gimme a beat with babymonster
since 2006, every 3rd monday of the month, gimme a beat radio show, hosted by babymonster, shares the beat rich music with interesting guests and trivia, with radio lora listeners. focused on everything female.
Episodes
Sunday May 15, 2011
* Dum Dum Girls at Mascotte, Zurich *
Sunday May 15, 2011
Sunday May 15, 2011
Dum Dum Girls are an indie noise pop band from sunny California currently signed by Sub Pop records.
Dee Dee formed Dum Dum Girls in a late 2008 as a solo project and named it after the song Dum Dum Boys from Iggy Pop and Dum Dum album from The Vaselines. When Dee Dee needed a band to take her songs out of the bedroom, she looked to her friends: Jules (guitar and vocals), Bambi (bass), and Sandy (drums and vocals), and created an all-female band.
I met Dee Dee on 17th of April, Sunday afternoon, before the Dum Dum Girls gig at Mascotte club in Zurich. Like all the artists Dee Dee is inspired with, she is a multitalent: she can sing, write awesome songs, play drums and guitar and is a total babe with an impeccable, cool style. On the top of everything she is funny, easy going and very approachable, which made an interview with her an effortless endeavor.
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To hear the interview, songs from Dum Dum Girls debut album and recently released EP as well as 5 songs from female artists of Dee Dee's choice, tune in tonight (16.05.2011) for Gimme A Beat and
Dum Dum Girls at Mascotte
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to previous entries or : babymonster’s blog on myspace
Sunday Apr 17, 2011
* Classic Motown *
Sunday Apr 17, 2011
Sunday Apr 17, 2011
Motown is a record label that was originally founded in Detroit on April 14, 1960, by Berry Gordy Jr. It played an important role in the racial integration of popular music, but not only because it was the first record label owned by an African American, but also, because by creating the new sound, known as The Motown Sound, a style of soul/R&B music with a distinct pop influence, it crossed-over racially different music styles.
Even though artist development at the Motown was very strict and production style almost factory-like, in order to create artists with the look and the sound that would be accepted in a conservative, white popular music market, the music that came out of the Motown, was still creative and very fresh and different. I always felt that parallel to the important changes in the society, Motown brought non-aggressive, smooth and subtle music revolution with a sound that influenced and inspired, and still does, many musicians, in every genre of music.
Since 2005, Motown is a part of the Universal Motown, but I will take you back to the roots, to the world of the original Motown sound, better known as a Classic Motown, where it all started.
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Tune in tonight (18.04.2011) to Gimme A Beat, to hear my choice of the female artists of Classic Motown sound
tune in for..
Classic Motown
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to previous entries or : babymonster’s blog on myspace
Sunday Mar 20, 2011
* Daytrottering *
Sunday Mar 20, 2011
Sunday Mar 20, 2011
Daytrotter is this amazing music website that is giving 7 original sessions, 28 songs for free each week. The sessions are recorded in the Horseshack studio in Rock Island, Illinois, and as its written on daytrotter website, these songs are exclusive, re-worked, alternate versions of old songs and unreleased tracks by some of your favorite bands and by a lot of your next favorite bands. All the session songs can be either downloaded for free or bought as a lossless ones, if available, for few bucks only.
Minimalist recording process used to records songs of the visiting band in the setup that is configurable, makes a very honest presentation of the band/artist on that particular day, in the physical and musical sense.
There are also some additional touches that I really like and that are provided by Daytrotter dudes : cute drawings of the artists (which makes it also very easy to search for them in extensive archive), short impression/biography stories on daytrotter session artists page, daytrotter for your eyes with video recordings of the sessions, daytrotter radio as well as really cool and easy to use daytrotter iphone app.
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On the top of all of this, these guys were kind enough to let me use any of their recordings.
Tune in tonight (21.03.2011) to Gimme A Beat, to hear my choice of awesome Daytrotter sessions performed by female artists:
tune in for..
Daytrottering
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to previous entries or : babymonster’s blog on myspace
Monday Feb 21, 2011
* Female Drummers & Itw with Cindy Blackman *
Monday Feb 21, 2011
Monday Feb 21, 2011
There is something really fascinating about the drummers. Maybe it's because they give the feeling that they own the beat? Or maybe it's because they can make a song/band sound really good if they have an impeccable drumming skills, and in the same way, make it sound really bad if they miss a beat (or two)?
