brothers on the side…mytea@om

June 16, 2009

I first met Keiron just under 10 years ago. We met in London but through Tokyo connections. I was a young-buck in the big city, he was a veteran who had put the hours in.  In that first Summer back in London, Keiron introduced me to everyone worth knowing or meeting on the London jazz / DJ / record shop circuit.  Often as his ‘apprentice’

He taught me how to get fish and chips for free at 4 in the morning, and how to get cabs home for half price.  He also educated me in wine, cooking and music.  I missed the mid ’90s when Keiron had a record shop in Soho, but from what I have heard it was a shop I would have enjoyed; connecting the sounds of jazz, techno, hip hop and the emerging alternative dance scene in a way that most shops did not do in those days.

So when Keiron finally left London with his family it left a big hole.  Thankfully the last year has seen him start up a blog on ’70s music, fashion and attitudes but with a modern perspective.  Just like those chats we’d have while the records were playing.  Personal insights in to a world everyone is talking about but few actually experienced.  Get the information first hand from the blog mytea@om…

BACK TO BASICS
BLOG NAME:
mytea@om

CONTRIBUTORS:
Only Meeee!

DATE OF FIRST POST:
August, last year.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU POST:
Once or twice week depends on time, and if I have something worth saying/posting.

WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU STOP THE BLOG:
Interweb crashing out of existdance

HYPE MACHINE OR EL.BOWS:
What’s that?

BLOGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE
WHAT IS BEHIND YOUR BLOG NAME:
Drinking chai at Om beach, Gokana in India.
Wanted to build a chai shop there in 1990, but had to leave rather sharpish…

THE BLOG IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN:
Sushi

THE BLOG IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN:
BrewNELlo di montalCHEEno.

A POST YOU ARE DAMN PROUD OF:
It would have to be this one, it stirred so many memories I couldn`t sleep properly for 3 days..

WHY MP3S, AND WHY NOW:
Moving with the moment.

WHAT BAND OR PRODUCER IS REALLY DOING IT FOR YOU RIGHT NOW:
Jah Wobble for dropping Chinese dub on the world.

WHAT WOULD A BAND / LABEL HAVE TO GIVE YOU TO MAKE YOU POST ON THEM:
Payola baby…

IF YOU COULD GET ANY EXCLUSIVE FOR YOUR BLOG, WHAT WOULD IT BE:
An interview with The Professor, Neil Barnes (LEFTFIELD)

THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER
3 BLOGS THAT YOU RECOMMEND / INSPIRED YOU TO START:
Too many music blogs have their own unique spin on things, would be rude to single any out.
Thomas Paine`s Corner is a good read.
The Truth According to Puppetji – always makes me laugh.

Yours would have to be the one that inspired me to start…you bugged me enuff…LOL.

3 DESERT ISLAND BOOKS:
Songlines.
The Holographic Universe.
And the one i`m reading now – This Is Your Brain On Music.

3 DESERT ISLAND RECORDS:
Asha Puthli – Space Talk.
Pink Floyd – See Emily Play
Leftfield – Not Forgotten

3 PEOPLE YOU REALLY HOPE WILL READ YOUR BLOG:
The generator, operator, the destroyer.

3 PEOPLE YOU HOPE WILL NEVER READ YOUR BLOG:
Hope the whole wide world reads it.

AND FINALLY
A TRACK FOR THE READERS OF INNERSOUNDS…
This was included on a compilation called ATLAS EARTHED, compiled by the partners back in `96 for our record shop ATLAS Records..R.I.P.
I still drop it to this day and never fails to rock the spot.

Plaid – Scoobs in Columbia …pure latin techy drumfeast.

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