DJ Ultrafino – blog

Dneska se nějaký pán zeptal v rekordšopu, jestli mají desky s ultrafino muzikou. Trochu divný stát se přídavným jménem, ale celkem potěšující:)

#1 Buy anything on Chess label

Ultrafino’s comment on Rule #1: Especially if it’s Ramsey Lewis

Brilliant live mix from my buddy Mikuláš.

http://www.mixcloud.com/Phonocz/dj-mikulas-live-dj-set-from-funkopolis-night-in-palac-akropolis-prague-recorded-2852011-live/

I didnt hear him tho, because his soundguy is a collosal dick. There was no music. There was neither any sound. Just fucking terrible noise.

Funkomas. Our good friend, great man and true DJ passed away. He will always be with us.

Tonight, I was DJing in a small bar, playing jazz and soul. There was a couple sitting right in front of my turntables. They didn’t talk much, just holding hands, listening to music. I saw it as a challenge and threw them a miniset of eroticaly charged seventees soul. Fourth song in (Johnny Bristol -- I Can’t Stop You) she started to kiss him and shortly after that they left. It made my night. Hope it made theirs, too…

Poslední dobou mě tak trochu zlobí, že každej, kdo má seráto a stáhne si pár funkovejch “bestofek” najednou začne pořádat megapárty, dá si hned titul jako king nebo star a nezapomene prohlásit, že ta jeho párty je nejlepší funková párty ze všech funkových párty. Takže breaková mixtejpa je natruc všem těmhle rychlokvaškám namixovaná z originálních vinylů. Nepoužíval jsem reedice ani kompilace. Trvalo to asi deset hodin, než to bylo správně. Mám dojem, že úsilí věnovaný shromáždění desek a práce na živým mixování se tam někde musí projevit. A všichni seráto DJs – na 29:40 máte vzkaz!

It kind of pisses me of lately, that every yahooo with serato and “mp3 best of funk compilation” suddenly throws funk parties. And, of course they don’t forget to call themselves king or star and claim that their funk party is the best funk party there is. So, this mixtape is sort of a challenge for them. I mixed it from original vinyls, haven’t used represses or compilations. It took about ten hours to get it right but I hope the effort to collect all the records plus the work to mix them must remain somewhere in there.  Yo, all Serato DJs – don’t forge to listen to my little message to you at 29:40.

check it out here

I can not describe the frustration. Knowing you ordered and paid for a stack of killers and instead packing them into your recordbag they are flying back and forth throughout Europe.

This will not stand. I will write letters and Im gonna be a collosal dick about this. Fight the power!

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Dear Madamme, Sir,

Last weekend, I ordered a shipment of a parcel from Juno Records at Leyton UK to Prague. As I needed the parcel to arrive today (Friday 18.March) at latest, I chose and paid for FedEx Courrier services instead of regular post service.

From the tracking system at FedEx website, the route of my parcel was:

Leyton – Stansted – Koln (DE) – Neuenstein (DE) – Aubervilliers (FR)

Then the tracking ended and my parcel seemed to be stuck, for some reason, in France.

Raising an enquiry to Czech FedEx branch I discovered that my parcel is not being delivered by FedEx (as was advertised by Juno Records and which is what I paid for) but by GLS International. Obtaining new tracking number I discovered that the parcel was sent from Aubervilliers back to Neuenstein (Germany). After several phonecalls I got to know that it will not be possible to deliver the parcel today but on Monday at earliest.

While I was ordering service from world leading company as FedEx I believed it should not be difficult to deliver a package from UK to Czech Republic in five days. I am therefore very unhappy about the fact that:

1) My parcel is not handled by FedEx as advertised
2) My parcel is being shipped back and forth between Germany and France for reasons not entirely clear to me
3) It takes 7 days (maybe more) to deliver package from UK to Czech Republic

Could I please ask you for explaining the above raised complaints? Let me please say in advance that I was told many times that the shipment was sent by FedEx Economy and therefore FedEx doesnt guarantee any delivery schedule. I can not accept this explanation as (stated above) – my parcel is for some reason NOT handled by FedEx and was without my knowledge handed over to another company. Whats more, I realy refuse to believe that shipping a simple parcel from UK to Czech Republic should take more than 5 days to any kind of shipping service.

Awaiting your response in due course,

with best regards,

Jiri Holubec