Bill Laswell • Not Your Mother's Radio

 

Listen to "10082020 Bill Laswell - Producer / Bassist / Visionary - Material and Beyond" on Spreaker.

Against Empire • Bill Laswell Interview

Photo by Yoko Yamabe

 

THE POV Interview

 

 

Toshinori Kondo

December 15th 1948   •  October 17th 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

Las/wɛl/ kuh m-plee-tist /ˈse·ries | 07

Toshinori Kondo • IMA in the '90s

The Bill Laswell Remix

 

com·plet·ist  

[kuh m-plee-tist]
a person who attempts to complete a collection or set,  especially a collector who wants to collect an example of every item in a particular field:

1. Long version contains :
            a) China Demonstration
b) F1 Republic
             c) No More Borderline
                     d) Cool Okesae) Metal Bind

2. Short version contains :
a) Metal Bind

近藤等則 Toshinori Kondo • Electric Trumpet, Vocal

富樫春生 Haruo Togashi • Keyboards

ЯECK (Friction) • Electric Guitar & Bass

酒井泰三 Taizo Sakai • Electric Bass & Guitar

山木秀夫 Hideo Yamaki • Drums, Percussion

Label: Alfa - ALCA-219
Series: In The '90s
Format: CD, Maxi-Single/320/Flac
Country: Japan
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Dub Techno, Jazz

Hempolics • Feedback

 

1. Feedback    
2. LSD Dub    
3. Tee Ha Dub

 

Label: Tooled Up - UYA 001
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 S! RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Breaks, Minimal

Phobiza "Noite" Vol. 2 • RAMZi

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Las/wɛl/ kuh m-plee-tist /ˈse·ries / ˈspɛʃ(ə)l wʌn

com·plet·ist

[kuh m-plee-tist]

a person who attempts to complete a collection or set,especially a collector who wants to collect an example of every item in a particular field:

 

 

Jean-Paul Bourelly and the Bluewave Bandits • Blackadellic-Blu

Re-up bandcamp

Blackadelic-Blu was conceived during a time when Jean-Paul Bourelly was throughly entrenched in an urban sound influenced by his clubs of downtown New York in the early 90's. It was a sound that merged Chicago blues roots with rap aesthetic.
Bourelly implements some of his favorite psychedelic colorations coupled with tight grooves heard on previous releases like Trippin and Saints and Sinners with a selection of songs that make the blues at home in this east cost urban context.

What comes out is an omni force in Black music. Bourelly's penchant for walking the tight rope between established genre's are eclipse only by his ability to transform what starts as a tight musical premise into something wide and original.
"Steppin on the Giant" a song of defiance about facing the challenges of finding ones way as the corporate monster looms, is a great example of jazzy funk that on further reflection is quite something "other": "as I walk through that cold New York city street, I'll be steppin on the giants feet" goes one phrase. "Thinkin bout money" with its dusty, echoey guitar and "Travelin Across the Land" (produced by Djinji Brown ) feature rapper Asheru of the Unspoken Heard appearing on Blackadelica as Blue Black. His confident, matter of fact delivery of the text complete this other worldly urban package.

Bourelly's guitar does unleash more of his virtuoso-ish fire power on track like "Restless Wave" which ends in an eerie sanctified vamp out reminiscent of another favorite blues with a cathartic swell, Blues for Muddy (Saints and Sinners DIW 1993)

Jean-Paul Bourelly Bandcamp

 

Jean-Paul Bourelly
  guitar, vocals, subatomic guitar bass, keyboard bass
"Kundalini" Mark Batson • keyboards, vocals
Blue Black • rap
Carl Bourelly • programming, keyboards
John Stubblefield • tenor saxophone
Mark Peterson • bass
Alfredo Alias • drums, back vocals
Kevin "K-Dog" Johnson • drums
Djinji Brown • sample programming

That UK Sound • Roots Of UK Jungle

Nihiloxica • Kaloli

Kaloli is the debut full-length LP from Kampala’s darkest electro-percussion group Nihiloxica on cult Belgian label Crammed Discs. The album marries the propulsive Ugandan percussion of the Nilotika Cultural Ensemble with technoid analog synth lines and hybrid kit playing from the UK’s pq and Spooky-J. The result is something otherworldly. Kaloli journeys through the uncharted space between two cultures of dance music, where the expression of traditional elements mutates into something more sinister and nihilistic.

