Johnny (Johnathan Goldstein) is a 17 years old producer/rapper from Jerusalem.He started his first musical moves by the age of 12 when he worked with Doodoosh Klemes from Hadag Nachash. Although very young,he already produced several albums for artists including Sagol 59,Hadara Levin and Noa Faran. This song is from his new album called The Johnny Show. It was written and produced by Johnny,Kuti and myself.
Produx are: Rafiki(Aristo)Man,Nechi Nech and Chicho,three MC's from Petach Tikva. I've already posted Oh La La and Nechi's A Millie Freestyle before but now I'm happy to exclusively offer you the rest of the mixtape !!!
Ruff (Guy Gabriel) is a producer and an MC coming from the city of Hedera. I already posted he's previous banger Skinny a few months ago. He recently made this club banger that moves the girls and snaps the boys in the club ! Ruff - Do That Dance (Right Click & Save as)
2002 was a rough year here in Israel.Suicide bombers on a weekly basis,IDF counter attacks,and general moral depression... I usually try to stay away from politics and governments bullshit but this was way too much for everybody. I've made this track during those days.I've used the piano intro from Bedouin love song as performed by Daviv Broza and added scratching from various vinyl records.Kuti added some eerie fender-rhodes chords on top as well.
Ben-Gurion closes the track with a very optimistic prophecy... Too bad these scratches are from 30 year old vinyl but still sound very relevant today. The very limited cd single cover featured DJ Ben-Gurion and was made by Talisman.
Kalbata (Ariel Tagar) is bass music producer from Tel-Aviv.He already done remixes for Spank Rock, Fat Freddy's Drop, Roll Deep, Ben Mono, Jahcoozi and more. Kalbata just released a new 12" on Soul Jazz Records featuring Warrior Queen. This remix to Fishi Hagadol (Adam Ben-Lavi) was made few years ago and keeps killin' it on bass heavy dancefloors!
Laroz was asked to do this remix for 102fm as a holiday season project. The original is a classic vintage hebrew song originally recorded in 1966 by Yafa Yarkoni. This remix samples a later version with both Yafa Yarkoni & Hava Alberstein.
This remix to the song by Sagol 59 is taken from a compilation album called "Leshem Shinoi"(for a change) ,dedicated to songs about social change. For more info visit Shtil.
Me & Kuti made this one with Shlomi Alon in mind. Shlomi sings and plays sax.He is joined by Yair Slutzki on trombone. This song was probably played the least times out of all of our songs on the radio,but it is one of our favourites !
Soulico's "Avood Me'ahava" (love lost) was originaly released in late 2007.it featured production from Shimi Sonic and vocals from Oren Barzilay of the famous Dr.Kaspers Rabbit Show's . The single was released with a great remix by Nadav Ravid who works with Polar Pair and with Botanika. A few weeks later EsVee did another great remix !
Single Cover Silverdon Jacky Maika This song was originally a hit song by Jacky Maika and was released somewhere in the 80's. a few years ago he re-recorded the tune as a "special" for Unity Sound,Israel's only sound system that plays and records strictly Israeli artists. Silverdon,Israel's dancehall ambassedor,talked to us about remaking this and we fell in love with this tune instantly! It is now gaining some serious airplay !
Sabbo&Kuti Feat. Silverdon and Jacky Maika "Lo Hashoov Li Le'an" (streaming only)
Axum's "Hakshivu Na" single was released a while ago with a very funny calypso remix from our friends Radio Trip.It works very well with a martini cocktail ! I recently received another remix from a young producer called Yossi Efraimove AKA EFR Production.
p.s. Axum's album is done and mastered.will be out very soon :-)
Many people who live in Israel know the scenario of taking a bus ride while some disrespectful youth is playing some awful songs out of his cellular phone... The Bakery addressed this painful issue in a funny song from their forthcoming mixtape called "It tastes better in hebrew".
Sagol 59 recently released his new album "Make Room".The album was well received by both critics and fans.The album's main producer is the 17 year old prodigy called Little Johny. It is released in the US by Jdub Records. Ping Pong is the first single released and features guest vocals by Dan Toren.It also included a really cool reggae remix by GreenHouse (Amir Estlein). It's all yours to download and enjoy!
I'm really happy to be the first to present this bangin' new tune from Ruff & Shiny Shai.This dou is based on Ruff (Guy Gabriel) doing the vocals and Shiny Shai (Shai Azulay) on production and they've been workin' together for around 7 years. This tune gonna get some serious heat in the clubs!
