So much great techno/downtempo/DJ-driven music is coming out lately. This tune is from Miguel Migs, the uber DJ that records on the OM label. Migs is most known for the Naked Music series that he has done for the label.

This CD that came out last week is a departure for him, and I love it. It's less housey and mixey than the Naked Music series he is famous for. It's more tune driven. I've always kinda/sorta appreciated his stuff, but I genuinely LOVE his latest CD.

I'm not even sure how you would classify this new music...it's sort of bossa nova, sort of electronica, sort of techno, sort of downtempo, sort of retro-disco, sort of nu-jazz. Anyway..I'm loving all these new and optimistic sounds that these incredible techno artists are putting out lately at such a fast pace.

Don't get me wrong. I still love good old rock and roll. Rock is my meat n' potatoes, musically speaking. Rock will always be the music that stirs my soul...but I have to say that for the past few years, techno artists like Thievery Corporation, Mark Farina, Miguel Migs, Stephane Compagnac, and Zero 7 have been the ones that have been pushing the music scene forward more than anyone.

Techno music has evolved incredibly in the past 5 years. "Le Monde" by Thievery Corporation is one of the most beautiful tunes ever...sortof a wierd perfect marriage of beautiful human musical soul and technology. I'll put it in the comment section. Check it out...I really really love "Le Monde".

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And on the homefront...

I've been working like a little bitch lately, yall. I spend most nights making sure our website is caught up with what's going on in the store....

www.heliotropehome.com

(Check it out. I'm kinda proud of it right now. Let me know what you think.)

I'm been finishing up the Christmas assortment for the store and the website. Wait til yall see it...you are gonna freak. Beautiful and cool and fun as hell stuff that you won't see anywhere else. I am pretty proud of what we have got planned.

Marc has been "googling" the words Heliotrope and Atlanta and Decatur...and it's fun to see what has started to come up about us...

Lucky Magazine's online edition gave us a very nice mention as a pick in their Atlanta Shopping Guide...
http://www.luckymag.com/cityguides/atlanta/shoptrip/city_shopping_guide_atlanta
(scroll down to "Decatur" in the neighborhoods they mention)

Business is getting a little more fast and furious than I expected this early. (It's only been 6 months...remember???) Anyways, it's all good. I just hope I can keep up. All my peers in my field were right....I should have done this a long time ago.

But I've always been a late bloomer. I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was 10.

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I know...I know. There are so many better songs by Astrud Gilberto, but this is the only one with a personal, sorta funny story.

Back in the mid-60's, my mom was buying Bossa Nova records like a mad woman. Except for the occasional Brenda Lee and Johnny Cash LP, it's all I remember hearing back then. Astrud and Joao Gilberto, Jobim, Stan Getz, Sergio Mendez....they filled my house and my mind.

But I really really really particularly loved Astrud when I was like 7 or 8 years old.

I used to lay on the dining room floor when I was like 7 and listen to her over and over again. I memorized all the words on all her albums and tried my best to develop a Portuguese accent when I sang them.

This is the song that I felt I had perfected.

One afternoon, I put on one of my mom's wigs and tried to convince my cousin Star that I was a relative from Brazil. She didn't seem to be buying it, so I ran and put the album on and sang "Fly Me To The Moon" in my best, demure Portuguese accent.

Basically, I was torn between wanting to grow up to be Marlo Thomas from the TV show "That Girl" or talk funny and be Astrud Gilberto.

So aaaanyways...Bossa Nova is back with a vengeance. Her daughter, Bebel sure is making waves now. We can't keep enough of Bebel's new CD "Momento" in stock. We sell out of it every time we play it. It is a little slice of heaven.

So, for the past two weeks since the new Bebel Gilberto CD came out, I've been listening to nothing but Bossa Nova and I have discovered these 2 compilations that are FREAKING INCREDIBLE....

"Ziriguiboom: The Now Sound of Brazil" (volumes 1 and 2)

If you haven't delved into this genre of music before, these CDs are a good tease at least. I guarantee you will want to hear more after listening to these.

***I put the remix that uber DJ Peter Kruder did of Bebel's "Tanto Tempo" in the comment section. It's from Volume 1 of the compilation. Good God Almighty....it is HOT. mmmm mmmm mmm



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AND I AINT LEAVIN' WITHOUT A FREAKY THO' DOWN, NO HOLDS BARRED, CRUNK ASS PARTY!

Come on act the fool yall! This is my last Saturday Night Blogstream tho' down for a while. There's an adult advisory on this song...aaaaand....weeeellll...that's the whole point of this post, actually.



I'm inviting yall to come party with me tonight in the Dirty Dirty. Welcome to the ATL, yall. Nooo...not Buckhead or Virginia Highlands...we are fixin' to roll with our ATL boy Lil Jon in College Park, West End, and over on Bankhead Highway. There's plenty of Goose, Patrone, and 40s to go around. Throw yo signs up, yall!

I WANT YALL TO GET CRUNK AND LEAVE ME YOUR CRAZIEST OR DIRTIEST COMMENTS. Be creative...but most importantly...be dirty. Or just be crazy.

That's the challenge and my last request. Leave the absolute craziest or dirtiest comment, embedded image, or joke you can muster. Send me out with a bang and a shocked look on my face...see what I'm saying?

I posted this early so yall could think about it a while.

(Lil Jon's tune "Act The Fool" was here)





































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