Tag: Egon

Egon’s Pop Up Record Shop at Rappcats – March 12th

Egon pop up record shop at Rappcats
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Noon — 5PM
5636 York Blvd,
Los Angeles CA 90042

On March 12th, Egon’s hosting a record store at Rappcats, selling records from his collection, one-day only. This is the first pop up of 2016, and will be done every quarter, with unique records being made available at each event. For this event, he’s selling records from jazz legend Stanton Davis’s collection, which he and Madlib purchased in 2011 (see NPR’s “Excavating Stanton Davis Storage Unit Funk”) amidst rarities culled just for this event.

Also available will be the entire Now-Again catalog — for a one day discount of 25% less than our normal retail. If you can’t make it to Highland Park, all online Now-Again orders from the Rappcats store placed on 12/12 will receive a 25% discount as well.

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Posted in NewsMar. 6, 2016

Egon’s Pop-Up Record Shop at Rappcats – Dec. 12th.

Egon pop up record shop at Rappcats
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Noon – 5PM
5636 York Blvd,
Los Angeles CA 90042

On December 12th, Egon’s hosting a record store at Rappcats, selling records from his collection one-day only. Also available will be the entire Now-Again catalog – for a one day discount of 25% less than our normal retail. If you can’t make it to Highland Park, all online Now-Again orders from the Rappcats store placed on 12/12 will receive a 25% discount as well.

Egon is one third of Rappcats, alongside Madlib and Jeff Jank, and the Now-Again imprint is a large part of the store. He’s also regarded as one of the world’s most record-collecting elite, and was profiled in Dust and Grooves and Crate Diggers, as well as numerous documentaries. Expect a slew of records from the uber-rare to the cheap and essential at his Rappcats pop up. And if you miss this one, he plans to do these once a quarter in 2016, bringing out unique pieces each event.

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Posted in NewsNov. 30, 2015

Stream: Egon’s Rock Mix

Via Rappcats, on Egon’s mix done for the release of Madlib’s Rock Konducta album:

“This is a mix of late 60s to mid 70s rock music from all over the world: America to Germany to Japan and everywhere in-between. It’s the type of rock Madlib used for the Rock Konducta records, and is a mixture of the incredibly rare and random dollar bin finds that makes crate digging in the rock idiom so much fun. A lot of this is underground – one example was literally recorded by Dusseldorf twenty-somethings in a bomb-shelter, a literally exorcising of Nazi demons through Krautrock – and some of it is from bands that had pop aspirations but recorded something heavy and probably a bit odd as the one-off awesome track on an otherwise forgettable album. Live mix using 2 CDJs, no edits, some mistakes, that’s the way it goes. Shout outs to Twink, Bunker Records, Franz Wippel, any band that spells April with a “y” instead of an “i,” state-run labels from former communist countries who had the nerve to get down with hard psych and Madlib, of course, for finding the funk in all of this.”

Posted in NewsJul. 22, 2014

Stream Now! Live Mix: Egon on Boiler Room

If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you might have seen/heard Egon’s set at Boiler Room’s debut in San Francisco. This is the many-times-postponed follow up for their “Collections” series, which we and the Boiler Room crew have tried to get right. It aired live at noon (BST) on Friday June 27th and is available as an archive here:

From Boiler Room’s site:

“He took us on a wondrous musical journey spanning psych, funk, prog and more; interspersed with useful information about each release such as which presses to look for if keen, and what’s going to be reissued for our ears to delight in.

We traveled through Spain with Madlib favorite Pan y Regaliz, Eastern Europe with our old loves Indexi and Drago Mlinarec plus a newfound one, Drugi Nacin; Iran with Kouroush Yaghmaei, over to the African continent with Zambian legends Ngozi Family (keep your eyes peeled for a respective anthology on the label in 2015), Ethiopia with Mahmoud Ahmed, Nigerian band The Hikers, and an unmissable slew of Angolan 45’s – this just to name a few.”

Posted in NewsJun. 25, 2014