Ajamal | mps PILOT remix

18nov

Ajamal | mps PILOT remix

Here in the Netherlands there seems to be a starter of a Garage/2step revival taking place. I’m quite happy with this, as my Garage/Bass remix of Click Here and Amrat Hussain of the Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan came out this week. The track is bringing hindi vocals to a nineties UK 2Step/Bass/Desi sound. That sound produced those days by the Asian scene in the UK often had a huge impact on me, such as DJ Swami’s productions. The track is featuring on a limited compilation Jaipur REMIX / DUB and features other worldwide producers such as the Super Pendejos, Transglobal Underground, Smadj and Farrapo. Have a great listen & dance.

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29okt

Alec Lomami

Somebody who is really making me happy these days is a congolese rapper/producer based in the USA, Alec Lomami. His songs are damn well produced with so many sound colors in between future and vintage, good beats, finger licking anthems, great vocals AND he crosses the best from different worlds.

So while watching his video download your copy of his EP totally for FREE and have a sunny mood for the rest of this week!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPyXY1OZ2c

23okt

Sound Trippin MTV India

Since quite a while I am enjoying these documentaries by MTV India. They follow Indian producers I dig a lot -such as Midival Punditz, Nucleya, Karsh Kale and Dub Sharma – on their roadtrips through traditional India, searching for new collaborations. And they are not scared to cross some boundaries and do it the Indian way: with drama.
Let’s wait for MTV Europe to go for this format as well!  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqSMVIMgKw&list=UUDsxqNwJhnfhRkmqCgO0TcQ&feature=player_embedded

For other takes of Soundtrippin go here:

 

Below you can checkout webpages of the mentioned artists:
Nucleya | Karsh Kale | Dub Sharma | Midival Punditz

13okt

Wild Unlimited

Dance ! As we’ll be celebrating the next Wild Unlimited. This time starting of with the movie Guča: The Serbian Woodstock

Friday November 8th | Barco Amsterdam | Facebook event | Location

Het duurde even EN we gaan weer los met een nieuwe Wild Unlimited, de avond met frisse wereldwijde geluiden varierend van Vintage tot Balkan tot Asian tot Azonto en Tropical Bass. En we doen dit heel passend weer in de Barco Boot, vlakbij Amsterdam CS! Wild Unlimited’s residents Jairzinho (Tolhuistuin) en mps PILOT (22tracks) zijn al maanden bezig hun vetste tracks te selecteren. Ze moeten echter eerst nog de vertoning van een film over Servie’s befaamde en wilde blazersfestival festival in Guča afwachten.. Guča: The Serbian Woodstock ! Maar dan gaat de beer ook echt los.

Wild Unlimited

09okt

Latin Bass Mexico vol. 2

In case you didn’t get infected with the Cumbia flu yet, give this compilation of the best new Cumbia’s from around a shot. It’s from the guys from LMBR, they’re from Mexico and it’s totally free. These guys made a great compilation. Again.

Latin bass mexico vol 2

Download here

24sep

Sfinks Levitated

As I was going to play several sets at the world famous Sfinks Mixed Festival edition of 2013, the organisation asked me to reserve a more traditional set for their illustrous Cabana. And thats what I did. I decided to spin solely traditional trance music. Music, centuries old, intended for levitation… Going out of your mind… Old and pure.

The Cabana can hold 80 dancers to the max, was was steaming hot and we had one lamp only (we pulled that one out as well as this time the place was at its best being pitchdark… And we all went mad! For 2 hrs…So the whole experiment was a great surprise to me. It was just amazing to see how a young crowd go Wild at these traditional and very wild sounds..

The tunes come from places inbetween Kinshasa and Alger, Denpasar and Damascus. Enjoy, go wild and deep like we did. And spread the vibe.

The Sfinks Levitated Set by Mps Pilot on Mixcloud

Picture by Meriem Fadil El Alaouiova

17sep

Video release

We are happy and proud to announce the video release for mps PILOT’s official remix of Dhi Punjab di by the Uk’s leading Desi outfit Tigerstyle.

The tune is straddling the line between minimal class and sub-low dance floor music, completely stripped-back to give all room to the Punjabi vocals. And then the synths come in! Jump to the bass & enjoy.

