STRENGTH IN FLAVOR

BLU-RAY DVD RELEASE PARTY & CELEBRATION

Strength in Flavor is our temple of sweat and sound. We believe in an unending devotion to our art and are poised to devastate the floor before us. While our languages may differ our attitude is the same. We do not seek your approval; we have already earned it. We are the legends, the masters, the next generation.

Strength In Flavor is proud to announce the release of the first ever urban dance competition released on Blu-Ray DVD. We are excited to be able to give our continued support to the dance community by putting 50% of all the profits made by the sale of the DVD into the pockets of the top four crews from the battle held in November 2009. We invite you to come celebrate with us by blessing our cyphers or with your hands raised in the air.

Hosted By:
Naka B-Boy Edition
Flo-Ology
All the Way Live
Funkonometry &
The Renegade Rockers

Talent:
F.A.M.E. (Fresh Analog Music Experience)
Live Performance by Teeko, Max Kane, and Malaguti
Cecil (the People)
Dennis Infante (One Cypher)
B-Boy Wicket
Co FLO (FLO-ology)
DJ Nomadeeq (Flavor Group)

Special Guests:
Machine Gone Funk
Orb and Free
Double Trouble
Soul Shifters X

May 28, 2010
DNA Lounge – 375 11th St, SF CA
9pm-2am
18+

For $5 Reduced Guest List RSVP at: FLAVORGROUP.COM/SIF

Some new music for yea, hope you like this weeks selection! Sweat it out for me, dance baby….dance.

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Track listingzz0rs:

Someday – Black Coffee feat Zano
What the Feeling (URH Edit) – Belocca & Soneec feat. Chappell
Norte Route – Balil
Gardens of Eden ft Zonke – Black Coffee
Don’t Change (Soul Science Mix) – Erro
Bossa House – Micro Sonatore Amadeo & Marco feat. Camilo Parra
Waiting (Zepherin Sain Tribe dub) – Farah
African Subway – Culoe De Song
ForcedNature (Randy TOrrance Mix) – Stephen Rigmaiden
Jungles of Afro-Samba – QML
Mwela Mwela (Bugz in the Attic mix) – Jazzanova
Munkaroo – Alice Russell

a deep ass sink hole

Little somethin, somethin for FLO Radio. This past weekend was thePeople’s Under the Influence party – it certainly sparked my creative mojo….so here we ga ga ga ga goooooooo!

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The selection of the day:

Be Good to Me (Soulshifter throw down mix) – Co FLO
Serve It Up (Starship remix) – Capitol A
Give a Little Love – Mustang
Efe Na Efe (White days Reprise) – Fela Kuti
Inner City Blues (4 Hero Vip remix) – Allen Hoist
Celebration (Vick Laveders VLE Chicago Fusion mix) – Vick Lavender
ForcedNature (Folarin Tallman Mix) – Stephen Rigmaiden
Magic (Ezel Mix) – Jon Arnold & Jeremy Ellis feat Paul Randolph
Tiden Flyver (Cecil’s Rubdown) – Boom Clap Bachelors
Fortunate (Tee’s Freeze Mix) – Shawnee Taylor
intheCity (San Francisco Mix) – Co FLO

IT’S CO FLO’s BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

COME OUT AND DANCE

As always thePeople hold it DOWN! – come out and celebrate my birthday as we dance the night away. It’s a guarenteed good time you best believe it! Hope to see you in the cypher…I want a good b-day battle damnit!

This Saturday:  YOU ARE THE ART!  thePeople (that means you too), are teaming up with the Yerba Buena Cener for the Arts to bring together a boat load of incredible djs, amazing sound, a huge dancefloor, sonic bliss in the music school room, world class live painting and video, an interactive portrait project from one of the Bay’s own super-talents, gourmet street food, artisan vendors, mind-blowing dance artists… Saturday April 3rd thePeople and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts present A YBCA Big Idea Night:   Under the Influence   (the influence of the underground)   hosted by heyLove* and Ms. Nabong featuring YOU as the embodiment of the thriving underground arts community move yourself to the sounds of special musical guest Daz-I-kue along side thePeople resident djs Cecil, Cali, and Be Brown in the Forum educate yourself and your dancing feet  in the Music School with legendary djs Dedan, Aybee, Wazir, and Rob Rhythm add yourself  to the HearthePeople portrait project lead by Bryon Malik of S|I|P Creative, longtime collaborator of thePeople* see yourself  in the live painting of the legendary Mear One lose yourself in the live dance videography of Yak Films open yourself with the sounds of live drums by Taji Malik find yourself in the beauty of the Bizarre featuring artisans Ital Pinay, MeeshMeesh Designs, African Removed Art, and Blank Tea, plus live painting by Ashley Arnold treat yourself to the tasty goodness of Caribbean inspired tacos, burritos and sandwiches by Get Jerked and the heavenly sweetness of Reuschelle’s Cheesecake by Victor Harris Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street | San Francisco | map FREE with RSVP:  http://ybcafree.org/2010form/20100401_bigidea.php 9pm – 2am 18+

Back from Paris, lots of dancing and lots of cold weather! More baked goods than you could ever ask for and plenty of sleepless nights! Thanks for the fun Paris, I’ll see you again soon!

