Elevations Radio

March 5, 2010. Another birthday, another year and another reason to be thankful for living. Shout out to my Dad and Mom cause it's just as much their day as it is mine! Enjoy the mix!!

Celebrating both love and life, DJ Ernesto Vigo on the decks this week for Elevations Radio's "Chocolectric" journey #10, recorded live on the Dms Country mothership taking flight out of Harlem, NYC on the eve of both Valentine's Day and the Chinese lunar new year---year of the tiger! On this journey, we feature new music from across the globe, from some funky stuff to make you move that trunk, to some broken joints to keep that body shaking into the new year carnival stylee! Massive love and respect to our supporters and familia and many blessings to you and yours for the new year...please stay connected, hit us up for requests, shout outs, and send us your tunes: tunage@elevationsradio.com 
One love, Ernesto
vigo@elevationsradio.com

Elevations Radio # 10 "Chocolectric" - Feb. 14th, 2010

New Worlds (Dub) - The Big Payback & Reggie B
Bamboo Saxophone (Kidkanevil Remix) - Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band
Magnetic feat. Darien Brockington & Buff1 - Yoshi
Over The Horizon (Soulphiction Remix) - Quasimode
Spook feat. Steve Spacek - Earlyman
Rubber Soul feat. Omar (Simon S Remix) - Live Tropical Fish
Members Only - Rob van de Wouw/Mark de Clive-Lowe
Strawberries in Vinegar - Silhouette Brown
Flux - Oriol
Hold On (PTH Carnival Warm-Up Remix) - Flevans
Waiting (Yellowtail Refix) - Farah
Watch This - Greymatter & Domu
Madstep - Forest
Body Shock (Altered Natives V.I.P.) - Ceramic
Get Up - Neighbour And Thinktank
My Soun' / My Soun' Ring Ding Riddim - Spoonface
Nigeria What? - Debruit
Eu Fumo - Greymatter & Deize Tigrona

After taking some time off for the Christmas holidays...we're back again! Kickin' off 2010 with the new Silhouette Brown 2, mix of soulful goodness, and 'nuff brukness to start the year off right! Dedicating this show to the people of Haiti...please help: www.yele.org
This week's flight plan: Rejuvenation 2010
Ernesto Vigo in the mix, and Probe dms.

Leave A Note - Silhouette Brown
Make A Baby (Rerub) - Viktor Duplaix
UQ5 - Ebrahim
Enjoy Ya Self v2 feat. Drake - Slakah The Beathchild
Summer Dresses feat. Cecilia Stalin - Mr. Windmill and Jay.Soul
Fade (Altered Natives Rerass) - Sara White
Up Stream (Lok8 Nocturnal Rub) - Tidal
Temperature - Qualified & Jazzy D feat. T. Nicole
Find A Way (Incl. Atjazz Remix) - Masirah
Just Leave (Fingerprint's Dark Dub Mix) - Footloose feat. Simone
Midnight 2010 (Johnny Dirtbag Remix) - Groove Junkies feat. Diane Carter
Here - Clara Hill
I Want You (Broken!) - Kenny Dope presents Chronkite
War 4 Lulu - Jonny Miller
Tango - Yellowtail
New Bed (4Hero Twisted Remix) - Benny Sings

Recorded live on the Dms country mothership, January 23rd, 2010.

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you can preview the lp here.

I'm one drawn to the visually captivating aspect of design in many of the techy urban gadgets out there today in the market, or being tested in underground labs as prototypes. But for me, function must always be an integral aspect of that object (it should serve a purpose), not just the clean, minimal, and sharp curvatures that form part of the aesthetics---but something worth carrying (portable) that serves both you, and the City, by not adding to the carbon footprint and pollution. I recently found a website that features some interesting ideas that appeal to the geeky-techy side of us all, with ideas turned gadgets that appear to make anyone's innercity life a bit easier and more enjoyable. Tuvie, a website that lets you contribute ideas for our future good, is visionary in the cooperative nature of allowing us to submit our ideas/inventions on a global/universal level (via the web) so that we can all continue to push our creative minds further. One of the most recent ideas that caught my eyes---okay, get this: The Touchable (pictured below), which is a "mini-me" DJ turntable you can mix tracks with via your wireless audio system, so that you're basically walking around your crib with a turntable in the palm of one hand mixing tracks with your fingers, and sipping your mojito in the other! Since you're mixing wirelessly, you could take it anywhere you go (an undoubtedly impressive move with that new neighbor...), so long as your range allows---although, i'm not quite sure what would happen if it were to fall inside the hot tub. One last thing, it comes in white too, but i'm definitely loving the black. happy holidays...vigo

Ya boy Simbad in the laboratory 

For those of you checking us out, you gotta know by now that we do this all for the love. This music is what makes us move, think, release, relate, contribute, motivate, and all these other different things we deal with on a day to day basis. It just so happens that last night, while trying to bounce the mix, I kept getting a error. Now I'm in the process of re-installing my OS. It really was about time anyway. Still rocking 10.3 also, Ha! Anyway stay tuned  cause I have a "Special Childhood Mix" for you all. Let you know where I came from. For now enjoy this semi time warp
EZ
Probe dms

Robi Walters and Leanne Wright are a talented duo whose unique and diverse artistic portfolio spans from some of the illest album covers and t-shirts around, to their visually captivating artwork like that of the recent Bless-ed, Superimposing the Thought of Happiness, which dazzles the mind as much as it does the eyes, with its geometric shapes and explosions of sparkly-feel good that certainly makes me (or anyone) feel happy. I had the pleasure of meeting Robie and Leanne last year in upstate New York, where I discovered they had created those well-crafted, tactile 2000black t-shirts, and thankfully are continuing to spread their blessings and wadada (wadada means love) in their work---thank goodness for that! I wonder if Robie will let us use their golden radar (below) to brukcast ER into space? On the next Creative Humans, we feature the work of Brooklyn-based Ebon Heath...

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Creative Humans: Art and Artists of our Planet. If you live within any of the 5 boroughs of NYC (or any major city for that matter), you really can't help but notice the street art, urban shapes, dimensions and colors, that fill this fluid canvas we create everyday called metropolis. At times, in rare moments, we notice the masterpiece we live in...the beauty of the city, its interactivity, and especially, it's art that surrounds us---art that's often caught on iphones or stored somewhere in our internal drive. Well, this blog is the first in a series dedicated to those independent artists transforming the landscape through their vision by making us stop and take notice of their artistic creation---the end result of their passion and tenacity, as well as their generosity, and that of all artists who share it with us fellow humans and our future generations. Feel free to hit me up and share some of your favorite artists and visionaries, especially those you $upport! ; )  Vigo