Tribute to the 8-bit music scene.

Today I listening the original .ay format music - collection from all times ZX Spectrum games and demos. Made about 30 years ago that music is so naive and emotional, despite its antic hardware and software base. Made with soul in every step in each 4 channel. Just listen to few I have encoded into mp3 for you:

Ginnjah top 10 jungle mix renewed!

And available for listening and download in better mp3 quality.

Kone 2008 JUNE chart

————— Minimal —————

Richard Bartz - Voyager (Gigolo)
Amazing deep house minimal. Great spinning against each other loops.

Mihalis Safras - Interamerica/Interafrica (Trapez Ltd)
Interamerica is this summer replic to Samim’s Heater (Join the Heaterhaterclub btw:), great balkan-flawa-groover, while Interafrica is in same vain with deeper mood, less hit, more practical. For those who like non-electronic sound in minimal.

Martin Buttrich - Cruise Control/Stoned Autopilot (Planet E)
Two masterpieces from maestro Buttrich. Real music, keeping your attention from the first beat till the last.

Holger Zilske - The Bees (Playhouse)
Holger in his style, great serious track. Nice design by Zagga.

Stephan Bodzin - Station 72/Bremen-Ost (Herzblut)
Stephan surprise us with two experimental tracks, Station 72 is light and transparent trancy voyage, going around two sincopated notes, Breamen-Ost more dark and deep. As always, his sound is 200% warm and you need to listen it from vinyl on loud sound system to understand how beautiful and unexpected both tracks are.  This is something other producers will try to copy during next year.

D’ Julz - Yo Momo (Shinedoe remix) (Intacto)
Miss Shinedoe from Amsterdam brings very soft sounding dub-like ambient house. Groovy and feminine.

Palzer & Zigon - Quid Pro Quo (Puzzle Traxx)
More deepness, more house. More sounds which slowly make you getting higher.

Richard Bartz - Buffalo Bill (unreleased)
You got to check it. This sound will blow your mind. Waiting to vinyl press.

Basicnoise - Civarga (Minimal And Melodies Music)
Basicnoise - Etheria (Minimal And Melodies Music)
Great new producer with his first digital EP. Great deep dub techno, yet very original. Watch out!

Mauro Picotto - Flashing (Alchemy)
Italian flawa here. Alittle pop, a lot of energy. Nice.

Isidoros - Martingala (Heartbeat Revolutions)
Title Martingala sounds Latvian, but track is not. Pity. I would be proud. A little pop too.

Chab & Jd Davis - Get High (The Club Science dub) (Clarisse) digital
Great deep house with touch of trance.

————— Nu’ Jazz —————

Gerardo Frisina - Donke De, African Nite Life, Batucadas (feat Mitoka Samba) (Schema)
Gerardo, our jazzman in Italy, never release a bad track, I play a lot of his previous material from Schema and Afro Art, and theese 3 tracks are all to be includet to my sets. Less house comparing to his previous works, beautiful, very danceable funky latino sincopated jazz.

Quarteto Magritte - Malanotte (Afro Art)
Great track, people love it, people dance to it. Released about a year ago, happy to have nice 7″ press.

Janko Nilovic - Last Impressions: The Originals (Vadim Music) (2xLP)
Best tracks: Atchika Boum, Para Papaya, Sunder Fire, Hand In Hand, Blows & Rhytthms, Soul Impression, Hommage A Pele, Week-End A Chelsea, Funky Village, Le Vent Dans Les Algues, To & Fro.

28/06/08 Keep Rising Party @ Rollbar (A.Sakses 19a)

28/06/2008 Keep Rising Party @ Rollbar 21:00
Dj/Selecta: GNZ, KONE (Varka), + Spec.Guest
sunset: 22:21, sunrise: 4:33, entry free, more info + map www.rollbar.lv

Strawberry Party: GNZ & FoTu > 20 June 2008

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In The Groove @ Rollbar > 13 June 2008

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Jungle Top 10 - June `08

Big Up All Massive! I m going to play Jungle set in Tallinn next Saturday 14/06/08. The event promoters asked me to give my current Jungle Top 10 and some link to my mix. Few days later i decided to select my top 10 and mix it. So this is the mix and top 10 in same peace. Enjoy! gnz a.k.a. Ginnjah
Download mix 256kbs mp3 

Check out new venue: Rollbar

Free Yourself

Hi friends, this Friday you can enjoy nice music in brand new bar near Kishezers, Rollbar.
Address: Sakses 19A, Riga. (_Map_).

I will start at 8pm with Reggae, than will move into Nu’Jazz, Funky Breaks, Latino, and later to the modern Afro-Minimal and Tech-House. This ’shedule’ is only a plan, and we can change it together. Smart requests appreciated! Yours, dj Kone

20:00-05:00

www.rollbar.lv
kone.varka.org
www.myspace.com/kone007

Kone 2008 MAY chart

———– minimal/tech-house ————

Johnny D - Orbitalife (Oslo)
Sophistication meets simplicity. Great groove, soft a-la-house sound, a bit of vocal. C U on the Orbit. And please, let me play till the end!

Dusty Kid - Luna (Bpitch Control)
Melody maker Dusty Kid rocks here on a smooth vibe. Easy!

Robert Babicz - Dark Flower (Joris Voorn rmx) (Audiomatique)
Gonna be a big hit this summer, will suffer from being over-played… Who cares, its outstanding beauty touches anybody. Can’t get out of your head? Mine too.

Dub Taylor - Frogface (Alpaca)
Little track #3 on this first Alpaca release, numbered copy, simple airy melody, nice easy groove.

Joris Voorn - Blank (Green)
Joris Voorn, my Dutch ‘warm/voorm’ hero this month, with best track from his 2006 album, still sounds fresh, one more melodic monster.

Cabal - Jevlove (Subtronic Records)

Yankee Zulu - Good For You (Worthy’s Bleeper Rise rmx) (Katabatic Records)

Johnny D - Tramodysee (Oslo)
Hypnotizing.

———– nu jazz/funk/latino ————

Al Escobar - Tighten Up (Jazzman)
Tito Puente - Hit The Bongo (Jazzman)
Mongo Santamaria - Mambomongo (Jazzman)
The Latinaires - Camel Walk (Jazzman)
Chollo Rivera & The Latin Soul Drives - I Got The Feeling (Jazzman)
Tito Puente - Black Brothers (Jazzman)

Skeewiff - Delta Dawn (The Orphans EP) (Jalapeno)
Skeewiff - Saville Row (The Orphans EP) (Jalapeno)
Skeewiff - Tico Tico (The Orphans EP) (Jalapeno)

Jimmy Edgar (Detroit) @ Singalong 2 Year Anniversary >> 30 May

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