However, comparing to the other musicians or members of the band, female drummers always were and still are a rare breed. But times are changing and actually, already nowadays, there are many excellent female drummers out there. Thinking that maybe we are just not aware of all those impressive ladies with drumsticks, I decided to do my bit and put more spotlight on them, like I will do in tonight's Gimme A Beat.
One of the women responsible for making female drummers more prominent is without any doubt jazz/rock drummer Cindy Blackman. She has been considered as one of the top drummers in the world as well as one of the hottest drummers in the business. Always on the lookout for new music challenges, new ways to artistically express herself, being driven by her own passion, and desire to be free in her creativity, Cindy has been an inspiration for many female drummers and musicians in general.
In the words of Talking Drum:
" She is thunder. She is fire. She is energy. She is passion. She is Cindy Blackman. "
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Tune in tonight (21.02.2011) to Gimme A Beat, to hear my choice of female drummers in the first hour and an interview with Cindy Blackman, that my special guest, Charles Blass, conducted in Zurich last summer, in the second hour of the show.
Charles Blass is a music and content advisor with over 25 years of experience in the music community. In Gimme a Beat tonight, Charles and I will talk about Cindy, his past experiences and future ideas, and by introducing his new radio LoRa show, Sun Radio, I will also welcome him to a radio LoRa family.
tune in for ..
Female Drummers
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to previous entries or : babymonster’s blog on myspace
Monday Jan 17, 2011
* Looking Back At 2010 *
Monday Jan 17, 2011
Monday Jan 17, 2011
Personally for me 2011 started stress free and very smooth. Music wise as well it seems like it's going to be very promising year. There are already few albums released with news of some potentially good ones to come out very soon. All of this will bring awesome concerts from promotion tours as well.
But while I am excitingly waiting to see what will the new year bring, as I usually feel in the beginning of every year, before steping into 2011, let's look back at all the fabulous music that 2010 brought in.
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Tonight (17.01.2011) in Gimme A Beat I will play all of my favorites female sang tracks of 2010, either singles or songs from brilliant albums.
Tune in for..
Looking Back At 2010
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to previous entries or : babymonster’s blog on myspace
Friday Dec 24, 2010
* Xmas Mix *
Friday Dec 24, 2010
Friday Dec 24, 2010
I love Xmas !!!
This year, unfortunately, I was to ill to do my special Xmas show
However, here is a little mix to make your Xmas merrier, happier and definitely sexier...
MERRY XMAS !!!
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old Gimme A Beat shows please go to previous entries or babymonster's blog on myspace
Monday Nov 15, 2010
Monday Nov 15, 2010
This year, just before the summer time, I was looking to find yet another festival, that I haven't visited until now, with good line up and not in Switzerland (where I live), so that I can combine musical with traveling experience.
And what did I found? Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, festival only few hours away from Zurich. I’ve organized press accreditation, booked a hotel, packed my mic, voice recorder (and comfortable shoes of course) and headed off to Belfort.
Les Eurockéennes de Belfort is a festival that is taking place on the peninsula of Malsaucy, near Belfort France. Amazingly enough, even if this festival is happening since 1989, it’s line up seems to be always fresh, but not overwhelming, having just right amount of more and less known artists. Easy to access: if you were staying at the campsite you could take a walk or a shuttle buss and if staying in Belfort, there were free local trains running every half an hour, even during the night. Les Eurockeennes has five stages: Grande Scene (main stage), Loggia, Chapiteau, Plage and Club Deville. All of the stages are surrounded with green and water. One of the stages is even set right on the beach. Adding to the great chilled vibe, that until now, I only truly experienced at French festivals (fabulous Rock En Seine last year), taking a break is easy anytime, finding a quiet place in the nature and recover.
It's impressive line-up, that includes many of my favorite artists from different genre, fortunately for Gimme A Beat listeners, doesn't include male artists and bands only, but fair amount of brilliant female artists from all over the world.
This is the second part of review of Les Eurockéennes. Tonight my focus will be on 2 female artists and one female-male (husband-wife) band:
First to focus on is Selah Sue, young artist from Belgium, also known as a white girl that rhymes as a Jamaican that totally blew me away with great performance down on the Plage stage. It was a perfect setting for her gig, her powerful soulful voice combined with summer sun made everybody dancing in the sand (Plage stage is the one on the beach and next to the water). Also, not only that she exhibited an awesome voice but on top of it, hey, this girl can definitely rhyme. How cool is that!
