From myself and I’m sure all the BMP team – happy new year!
Last year ended on a sad musical note for me with the death of one of my favourite Jazz musicians, Freddie Hubbard.  Freddie should be beloved to all house fans for providing the sample on Pepe Bradock’s ‘Deep Burnt’ – surely one of the all time classic deep house records.  This sample comes from the song ‘Little Sunflower’ on Freddie’s 1979 album ‘love connection’ – whenever I find a second hand record store I always check out the …

Well, today is the last day before chrisbo…
I’m at work. Everyone else is either on holiday or on the other side of the world.
I am bored to tears.
So I am gonna make some inane list to occupy my time
Best Music of 2008 not from 2008!!!
Fave Mix I heard this year not from this year?

Prins Thomas RA Podcast
Wow, how did I miss this again?
A live mix that just rulz from yay to nay.  Featuring and extended mix edit of `that’ LCD Soundsystem tune.
Fave Lp’s I heard this year not from this …

Scooter and Ninja have made the move to the Big Smoke!
Behold the high life they are now a part of!

Welcome to Auckland guys!
want an Expresso?  Cup of Cino?

These last 6 months have been frustrating as fuck for me! Saving, traveling, being broke, and having my records and turntables all packed away have combined to make it an extremely disjointed year in terms of record purchases.
This would be easier to bear if it wasn’t so easy to monitor all the great and interesting music that is still coming out. Subsequently I am still stashing records into a wishlist in the vain hopes that I can go back at some point in the future and purchase some …

While Websta’s update took us all back to the halcyon days of the late 80s my influential LP is somewhat less memory taxing, emerging in 2002. Not only that, it isn’t even an album, nope, it turns out an influential record for me is infact just another mix cd.
I’m not sure what you were up to in 2002 but for me it was an unsettled time both musically and in general. If you cast your mind back you will no doubt recall the ‘funky’ house that seemed to …

Two beautiful sets from Move D (aka David Moufang), both have been on extremely high rotation of late (hat tip to Joe and Will)
First one coming from Sunday Best NYC
Move D @ Sunday Best NYC 20/07/08
(WARNING: May induce mid-winter swimming in the mentally challenged)
Second one comes from Robert Johnson last year…..equally as good.
Move D @ Robert Johnson (22/12/07)

Yeah yeah, it’s extremely delayed, but i figured what better way to formally introduce myself on this site than with a mix…let the music do the talking.
So with that (and for all those who can be bothered), I present to you: Dua Yabaki – a tribute to our beloved house music in all its awesome forms, influenced heavily by the sights and sounds I experienced in New York one year ago. But that’s another story.
Download link (right click, save as): http://www.stink-finger.com/audio/lelo-dua_yabaki.mp3
Duration: 3:19.48
Size: 229.3Mb
Tracklist:
Martha Wash “Carry On” (Masters At Work Dub)
Swing …

The silent member of BMP, Scott Lelo, did a radio `speshal’ last night on the wonders of Wild PItch!
Scooter is the star dj type of the Finger posse and can be caught weekly on the slipstream show
on Georgefm
http://www.georgefm.co.nz/show23.html
heres a quick tracklist from it
7 August 2008 playlist
“— Lelo’s Luv Of Wild Pitch—”
planetary assault systems – “booster”
x-press 2 – “music express (wild pitch mix)”
roach motel – “wild luv (tom stephan re-edit)”
dbx – “losing control”
armando – “transaxual (robert armani’s mix)”
ame & henrik schwarz & dixon = YUM – “d.p.o.m.b.”
With a lil luck we …

This video clip of Kerri Chandler using a lazer controller while playing Bar A Thym has always been a favourite of mine – very minority report and probably one of those love it or hate it things. Either way, you have to admit its better than a cube that changes colour.
(The good bit starts 1.30 into the clip – after all the fluff).

Kerri explains it a little more in this interview

I feel like stinkfinger is sitting comfortably between the ramblings of a group of friends and a slightly more professional music blog – so I don’t have any problem with diverting immediately from the topic at hand and dialling back the night a few hours.
We start the night off at a resturant with some excellent dinner – along with my friends Daniel and Ayako I eat various sashimi, some fantastic beef tataki, something delicious and rubbery that I hope was octopus, a large piece of cooked tuna, crumbed and fried …