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About Me

Maceo Wyro was born and raised in Finland; his parents were both musicians.
During his high-school years Maceo played keys in various new wave bands.
Later he traded his keyboard for Fender Bass and got into funkier side of things.
In 1992 Maceo got his first gig as a resident dj in now legendary Warsaw's club Filtry. His musical choice at this time was mainly funk, soul and hip-hop.
In 1995 Maceo moved to New York, where he lived for four years.
He worked as an in-store dj and Electronica section manager at HMV Herald Square Record Store on Broadway & 34th. After returning to Poland in 1999 Maceo started his own radio show at Poland's most popular youth station Radiostacja.
He also worked as a music journalist for such magazines as Max, Fluid, Aktivist and LAIF (where he now has his own review page).
Maceo cooperated with famous polish trumpet players Tomasz Stanko and Antoni Gralak. He also designed musical textures for various fashion shows and slideshows.
Maceo has played with such respected artists as: Dego (4 hero), Afronaught & Seiji (Bugz In The Attic), Alex Attias, Alex Barck (Jazzanova), Rainer Truby, Shuya Okino (Kyoto Jazz Massive), US 3, Richard Dorfmeister, Howie B, Jon Carter, Michael Reinboth & Joseph Malik (Compost Records), King Britt, Ursula Rucker, Zero db, Gotan Project, Alex Kid, Slope, Mad Mats and Mark de-Clive Lowe.



In february 2002 Maceo participated in Red Bull Music Academy in London.
Later that year the Innocent Sorcerers collective was born . They released two 12” singles for London based Fluid Ounce Records (“Believe & See” feat.Joseph Malik and “Anthem”), a rework of Slope’s “Find Our Love” for Berlin’s Sonar Kollektiv, a highly acclaimed single "One Dollar Race" for Raw Fusion Records, as well as "Twos" 12" for Pulver Recordings (under Telesfor disguise).
The latest IS remixes for Sistars & Koop are available on Compost Records.
Maceo's mixtapes have been featured on Soulsearchin' Compost Radio Show, Jazzanova Radio Show, Futureboogie.com, Beyondjazz.net.
The Sorcerers mixtape was aired on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide in february 2007.
For the tracklisting go to:
http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/radio.php?tracklist=1 04&station=2.
CHECK OUT MACEO'S BRAND NEW INTERNET RADIO SHOW "SORCERY" ON PULSERADIO.NET & WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SORCERYRADIOSHOW
Maceo describes his dj-ing style as GLOBAL DANCE FUSION. His musical taste is strongly rooted in black music - soul, jazz, funk and hip hop. He has much respect for the old school, as well as the new school. Nu-jazz, broken beats, tech-soul, deep house & electro boogie are also among his favorite styles. Maceo's mixing is very diverse, it's all about blending different rhytmic patterns in order to keep people surprised without loosing the vibe. Musical journey from pyramides to spaceships, where past, present and future become one. MyGen Profile Generator
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....MACEO'S TOP CHOICES - OCTOBER'07:
1. Build an Ark - The Dawn LP (Kindred Spirits)
2. Ashley Thomas - Kept On Runnin' (Counterpoint)
3. Shape Of Broad Minds - It Ain't Dead!! (Lex)
4. Rednose Distrikt - Maitiemaai feat. Benny Sings & Die Band (Kindred Spirits)
5. Common - Break My Heart (Warner)
6. Afefe Iku - Bodydrummin (Yoruba)
7. Tony Allen - Kilode (Carl Craig Remix) (Honest Jon's)
8. BlackJoy - Metal Bossa (Restless Soul Vocal Mix) (Project Recordings)
9. Nicole Willis - Holdin' On (Afronaught Remix) (Above The Clouds)
10. Nubian Mindz - Black Soul (Bagpak)
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My Interests

LIFE

I'd like to meet:

Good people with sense of humour and imagination, freestyle souls with open minds...

GOT TO BE THERE!

Music:

... Miles, Coltrane, Sun Ra, James Brown, Sly, Temptations, Funkadelic, Shuggie Otis, Roy Ayers, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Soulaquarians, Madlib, Jay Dee, Nina Simone, Simon & Garfunkel, Sergio Mendes, Astrud Gilberto, David Axelrod, Freddie Hubbard, Komeda, Stanko, Novi Singers, Jerzy Milian, Tom Waits, The Doors, Kronos Quartet, Lounge Lizards, Tortoise, Jane's Addiction, Bjork, Radiohead, Herbert, Jamie Lidell, Tony Allen, Outkast, Neptunes, 4 Hero, NSM, Bembe Segue, Carl Craig, Moodyman, Recloose, Mdcl, Jazzanova, Bugz, Colonel Red, Reel People, Restless Soul, Maurice Fulton, Simbad, Spiritual South, FFD, Dwele, Fertile Ground, Ledisi, Ed Motta, Shaun Escoffery, Allen Hoist, Amp Fiddler, Steve Spacek, Sa-Ra, Plantlife, Jneiro Jarel, Up Hygh, Hearin' Aid, Ben Westbeech, Soil&Pimp Session, Soweto Kinch, Five Corners Quintet, Povo, Nostalgia 77 ... and many more.

