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Freddy Anzures

フレディー・アンズアース。サンフランシスコ在住。AppleとWax Poeticsのデザイナーを掛け持ち、propsRadioでDJも行う。趣味はグラフィック・デザインと音楽。最近の仕事：http://www.p-r-o-p-s.com 好きな言葉：ブライン・イーノが言った言葉「私が本当にやりたいこと。もし私にある程度の権限があって私の夢のグループを作れるとしたらの話だが、それは、パーラメントとクラフトワークをくっつけて、『さあ1曲作ってみろ』と言ってみたい。パーラメントのへんてこで感覚的なフィーリングに、へんてこだがきっちりしていてお堅い感じをプラスする……。私は2つの究極をくっつけるとどうなるか、そしてどうすれば2つがうまく融合するのかを見てみたい」インタヴュアーはグレン・アブライアン。アンディ・ウォーホルの「Interview」マガジン1978年6月掲載。

Andre Torres & Freddy Anzures. Wax Poetics HQ. Brooklyn. 21 April 2010

More to come soon. In the meantime…http://www.p-r-o-p-s.com/

-fa

NYC. Get ready for a real treat. On Sunday, October 11, at a yet to be disclosed secret rooftop location in the Lower East Side, San Francisco’s freshest; PROOF (Massive Selector), KING MOST (Plug Label) and yours truly (props/Wax Poetics), along with New York’s finest; ELEVEN (The Rub) and AMIR (Kon & Amir/Wax Poetics) will attempt to bring the coasts a little closer together for your listening, dancing and romancing enjoyment.

Now I’ve been going back and forth between San Francisco and New York for a minute; and you can’t really compare the two…they’re like opposites really. No one better than the other, SF’s got all the peace and quiet you’ve ever wanted from a major metropolitan city, with breathtaking views everywhere you look…it’s the perfect respite from NY’s hustle and bustle, swagger and swindle. The way I see it, SF and NY need each other. I mean, SF’s got the wine and NY’s got the women, right?! Yea, I said it…come on, the only wine in NY is fools whinin’ about how much they wanna leave the city…and it seems like the really good women in SF are taken. (So come out the woodwork, SF ladies…NY’s runnin’ numbers on y’all!) I love going to NY from SF, just as much I love going to SF from NY; opposite sides of this U-S of A that need as much as feed off of each other…SF’s got NY on burritos as much as NY’s got SF on pizza. Discuss!

On this episode of propsRadio, your SF hosts PROOF, KING MOST and me give ya a soulful selection of tracks you can sink your ears into while you count the days til the event…we’re looking forward to it as much as you are, and we couldn’t wait to show you just a lil west coast skin – it’s Indian summer in SF…we’re gonna bring it over y’alls’ way on Sunday!

Sunday, October 11

Massive Selector presents SFNY

21+ | 3pm – 9pm | INVITE ONLY

At an exclusive rooftop location in the LES, NYC

RSVP for location and to get in FREE on the list

sfnyconnect@gmail.com

NY’s Finest

DJ ELEVEN (The Rub)

AMIR (Kon & Amir/Wax Poetics)

SF’s Freshest

PROOF (Massive Selector)

KING MOST (Plug Label)

FREDDY ANZURES (props/Wax Poetics)

Dropping the very best in boogie, hip-hop, outernational soul, future

funk and classic cuts.

ENJOY!

SFNY on Massive Selector

SFNY on facebook

PROOF

KING MOST

Scratching records was all the rage when I was just coming up in San Francisco a decade ago…I can’t believe it’s been that long since I’ve been here. It seemed like everyone was a DJ and that ‘you and your band,’ as James Murphy put it in “Losing My Edge,” ‘sold your guitars and bought turntables.’ It wasn’t a gold rush as much as it was a vinyl rush back then, as the Bay Area’s treasure trove of turntablists, like Q-Bert and Shadow, put the city on the musical map. And when Doug Pray’s film “Scratch” came out, the artform was revitalized and put on a world stage.

New York also had its respective DJ crews known for scratching and juggling beats. The X-Ecutioners, originally the X-Men, killed it everytime with members Rob Swift, Total Eclipse, Mista Sinista and Roc Raida manning the decks for respect and reward. It was Roc Raida in ’95 who was the victor at the DMC World DJ Championships, following three consecutive victories by San Francisco’s Q-Bert and Mixmaster Mike at the DMC World DJ Championships. With his signature behind-the-back beat juggling routine, Roc Raida was able to conduct a conversation with his hands and what seemed like an orchestra with just two records.

