Ajvar - THSRadio 95.3

There’s so many Bollywood film that it would take like a life time to play all those fantastic songs made and performed. So, we’re focusing on our favourite - Kismat (1968). This romantic family thriller has a soundtrack to die for and the title music by O.P.Nayyar is an Ajvar anthem. But nothing can really compare to Mahendra Kapoor and Asha Bhosle’s duet 1…2…3…Baby. With the simplest lyrics and kitschy voices it’s (almost) without a doubt the catchiest dancable tune to ever been produced in the Bollywood fabric.

one two three baby
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa
one two three baby
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa
one two three baby
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa
one two three baby
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa
yaa yaa yaa

We also like to take the opportunity to mix sports and music and send our very best wishes to FC Bayern München in tonight’s Champions League-final against Chelski with the German krautrock group Faust song Picnic on A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux. Forza, Super Mario.

1. Faust - Picnic on A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux
2. Rob - Just One More Time
3. Pino Daniele - Sotto ‘O Sole
4. Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo - Rah-Keet
5. Bablas Disco Sensation - Ghar Aya Mera Pardesi
6. Asha Bhosle & Mahendra Kapoor - 1…2…3…Baby
7. Dub Syndicate - Wadada (Means Love)
8. Raske Penge - Bor Her (El Djens Remix)
9. The Uhuru Dance Band - Untitled (Quantic Edit)
10. Los Holy’s - Sueno Sicodelico
11. Juan “El Matemático” - Loco Te Patina El Coco
12. Los Daltons - Alto Y Seco
13. Los Gliders - La Llorona Loca
14. Los Darts - Pregunto
15. The Dhag Dhag’s - Bohemio
16. Daniel Haaksman - Din Daa Daa (Bert On Beats Remix)
17. Batida - Alegria
18. Baby Cham vs. Swappi - Wine (Bubble On A DJ)
    

Let us take you on a trip into an unexplored Yugoslav music treasures. This is a small but heedfully selection of mostly 70’s and 80’s psychadelia and cool disco fusion tracks. Like the pioneers of the Serbian acoustic rock scene S Vremena Na Vreme and proggy funky disco from Zlatni Prsti. One hour Yugo madness straight from the heart.

1. Boomerang - Zivot, svetlucava, prolazna stvar
2. Zlatni Prsti – Prsti od Plastike
3. Zasilni Ishod - Ne dotikaj se me
4. Igra Staklenih Perli - Solarni Modus
5. Septembar - Zivot nema pravila
6. Septembar -Luduj sa nama
7. Septembar - Noc kradljivaca
8. S vremena na vreme - Ko!
9. S vremena na vreme - Tema Za Cargiju
10. Vlada Labat - Kontrapunkt
11. Miki Petkovski - Budjenje
12. Tihomi Pop Asanovic - Majko Zemljo
13. Miha Kralj - Embrio
14. Boa - Milion

First of all we want to thank all of you that danced your feet  off at Morfar Ginko’s basement yesterday - the most important persons with all due respect. And thanks to Soca Dennis for a fantastic soca set making up the perfect birthday and a pre-summer soundtrack. Oh what a feeling we’re feeling life. So tonight we’re yet again going into post party-mode with some back beat, Brazilian 90’s rock, a walk in Jerusalem and a doze of crazy “original nuttha” UK Apache style.

1. Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John (Version)
2. Lone Ranger - Badda Dan Dem
3. Batata ft. Nova Lima - Macacao Mata El Toro
4. Chinese Man - Get up (Remix)
5. Nação Zumbi - Voyager
6. Atakora Manu - Abena Kwabena
7. Cheif Stephen Osita Osadebe - Onu Kwube
8. Nação Zumbi - Pode Acredita
9. Dreadsquad ft. Dr Ring Ding - Old’s Cool
10. Victor Uwaifo - Ohue
11. Black Soul - Mangous Ye
12. Academia Da Berlinda - Filhinho
13. Chinese Man ft. Plex Rock - Stand!
14. Balkan Beat Box - No Man’s Land
15. Sem Folego - 3 Na Massa
16. Toy Selectah ft. DJ Blass - Sonidero Company
17. UK Apache - Original Nuttah (Dazed Dog Remix)

7 isthe number on everyone’s lips. Deadly sins, dwarves, wonders of the world, and above all years that Ajvar has delivered crazy, funky multi-culti beats in the radio and the dance floors. Friday the 4th of May we’re having our 7-year birthday party in Morfar Ginkos basement and as a perfect raped gift Soca Dennis (Soca Revolution) is coming with his brutally catchy Caribbean tones to get the party moving.

