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FASE MIUSIC SENDER - DISASTER (LIVE SET)

This is a very special episode, paying honour to Fase Miusic Sender, the Buenos Aires audio-visual quatuor. For this AirPod N°7, we are very happy to present you with two parts, a visual Part 1 with the video clip for Fase’s Missing Keyframes, which appears on our Extraction compilation. This video was EXCLUSIVELY MADE FOR AIRPOD!!! And an audio Part 2 with Fase’s new live set: Disaster! So put all of this amazing content on your iPod and enjoy the whole world of Fase! This is without mentionning that we are dying to officially announce our next digital release! Guess who?? Fase M.S of course, accompanied by a Sr. Replicante remix! How amazing is that… you will tell us very soon!!

Behind Fase are: Gustavo Gagliardo, Leandro Waisbord, Pedro Perelman and Martin Tibabuzo. Fase is a collective founded in the year 2000, that is active in Buenos Aires and works on both end of the audio-visual spectrum. From musical production to visual animation and street-art to VJing, Fase finalizes all-inclusive projects and shows, which create a truly complete realm, allowing it to fully expressing their vision. On the musical side, even if experimentation surrounds a Techno essence, some sounds have been surviving since the very foundation of Fase: Aquatic sounds, clicks and glitches, video-gaming bleeps. Fase keeps the groove as main purpose, using kicks and basses to create melodies coming right from the under layers of the earth, factory sounds and darkness. Detroit Underground and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work can stand as referents to the universe they perpetually share. Fase Miusic Sender plans its live sets to build climates and organically evolving structures. The video sequencing that comes to complete Fase’s world, is solely dependent of, and exclusively adapting to the evolution of the music. Exploring the graphic language, Fase keeps fantasy, synthesis, abstraction and powerful colors as main visual focus. Music expressing visuals, visuals expressing music… The circle is now complete.

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MINIMARIL - SAMBA EP

1. Samba Pt. 1

2. Samba Pt. 2

3. Black Hole Hooked

4. Samba (Soulclap’s Nice’n'Ripe Rub)

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I met Mariano (a.k.a Minimaril) a little less than a year ago. When he first told me he was 19, I thought he was lying. I mean with his height and long hair, he definitely looks way older! But it is once you get to know him that you can really feel the amazing vibes that radiates from him. I still wonder how it is possible for such a nice person to exist in the often ego-dominated Techno realm. Freshness!

Of Venezuelean origin, Mariano has been living all his life in Buenos Aires and DJing for 5 years now. He started very young, learning directly on the field, since he never even owned turntables, and quickly made his way to the most important booths of the Argentine capital!

This unique energy and natural understanding of music imprints on his productions. Minimaril’s beats are bright sharp, groovy and will always make you bounce. He sends me a new track every other day, all of them more powerful than the last one. With such a clear vision, his music really seems to be animated by a higher force!

His debut track, Too Young to be Famous, on our AirDrop presents Extraction, is the best-seller out of all tracks on the compilation!

The Samba EP unites three of Minimaril’s original productions. He explores two different dimensions of the project, first, with a super deep synth line-driven Part 1, and then with a massively rolling Part 2. The ode to percussions started by Samba is rounded with Black Hole Hooked, which features hypnotic sax riffs, dark voices and huge funk.

To bring the EP to another level, we had our Special Boston Task Force, Soulclap, to remix Samba 1 & 2. I was persuaded, like most of you I am sure (otherwise go back to school), that 1 + 2 = 3, but the united powers of Bean Town’s Super Soulclap and B.A’s Minimaril defy mathematics. Don’t even doubt it, just buy it & listen to it!

The release is exclusively available on Juno with a special price for this week!
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O and I almost forgot, Minimaril has a 12 inch coming soon on AirDrop and a few other goodies too…
Woooopp

AirDrop is proud to announce its participation and support in the “Naturaleza y Artificios” exhibition of the Centro Cultural San Martin of Buenos Aires. Opening today Tuesday April 15th, the exhibition regroups 16 emergent artists, including AirDrop’s preeminent figure in Argentina, Maria Bedoian.

“The exhibit explores the mestization between organic and abstract forms that expand themselves within various spaces, with the aim of creating an original nature, more bound to the artificial than to the natural. Art’s Nature, or Nature’s Art, both in perpetual threat for imperfection. The pieces presented invade the space and create a dialog with the architecture of pure and modernist conception, created by Mario Roberto Alvarez. The noble materials of steel, wood, glass and marble used in architecture, are in counterpoint with the recycled materials such as wax, fabric, chalk, cardboard and paper used by the artists. The contrast between the images of an idealized New York City and of a scarred Argentina, converses as well with this counterpoint. The whole results in a signalization on the diversities between the modern, and the creativity of the present, in a society that has been through the rationalist ideal of Modernity, the mistakes of the utopist Postmodernism, until perceiving a higher and open path, the one of imagination.”

The moment has finally arrived when AirDrop Records officially comes to existence with its first release AD 001 aka Giraffe by Soul Clap, you must know them by now. The release will be on 10 inch vinyl- Yeah, that’s right! And if that’s not enough, the vinyl is yellow with a nice little label design (see for yourselves below).