10sep

Uproot Andy remixes ’n edits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brooklyn based DJ / producer Uproot Andy always makes me happy with his – on first sight – easy sounding edits/ mashups / remixes of some known and unknown grant tunes he digs up all over the place.. Play them below, and – even better – get them for free. (DL below)

Vol. 1 | Vol. 2

03sep

mps PILOT remix 4 SKIP&DIE

Ever since the release of their debut album “Riots in the Jungle” (which came out on Crammed Discs in October 2012), the sensational genre-blending band formed by South African vocalist & visual artist Catarina Aimée Dahms (aka Cata.Pirata) and Dutch musician & producer Jori Collignon have been wowing the crowds all around Europe, with their dynamic fusion of electronic dance music, tropical bass, ragga, hip hop and everything in between. This fall, SKIP&DIE are back with the sparkling “Remixed Riots” mini-album, containing no less than 8 reworks of SKIP&DIE tracks by producers/DJs such as Bomba Estéreo (CO) & Frikstailers (AR).

mps PILOT HAD to make a Brasil Drum ’n bass style version of the anthem la Cumbia Dictatura with a half speed break for those who want to find their glass left behind somewhere. So… JUMPUP!

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27aug

We go Wild!

Wild Unlimited

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes we go Wild ! Wild Unlimited, mps PILOt’s Amsterdam residency will take place coming weekend.

He’ll be accompagnied by DJ Jairzinho from Amsterdam.

Together they’ll take you along loads of major fresh vintage voodalou, worldbeat and tropical bass tunes.

Join us! FACEBOOK  |  LOCATION  |  WILD UNLIMITED

 

20aug

Report Festival au Desert | 2003

10 Years ago this green DJ from The Lowlands of Netherlands went beserk on Tamashek musique he witnessed at the famous Sfinks festival (B). I then decided I really wanted to see a Tamashek Festival Sfinks was co-creating. The festival was somewhere deep in the desert, 60 km north of Timbuktu. In Mali. Since the start of this festival the siginificance of Malian music was only getting more and more clear to the western world. This report is aiming mainly on the Tamashek and Songhay music played there live, on and of the stages. There is even a live recording of the famous Super Onze from Gao.

The report was done for the famous Wandelende Tak program on Dutch radio / VPRO radio. It’s in dutch but its easy to skip through the short spoken parts and there are heaps of music to enjoy.

Special thanks to Walter Slosse, the main man behind De Wandelende Tak who was so kind to send me the lost VPRO file.

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Horst Timmers | mps PILOT | festival Au desert 2003

 

 

 

15aug

Dengue Dengue Dengue

I’m a great fan of the sound of Dengue Dengue Dengue, a peruvian duo bringing the best in Cumbia and electronic dance music together. This video shows perfectly why. Plus I love the fact that in this video a how peruvian look on western pop and dance culture works. ReFreshening.

29jul

Official remix release of Tigerstyle’s – Dhi Punjab Di

mps PILOT is thrilled to announce his next remix for UK’s leading Desi outfit Tigerstyle. After the the Bol! Bol! Bol! remix he made together with Streamer under the name StreamerPilot this is another fresh Uk Bass minded remix.

The original is a fresh take of any Punjabi Girl’s favourite, “Dhi Punjab Di” (meaning: Daughter of Punjab). Its the follow up single taken from Tigerstyle genre defining Digi-Bhang album. Taken from the No1 selling album in the iTunes UK World Albums Chart, “Digi-Bhang” is released end of July. Play it loud!

 

BTW if you want a copy leave a comment on the soundcloud page and/or subscribe to mps PILOT’s newsletter

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15jul

Wild Unlimited The feast @Barco

Our first Wild Unlimited at the Barco was a blast!

So lets do it again and again and again! This time we’ll be showing this great new movie on Malian music by refugee musicians, Sahel Calling.

Click for the event | Location

11jul

mps PILOT DJset Amsterdam Roots

mps PILOT’s DJset rocking ARF’s main stage. Enjoy!

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10jul

Friday Night by The Busy Twist

Although it’s a tuesday morning, this Friday Night tune by London based producers The Busy Twist is making me always happy. With and without the video. A tune you will very likely hear on the coming Wild Unlimited night July 19th in Amsterdam.

