The new season starts this Saturday the 4th of September. We are really hyped about it so we set up a spotify playlist for you to enjoy in the meantime. We call this one simply, Back to school: http://open.spotify.com/user/botah/playlist/7biPEilMqtszmb1prq7dBk
It’s seven days and two and a half hours of absence and yerning left. Thank you for being so patient. We promise you it’ll pay off. Next week Ajvar is back bigger, better, not longer though, but ever so uncut. Tune in at 95,3 or at thsradio.se Saturday the 4th of september. You’ll be dancing before you know it.
Emir is ready for Ajvar autumn 2010
We like birthdays. Specially our own. Big up to all our friends and everyone else who came and celibrated Ajvar’s five year birthday at Tranan. Couldn’t have been a better way of finishing off this season. A special thanks to our fantastic line-up of guests playng tunes at their very best. Mash Up International, High Life, Fast Forward Sound and Joey Fever, Nasty Nate, Mattmatic, El Cumbión and Boj Lucki.
For those of you missing out…we’re sorry for you. Come agin for next years event.
All pics by Eskil Lundberg
Boris Lukic and Mattmatic.
Mash Up International and Emir Krkic.
High Life.
Joey Fever and Boj Lucki.
Helena Björck and Nasty Nate
For half a decade we’ve delivered heart, soul, groove and rythm from here there and everywere. Oh yes, we do think that’s worth celebrating. So we’re having a five year birthday bash at Tranan Bar in Stockholm on Thursday 10th of june. For this special occasion we asked or favourite guest through the years to join up and play their best tunes. We don’t expect any fancy gifts or so, but we do expect you to put on your best shoes and dance with us.
Here’s the deal
Welcome!
All good thing must come to an end. Ajvar is not one of those things. But we’re going on summer holiday rounding up this season with a true veteran - Selecta Sharp. For the forth consecutive year in a row. Dancable as always, this yeas slightly more electronic. With the familiar Balkan twist.
Straight out of NY, Ajvar finished in style. That song Nobody Fails from Nigerian boy band Ofege’s 1973’s album Try And Love just makes you never wanna listen to anything else than just that tune.
Ok so we’ll be back. In august at 95.3. And in five days, on Thursday 10th of june.
Curious? Stay tuned…
Tonight Ajvar went cumbia. Again. Only this time we had Dj Pilas from the Stockholm club “El Cumbión”, digging a little bit deeper into that afro-latin rhythm we know you just can’t get enough of.
Traditional cumbia originated from the Caribbean coast of eastern Colombia, mainly performed with drums and claves. When cumbia entered Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Peru, Argentina…basically the rest of South America it developed into different styles. With new instruments such as guitar, mejoranera, violin, accordion,bass guitar, and modern flute. Difficult to mix. Fantastic to move to. And an excellent opportunity for mash-ups.
For example Sidestepper is a Colombian band centered around English DJ/producer Richard Blair and Colombian producer/songwriter Ivan Benavides. Their sound is influenced both by Afro-Colombian popular music styles like salsa and cumbia as well as electronic dance musics like dub and drum and bass. And the ultimate proof that cumbia and western popular culture are a match made in heaven has to be…Madonna vs Andreas Landero. Now that’s Music.
Sun was finally shining over Stockholm and Ajvar was guested by DJ Disco Dave. Lots of funk, lots of dance and lots of rhythm. From Africa to the middle east to Brazil to Bollywood ending up in Spain, Italodisco style.
Bananarama? Closer then you expect.
Did you know that Daft Punk and Bananarama has a ting going on with the Belgian group Black Blood? The discosong Aie A Mwana, recorded in 1975 supposedly sung in Swahili. The cover became the first single from the English girl group Bananarama. But there’s more. Originally it was called Aieaoa, and was featured on the pseudo-Japanese dance album Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki which had been released in 1971 by the French writing and production team of Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger…the father of Thomas kluger in Daft Punk. Now that’s music mash-up for you.
It’s spring folks, First of May.The flowers are in bloom, the kids are playing in the grass and drinking cheep wine in the park. Old people demonstrates against whatever they are upset about. Off course it is just a coincidence that the first tune by Tulio De Piscopo is named Primavera. But a luvly coincidence it is.
Inti-Illiman in the name of democracy
So let’s get political, this date in honor. Inti-Illiman is an instrumental and vocal Latin American folk music ensemble from Chile formed in 1967 by a group of university students and it acquired widespread popularity in Chile for their song Venceremos (We shall win!) which became the anthem of the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende. At the moment of the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup the were on tour in Europe and were unable to return to their country where their music was proscribed by the ruling military junta. Tragedy for Chile, but Inti-Illimans career successfully continued in Italy. And they continued their efforts supporting Chilean democracy internationally. In folkmusic we trust.
To quote the not so famous Swedish radio-host Gert Fyllking - äntligen! (translation: finally!) At last the Ajvar guest performance-list expanded with DJ Bruce Leenus. If you’re music style best can be described as hip-hop-electro-disco-80s-funk-freestyle-down-south-rap-booty, you know the influences must be as diverse. And yes, he took us on that roller coaster ride of tunes, from Berlin to Bronx, that we expected. He who waits on God never waits too long…
