27.2.2007 von mk.

Kunuaka - the debut album by dynamic dub specialists Makossa & Megablast is breaking onto the airwaves like a sonic future shock, and looks set to propel the Austrian duo into the producers elite. Fusing afro-electro vibes with organic grooves this album shows G Stone, their spiritual home, is still looking forward and bringing through the best of the next wave of producers.

Makossa & Megablast have already created a stir with a series of hot remixes and two single releases. Their first single Like a Rocket / Kunuaka was unveiled at last years Winter Music Conference and proved an immediate hit with the likes of such luminaries as Gilles Peterson, Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier and Kenny Larkin. The title track of the album was nominated for Best track 2006 on Gilles coveted Worldwide awards. Their futuristic remake of labelmate Tosca’s Heidi Bruehl track was a sonic highlight from Tosca’s remixes album with a killer riff that made it one of the most floor friendly G Stone releases of recent years.

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27.2.2007 von mk.

First up, the boys Pete Herbert and Phil Mison in their Reverso 68 format. These guys have been there since time, and you can expect off kilter classy Balearic dancefloor action. Fans of Lindstrom & Prins Thomas will know all about the Reverso 68. They take Boogie no more to heavenly heights with sexy synths and even sexier Spanish guitars. Brilliant remix we reckon.
Flip side offers more punch with Kraak & Smaak’s boogie angst remix. Definitely dancefloor friendly and containing Kraak & Smaak’s famous funkiness with big breaks and beats to help you with your dangerous dancefloor moves.

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20.2.2007 von mk.

The new album from FREDDIE CRUGER (3 FOOT PEOPLE) and his first under his RED
ASTAIRE alias. Some of the tracks that have made him world famous including “FOLLOW
ME”. Hip-hop flavored beats and breaks for the headz with a touch of Latin flavor. All but one
of the tracks is previously unreleased on CD and 5 tracks are brand new. Fans of his releases
on GAMM and HOMEGROWN will flip for this.

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19.2.2007 von mk.

This one is dedicated to the DJ’s girlfriends. Since most of them don’t own turntables, Pulver once decided to release the highlights of the last 12″ release on a CD compilation.
Also, Pulver Records added two extra-superb bonus tracks which were actually released on the US-label “Sugarcane Recordings”. UK leftfield house producers SWAG reworked two tracks from Dublex Inc.’s last album. “Slack Society” is already featured on Jesse Rose’s “Body Language”- Compilation on Get Physical Rec.
Another excellent edition to the Pulver label comp repertoire.

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19.2.2007 von mk.

Kinkysweet’s Club Series spotlights the hottest clubs in the coolest cities. For the second in this series we jump from New York to Los Angeles for the 10-year anniversary of a Hollywood institution, the Monday Night Social. With 520 consecutive shows under its belt, Monday Social is the longest-running club night in Los Angeles. Just about every name in electronic music has played there at one time or another, including John Digweed, Groove Armada, Mark Farina and Sander Kleinberg, among many others. Currently located at one of Hollywood’s premiere venues -Nacional-the secret of its success is its combination of the hassle-free vibe of the bar scene mixed with musical and technical standards associated with nightclubs. Each week new guest DJs and performers drop in from around the word to join Monday Social promoters and DJs: Mick Cole and Freddy Be. On this collection, Mick and Freddy lay down a retrospective in electronic music, incorporating the many artists that have graced the stage of the Monday Social throughout its ten year history.

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18.2.2007 von mk.

Silver wedding: Compost Records celebrates it’s 250th release!!! More than 1.700 songs released, in the business for 13 years and still making mad noise! On our 100th jubilee Gilles Peterson said: “With great pleasure I pronounce Compost the most consistent and forward thinkink records label of continental Europe.” Even 150 catalogue numbers laterthere is not the faintest reason, for doubting this quote. Just take one look at the impressive list of newcomers on Compost in 2006: Nova Dream Sequence, Alif Tree, Marsmobil, Jean-Paul Bondy, Soil & Pimp Session, Muallem, Shahrokh SoundofK. Names you are going to here from, word! But during the last months there have been reunions with old friends too. Both Karma as well as Koop enchanted us with their new albums.
“Freshly Composted Vol. 2″ provides on one hand a extensive survey of the most important releases on Compost from the past year but on the other also an exclusiv forecast to new Ben Mono album which is going to released in early spring. Speaking of exclusiveness: besides Ben’s sneak preview “Jesus Was A B-Boy” there are six more tracks on this CD which were previously only available on 12″ vinyl but now finally make their way into your cd players and car systems. Including breathtaking remixes by grandmasters of the game like Carl Craig, Moodymann, Todd Terje or Robag Wruhme. And just like you are used to, this Compost compilation leaves behind stylistic boundaries and offers a diversified mixture of disco, house, techno, soul, jazz, a little bit of pop and cosmic. It is the blueprint of Compost’s musical philosophy for the 21st century. And we won’t stop going straight to #300!

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17.2.2007 von mk.

Swound Sound tonight !
G-Stone Allstars Winter Session - Flex, 9.12.2006
pt.2 - ft. DSL, M&M, PK

radio fm4 : sa 22-24 / so 3-5
live stream - http://fm4.orf.at

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17.2.2007 von mk.