Of course Ajvar will serve Japanese play disco, classic Bollywood, Balkan brass, mashed up moombathon, African blues, Caribbean grooves, Middle Eastern psychedelic funk and much more.

Sounds good? Ok let’s do it.

Ajvar’s big 7 birthday party with Soca Dennis
Friday, May 4
21-01
Morfar Ginko
Swedenborgsgatan13, Subway: Mariatorget

Soca Dennis is a member of the international DJ / blog collective Soca Revolution. He is known as the man who runs around with a sound system and spread joy. Soca Dennis is Stockholm soca stage alive.

On their way to Södra Teatern and the Stockholm based Club Balkan Superstars the Belgrade duo ShazaLaKazoo stopped by Ajvar’s studio to play some of their danceable electronic bass mashed up with traditional Balkan beats. With some Latin American, Middle Eastern and Sub-Saharan African twist. You can call it Balkan ghettoelectro or folkstep. Or just bang bang entertainment.

- When we play our song Bang! the crowd always goes crazy jumping up and down.

Milan Djuric and Uros Petkovic started to play music as young kids in Belgrade but one after the other of the band members moved from Serbia. The duo then made a decision. They bought a computer and continued to make music but now with a distinctive electronic sound.

- Our music making process is different from song to song. Sometimes we start with some cool vocals, sometime with a crazy drumbeat and sometimes just with a rhythm we like. Anything that can be transformed into a dance-able tune.

1. ShazaLaKazoo ft. Killo Killo - Baklava Lover
2. ShazaLaKazoo - Fire In the Plum Orchard
3. ShazaLaKazoo - Bang!
4. ShazaLaKazoo - Borhan Kolo
5. Silver Bullit - Me Gusto (Dj Panko remix)
6. Balkan Beat Box - Enemy On Economy
7. Quantic Y Su Conjunto Los Miticos - Get Your Freek On
8. Schlachtofbronx - Dickie Riddim
9. ShazaLaKazoo ft. MC GI - Sai For A
10. ShazaLaKazoo - Ajde
11. Boddhi Satva - Eleng
12. Homenaje A Justino - Socavón
13. Daniel Haaksman - Puerto Rico (Neki Stranac Moombahton Mix)
14. Roul & Doors - Guinea (Neki Stranac MoombAfro Mix)

More about ShazaLaKazoo on their website

Since our show last Saturday was such a huge success with those Afro Gypsy tunes from Wanlov The Kubolor this weeks Spotify list continues with a selection of the very best from Ghana. There’s your classics highlife like C.K Mann and perhaps the happiest Ghanaian songs by Jerry Hansen’s Ramblers Dance Band to modern beats from King Ayisoba and Paul Matavire & Jairos Jiri Band.

Enjoy. You may dance.

Ajvar - Ghana

Lot’s of African artist are recognized in English spoken countries but seldom reaches our latitude. To bad, because this is good stuff. Let us introduce Afro Gypsy Music by the barefooted skirt-wearing African Gypsy Prince of Pidgen who is responsible for the new wave of young Broken English rappers and singers in Ghana embraced in the UK. Wanlov The Kubolor has collaborated and shared stages with Femi Kuti, The Gorillaz, Nneka, Bashy, Zwai Balas, Reggie Rockstone, Little Brother and many more. And his music mash up fusion of hip hop, reggae, afrobeat, afro-pop, hiplife, highlife and so on is oh so Ajvar.

American TV-series can sometimes contain that special tune that makes you remember it, the episode or the actual scene. The eleventh episode of the second season of HBO’s smashing The Wire is called Bad Dreams and at the end Stelios Kazantzidi’s Efige Efige makes the heart break. The episode aired on August 17, 2003 and the song is originally a Romany tune that or favourite Esma Redzepova sang a version of it with Serbian lyrics - Cigancica ja sam mala (I’m A Small Gypsy Girl). Nothing like the theatrical Greek title “It’s gone, it’s gone…”.

1. Yesim - Askin Omru Varmi
2. ZuluBoy - Nomalanga
3. Stelios Kazantzidis - Efige Efige
4. DJ Mujava - Mugwanti Sgwejegweje
5. Figli Di Madre Ignota - Drop The Rock
6. Banda Black Rio - Lois Lane
   
7. Kelenky Band - Jungle Music
8. Wanlov The Kubolor - Come Play
9. Wanlov The Kubolor - My Skin
10. Omar - Ghana Emotion
11. So Kalmoy - Makout
12. Opa Cupa - CPT Due Inutili Parole
13. Les Leopards - D’leau Coco
14. Massak - The Night Of The Purple Cirkles
15. Lucas Santtana - Super Violao Mashup

Since Friday was a Ajvar-night out at Morfar Ginko, Saturday’s playlist goes in slow mode. There’s a thin line between overheating yourself and healing musically the day after. Our recipe for survival and recovery is an angel’s voice with an apocalyptic edge lazy dub style, classic Babylon back-beat, a legendary almighty orchestra, traditional folklore with electronic cumbía beats, the father of Ethio-jazz, latest BBB and some of that ancestral soul*.

