I Love Vinyl

Our own Jon Oliver welcomes talented multi-instrumentalist recording artist  Diggs Duke to his weekly East Village Radio show , Monday night from midnight to 2am. Tune in. They will also be playing a show together at Drom on the following Sunday, February 10th. More info here .

Legendary tastemaker, BBC Radio host and record label owner, Gilles Peterson is first and foremost a consummate record collector and dj. His far-reaching tastes have taken him all over the world, and made him a household name in quite a bit of it. On Thursday, October 25, he will be making his (annual, if we're lucky) NYC appearance at our very own, the longtime home of I Love Vinyl, Le Poisson Rouge. We have a lot of respect for the guy, and he is a friend of, and has played host on his radio show to, at least a couple of the Dream Team djs, who are themselves music makers and purveyors. So we can recommend this event without hesitation. And we are pleased to be able to offer you a pair of tickets to the event, courtesy of our friends at Giant Step, who has been putting on great parties in NYC since the early 90s that influenced some of us as DJs growing up here. So it's all in the family! To win a pair of tickets, tweet a link to this post, tag it #gilleslovesvinyl (he do...

Here's a snippet of the beautiful track "Lost My Love" from the unreleased Kenny Cox LP "Clap Clap (The Joyful Noise)", which will be the first release on our own DJ Amir's exciting new label, 180 Proof, which will be releasing and reissuing the entire Strata catalog, heard and unheard! To hear the whole thing, check out Gilles Peterson's show from last Saturday. He plays it around 59 minutes into the show. And keep an eye on the 180 Proof SoundCloud page for further snippets and sneak peaks ahead of the first releases, dropping this Winter!

Our man Master Khan (you have to do some creative pronouncing to make that one rhyme) aka The Twilite Tone is back in the spotlight with his Great Weekend project (see previous post ). This time, UK creme de la creme tastemaker Gilles Peterson has picked Great Weekend's "Let's Do It Again (Over and Over)" as the lead track for Volume Six of his Brownswood Bubblers compilation series. Check it out here . For more insight into Great Weekend, check out the artist profile on Gille's site . I Love Vinyl would also like to take this time to congratulate all the other talented artists featured on Bubblers Six, and especially our extended family, Taylor McFerrin , Quadron , MdCL and Kissey Asplund .

Four times a year Gilles Peterson does a radio show with his favorite tunes from the past three months. Check out the tracklist and listen here .