Botanika FM, 2009 rewind

Spending the very last 2 hours of 2009 together at the 106fm studios, we are happy to present you our annual rewind show. Playing most of the best tunes of the year, the tunes that we loved playing out in our parties, at shesek and of course, here on Botanika FM.
Join us for the live broadcast. Thursday, December 31st at 10 PM, or grab the podcast later – it’s going to be an exhilarating affair – squeezing over 80 tracks into 120 minutes…

Happy new year from your Botanika crew!

Botanika FM 2009 Rewind w/ Nadav Ravid & Amir Egozy in the studio

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Playlist -

Part 1:

1 SaRa Creative Partners. Love Czars // Nuclear Evolution (Ubiquity)
2 The Clonius ft Muhsinah. One at a Time // Adroit Adventures (Ubiquity)
3 Lone. Karen Loves Kate // Ecstasy & Friends (Werk)
4 Instra:mental ft D-Bridge. Watching You (Nonplus)
5 Theophilus London. Cold Pillow // This Charming mixtape (mixtape)
6 J Dilla. Stress – Instrumental (Fat Beats)
7 Raekwon ft Ghostaface Killah & Method Man. New Wu // Only Built for Cuban Linx 2 (Ice H2O)
8 Mos Def ft Slick Rick. Auditorium // The Ecstatic (Downtown)
9 Busy. Bethink // Jay Scarlett & Onur Engin pres Maverick Sessions One (Ubeat)
10 Tranqill. Payroll – Paul White dub (One Handed)
11 Bullion. Young Heartache // Young Heartache (One Handed)
12 Onra. Come Closer – Kicks & Claps edit // 108 (Favorite)
13 Glass C andy. Geto Boys (Italians Do It Better)
14 Fever Ray. When I Grow Up – Dan Lissvik remix (Rabid)
15 Soundspecies ft Ahu. Can We Call It Love // Soundspecies (Burntprogress)
16 Dorian Concept. Tropical Hands // Trilingual Dance Sexperience (Affine)
17 Fulgeance. Sour Socca // Smartbanging (One Handed)
18 NDV. Scorchio // South Bridge (Botanika)
19 Gonja Sufi. Candylane (Warp)
20 Bibio. Jealous of Roses // Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
21 Dam Funk. Hood Pass Intact // Toeachizown (Stones Throw)
22 Floating Points. Love Me Like This (R2)
23 LCD Soundsystem. 45:33 – Lies – Theo Parrish space cadet remix (DFA)
24 Four Tet. Love Cry (Domino)
25 Pepe Bradock. CU @ Minna&Lafayette (Atavisme)
26 Hunee. Rare Silk (WD)
27 Motor City Drum Ensemble. Raw Cuts 5 (MCDE)
28 B.D.I. City & Industry – World Balloon dub (Rushhour)
29 Roska. The Sheppard (Roska Kicks & Snares)
30 Enzyme Black. Oh My Daze (Enzyme Black)
31 Falty DL. To London (Ramp)
32 Zomby. Tarantula // Five Years of Hyperdub (Hyperdub)
33 Martyn. Elden St // Great Lengths (3024)
34 Cooly G. Love Dub (Hyperdub)
35 Florence & the Machine. You Got the Love – The XX remix (Floxx)
36 Karizma. Drumz Nightmare (R2)

Part 2:

