Longjon la Flecha

Classics

2011-03-17T20:06:00.001Z

BigBoyz

Pura by Longjon La Flecha

Woodwork

2011-03-07T10:14:00.001Z

little devil made by my dad's artist mate in Mexico. DArio

tago mago

2011-02-20T12:58:00.000Z

can

6/2/11

2011-02-06T13:20:00.001Z

vaulting

New Stuff

2011-01-27T12:45:00.002Z

New Stuff...

SHUNT this sat (29/1/11)

2011-01-26T13:27:00.002Z

We are playing at Shunt this saturday.

Here is a map

See you there !

Jesse's Palava

2011-01-15T12:26:00.003Z

Two GREAT mixtapes from Jesse.
Inspirational sounds

THE PALAVA IN JAVA
"thai funeral music,hypnotic 70s thai jams,evil gamalan witch craft.....".

SLOWLY DOWN THE GANGES
"a slow winding journey though steamy mangrove swamps ,purple luner beams and spirit lanes.the howl of a lonely hound dog banished from his kingdom , and the sound of wonder."

Otis's Nut Roast

2010-12-24T00:26:00.002Z

Great mix tape from the main boy OTIS

CLICK HERE to get Otis's Nut Roast

Beefheart

2010-12-21T10:21:00.004Z

One of the true pioneers of 20th century music has popped his clogs at the age of 69. Musician and artist Don Van Vliet who also went by the name Captain Beefheart died on December 17 2010. As a musician he was active between the mid 60's and early 80's before retiring from music to pursue a career in art.
His body of work remains unmatched in its courage and unmitigated creativity. He was a unique innovator and will remain a highly significant and incalculable influence on all of us who came under his spell.
No one has sounded like the Captain and his various Magic Band incarnations. They acheived some of the most original music put to record. The inimitable Captain's persona will remain almost transcendental in its scope.
R.I.P Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

Momo on Tuesday (2/11/10)

2010-10-27T10:47:00.003+01:00

We are playing at Momo next Tuesday (November 2). Click for more info below

TIME OUT info
MOMO info

We are playing a FULL set and its FREE FREE FREE and its always a great sound down there so come down

here is a MAP

Roundhouse Footage

2010-10-23T15:35:00.006+01:00

Video of us at the Roundhouse last Sunday. It was an opening set of 35 minutes which we really enjoyed. Thanks for our peeps for coming to that. You know who you are...Rok on to the next. We are playing at Momo on Tuesday November 2. FREE it is. FREE yeah FREE

Playing at the Roundhouse

2010-10-08T16:19:00.005+01:00

On October 17 we will have the pleasure of opening for Seu Jorge at the Roundhouse, Camden. We will be playing new music from our forthcoming EP that evening and really looking forward to both playing and hopefully meeting the guys from Seu Jorge. Members of Naçao Zumbi a great Brazilian group led by the late Chico Science. Heavy heavy stuff, which I discovered in Bahia over 10 years ago. Very excited about that.
An added bonus is... having recently moved back to Camden, I am really looking forward to walk the whole 4 minutes from my flat to the historic Roundhouse with my guitar on my back and take part in what will be hopefully a really enjoyable night of music. HUP HO! dario +++
Some Facebook info about the event
Some standard info about the evening

Croatia

2010-09-10T15:23:00.011+01:00

Here is an interesting stat worked out after a Rakiya session at SMS festival at The Garden, Petrčane, Croatia: A festival by the sea, mainly compromising of electronic music. We provided some live music on Sunday afternoon on a lovely openair stage that resembled an amphitheatre.

The statistic is based on 4 to the floor house and techno music at an average of 128 BPM:

If listening/bopping whatever your choice of flex to the above; results show the following:

-1 hour would amount to 7,680 kick drums
-4 hours per night would make 30,720 kicks
-2 nights at a modest 4hours per session would total 61,440 kick drums

I havent mentioned drop outs and breakdowns. A pause amongst the headbang. Im guessing that would consist of 25% at the very most of total musical content. Still a lot of kick drums. Nuff bigups to Carl Craig who created some nice sonics thru the Funktion One sound system. Kept the hats ringing and the deep bass bumpin. respec
We enjoyed playing thru it too with our found backline of Marshall, EV, and old drumset. Was a really positive outing where we got to play some new tunes with a nice sound. Thanks for that

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2010-08-19T14:55:00.004+01:00

EastnorCastle

2010-08-19T10:37:00.002+01:00

On Broadway

2010-07-29T22:57:00.003+01:00

somewhere downtown, cant remember

May This Be Love

2010-07-28T17:17:00.000+01:00

Timeless Hendrix. Just lovely

?

