Tarantella Frenzy

06feb
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Tarantella Frenzy

I brew a special Tarantella only set for the illustrious Club AKB, organized by the Amsterdam Klezmer band at the Mezrab, Amsterdam. They were joined on stage by the tarantellaband Vincenzo AquAria Castellana from Sicily. Tarantella is the sole traditional trance type from Europe. It deserves a special. The set starts with more poppy and electronic adaptations/remixes etc and goes into the real stuff. Levitating pizzica’s and some deep electronic adaptations as well. Enjoy!

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04okt

100% Mbalax

mps Pilot’s live set containing 100% pure Senegalese Mbalax.
Mbalax is maybe the best african crossover of a percussive tradition, griot culture and contemporary production. Tempting & addictive rhythms firing up the best dancers in town. Recorded live at the illustruous Afrikafestival, Herthme (NL).

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21aug

100% Kuduro

100 % Angolese Kuduro set recorded live at the illustrious Afrika Festival Herthme (NL). Beware. Pure Angolan fire.

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28jul

100% Coupé Décalé Ndombolo & Mapuko

A set with 100% Pure Coupé Décalé, Ndombolo and Mapuko songs out of the of the Ivory Coast Club scene. For ages this was the main style being played by the youngsters all over West Africa. Inbetween old and new songs, classics & big time groovy bangers.
Recorded live at the Africa Festival, Herthme (NL). We had a blast.

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18jul

100% Afrohouse Gqom Msanzi

It’s mps Pilot’s 100 % Afrohouse Qgom Msanzi set recorded live at the illustrous Afrika Festival Herthme (NL). Msanzi & Gqom are style of infectuous rhythmic and vocally rich house music that emerged a decade into the 21st century from the city of Durban in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.



03mei

Voce Nao Sabe | mps Pilot remix

mps Pilot’s remix of Voce Nao Sabe by Zuco 103. Brazilectro House ’n UK Bass! Out on the Tripicalismo album. Purchase / streaming link below the buy link.

03mei

Voce Nao Sabe | mps Pilot remix

mps Pilot’s remix of Voce Nao Sabe by Netherlands’ brazilectro trio Zuco 103. Out on the Tripicalismo album. Purchase / streaming link below the buy link.

04apr

Wild Spring Tape

It’s mps Pilot’s Spring Tape for WILD, the worldwide grooves & beats bash at Piknik in the city of Deventer (NL).
Piknik is this grand off the grid hangout in the harbour of Deventer (NL) were you can expect fresh, uplififting & possitive peeps making the world a better place. The Spring tape is the soundtrack. Recorded live by mps Pilot at the River Lodge, Zutphen (NL).

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01feb

BalkanGypsy Manifesto Part 1 & 2

Balkan Gypsy Galore DJset by mps Pilot supporting the Amsterdam Klezmer Band at Manifesto, Hoorn. Netherlands. PRE & AFTERparty, inbetween tradition and future, violins & synths, farms, festivals, discotheques & clubs. Enjoy Big Time & Go Wild.

20nov

Visa For Music

Coming weekend I’ll be representing mps Pilot, Matrub مطروب & Dreaming of Syria’s Dabke Night at Visa For Music in Rabat. CU there? Let’s shake hands & hips.

25aug

Wild Tape

mps Pilot’s promotape for Wild, his monthly night at Piknik, Deventer (NL), featuring a worldwide selection of tunes by MC Zaac, Swindle, Mungo’s Hifi, Los Chicos Altos, Ninja, Symbiz, Dub Phizix, Poirier, Thornato, Matrub, Clap! Clap!, Jazzy B & Kuldeep Manak, Omar Souleyman, Bomba Estereo, Zro, Tshegue, Murder He Wrote, DJ Satellite, Mabiisi, Milay Xavier, Nonku Phiri & Maahlox Le Vibeur.

08aug

Clap! Clap! – DIG! DELVE! DAMN! (Dutch Archive Edition)

Clap! Clap! strips down his bombastic, multilayered take on global rhythms, jazz, and footwork, letting the samples take center stage. Done as part of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s RE:VIVE initiative in collaboration with the Research Centre for Material Culture. Sampled sounds provided by the Tropenmuseum. Great vibes.