37 Altered Natives. Rass Out (Fresh Minute)
38 Deadboy. U Cheated (Well Rounded)
39 Kode 9. Black Sun (Hyperdub)
40 Hard House Band. Sirens (Spoilt Rotten)
41 Apple. Siegalizer (white)
42 Donae’o. Riot Music // Party Hard (My Ish)
43 Zed Bias. To the Leff (cdr)
44 Fuzzy Logic ft Egypt. In the Morning (white)
45 Hot City. Sweat (Ramp)
46 Pearson Sound. Wad (Hessle Audio)
47 Seiji. Hohoho (seiji.co.uk)
48 Efdemin. Acid Bells – Martyn Dark mix (Curle)
49 L-Vis 1990. Compass (Night Slugs)
50 Timberlee. Gunny Gunny – Schlachtofbronx remix (cdr)
51 Diplo & Blaqstarr. Get Off (Mad Decent)
52 Lucy Love. Ten Steps – instrumental (Superbillion)
53 Guido ft Chakra. Beautiful Complication (Punch Drunk)
54 Silkie vs Mizz Beats. Purple Love (Deep Medi)
55 Joker. Digidesign (Hyperdub)
56 Mark Pritchard ft Om’mas Keith. Wind It Up (Hyperdub)
57 Various Productions. Bside (Various Productions)
58 Rustie. Bad Science (Wireblock)
59 Hudson Mohawke. Overnight (Warp)
60 Untold. Stop What You’re Doing – James Blake remix (Hemlock)
61 James Blake. Air & Lack Thereof (Hemlock)
62 Starkey. Miracles – Vex’d remix (Planet Mu)
63 Darkstar. Aidy’s Girl a Computer (Hyperdub)
64 Untold. Dont Know Dont Care (Hemlock)
65 Brackles. Rawkus (Planet Mu)
66 Pangaea. Memories (white)
67 Joy Orbison. Hyph Mngo (Hotflush)
68 Kalbata. Oh Gosh (Botanika)
69 2000F & JKamata. You Dont Know What Love Is (Hyperdub)
70 Zed Bias ft Tawiah. Further Away (cdr)
71 Mayer Hawthorne & the County. Blue Eyed Love – Wajeed remix (Stones Throw)
72 Kylie Auldist – One Goodbye (Tru Thoughts)

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Polar Pair on Burntprogress VA 2.1

Probably already familiar to those of you following closely, CDR/Burntprogress is a unique community based platform, in which producers & musicians share new ideas, works in progress, unreleased songs, remixes & related musical creations – in a public space. Founded by Tony Nwachukwu & Gavin Alexander, it began as a monthly night held at London’s Plastic People, spreading over the years into other venues, cities, festivals & even the Tate Britain, as well as international destinations such as Caracas, Berlin, Paris & Tel-Aviv. Since their first visit to Israel a couple of years ago thanks to Anat Cederbaum, who worked at CDR London, and the British Council’s support, we’ve developed a close-knit relationship with the project, concept & people behind it.

Botanika artists Kalbata & NDV (solo and with Polar Pair), have participated at CDR London events (in person or by mail), while I’ve been coordinating (with Michael Cohen & Ofer Tal), the local Tel Aviv branch of CDR, held approx. 3 times a year at the Shesek lounge. It has drawn in many of our local colleagues, as well as an interesting variety of producers we’ve never met before, and I’ve even done a DJ set, comprised solely of CDR Tel-Aviv material, at the Plastic People homebase back in 08′.

CDR/Burntprogress has also evolved into a sort of independent label, releasing now it’s second compilation, “Burntprogress VA 2.1″. It features Polar Pair’s “I Want Some”, a broken-beat meets B-more club hybrid produced some 3 years ago, alongside tracks by Botanika favorites such as Floating Points, Bullion, Paul White, Soundspecies, Mr Beatnik, Tom Trago, Simbad & Titonton. Check it out as via Soundcloud here, and purchase here.

VA2.1 MIXTAPE by burntprogress

Next CDR Tel-Aviv will take place on Sunday, 31.1.09 (the day after Tu Bishvat), at the Shesek lounge. Lilienblum 17, Tel Aviv. Submit your tracks by 11PM.

RashamKol 75, 25.12.09

2nd part (or 3rd, depends where you count from) of my 2009 round up, focusing on some personal favorite club sounds form the year, around the house, techno, UK funky/garage axis. Sadly left out which require a notable mention: Jus Ed, Moodymann, Cooly G, Andy Stott, and… dubstep.

