Green Velvet
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- www.bebo.com/la-la-land322
- Me, Myself, and I
- Curtis Alan Jones is an electronic and house music singer, songwriter and producer born April 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois. His style of house music has been compared/inspired by the likes of Kraftwerk, Prince, Gary Numan and Nitzer Ebb,During in the early days before he became a house musician, he earned a degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Up until this point music had been a hobby fueled by cobbling together tracks on his "sixty buck keyboard, a cheap four-track and a cheap drum machine" while still an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. This DIY method of production was never taken seriously and when childhood plans to become a doctor were shelved Jones was firmly committed to a career as a chemical engineer. His dad was an occasional DJ and eventually became a budding musician. As time went on Jones discovered what was his innate love and understanding for house music, a sound that had grown throughout the mid-80s out of Chicago'
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Green Velvet transformation
Desperate to make something totally different to his normal Cajmere moniker, Curtis created Relief as an offshoot to his Cajual records in 1993. The label gave birth to his first Green Velvet production 'Velvet Tracks'. Green Velvet (a name given to him by a friend's dad) emerged as the flamboyant, neon-haired 'Electro Punk', he created excellent mid-90's hits like 'Preacher Man' (a Moral Majority type of preacher spoke over this track), 'Answering Machine' (a darkly funny house track consisting of 'taped' messages from an answering machine, including a bad news message from a girlfriend and a noise complaint message from his landlord), and 'Flash' which was a #1 US dance hit in 2000 and has been included on many DJ-mixed compilation albums. after playing DJ under both of now infamous monikers, he released his first album Constant Chaos in Beligian Music label Music Man in 1999, which showed Green Velvet's style of house progress into styles similar to Prince (artist) and Kraftwerk, his spoken word lyrics also took a bizarre turn, In Abduction he sings about little green men turning up while he's doing the washing up.1 Comment 1150 days
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He played the saxophone at school and had a talent for trying to play with a keyboard but remained largely un-interested in what he saw as his father's passion. It was this cut-up, tacky, production style of the early house sound that Jones absorbed and translated into the 'Underground Goodies EP', his first release as Cajmere (that's CAJ as in Curtis A. Jones) put out in 1991 on his own recently started Cajual label. A year later he had his first massive hit as Cajmere with the brilliant house tune 'Coffeepot (It's Time For The Percolator)' also out on Cajual. He then teamed up with Chicago-based vocalist Dajae for 'Brighter Days' (he entered #2 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play), a high impact, more mellow house tune that came out on Emotive.
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http://www.zshare.net/audio/68833346...
new techno mix enjoy!!
1. reset robot - do the slot
2. oliver moldan - south beach shuffle
3. markantonio - my old kit
4. siesmal d - not human (hugo remix)
5. slam - we doin this again?
6. presslaboys - opako (miniminds remix)
7. tom hades - topensproche (markantonio remix)
8. mauro picotto - love message (ramon tapia 1st message mix)
9. wehbba - wrong side business (riccardo ferri remix)
10. hollen - sugarfree
11. slam - variance
12. hollen - explosive bomb
http://www.zshare.net/audio/68178189...
Keykutz (The Question)
Anyone kno the name of the song with the trumpets he played on fri at the arches?
was likes fucking tada all wkend thats th way we do it.
t in the park was amazing
(L)
Whos going down to,,,la la land?
something bout those little pills
the trills they yeild
until they killed
a million brain cells
i love it
green velvet at the life fest was unreal
destination unknown .... answering machiene ..... lala land ... flash....
o yeah !!!!!!!!!!
t in the park was Fukin mental!!! new fan oi oi
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020709 djmouseyman mp3
http://www.zshare.net/audio/62149700...
cameras ready prepare d flash
bring on the velvet at t in the p oh yassss
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join if ya like techno
Hows it goin Green Velvet
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