13apr

The Kalinichta Bash

A set with fresh current Oriental electro, Turkish edits, Syrian Dabke, Raï, Albanian & Bulgarian Chalga & Tallava. Steamy tunes for a wet night.

Recorded at KALINICHTA, Noorderlicht, Amsterdam. www.facebook.com/kalinichtaparty

24mrt

Worldwide Extravaganza

Like life its full of surprises, with edits, snippets, remixes and tunes by
Rimas.INC, Ozferti, Mohamed Al Salam & Amina, Clap! Clap!, El Sargento, Poirier, Murder He Wrote, Dj Chap, Imad Al Shaweesh, Matrub, Doctor Jeep, Paz, Aroop Roy, Benny T, Sidiki Diabate, DJ Doraemon, Tahira and La Banda de Pifanos de Caruaru. Enjoy!

16feb

DJ Doraemon – The Change

An example of how electronic music can sound as African as it can get is are the styles Tarraxo and Kuduro.. And some do how to make it really groove. Enjoy these spacious hip grinding vibes DJ Doraemon and download them for free.

24dec

It’s the Orient, brothers & sisters!

It’s the Orient, brothers & sisters! Eastern Electronic vibes, beats, moroccan regadda, turkish edits, syrian dabke, algerian gasba, moroccan dubstep plus street impromptu.

Duration 2 hrs, recorded live at a sold out Le Sucre​, Lyon. Special thanks to Pierre-Marie Pims Oullion​ & Baptiste Pinsard​ for the invitation and the great vibes.

05dec

worldwide festival bash

Yes its on, mps Pilot’s true worldwide DJset, 80-130 BPM, flowing inbetween the african, arab, latin, asian and western world.
Closing set recorded at the Paleo Festival (CH). Enjoy.

07nov

Djemâa el bash

mps Pilot’s set recorded live at the Djemâa el Fna Foodfestival, Rotterdam. A blend of Moroccan pop, electro arab, sharki, nu-rai, rai n B, Châabi, Dabke, electro Châabi, regadda & a wee bit of sharki. A streetwise set! We had a blast. In case you never heard of these terms, check out the music :-).
Special thanks to Roufaida Aboutaleb & The Djemaa El Fna Foodfestival crew. The lovely images are made by Fleur Beerthuis | www.wepicture.it

12okt

Houceine Chauoi – Aalach | mps Pilot’s Attention Edit fix

Great Chaoui / Gasba tune by the legendary Houceine Chaoui I had to make fix, add some elements & remaster of a youtube edit with great intro. I premiered it at Le Sucre Lyon. Free Download – Enjoy.

30aug

Dreaming of Syria

mps Pilot’s closing set at the Dreaming of Syria Festival at Rasa, Utrecht (NL). It was a special event with Syrian food, movies, live music and storytelling. mps Pilot performed a full on Syrian party where the Syrian AND Dutch crowd went wild and we hope you too! The lovely artwork is made by takeadetour.eu. Enjoy!

30jun

Shake that – mps Pilot’s Gunshot Shuffle

A remix of a balkan anthem by Paris Hilton and Stereo Partizan! A festive Balkan Drum ’n Bass banger full of surprises. Heads up by some fellow Balkanieros:
STEREO PARTIZAN / Gergely Barcza (Besh O Drom)(ISR): wow, what a nice job, congratulations! it`s a honor to me!
SHAZALAKAZOO (SRB): Fresh vibes on this one! works good 😉
ROBERT SOKO / Balkanbeats Berlin (BOS/GER) mps Pilots „shake that thing“ remix is vibrating through european clubs; ass-kicking & mesmerising.
DJ SUPER STEREO (HU) Yooooo!!!
DJ CLICK (FR)  It’s just perfect for my selection
GYPSY HILL (UK): It’s a dance floor banger.
KOSTA KOSTOV / Balkan Xpress (DE) “shake it! shuffle it! mps Pilot gives to this original a fantastic twist – double tempo and full dance floor madness…”
BALKAN HOTSTEPPERS (BE): Nice! we like!

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Get it for free here and enjoy

27jun

Negro Dub – 10 Years of Electrocumbia

What always stroke me is the trance like character that cumbia music can have. Music that seems to be made for what seems to be a folky festive party only, but which has this deep sense of making you go in a trance in a slow mood. Check for example the second tune on this great compilation of remixes by Negro Dub. Negro Dub and cumbia go hand in hand. Negro Dub eats, sleeps and drinks cumbia, all day and all night long. Get it for free.