02jul

Four Tet remixing Omar Souleyman

Yes. After doing a great remix of a Tinariwen tune, NU House legend Four Tet discovered Omar Souleyman. The tune is ripped from the ‘Four Tet b2b Gilles Peterson 2Hr Set’. Just ad a beat to the original and you’r done. But it works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJL-U4-J5Z4

27jun

Taur! by H. Boparai, A. & J. Singh

These guys make me totally happy with this video AND absolute banging fresh and traditional tune I’m spinning every set since a few months snow. Big up!

It’s released by Soldier Sounds, who will publish 2 mps PILOT remixes for Tigerstyle in not too long.

27jun

Tune!

These guys make me totally happy with this video AND absolute banging fresh and traditional tune I’m spinning every set since a few months snow. Big up!

20jun

WILD UNLIMITED

Yes we’ll be rocking a grand boat, the Barco, next to Amsterdam Central Station.

mps PILOT’s residency WILD UNLIMITED will be celebrated again.

AND together with guest DJ Jairzinho and the Makeshift Music Cinema Club (MMCC):
Mandekalou – The art and soul of the Mande griots (Lionel Guedj, 2005) 50 mins, start 22:00u) So be early!

Facebook Event

08jun

Super Onze – Tape re-release

Last week my label TWO Speakers released a Sahara trance cassette re-release from my friends of Super 11 (Gao, Mali).

Session pour Yehia le Marabout (TWO 005)
“Super Onze are the real roots of desert blues – Mali’s equivalent of Congotronics. This is how it all sounded before the electric guitar came in to the equation: Super Onze play amplified ngonis with virtuoso and hypnotic melodies, their raw, impassioned bluesy singing hangs over heavy takamba beats on calabash percussion. After years of playing at weddings and child naming ceremonies around the desert, this band rocks – not to be silenced. The real soul of Mali’s northern desert.”

Lucy Durán, School of Oriental and African studies, and BBC Radio 3.

The people of this band are in serious danger. War/sickness/famine in their hometown/region/country. All proceedings go to them directly. So please support them directly by buying the album.

Artwork by Take a Detour

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06jun

Batida hitting the Boiler Room.

I love the sound of this guy Batida, and his live band btw. He’s a Uk based portugese producer spinning all kinds of new and older (kuduro) music from Angola. Here he’s doing a DJset at the Boiler Room, uk’s leading online DJset broadcaster. He’s using a midi controller hidden in an oil can. See him warm up the reluctant crowd!

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31mei

At The Alimentation Generale, Paris.

mps PILOT rocking the Alimentation Generale, a great club in a former garage in the center of Paris. 4 hours set.

27mei

22TRACKS

Since 3 years mps PILOT hosts the Amsterdam – Tropical page on the international renowned streaming page 22Tracks. It hosts 22(!) genres selected by 22 DJ’s in 4 European capitals. Don’t wait for the regular media but check the pro’s choice! They have a 90.000 likers on FB and they are growing rapidly. Tune in weekly to mps PILOT’s updates.

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mps PILOT 22TRACKS

23mei

NEW BIO PICS

We’re getting high and wild on these!

They’re shot at Radio Kootwijk (NL) by Michael van Maanen.

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Michael also made the pictures for mps PILOT’s Amsterdam residency WILD UNLIMITED

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23mei

PRIVE / CORPORATE bericht

FRIS, HIP & FEESTELIJK | WERELDWIJD

“Horst / mps PILOT inhuren voor onze bruiloft was een schot in de roos. Hij is een zeer professionele en ervaren DJ. Dit merkte we al tijdens de voorbereiding;een prettige communicatie en Horst dacht ook op een constructieve manier mee en gaf ons goede tips waar we veel aan hebben gehad. De avond zelf was een groot succes: de dansvloer is geen moment leeg geweest en we hebben ontzettend veel complimenten over de muziek (dus de DJ) gekregen. We hadden ons oprecht geen betere DJ kunnen wensen. MPS Pilot is echt een aanrader!!” Yasser en Maria, Amsterdam, april 2013

Naast zijn publieke optredens verricht mps PILOT zijn DJ-activiteiten ook graag opdiverse feesten zoals diners, openingen, bruiloften en bedrijfsevenementen. Hij doet dit op vele locaties, voor een publiek van diverse komaf, een brede leeftijdsgroep en alle opleidingsniveaus. Hij kijkt wie er voor zijn neus staat (leeftijd / opleidingsniveau / komaf / uitstraling) en past er zijn repertoire, spanningsopbouw en afbouw, in het moment, op aan. De gezelschappen varieren van 50-500 mensen. Hij werkt met diverse bands en solo artiesten die in dit verband naast hem te boeken zijn: percussionisten, blazers en danseressen in verschillende stijlen.