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Le Tracks:

The Much (Much Main Mix) – Raffa & Toro
Afro Godz (Romains Drum Workout Vox Mix) – The Trak Godz ft. Sheyi
Cowbell
Dama s Salon (Main Mix) – DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson feat. Damas
Play The Game – Alton Miller
Celebration (Vick Lavender VLE Chicago Fusion Mix)
Ken Goes Brazil Part 2 (Bibi Expensive Dub) – Claude Monnet pres. Monica Noguiera
Still Waiting – Markus Enochson
Same Thing (Atjazz Remix) – Osunlade feat. Maiya James
Our Time (Atjazz Remix) – King Britt Presents Scuba Feat Lizz Fields
Quintero’s Jam (Inst Mix with Horns) – Louie Vega pres. Luisito Quintero

OOOOOOOOO YEAAAAAAAAA! Thats right! for those of you who attended the “Rockin’ the House Party, 90’s Jam” for Gaby’s mid week birthday celebration you know what this is all about! Luckily that party forced me to organize some of my classics from the 90’s decade. This mix will be the first of hopefully (in due time) many more classic mixes of dope cuts from the 90’s. So put on your overalls and ladies grab your lace tops, here we go!

As a disclaimer I did not grow up in the early 90’s house scene, this music has been shared with me over the years educating me on classic 90’s house cuts. I have a moderate collection of 90’s house music, these tracks in the mix and more mixes to come will feature songs from 1990-2000. Some songs are remixes and not the original.

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Wave your hands in the air, like you just don’t care – here are your tracks:

The Place Where you Belong (Rox Groove Mix) – Shai
Bangin’ – Kenlou
Rescue Me – Sunkids, Chance
Thrill Me – Simply Red
Show me Love – Robin S
Nights Over Egypt – Incognito
Everybody Be Somebody – Yavahn Ruffneck
Beautiful People – Barbara Tucker
Bonita Applebum (Sir Piers and Si Ashton’s Curious House Mix – A Tribe Called Quest
Finally (choice Mix) – Cece Peniston
Carry On – Martha Wash
Burning – ??? (i forgot)
It’s Alright, I feel it! – Nuyorican Soul

I havn’t done this in a while! Track of the week “Juju” by Black Coffee feat. Zakes Bantwini. AllI have to say is this track is FIYA! DAMN, super duper uber hotness right here. Last night I was practicing some steps @ Studio 50 FLO and I must have put this song on repeat for at least 7 or 8 cycles (no joke).

I for sure recommend picking up this track and adding it to your collection. As a bonus a it has a dope music video!

If ya don’t know Black Coffee, I don’t know where you have been. He is one of the hottest producers out of South Africa (among many). Here is a bit more info for ya!

“Curiously, South Africa, as the Spanish island Ibiza or England’s ‘90s Manchester scene around club the Hacienda or Michigan’s Detroit scene, presents one of the few places in the world where genuine house music has taken root. One of its leading proponents is the reserved, studiously academic Black Coffee, whose inventive, imaginative and a boldly educated re-interpretation of classic South African music is radically at odds with the many flash-in-the-pan hit-chasers that populate the dance music genre.

Black Coffee, who is one-part member of the unfashionable urban soul trio Shana, is one of the few Club DJs in the country who genuinely understands the precise function of a music deejay: he does not simply re-mix songs; he re-interprets their previously unimagined musical possibilities and therefore quietly reclaims the composition as his own. When he debuted with his interpretation of Hugh Masekela’s rambunctious jazz hit Stimela (2005 original South African release; 2008 UK release), subsequently to be the lead single off the self-titled 12-track debut album, by re-featuring the old musician to guest vocal anew Black Coffee simply demonstrated how it was possible to re-work the South African canon music vault into club music, acceptable to both the youth and the adults, a feat not easily achievable in the instant festive hit-obsessed market that is South Africa: it requires a decidedly original-inclined, singular mind such as that of Black Coffee to be able to pursue an original music trajectory.

Durban-born Nkosinathi Maphumulo has been on the music scene for over a decade but only got his break a few years ago. Nkosinathi, otherwise known as Black Coffee, is popular for his smash hit remixes, most of which have dominated the airwaves in the past couple of years. He studied music in Durban because he felt that as a producer, he had to deepen his overall musical knowledge, develop his listening skills and advance his knowledge of music theory. When asked who helped him achieve his goals, he said “I have Massive Respect for Christos and Oskido for taking me around and giving me slots on their gigs”. 2003 saw Black Coffee starting to put his first project together.

