From The Vault: LouFest Day 1

Remember LouFest?  Hopefully flashbacks to that perfect summer weekend will help us trudge through the upcoming St. Louis winter:

“I totally wiped out for you, St Louis!” : Loufest Day 1

By: Nathan Moore, Titus Andronicus and Broken Social Scene Photos By: Gale Whitehead

Flashback, 9 months:  I’m at a watch party for the Texas – Nebraska football game.  See my old summer camp counselor across the room.  Go say hi.  Turns out it’s not my old camp counselor, but a cool guy nonetheless. We get to talking and get to this point of the conversation: (more…)

This entry was written by Nathan Moore, posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:00 am, filed under Live and tagged Broken Social Scene, LouFest, Lucero, Stephaniesid, the Bottle Rockets, Titus Andronicus. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Follow Friday: Tech Supreme

Producer Tech Supreme (@techsupreme) has been in St. Louis hip-hop since he moved here at 16. Now, he ties the whole scene together with his innovative beats and community attitude.  He talks with Eleven about his work with The Force, the St. Louis scene, and the music business.  Check back soon for some exclusive Tech tracks, too.

How did you get started in music?

Tech Supreme:

My mother is a recording artist.  I grew up in New Jersey. I came [to St. Louis] when I was 16.  I was always around studio equipment and stuff like that. My mother was free with what I could listen to – I could listen to what ever I want[ed], like Slick Rick.  It was a musically liberal household.  Then I came to St. Louis and my cousin was a piano player and he got me into making music…it started with rapping.  Just [because] being such a rap fan as a kid, [I] started rapping, moved to St Louis, came to U[niversity] City High School and hooked up with some guys who wanted to be from New York – I was from North New Jersey – so we started rapping together, me and Young Thunder and some other guys.  We needed beats, and I had been playing with it, so I decided to start doing beats for us. And then that first year, I fell in love with it completely and decided that’s what I want to do full time – I don’t want to rap. I wanted to be the guy behind the scenes, making the music and making everything happen.  I’ve been doing it since then, but there’s always a time period before you can consider yourself a professional, that you’re honing your skill.  You’re never really a professional till you start releasing your projects to a mass amount of people you don’t know.  It’s probably only been six or seven year[s] that I’ve been doing that.

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This entry was written by Nathan Moore, posted on June 18, 2010 at 5:23 pm, filed under Local Profile and tagged Tech Supreme, The Force. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Galactic @ the Pageant, 2/19/2010

Photo by Ryan Dornfeld. More on Flickr

For the last few years, every halfway decent hippie I know has tried to convince me that Galactic, the New Orleans birthed jam/funk/rock band is the second coming of Jesus, Buddha and Timothy Leary all in one.  So it was with high expectations that I headed to the Pageant last week to see the band touring on the strength of their new album Ya-Ka-May along with openers Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. (more…)

This entry was written by Nathan Moore, posted on February 21, 2010 at 4:09 pm, filed under Live and tagged Galactic, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, The Pageant. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Light: On the South Side

Another year, another Christmas, another shitty gift from your uncle (who knew strip clubs sold gift certificates?).  Time to upgrade and get something nice for yourself to keep your mind off the cold weather outside.  My suggestion – take a trip to the South Side of Chicago circa 1976 with Light: On the South Side, the new photography book and music compilation of the from the collectors at the Numero Group label.   (more…)

This entry was written by Nathan Moore, posted on January 4, 2010 at 11:00 am, filed under New Music and tagged Light: On the South Side, Numero Group. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Daptone Records – Daptone Gold (compilation)

The fine funky fellows (and ladies) of Daptone Records are back with this 23 track compilation featuring some of their best-known tracks of the last 6 years alongside rare tracks scavenged from various 7″ singles and smaller releases.

Lee Fields and Sugarman & Co. – Stand Up

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This entry was written by Nathan Moore, posted on December 16, 2009 at 3:40 pm, filed under New Music and tagged Antibalas, Daptone Gold, Daptone Records, Sharon Jones, the Dapkings. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.