God Bless Youtube. This is actually the first tune that I ever heard on vinyl, from my uncle’s record collection. The  name of the tune roughly translates as  “In the lazer light”, and the artist is Roman Tam, also known as the “Godfather of Cantopop”. Its interesting to see just how widespread the popularity of Italo Disco was at the time. This tune has been covered and remixed a dozen times over the years, although in my opinion none of them have done the original any justice. I might humbly try my hand at an edit of this HK classic

As you may know, Man Recordings music is a lot about drums. We love em big, we love em thundering, and we love em played versatile. If a track´s beat ain´t dope enough, it´ll not be released on Man Rec. Period. On top of that, we love great percussions. Coz mostly it´s not the big bassdrum or the hard hitting snare, it´s the percussions that make a good track groove better – err just think about “Kid Conga”, ever noticed it has no snare drum but some tablas that make no snare necessary??

As we thought that there´s been tons of coverages about great drummers, drumbreaks etc., little has been made about percussions. So we now proudly present a new Man Rec blog series : The Man Rec Percussion Masters.

First off we´d like to present Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, an Iranian born percussionist, who brings the most amazing sounds out of traditional Persian percussion pieces such as the Tombak or the Daf. When I first heard his stuff, I thought he must add a lot of efxing on top of his spiel – until I saw the man performane live.

See Mohammad Reza Mortazavi perform here at Berlin´s Passionskirche in December 2008:

If you´re in Berlin this Thursday (11th of March), check Mortazavi out at the Berliner Philarmonie – this should be an orgasmic sound and groove experience!!

I am a fan of Banksy’s humorous approach to street art, and this trailer does not disappoint.

January 24 is the day of the premiere at the Sundance festival. Portishead’s Geoff Barrow is the man responsible for the soundtrack of this documentary.

I like it when good rappers rap. I miss stuff like this. Sure, its all a bit staged and produced, but its still good.

I feel bad that we never did wrote anything about Mr. Magic, the legendary radio host of “Rap Attack” who passed away recently from a fatal heart attack.

Here’s a tribute track that the Juice Crew(Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante, Craig G….) did in memory of him. Biz Markie’s verse at the end  is so childlike and simple, it touched me the most.

Juice Crew – Mr. Magic Tribute

I know its nothing new, but I been going through some old tunes and have been digging out some of the old gems.

I am obsessed by this.  Definitely my fave rediscovered tune of the last two weeks.t. I can listen to the loop all day, in fact I am listening for the third time todayThe claps, the “huh huh”, the funky guitar, the snare rolls and last but not least the nice ladies saying “its magic!!!” Good stuff. And good stuff should be shared, so here u go.

Nightlife Unlimited – Peaches & Prunes (Its magic re edit)