N I H I L O X I C A

Jah Wobble The seeking path by Anil Prasad

Photo: John Hollingsworth

There’s virtually no context Jah Wobble hasn’t explored with dub bass. Whether it’s punk, jazz, electronica, Middle Eastern, African, Celtic, Chinese, Japanese, industrial, or avant-garde realms, he’s figured out a way to make it work seamlessly and imaginatively. The British multi-instrumentalist and composer has built his career on defying expectations and taking chances. His prolific and diverse discography of dozens of albums serves as a testament to his drive to keep learning, evolving and morphing.
In just the last 18 months, Wobble has put out four albums, two EPs and many singles. Two of those releases, Ocean Blue Waves and Realm of Spells, were made with his multi-decade group Invaders of the Heart. He first formed the band in 1982 as a way of bridging the worlds of dub, world fusion, jazz, rock, and pop. Ocean Blue Waves is its tenth album.
Realm of Spells finds the band collaborating with bassist and producer Bill Laswell, who Wobble has worked with on several projects, previously. The album was inspired by Wobble and Laswell’s shared interest in Miles Davis’ Dark Magus period, during which the jazz legend was performing his most experimental, rhythm-based music...

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Down The Line 'Lock Down Special' (Part 1)

Jon Hassell • Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

A companion piece to 2018’s Listening To Pictures, this second volume in the pentimento series presents eight new tracks by the music visionary, continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing. Pentimento is defined as the “reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over” and this is evident in the innovative production style that ‘paints with sound’ using overlapping nuances to create an undefinable and intoxicating new palette.

In classic Hassell fashion, the title can be interpreted in a myriad of ways, but perhaps the most pertinent at the moment is the human instinct to sing and play through a rain of difficulties. A future blues of indeterminate and ever-shifting shape. The album is buffered by two 8-minute plus epics at the beginning and the end - the hypnotic “Fearless” with it’s metronomic, almost Can-like rhythm, and blurry, noir-ish texture of sound emerging like car headlights from the fog; mirrored at the end of the record by the beautiful sci-fi lullaby of “Timeless”, a track with a gaseous, billowing quality as electronic clicks and bubbles float over a landscape of shimmering, glacially paced complexity. The bridge between those two worlds is no less compelling, from the frantic, spidery IDM sketch of “Reykjavik” to the collapsed-time ballad of “Unknown Wish”. Whilst containing seeds of classic ‘fourth world’ fusion, this record finds the artist still questing to create new forms and mutations of music, a thrilling window into what music could sound like in a world to come.  

Jon Hassell

 releases July 24, 2020

Ableton Live is a Modular Synth

R.I.P. Tony Allen

Chris Bowden with 4-Hero • Hero

A beautiful set of soundscapes from Chris Bowden and the legendary 4-Hero! Although this is a 12" single, both sides have an awesome majesty to them – reaching forth with a scope and power far beyond any dance track. Indeed, both sides are more sound sculptures, in the manner of Bowden's Time Capsule LP – and they both extend beautifully past any expectations!

Dusty Groove

1. Hero
2. Lullaby 
3. Greedy

Get it Here

Label: Satellite
Catalog#: STL 002-CD
Format: 320
Country: UK
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Future Jazz, Drum n Bass

Macro Dub Infection • Volume Two

Virgin's second volume of experimental/new school dub extrapolations doesn't reach quite as far afield as the first. The organizing principle is still dub's insidious mutation through hip-hop, trip-hop, electro, jungle, and weirdo downtempo, but most of the tracks here are bunched about the murky midpoint of what could be considered dub's contemporary milieu, where the first volume seemed to move from extremity to extremity with each track. Most of the material seems bathed in a sort of vague, analog-y distortion, a point either of overall consistency or a bit of a cop-out, depending on your perspective. There are still some gems to be found, though, including Rhys Chatham and Martin Wheeler's "Altesse," and Techno Animal's remixes of Magnet and Palace (!), Mouse on Mars' too-brief "Sehn Sud," and the Underdog aka Skull's "Flump."

