All posts tagged: theo parrish

Analog Room sets the pace of Dubai’s music scene

Dubai is famous for many things – most of those things are bigger than other city’s things, because Dubai is like an over excited child whose just knocked back a can of Coke and eaten three Mars Bars … Dubai is on a sugar rush, frantically running around being bigger and better than everyone else. However, when it comes to a frantically buzzing music scene, then Dubai seems to fall flat on its face. Sure, Dubai gets the big names coming to visit like The Rolling Stones and Lady Ga Ga or you can catch Gilles Peterson play at a big seven star hotel.   But what about some smaller venues where the crowd is hyped and the music is much more personal and immediate? Well FNND took time out of their busy schedule of drinking sugary drinks to track down a venue with a sound system and good honest music programming that should be commended  … The Analog room. Analog room was founded by Mehdi Ansari. As the chief promoter of and one of the residents at Analog Room, …

Theo Parrish: The Teddy’s Get Down

Detroit-based musician, producer and selector Theo Parrish, whose organic-sounding machine-based dance music incorporates live instruments, human voices and looped recordings, plays a live set with full band for the first time in 10 years. Theo is set to perform in July with a live band at the Barbican centre in London. The band – featuring Parrish on beats and keys, soul/funk singer songwriter Amp Fiddler (keys), Akwasi Mensah (bass), Duminie DePorres (electric guitar) and Myele Manzanza (drums) – will be revisiting old and new Sound Signature classics. Here is a teaser of what is to come on his next album… The video is directed by New York raised director of photography and director Heather Sommerfield. Heather said, “I went to Detroit in November of 2013 to shoot a video for the Footwork track on the forthcoming album. Since Theo has never done an official video for his legendary sound, you can imagine we are all very excited about this project. It is simple concept meant to force the viewer to stop and take a moment reflect …

Kenny Dixon Jnr new studio album

Detroit has a deep history of  hardtimes in the city. The struggle came from cheap labour needed for the automotive trade and the decline of the trade leaving alot of tough neighborhoods and high unemployment. In between 2000 and 2010, Detroits population fell by 25 percent. never the less there is a strong loyalty to the area – no more so than the music. motor city soul through to todays current music producers. One producer who’s “very Detroit” and  aware of the roots of that music is, Moodymann AKA Kenny Dixon Jnr. Fat Nancy has been a fan of Moodymann ever since the days he used to play behind a white sheet in basement clubs. Since then he has come a long way and he has even hosted rollerskating jams in Detroit and London. Moodymann is a strong supporter of the Vinyl Preservation Society and an outspoken voice in the normally non-confrontational world of electronic dance music. Kenny worked at several Detroit record stores in the mid-nineties including a store owned by producer Blake Baxter. During …