2010-07-28T12:36:00.000+01:00

What is it with Organic Food shops and Kora music ?

Detroit Style-Jeff Mills

2010-07-27T12:13:00.003+01:00

Who said Techno was boring. Behold !!!

R.I.P Sugar Minott

2010-07-24T19:55:00.000+01:00

1997 heavy

2010-07-23T17:45:00.001+01:00

1977

2010-07-23T14:49:00.001+01:00

1969

2010-07-22T12:18:00.001+01:00

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

1968

2010-07-21T13:04:00.005+01:00

1957

2010-07-20T13:13:00.002+01:00

more music from the kitchen REmixes

2010-07-19T08:46:00.006+01:00

ConfusedDUB by LLF kitchen REMIXes

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2010-07-19T08:43:00.001+01:00

1971

2010-07-18T12:17:00.003+01:00

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2010-07-17T20:00:00.004+01:00

CumbaDUB-the kitchen REmixes

2010-07-17T19:05:00.002+01:00

PlodPlodPlodMoodyBitterness
CumbaMembraneDUB by LongjonLaFlechaREMIX

UptownDUB-the kitchen REmixes

2010-07-16T21:54:00.003+01:00

Tags: Funk Vocal Dirty Made In Berlin Bongo Drum
UptownDUB by LongjonLaFlechaREMIX

Wise Wyatt

2010-07-16T11:39:00.009+01:00

"I’ve never seen the need for this great split between success and failure that the pop industry is like. A bit like Hollywood-something’s either a smash or it’s a complete failure. The world of culture in my head that I come from isn’t anything to do with that. It’s to do with just people pegging away for a lifetime at their craft."

ROBERT WYATT
OTIS'S PAGE : http://notrivia.tumblr.com/

A Look at Cricket Life

2010-07-16T11:16:00.001+01:00

LONGJON LA FLECHA@SOCIAL JULY 8

2010-06-23T10:36:00.001+01:00

Will be playing soon. Its free. No World Cup games on that night so no worries!

Firewater

2010-06-01T12:33:00.004+01:00

Great gig at the Firewater Club at the end of MAy. An amazing start to the evening with a Tequila tasting had us nice and warm by the time we started. Was quite a novelty to go to a quiet club without loud music and sit around tasting authentic tequila offered and discussed by a firewater expert. Thankyou Jules for asking us to play we would love to come down again. BIG UPS!
photos by Karina@http://hurricanekarina.blogspot.com/

photos by Karina@http://hurricanekarina.blogspot.com/

East&West AGAIN

2010-05-18T18:18:00.002+01:00

We are playing at these 2 nights during the last week of MAy.

East VS West

2010-04-14T15:53:00.003+01:00

As part of this year's STOP MAKING SENSE Festival in Croatia, we will be playing preview gigs on 29th and 30th April in East and West London. On Thursday April 29 at Favela Chic (for all you Easterners) and on Friday 30 at Notting Hill Arts Club (for all you westerners). Not forgetting you lot from South. Take a pick and cross one of the many bridges. Looking forward to presenting a couple of new tunes as well. On these gigs we welcome the mighty Louis Slipperz on bass. BIG VIBEZ...Hope to see you there. Word.

Global Local@CARGO

2010-01-31T13:42:00.003Z

Some photos of our set at Cargo on 28 January as part of the Global Local showcase. Thankyou to everyone for supporting us, we really enjoyed it and was one of our best outings to date. Respect respect to you all. On to the next. 1love. All photos courtesy of Andy Hague-check his great site here

All photos by Andy Hague

Jan 15

2010-01-14T14:55:00.002Z

Will be playing a sneaky slot at midnite at Passing Clouds on Friday (Jan15)
...which we played and you can see some photos HERE

First gig of 2010

2010-01-07T01:48:00.001Z

Will be at the infamous CARGO club in Shoreditch on 28th January with the Amazonic Cumbia sounds of LOS CHINCHES and DJ Cal Jader as part of the Global Local series.

http://www.cargo-london.com/event/movimientos-and-global-local-presentlatin-quarter

Frederiksberg Have

2009-11-14T20:29:00.002Z

Us lot trying to look cool in Frederiksberg Park, Copenhagen.