D i s c  O n e
1. Maurizio • M6 (Version)
2. Bill Laswell • Sacred System Dub
3. Rome • Beware Soul Snatchers (Black Nosed Buddha Mix)
4. Rhys Chatham/Martin Wheeler • Altesse
5. Pin • Libel (The Lost Book Mix)
6. HiM • Liquid Boy
7. Zulutronic • A Presente
8. Magnet • Miles to Go (Invisible Man)
9. Plug • Keen as Mustard
10. Mouse on Mars • Sehn Sud
11. Tao • Esoteric Red
12. Alec Empire • When You’ve Reached Your Peak

D i s c  T w o
1. Skull • Flump
2. Eardrum • Psycho System
3. Porter Ricks • Nautical Dub
4. The Disciples meet The Rootsman • Conscious Yout’ (Remix)
5. Gedulah vs. Cheesecake • El-Qadim
6. André Gurov Units • Revelation of Wrath
7. Prince Paul • Brother No Blood
8. Jammin’ Unit • Handbag Dub
9. Bio Muse • Rat Day
10. Third Eye Foundation • Shot in the Head
11. Spectre • Sub Version


Label: Virgin 7243 8 41764 2 6
Series: Ambient Series - AMBT14
Format: 2 x CD, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Dub, Drum n Bass

Freezone 7 • Seven Is Seven Is

Let's refresh our memories for a second: between 1994 and 1999 the Freezone series has always been ahead of the most interesting new trends in horizontal and semi-vertical dance music... thanks to his legendary flair and impeccable taste, DJ Morpheus has consistently managed to introduce up-and-coming greats... Did you know for instance that DJ CAM, MIGHTY BOP (aka BOB SINCLAR), HOWIE B, PHOTEK, 4 HERO, KRUDER & DORFMEISTER have all appeared on Freezone 2, back in 1995 ? Then came FILA BRAZILLIA, HERBERT, PHIL ASHER & ASHLEY BEEDLE, PULSINGER, LUKE VIBERT (FZ3, 1996), BASEMENT JAXX, THIEVERY CORPORATION, CHARLES WEBSTER (FZ4, 1997), Rae & CHRISTIAN, KEVIN YOST, JOE CLAUSSELL, DOCTOR L, SUBA, DJ SPINNA (FZ5, 1998), ISOLEE, AIM, SEñOR COCONUT, LONDON ELEKTRICITY, CHATEAU FLIGHT, MAURICE FULTON (FZ6, 1999), as well as already-confirmed acts like MOBY, JOSH WINK, CARL CRAIG, COLDCUT, PLAID, ALEX GOPHER etc... Also: the fact that (since the 96 edition) every single track has been exclusive certainly did contribute to making the collection even more fascinating...

To make a long story short: Freezone has been an absolutely major reference for chill out fans worldwide, each volume being at the same time a precious set of clues for things to come and a great listening experience... So the release of this new double album should be great news to anyone who likes his lounge music to be a little more spicy than what's on the usual menu, to anyone who believes that "chill" doesn't need to mean "dull", and that "adventurous lounging" isn't necessarily an oxymoron.
crammed

Disc 1
1. DJ Venom • Neon Dawn
2. Cibelle • Álcool
3. Fauna Flash • Coast To Coast
4. Sonar Lodge (Feat. Max 404) • Celsius
5. Bigga Bush • Soulsisters
6. Landslide (Feat. Victor Davies) • Tumbling (Land Mark Mix)
7. Quant • Mahbah
8. Baby Mammoth • Frank's Angels (Tetris Remix)
9. Juryman • East Of Here
10. Sebo K Vs Kosma • El Niño
11. Robert Hood • And We Build
12. Kid Koala • Prelude And The Kiss

