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Best of Spring Summer 09

The heavyweights, the essentials, the straight up anthems from the year so far as regards to strictly soulful runnings, as far as I,,m concerned anyway. Love and light. Yameen feat Lady Alma ,,Li...

Bopstar live - the matchbox meeting

As I posted here, http://www.bopstar.tv/blog/category/the-show/ , Zara and I had a good ol’ natter the other day about going out and doing ‘Captured’, ‘Desire’, Chiaroscuro’ (etc) live, PA style at fi...

Shook Mag Issue 4 is a LOT!!!

You need this. Honestly, just trust me and get it. It is a flippin thing of beauty! And the articles are deep, deep, and dope! 74 pages of heat. This one is a classic. I'm reppin the fam with a half p...

New Bopstar mix cd for the holidays

There's a new Bopstar mix cd, strictly limited 100 copies, but also going out on Soul Heaven radio, and as I've been doing all Summer, it's available as a special gift for all the podcast subscribers ...

The Phlash & Friends radio session

(BTW I dont always post up on myspace, so if u want the latest episodes bang up to date, best to doublecheck www.bopstar.tv/blog each week)This sunday Phil Asher and the family dropped in on the show,...
 

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Steve Blackwax might attend bopstar's event16 hours ago
July 23, 2009 at 9pm to July 24, 2009 at 3am
Out Of This World a brand new monthly soulful house adventure brought to you by restless soul's Bopstar and Jose Carretas in association with Shook Magazine Launches July 23 At Centro (formerly AKA) 18 West Central Street WC1A 1JJ We have a num...
3 events by Mashi aka MdCL were featuredJune 20
3 events by Need2Soul were featuredJune 20
An event by Kev Luckhurst was featuredJune 20
June 27, 2009 at 9pm to June 28, 2009 at 1am
Mr Bongo Soundsystem are pround be hosting the launch of Domu's "One Offs Remixes and B-Sides" album on Sat 27th June at the Marketplace London. Domu is one of the best Djs, Producers and Remixers around in the UK... and a Radio 1 Extra DJ, found...
bopstar updated their profile photoJune 16
2 events by bopstar were featuredJune 16
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An event by ParkLive Fest was featuredJune 5
ParkLive Fest 09 at The cycling track (Kolodruma)
June 18, 2009 to June 20, 2009
The most anticipated open-air event this summer: Tricky, Roots Manuva, Lamb, Gilles Peterson, Future Sound of London, Little Dragon, Luke Vibert, Plaid, 4hero, DJ Lord, Pilooski, Crazy P Soundsystem, Michael Ruetten, Noze, The Karandila Orchestra,...

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Bopstar, emergent DJ/Producer/Composer and now Soul Heaven recording artist, came up under the twin wings of Phil Asher (restless soul) and Afronaut (Bugz In The Attic). His first ever single 'Octavia', a slice of sci-fi soul, was picked up by Phil for the restless soul label in 2007, and remixed for Co-op, the label arm of the legendary club, where it gained minor anthem status. The next Bopstar track, 'Chiaroscuro', was championed by Benji B on his BBC 1xtra show, and came out on Unique Uncut's Basement Soul compilation.

Also in 2007, Bop started the club night Patterns with Simbad, Kay Suzuki, and Afronaut, which in just a handful of sessions played host to Zansika, Phil Asher, Benji B, Marc Mac (4Hero), Mark De Clive Lowe, Bembe Segue, Domu, Bugz In The Attic, Fanatix, Ear Dis, Danny Native, and Jazzanova. Along with Afronaut, he also set up the Coopr8 website, on outgrowth of the club, and the whole global scene.

In 2008 Bopstar joined Deja Vu FM (www.vulive.co.uk) for a Sunday night radio show, playing mostly house, a touch of broken beat, a few classics, and the occasional slower joint.

With dubplates galore, and a proven record of smashing it on any dancefloor Bop's dj bookings have gone quickly from just a couple of self initiated gigs in 2007 to playing for numerous promoters and club nights in any month.

As we move into 2009, he has delivered one of the hottest remixes around, that of Perempay N Dee 'In The Air', and, his next single 'Captured' (with restless soul remixes) is due soon on Soul Heaven records. Add to that the forthcoming remix of Small Arms Fiya ft Pete Simpson, the next two Bopstar singles already completed, a slew of unofficial remixes and re-edits, and his contribution of a bonus track to the Phlash & Friends album, and he's still only getting warmed up.