Movies:

"2001:Space Oddysey", "Star Wars", "Fisher King", "City Lights", "La Strada", "Zorba The Greek", "Midnight Cowboy", "Marathon Man", "Tears Of Endearment", "Short Cuts", "Magnolia", "Birdy", "One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest", "Buffalo 66", "The Funeral", "My Own Private Idaho", "Drugstore Cowboy", "Ice Storm", "Sweet Hereafter", "Stealing Beauty", "Lost In Translation", "Garden State", "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind", "Pi", "Mar Adentro", "Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada", "Dancer In The Dark", "The Piano", "Urga", "Hana-Bi", "Straight Story", "Lost Highway", "Harry Angel", "Til The End Of The World", "Amelie", "American Beauty", "Ed Wood", "Producers", "Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy", "Rejs", "Innocent Sorcerers", "Wesele", "Goodfellas", "Pulp Fiction", "Natural Born Killers", "Usual Suspects", "Hurlyburly", "My Cousin Vinnie", "Saturday Night Fever", "Purple Rain", "Wild Style", "Spun", "Snatch", "Kung Fu Hustle", "Cidade De Deus", "Gummo", "Festen", "Amores Perros", "You And Me And Everyone I Know", "Adam's Apples", "The Secret Life Of Words", "Citizen Dog", "Breakfast On Pluto", "Transamerica", "I Love Huckabees", "Thumbsucker", "Stranger Than Fiction", "Talladega Nights", "Idlewild"...
...Movies by David Lynch, Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, Jeunet & Caro, Joel & Ethan Cohen, David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodovar, Takeshi Kitano, Spike Lee, Spike Jonez, Michael Gondry, Todd Solontz, Terry Gilliam, Mel Brooks, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Nicolas Winding Refn, Christopher Boe...

Television:

Rich Man,Poor Man, Space 1999, Twin Peaks, Lost, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad!, Six Feet Under, Dexter, Weeds, Californication...

Books:

Herman Hesse "Siddhartha"/"Steppenwolf", Jack Kerouac "On The Road"/"Desolation Angels", Philip Kapleau "The Three Pillars Of Zen", D.T.Suzuki "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", Kurt Vonnegut "Sirens Of The Titan" and everything else, Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Hundred Years Of Solitude", Olga Tokarczuk "Prawiek I Inne Czasy" and everything else, Julio Cortazar "Hopscotch"/"Historias de cronopios y de famas", S.I.Witkiewicz "Pozegnanie Jesieni", Lewis Carroll "Alice In Wonderland", John Fowles "Magus", Janusz Korczak "Kajtus Czarodziej", Antoine De Saint Exupery "Le Petit Prince", Leopold Tyrmand "Zly", "Fiodor Dostoyevski "Crime And Punishment", William Burroughs "Naked Lunch"/ "Junkie"/"The Cat Inside"/"My Education-The Book Of Dreams" and everything else, Bret Easton Ellis "American Psycho"/"Lunar Park", Jerzy Kosinski "The Painted Bird", Haruki Murakami "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"/"Norwegian Wood"/"End Of The World & Hard-Boiled Wonderland", Wojciech Kuczok "Gnoj", Dorota Maslowska "Paw Krolowej", Etgar Keret "8% z Niczego", Michel Houellebecq "La Possibilite d'une ile", Jakub Zulczyk "Zrob Mi Jakas Krzywde", Zadie Smith "On Beauty"...

Heroes:

Buddha, Biggie, Burroughs, Kerouac, Witkacy, Kabaret Starszych Panow, Kabaret Dudek, Agnieszka Osiecka, Agata Passent, Olga Tokarczuk, Perry Farrell, Will Ferrell, Mos Def, Eric Cartman, Napoleon Dynamite, Inzynier Walczak, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Roman Polanski, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Gilles Peterson, Garfield, Peter Pan...
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My Blog

Batucada Mondiale

Once again the whole world goes ballistic over a few sweaty guys runnin' back and forth after one ball. The spirit of competion is wide awake amongst all the nations participating in this major event....
Posted by maceo on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:14:00 PST

Travelling pt.2

It's hard to keep track of all that's happening when you're travelling and experiencing things in real time. You want to hold on to these moments, but they appear out of nowhere, only to last for a wh...
Posted by maceo on Sun, 14 May 2006 07:19:00 PST

Travelling pt.1

I am learning to collect moments; I catch them in my net just like butterflies. I hold them in my hand for a little while and then set them free. It is only the power of this very moment that really m...
Posted by maceo on Fri, 05 May 2006 06:26:00 PST

Raypainting

It's funny how unaware of great things going on around us we can be sometimes.The word was some Hungarian guys are going to throw some visuals on Warsaw's Palace Of Culture. My friend, who coordinated...
Posted by maceo on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:26:00 PST

Heroin Heroes

Busy week in Warsaw... life moves faster than a blog and there's alway some issues to dwell upon. Like my friends documentary film, which aired on national television last tuesday. Guy decided to spen...
Posted by maceo on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:04:00 PST

Just dance and hum along...

The majestic, omnipresent mountainbell has now been scattered into hundreds of small pieces: an impatient little doorbell invading my privacy when I least expect it, a disturbing alarm bell of a stree...
Posted by maceo on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:40:00 PST

Where is God?

My mom invited me to spend Easter holidays in Zakopane. I can't remember when was the last time I saw our beautiful Tatra mountains, also it's been ages since I went anywhere with my mother. So I pack...
Posted by maceo on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:12:00 PST

Searching for the Sun

Damn, I hope this winter is finally coming to an end! No wonder the majority of polish people look depressed most of a time; I mean shit, we're hardly getting any sun for half of the year! Try movin' ...
Posted by maceo on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:49:00 PST