THEMA’S mps PILOT draait ook graag themafeesten als Italie, De Balkan, De Tropen, Afro-Jazz, Asia / India en het Midden Oosten

APPARATUUR mps PILOT kan desgewenst op locatie licht & geluids apparatuur (laten) regelen.

REFERENTIES zijn op aanvraag beschikbaar. Prive & corporate.

FEEDBACK (MARKTPLAATS):

Dj op bruiloft in Utrecht. Geplaatst door Eva Thijssens op 27 jan. ’13. Wat een verademing dat dj mps PILOT op onze bruiloft draaide! Ik vond het spannend van te voren, want ik(wij) hou(den) erg van goede grooves over de hele wereld, maar zou het bezoek, 400 mensen, hier ook van genieten? Gelukkig was het fantastisch! Hij bouwde de muziek op zo’n manier op dat het voor iedereen toegankelijk was. Zoveel mensen hebben de hele avond gedansd, van jong tot oud. En wat ikzelf ook bijzonder vond, was dat zoveel mensen zeiden dat ze in jaren niet zo lekker gedansd hadden. Ja, het was een top bruiloft. Dank je wel, mps PILOT!

DJ bij onze bruiloft in Lisserbroek. Geplaatst door M. de Winter op 25 jan. ’13.
Horst was de perfecte DJ voor onze bruiloft. We wilden muziek horen die mensen met zeer diverse achtergronden/culturen zou kunnen verbinden. Niet slechts 1 groep die zich erbij thuisvoelt, maar uitnodigend voor iedereen die van muziek en dansen houdt, waar hij of zij ook vandaan komt. Dit pakte heel goed uit; hij wist met zijn enorme swingende wereldmix heel veel mensen aan het dansen te krijgen. Daarbij was het fijn dat hij ook al tijdens het eten draaide- rustiger, maar net zo smaakvol!

DJ bij ons huwelijksfeest in Uffelte (Drenthe) door Saskia, op 17 jan. ’11. Horst heeft super gedraaid op onze bruiloft. We hadden zelf veel zin in zijn muziek en waren blij dat ook onze gasten er zo van genoten (ook al was het voor lang niet iedereen muziek waar ze vertrouwd mee zijn). We hebben echt heerlijk gedanst! Ook de samenwerking met een bevriende muzikant was heel geslaagd. Het feest voelde tegelijk super swingend en intiem.

Zomerfeest VPRO met thema Z-Afr. in Hilversum door Jasper op 25 jun. ’10 DJ MPS Pilot heeft een goede sfeer weten neer te zetten op het zomerfeest van de VPRO. Binnen het thema ‘Zuid-Afrika’ wist hij de goede snaar te raken en prettige muziek te draaien. Zelfs met de concurrentie van een voetbalwedstrijd van het Nederlands elftal wist hij nog een flink aantal mensen naar de dansvloer te lokken. Al met al een geslaagd feest en een aanrader voor het verzorgen van dansbare wereldmuziek.

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Wilt u kontakt en / of hebt u specifieke vragen over beschikbaarheid, repertoire, tarieven en eventueel apparatuur neem dan contact op met:

mps PILOT | Horst Timmers
T: 020 68 11 622
M: 06 24 44 74 67
E: office[at]mpspilot.nl

21mei

@Wicked Jazz Sounds | Radio6NL

It was great to have a chat with Phil Horneman/Wicked jazz Sounds in Hilversum for Radio6. We even got deep questions from the public about the most important moment in the history of sound! (didnt have a clue) Enjoy!

20130512 DJ-Set MPS Pilot at Wicked Jazz Sounds on Radio6NL by Wickedjazzsounds on Mixcloud