Disc 2
1. World Of Apples • Prairie Oyster
2. Audiomontage Vs Shur-I-Kan • The Freezone
3. The Ananda Project (Feat. Terrance Downs) • Justice, Mercy
4. dZihan & Kamien • Nargileh
5. The Detroit Escalator Company • Stitch
6. Tim "Love" Lee • Big Love Hunter
7. Companion (Feat. Nicola Hitchcock) • All Or Nothing
8. Burnt Friedman • Obscured By 5
9. Earthbound • Sleight Of Hand
10. Nubian Mindz Vs Nu Era • Meeting Of Mindz
11. Supadread • Smile


Label: SSR Records  -  SSR 237
Series: Freezone -  7
Format: 320
Country: Belgium
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Future Jazz, Downtempo, Ambient  

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Freezone 6 • Fourth Person Singular

This year's edition of FREEZONE includes exclusive contributions from ALEX GOPHER, STACEY PULLEN, ISOLEE, LONDON ELEKTRICITY, JACK JONES (Dego vs. Josh Wink), RESTLESS SOUL (Phil Asher), AMBA (aka Tom Middleton) and MARK PRITCHARD (Jedi Knights/Global Communications), 16B, MAURICE FULTON, BULLITNUTS, CHATEAU-FLIGHT (Gilb-R vs. I : Cube) and more (see complete list). As usual, we can trust DJ Morpheus and his legendary flair to introduce us to the most interesting new trends and to the most important, cutting-edge artists of the coming couple of years...'Enter the good time zone - Now into its sixth year, the Freezone series has long been one of the finest underground, eclectic compilations you could hope to hear. Compiled by Belgium's DJ Morpheus, all the tracks are exclusives [a rarity in itself{] from some of the world's finest dance producers. This time round, the guests include leftfield house hero Daniel Wang, Grand Central's hip hop maestro Aim. Planet E's Common Factor, Alex Gopher and Restless Soul, in a something-for-everyone trawl through the freshest beats around.
The whole album in drenched with soothing sonics that make listening a pleasure~and something of a massage in one. Highlights include Gopher's loping Moving Fast Man and, above all, Isolee. Fresh from the underground success of Beau Mot Plage, their dubbed-out disco groover Pornonights proves it really is all good down at the Freezone HQ.*****' Muzik (UK)

Disc 1
1. Chateau Flight • Camping Jazz
2. Alex Gopher • Moving Fast Man
3. Better Daze • Oasis
4. Stereotyp • Skyway
5. Isolée • Pornonights
6. Utsumi • Toiki
7. Maurice Fulton • The Evil T
8. Black Odyssey • Xan + Man
9. Buckfunk 3000 • My Franny Valentine
10. Aim • Lisbon
11. Changing Shape • M

Disc 2
1. Bullitnuts • Because It Does
2. Warm • On Line
3. Mark Pritchard • The Essence
4. Common Factor feat. Jason Wietlispach • Orfeu
5. Señor Coconut • Mucha Fritura
6. Mustang • Obsession
7. London Elektricity • The Land That Time Forgot
8. Amba • Moonbathing
9. Jack Jones • On My Todd
10. Daniel Wang • My 909 Blues
11. Restless Soul • Emotion Control

Label: SSR Records  -  SSR 227
Series: Freezone  -  6
Format: 320
Country:
 Europe
Released: 1999
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Future Jazz, Deep House

Freezone 5 • The Radio Is Teaching My Goldfish Ju-jitsu

For this fifth volume, DJ Morpheus has selected - among others - several brilliant, totally or practically unknown new acts. Some of these had never released anything at all so far - such as STAR (from Sweden) and SUBA (from Brazil), whose tracks respectively open the first and the second CD - while some others - RECLOOSE (USA), BUSCEMI (Belgium) and PHOSPHORUS (UK/Italy) - have only had one or two singles out.

