A mix

Some groovy tunes, with no gaps!!!!

Aphex Twin, some Detroit House and a little bit of Dilla...

5 house/techno

Dj Hell - My Definition of House Music

Hardcore classic complete with sweet strings and tasty piano hook. In actuality it’s pretty much a straight rip off and simplification of David Byrne – The Forest (Space Dance Mix), but there’s only a grooveshark link for that. I don’t really understand grooveshark… there's the link underneath..

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=David+Byrne+Ava+(Space+Dance+Mix)

Morgan Geist - Lullaby

Mr. Geist brings the loveliness, twisting his disco influences into a surprisingly soothing piece of music. Oh and when the sax comes in, really good things happen in your brain.

Azymuth – Partido Alto (LTJ Experience Remix)

All the attention is on Theo Parrish on the other side of this record, and fair enough it is great, but LTJ brings a booty slamming experience akin to the first Cottam 12s, flipping the laid back sounds of Azymuth into a sweaty stomper of mammoth proportions.

MM/KM – Bust a Move

Ooh yeah, super violent! Lots and lots of energy coming out of this collaboration, the whole EP is really great.

http://www.discogs.com/MM-KM-MMKM/release/3442025

Underground Resistance – Transition

Uplifting vocal builds to militant looping euphoria. Party time!!! Possibly the best UR track?

Happy Birthday J Dilla

We all know he’s still the man and so apparently does the French town of Montpellier:

Anyway here’s some Dilla to remember Dilla:

This is his beat for Busta Rhymes - What Up. It's one to make your spine crack:

I’d love to show you what an amazing flip it is but I’m sure you’d rather here it from Benji B:

This one's among a few Dilla and Proof things that never saw a release. Luckily it's somehow on youtube!

Those two really knew how to rock it!

Sampled from the beginning of Blue in Green:

Also here is Karriem Riggins doing some really awesome stuff to remember Dilla:

Recipe For Tasty Donuts

I have a new radio show starting tomorrow. 5-6 P.M each sunday. It will be loosely based around sampling culture so expect soul, jazz, funk and hip-hop etc.
Listen to it here : http://www.burstradio.org.uk/

Also check out The Grandfather Paradox from 9-10 P.M. each friday as a friend will be exploring minimalism.

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

 Released in 2004, The Blue Notebooks, Richter's second modern-classical album, could be forgiven for being construed as a weak attempt at a concept album. Throughout the duration of the album, accompanied by a typewriter, Tilda Swinton is heard reading passages from Franz Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks and some of Czeslaw Milosz's works. Tilda Swinton has a lovely voice, placed here amongst  religious and nostalgic instrumentation, further than this quality though I don't really think that her readings are supposed to grandly alter the way in which you experience the album. Instead they simply add another texture to the album which features only a piano, strings, an organ, a harp and a voice.

What distinguishes this album is the manner in which it melds Richter's influences together. Minimalism, electronic production and cinematic sound-scapes are all used to great effect with the resulting compositions  being filled with religious grandeur without ever resorting to grandiosity. Considering that Richter has collaborated with Roni Size, Future Sound Of London and Ridley Scott whilst also having studied at the Royal Academy under the Italian composer Luciano Berio and also spent the ten years before this album's release commissioning and playing the work of Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Briano Eno with his ensemble, Piano Circus, the ease with which he does so becomes understandable.

His restriction in his choice of instruments  is evidently derived from his roots in Minimalism, as is the monodic nature of the album. In fact, a large portion of the album consists of short two to three minute pieces such as "Vladimir's Blues" and "Written On The Sky" that feature either a solitary organ or piano. In contrast to these short sketches more than half of the album's fourty minute run-time is dominated by only three pieces: "On The Nature of Daylight", "The Shadow Journal" and "The Trees". The first of these tracks is probably my favourite on the album. "On The Nature Of Daylight" grows from a base of a single cello, gradually each new layer of strings is added so that the track coalesces into a delicately gripping whole. On "The Shadow Journal" Richter makes most use of his production skills. From the outset of the track there is reverberation applied to the harps so that they become almost indistinguishable from a synthesizer, later Richter introduces a cavernous bassline that feels like a quantised heartbeat. 

