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Came across a video on Youtube, in which some nice images are set to my track ‘Verbs’ (off: ‘Left’). Definitely an unofficial video, but it’s always nice to have visuals accompanying the music, and I do think that it fits the mood. Big up ‘wecouldbekings’! 

This Friday I will be spinning some tunes at the third edition of ‘No School Rules’, this time longside the talented producer and dj Full Crate (who just put out a wonderful EP called ‘Golden Glasses’ on Wonderful Ear records), and residents Brutuzz and Geographic. Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, Bam!

RSVP & more info

Saturday November 26th, we’re organizing the second edition of ‘Yard Vibes’. An evening (and night) with Caribbean food, two Jamaican movies, and lots of reggea and dancehall music. This edition will be hosted by Akwasi (Zwart Licht) and will feature a live performance by rising star Rass Motivated! Selectors on deck: Radical HI-FI, Drunken Lion Sound, Boston Strip Soundsystem, and Wazari Sound. We will be screening two classic Jamaican dancehall movies: ‘Dancehall Queen’ and ‘Third World Cop’.

For more info, trailers, music and RSVP:  click here

Saturday November 26th | 18.00-03:00 | TOKO MC (Westergasterrein, Amsterdam)

Dutch singer Pien Feith has just released a compilation of remixes made for tracks from her wonderful album ‘Dance on Time’ (V2 Records, 2011). Producers that have reworked Pien’s tracks include Applescal, Fellow and Nuno dos Santos, alongside the remix I made for ‘Throw the stone’. The remixes are available as a free download!

Download album on Bandcamp  |  Listen to the remixes on Soundcloud

Pien Feith - Throw the Stone (Sotu the Traveller remix) by Sotu the Traveller

Sunday October 30th, Dutch singer Aïscha Traïdia will give a special performance at the Comedy Theater, in Amsterdam. She’ll be performing songs off her album, to be released on the German MPM label, with a full live band. I’ve produced a lot of the album tracks, and am really looking forward to hear how they sound live! Afterparty with dj Cream, Covergirl Sunny, and yours truly. Hope to see you there!

Also that night will be the release of the new single ‘City Life’. In the meantime, please check out ‘What’s going on’.

Aischa - What’s Going On by MPMCGN

New podcast I made for Dutch on- and off-line magazine DJ Broadcast. The first I did with Traktor, and mostly uptempo tunes. Consider it a warmup for some new, more uptempo tracks that I hope to share with you as soon as possible, the first one of which we’re shooting a video for this week! More info you know when! ;)

Check out the accompanying article (Dutch) HERE, and:

Direct download   |   Listen (Mixcloud)

Tracklist:

1. Air France - ‘It Feels Good to Be Around You’
2. Friendly Fires and Azari & III - ‘Stay Here’
3. Onra - ‘Mechanical’
4. High Powered Boys - ‘Udon (Julio Bashmore Sax-Dub)’
5. Lykke Li - ‘I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix)’
6. Rimer London - ‘Intercity’
7. Comtron - ‘C64 Carat (Tom Trago Remix)’
8. Owiny Sigoma Band - ‘Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub)’
9. Outkast - ‘Spottieottiedopalicious (Nacey Remix)’
10. Cassie - ‘Me & U (Brackles Remix)’
11. Lazer Sword - ‘Shot in the Nite (Bar//Dancing Remix)’
12. Rogerseventytwo - ‘You Take Me Higher (Brenmar Re-Vision)’
13. Rustie - ‘Dreamzz’
14. Dynooo - ‘Espirit Sweat (Cupp Cave Remix)’
15. Hudson Mohawke - ‘All Your Love’
16. Rossler - ‘Ambassadeurs’
17. Jason Burns - ‘Back to You’
18. Baobinga - ‘Make Me Feel’
19. S-X - ‘Swag Bitch Swag’
20. Machinedrum - ‘Now U Know the Deal 4 Real’
21. Lunice - ‘And She Said’
22. Drexciya - ‘Triangular Hydrogen Strain’

Check out my other mixes in the ‘Mixes’ (yes!) section on the left!

A while ago I was approached by Dutch label Top Notch to produce a track for the upcoming and talented group ‘Kroons’, consisting of singer Lula Ross and rapper Unannounced Guest. The track is part of a compilation called ‘Homegrown’, released by Top-Notch and MCN, and features 14 tracks by 7 new, unsigned hiphop-acts from the Netherlands.

More info  |  Buy the cd

Last week, Kroons performed the track (called: ‘Take a nap’) live in Giel Beelen’s show at Dutch radio station 3FM.

I’m happy to say I will be spinning some tunes at the ‘Grup Ses Beats albüm lansman partisi’, aka release party of the homie Koray. He’s made a really dope album consisting of beats made only with old Turkish samples, please check out some of the tracks on his Soundcloud page here. 

Releaseparty with of course Grup Ses Beats, Ventochild, dj No Frost, Turkish hiphop legend Kabus Kerim and moi. From 22:30, at Peyote, Istanbul. See you there! More live dates in the ‘Live’ section.

Some new tracks that I produced will be released really soon, as well as a new (uptempo) mix somewhere in the next two weeks, stay tuned!

I will be spinning some records with Hayzee, Brutuzz and Giographic tomorrow at Bitterzoet (Amsterdam). Strictly electronics, hope to see you there!! (RSVP) More live dates in the ‘Live’ section.

Also, just helped the homie Deniz Karaman (from Lastik Pabuc fame) put together an August-playlist with some nice tunes, check it out here.

