The first and only album by Uwe Walkner & Karl Möstl appeared on Vienna's finest label G-Stone in time when this duo was already disfunctional (which seems to be a habit on this label owned by certain Kruder and Dorfmeister). Heaven Or Hell includes seven of the deepest shades of trip hop and electronic dub not far from the K&D / Tosca sound.
DJ Krust is a well known UK producer since the early days of jungle fever. His debut album brings more advanced drum'n'bass and breakbeat sound and includes two remarkable tracks; Re-arrange and the title track Coded Language flavoured with slam poetry vocal avalanche performed by Saul Williams.
Ian Simmonds AKA Juryman meets Luke Gordon AKA Spacer on this mixture of dark trip hop breakbeats and twisted electronica. Mail Order Justice will surely please fans of artists from Howie B to Photek.
So I woke up on the New Year's Day, refreshed all the panels I keep open in my browser and found that my 40GB Rapidshare account is nowhere to be found. Two years of work gone just like that. Apparently I was awarded The First Stolen Identity Of 2010 Prize. What? How could it happen? Shock! Panic! And then.. sheer depression.
Groove Corporation evolved from Electribe 101 to become the most lively electronic dub project in the UK. Their debut album, released on Sony Music-owned 6x6 label, brought juicy blend of dub, trip hop and soul including the great Ghetto Prayer with vocals by Bim Sherman.
It would be easy to describe Dread Zone as Big Audio Dynamity minus Mick Jones plus sampler but there's much more to them. Their debut album 360° started the huge electronic dub scene in the 90's and, 17 years later, this mixture of cinematic sounds, heavy basslines and creative drumming still sounds pretty acceptable.
I know that my blogs played dead last month but in the few pre-Christmas weeks it seemed all hell would rise to stand between me and blogging. This includes a week of hideous flu and even 10 days offline; a situation I haven't experienced in the last 10 years.
Ten years passed and this debut album by Jimpster still is so much joy to listen to. The ambient electronic jazz soundscape defined by Jamie Odell's antique keys and flexible fretless bass lines by Cheyene Towers is kept on the ground by additional live instruments and vocals and still it gives me a feeling of vast empty space. Also contains a rendition of Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage with new lyrics by Roger Odell (of Shakatak fame, so you see it's in the family). Too bad this was the last Jimpster release before he found out that the real dough is in the house music industry.
I guess the title says it all. Mark Rae and Steve Christian bring the funky sound of Manchester (sic!) to the limit. Not a bad track on this platter. IMHO the best album ever released on Grand Central label.
If our memories serve us well... Bunking school for crackers on a Friday lunchtime, forget your dinner ladies. Pirate radio,codes from the underground...Saturday night blues dances and forbidden moves to Phoebe's,Four Aces and Club Norick. Shaka, Fatman and Sir Coxone, the original drum and bass. Sneaking out of the back door with your brand new shoes. Saturday's alright for fighting. Skinheads getting a beat down, ambush in the night. Stuarts in the day Fila, Lacoste, Tacchini, Armani, Lois, Nike and Kappa. Taxing the rich and famous and rushing the Burberry door. Scoring a draw down the Saints. A pick up from the SPG. Blair Peach a crying shame the NF and unmarked police vans who is to blame? Clash city rockers and white men in Hammersmith Palais. Road trips to Caister, Soul Tribes, The Frontline and the Soul Partners. All dayers in Bournemouth taking the train, taking a train, ego trip dabbing speed it's all you need. Westwood, Family Quest no contest. West End B-boys and fly girls, chrome angels Graff bombing the Met. Breaking in the Garden ... Covent to you suckers. An armful of Studio 1 from Daddy Peckings. Flim Flam to Meltdown. The Jay Brothers, goodtimes and great tribulations. Gilles P and Paul Murphy Zulu style at the Electric. Brother Paul boogie times. The Beat Route and Hard Times. Fifteen years of fucking Tories, on the dole, a thousand stories of promised lands and meccas - Blackpool. To you the sweet sounds of Levine and Curtis. The Language Lab said and Dirtbox spread and old bill cracking miners heads. Who killed Liddle Towers? The Jam at Wembley seven times and National Health for the last time. Bump and hustle, soul 45s, too far gone there is no way back. Phuture, Acid, Confusion, The Rush, The Love, the smiling hooligan with dodgy gear open minds close and get the fear. East Grinstead and Bognor lads away, falling and laughing, escape to Brighton or off to Ibiza tying to maintain the buzz. Getting older and getting wed. Elvis is dead. Is anybody out there? A poll tax riot going on. They have sold my country...
Three brilliant downtempo and drum'n'bass tracks on one of the first Jimpster releases show clearly his love for vintage keyboards and fretless bass. Static Dynamic later appeared on Jimpster's debut album Messages From The Hub, one of my all-time favs which i'm going to post soon. I wanted to post the rest of the early EPs as well but the entire pack seems to be lost, so if anybody has Initial EP, Interconnect EP or other early Jimpster stuff at 320kbps or lossless, please share with us.
This four track EP was one of the classic releases that started the whole nu jazz craze.
Although Corin Dingley and Andy Jenks keep recording under the Alpha moniker, they never again reached the fragile quality of their debut Come From Heaven, released in 1997 on the Melankolic label run by members of Massive Attack. If you happen to have the 1998 remix collection Pepper, please share with us.
The Orange Egg label hasn't released many albums during it's three years existence, but Rock Oil by the session player and producer Gordon Lascelles is surely the best. Deep ambient soundscapes, dark downtempo beats and sweet vocals by Vanessa Darby on this rare release.
Jazzy sounds, dubby basslines and smooth vocals by Joanna Law on the second album by Pressure Drop AKA Blood Brothers. This piece comes from back in the days when tobacco companies used to run their own record labels;)
This is the last record from the Infonet series I have to share with you. The subtitle The Interaction Of Man / Computer / Machine sez it all. This is INF005.
The Infonet saga continues with this already classic electronic piece by Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton, better known as Global Communication. This is INF004.
One more On-U Sound/Perfecto collaboration on this single from Miracle, the accoustic dub session Bim Sherman recorded shortly before his untimely death. This fragile but strong album has never left my playlist since then, as well as the remix collection It Must Be A Dream, which i'm going to post soon. The single contains original version plus three mixes by Steve Osborne.
This track comes from Emotional Hooligan, the first and best album by Gary Clail, the enfant terrible of the UK dub scene. Contains great remix by Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne AKA Perfecto, and False Leader, another fine track from the album.
UK ragga dancehall meets hip hop on this single produced by Manasseh, imho the best UK reggae producer so far. Contains five re-rubs plus Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs remix.
