till working out the logistics of this thing so please bear with me, but I think I am going to add a little table of contents at the beginning of these things and eventually get to the point where you can click on the topic and it shoot you down to that part of the email. So that will be the goal for next month. But most emails should be structured like this in the future. And as always feedback is a must since you will be getting this three times a month.

1. Club Update (how many people and new people of interest, plus misc news)
2. Physical Product Update (update on what will be in your packages)
3. Artist Spotlight (exclusive FHRC music for download)
4. Music we are feeling at the moment (downloads and stuff we are enjoying at the moment)
5. Back Catalog Information (do you want to buy stuff from our back catalog)

1) Flamin Hotz Record Club Update

We have experienced considerable growth this week in both the Philly Record Club and the Flamin Hotz Record Club with over current 40 members. Currently we have members from all over the US with a concentration in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago (largely my family, love you guys) with international members representing Canada, France and the UK. The majority of the people signing up have been on the prepaid system but in the past couple of days we have had an influx of yearly memberships.

Some people who signed up this week who I wanted to give a special shout out to:

Prince Money from the awesome blog http://thehighness.blogspot.com/

(check that for some great rap highlights from Houston and expect big things from him in 2009)

Squincy Jones representing Houston signed up as well http://www.myspace.com/squincyjones

(he has some great Nintendo dubstep tunes that we will be talking about later)

Pocketknife from the Tambourine Dream ep (one of our biggest releases to date) signed up as well http://www.myspace.com/flagrantwhittler

(We have already locked in Cousin Cole and Pocketknife for Tambo D 2 coming out this summer)

I also wanted to give a shout out to my sister and Fausto holding San Francisco down. Also Jess see you in DC this weekend.

Make sure to tell your friends and please help us sign up more people to our goal of 400 members.

2) Physical Product Update

So its time for you to decide about your free record. We will be shipping these the first week of March 2008.

Please choose one below and email me your selection and mailing address so I can double check it against your paypal account mailing address.

*MEMBERS ONLY* 320 MP3 download

*MEMBERS ONLY* 320 MP3 download

*MEMBERS ONLY* 320 MP3 download

You can also purchase additional records from our catalog for $5 with no additional shipping charge. (see section 5 if you are interested).

We will be keeping track of what people choose and we have limited stock of each release so please send us your response asap so we can get your package together.

On to 2009 stuff

So great news, just got all the music back from Starky and looks like we are almost ready to put this record into the pressing plant. Well on its way for the April mailing.

We printed a bunch of cards and if you haven’t gotten them in the mail you might soon enough. If you got them please show them to your friends and explain to them what we are doing over here.

Call for Designers FHRC Serato Sticker Logo Contest

We are going to press some more Serato stickers so if you’re a designer get in touch and if you design something cool we will probably press it up. Send us an email to get the template and the theme is going to be the record club. These will be a small run of stickers for you guys only that you can put over your serato labels. Get in touch and lets get this on and poppin. (oh shit do you know some one perfect for this. Try to get them to sign up for the club.If they really don’t wanna join but you still think they will kill a design tell them to email me)

3) Artist Spotlight

Our first release in Mar ch 2 009, “Big Apple Bounce” comes from the one and only Proper Villains

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http://www.myspace.com/propervillaindjs

Check out this awesome youtube video of Get Down Method out next month on FHZ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiGJpryYnAM

Straight up out New York City Proper Villians have been holding in down on the dj scene for a while now and they first started sending us remixs and demos about a year ago. Now their tracks have found their way on playlists from Drop The Lime, Curses, Machine Drum, Ac Slater, Udachi, Catchdubs (Fool’s Gold), Dances With White Girls, Jess Jubilee (Night Shifters), Acid Jacks, Dj Dstar, dstar , Dj dj dstar and Dj ratsd.

Check out the Proper Villains release on Southern Friend Records on Beatport and lookout for another release late on from Night Shifters.

*MEMBERS ONLY* Download of a Proper Villains Track

4) Music we are feeling at the moment

In this area I want to highlight people in the record club along with music that is in the scene that is really making an impact. Hope you enjoy the downloads and please talk about them and pass them to your friends.

If you haven’t heard about this dude yet get acquainted.

Theophilus London www.myspace.com/londonwave

Check out his awesome new mix tape featuring a remix track from Proper Villains.

Theophilus London – This Charming Mixtape

As we talked about early here is a great mix by one of the dj’s singed up to this list.