While the longer tracks dominate the album the shorter sketches are just as effective and melodically pleasant. Five of the album's tracks feature only a solitary piano or organ yet are still more than capable of great beauty and keeping with the contrastingly nostalgic and sanctified tone of the work. Through keeping each individual piece monodic and having each piece's narrative advance through simplistic harmonic progressions Richter unifies the album as a whole. The album is repetitive on a microcosmic level yet through small electronic flourishes Richter draws vast amounts out of his limited instruments and avoids the macroscopic stringency that afflicts some Minimalism.

This is music that feels like it was recorded in a cathedral and should be listened to in one.

If you like this:
Ryuichi Sakamoto - 1996 - http://www.discogs.com/Ryuichi-Sakamoto-1996/master/135235
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi - http://www.discogs.com/Philip-Glass-Koyaanisqatsi/master/33014

This track is alright but the video is awesome!!

 

The same guy also did this FlyLo video!




His website his full of entertaining visual stimulation: http://cyriak.co.uk/index.html

This is so disgusting it makes me want to vomit blood and shit.
Direct quotes from an internal memo at shittygroup bank.
Boring, obvious shit until 01:10

Four Tet - 0181

It is good to hear from Mr. Tet as always, and though this stuff isn’t new it’s worth talking about a little. It’s a collection of un-released material from 1997-2001 that is a great reminder of just how versatile Four Tet is. This hauntingly beautiful music, full of delicious melodies and slick beats, is a far cry from some of the more rugged dance floor oriented pieces, like Locked/Pyramid, that he’s coming out with at the moment. Four Tet is just so good at making music that on the surface is so lovely and childish but remains consistently bizarre. There’s a baby crying halfway through for some reason…  though it is made to sound very pleasant! Anyway it’s great for walking through the snow and if you haven’t already grab the free download.

It is important to remember that it is this sound, so exquisitely resolved in an albums like Pause or Rounds, that made him famous, making it all the more impressive that he is now considered a stalwart of dance music in this country. It makes you realize how talented he is and how little versatility most of the rest of the continuum is producing. Maybe if Joy Orbison or Pearson Sound spent some time building up albums that are listenable in a context beyond Room 1 at Fabric, they might be able to make far more compelling music; at least more than the same old kick and tired vocal sample routine…..

Here’s a little Four Tet to remind us that he’s the man:

This brought him to everyone's attention in a big way in 1999 and you can tell why:

He can still rock the dancefloor though:

Buddy Rich and Ali Rakha - Rich A la Rakha

This has got to be one of the most successful attempts at “indo-jazz.” Unlike some of the Mahavishnu Orchestra stuff it doesn’t seem too much like a new age gimmick, whatever the artwork might suggest. Instead you just get two percussionists, clearly having a whale of a time, interacting across cultural boundaries in fun new ways . In that sense it feels like a genuine musical experiment. There are a couple of extremely playful moments in Rangeela where Rakha sets out a pattern and Rich, imitates it, adapting the tonal variations of the tabla to a Western drum kit. It's a very rare moment of rhythmic call and response. The result is something exceptionally unique and brilliant! The album is definitely at it’s most exciting when the two drummers are interacting from tabla to drum kit, but when Rich is working out on the Dholak it’s still some pretty great rhythmic entertainment. Music doesn’t get much more fun than this!

http://www.discogs.com/Buddy-Rich-And-Alla-Rakha-Rich-La-Rakha/release/2464083

Blogmix 1

Here's a little something to get things off the ground for anyone in desperate need of a quick boogie!!!!

House, Disco, etc. All Vinyl of Course

Stayed tuned for more tunes!!!! + other things!!!

Blogmix 1 by Godwin4zed

Tracklist:

Jean Luc-Ponty - In the Fast Lane (edit)
Donald Byrd - Love has Come Around
Mike Huckaby - Bassline 88
Moodymann - Dem Young Sconies
Jamie Jones - Nasty's Party
Gerry Read - Crawlspace
Erotic Drum Band - Jerky Rhythm
Omar-s - Simple than Sorry
Moodymann - The Day We lost the Soul
Pirahnahead - Dissed Connection
Logic - Blues For You
Theo Parrish - Mr. Bump Man
Andres - Hart Plaza