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The Angel Vibing Up Your “Restless Soul”…

Categories: Interviews & Charts, Radio
Posted on March 31, 2009 Posted by The Angel

Last Monday night, I joined Kristi Lomax as her guest DJ on her weekly radio show, “Restless Soul” on KPFK. Kristi is not only a gracious and eloquent host, but an incredibly adept engineer… It was quite a thing for me to be in a studio environment, where I didn’t have to be in the hot seat, at the controls.

Kristi gracefully cued up the tunes that I had dug out of the crates and vaults, mixed between them with ease and confidence, multi tasked interviewing me on air, having a laugh with me off air, notating the tunes for the playlist and eventually sharing her passion for producing her own music…

It was a warm and mellow atmosphere with lots of head bobbing going on. The essence of dj’ing filling the room by two people who genuinely love music and love turning people on to the music that moves them…

Here’s a link to the playlist KPFK “Restless Soul” Playlist 3/23/09 and here is the audio archive link… I previewed some tunes from the upcoming release “Supa Crucial Downtempo Remixes & Rarities,” which will be available on iTunes 4/21, so check the archive for an early listen.

Here are a few moments “behind the scenes”:
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Settin’ Up “Supa Crucial Downtempo Remixes & Rarities”

Categories: Releases
Posted on March 19, 2009 Posted by The Angel

It’s amazing how much music gets made that either never gets released or that only gets a limited release… remixes of the moment or songs that had no home because they were too different for a specific album, or simply because, at the time, there really was no outlet for them in the grand scheme of things.

I took a trip down memory lane through the Supa Crucial catalogue over the past month and realized that we have some real gems that either, no one can find out there anymore due to labels having gone under, limited vinyl releases that never got digitized or simply because tunes got lost in the flurry of new activities and priorities… temporarily forgotten but the love was never lost.

Hence we are compiling and releasing these downtempo beauties in April. Here’s a little early behind the scenes info…
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DJ Drez gives The Angel “Destiny Complete (Bittersweet Version)” & OG version feat Mystic, the Jahta remix treatment
One time Garth Trinidad favorite Jaz Klash “Thru The Haze (The Angel Remix)”
Divine Styler’s remix of The Angel “Make It Betta” feat Tre Hardson originally a limited vinyl only release
The Angel “Act As If (Act III Mix)” feat Divine Styler originally released on the “Boiler Room (Original Motion Picture Score)” album
The Dread Flimstone & Paleface remix of 60 Channels “Ride With The Flow” originally a limited vinyl only release
Headset (Plug Research) remix of “OK…Alright” by Mystic unearthed and unreleased until now
Tre Hardson “10 Million Ways” produced by The Angel – this track was recorded at a time when there was no logical home for it, but there is now

Some more surprises… but you’ll just have to wait for the next installment to find out about the rest. Stay tuned!

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Bringing 60 Channels Back To The Future…

Categories: Releases
Posted on March 10, 2009 Posted by Supa Crucial Crew

Later this year look out for a brand new 60 Channels EP entitled “Ultra Light” featuring Jhelisa!
But this month we’re bringing out…


March 10th the single “Scorched Earth (Earthstar Mix)” feat Rain Phoenix.
This mix is a mellow and sombre incarnation of the original track taken from the album
“Covert Movements”
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“Scorched Earth
Parched Soul
Understanding Pain
Yet The Less I Know…”
Lyrics by The Angel

March 17th the album “Covert Movements (Instrumentals)” containing full instrumental versions of the original album. For all the graphic designer buddies of ours, who consistently tell us that they love working those long hours listening to instrumentals for inspiration – here’s one for ya…
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Beats & Pieces – Some Angel History In The First Person Pt1

Categories: Beats & Pieces - The Angel History
Posted on March 1, 2009 Posted by The Angel

It was April 29th 1992 when Mike Ross, head of Delicious Vinyl, flew me from London to New York so that we could meet and discuss a record deal. He and his team would fly in from Los Angeles and meet me there.

They booked me into a recording studio in the city to check me out in action. I always suspected that they just wanted to make sure that I really was doing all my own programming, writing and producing. So armed with some vinyl and dats (those were the days) with my library of sounds and created samples, I headed over to the studio where they had rented in an Akai S1000 Sampler, an Atari 1040ST and Cubase. It was there, that I wrote, “Freedom Is A State of Mind”.

So there I was in the studio, like I was on another planet… but late in the day I was shaken out of my creative cocoon, when we switched on a TV in the control room and saw Los Angeles in complete chaos… the riots had broken out and Mike & the Gang had barely made it out on one of the last flights to leave the city that day. This was one of my early introductions to LA while I was feeling back at home in NY, but still living in London… The images came with such foreboding and it’s been a bittersweet mixture of loveliness and trauma ever since…

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