“Mexican Sessions - Our Simple Sensational Sound” - a title evoking the fun and chance of this colourful musical journey. Up, Bustle & Out went to Monterrey, Mexico to meet the platinum selling Hip Hop crew ‘Control Machete’ (who’s ‘Femin IV Caballero’ also features on the Cypress Hill album ‘Los Grandes Éxitos En Español’). Together they experimented with Cumbia Music - and what was to be a 12″ single became the foundation for an entire album.
U, B & O also took their ideas north to California & NYC, they glided over the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico & Jamaica too before landing safely again in Europe. The ‘Mexican Sessions’ captures the creative input / output of cultural experimental that began in Mexico, married the bass and sexy rhythms of the Caribbean with the flavours of Mexican spices. Í Arriba !

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14.2.2007 von quincy jointz.

Bei österreichischer Musik denkt man immer an Wien und die gleichen Verdächtigen. Schade, denn aus Innsbruck stammen neben Schneebrettverrückten auch die Funky Producer Ed Royal und DJ Enne. Nach 8 erfolgreichen 12“ auf dem eigenen Label „Innvision Records“ und famosen Remixen u.a. für All Good Funk Alliance, Mawglee, K´Bonus, Soulphonic Soundsystem, Wolf Myer & Parov Stelar und anderen wagen sich die beiden nun an ihr Debutalbum. Da stellen sich natürlich gleich 2 Fragen: ist mehr drauf als nur die Aneinanderreihung der Hits? Und können sie auf die lange Strecke mit Abwechslung überzeugen? Beide Fragen lassen sich klar mit „Ja!“ beantworten. Obwohl es andere immer wieder vor machen, hat man nicht alle 12“ auf CD gepresst und fertig. Es sind außer den Tracks von der Album-Vorabsingle „It´s hip to be square“ nur „He´s a champ“, „Funky flute“ und „Vamos Irmanos“ genommen worden. Bleiben somit noch reichlich neue Tracks, die durch ihre verschiedenen Styles, Freshness und Funk bestechen. „Funky Kitchen“ ist ein Sommer-ich-brauch-ein-Cabrio-mit-fettem-Soundsystem-Boogaloo-Track. Mit „Sunset groove“ und „Use your brain“ setzt man eher auf fette Hip Hop-Beats und landet dabei gleich in meiner Plattenkiste. Dass Jazz und Funk eigentlich nur unterschiedliche Seiten des Schillings sind, zeigt vor allem „Groove Collage“. Aber auch vor geraden Beats hat man keine Angst („Vibes in space“).

Und somit ist insgesamt ein sehr gelungenes und empfehlenswertes Album entstanden. Mehr davon!

(5 von 5 Punkten)

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8.2.2007 von mk.

In the beginning was silence. The menacingly loud silence that one hears when the computer has finally given up and no longer makes a peep after a hard drive crash. All the tracks that were supposed to be on “monsters & silly songs” were also permanently silenced. “Dumb when one doesn’t make any backups,” realized Joakim and learned his lesson: Instead of buying a stack of storage media, he put a band together. And started once again from the beginning.
A catastrophe? Not for Joakim Bouaziz. He is used to parting with ideas. Especially when he has a new one, a better one. In other words, almost always. “I jump from one idea to the next,” he says. “I simply have to try everything and see where it leads.”
That’s also why Joakim is one of the most illustrious people that the world of (not only) electronic music has produced. He started at age 6 with the piano, took lessons with Abdel Rahman El Bacha, a famous concert pianist. Later, Joakim discovered the possibilities of the synthesizer. After an experimental phase of only a few months, his debut “Tigersushi” (1999) was released, which 4Hero, Next Evidence, DJ Medhi and others, cited on “Tigersushi Remixed” (2000), and which also became the name of the label Joakim founded in 2001.
In 2003, with “Fantômes” the debut successor ensues. Tracks like “Come Into My Kitchen” and “Are You Vegetarian?” become real club hits. Joakim doesn’t thereby feel that he has to adhere to dance music or any other musical style. “Making a pure dance album would almost be like composing an album entirely in F major.”
And so his new album “Monsters & Silly Songs” has also turned out entirely free-spirited. He recorded it together with a live formation consisting of Mark Kerr (drums), Juan de Gullebon (bass), Maxime Delpierre (guitar), Nicolas (vocals, known as the singer of Poni Hoax) and Guillaume Tessier (with whom he also worked on his project Sister Klaus).
With the post-rock piece based on a meditative ostinato “Three Legged Lantern,” the dark imposing bastard “Rocket Pearl” with its Cave-like drama, no-means-no country and disco beat, which Franz Ferdinand could never pull off in such a brilliantly ramshackle way, as well as the exalted nine-minute epic “Love-Me-2″ that transgresses all style limits, Joakim wrote three pieces which he especially conceived for the live situation. “The idea of playing live changed everything,” says Joakim. He not only allows mishaps, improvisations and spontaneous ideas to happen, but intentionally looks for them. “If one now were to try to pigeonhole me as new rock, then the only thing left for me to do would be to make a calypso record.”
And he could undoubtedly do so. For example, on “Drumtrax” he plays with the genre of the club track, turning the ring modulator and tempo knob. The single “Lonely Hearts” is another shimmering pop jewel: a thudding drum, two biting guitar chords, synthesizer blips and cheesy strings - here, like everywhere on “Monsters & Silly Songs,” things come together which do not belong together or which one did not yet suspect could belong together: John Carpenter and Aphex Twin, hippieness and digital culture, step programming from the eighties and modern sound design: Memory and hope for the future. Noise, drones - and again silence.

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