One of turntablism’s true pioneers, earning a spot in the DMC Hall of Fame and working with the likes of Ghostface Killah, the Jungle Brothers and Busta Rhymes’ personal DJ, Roc Raida passed September 19, 2009. This edition of propsRadio is from an early mixtape Raida put out in ‘96, chock full of signature scratches and old school cuts. Rest in peace, brotha.

propsRadio • ROC RAIDA

Afrika Bambaataa & the Jazzy 5 “Jazzy Sensation” (Tommy Boy)

Sweet G “Games People Play” (Fever)

Donald D “Don’s Groove” (Elektra)

Lovebug Starski “Live at the Disco Fever” (Fever)

MC Shan “The Bridge” (Cold Chillin’)

Schooly D “P.S.K.” (Schooly-D)

The B Boys “Girls” (Vintertainment)

Boogie Boys “A Fly Girl” (Capitol)

Bad Boys Featuring K-Love “Bad Boys” (Starlite)

Divine Sounds “Do Or Die Bed Stuy” (Reality)

Run DMC “Peter Piper” (Profile)

LL Cool J “Rock The Bells” (Def Jam)

Busy Bee “Suicide” (Strong City)

Bad Boys Featuring K-Love “Veronica” (Starlite)

ENJOY!

Herbie Hancock is just like Japan. What they share is a reverence for history and tradition combined with an incessant drive to envision the future; two seemingly opposing forces that are harmoniously fused…just listen to Herbie’s music or peep Japanese culture.

I have never been to Japan; I really need to make my way there soon. Herbie’s been there many times, as evidenced by the handful of Japan Only releases he put out in the 70s and 80s. It’s no surprise to me that someone like Herbie would be big in Japan. He is that elder statesman of jazz who got his chops putting out his own records on the legendary Blue Note label and getting up with Miles Davis in his “second great quintet” throughout the 60s, eventually ridin’ with him as he went electric and stirred the Bitches Brew. In the early seventies, Herbie was quick to trade in his Steinway for a Fender Rhodes, plugging in and tuning out, experimenting with electronic sounds and textures. It wasn’t the cold European ambience that Morton Subotnick was pioneering that Herbie was going for; it sounded like Blade Runner set in Africa…a musical mutant combining African rhythms with synthesizers and electronic effects. The three albums Herbie did that exemplify this sound (Mwandishi, Crossings and Sextant) continue to be a guide for my own creative efforts. And if you want to talk about the funk, Herbie’s got that on lock too, singlehandedly creating jazz-funk with his band The Headhunters, giving even Sly Stone a run for his drug money.

Herbie’s penchant for electronic keyboards and synthesizers enabled him to graduate from the old school and apply to the new, puttin’ Grand Mixer DXT on the wheels of steel to scratch and launch “Rockit” into b-boy space, rollin’ out to Japan on the regular to perform live and record with the artists out there. So it’s no surprise Wax Poetics Japan inaugurated Herbie to be on the cover of its first issue. Now into its fifth issue, the JP version of your favorite music magazine keeps it movin,’ bringing that flavor the US edition has been rockin’ for close to 8 years now overseas.

propsRadio compiles a selection of tracks from Herbie from releases only put out in Japan, ranging from live jazz numbers to electronic funk workouts. Special thanks to Masashi Funatsu and Ken Hidaka of Wax Poetics Japan for including me in the blog…this show is a thank you! And extra special thanks to Neil for the translations and Chika for the voices…this would be unimaginable without your help!

propsRadio • HERBIE HANCOCK Japan Only Special

V.S.O.P. The Quintet “Skagly” Five Stars (CBS/Sony)

The Herbie Hancock Trio “Watch It” The Herbie Hancock Trio (CBS/Sony)

Herbie Hancock “Sonrisa” The Piano (CBS/Sony)

Herbie Hancock “Butterfly” Flood:Live in Japan (CBS/Sony)

Paul Jackson “Black Octopus (Pt.1:Many Directions/Pt.2 Eight Ways of Love)” Black Octopus (Toshiba/EMI)

Kimiko Kasai with Herbie Hancock “Sunlight” Butterfly (CBS/Sony)

Herbie Hancock “I Thought It Was You” Directstep (CBS/Sony)

Herbie Hancock “Cantaloupe Island” Dedication (CBS/Sony)

ENJOY!