Denmark & Bethnal Green !

2009-10-20T14:24:00.005+01:00

We will be going to Copenhagen to play in a few weeks. And once more Sir Otis strikes again with a mighty flyer.
Our first show abroad as a unit, how exciting. For those of you in London we will be doing a preview gig complete with Day of the Dead shrine at Chamucus, 51 Bethnal Green Road on Thursday November 5. FREE ADMISSION so come down it should be a good one...FLYERS BELOW...

Onwards and Upwards

2009-10-07T19:29:00.006+01:00

Thanks to everyone that came to our show at Momo. It was our best musical outing to date and even if I say so myself, we hit some heavy moments during our set that night. Thanks to Leon for the sound and Andrea for her photos. Bless

Schools back

2009-09-04T13:06:00.011+01:00

So as our modest summer draws to a close and memories of Carnival slowly fade, we ponder on the imminent winter before us. Fear not... we will be playing the smoke twice this month. Tuesday 22 at Notting Hill Arts Centre and Tuesday 29 at Momo.
Yipee! I hear you shout...So as the sun is still trying do not retire into hibernation....come and enjoy some mid week freshness. Seen!

LONGJON LA FLECHA at Momo September 29

LONGJON LA FLECHA at Notting Hill Arts Club September 22

Last 4 months

2009-07-23T08:51:00.039+01:00

Over the last few months we have been thru some very positive musical experiences on and off stage. We would like to thank everyone who came to hear us play since our first show in May.

Since May 2009 we played at:

Pangea Project, Stamford Hill, May 9
Passing Clouds, Dalston, May 15
Cafe Cairo Night, Brixton, June 9
Celebrating Santuary Festival, Southbank, June 14
Camino, Kings Cross, July 11
Rodger's Party, Ashdown Forest, July 12
Jamm, Brixton, July 18
Lovebox weekender, Victoria Park, July 19

and Gilles Peterson has featured one of our songs on his worldwide radio broadcast on two occasions. here and here

Rodger's Party July 12 '09

2009-07-14T10:34:00.009+01:00

May 15 2009

2009-05-06T22:01:00.007+01:00

Natural History Museum, Oxford

2009-03-01T02:41:00.003Z

A ghost in the snow

2009-02-02T15:49:00.003Z

Living in a haze, sleeping for days... I'm a ghost, with just you in my brain.

London Borough of Hackney

2009-01-26T12:23:00.003Z

2008-12-29T22:47:00.001Z

Respect to this music from the Solomon Islands take 1 minute to check it out

Shopping

2008-12-16T12:24:00.007Z

3 for 2, 3 for 2, 3 for 2, 3 for 2, 3 for 2, 3 for2. Who wants 3 sets of gloves, 3 hats, 3 socks, or 3 whatever. This white bear was the most interesting thing I saw in a shop window round the back of Covent Garden last night

Body Art

2008-12-07T20:17:00.005Z

This is about Bob. I know Bob because he has a dog and so do I. We meet every so often as we share the same walking time (9am) around Millfields, Walthamstow and Hackney marsh area. Bob has a Jack Russell called Arthur and they always walk with Terry who owns a Staffy called Rags. After some months of bumping into these guys it surfaced that Bob was a real guitar afficionado and owned about a dozen guitars of different types. Then one morning as we were watching the dogs roll around Bob starts rolling up his sleeve and says "ere, have you seen my tat?"...out pops Django Reinhardt on his right arm!!
Proppa geeza. Proppa tat. Big ups to Bob!

Reverbnation

2008-12-07T01:33:00.002Z

Partly because this digital business is changing constantly, and partly because we basically hate myspace, we recently joined Reverbnation . So far its been very good, the tunes uploaded have a fairly good sound quality, and allows you to embed this little player in this blog as well as facebook, and apparently anything else. It gives a lot of tracking information including number of visits, plays, etc. If you are looking for a music player its probably worth checking out.

Album

2008-12-05T10:48:00.006Z

We have just finished mixing and mastering Longjon la Flecha's album and Otis has designed a stunning cover. The record consists of 11 tracks of original tunes. It will be out on a limited run we have pressed ourselves. More to follow...

Otis

2008-10-18T08:29:00.015+01:00