Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
The Cenobites - The Cenobites (2000)
1 Lex Lugor
2 I Was Forgotten
3 Kick A Dope Verse
Rap [Featuring] – Bobbito
4 Mommy
5 You're Late
Rap [Featuring] – Percee P
6 Rhymes I Sniff A.K.A. Carlos Died
7 Keep On
Rap [Featuring] – Bobbito
8 How The Fuck You Get A Deal
9 Kick A Dope Verse (Battered Baby Seal Remix)
10 Return To Zero
Etiquetas:
Bobbito Garcia,
Godfather Don,
Kool Keith,
Percee-P
JUNGLE 3ROTHERS - 3EATS & B-SIDES (2011) Bootleg
Jungle Brother (Urban Takeover Mix Radio Edit)
0002 Jungle Brothers
0002 Jungle Brothers
Ultimatum Ultra Mix (Jungle Beats / Jungle Bass)
0003 Afrika 'Baby Bam'
0003 Afrika 'Baby Bam'
NiteStalker
0004 Jungle Brothers
0004 Jungle Brothers
What U Waitin 4 (Jungle Fever Mix)
0005 Material
0005 Material
Playin' With Fire Feat. Mike G. & Afrika 'Baby Bam'
0006 Af Next Man Flip
0006 Af Next Man Flip
Peace Akhi
0007 Afrika 'Baby Bam'
0007 Afrika 'Baby Bam'
Come On
0008 Luciano
0008 Luciano
Who Could It Be (Jungle Brothers Mix - Radio Edit)
0009 Bernie Worrell
0009 Bernie Worrell
The Vision (Feat. Mike G & J Sumbi) Drums By Sly Dunbar
0010 Jungle Brothers
Blahbludify
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Breakbeats & Rhymes Radio:
Jungle Brothers (Afrika Baby Bam)
Etiquetas:
Afrika 'Baby Bam',
Bernie Worrell,
Funk,
JUNGLE / DNB,
Jungle Brothers,
Luciano,
Material,
MUTANT HIP HOP,
REGGAE
Doctor Pablo & Dub Syndicate - North Of The River Thames (1984, RM 1998)
TRACKLIST
1 Man Of Mystery 5:50
2 Dr. Who? 5:02
3 Pressurized 3:52
4 Tribute 4:18
5 A Taste Of Honey 3:49
6 North Of The River Thames 7:23
7 Red Sea 6:01
8 We Like It Hot 3:50
Buckwild - Diggin In The Crates - Rare Studio Masters 1993 - 1997 (2007)
Disc One (1:19:09)
1-01 Channel Live – Mad Izm (Original Remix)
1-02 Nas – Life's A Bitch (Remix #1)
1-03 Artifacts – C'Mon Wit The Git Down (Remix)
1-04 Lord Finesse – Hip 2 The Game (Remix)
1-05 Brand Nubian – Word Is Born (Remix)
1-06 Beastie Boys – Get It Together (Remix)
1-07 Jemini The Gifted One – Scars And Pain
1-08 AK Skills – Nights Of Fear
1-09 Big L – MVP (Remix #1)
1-10 Funkdoobiest – Rock On (Remix)
1-11 Ill Biskits – A Better Da
1-12 Grand Puba – I Like It (Remix)
1-13 Reservoir Dogs – Back To Berth
1-14 Kool Keith – Yo Black (Remix)
1-15 F.A.T.A.L. Fountain – All About Warz
1-16 O.C. – Burn Me Slow
1-17 Little Indian – One Little Indian (Remix)
1-18 Chubb Rock – What A Year 3:48
1-19 Mike Zoot – Live & Stink 4:00
Disc Two (1:19:15)
2-01 Organized Konfusion – Bring It On (Remix)
2-02 Showbiz & A.G. – You Know Now (Remix)
2-03 Bushwackass – Caught Up In The Game
2-04 Guru – Respect The Architect (Remix)
2-05 Tha Alkaholiks – DAAAM! (Remix)
2-06 Street Smartz – Problemz
2-07 Brand Nubian – Rockin' It
2-08 Big L – MVP (Remix #2)
2-09 Black Sheep – North South East West (Remix)
2-10 Jemini The Gifted One – Story Of My Life
2-11 Diamond D – You Can't Front
2-12 Nas – Life's A Bitch (Remix #2)
2-13 Sadat X – The Lump Lump (Nubian Remix)
2-14 Special Ed – Lyrics (Remix)
2-15 Channel Live – Mad Izm ('95 Remix)
2-16 Lace Da Booms – Cut That Weak Shit (Remix)
2-17 O.C. – Love Child
2-18 Rakim – Guess Who's Back (Remix)
2-19 Reservoir Dogs – The Difference
2-20 Mystidious Misfitss – I Be (Remix)
Etiquetas:
Artifacts,
Beastie Boys,
BIG L,
Brand Nubian,
Channel Live,
Chubb Rock,
Diamond D,
