This is the first Hotjoints Podcast for Beatjoint an online dancemusic store specialized in future soul, jazz, latin, house, hip hop and broken beats. It’s an hour long show, exclusively based on a selection of new releases at Beatjoint, chosen by DJ Roy and myself. This month we have quite a few releases on Jazzy Sport and Sonar Kollektiv and also a few reggae dub bits from the Wackies catalogue. When listening through itunes you can go into the beatjoint site and actually buy the tracks straight off.

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This is a music blog, mainly about music but also nights out. It was founded in 2009 by Nickv a Manchester born, Paris based dj as a platform to play out the numerous dj mixes he has recorded during his nights out alongside some of the finest djs around. You’ll find many excellent dj mixes recorded live, guest mixes provided by djs in all styles and manners, event posts, photographs and general simple talk about past and upcoming nights.

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Mona’s first birthday live mix :

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On saturday 21st February 2009 it was Mona’s first birthday at La Java in Paris. 750 people turned up and listened to 11 djs play 6 hours of  music. The vibe was amazing and I really enjoyed it.

The floor was packed until the lights went on at 6 am. This pic was taken around 3am (Mandel Turner with headphones). For more photos check out Brice Smo’s album on facebook.

Here is the complete 6 hour mix recorded as it happened. The line up was as follows, set times are approximate.  Big thanks to the ten djs who came down !

SOUL FACES

2330 0010 ADAM GREEN

0010 0030 MYRIAM K

0030 0050 DJ ROY

DEEP HEADZ

0050 0130 GREG BLACKJACK

DISCONODISCO

0130 0150 EMMANUEL CAUREL

0150 0210 DJ ALMOST

0210 0230 PATRICK VIDAL

ELECTRONIC CREW

0230 0300 MANDEL TURNER

0300 0330 LADY B

0330 0400  JEF K

0400 0600 NICKV 

IN ENGLISH

photo by Manuel Braun

NICKV is a product of Mancunia, packaged in the suburbs of Paris and currently one of the hottest djs on the Paris scene.

His reputation has grown with the success of the clubs he helped to establish in 2003 when Nick’s across the genre flavoured dj sets led him to hold down major residencies : GUYS & DOLLS, OTRA OTRA, CLUB DISCO and BALLROOM – some of Paris’s best underground nights where he played monthly to the more discerning ears of open minded and mixed people – gay, straight or both – alongside the likes of Laurent Garnier, Dimitri from Paris, Needs, The Unabombers, At Jazz, Ivan Smagghe, i:cube, Dj Deep, Âme, Greg Wilson, Gilb’r, Erik Rug, Grand Wizard Theodore, Maurice Fulton, Metro Area, Chris Goss (Hospital), ?uestLove …

Nick’s Mancunian origins combined to a Paris based b-boy and funk background have provided him with a rare blend of music tastes, on which he draws to build his unique sets. His DJ sets rip up any dancefloor and combine music from all genres and periods of music : digging deep into the old school from hiphop to disco and electro funk, through to the sounds of the future drum & bass, deep house, broken beats, techno soul and far beyond. His dynamic yet smooth mixing skills honed over the years have established Nick as one of the hottest djs in the French capital.

Today you can catch him every second Saturday of the month at MONA where he spins underground house and disco alongside the likes of DJ Deep, Rainer Truby, Red Greg, The My Love is Underground crew, Andre Lodemann, DJ Nature, Pal Joey, Alex From Tokyo … He also co-runs EDIT, a midweek residency at LE REX CLUB in Paris, uniting the sounds of today’s beats&soul scene : dubstep, nu disco, garage, deep house. Nick is city chief of 22TRACKS Paris and in charge of the deephouse & beats playlists with the Edit crew. He is also member and administrator of TECHNOPOL a non profit organisation that supports the French Electronic music scene and organises Paris’ Technoparade. Nick is a partime acoustics consultant in building and engineering.

IN FRENCH

Par par Edwige Hamben

Né à Manchester NICKV fait partie de la génération acid house, bercé par une bande son qui caractérise la richesse musicale du Nord de l’Angleterre : funk, hiphop, électro, nu wave, indie. Il baigne dans un melting pot bouillonnant qui explose en petits disques smileys avec la découverte des rythmes acid venant des ghettos de Chicago et annonçant les débuts de la House culture. 1987, débarquement à Paris où disco et funk règnent en maître sur fond de rap français naissant. Les cassettes s’enchaînent dans la radio puis la musique devient électronique : achats de maxis le jour, infolines la nuit … rave on !

Ses premiers dj sets démarrent en 1994 au mythique club gay parisien LE QUEEN où il ouvre la salle pour les premiers DJs venant de New York, Chicago ou Detroit. L’époque est House mais Nick continue à jouer ces musiques originelles qui l’ont influencé. L’aller retour permanent entre les influences d’hier et la musique de demain caractérise ses sets depuis. Deep, puissant et sexy, son style se forge autour d’un sens dynamique du mix et d’une ouverture musicale sans bornes : deep house et disco, electrofunk et technosoul, hiphop et boogie, brokenbeats ou drum&bass.

Sa réputation s’étend à l’étranger, Cologne, Berlin, Bruxelles, Londres, Malmo, Saigon, Lisbon, Liverpool et bien sur Manchester. A Paris, il enchaîne les mythiques résidences GUYS&DOLLS, OTRA OTRA, BALLROOM ou CLUB DISCO … 5 années dans les clubs les plus exigeants de la capitale pour un public freaky et cross genre et aux côtés d’invités qu’il choisit : Ivan Smagghe, Âme, Patrick Vidal, Laurent Garnier, Erik Rug, Metro Area, DJ Deep, Gilb’r, At Jazz, Pete Herbert, Maurice Fulton, The Unabombers, Dimitri from Paris, Needs …

Aujourd’hui, il est chef de projet pour le site Parisien 22TRACKS et programmateur des playlists deephouse et beats (avec le crew EDIT) sur 22tracks. Il est administrateur de l’association TECHNOPOL pour le soutien de la culture électronique en France, qui organise entre autres la TECHNOPARADE à Paris. Nick est également conseil à temps partiel en acoustique architecturale. Pour l’écouter, son public le suit tous les mois à LA JAVA pour MONA, une soirée orientée deep house et disco. On peut le suivre sur la scène beats également soirées EDIT au REXCLUB (en collaboration avec Soulist, Freeworker, Koko et Da’vince).