There's also tracks by three exponents of the freshest new wave of US hip hop: JIGMASTAS (DJ Spinna's group), SHAWN J. PERIOD (known for his production work with Mos Def) and newcomers GEO-LOGY.

In the "already-established" category, you'll find contributions by the likes of IAN O'BRIEN, FUNK D'VOID, B.LOW (Pulsinger/Tunakan), SPACETIME CONTINUUM, and Detroit's SHAKE and EDDIE "FLASHIN" FOWLKES.

The last group of participants comprises some of the hottest new producers which have recently come to prominence in the fields of house/hip hop/breakbeat/d'n'b/techno: the UK's DJ Q, KLUTE (vs Hy-Ryze), DANIEL IBBOTSON and RAE & CHRISTIAN, the USA's KEVIN YOST, JOE CLAUSSELL and THE TENANTS (Jamie Hodge), and France's DOCTOR L.

Just like on the previous two volumes, each of the 22 tracks on Freezone 5 is absolutely exclusive, which makes the end-result both very precious and interesting. It's a fascinating process: imagine 22 artists, working simultaneously in their respective studios (in 8 different countries), and delivering to you this kaleidoscope of musical pieces, with its variations and differences, but also with surprising convergences and coincidences... (you'll notice for example a definite, deep jazzy undercurrent running through a majority of the tracks on FZ5)...
crammed

Disc 1
1. Star • B.B. Smooth
2. Spacetime Continuum • Snakes & Ladders
3. Buscemi • Charles In Full Action
4. Daniel Ibbotson • Blue, Brown & Black
5. Doctor L • Timestretched To The Vibration
6. Jigmastas • Matrimony
7. Funk D'Void • Computer Date
8. Shawn J Period • Seek Jesus For Peace (Ignore The Distorsion)
9. Phosphorus • Saturated
10. The Tenants • Crawlin'
11. Klute vs. Hi-Ryze • Lift
12. Shake • You

Disc 2
1. Suba • Abraço
2. Recloose • Landscaping
3. DJ Q • Rippling
4. YBU vs. Rae & Christian • Soul Magic 98
5. Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes • Black Soul
6. GE-OLOGY • Inebriated (Feel Good Journey)
7. Joe Claussell • Guitara Con Amol
8. Kevin Yost • Truth Or Dare
9. B.Low • How Should I Explain?
10. Ian O'Brien • Mina's Blues

Label: SSR Records -  SSR 207
Series: Freezone -  5
Format: 320
Country: Belgium
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trip Hop, Downtempo, Techno

Hip Hop, Electro, Drum n Bass

Freezone 4 • Dangerous Lullabies

22 exclusives by Basement Jaxx, Carl Craig, Crewmunity (Plaid), Dimitri From Paris, Funki Porcini, Herbert vs Charles Webster, Morphine vs Snooze & Morpheus, Stasis, Flytronix, Rhythm & Sound (Basic Channel), Tosca (Huber+Dorfmeister), Kruder...
Crammed

Disc 1

1. Basement Jaxx • Space Pin
2. Thievery Corporation • One
3. Flytronix • Offset Acoustics
4. Rhythm & Sound • Never Tell You (Version Edit)
5. Four Ears • Columbus (Avenue Of The Americas)
6. Tosca • The Key
7. Dimitri From Paris • Lust In Space
8. Funki Porcini • Trip To Nowhere
9. Endemic Void • Enlightenment
10. Morphine • Supersex (Snooze & Morpheus Remix)
11. Stasis • Once Around The Moon

Disc 2
1. Only Child • Blowin' It
2. Morgan Geist • I Want To...
3. Jordan Fields • Night Of The Living Blenders
4. Carl Craig • It Could Be G
5. Jimpster • Through The Surface
6. Treva Whateva • Tum And Waist
7. Herbert vs Love From San Francisco • Young At Heart
8. Crewmunity • Boneskin
9. Stade • Starting Block
10. Juryman vs Spacer • R.S.I.
11. Peace Orchestra • 10
12. No Artist • Zoned (The Freezone Multimedia Track)


