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tkfl presents: we all must sleep

Mathew — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:34:41 +0000

Shit. I can talk about things I know nothing about till I am blue in the face, but once I need to do my job my brain gets scarce.

4 songs make up one E.P. The lean includes techno, ambient, experimental, dubstep. All recorded with broken dolby, tape-hiss real/faked, real pianos, faked horns, real/faked drums, faked talent, and no urgency to publish the damn thing.

Available exclusively today at www.dbtrx.com

and soon at itunes, amazon and everywhere else.

Just buy the damn thing so I can buy a new bike or fishing pole. Bling Bling.

Classic joint Sunday.

Mathew — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:01:00 +0000

Man, I have been slacking on putting this up for a while. I did this a few months ago for a show on My House -Your House radio

This mix is pretty rowdy. Dropping “Love will make it right” over the “Play that music” is one of those mixes I got attached to right off. I never had the balls to play it live, as it took a fairly quick mix to get out and I was always one of those “hold it till you pee” mixers. It took some control to only put two Ian Pooley mixes in this, I almost had 4 on it, but I narrowed them out. The final track, by Dj Drazil is a Seattle born classic from head to toe. Produced by the Jacob Londons, (You can find their version floating around too if you look) this track came out on the Eat House imprint of Carlos Miguel. I am releasing a few of Drazil’s track soon. He will be the second release on TKFL, and has both a couple classics and some incredible new tracks ready for release.

Enjoy the music

The charitable listing of the music titles:

BlakDoktor – Alacazam – 1998 – Shaboom Records
Anti Trance Terrorists – 1999 – Creative Music (Backed with PJ – Love Will Make It Right… Again -1996 – Stickman
White Label – Feel free to help me out. Possibly Inland Knight, most likely British from 99-01
Johnny Fiasco – Don’t Stop – 2000 – Distant Music
Mike Delgado – Soul Good – 1997? – Henry Street.
Dj Sneak – Throw your Hands – 1996 – Strictly Rhythm
TAKK. This record is somewhere in a crate from a gig. It may be lost forever.
Dave Angel – This is Disco – This might be the Ian Pooley remix -1997 -Island Records.
Daft Punk – Musique – 1996 – Virgin
Hollis P Monroe – I’m Lonely – 1999 – Stickman
Ian Pooley – 1997 – After Midnight Records
Jacob London and DJ Drazil – Hydrogenated Funk – 1998 – Eat House

tkfl, it’s also a record label.

Mathew — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:06:48 +0000

This week is the announcement of perhaps the coolest thing I have done this fall. The launching of tkfl, the record label. No huge party, no ticker-tape cascading down from the loft above me and certainly no double helping of tofu chocolate mousse after dinner tonight. Why? Because there is work to be done. Nothing more annoying than people trumpeting, laurel-sitting and coattail-riding for things they should be doing already.

Interesting Example. Group of friends dj together for some time, and make music together and also sell/do drugs together. They decide to start a label, sell enough drugs to press the first run and right before they release it, they have a record release party, where they all do loads of drugs and even sell some to the people who show up. Sounds like great fun right? Actually, I am not really opposed to this, as I know that a great many of labels started like this, life lessons, ect. The problem is 4 months later then they are still patting themselves on the back for their achievements and they haven’t actually done anything else.

My point being, is that when you are a butcher, we expect that you regularly cut up some meat. When you are a label, or a writer or painter, We hope that you label, write and paint. I know it feels good celebrate hard word that has led to a nice end, but try not to get caught up in too much back patting.

/soapbox

What can you expect from tkfl as a label? House, techno, downtempo, ambient, soul, hip-hop and the odd waltz throw in to keep you on your toes. It’s all fair game here. I hope that there will be some minimal-dark-disco-jams. The emphasis isn’t on dance floor stormers, though I hope that we have a few. Its more about good solid tunes that you can self-soundtrack with. Medicine. Not everything will be charged for I hope. I will do my best to give out free (and great) music on a regular basis. I will also do my best floss, shave and be cheerful about life too.

There will be plenty of my own music hopefully, as I am on good terms with the A&R guy (as long as he doesn’t catch me sleeping with his dear lady friend), but I have some stuff lined up from some old friends from around the world. The first release will be on November 4th. Generally there will be a new song added each week until the end of the month, when the E.P. is complete, and that is when we move on to the next months E.P.. I will happily accept submissions, but please email me first.

Other than that, I hope to have some interviews, some videos and other content soon.

Enjoy some greenery!

-Mathew