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The Samotized Version 
Christian Zubicky wrote an article earlier on Flow about
Sabú Martinez. Then he interviewed Stefan Dimle the founder of the Stockholm based record store/label Mellotonen Records. In that article he mention their 20th anniversary that were suppose to take place on a cruiser ship between Stockholm and Helsinki. Weäve heard that ”it was a hell of a party!”. So to get some inside information Kirk meet up with Samo the Pirate Cowboy for some Finnish coffee and to talk about the event.
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The Urban Sound Of Stockholm Town!
Vibes46 is an webradiostation broadcasting live and direct from Karlaplan in STHLM, Sweden. Today DJ's such as Jayzon, Topaz Sound, King Sling, Miguel La Bamba, Quiet Earth, Trinity Sound, Viet-naam, Aphex Sound and many more have there own weekly shows there and you can easily say that the station represents - The Urban Sound Of Stockholm Town!
Since they first entered the scene a lot of things has happened. So to let you know what's up, Kirk sat down with The Vibesman aka Bonafide to have a little chat.
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Bread & Butter Barcelona 2007
It was time for the
Bread & Butter show in Barcelona and we talked about who we should send down to document it. We asked our friend Henrik if he could do it for us and the answer was ”Of course man!”. One week later when he got back to Stockholm we were eager too see the documentation, but instead we got a big surprise (see pictures). I guess you have to live with this as long as you can't pay salary to your workers. But it doesn't matter you have seen everything that happend at the show already at
Hype,
Slam and
High. I guess I have to go there by myself next year. Until then...
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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
Last summer we went to Boule & Balearic down by the docks just out side of Stockholm city to listen to everything from progressive rock to spaced out disco to the sounds of the birds, the ocean and the wind in the trees. This summer there have been nothing like that... But change is on its way!
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Stay home... and stay DUMB! 
Most people hate Mondays but I don't, I used to hate tuesdays because all my life it's been one of does stay home and stay dumb days... But not anymore. Why is that you might ask yourself?
The reason is ”Bring The Noise”, a place were you can see three monsters torture beautiful vinyl. The monsters are DJ Pau, Natsy Nate and Bruce Leenus and the time and place is Tuesday nights at Debaser Slussen in Stockholm.
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Seriously this is very very serious
Clubs tend to pop up like mushrooms and just like mushrooms things tend to look so good to begin with and then after a couple of hours it all fades away. But all clubs are not like that, some actually manage to turn you on and on and on and on...
Serious Party is a club based in Stockholm runned by Nasty Nate, M.A.N.G.S, Sönke and Kool DJ Dust. It started out back in the summer of 2003 and since then they have been throwin a lot of memorable parties and made this town a better place to live.
We wanted to get serious with this party so we set down with Nasty Nate for a serious conversation.
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I'm a snörd!
The students at Stockholm's design and advertising schools did just graduate and at one of the final exhibitions we meet a guy by the name of Daniel Låftman. We got stuck at his display case were he showed his book ”SNÖRD”.
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The dirt under the soil
As you already know
Happy People comes from the north.
But they aren't the only good thing that can be found up there.
Way up where the sun never rise in the winter, where the snow don't disappear until June, right next to Santa Clause, there you have it, Umeå. That's were club ”Kontra Klubb” is located. Umeå is mostly known for their birch trees and Klubb Kontra is mostly know for ”Loco dancing, zero meatmarket and lots of laughs”. Kontra Klubb is four guys, a bunch of friends and a motorcycle gang that helps out with random stuff. We wanted to know what Kontra is really about so we sat down with Isley, one of the founders, for a little chat.
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Happy People comes from the north
Happy People is an interesting brand from the north of Sweden. They are about to release their S/S-07 collection so we felt that it was about time that we did something with them. Johan had a talk with Thomas that runs Happy People to see what's up.
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Juvelen - Straight from the what?
This might not be considered a scoop in its true sense. While doing my research I soon noted a lot of things have been said about Juvelen for the past few months. Or more like a couple of things, repeated a lot of times.
It made me wonder what's really going on with this Stockholm-based songwriter and singer that is said to come straight from the mothereffin dungeons of pop.
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Da-Flow - The men with the masks
Da-Flow is a design team from Mexico City. Johan have done an interview with their team leader Xghetto666. You have to read this one!
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Behind the Drums
One of the most interesting beatmakers right now is
Drums. We really wanted to do something about this guy so this is how it turned out. Enjoy the reading and enjoy the exclusive download that you can find in FlowTunes.
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Hiqee - Lemar and Dauley's sister
What do you know about
Hiqee? We didn't know that much so we had a little chat with Simonette and Daniel that runs the brand. Enjoy!
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Deep as hell
10Deep was founded in 1995, that's 11 years ago. Then I was like 12 years old and the only thing I did back then was to play soccer with my friends and ride my BMX. Of course I didn't know what 10Deep was until a couple of years ago. So I think it's about time to find out some more about this brand. There's one thing I've always thought about. So therefore my first question to Scott was...
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What about Stocktown?
You know how it is. Government want to be cool and down with the youth. At least that is how it works in Sweden, time to time. Policitians want to spend money on young artists and those smart enough, get theirs. In 1998, Europe was announcing the Culture Capital Year. Stockholm was it and spread money to show off something fresh and different. Stocktown applied for money to arrange an international hiphop festival and got it. Together with the club Fanclub, they arranged a two day happening includning preformances by Jurassic 5, Mos Def and Lord Finesse. That was just the beginning of Stocktown.
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Synthetik Skandinavian Funk is called Skweee
The Synthetik Skandinavian Funk, or Skweee music, obviously origins from Scandinavia - less obvious is its creator - Pavan - also known as Frans Carlqvist. He's the founder of the small independent label Flogsta Danshall that focuses on this type of music. Recently a new Skweee-label popped up in Finland, called Harmönia. The time was right to let Pavan explain.
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Tim Sweeney puts Beats in Space
Tim Sweeney hosts a radio show called Beats in Space on WNYU 89.1 FM, in New York. Due to the wonders of technology it's broadcasted live and through podcasts to the whole world. Except for being a world wanted DJ Tim was the Soundtrack Supervisor at Rockstar Games for games like GTA: San Andreas. A couple of weeks ago Tim visited us here in Stockholm and rocked the house at Spy Bar. A couple of weeks later - meaning today - I heard a revived summer club Stockholm-classic through the speakers on the Beats in Space show. I had to ask...
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Sabú Martinez - Burned Sugar
Luis "Sabú" Martinez was the catalyst on the swedish latin music scene between the years 1967 - 1978. Now Mellotronen Records is releasing two previously unreleased recordings with the man himself. We talked to Stefan Dimle on Mellotronen Records about Sabú Martinez and this amazing release.
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High Feelings - The Stockholm Legacy
High Feelings is the name of a small record label from Stockholm, Sweden. Earlier this year the label released its first 12" with two anonymous tracks called "Leave Norway" & "ABF Woman". Buzzin through record shops it sold out quickly and is now up for grabs on eBay. We had a chat with these shy cats on their big plans, the legacy of Stockholm and... boule.
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The four original elements in four memorable days
About twenty minutes before he was scheduled to take the stage at Rock Steady Crew’s 29th Anniversary concert, Rhymefest granted an interview to a ten year old kid. Standing just inside the press tent, the Chicago-based MC told his young interviewer with a mix of playfulness and seriousness about how he got started in the hip hop game. “I was getting started when I was your age,” ‘Fest said, and the pint-sized journalist’s eyes widened.
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