Funkdoobiest,
Grand Puba,
Guru,
HIP HOP,
Kool Keith,
Lord Finesse,
Nas,
O.C.,
Organized Konfusion,
Rakim
Goapele - Even Closer (2004)
1 Closer 3:49
2 Ease Your Mind 3:35
Featuring - Pep Love
3 Got It 3:15
4 Romantic 5:37
Featuring - Soulive
5 Too Much The Same 3:56
6 Catch 22 4:09
7 The Daze 3:07
Featuring Casual , Zion I
8 Things Don't Exist 4:32
9 Childhood Drama 3:14
10 Salvation 3:43
11 Back To You 4:17
12 Butterflykisses 3:20
13 It Takes More 3:57
14 Red, White, & Blues 5:29
15 Childhood Drama (Remix) 3:24
16 Got It (Reprise) 0:41
Producer - Amp Live
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Friday, June 01, 2012
Mattb + Nova - Brixton Session (2008)
TRACKLIST
Vakuum Sounds – Evolution Zero 7:34
Deluge – Babel Is Burning 3:49
Biodub – Perlboot Nautilus 5:49
Disrupt – 21st Century Planet Smashers 4:07
Mungo's Hi-Fi – Deep Water 4:31
Dr. Cat – La Mafia Dub 4:17
Rnd Meets Nova – Tortuga 5:08
Bass Science – Blue Copper 4:32
Rico Casazza – 04:00 AM 4:50
Sync24 – Things With Wings 7:16
Etiquetas:
AMBIENT,
Disrupt,
DUB,
DUBSTEP,
EXPERIMENTAL,
Mungo's HI-Fi,
Various Artists
Breakage - Foundation (2010)
1 Open Up 5:09
2 Hardcore Music (Interlude) 0:28
3 Hard Ft. David Rodigan, Newham Generals 3:40
4 Digiboy Radio (Interlude) 1:05
5 Old Skool Ting 5:16
6 Squid Bass (Interlude) 0:44
7 Run Em Out Feat. Roots Manuva 4:05
8 Temper Feat. Kemo 5:26
9 Over Feat. Zarif 4:18
10 Higher 5:33
11 Foundation 5:07
12 Justified Feat. Erin 4:27
13 Vial Feat. Burial 3:41
14 Speechless Feat. Donae'o 4:18
15 If... (Interlude) 0:33
16 If Feat. Treshold 5:48
Etiquetas:
Breakage,
Burial,
Drum N Bass,
DUBSTEP,
Grime,
Roots Manuva
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Ólafur Arnalds – Dyad 1909 (2009)
TRACKLIST
Frá Upphafi
Lokaðu Augunum (Dyad 1909 Version)
Brotsjór
Við Vorum Smá... (Dyad 1909 Version)
3326
Til Enda
_...og Lengra
Lokaðu Augunum (Dyad 1909 Version)
Brotsjór
Við Vorum Smá... (Dyad 1909 Version)
3326
Til Enda
_...og Lengra
Etiquetas:
MINIMAL,
Modern Classical,
Ólafur Arnalds
Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)
TRACKLIST
Angel Echoes 4:00
Love Cry 9:13
Circling 5:18
Pablo's Heart 0:12
Sing 6:49
This Unfolds 7:55
Reversing 2:40
Plastic People 6:34
She Just Likes To Fight 4:34
Kieran Hebden first came on the scene in the 1990s as a member of Fridge, a post-rock outfit that to me always looked better on paper than they sounded on record. Whatever you think of his first band, Hebden's subsequent career can be seen as the idea of post-rock done right. His appetite for music, on the evidence presented in his albums, singles, DJ sets, and collaborations, is voracious. But Hebden has a way of transforming and integrating influences rather than channeling them. So if his loose improvised collaborations with drummer Steve Reid captured something of the spirit of the classic late-60s free jazz records on Impulse!, they also managed to carve out a unique and identifiable aesthetic that sounds very much like today. When working with others, like the wooly free-folk unit Sunburned Hand of the Man or the dubstep producer Burial, Hebden knows when to lead and when to get out of the way. But all the while, whatever the context, he's absorbing. And when it comes to his own records as Four Tet, he has a knack for combining sounds from all over and making them his own.
