NYE with YAO

Yao will be performing NYE in the SFC alongside our good friends Disco Shawn and Oro11 of Bersa Discos, it should prove to be a wonderful evening full of lost memories and new found hope!!

BTW



Bookworms has a great new track on his myspace page "African Rhythms".

Roche has two new beats up on his myspace page.

Enso Article in Re:spect Magazine -- MAD DECENT

enso has been writing occasional articles on international dance music for hong kong's RE:SPECT magazine... a nice little project. he writes in english and they translate to chinese. good deal!!! we'll try to share them here from time to time...

see the large image here

No Summer Or Winter

About a year ago Roche was introduced to Agnes Szelag via CB Radio. She gave him a CD. After first listen of her EP "No Summer Or Winter" he was inspired to remix the songs. The end result being "No Summer Or Winter (Roche Remixes)"

Here is a link to one of the remixes.

And the tracklist..

1. Lato Intro
2. Inside and Out of This World
3. Man-Made laws made man lost
4. Lato Outro

Roche will be making a few cd-r's with all 4 tracks. More info later....

Yao Attends The Tables

What's Yao been up to? This past Saturday he played a rambunctious set at Anu in San Francisco. Sharing the decks with Refusenik (a connection made via the Argentina homies). Apperently he has been working on some tracks too, we look forward to hearing those.

Roche & Bookworms play music in a cave

Roche & Bookworms play music in a cave, this footage was recently found and is probably from the pre historic neanderthal days.

UPDATE: Many may perhaps see the Barack Obama pins (at the video's end) as a reflection of the political leanings of Roche and Bookworms, but these items and their placement in the video are merely a representation of pics of the event and the night's partygoers and in no way reflect the opinions of Roche and Bookworms or Solos Records.

It should be also stated that Yao and Enso do openly support Barack Obama and his presidential run.

Solos crew remixes Lemonade

Lemonade, bay area hometown heroes, who have just relocated to NY are releasing their excellent debut album on True Panther Sounds today actually!! If you order it here, you will receive an exclusive remix CD featuring many incredible reworkings of the hot tracks from the album. Solos crew came out in full force, as Bookworms, Roche and Yao jumped at the opportunity to remix some of their friends great material. Don't sleep!

A Night With Yao

Yao played Beat House Rock at Club 6 in San Francisco. It was a fun night. Mr. Dibiase was the headliner but we had to cut out earlier to catch the last Tormenta Tropical at 222 hyde. It was a blast. It's too bad that little spot had to close, we had some great shows there.

customs check...

this is on american soil...watch out for a musical shot....

Solos In Stereo II SF Release Party

SOLOS IN STEREO II SAN FRANCISCO RELEASE PARTY LI PO LOUNGE SATURDAY AUG 30TH

High Time was the opening dj. Pure gems.

Bookworms played a live set, it was crazy.

Shane King had the kids dancing, I think that's been said in a few blogs already.

Steve Summers (performing as Malvoeaux) played some really big filters and tweaked knobs, it sounded awesome.

Disco Shawn closed the night like a true hero, enough said.

Thomas Bates provided visuals throughout the evening. It was hi-tech and sci-fi amazingtripness.

Bookworms and Roche on KALX

Monday (the 25th of August) Eddy Bauer (of KALX Berkeley 90.7) was kind enough to have Bookworms and Roche come thru and play a bunch of random music.
Here's the playlist and some pics, we will try to get some audio up

Sweet Road (Yao Rmx) - Animal Collective - Unreleased
Grateful Alice - JRK - Limited release vinyl
Vibrations - Javelin - Unreleased
Ayo Technology (Instr) - 50 Cent ft JT - Curtis
Muevete (Roche Rmx) - CB Radio - Unreleased
Will To Joy - Animal Collective - Unreleased
Since I Met You (Yao Rmx) - Bookworms - The Hidden Staircase
Izus - Aphex Twin - Richard D. James
Flip Flap - Jib Kidder - All On Ya'll Mixtape
Bro's - Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Golden Diva - Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Riot Radio - Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
African Rhythms (Bookworms Rmx) - Mi Ami - Mi Ami Remixes CD-R
Merry Making At My Place (Mr. Oizo Rmx) - Calvin Harris - Merry Making At My Place
Metabolic - Ecru - Sons of Winded Armies
Static In The Valley (Bookworms Rmx) - Brookhaven - Unreleased
Sizzle - Roche and Louis - Claiming Space EP
Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Soda Popinski - Javelin - Unreleased
Walk On By - Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Grenadine Girl (CB Radio Rmx) - Jovian - Unreleased

This is what we were talking about....