Don't sleep on Bopstar in 2009.
Website:
http://www.bopstar.tv/blog
Influences:
kodwo eshun 'more brilliant than the sun: adventures in sonic fiction'

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mike ladd, mf doom, madlib, ammoncontact, d'angelo, bilal, omar...

stevie wonder, john and alice coltrane, pharaoh sanders, meshell ndegeocello, quite sane, m-base, vijay iyer, robert mitchell, jason yarde, eska mtungwazi, marcina arnold, doug and jean carn...

matthew herbert, moondog, shigeru umebayashi, asa chang, bjork, john cage, david sylvian, anthony braxton, kodwo eshun, steven shaviro, michel chion, wassily kandinsky, michel serres, marshall mcluhan, cornelius cardew, derek bailey, vilem flusser, david toop...

wong kar wai, SEIJUN SUZUKI, jim jarmusch, spike lee, kurosawa, kubrick, bergman, the coens, kieslowski, lynch, gilliam, len lye, oskar fischinger, norman mclaren, james and john whitney...

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Bopstar live - the matchbox meeting


As I posted here, http://www.bopstar.tv/blog/category/the-show/ , Zara and I had a good ol’ natter the other day about going out and doing ‘Captured’, ‘Desire’, Chiaroscuro’ (etc) live, PA style at first, with a view to doing tri… Continue

Posted on February 22, 2009 at 2:32pm —

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BOPSTAR WITH SPECIAL GUEST PHIL ASHER THIS SUNDAY

Most people on this network will be well aware of the Phlash n Friends LP about to drop - from Phil Asher, aka Phlash, and a rollcall of friends including Rich Medina, Afronaut, Lady Alma, Dego, Zed Bias, Benji B, Ommas Keith, Mark De Clive Lowe, Shea Soul, Zansika, Fyza, myself, and a fair few more collaborators still!

Well, this Sunday 8PM GMT Phlash is gonna come thru the Bopstar radio show on www.vulive.co.uk , with a special preview selection from the… Continue

Posted on October 9, 2008 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

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Shook mag issue 3 and website

I was over at Shook HQ last week, got a sneek peak at issue 3, the biggest yet, the team have outdone themselves. Some massive articles! Plus, the website is launching, www.shook.fm, (you can download pdfs of the back issues, I notice the new articles aren't up there as of yet) AND there's some sick limited edition tees featuring that artwork by M@T from the last issue where Max Roach is playing an MPC. Shook comin up strong, get your orders in!

Posted on August 18, 2008 at 5:46pm — 1 Comment

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Mark de Clive Lowe on the radio this Sunday 8pm vulive.co.uk

Mashi joins me on the radio tomorrow at 8pm, he'll be having a chat and playing some tunes, including airing some new stuff.
If you got a question for him, hit me up here, or tx 0750 421 5064
Listen at www.vulive.co.uk or on fm

Posted on August 2, 2008 at 12:53pm — 1 Comment

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Releases are not Events

Cha! Overzealous marketing needs to go elsewhere. An event means a thing in a physical location that people can attend (I'm not interested in arguing the philosophical point). A record release isn't an event. People need to treat this site in a way thats friendly to the community that they themselves are apart of. It's not a straight up marketing opportunity. Okay, so, if we need a way to better support promoting releases, let's talk about that, but straight up, we don't want to see releases pos… Continue

Posted on June 6, 2008 at 6:13pm — 3 Comments

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At 4:29am on May 30, 2009, Digital Atlanta said…
At 5:59pm on January 28, 2009, nS2 / Nick Stenning said…
Thanks for playing the tune "i don t know why" -
ns2 vs leroy - jones 7 - treble O . I m behind that one.....N
At 3:45pm on January 9, 2009, Yungun said…
Ha ha! Time for something new eh?! Soon come for sure...
At 12:53am on December 18, 2008, Afro Naut said…
Nice mix for the stocking bro - like the new tracks too, sounding dope. remember the ads ;)
At 1:04am on December 4, 2008, richio suzuki said…
see u nye at east village
richio
ps if u on facebook find me richio suzuki please
and myspace
cheers
At 2:43am on December 1, 2008, Iman said…
You're so welcome! More to come later :-)

-Iman
At 1:11pm on November 20, 2008, Steve Austin said…
Boper's are you ignoring me or something dude. I hit you a few times in regards to advertising new releases on Coopr8 and I have had no reply. Please let me know asap please.

Many thanks
At 3:12am on October 28, 2008, Zane Tate said…
Thanks Bop! Let me know what you think. The album really is amazing...
At 1:52pm on October 23, 2008, Claire Simone said…
Thanks for the add, only just hooked up on here, looking forward to browsing round !

Claire
At 10:50pm on October 3, 2008, Marcia Carr, the DJ said…
It was nice to see you at Soul Mates last night!

Blessings and love from a soulsistah inna LDN
x0x
 
 

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