Full Hebrew text @ Walla! Culture

Codebreaker ft Kathy Diamond – Fire (Jimmy Edgar remix) // Disco Demolition
Phlash & Friends ft Om’Mas Keith – Do It Up // Archive
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #5 // MCDE
Four Tet – Love Cry // Domino
Culoe De Song – The Bright Forest // Innervisions
Roska – The Sheppard // Roska Kicks & Snares
Enzyme Black – Oh My Daze // Enzyme Black
Claude Von Stroke – Aundy // Dirty Bird
Karizma – Drumz Nightmare // R2
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts – Safety Meetings // Musique Risque
Dop – Mambo Jumbo // Supplement Facts
Rebolledo – Amigos Comeme // Comeme
Sideshow ft Paul St Hilaire – If Alone (Chateau Flight dub) // Aus
DJ Koze – Mrs Bojangles // Circus Company
Redshape – Dead Space Mix // Delsin
Howie B vs Casino Royale – Royale Sound (Ramadanman refix) // Howie’s
Cobblestone Jazz – Traffic Jam // Wagon Repair
Moderat – Seamonkey // Bpitch Control
Zinc – Submarines // Bingo Bass
Martyn – Elden St. // 3024
Kode 9 – Black Sun // Hyperdub
Hot City – Sweat // Ramp
Pearson Sound – Wad // Hessle Audio
Subeena – Analyse // Planet Mu
Instra:Mental – Leave It All Behind // Apple Pips
Zomby – Tarantula // Hyperdub
Falty DL –  To London // Ramp

Artwork by Michael Steele

Botanika FM 24.12.09

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selected, played and recorded live to HD by NDV. Holidays Special
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1 Build An Ark - World Peace Now // Love Part 1 (Kindered Spirits‚
2 Al Kent - Mint Minus // Secret Sounds (BBE)
3 Unknown - Higher (Editnot) // Divine Edits (promo)
4 Rotary Connection - Christmas (Love Chess)
5 Shawn Lee - I’ll be Fucking You This Christamas (We Love You)
6 The Detroit Experiment - Highest (Ropeadope)
7 fLako x Noir - Milky Way // Pearls (Kwatro)
8 Dizz1 - Somewhat // 3rd Time Lucky EP (Kinderes Spirits)
9 Mike Slott - Sun Tan // Lucky 9teen (Lucky Me)
10 Hot Coins - Christmas Day (Untracked)
11 Shlohmo - Couch // Shlo-Fi EP (Error-Broadcast)
12 Doris - Did You Give the World Some Love Today Baby (EMI)
13 Flevans - Hold On (Hint Rmx) // The 28th Devil (Tru Thoughts)
14 Mr Scruff - Fresh Noodles (Prime Numbers)
15 Linkwood & House of Traps - Barely Eagle (FireCracker)
16 Mike 2600 - Now Here’s A Funky Beat // Ready To Rock (Crossfaded Bacon)
17 Chase & Status feat Kano - Against All Odds (Ram)
18 Yam Who? - Flunky Gone Punky (We Are Ready) // You Don’t Care About Our Love (Here & Now)
19 Chaz Jankel-  Feel Alone // My Occupation (P Vine / Tirk)
20 Missing Linkx - A Short History Of… (Philpot)
21 Busta Rhymes Feat Swizz Beats - New York Shit (Excerpt)
22 Guillaume & THE Coutu Dumonts - Safety Meetings//  The Pussy Shepherd (Musique Risquee)
23 Hunee - Rare Silk // Tour De Force EP (WT)
24 Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo (Andreas Saag’s house perspective) (Promo)
25 Bajka - The Only Religion That I Believe (Jazzman)

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New Kalbata DJ Mix

To celebrate his (& our) new release on Botanika records, Kalbata has stitched together a special and exclusive DJ mix for Bass Music Blog – home for Baobinga, TRG, Reso, Mumdance and others. The mix starts off inna Miami Bass/early electro vibe and then goes thru UK garage (old & new), dubstep and all manners of dark & heavy stuff with some serious tribal-ness through-out, featuring both tracks off the new release, as well as his forthcoming remixes for Jahcoozi & Al Haca. Needless to say, it’s super dope and kicks ass.

Check out the 50 mins mix and read the in depth interview right here.

“Oh Gosh”, Kalbata’s debut release for Botanika records, is out now on vinyl, available in all good records shops (Juno, Chemical, Boomkat, Phonica etc’).

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