Label: SSR Records - SSR 187
Series: Freezone - 4
Format: 320
Country: Belgium
Released: 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Dub, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Drum n Bass

Freezone 3 • Horizontal Dancing

Many illustrious guests honor the 3rd volume of this landmark chill series: PFM, Carl Craig, Coldcut, Wagon Christ vs. µ-ziq, Claude Young, Glenn Underground, Dr Rockit, Fila Brazillia, Io (Pulsinger), Kruder + Dorfmeister, Mixmaster Morris, Snooze vs. DJ Cam, Howie B, Josh Wink, Herbert, Phume, Nu Era... and, guess what, it consists almost entirely of exclusive, especially recorded tracks !

Compiled by DJ Morpheus

Disc 1
1. Phume • So Many Times
2. Fila Brazillia • Bulls Dozing
3. Los Jugaderos • Your Mind
4. JMJ + Richie • Universal Horn Remix 96
5. iO • Theme For A Man Who Wants To Take Over The World
6. Snooze Vs DJ Cam • Dub Angel
7. Claude Young • Multiplicity Of Zeros And Ones
8. Blak Crowê • Gabrielle's Horns
9. Mixmaster Morris Vs Jonah Sharpe • Camberwell Green
10. Nu Era • Solar Winds
11. Herbert • Freeze

Disc 2
 1. 2 Player • Arizona
 2. Future 3 • Fumble Free
 3. Kid Loops • Alien Resident (Tha Huh, Huh, Mellow Mix)
 4. The Illuminati Of Hedfuk     Miasma (Coldcut Mix)
 5. Kruder & Dorfmeister • Out Of The Blue
 6. Howie B • Five Days
 7. Glenn Underground • Tribe Of Benjamin
 8. PFM • The Rough With The Smooth
 9. Josh Wink • Emissions
 10. Envoy • Hopeless Romantic
 11. Smooth Helmet • Smooth Helmet (Plug Mix)
 12. Parametric • ES-30 

Label: SSR Records - SSR 167
Series: Freezone - 3
Format: 2 x 320
Country: Belgium
Released: 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Trip Hop, Deep House,

Drum n Bass, Techno

Freezone 2 • Variations On A Chill

Compiled by DJ Morpheus, a report on the evolution of electronic chill-out music: trip-hop, ambient jungle, Detroit-ish ambient, and various dubby abstract jazzy grooves... featuring More Rockers, Daddy Longlegs (Howie B), Black Star Liner, D*Note, T Power, Josh Wink, 4 Hero, LTJ Bukem, DJ Cam, Sin (feat. Kruder & Dorfmeister), Solid Doctor, Hector Zazou & Harold Budd, The Mighty Bop, Sentinel (aka Photek), Move D, The Ballistic Brothers (Ashley Beedle) etc. Absolutely acclaimed by the press across Europe, and featured in many best of '95 end-of-year lists ...!!
crammed.be

Disc 1

1. DJ Cam • Dieu Reconnaitra Les Siens
2. A.P.E. • Snake's Pass
3. Black Star Liner • Harmon Harrot
4. The Sentinel • Pulse Of Life
5. YBU • Alma De Bruja
6. D*Note • Solomon's Dub
7. The Ballistic Brothers Vs.The Eccentric Afro's • Jam Jah
8. Abacus • A Place In Time
9. The Mighty Bop Feat. EJM • Freestyle Linguistique (Remixx By Chris The French Kiss)
10. Daddylonglegs • The Fourth Way
11. T.Power vs MK-Ultra • Mutant Jazz
12. Chez N Trent • Morning Factory

Disc 2
1. The Solid Doctor • Lights On The Vibe
2. Sin • Where Shall I Turn ? (Kruder & Dorfmeister Session)
3. Josh Wink • An Open Mind
4. Move D • Amazing Discoveries
5. Nuron • Mirage
6. 4 Hero • Escaping Categories
7. More Rockers Association • Dream
8. LTJ Bukem • Rainfall
9. Snooze • The Spy From Ankara
10. Hector Zazou & Harold Budd • Pandas In Tandem
11. Gerd     Easin In The S-System
12. Heights Of Abraham • E.V.A. 

