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80s selection for Alternative week on Deja

As part of Deja Vu's alternative week, I dropped an 80s foundation selection on Sunday: House and pre-house, spanning '80 to '89Hour 1 was all about the ladies, hour 2 was all about the fellas.Kickin ...

Good idea Simbad: June Chart

Bopstaz' June Chart(as heard on vulive.co.uk Sundays 8pm GMT)Erykah Badu Seji mixRestless Soul Tricks the unreleased mixKaidi Tatham Do what you gotta doSimbad Digital RevolutionDeetron Lets get over ...
 

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Bopstar radio: Sundays 8PM GMT Deja Vu http://www.vulive.co.uk

DJ, producer, writer Bopstar is an affiliate of restless soul, the collective spearheaded by Phil Asher, with whom Bop released his first single 'Octavia' (http://restless.ithinkmusic.com/) (the bruk refix is on the Our music our culture compilation)

As well as his new weekly radio show on Deja Vu, Bop co-runs the club Patterns alongside Afronaught, Kay Suzuki, and Simbad.

Other tracks so far:

'Chiaroscuro', is on Mr Bongo/Unique Uncut's Basement Soul compilation, www.basementsoul.co.uk - all new remixes due out soon

'Captured' getting played in 1 or 2 spots still demo bizness, labels and all that is still yet TBA, (includes phil asher mixes)

Sampler ep very soon come.

Also, the Phlash/Bopstar collab 'Hazy Afternoon' on the Phlash and Friends album. Yessi :)

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Website:
http://myspace.com/boptronic
Influences:
kodwo eshun 'more brilliant than the sun: adventures in sonic fiction'

maw, j dilla, CO-OP, ig culture, dego, marc mac (4hero), phlash, afronaught (bugz), 2 banks of 4, blaze, sa-ra, derrick may ...

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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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 6th, 2008 at 6:13pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Bopstar radio: Sundays 8PM GMT Deja Vu www.vulive.co.uk

Yep, Bopstar radio, every sunday now on Deja Vu, 8PM GMT Some house, some bruk, and some other stuff... Listen live online at www.vulive.co.uk and also via itunes (go to Radio, go to Hip Hop / Rap, and scroll down to vulive.co.uk) Holler at me on the msn during the show: add dejavufm@hotmail.co.uk (No listen ondemand / podcasting at this second but I've been told it's coming). Before me is DJ Havoc (UKG bizness), after is Entertainment Family (r&b run… Continue

Posted on May 30th, 2008 at 1:19am — No Comments (Add)

36 hrs and counting

soulmates is the shizzle.... "what(?)" u ask... soulmates , once a month, at aka, london town, rap saunders and dennis christensen spinning house, specifically, soulful house... deep house... nuthin but house - rap, in particular is a bad boy! so there i was, late into the evening - been sweating it all week thinking about the promotions for patterns, all that myspacing and emailing and facebooking and flyering that people gotta do, damn all u really wanna do is go dancing, spin out 1nce in a… Continue

Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 12:00am — 1 Comment (Add)

Coopr8 radio episode -1

Kickstarting proceedings in a modest fashion - watch out for the next coopr8.net radio sessions!

:)

Tracklist:

Ralf Gum - Kissing Strangers ft Monique Bingham (Feliciano mix) - Gogo
Pirahnahead - Music - Whasdat
Bopstar - Untitled - cdr
a Lil Louis Painting - Give it up (Feliciano mix) - King Street
Fanatix - Higher ft Lady Alma - Dope Wax
Bopstaz at Work - Journey into Always - CDR
IG Culture - Run - shop.coopr8.net
(+ Loleatta Holloway Cra… Continue

Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 4:23pm — No Comments (Add)

ALTERED NATIVES RADIO SHOW Pre Co-opr8/Patterns Special

Word from Danny "fox-amongst-hounds" Native:



This Tuesday the 18th of December 2007
8pm-10pm (gmt)
The Altered Natives Radio Show
is very pleased to present the
Pre Co-opr8/Patterns "nudge nudge wink wink" Special
with my most distinguished guest of honour, Simbad.
plus as mentioned we will be 'avin some surprise guests on the show.

but i dont count all my chickens before they hatch,
if… Continue

Posted on December 18th, 2007 at 1:12am — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 6:20pm on July 1st, 2008, Jessica! said…
you are wonderful. Thanks so much, i was getting worried that i wouldn't be going out this weekend. Now i just gotta find all these places! THANK.
peace
At 6:17pm on June 25th, 2008, Jessica! said…
i don't know what tipple means...sorry. :) I'll try to google all those things u mentioned thanks! Im here until july 18th so i have lots of time to check out all those places and hopefully make some friends, i know NO ONE in this city! Thanks again for the info :)
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At 5:32pm on June 9th, 2008, Mikey Metric said…
boptastic

How do i find that page that let's show you the code to embed the coopr8 logo on to other sites?

Cheers bro
At 5:09pm on June 6th, 2008, Ron D *8* Lim said…
Thanks for your acceptance!
Besides, you have so many of my friends on it, it's great! Keep the Creatives alive!

If you have time check the new releases on my page on the Beatsdigital player, and gimme some feedback and impressions!
Always love, always no matter what!
At 1:55pm on June 5th, 2008, BIG Jim said…
Yes, Yes Bopstar....

Nice likkle thing you've hooked up ere sa!
Big up ALL restless crew....

'BIG' Jim (Ireland's Broken Beat Troubadour!).
At 1:22am on June 4th, 2008, dannyNATIVE said…
can you email me the html code, so i can put it in my myspace page.
cheers bro
chat soon
At 1:19am on June 4th, 2008, dannyNATIVE said…
love the deja banner!
nice one d
p's
At 8:55pm on May 19th, 2008, Candysoul said…
I understand! no prob'!

Candice
At 1:32pm on May 19th, 2008, Miss Laidlaw said…
Hey You... didn't get to see you this week. Maybe next : )
 
 

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