A brand new video to Axum's latest single"Ma im hakesef ?" (What's with the money ?). It was shoot in Netanya ,Axum's hometown.It features their friends and relatives from the hood. the single was released about a month ago and got some great reviews:
Shaham Ohana aka Chakamoon is a very talented multi-instrumentalist and singer.He released his album "You & Me" in 2005. I think this is an amazing song and video. (directed by:Kutiman)
Axum's club Banger single was released in Nov 2006.It originally included Kalabata's dirty bass remix. Here are two more: a bouncy Baltimore Club remix by Ido Wido of the infamous Soulico,and a laidback remix by Cohen of the famous Cohen@Mushon. There are some more bootleg remixes around Emule...I'll try to look for them too...
Tomer Yosef was born and raised in kfar saba, Israel. began his acting career as a stand-up comedian in the early 1990’s. He performed live throughout Israel, appeared on a TV show called "Platefuls" and had a radio show on Reshet Gimel, an Israeli radio station, And acting in a couple of Israeli feature films. Tomer moved to New York City and in 1998 started along with itamar zigler "the Zion train" which was a 9 piece band who was performing in n.y.c. after 2 years got together with tamir muskat to produce his first album "Say Something.” In 2001 he got back to Israel to promote and tour. In 2003 started working at his home studio in tel aviv on his 2 album and has worked as an electronic artist, wrote, composed, and produced along with tamir muskat, working on the n.y. tel aviv line. 2004 started a d.j. set and performed all over Israel, while joining to the Balkan Beat Box vision, as a guest singer on the first album and joined the Balkan Beat Box as an m.c. , percussionist and samples in the live shows. These days, after releasing his 2 album “laughing underground”, he is touring Israel and Europe with his band and touring with the Balkan Beat Box all over the world.
We made this remix long time ago...however,we were too late to be included on the single so we played this only at soulico parties and always got great crowd feedback !
This is the first single by GOG,a joint venture of Isreael's dub king Laroz and Gilad Cahana,from the infamous group Girafot. This song is about Ehud Olmert,Our corrupted prime minister and his 9 souls.
Asaf Amdursky's big hit "15 Minutes" was released in 1998 as a CD single and later on his album "Silent Engines". Asaf played his new album to me and asked which song do I want to remix. this one was the definite candidate! I got all the tracks on DAT and used an E-Mu sampler for all the audio stuff and an Atari computer for sequencing.It's much easier nowdays with current technology thats for sure ! due to the nature of local singles which only reach to radio dj's,this remix was never really heard of ! so here's your chance,10 years later ! MP3 Download: 15 Minutes (Sabbo Remix)(Right Click and Save As)
Remixing this song evolved into more work with Asaf.I've co-produced "Bamarbolet" with him,I also co-produced the "Silent Engines" Tour,and performed with his band live on MPC,synth and scratching. Here's "Bamarbolet" Video:
This is the "Laroz Soundsystem" (Laroz,Sabbo,Kuti,Axum & Shimon) tearin' the roof at the Barzilay club 7/nov/2007. This tune is called "Music Desire" from Axum's forthcoming album. Stay tuned !
we were asked to do a cover version for an Israeli song of our choise for local pop singer "Daniel Zilberstein". the original song was by Lehaka Retorit.an indie/new wave band from the 80's. I always liked this song (and the bassline!).This version never really got the exposure and the airplay I think it deserves...
Soulico's critically acclaimed first mixtape,voted as the best mixtape ever released in Israel by Walla! , Israel's leading online news.Originally released in April 2004 ! People keep on asking for it but we ran out of copies long time ago. Tracklist (in hebrew)
Ortega sent me the acapella and although I'm way too busy right now with finishing and mixing Axum's album,I had to remix it ! This tune created quite a buzz in the local hiphop community and started a remix contest (with no prize...) I'll try and post the other remixes as well.
Onili is one of Israel's most talented women around.Her forthcoming album is a crazy clash of rock,electro and pop with Onili's unique attitude.She recently released the "Games EP" with Remixes by Kutiman and by Nadav Ravid. This is my remix.It's also included on the EP and was featured on the Mad Decent blog and found it's way into a few DJ mixes as well. You can buy the EP here
Zulu is a wicked producer, engineer and reggae singer from Panama/Chicago.I actually made the riddim track a while ago so I just added the acapella on top. The original version was produced by DJ C.You should also check and download the free Gods & Robots Mixtape.It features Zulu's vocals with production from DJ C and other remixes by kick ass producers from around the globe,including my remix of "Spanish Fly". You can also buy the brand new Gods & Robots full lenth album too.
We are proud to present Soulico's new FREE mixtape titled Archeology: A Deep Dig Into Israeli Grooves.
It's an hour full of Hasidic Disco, Spirutal Soul, Yamanite Funk, Turkish Acid Rock, Arabic Jazz & much more, all recorded & released in Israel by local musicians & artists in the 70's and early 80's. most of the tunes were never reissued on CD and were fairly obscure even when they originally came out. This is the result of a decade of digging in Tel-Aviv's record shops & Flea markets. Special thanks to Mad Decent for posting the mixtape too.