Label: SSR Records - SSR 147,
Crammed Discs -  SSR 147
Series: Freezone - 2
Format: 320
Country: Belgium
Released: 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Ambient

Freezone 1 • The Phenomenology Of Ambient

Reviewed by Mike G
 What Instinct Records and Silent Records ambient compilations from the same era did for techno and trance, Freezone did for downtempo lounge, house and groove music.
Actually, "dance" sounds rather obsolete in the face of the breathtaking eclecticism and downbeat vibes of these sprawling double-CD sets. The inserts are peppered with calls to arms for the quiet revolution: "lie down and get down", "return to unreason", "trip on, chill in, dub out". This is lounge music for the dance generation, born of clubland but designed for the couch, using a mix of electronica and live instrumentation to sample, twist and transform sounds drawn from sources that span over 50 years of contemporary music. Beat music as ambient? This series proves it beyond a doubt.
The compiling was overseen by Paris-based spinner and broadcaster DJ Morpheus from exclusive tracks by artists from all over Europe, the UK and the USA. The albums explore seemingly endless variations on downbeat funk and soul, atmospheric drum 'n' bass, cheesy lounge music, ambient techno and psychedelic, dubby jazz and hip hop grooves. Vocals pop up occasionally, but they're mostly there for textural and timbrel effect. Freezone does share some qualities with Cafe Del Mar, that other much loved series of post-rave chill-out albums, but there is also some distinct differences. While the latter tends to be drenched in smooth, mellow sounds and reverb, the Freezone series explores beats somewhat more insistently and there is more variety of mood. Right next to some of the prettiest, sweetest grooves imaginable you might find weird, angular melodies, creepy undertows or unusual time signatures.

Each individual album covers so much ground that it's best not to generalise too much, but they do develop their own personalities over time. The Phenomenology Of Ambient (1994), while excellent, is the black sheep of the series: DJ Morpheus was not involved; it has an often deep, beatless ambient feel; and many of its tracks (Pete Namlook, David Byrne, Moby) are previously released. Variations On A Chill (1995) and Dangerous Lullabies (1997) are the most melodic, with a deliciously dubby flavour and a swag of basslines and deep house grooves to die for. The Radio Is Teaching My Goldfish Jujitsu (1998) and Fourth Person Singular (1999) emphasise an meeting of jazz, soul and electronica that is sometimes astounding. Horizontal Dancing (1996) is the most beat-orientated of the series; its best tracks arrange breakbeats  - particularly ambient drum 'n' bass - with melodies from vibraphone and electric piano with sublime results.
Freezone 7: Seven Is Seven Is (2001) is the only disappointment in the series. Well-formed grooves and melodies are in short supply and it's also marred by some rather conventional vocal numbers. Perhaps not coincidently, it turned out to be the final release and Freezone was no more.

Disc 1

1. Solar Quest • Cherchez La Lumiere

2. Avalon • New Frontier

3. Orange • La Couleur

4. Rising Sun • Ocean View

5. Porcupine Tree • Voyage 34 - Phase 4

6. Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz • Desert Equations

7. Air (2) • Travelling Without Moving - Trip 8

8. David Byrne • Machu Picchu

9. Benjamin Lew • Preparation / Joyeux Regrets

10. David Cunningham • Stars

11. Bobvan • Water Dragon

12. Bleep • The Launchpad (Boomerang Mix)

 

Disc 2

1. The Arc • Orphic Mysteries

2. Karl Biscuit • Hierophone (Avalon Remix)

3. Young American Primitive • Sunrise

4. Oracle • Flow (Motion)

5. Deep Space Network • Om

6. Terre Thaemlitz • Hovering Glows

7. Solar Quest • Save The Whale

8. Moby • Myopia

9. Hector Zazou • Enoch Arden / Brandan

10. Peter Principle • Riding The Silver Chord / Sphinx / Orval

11. Deep Forest • Forest Hymn (Deep Groove Mix)

Compiled By – Marc Hollander

"A selection of sonic objects from the ambient interspace..."