He revealed that his first album was created using very basic music-making software. “I don’t know how to explain the production stages of my album because all I did was put down the basic ideas that I had, I didn’t use any MIDI controllers everything was played with a Computer Mouse. He added that the use of live instruments in a song is also very important, giving a track that final magic touch and bringing it to life. Black Coffee is proof that if you have real skill when it comes to producing, it won’t take much for you to achieve your goals. After all he’s managed to penetrate the music industry with only a desktop computer, some music-making software and a lot of passion. His first big break was when his song “Happiness” was featured on the DJs at Work album. In 2006 he enjoyed international exposure when his song ‘Music’ got signed in New York and was released by Keith Thompson on the album, ‘Worlds Collide’. He was chosen as one of two South African participants in the Red Bull Music Academy in 2003(www.redbullmusicacademy.com) which jump-started him into the South African DJ scene. He released Two EP’s with London’s Label Kronologik (www.kronologik.com), which was out on Vinyl in the UK Records Shops and was also played in some Radio Stations Abroad. He then released two tracks with Real Tone Records in Paris featuring the Record ”Even Though” now this introduce him to the World as this Record was released in Globally and on Established House Music Websites. In January 2009 he released a Single ”Turn Me On” with a German Label “GOGO Music”, with Remixes by Ralf Gum, this Single became Number One on www.traxsource.com for Two Weeks. Black Coffee started a Label in South Africa www.soulisticmusic.com with Artist Like “Tumelo” who’s featured on Franck Roger’s Free Fall and “Culoe de Song” (who’s taking the World by Storm) signed on this Label. He has featured since at various clubs locally and Internationally like Taboo(SA),Cafe de Flore(Swaziland),Djoon(Paris), Scala(London)Ambassador(Lyon), Café Mugambo (Swaziland’s New Year’s Eve Parties)2008&2009 Miami Winter Festival,2008 & 2009 Ultra Music Festival(Miami),Sutra (Cape Town),In Namibia, Botswana, Barcelona, Lesotho, Cannes, Stratford, Birmingham and recently New York to mention a few. However, Black Coffee’s talent has taken him over the lines into the scene making him a DJ and a producer that has put together two Albums. The 1st CD was released end of September 2005 and since then it has been rocking the SA dance floors and the World. He scooped a SAMA Award for best dance album. He is currently nominated for the 2009 SAMA for Record of the Year.”

FLO RADIO! more music for the MIND BODY AND FLO – I MEAN SOUL! Please don’t be shy, if you have any feedback or songs you would love to hear on FLO Radio. Drop me a line! I have been getting alot of good request and i am compiling a list for future shows. Thanks for all the love my peoples. Peace! Co.FLO@MindBodyFLO.com

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For you today:

Spellbound – Rae & Christian feat. Veba
Juju – Black Coffee Feat Zakes
Nomathemba – Thebe Tha Rocka
Fantasy (Ezel remix) – Atjazz feat. Sarah Jane Morris
Feel the Sunshine (Jonny Montana Remix) – Jsoul, Wendy D Lewis
You Ain’t Really Down (Jazzanova’s hey baby remix) -Status IV
Percussion Suite (Osunlade Yoruba Peoples remix) – Tony Devivio
Out of this World (Casamena Living room remix) – Anto Vitale feat. Tamara Wellons
Ekhaya (Dennis Ferrer Remix) – Zonke
Dragons End – Culoe De Song Feat. Fatima
Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (Bugz in the Attic Mix) – Alice Russell

Alright – another episode of LE FLO RADIOOEEWWWWWWW! Get up, to get on DOWN!!!!! yadida YEE!

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Get down with the get down:

San Francisco Bound – The Pimps of Joytime
Holding On – Nathan Adams & Zepherin Saint
Alibi (Dennis F’s Out) – Reel People Feat. Darien
Alucinada de Prazer – Steven Stone feat. Elisangela
I Don’t Know Why (I Love You) (Kenny Dope Remix) – The Brand New Heavies Feat. N’Dea Davenport
Morris (Quentin Harris Re-Prod) – Bah Samba
Paper Chase – Clara Hill meets Vikter Duplaix
The Lover That you are (Marlon D Remix) – Pulse
Black Sun (Tech Mix) – Stephen Rigmaiden
You Know How I Feel (Vocal) – Mike Clark feat. Kymberli Wright
We had a thing (Matty’s Body & Soul Mix) – Abstract Truth

Do you listen to FLO Radio (I hope so). For those of you who do, I have been getting hit up with request to play certain songs etc.. In general House DJs don’t take request while actually playing – good thing I’m not a DJ (at all) haha.

I would like to open up FLO Radio to everyone that tunes in and ask you to send in some songs that you would like to hear. Please make sure to send me title, artist and mix you would like to hear. This is because I can’t figure out what song your requesting if you say something like, “you know that one song where the girl is singing – i love you, da da da, la la” – you know what i mean right?

If you have an entire list of songs you would like to hear throw them at me and I’ll make an entirely selected mix by you. There are alot of dancers out there that know alot of good music and they select the fire! Im giving you the opportunity right now to let me put together what you would like to hear.

If your with it – go ahead and email me using the link below.

Co.FLO@MindBodyFLO.com