JOE (MY GOD) SENT ME: 'Joe My God' reviews 'Heart of Wax'

"As a JMG exclusive, here's a free download of famed remixer Rich Morel's take on Vanessa Daou's Heart Of Wax. Veteran househeads will fondly recall Daou's epic 1992 classic Surrender Yourself. (Work it, learn it, serve it, bring it to the ball.) I'm loving this new single."

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'Heart of Wax' Part II **New Mixes**

"The follow-up to Vanessa's top 40 Billboard Club Play single “Consequences” is the second part of her tender late-night grinder “Heart Of Wax”.  Where Part 1 went for more of a subtle set featuring the languid sounds of Alpha Motive and Ganga’s heady dubby vibe, Part 2 drives the sultry slow burner into ultimate getting down and dirty on the floor territory with Richard Morel, Craig C and Emjae remixes. The mixes are a perfect start to the summer with filtered, swirling synths, pulsating rhythms, progressive grooves, glitch and straight up house.  After this sweaty workout, you can then take a hookah break in the lounge with Blank And Jones’ hazy, Balearic moonscape. The collection of Vanessa’s remixes Moonshine Mixes is coming in Fall 2011."

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the CHIC INDEX: "Style & Individual Expression through Sartorial Endeavor"

 

Photograph Iké Udé for the CHIC INDEX

I posted last week on my new role as Music Editor at Iké Udé's elegant, esoteric, and glossy aRUDE Magazine. 

I'm supremely excited about this synergy - Part of what I'll be aiming to do, as reflected in aRUDE's aesthetic approach, is explore new ways of discussing, listening, and thinking about music: in search, you could say, of a new Paradigm....  more soon on this...

My new photo was was shot by Iké Udé for the CHIC INDEX, aRUDE Magazine’s style blog.

Poetically described as "Style & Individual Expression through Sartorial Endeavor", the CHIC INDEX is both a visual journal and document; there you'll find reflections, ruminations, & philosophies & histories of style, dress, all on the streets of NYC ~

Part of the 'charge' of Art is that it reflects on all aspects of the visual, verbal, historical, pictorial ~ so that how one dresses is never a thing that is taken for granted, but is perceived in all its uniqueness, the way one regards a painted canvas, for instance... the CHIC INDEX reflects a way of looking not only at the world, but into the world, as a multi-faceted, forever in flux and mutable entity that, for one brief moment, can be captured - gloriously - in one still photograph... how beautiful is that?

 

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