Rounds is the one undisputed Four Tet classic, but all are at least good. It's not unusual for Four Tet records to have a few dull patches, but given Hebden's M.O., that's never a big problem. You expect him to explore a bit, so it's okay when once in a while something doesn't quite gel. Ringer, an intriguing EP from 2008 that throbbed with a minimal pulse and revealed a surprisingly austere side to his music, is a good example. It was the kind of record you wanted to inch closer to, because you had the sense there might be more going on beneath the surface than you'd initially realized. The follow-up album, There Is Love in You, is the glorious sound of those ideas being drawn into the light.
This is the most focused Four Tet album by a huge margin, and for some listeners that could be an issue. Hebden apparently refined this music over the course of a long stint as a resident DJ at the London club Plastic People. He'd play developing tracks in his sets, see how people responded, and return to them armed with this information. And while the result isn't dance music proper, There Is Love in Youdefinitely functions on that plane. This isn't fist-pumping music that toys with the pleasure of pop music, like one of my favorite Four Tet tunes, "Smile Around the Face". And it's not an album that bowls you over with the density and intricacy of its textures. Instead, it's both heady and physical, subtle but powerful music for thinking and moving or ideally doing both at the same time: It's been a while since a brisk walk through the city sounded this good.
Very early in the 2000s, the corny word "folktronica" was sometimes applied to Four Tet's style. It never defined him, but the tag was applied because it described his fondness for samples of sounds that seem to be reverberating in a physical space. He sampled jazz cymbals, guitars, gamelan-style percussion, and voices, mixing them in with electronic squiggles and choppy breaks culled from hip-hop. Hebden's fondness for acoustic sounds caused his music to come over as unusually airy and bright. It made you think of daylight rather than the nocturnal crackle of sampled vinyl. Though Love is a very different album from those earlier records, remnants of the sound palette remain, imparting a similar sense of clarity, brightness, and warmth despite its late-night club-bound inspiration.
The album begins with a crisp cymbal tap on "Angel Echoes" that sounds perfectly live until a quick digital stutter comes a few bars in, and then a clipped female voice, reduced to just syllables but still conveying a strong sense of yearning, begins looping into view. There are bells, a steady midtempo 4/4 kick, and that voice, and that's about it. But "Angel Echoes", like most of the record that follows, is strangely moving in spite of its limited toolkit. After it ends abruptly and tumbles into the brilliant "Love Cry", a much more drawn-out and darkly shaded tune, it starts to become clear that another inspiration could be in play: the music produced by Hebden's schoolmate, Will Bevan aka Burial.
The pair collaborated on an intriguing two-track 12" last year, and if nothing else, Hebden's consistent return here to the texture and expressive possibilities of vocal fragments forms a clear link. "Sing", halfway through the record, is the most affecting and flat-out gorgeous example of the technique, as it laces the propulsive housey rhythmic thrust-- the push and pull of the kick and snare, bits of percussion, a short and repetitive synth motif-- with an alien, genderless voice that curls into a kind of weary howl. The effect reminds me of nothing so much as the "ah-AH-ah" vocals that snake through Aphex Twin's immortal "Windowlicker", and Hebden's processing gives "Sing" a similar sense of simultaneous grounding and weird dislocation.