After the gig, we sat down for an interview and I learned more about this charming lady, her inspirations and her future plans.
I also caught up with über friendly, creatively and personally linked Swedish duo, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, just before their performance on Les Eurockéennes. They had specially organized local choir for their gig on Loggia stage, which made it somehow more organic, kind of layering and very interesting. They looked as relaxed and comfortable when performing together as they were during an interview, showing that mixing business and pleasure is more then possible when done in the right way.
Third artists to be featured in tonight's gimme a beat is Le Prince Miiaou.This tiny, now platinum blond young French artist (she used to be dark haired), armed with a guitar, loop machine, powerful voice and lots of energy, also gave great performance. Later on, during an interview, she showed another, shy side and she also told me that she was very nervous for performing on such as big festival as Les Eurockéennes but neither I nor I believe the audience noticed that.
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Tonight (15.11.2010) on Gimme A Beat, it's all about sharing my impressions, playing the music and interviews with Selah Sue, Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Le Prince Miiaou
Tune in for 2nd part of ..
Les Eurockéennes De Belfort Festival 2010
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to: babymonster's blog on myspace
Monday Oct 18, 2010
* Kate Nash at Kaufleuten, Zurich *
Monday Oct 18, 2010
Monday Oct 18, 2010
Kate Nash is an UK singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist that had a breakthrough in 2007 with break-up song "Foundations". Following was release of the first album, platinum selling UK number one, Made of Bricks. Next, she was named Best Female Artist at the 2008 BRIT Awards.
This year in April, Kate released her 2nd studio album, entitled My Best Friend Is You. Being inspired by 60's girl groups and Riot grrrl movement, this album has a different sound then the previous one. And somehow i feel that this style of music suits even better Kate's daring, bold lyrics. It definitely seems like logical development of young talent and by moving (forward) in this direction she is also moving away from other UK artists that she was compared to in the beginning of her career.
On 24th of September, I met up with Kate, few hours before her only concert in Switzerland, in one of the rooms of the club Kaufleuten, Zurich. She was funny and sweet, intelligent and honest, just like her songs are. Due to her easy going-ness and chatty personality, I've managed to get much longer interview then 15 as originally agreed.
Even if Kate Nash's Tshirts with bunny rabbit fluffy were out of stock (and still are), so I couldn't buy one, my mood was on the high, even before, but especially after the concert, where Kate, again, charmed and made me and rest of the audience entertained with her intelligent talks and songs.
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To hear the interview, Kate Nash's songs from both albums and 5 songs from female artists of her choice, tune in tonight (18.10.2010) for Gimme A Beat and
All Eyes On Kate Nash
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to: babymonster’s blog on myspace
Monday Sep 20, 2010
* Sam Red at Roxy Jam 2010 *
Monday Sep 20, 2010
Monday Sep 20, 2010
Since 2006, each summer, Roxy Jam in Biarritz blends surfing, art and music in unique and unforgettable way.
Main focus of this event is ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship, won this year by Cori Schumacher, American surfer. However there was lots of other stuff happening in the Roxy Town on the Basque Coast in Biarritz. With Roxy Charity Shop that was selling vintage Roxy clothes as well as autographed surfboards; Art Tent with Roxy Second Wave, art exhibition with focus on recycling; collection of pro surfboards brought together by Lee-Ann Curren, to be auction to support her charity Titanzinho and I love boobies (Keep a breast) campaign, and few other sponsor tents, you couldn’t feel bored even if you wanted to. Bigger problem was how to manage to enjoy, see everything in few days, and do some media work as well . One other great thing was that media area was located on the perfect place to watch the competition and it was always busy and packed with people giving interviews, photographing event or just hanging around.
It was my first year to review Roxy Jam and I have to say that I felt really spoiled with all the goodies (free surf classes with pro teachers included ), a fabulous treatment and one excellent organization.
The music side of event, always in tune with current times and one of my main reasons to go to this event was as cool as expected. And being that events were free of charge it felt that Roxy wasn’t only spoiling me or other media people but the whole Biarritz as well.
There were two major music events:
On 10th of July, Australian born, model-turned-singer Micky Green, now based in Paris, followed by all-female French rock band The Plastiscines rocked the stage set up on Port Vieux Beach. On 13th of July, the Beaurivage parking lot just above Roxy Jam town turned into fabulous music venue with an awesome vibe. Making sure to make everybody dance from sunset into the night, this event was supported by excellent female DJs: Sam Red, Estelle S. and DJ Chloe.
