shows complete with live percussionists, bass, guitar/sitar, horn section, a cast of singers and Rob and Eric at the controls.