The homie Bluntspeakers just released a new EP, called R.R.B. (Reworks Remixes & Bonus). He also did a rework for ‘Remember’, off my instrumental album ‘Left’. Track sounds tight, and so do the other tracks. Get it for free by clicking HERE.

Sotu The Traveller - Remember (Bluntspeakers Rework) by Bluntspeakers

Two tracks Dj PCM and I made together while testing the new HP Envy Beats by Dre laptop. Free downloads!

Sotu the Traveller & PCM - Envy 1 by Sotu the Traveller

Sotu the Traveller & PCM - Envy 2 by Sotu the Traveller

New (little) mix I did for a great website called Mixtapeclub.org. 10 new mixes, each 10 tracks, by 10 different people every month. Cover by MariGLD. Check out the mix & tracklist here.

Fellow Dutch producer Perquisite’s new single is out! ‘Blackbirds’ features rapper GMB, and is taken from Perq’s first solo album ‘Across’. The single is now availabe on iTunes and other online stores, and also features a Sotu the Traveller remix!

Peep the animated video above, and check out the single & remix here on iTunes.

I’m very happy to announce that the first track of Dutch singer Aïscha’s upcoming album is now available! We’ve worked on the album quite some time, but now all the work is done & the record will be brought to you by the lovely people at Melting Pot Music from Germany!

More info on the rest of the album will follow very soon. For now, please enjoy this first track, produced by yours truly: ‘What’s going on’.

Aischa - What’s Going On by MPMCGN

Or, support the single by buying it here on iTunes.

New remix for Dutch singer Pien Feith’s track ‘Throw the stone’, from her latest album ‘Dance on Time’ (V2 Records, 2011). This remix is featured on VPRO/3voor12’s online compilation Hollandse Nieuwe 18, which can be found here and here.

It’s also available as a free download (+listen of course) on Soundcloud, where you can also hear my remixes for Giovanca, Tom Trago, Ntjamrosie etc. Click this link to go directly to my Soundcloud page: www.soundcloud.com/sotuthetraveller

Big thank you to Judith Veenendaal for the artwork!

Next Friday I will be spinning tunes with my man Dj PCM in Petrol/Antwerpen at the 2011 Belgium edition of ‘Don’t forget Gaza’. More info on why, who & what over at www.dontforgetgaza.nl

Concepto MIX #29 Sotu The Traveller by Conceptoradio on Mixcloud

Here’s a mix I recently did for Spanish online magazine ‘Concepto Radio’. Check out the article and the mix HERE, and read the interview I had accompanying the mix HERE

Tracklist:

Dynooo - Private
Annu - Gossip
Erykah Badu - Strawberry incense
Shlohmo - Places
Teebs - Why like this
Lornn - Automaton
Coco Bryce - It’s a skweee thang
Vaiper Despotin - Versija 5 
Sotu the Traveller - HourGlass (Daisuke Tanabe remix)
Shigeto - Unrelentless drag (Mike Slott remix)
Björk - Immature
Flying Lotus - It’s a secret
V Looper - Headtop
Nosaj Thing - Fog
Sotu the Traveller - GoldFish
Karlmarx - Mists

New mix I did for Red Bull Music Academy Radio, as part of their Inside-Out series, is online now! Check it here:

http://www.redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/3780 

Tracklist:

01. Dimlite - Roo (A dedication)
02. Samiyam&Hudson Mohawke - Eff this
03. Brittany Bosco - Glitch
04. Dizz1 - Konotakosuke yaro
05. Annu - Alliwant
06. Flying Lotus - 1983 
07. Favorite Flava - Stray witchu
08. Harmonic 313 - Cyclotron
09. Dyno - Coiiin
10. Waajeed - Tetris
11. Mike Slott - Sun tan
12. Jamie Lidell - A little bit more (Luke Vibert remix)
13. Dorian Concept - Fort teen
14. Pixelord - Cartoon friend
15. FLYamSAM - Green Tea Power
16. Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Souls brother
17. Nosaj Thing - 1685/Bach
18. Erik L - Soul Symphony
19. Lone - Sungrazer Cascade
20. B. Bravo - Computa Love
21. Four Tet - Love cry (Joy Orbison remix)
22. Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Breakage’s Tight Rope remix)
23. Jahdan Blakkamoore - The General
24. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (Dj Dials vocal mix)
25. 2000f & J Kamata - You don’t know what love is (vocal edit)
26. KP & Envyi - Swing my way (B. Bravo remix)
27. Primary 1 & Riton - Radiates (Joker remix)
28. Hudson Mohawke - Fuse
29. Airhead & James Blake - Pembroke
30. Sotu the Traveller - HourGlass

..to the new website, I’m still working on getting everything up & working properly. Already here are live dates and an overview (inc. buy/download links) of music I’ve worked on so far. New features, releases and download links for the mixtapes will be added shortly! Please stay up-to-date by following me on Twitter or Facebook.

Meanwhile, we’re in the final stages of finishing Dutch singer Aïscha’s album (that I did most of the beats for), and also coming up are a new remix and two new mixtapes I did for Red Bull Music Academy Radio and Spanish magazine ‘Concepto’. Stay tuned!

You can find my latest solo projects here:

* ‘Left’ |  Bandcamp | iTunes.

* ‘HourGlass EP’  | Bandcamp | iTunes.

Some press about ‘Left’ and ‘HourGlass’:

22Tracks | Nalden 1 2 | Moovmnt | Okayplayer | Nutriot 1 2 | MintCollective | Swurdin | 3voor12 | TheFindMagazine | CrazyBirds | FriendsWeLove | AppleJuiceBreak | Concepto | NewWork | CodeMagazine | Mixin | SaturnNeverSleeps | Supercharged.tv (interview)