Hebden has studied Aphex Twin carefully, having made his first splash in 1999 when he remixed a track from SAW II for one of Warp's 10th Anniversary compilations. Elsewhere on Love, you can find the creative melding of beats and classical minimalism that producers like Richard James and Nobukazu Takemura were exploring in the 90s. An array of metallic percussion pops up, organized into hypnotic grid-like patterns that gradually build and change over the track's duration. The voice sample in "Circling" doesn't appear until two-thirds of the way through the track's runtime, and it brings with it a cluster of bright electronic tones that call to mind the iconic pulse of Reich/Riley minimalism. The loping, sleepy "This Unfolds" has several layers of quietly twinkling sound happening at once, and you can shift your perception to follow along with any one of them or simply let the whole thing wash over you. Though it mostly lays back and doesn't waste any notes,There Is Love in You always has just enough going on to pull you back in any time you feel like relegating it to the background. It works best taken whole, rather than broken into individual tracks.
Whenever There Is Love in You comes to the closing "She Just Likes to Fight", a quietly pretty instrumental built around a straightforward guitar melody, I start thinking of Hebden's early days. There's a moment at the 2:18 mark where the music pauses for a moment as a tapped guitar harmonic rings out, and it brings me back for a split-second to "Harmonics", the acoustic guitar instrumental that is the one Fridge tune I love without reservation. It's such a basic and elemental thing, the overtones of one metal guitar string vibrating in place, but in the right hands it becomes a tool that can be used to deliver a surprising blast of feeling. The simple power of sound is something this guy has understood from the beginning. pitchfork.com/reviews
Nobukazu Takemura - Child's View (Remix) (1996)
TRACKLIST
1 Searching (Roni Size Remix)
Remix – Roni Size & DJ Die 7:07
2 For Tomorrow (Out-Of-Phase Mix)
Remix – Reflection 7:33
3 Crescent (Coldcut Remix)
Remix – Coldcut, PC 8:21
4 The Lake Of Winter (Wagon Christ Mix)
Remix – Wagon Christ 8:34
5 Reflect Tomorrow
Remix – Reflection 6:15
6 Let My Fish Loose (Aphex Twin Mix)
Remix – Aphex Twin 5:25
7 Crescent (Mad's Trippy Remix)
Remix – Mad Professor 5:08
8 Crescent (Ninja Logical Remix)
Remix – Coldcut, PC 8:29
Etiquetas:
Aphex Twin,
Coldcut,
Downtempo,
Drum N Bass,
El Loco Profesor,
Nobukazu Takemura,
Roni Size
Various – The Harder They Come - Original Soundtrack Recording (Deluxe Edition) (2003)
The 2003 Deluxe Edition of THE HARDER THEY COME includes a bonus CD of early reggae tracks recorded between 1968 & 1972, rare photos and original artwork.Producers: Jimmy Cliff, Derrick Harriot, Leslie Kong, Byron Lee.Originally released on Mango SMSAS (7400). Includes liner notes by David Katz.Producers: Jimmy Cliff, Derrick Harriot, Leslie Kong, Byron Lee, Guilly Bright.The soundtrack to the groundbreaking film about Jamaican subcultures, this superb selection is also a synthesis of late 60s and early 70s reggae. Recordings by Jimmy Cliff, the movie's star, form the album's core and his contributions, notably 'Many Rivers To Cross', show his understated power to great effect. An important figure in the development of reggae, Cliff at last secured deserved acclaim with this collection. His work is ably supported by 'Pressure Drop', one of the finest songs the Maytals ever recorded, while the Melodians and Slickers prove equally strong. The latter's 'Johnny Too Bad' perfectly encapsulates the film's plot, one that helped launch reggae into the international arena.