1. Max Romeo - One Step Forward
2. Prince Alla - Only Love Can Conquer
3. Burning Spear - Social Living
4. Gotan Project - Vuelvo Al Sur - (El Remolon Remix)
5. Gotan Project - Chunga’s Revenge (Axel Krygier Remix)
6. Mulatu Astatke - Kaasalefktu Hulu (Will Magid Edit)
7. Boddhi Satva - Invocation
8. Buzz A Buzz - Moombah Herbalist
9. Suits On Fire - Ahora Es
10. Boddhi Satva - Los Santos
11. Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta (Juan De Gomeval Remix)
12. DJ Rogelio Huerta - Moctezuma Xocoyotzin
13. DJ Cucañas - Makule Le
14. Balkan Beat Box - Money
15. Balkan Beat Box - Part Of The Glory
16. Balkan Beat Box - Enemy On Economy
17. Quantic Y Su Conjunto Los Miticos - Get Your Freek On
18. Quantic Y Su Conjunto Los Miticos - Nuthin’ But A “G”
19. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Dis Moi LA Verité

* “When Deep House music has modern Congolese Rumba as wife, West African voices as mistresses, and urban R&B and Afro-Cuban rhythms as occasional girlfriends”.

Out of Ajvar? No problem. Just get yourself together and come to Stockholm’s best basement at Morfar Ginko on Friday 30th of March. We will provide your storage with the very best Turkish funk, digi cumbía, moombahton, Bollywood, afrobeat, tropical bass and all the other dancable rhythms necessary. There will be dancing, sweating, euphoria, and perhaps one or two screams.

This is the deal then

Ajvar-refilling at Morfar Ginko
Friday 30th of March
21-01
Free entrance

Morfar Ginko
Swedenborgsgatan 13
Underground: Mariatorget

Lets go.

Before there was e-mail there were letters. Real ones, written in ink. And no song has captured the magic of a hand-written letter like Lord Cobra Y Los Hnos Duncan’s smashing Love Letters. The tune is taken from the fantastic collection Panama!2 Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk on the Isthmus 1967-77. All tracks are examples of a soulful blend of calypso funk, Cuban rumba, tropical soul and rustic Cumbía. The Panamanian musicians of this golden age combined and brilliantly executed styles that reflected their multi-cultural environment out there on the land-tongue. Panama music has contributions to saloma, pasillo, punta, tamborito, mejorana, bolero, jazz, salsa, reggae, calypso, rock…

But no one can beat the voice of bartender-turned-singer Lord Cobra. Way over the top. Completely heart breaking.

We also continue or Brazilian odyssey with a mixture of then and now from sweetest Maria Bethania by Caetano Veloso to modern spiritual fusion-group Academia da Berlina.The group released their first album in 2007, inspired by the cheesy sixties roots but has gone from classics of kitsch to more experimental compositions. You just got to love their enthusiastic description, or maybe more like world philosophy.

“Music has no caste, and thus the Academia da Berlinda pleases and drink from the source of the music of Central and South America but also in popular regional, gives grace and continues the tradition of dancing in clubs in the suburb of Recife, reviewing with humor and dignity all the poetic possibilities that music offers, people dance, and above all have fun.”

1. Noosh Afarin - Gole Aftab Gardoon
2. Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethania
3. Lord Cobra Y Los Hnos. Duncan - Love Letters
4. Atacora Manu - Abena Kwabena
5. Zia - Kofriom
6. Academia da Berlinda - Berliman
7. Leila Farouhar - Ghasam Beh Tou
8. Sharam Shabpareh - Heech Koja Iran Nemisheh
9. Filastine ft. Nova - Colony Collapse
10. M.I.A - Bad Girls
11. Stylo G ft. Warning - More Ganja
12. Homenaje A Justino - Socavón (Remix)
13. Dreadsquad ft. Dr Ring Ding - Old’s Cool
14. Diamond Bass - Stereotype
15. DJ Kechup - O Babo
16. Chan Dizzy - Gun Salut (So Shifty Remix)
17. DJ Arafat - Zoropoto (Act 2)
18. Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha - Tanssi Tanssi