Squincy Jones Nintenddub www.myspace.com/squincyjones

In 2008 the music blogosphere was introduced to Jones via his 8-bit, Down South dubstep mix, Nintendub, and various hood hop track releases. From Swedish weblog Discobelle to Boston’s Mashit.com, posts blasted that Jones “is on that screwed-dubstep-nintendo shit that you’ve heard in your dreams but you didn’t consciously realize existed yet.” U.K.’s Fact Magazine listed the mix as one of 2008′s “Top 20 Mixes,” coming in at sweet sixteen.

http://www.zshare.net/download/8429867d0dce76/

This is just on some next level 8bitness shit. I have always been a fan of chiptune and this is just a great listen from end to end. Got high hopes for this kid in 2009 and we hope that he will keepl blessin this list with some dubs and some other productions.

(want your music featured here, just send me an email with your tracks)

5) *MEMBERS ONLY* Back Catalog all $5 no shipping fee

(if you buy these I will just send them in the packages that are already going out to you so no shipping fee’s)

FHRC Dwizz Ep $5 No Shippin Fee

FHRC Cobra Krames Ep No Shipping

FHRC Hail Social Remix Ep $5 No Shippin Fee

FHRC Ninjasonik Ep $5 No Shippin Fee

FHRC Emynd & Bo Bliz ep $5 no shippin Fee

FHRC Força Kuduro! EP ep $5 no shippin fee

Thanks a lot and look for an update next week.

Fixed!!!

Fresh off the heels of Funkeiros e Progresso EP and the massive Pancadão do Morro: O Funk do Flamin Hotz, Já É?, which brought fair trade funk carioca to the table, Flamin Hotz brings a dose of funk’s brother from another mother, a heady combination of bass-heavy dance beats produced on the periphery.  Kuduro is yet another ricochet of sounds to echo across the black Atlantic and percolate to ears worldwide.  Throughout Angola, and especially its capital, Luanda, the dominant sound is this electronic combination of traditional Angolan percussion with the straight kick of house and techno. For more than a decade, local producers have been mimicking beats using whatever technology has been at hand – most recently the program Fruity Loops – to produce the soundtrack to a sweaty Angolan night, with rapid-fire toasting in Angolan Portuguese.  The flow may sound Jamaican, but it is uniquely Angolan – another musical link across the African diaspora.

Once produced, burned CDs circulate at lightning speed and Kuduro blares from condongueiros, the blue-and-white shared vans that dart insanely through Luanda’s chaotic traffic.  DJs pick up the most popular tracks to play at outdoor parties, raves really, across the country.  That’s where the dual meaning of Kuduro’s name comes into play.  Kuduro is also a dance, where slick moves and winding & grinding are the order of the day.  The word is a bastardization of the Portuguese phrase “hard ass” (cu duro transformed into Kuduro), whose origin story traces back to producer Tony Amado’s inspiration by Jean-Claude Van Damme’s ridiculous white boy “hard ass” dance moves in kickboxing flicks.  How’s that for globalization.

After hearing snippets of Kuduro that has filtered out of Angola, especially through the global ghettotech blog circuit, Flamin Hotz Records got in touch with Frédéric Galliano, one of the biggest foreign exporters of this sound, especially through his CD Kuduro Sound System (Frikyiwa 2006) and his video documentary on the history of Kuduro (http://www.myspace.com/fredericgalliano). “Força Kuduro!”, the 12″ EP he curated for Flamin Hotz, features a wide range of Kuduro tracks produced by Galliano, Dj Tecas, and Dj Patrick.  “Força Kuduro!” also features some of the hottest vocal talent out of Angola with Pai Diesel, Zoca Zoca, and Puto Lilas.  And in a nod to Kuduro’s increasing global currency, we brought in Rub a Dub Market from Japan on a Galliano beat that will jumpstart any party. Most importantly, while the free CD-R hustle in Luanda is essential to Kuduro’s musical economy, Flamin Hotz ensured that each track was properly licensed from the artists, who were justly compensated for their music.

Get it now in limited edition vinyl-only release.  Follow up CD of Kuduro beats scheduled for 2009.

Go read what Discobelle had to say

Get Werid Turn Pro Got an Mp3 up to DL

Superstar Dj Donna Summer linked up his fav track here

Fuck You On Friday knows whats the deallllllllll…..

Please buy the Vinyl over here and if you like Frédéric Galliano shit get at him on itunes…