Disc One - Original Soundtrack Album (1972)
1 Jimmy Cliff – You Can Get It If You Really Want
2 Scotty – Draw Your Brakes
3 The Melodians – Rivers Of Babylon
4 Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross
5 The Maytals – Sweet And Dandy
6 Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
7 The Slickers – Johnny Too Bad
8 Desmond Dekker – 007 (Shanty Town)
2 Scotty – Draw Your Brakes
3 The Melodians – Rivers Of Babylon
4 Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross
5 The Maytals – Sweet And Dandy
6 Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
7 The Slickers – Johnny Too Bad
8 Desmond Dekker – 007 (Shanty Town)
9 The Maytals – Pressure Drop
10 Jimmy Cliff – Sitting In Limbo
11 Jimmy Cliff – You Can Get It If You Really Want
12 Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Disc Two - Reggae Hit The Town : Crucial Reggae 1968-1972
10 Jimmy Cliff – Sitting In Limbo
11 Jimmy Cliff – You Can Get It If You Really Want
12 Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Disc Two - Reggae Hit The Town : Crucial Reggae 1968-1972
1 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites
2 The Uniques – My Conversation
3 The Maytals – Do The Reggay
4 Jimmy Cliff – Viet Nam
5 Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now
6 The Ethiopians – Reggae Hit The Town
7 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel
8 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – It Mek
9 The Melodians – Sweet Sensation
10 Jimmy Cliff – Let Your Yeah Be Yeah
11 Eric Donaldson – Cherry Oh Baby
12 Dave & Ansel Collins – Monkey Spanner
13 The Maytals – 54-46 (That's My Number)
14 The Melodians – It's My Delight
15 Jimmy Cliff – Wonderful World, Beautiful People
16 The Maytals – Pomp & Pride
17 Johnny Nash – Guava Jelly
18 Jimmy Cliff – The Bigger They Come, The Harder They Fall
2 The Uniques – My Conversation
3 The Maytals – Do The Reggay
4 Jimmy Cliff – Viet Nam
5 Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now
6 The Ethiopians – Reggae Hit The Town
7 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel
8 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – It Mek
9 The Melodians – Sweet Sensation
10 Jimmy Cliff – Let Your Yeah Be Yeah
11 Eric Donaldson – Cherry Oh Baby
12 Dave & Ansel Collins – Monkey Spanner
13 The Maytals – 54-46 (That's My Number)
14 The Melodians – It's My Delight
15 Jimmy Cliff – Wonderful World, Beautiful People
16 The Maytals – Pomp & Pride
17 Johnny Nash – Guava Jelly
18 Jimmy Cliff – The Bigger They Come, The Harder They Fall
Etiquetas:
Desmond Dekker,
Jimmy Clif,
REGGAE,
SOUNDTRACK,
The Maytals,
Various Artists
Solo Los Solo - Pues Como No / Vete Con Tu Puto Spot (1998)
01. Pues como no
02. Vete con tu puto spot
03. Pues como no (Versión humo)
04. Vete con tu puto spot (Versión sangre fría)
05. Pues como no (Instrumental)
06. Vete con tu puto spot (Instrumental)
07. Pues como no (Versión humo instrumental)
08. Vete con tu puto spot (Versión sangre fría instrumental)
09. Pues como no (A capella)
10. Vete con tu puto spot (A capella)
02. Vete con tu puto spot
03. Pues como no (Versión humo)
04. Vete con tu puto spot (Versión sangre fría)
05. Pues como no (Instrumental)
06. Vete con tu puto spot (Instrumental)
07. Pues como no (Versión humo instrumental)
08. Vete con tu puto spot (Versión sangre fría instrumental)
09. Pues como no (A capella)
10. Vete con tu puto spot (A capella)
The Drifters - All-Time Greatest Hits & More: 1959-1965 (1990, 320, Funk/RnB)

Between 1953 and 1958, the Drifters were among the biggest acts in R&B. The group's members, however, were an unruly bunch, prone to offending club owners and disc jockeys. The group's manager (owner of the band's name) finally fired the entire group in a desperate act that should have spelled the end of the Drifters. In fact, it turned out to be the beginning of a spectacular run of hits.
Rather than write off his losses, manager George Treadwell found a new group to be the Drifters, this one led by the legendary Ben E. King. The rest, as they say, is history. Over the next seven years, the Drifters hit over and over again with such classics as "There Goes My Baby," "Dance with Me," "This Magic Moment," "Up on the Roof," and "Under the Boardwalk." The group even survived the departure of King, replacing him with two equally gifted frontmen, Rudy Lewis and Johnny Moore. Fans of R&B history will no doubt find the two-disc ALL TIME GREATEST HITS an indispensable addition to their collection. Another two-disc set, LET THE BOOGIE-WOOGIE ROLL, covers the group's early years.