The only down point of my Roxy Jam experience was that I came to late to set up an interview with Micky Green and The Plastiscines, but luckily I’ve caught up with one amazing DJ and very charming Sam Red, winner of the Next Girl DJ competition, sponsored by JBL and Roxy and also with Ashley Douglas, PR manager for JBL and the mastermind behind the competition.
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To hear these interviews, mix from Sam Red and selected tunes from Micky Green and The Plastiscines tune in tonight (Monday 20.09.2010) for Gimme A Beat and
Roxy Jam 2010
from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat on youtube / sam red on fb / sam red on soundcloud / sam red and sync.live / sam red next girl dj winning mix
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to:
babymonster’s blog on myspace
Sunday Aug 22, 2010
* Martina Topley-Bird and Rox at Les Eurockeennes De Belfort Festival 2010 *
Sunday Aug 22, 2010
Sunday Aug 22, 2010
This year, just before the summer time, I was looking to find yet another festival, that I haven't visited until now, with good line up and not in Switzerland (where I live), so that I can combine musical with traveling experience.
And what did I found? Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, festival only few hours away from Zurich. I’ve organized press accreditation, booked a hotel, packed my mic, voice recorder (and comfortable shoes of course) and headed off to Belfort.
Les Eurockéennes de Belfort is a festival that is taking place on the peninsula of Malsaucy, near Belfort France. Amazingly enough, even if this festival is happening since 1989, it’s line up seems to be always fresh, but not overwhelming, having just right amount of more and less known artists. Easy to access: if you were staying at the campsite you could take a walk or a shuttle buss and if staying in Belfort, there were free local trains running every half an hour, even during the night. Les Eurockeennes has five stages: Grande Scene (main stage), Loggia, Chapiteau, Plage and Club Deville. All of the stages are surrounded with green and water. One of the stages is even set right on the beach. Adding to the great chilled vibe, that until now, I only truly experienced at French festivals ( fabulous Rock En Seine last year), taking a break is easy anytime, finding a quiet place in the nature and recover.
It's impressive line-up, that includes many of my favorite artists from different genre, fortunately for Gimme A Beat listeners, doesn't include male artists and bands only, but fair amount of brilliant female artists from all over the world.
Tonight my focus will be on two female artists:
Martina Topley-Bird, British female artists who gain fame at early age through her professional collaboration, as well as personal, with trip hop pioneer Tricky. I loved both of her solo albums, especially 2nd one, the Blue God, so I was curious to hear and see her live. Her performance was a great moment. She looked beautiful and dreamy, like a princess in her red strapless dress and around eye make-up mask, that for the moment, I felt like I was mesmerized into another world. The world of Martina Topley-Bird. Excellent and stunning performance, followed up with another one, closing gig of the festival, where she performed together with Massive Attack. Wearing mermaid look-alike gold/black strapless dress, again, she added a touch of her dreamy world to their performance as well. During an interview, backstage in the car to avoid noise of the concert that was happening at that moment, she was very approachable and easy going and I felt like I am chatting with somebody that I know for ages, about personal, intimate, deep subjects like love and music and life experiences in general.
Another artist that I had a pleasure to have an interview with was Rox, young British soul artist, that was for a very good reason tipped for the next big thing of the 2010. Her gig was loads of fun, with her showing off not only her vocal capabilities and her powerful soulful voice but also dancing skills, when she went down while bogle dancing during the "Rock Steady" performance. The whole moment was even more authentic since her concert was on Plage stage, that as the name suggests, is the (only) stage on the beach. Everybody were dancing and clapping, all smiles, hooked on an infectious vibe of Roxanne Tataei.
She was bubbly and funny when I meet her in the press area during the press conference. However, even if she is only 21, she gave me an impression of the person that knows exactly what she wants career wise and that is without any doubt standing 100% behind her music.
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Tonight (16.08.2010) on Gimme A Beat, it's all about sharing my impressions, playing the music and interviews with Martina Topley-Bird and Rox
Tune in for..
Les Eurockeennes De Belfort Festival 2010
from 21:00 - 23:00 (time changed due to the studio being closed after 23:00 tonight) on:
webradio lora
featuring:
gimme a beat, 16th of august, on radio lora
Kisses,
Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to:
babymonster's blog on myspace