Ulysses82 @ Hustlers Don’t Dance this Saturday
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Can’t wait for this one-Inie and Karen sure know how host a party.
It’s a slightly different kinda of vibe to the shows we usually play-a little bit more intimate and potentailly really quite sweaty (and that’s just Christoph). We’re gonna be playing a load of new stuff , including the first ever play of our just finished AD Bourke remix for Citinite. (we’re really excited about that one!!)
Come down if you’re local (half the door goes to Haiti, so it will be good for your soul as well)
More details here
FRIDAY FUSION
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Do me Argentinian Fusion. Jorge Lopez Ruiz: This guy is ‘the’ don down in Argieland. Bassist, celloist and pianist and seriously decorated with numerous awards, he’s got a massive body of work behind him so it’s difficult to choose a definitive cut.
The one I’ve posted is ‘Para Nosotros Solamente’ from the album ‘Ruíz Raíces II, De Las Colonias del Río de la Plata’. It’s more familiar territory with a tight electric bass, drum, fender rhodes trio with a nice vocal line. Giving it the edge is a cheeky acoustic bass solo. Loads more for cats to discover with this guy.
Jorge López Ruíz — Para Nosotros Solamente
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IPad-owan
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Crap Puns aside, it’s clear that despite all the post-hype come down and knee-jerk anti-apple negativity, the IPAD has all the potential to be the default music making /music playing interface for the next 5/10 years.
It’s not about the closed nature of the system, or whether or not it will challenge the Kindle or save the newspaper industry. It’s about a cheap, accessible, universal touch interface.
Sure you should be worried if your livelihood depends on some no-name e-reader or tablet concept, but I think there also must be a hell of alot of music hardware manufacturers who are going to bankrupted by that kind of price point. (yeah, jazz mutant, I’m talking to you)
We are 6/9 months away from the next generation of adaptive drum machines, crazy pattern based synths and the last days of analog deejaying. It may seem like a bit of a let down this morning, but in a year’s time, when you are holding it in your hands, doing impossible things, you’ll wonder how you ever manged with out it.
TURBULENCE
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Posts from my neck of the woods have been a bit thin recently due to some work life moodiness, normal service will resume shortly. Here’s a deep little something from the legendary Dilla that kind of sums up my vibe right now…turbulent times. (Props to the Doctor for the heds up)
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FRIDAY FUSION
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Alright so it’s not actually Friday but some of us have had to work all weekend (& Sunday Fusion don’t sound right). As promised it’s an Azymuth post – I’m guessing readers of this blog will already know these dons from Brazil, but if not then most definitely up there on the ‘do me’ list. Their 4 70’s albums contain between them about a dozen or so Fusion gems, 1980’s ‘Outbro’ has got one or two at a push but from their on in it goes really lightweight (same old story).
But the trio’s original signature sound of bass, drums, electric piano & synths at it’s best falls into that sweet spacey Fusion vibe replacing horns with vintage electronic instrumentation and a Latin edge. This track is from ’77s ‘Aguia Não Come Mosca’ (also featured on Man From Atlantis’ ‘Odyssey II) Feel it.
Azymuth — Falcon Love Call (Armazem N0.2)
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OP-1 Kenobi
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I’m loving Teenage Engineering’s soon-to-be-released OP-1 .
If nothing else, they have absolutely nailed the product design.
More info here.
Sunday Morning 10am (Part 2)
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A lot has been written about Teddy’s death this week.
I’ve not much to add really, except to say it feels good to honour the people who’s music has touched you in some way. Everything seems so disposable now-music and culture comes and goes, it’s so fluid you can barely hold onto it long enough for it to feel your own. But the good stuff, it gets under your skin and finds a place in the soundtrack of your life, scoring the different moods and experiences you encounter along the way.
Love TKO was one of those tunes for me. I know it’s not as heavy as some of the uptempo, disco numbers-in fact it’s probably dangerously close to being a ‘heart fm’ track. But I don’t care; you don’t choose the tracks that move you. There is something about that chorus that gets me every time; “I think I better let it go” sung in such a way, that you knew that Teddy had been there, felt that moment when a relationship is beyond repair, when everything you try to do just makes things worse. It’s the realisation that you’ve blown it and you’ve got to start all over again, somewhere new. And it’s got those melancholy philly strings and that groove and all that 100% unprocessed soul; it just feels true.
So thank you Teddy, sometimes this was the perfect song.
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FRIDAY FUSION
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Picking up from last weeks’ German excursion, I’m keeping it Continental with Belgian keyboard don Marc Moulin. He lays out a track here from his 1975 lp ‘Sam Suffy’ which opens up to a classic synth break that knocked me out the first time I heard it in a filthy little soho record shop many years ago, and is still a regular on the ‘Pod. To be honest, I could do with another 10 minutes of that and pass on the Hancock-esque piano breakdown at the end, but hey…
Moulin’s output tended to lean towards the funkier side of things, but it got much more interesting when he went more experimental in the ‘Placebo’ years. What really makes them stand out for me, is that while many other groups of the time were high on indulgence, low on substance, they were always the exact opposite… the tune, arrangement and production being far more important than any amount of ear-shredding solos. They may lack a touch of the edge that some of the other classic acts had, but their minimal approach and willingness to hang a whole track on just one or two sounds has stood the test of time, still sounds fresh as hell and more than merits a place in my top ten. Enjoy.
Check out Balek, Temse, Stomp & S.U.S. on the Placebo Years 1971-74 for more…
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Biosphere 2
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This is a scifi film waiting to happen.
A partially decaying Biosphere, over run by nature after a science experiment gone wrong.
“When the human guinea pigs left the structure after two years, crops had failed, noxious gases had built up, the water had turned acidic and the site was overrun by ”crazy ants” “
Noah Sheldon’s haunting photoset show the current state of this $200M structure, the largest sealed environment ever created (it had it’s own million-gallon sea !!) which has been mostly disused, ever since the original biospherians left.
Couldn’t we just head over there now and film that ‘Dark Silent Running‘ idea we’ve been kicking around.
The set is ready to go and the soundtrack has been in the bank for months.
More over at bldgblog
FRIDAY FUSION
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Was gonna go Azymuth, but I’ll save that for next time. Believe it or not the track I’m posting is from ‘85 — a few years too many into that 80’s danger zone where anything ‘jazzy’ went horribly wrong — but the German musician / production duo of Helmut Zerlett and Stefan Krachten seem to have been unaffected. More of an incidental number than a fully fledged epic, it’s a deep groove with a massive nod to ‘In a Silent Way’ era Miles, just needs that extra 10 minutes — I’ve got a fever…the only prescription? More Fusion.
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