The Drifters: Ben E. King, Charlie Thomas, Dock Green, Elsbearry Hobbs, Johnny Williams, Rudy Lewis, Tommy Evans, Johnny Moore, Eugene Pearson, Johnny Terry (vocals).
Compilation producers: Bob Porter, Kim Cooke.
CD 1
01.There Goes My Baby
02.Oh My Love
03.Baltimore
04.Hey Senorita
05.Dance With Me
06.(If You Cry) True Love, True Love
07.This Magic Moment
08.Lonely Winds
09.Nobody But Me
10.Save The Last Dance For Me
11.I Count The Tears
12.Sometimes I Wonder
13.Please Stay
14.Room Full Of Tears
15.Sweets For My Sweet
16.Some Kind Of Wonderful
17.Loneliness Or Happiness
18.Mexican Divorce
19.Somebody New Dancing With You
20.Jackpot
CD 2
21.She Never Talked To Me That Way
22.When My Little Girl Is Smiling
23.Stranger On The Shore
24.What To Do
25.Up On The Roof
26.Another Night With The Boys
27.I Feel Good All Over
28.Let The Music Play
29.On Broadway
30.I'll Take You Home
31.If You Don't Come Back
32.Didn't It
33.One Way Love
34.He's Just A Playboy
35.Under The Boardwalk
36.I Don't Want To Go On Without You
37.I've Got Sand In My Shoes
38.Saturday Might At The Movies
39.At The Club
Etiquetas:
Ben E. King,
Funk,
Funk/Soul,
Rhythm and Blues,
Samples,
SOUL,
The Drifters
Alexis Le-Tan & Jess – Space Oddities Vol. 2 (2009)
01. Open Air - Strange Forms
02. New Life - New Life
03. Distortion Pop - Equilibrium
04. Progressive Percussions - Shut Up
05. Speed - Tremplin
06. Rock On - Cutting The Funk
07. Open Air - Leavin My Place
08. Maxi-Music - Christopus Colombus
09. CAM Stati DAnimo - Indian Feeling
10. CAM Stati DAnimo - Psycho Feeling
11. Evening Colours - Sunshine In My Heart
12. Velvet Dreams - Magma Game
13. Titanic - Sultana
14. Portes DOrient - Saba
15. Pop WOrld Of Yan Tregger - Sun Adoration
16. Distortions Pop - Mircochaos
17. Panorama - Gates Of Pop Empire
18. LUnivers De Le Mar - Les Pingouins SAmusent
19. Derert - Leaving
20. Spatial & Col Vol.2 - Space People
21. Jogging - Bluesy Feeling
Etiquetas:
Funk/Soul,
Psychedelic Rock,
Samples,
Various Artists
6BLOCC - Analog Clash (2008)
CD1
1-01 DZ – Chalice Dub (Vocals – Awaken Lion) 4:45
1-02 Starkey – Dementia 2:44
1-03 Nadja – Alien In My Own Skin (Vex'd RMX 4b) 4:12
1-04 Solvent – Think Like Us (Bombaman RMX) 5:02
1-05 XI – G Funk-3000 4:05
1-06 DZ / XI – Guns At Dawn 3:34
1-07 South3rn – Fully Loaded 3:34
1-08 DZ – That Bongo Dub 4:24
1-09 Hoodz – Clash 3:10
1-10 Pacheko – Bi Polar Bear 2:11
1-11 Pacheko – Bi-Polar Bear (Starkey RMX) 3:56
1-12 Pacheko – Tryouts 1:42
1-13 Pacheko – Tryouts (Cardopusher RMX) 3:26
1-14 6Blocc – Give The DJ A Break 2008 1:52
1-15 Cardopusher – Milk Thistle 3:21
1-16 XI – Lucky 4:55
1-17 South3rn – Mangione Tribe Dub 6:32
CD2
2-01 Starkey – Dementia 5:59
2-02 Unknown Artist – LOSBUD 1207002 A 4:02
2-03 Unknown Artist – LOSBUD 1207002 B 4:20
2-04 South3rn – Mangione Tribe Dub 5:48
2-05 South3rn – La Rana 5:36
2-06 Solvent – Think Like Us (Bombaman RMX) 6:06
2-07 Bombaman – Rise Against 5:32
2-08 Unknown Artist – LOSBUD 1208004 A 5:30
2-09 DZ – Chalice (Vocals – Awaken Lion) 5:33
2-10 DZ – That Bongo Dub 5:47
2-11 South3rn – Fully Loaded 4:34
2-12 South3rn – Muslim Dub 4:32
Etiquetas:
6 Blocc,
Cardopusher,
DUBSTEP,
DZ,
Solvent,
Starkey,
Various Artists
War - The World Is A Ghetto (1972, ReMASTER 1995)
War has progressed far and fast since they disassociated themselves with Eric Burdon, with whom they had committed the all-time War atrocity, "Spill The Wine." Relieved of the necessity of shouldering this Burdon, they've developed a full, luscious sound that's engagingly funky. All Day Music saw the evolvement of this disctinctly urban sound to a point just short of proficiency -- War could talk but hadn't yet mastered the language. With The World Is a Ghetto, they edge even closer to total mastery of their music as they attempt to use it to communicate the essence of ghetto life.