20jun

Pupilos Do Kuduro

Here’s a grand album Sem Regas, by the Angolan kuduro outfit Pupilos Do Kuduro. There are some true electronic interlocking germs in here urging you to move every muscle from your head to your toe. Check the tunes Manda Vir, Bilo and Pirulito! The album is downloadable for free.

Pupilos Do Kuduro
Pupilos Do Kuduro

06apr

The AfroNowWow Tape

Hey boys n girls, better gear up for the The AfroNowWow tape! It portraits a flow of the best current tunes produced in a slew of Africa’s capital city’s such as Abidjan, Nairobi, Accra, Capetown, Lagos, Luanda and Bamako. Africa’s productions & polyrhythms are bringing you further exactly like the vintage albums produced decades ago. These days Azonto, Kwaito, Balanisho, Afro House and Kuduro are the styles hitting African dancefloors.

The AfroNowWow Tape by Mps Pilot on Mixcloud

02feb

Regasba

Good day, last week I performed this set containing new and old tunes from North African Mountain tops: Gasba, Regadda, Dabke, Electro Chaabi, Amazigh, Tamashek and a slew of all kind of Eastern music (from Lebanon, Egypt…) added up with with a few western tunes by the likes of Acid Arab. It’s recorded at Mezrab, Amsterdam. We had a great mixed crowd and this once in a lifetime experience, a Tunesian gasba / trance band calles Bargou 08 taking themselves to a higher level. It was an awesome night. Enjoy!

Regasba by Mps Pilot on Mixcloud

19dec

Joyful Noise

A mix to celebrate! It’s mps PILOT’s Birthday set. Some Joyful Noise, this time with mainly 4 to the floor tunes in between vintage, azonto, beats & some pro worldbeats. Enjoy & have a shuffle at yours’ or where ever you are. Recorded live at The Lodge, Zutphen, Netherlands

Joyful Noise by Mps Pilot on Mixcloud

01dec

Umoja – Danzi!

We have been totally sleeping on this release by the Dutch guys from Unoja, irresistible dance music coming out of East Africa! Kenyan Benga, Congolese Rumba’s, Musiki Wa Dansi from Tanzania, they all have something in common: Untamable Hi-hat samurai’s, tireless guitar terriers, scattering songbirds forming a tidal wave of uplifting dance music.
Umoja picked some of their favorite songs & elements and went for a session to add some Umoja flavours. Keeping a wide range of tempo’s and moods, there should be something for all your moves and moments. Put on your brightest socks, sprinkle some glitters and join the Dansi!

10nov

The Adventures of Amir Conga

In his new DJ quest mps PILOT depicts a story. It’s the fable of Amir Conga, an Arab African with European roots, bitten by a spider.. A legendary hero he was, celebrated for his legendary voyage over unprecedented heights in the world of ancient trance music.. mps PILOT is conducting this journey into the present, carried by desert winds, through forests of pulsing beats, over waves of blaring clarinets, cricket samples and pulsed by savage chants.. Into eternal levitation.

The set is performed live, accompagnied by crickets, lion sounds and zagrouta’s.. Recorded in an inflatable church, at the Sfinks Mixed Festival, Belgium.
Photography & Design: Erna Kuik & Mayıs Rukel
Enjoy!

 

Mps PILOT & The Adventures of Amir Conga by Mps Pilot on Mixcloud

03nov

Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band

Being crazy of Donso, hunters music from Mali and Burkina Faso, I got absolutely thrilled by this music of Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band.. Putting it all in a grand afrorock style. reminds me of Lobi Traore who didn’t get remarked a lot before he had to die too young unfortunately. So go have a listen! He’s on tour now, also in the NL. Thurs 19 Occi Amsterdam, Fri 20 2nd Music Meeting XS Doornroosje Nijmegen, Sun 22 RASA Utrecht. Play loud! Ntijiguimorola is my favourite.

26okt

Umeme remix out | now.

A lickle afrobass edit made for the Umeme crew. Afrobass in a 2Step to AfroHouse style. Festive, Tropical & Wild.

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