Good Friday evening on you all, The Way out West festival is drawing near, and I want to celebrate one of the highlights of the program. The DJ duo Kamma & Masala will be cooking[…]
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Author: Gert Johnsen
IMGJ – “A latin thing”
In terms of production, 2020 was a good year for newcomer IMGJ. And his new track from April 2021, called “A latin thing” put latin rhythms and piano over a pushy 130 BPM house beat.[…]
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IMGJ – “Shibuya / 渋谷”
Released in April 2020, amidst Covid-19 and inspired by a longer stay in Tokyo Japan, this long running tune named “Shibuya” brings inspirations from different sources together. Percussions are inspired by latin rhythms and the[…]
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Unmuted Mixtape #12 – Salty & G4000
So Salty and myself (G4000) did a live stream from the JP Store in Gothenburn, this is the complete DJ set. It was a mixet Digital and Vinyl Set, and we played the rane MP2015,[…]
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A taste of Japan #2 – Shinichiro Yokota
If you are into classic sounding deep house, then Shinichiro Yokota might be for you. He first appeared in the beginning of 1991 and 1992 only to fly off the radar for a little over[…]
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Tune of the Week #66 – Treasure #2
The Treasure #2 release on Treasure Records run by Frenchmen Franck Roger, features three fancy edits by Mr Roger himself. I love these vinyl only edit releases as they usually bring interesting stuff, sometimes rare as[…]
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A taste of Japan #1 – Rondenion
For those of you who have not read my posts “Westerners guide to Japanese electronic music artists – Part 1” and “Westerners guide to Japanese electronic music artists – Part 2“, check them out following[…]
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Tune of the Week #65 – Sworn Virgins
Mutado Pintado and Quinn Whalley, aka Sworn virgins, released their first thing together in 2015 and have two more releases since. “Fifty dollar bills” came out last year (2018) on the 12″ with the same name. It[…]
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Unmuted Mixtape #11 – G4000
I have had quite a productive month I’d say, and I am very happy what I have been doing is all done with in a few days. Life continues with a new objective and a[…]
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Unmuted Mixtape #10 – G4000
My last mixset – Unmuted Mixtape #9 – was in the key of E-major. Normally I don’t worry too much about the key of a set, but rather to play good shit and make it[…]
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Unmuted Mixtape #9 – G4000
Time for another journey within the genre of house music. This one goes in E-major and you can expect to hear tunes from artists like Awanto 3, Apparel wax, Full intention, Todd Edvards, Soul clap[…]
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Tune of the Week #64
Klubbhuset (translates to “The club house”), a Swedish duo consisting of Artur Brändström and Egil Kahlbom, released the album Marathons in 2016. The album was released on the label Let’s Play House. The album is literally[…]
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Denon DJ SC 5000 Prime – Hands on
DJs with an interest in gear couldn’t have missed the “recent” emerge of Denon DJ SC5000 Prime table top media player. If you did, check out my earlier posts here and here. Despite the fact[…]
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Vinyl vs Digital
The debate about Digital versus Analogue has been going on for some time now; and still is. Below is a video that explains how vinyl fares towards its modern day digital counterparts, but also looks[…]
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IMGJ – “I miss you”
As one of the editors here at Unmute (GJ @ Bandcamp and GJ, personal webpage) I take the liberty to promote my latest release which is available today (May 6th) at Bandcamp and other digital platforms[…]
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Pioneer DJ Toraiz Squid
It is not news that Pioneer DJ is giving Production tools (instruments and such) a go. The sampler Toraiz SP16 and the monophonic analogue synthesizer Toraiz AS-1 have been out for a while now, and[…]
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Unmuted Mixtape #8 – G4000
Time for another Unmuted Mixtape, this time by myself under my DJ alias G4000. “Bus rider” is mainly a funky house set, with excursions into closely related fields. 🙂 In this set find music by Apparel[…]
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Tune of the Week #63
So, basically I am now back from a little vacation if you will. I have not posted a Tune of the Week in a while, and will pick it up again. However, I have been[…]
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