It begins with "The Cisco Kid," a song just teeming with imagery about Cisco and obese buddy Pancho. Sittin' down by the Rio Grande, drinkin' wine and "eatin' salted peanuts from the can" C.K. and Pancho are no more than a fantasy in the minds of the ghetto youth singing their praises, but an important fantasy because it allows them hope, heroes, and a temporary respite from the harsh realities of ghetto existence. "Where Was You At," which follows, is a true delight, a soulful get-down cut from the Isley Brothers mold. Shit, man, just the kinda funk you need to get off on the good foot! These two cuts are truly Watts and Harlem unleashed -- ghetto life at its most brazen.
"City, Country, City" is a tour de force energizer in which everybody gets his musical rocks off. Through a series of solos ahead of varying rhythmic percussion accompaniment, War attempts to convey the hustle and bustle of a ghetto day, sandwiched between the comparitive calm of morning and night. It works well despite one terrible flaw, a total failure to communicate the desperate urgency of the situation. Somehow the boiling rage and pent-up frustration never seem to surface. By totally ignoring the blues heritage so richly ingrained in ghetto life (a major component of Savoy Brown and Santana in similar albums), War ends up conveying the mistaken impression that ghetto-dwellers are content with their lot. Given the fact that even black ghetto youth are similarly ignoring this heritage, the absence of a significant blues component in War's music is understandable, even factually accurate. Nonetheless, it's regrettable.
"Four Cornered Room" is a Temptationesque choral ballad, mildly interesting but hardly worth the eight and a half minutes devoted to it. But the title track is simply the most successful use of the "Groovin'" motif since the Rascals tantalized urban America with the prototype. A study in casual, laid-back musical discipline, it soothes savage passions, lulling them to sleep to be awakened only by the stark, sudden refrain, "the world is a ghetto." Charles Miller's sax solo is magnificent, as definitive a statement of emotion as can be imagined.
While they've yet to reach perfection (as they insist on demonstrating with self-indulgent crap like "Beetles in the Bog"), War has reached the point where they're becoming a significant force in the jazz and soul fields. Add a pinch of da blooze and they could well be artistic knockouts. (Rolling Stone, 3/1/73)
TRACKLIST
1 The Cisco Kid 4:35
2 Where Was You At 3:25
3 City, Country, City 13:18
4 Four Cornered Room 8:30
5 The World Is A Ghetto 10:10
6 Beetles In The Bog 3:51
A Guy Called Gerald - Essence
1. The Universe
2. The First Breath
3. Humanity
4. Multiplies
5. Fever (Or A Flame)
6. Could You Understand
7. Alien Report
8. Glow
9. Beaches & Deserts
10. Final Call
11. I Make It
12. Universal Spirit
13. Hurry To Go Easy
14. Scalecircle
15. Landed
Etiquetas:
A Guy Called Gerald,
Downtempo,
HOUSE,
JUNGLE / DNB,
Studio K7
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