Special consultant: Samy Birnbach (DJ Morpheus)

Label: SSR Records ‎– SSR 129,

Crammed Discs ‎– EFA 7645
Series: Freezone – 1
Format: 320
Country: Belgium
Released: 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

The Real Science of Germs: Do Viruses Cause Disease?

 Dawn Lester and David Parker 

Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/167... 

Website https://www.whatreallymakesyouill.com...

HIDEO YAMAKI free Drum Samples

We release some drums sound files played by Hideo Yamaki for copyright free!

If you must stay in your home for long time,

we would like you to use your time for creative musical activity,

even though we are in this difficult situation.

Copyright free

Hideo Yamaki

 

The Anatomy of Covid-19

Andrew Weatherall

 

Andrew Weatherall
RIP
6 April 1963 • 17 February 2020

Audium • Capsule 1

1. Akure Wall
The Only Way Is Down

2. Interference Featuring Melle Mel And Be-La Key
What Order

3. Terminal Head
Area 51 (Sherwood & Leblanc Remix)

4. Interference
The Biggest Game

5. Bim Sherman
The Beast

6. Anthony J. Hilder
Radio Free World

7. Terminal Head*
Global Warning (NuEra Remix)

8. Keith LeBlanc Featuring Sussan Deyhim
Play What You Want


 

9. True Noise
Arrow

10. True Noise
I Won't Let You Down

11. Keith LeBlanc
Point Blanc (Sherwood Remix)

12. Tack>head
The King (Live In Amsterdam)


Label: Blanc Records • BLCCD14
Format: flac/mp3
Country: UK
Released: 1996
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Dub, Synth-pop, Funk, Breaks

SOMMA . Sacred Order of Magick, Music and Art

Revelator (Will Bernard, Bill Laswell, Peter Apfelbaum, Aaron Johnston) ...

How Sampling Changed Modern Drumming

My Awakening ep. 45 Crrow777 Interviewed On His Personal Awakening Journ...

In April of 2007, the historic NYC music venue Tonic closed.

Located at 107 Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Tonic was a unique place where you would go to listen to what would often turn out to be equally unique music.

As many other cherished spaces around the city, after 9 years of operation Tonic succumbed to the changes then ripping through the LES.

I attended two shows at Tonic on that final week back in 2007. On the second night, I asked the lady at the ticket booth about a beer carton containing +50 demo tapes that was lying on the floor, looking as if it might soon be discarded. I could have them if I wanted them, I was told.

After 11 years decaying, these tapes — submitted by bands who wanted to play at Tonic and whose fates since then seem to be as diverse as their music — have now been digitized and you can listen to them by clicking on the images you find on this page. I attempted some cleaning of the audio, but even after that they are by now mainly historical artifacts from one decade ago.

An effort was made to contact all bands to secure their permission but that was not possible in all cases. Also, I would be happy to donate the tapes to any individual or organization who will preserve them and make them publicly available. For all inquiries, contact info@tonictapes.org. To be notified of future updates, email notify.me@tonictapes.org

- Manuel Arriaga (Dec 2018)

1. Time Marches On
2. Cosmic Life
3. Sakura
4. Love Exists
6. Space Woman (Of Inner And Outer Space)
7. Sky Love


Mari Okubo • Vocals
Ornette Coleman • Voice, Synthesizer
Lew Soloff • Trumpet
Wallace Roney • Trumpet
Robert Routch • French Horn
Charles Walker • Guitar
Ken Wessel • Guitar
Greg Curtis • Synthesizer
Steve Gaboury • Synthesizer
 Chris Walker • Bass
Jamaaladeen Tacuma • Bass
Jonathan Crayford • Drum Programming
Abe Fogle • Drums
Archie Walker • Drums

Arranged By, Composed By, Words & Producer by Ornette Coleman

Mari Okubo • Cosmic Life