Records.. Vinyl... Acetate.. Wax!!!

We love records, so we got big respect for homeboy right here, very impressive...


The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

via Nahright

RIP Isaac Hayes

Damn. Big love to the Black Moses.

SISII Release Party(s)

SAN FRANCISCO

HONG KONG

Muevete

Roche has done a remix of CB Radio's "Muevete" (off our new comp).
It's on his myspace page along with a bunch of other remixes.

Solos In Stereo II available soon.....

New tracks from the entire Solos roster and special guests!!

One Mo Gin' (again)

We put a Jonesy post up about a month ago, remember.......

Jonesy is a rapper/musician/partyanimal.

Jonesy and Bookworms made some songs together. The first to drop is "One Mo Gin'" on our next release "Solos In Stereo II" available this July.

You can hear a version of "One Mo Gin'" on Jonesy's myspace.

Checkout Bookworms myspace for another track featuring Jonesy.

Now you can also checkout Roche's myspace for a remix of "One Mo Gin'"

Suenes

Seems like a long time ago....
"Plantain Is Public" had just dropped.
Yao just got back from Argentina and got a cool/wierd spot near Alamo Square.
One day he shared this video with us. His friend Sean Selva, who Yao met in Argentina, made the video.

Solos in URB

URB had some good things to say about our new comp.
BTW they got some info wrong, sorry Jovian and Bookworms don't rap.
However any press is good press and these guys gave us 4 stars out of 5 so we can't be mad.

Zizek coast to coast July tour

Stevie aint the only one who is hotter than July. Our homies from the Zizek posse of Buenos Aires are also hotter than July, and will be on a USA invasion tour during that same July that they are hotter than! They are even going to Canada, now thats North America love right there, and Mexico City- wow!!! This is so sinserious, this tour right hurrr. Im sure they are going to be killing it, so go out and celebrate.

Check em at a town near you!

DJ Enso track on Time.com

Time Magazine was in HK a few weeks back, and they made a nice little video about Parkour artists there. Our friend Govad was featured, and they ended up using an old DJ Enso beat called "Groupie Love" for the intro and throughout the first half.... represent y'all....

check it out here

Maybe one day solos crew will get to make a new theme song for CNN's "The Situation Room"....

Solos Records Presents Fake Cake Gallery's Last Party Ever

Solos Records Presents Fake Cake Gallery's Last Party Ever

Here is some footage and sound from Fake Cake Gallery's last show on June 13th 2008. Unfortunately the dancefloor was dark so most of this footage is from the lively behind the scenes area (the kitchen). Enjoy.

I've seen many strange things

the cover art for our new compilation "Solos In Stereo"

a flyer for a show we had a few months ago

we put these flyers in all the stores on Haight Street in SF, including Villains Vault, who apparently liked our design so much they choose to........

hmmmm........cool but........

biters

Only When I Dream

Chicago's Pugslee Atomz is a dope mc and an all around good person. We met him while on tour in Chicago. He was nice enough to play some of our music on his radio show. Since then we have all been playing more shows and making more music.

With that said, here's another preview of our new compilation "Solos In Stereo II". It's a song produced by Roche featuring Pugslee and his homie Wes Restless.

Only When I Dream-Roche ft Pugslee Atomz and Wes Restless

Blog Love....

Rockthedub

FakeShoreDrive

KonstantRevolution

One Mo Gin'

Jonesy is a rapper/singer/musician of sorts. When we first heard his stuff, we liked it. Some songs kinda sounded like Charisma meets the Biz at recess and some didn't....at all, but in a good way.

Jonesy and Bookworms made some songs together. The first to drop is "One Mo Gin'" on our next release "Solos In Stereo II" available this July.

You can hear a version of "One Mo Gin'" on Jonesy's myspace.

Checkout Bookworms myspace for another track featuring Jonesy.