Now to put the cherry on top, we got Franco Cinelli to remix the living day out of the original (A side) creating a dark masterpiece to grace the B side of our first vinyl.

Here is a close look on Side B:

If you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on one and since they are all gone around the world, get it on Beatport and read our interview with Beatportal at the Winter Music Conference.

Following the performance we did last week (see Podcast N°4), we decided to take the creativity to the streets and represent Music and Visual Arts in the open air. Everything is set and we are ready to take over a super dreamy piece of urban land on next Sunday from 4PM ’til Midnight (we told the authorities 10PM, but whatever). The location is at the end of Costa Rica road before it reaches the railway on the Soho side. The place is perfect, it is located in the middle of Palermo and there is absolutely noone to disturb us: on one side a wine hangar, on the other a wall ready to be painted by our artists, Maria Bedoian, Coco, Claudia, Ale and Vale, Luciano.

In terms of music, we asked hot hot DJs to come create the link: Luisao of Army of Dub has been representing Dub and Dubstep with his fellow Daleduro in Argentina, they are basically the only ones doing it here and they rock. They even played at the last Creamfields here in B.A

We also asked to Miguel Castro, singer of the super band Victoria Mil (for me, easily one of the best ones today in Argentina) to come play his favourite tunes. Beware, you will never hear such music anywhere else, Miguel carries around a precious selection of gems, collected over his years.

The top bar OMM is located right in front of the venue, and will be opening especially for the occasion that Sunday. We are super excited by the event! When do you get to enjoy both amazing music and art in such open environment? Come watch the Sunday Sunset with us!

We have decided to start posting more and more about cool new artists and projects. We have been meaning to do more of this and promise to introduce you to up and coming artists as well as more obscure finds and creative projects.

The internet is great because it is what makes the world “flat” to a great extent enabling all artists to have their moment. Not every artist produces great works, but there are a rare few that have shared their greatest works. I recently discovered the website artistsupandcoming.com which is exactly what it sounds like, a site for up and coming artists. I did some looking and there was definitely some lame and corny stuff, but among all of the works, I was able to find a painting that truly touched me. Maybe it’s because Roy Lichtenstein is one of my favorite artists of all time, but this painting by Justin Lui, that is listed as “not for sale,” truly is priceless to me.

Art is one of the most powerful forces in our society. Art can bring social change and often is a place for advanced and progressive thought. One of my favorite artists has mastered this concept and is creating positive social change in many ways. When the youth was rioting in France and expressing much of its discontent, JR sought to use art and photography to deliver a more truthful vision of the state of the youth in the projects of the Parisian suburbs. There was clearly discontent and anger, which was not hidden in the pictures, but he also showed the more positive elements such as hope and joy, often neglected and destroyed by fear from the rest of society.

His art is more than a picture and in fact became street art. He would post enlarged versions of the pictures on walls of the city where they would be seen by all, taking people out of their daily routines to think and understand what was going on with a portion of the population.

Since this project, he has continued to find ways to use art to bring positive change in our world. Check his site out for more great pictures and projects.

We will be curating both live and online art shows over the next year starting January. If you would like to participate in any of our online, New York City or Buenos Aires exhibits (More locations TBA) you must submit your work for it to be considered and approved. Your submission must include pictures or videos with descriptions of the work as well as an artist bio.We prefer that you submit your file via the internet using such services as Sendspace and then email the link to henry@airdropmedia.com . The first AirDrop art shows will be announced January 15th.

Globalization has a profound impact on our existence, so much so that is a recurring theme in much of modern and contemporary art. From Andy Warhol to Banksy, many artists have created art by hijacking brands and Ron English is one of my personal favorite hijackers. He has found fame in part as a billboard vandal, but continues to play around with cultural icons and create his own. Not only does he have creative and thoughtful art, but the detail and painting techniques he uses are unparalleled. One has only to see some of his art parodies, where he creates a work based on renowned masterpieces such as Guernica or works by Van Gogh such as his “Starry Night”

I have not put a picture of his most recent “Grade School Guernica,” because it is a work so impressive that it must be seen in full dimension as it dominates the surface of any wall (currently it is for show and sale at Opera Art Gallery in New York City)

SixFeet is a really cool street-wear brand here in Buenos Aires. I have been hanging out a bit with Nacho who takes care of the shop near my house. They have a total of four shops in the city and in addition to their collection, each season they invite local artists to put their designs on SixFeet T-Shirts. Last year, they also did a special series paying tribute to the like of Basquiat and Keith Haring.

SixFeet has helped pave the way for the artistic duo RunDontWalk. Street artists for over a decade, RunDontWalk have many projects, visions, and identities going on at the same time. You gotta know the whole story to tell if that stencil next to your building entrance is theirs. RunDontWalk are everywhere in the city, and now they’re even included in the AirDrop art collection! A while ago, they did this series all over town dedicated to monkeys and serialism, a recurrent theme in art when dealing with animals in danger of extinction. Check the pics here.