CB Radio Gets More Love

XLR8R have posted CB Radio's "Muevete" on their mp3's page. You can now download the track off their website.

Better Propaganda have also posted "Muevete" along with CB Radio's "Blue Skies". They also somehow got a picture of the (soon to be released) "Solos In Stereo II" coverart. It looks something like this....

Hot Jamz Of Javelin

Our friends Javelin have a great video for their track "Education!"
It was made by Bennett Williamson of the GRL

You can hear more of Javelin on our next release "Solos In Stereo II".

Grenadine Girl

Jovian recently put up a slightly different version of "Grenadine Girl" on his myspace page.

Grenadine Girl-Jovian

Also checkout CB Radio's remix :

Grenadine Girl (CB Radio remix)

"Grenadine Girl" is cut off our next release "Solos In Stereo II" due for release this July. It's a compilation featuring all our resident artists as well as guest artists Javelin, Pugslee Atomz, Wes Restless and Jonesy.

CB Radio and Yao(Yaosers) @ Fake Cake Studios

The Fake Cake Studios is soon to be closed which makes us really sad, so these Grey Poupon Brothers are putting in extra work there, spending 25 hours a day in there, eating in there,dancing, drinking beers up in there, having cough syrup binges in there, and even CB Radio giving Yao mini music theory lessons on the piano. Such is the legacy that the smoldering ashes of the Fake Cake studios will have as the recking ball smashes into it and construction converting it into a parking lot begins....okay, kididing, that would be too cliché... its really going to be turned into a Chuck E Cheese
So here is some recent footage of them working on some music there:

Tormenta Tropical

CB Radio will play two last Bay Area shows before heading out to New York.
We'll be there tonight.

This show will be the last FakeCake Gallery show.

If you are in the SF Bay Area don't sleep on these shows.

Bookworms Folks

Bookworms recently self-released a five song collection of remixes. There were only twentyfive copies, each wrapped in a handsewn fabric sleeve made by Shadi. There might be plans for a second run, so if you happen to see Bookworms at a show in the Bay Area you betta axe about it.

Tracklisting....

Folks: Remixes By Bookworms

1. Mi Ami - How Can I
2. Brookhaven - Static In The Valley
3. Finest Dearest - Slow Going
4. CB Radio - Blue Skies
5. Brookhaven - Something Must Remain Of Us

222 Club

Partytime with Curtis Vodka, Disco Shawn, Oro11 and CB Radio


Bookworms was a party animal. He also stood on the dancefloor with his eyes closed for about 15 minutes.

Battle Of The Year

Unity Recordings of China have a new release featuring none other than Solos Records eastern star producer Jovian. Be on the lookout for his track "Grenadine Girl" on our new comp "Solos In Stereo II" (coming out this July!).

This just in...

Some girl with a newsies hat(who i'd usually ignore) had a lil birdie on her shoulder who told me this earlier today...

"EXTRA EXTRA, stickers are like the new condoms, all the guys are wearing them"

I was baffled, then the bird told me he was visiting from Hong Kong where DJ Enso djed the other night (pics), where indeed all the fellas where in fact rocking their stickers, like the back of DJ Enso (which said SOLOS IN STEREO 2- CD RELEASE SUMMER 2008- which is a good look as I know alot of people have been wondering about that) as well as this guy and his girl who look like swing dancers straight from the 30s/40s updated a bit(I'm really feelin that pic btw) rocking the Solos Records sticker. a big rrrrrespect goes out to the swinger man for blessing the arm. seen.



watch out we may start making condoms

solos recommends: Samiyam ~ Portishead ~ C.R.A.C.

So alot of good music coming out right now that i'd like to recommend-

first off, check for SamiYam, Rap Beats vol. 1 instrumental CD, he is killing it on the beats here with his own distinct style.


Portishead is back, as reported a couple mos. ago here, and I just finished my second listen and am liking it. They did not fall to the junior josh (a la sophomore slump), so dont be scurred.

and lastly, Blu, one of my fav new emcees has teamed up with Ta' Raach to form C.R.A.C.(pronounced crass, go figure) and there new album the Piece Talks is really really good- its really fun and loose and Ta'Raach comes nice on the beats. It is unlike anything I've heard before.

thats it for now... theres plenty more i can name, but yo i wont put em to use, anyways, i love music my man