Friday Fusion
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Thought we would take a slight detour for this week’s Friday Fusion .
This footage comes from the RBMA event at the RFH a couple of weeks back, we were gonna head down at one point, but were slightly put off by the thought of carl craig disappearing up his own backside- looked like we missed a hell of a session.
The perfect fusion of new technology and old school musical talent.
Illum Sphere
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ACTRESS
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When it comes to new music there really aren’t that many cats out there who are doing it for me. But when you start to break away from the dominant scenes, it’s good to know you can still find people like Actress just doing their thing.
He can come down on the more dissonant electronic side, which isn’t really my vibe, but he did a dope mix on FACT last year which hit all the right spots; a little bit of boogie, electro instrumentals and the freaky funk side of 80′s new wave — influences u can hear in the tune I’m posting here.
He’s got a new LP out on Honest Jon’s later in the Spring, you can hear a few snippets on there now which are sounding quite hard edged, let’s hope he puts the funk back in.
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FRIDAY FUSION
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Thinking it was time we posted a latin fusion number. ‘Atlas’ has the dopest opening funk break before the latin rhythm kicks in and the tempo builds up to a furious crescendo. All about the rhythm section here, as it should be and you know it makes sense. Wish the drummer in my band could maintain this tempo without dropping beats….
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The Basement Sessions
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It won’t last.
Prince is the most litigious mother out there.
Still get it while it’s hot, unseen footage of Prince in rehearsal in a basement in 1984. (hat tip manny)
The phrase ‘making it look easy’ barely covers it.
COSMIC CONNECTIONS
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Disco Jesus is back at the controls for a nice clubby mix that aims to connect the dots from early italo cosmic electro, through proto Detroit/Chicago to current pioneers like Danny Wang, I-F, Metro Area and Maurice Fulton. Get it here.
ALL LIVE
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A couple months back we were talking about the imminent launch of the FM online store. As is often the case with this kind of shit, turns out it takes a whole lot longer than we thought to get right. In the meantime we’re gonna run our releases through the excellent Bandcamp – if it’s good enough for Paul White and dons like 4Hero it’s good enough for us…
So here it is after months of dropping teasers, we proudly present the full LP from Reflections on Creation & Bass – available to download in original ‘aiff’ quality or mp3. Downloading the whole LP includes bonus demo cut ‘Galactic Freestyle’.
Thanks for your support, hope your feeling it.
FRIDAY FUSION
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This is a cut I’ve loved for a longtime. It’s by Christian Vander’s epic but crazy French Prog outfit ‘Magma’. In true fusion style the track I’m posting is an amalgam of genres mixing jazz, prog & a little bit of choral into something totally unique. In fact Magma even invented their own language which they used to sing in, and Vander himself had a whole back story about a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the planet ‘Kobaïa’ that he took inspiration from.
Over the years Magma featured a whole host of talent that went on to do great things (one of my favs being keyboard maestro Benoit Widdemann) and their style became a genre in itself known as ‘Zeuhl’. This isn’t a path I’m particularly interested in exploring, but every know & again you get gems like this. Taken from the ’74 LP ‘K.A.’ (Note: I’ve clipped the ending cause it goes really pony)
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HEY PRESTO
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Feeling this one from West Coast beat hed ‘Presto’. Got an old school groove to it a la Primo/Pete Rock, but that growling synth b-line brings it back to something more current. Doesn’t do a lot so file under DJ food, but a couple of minutes of this in the mix would be all I need…
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FRIDAY FUSION
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Mr Herbie Hancock… Composer, Leader, Keyboard Don, Producer, Side-Man, Techno-Freak, Purveyor of awesome afro/goatee combos the list goes on. Already a bona-fide giant of the jazz world, as the 60s became the 70s, he changed course, surrounded himself with all the latest synths and let rip with his response to what was starting to happen in the clubs, thanks to Sly and The JB’s. Joined by the mix of jazz heavy weights and new funksters that made up the Headhunters band, he met the decade head-on with a series of classic records which ranged from power-house breakbeat fusion & disco/funk/jazz all the way to the outer reaches of abstract electronica.
To be honest, we’re spoilt for choice here as you could easily do a killer fusion top ten just from his back catalogue, but here are 2 that I always come back to…
Heartbeat (Manchild) – The first Headhunters tune I ever heard – probably around ’91-ish in a record store. As a young keys-player hungry for new music, when this blasted out I remember standing there and thinking ‘WTF?!’ with a huge grin on my face. Then the solo kicked in… and things were never quite the same after that. Hidden Shadows (Sextant). Bit of an epic this one – a killer off-beat break and a great spaced-out composition that leaves loads of room for the group to crank it to the next level, which
they most certainly do…Cheers Mr Hancock – you’re a don.
Herbie Hancock — Hidden Shadows
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UNIVERSAL STRING THEORY
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Something a little bit special for a Monday morning, brother Murray drops some string-led deepness enjoy: Universal String Theory – Strings ‘n’ Things from across the decades…
Tracklisting:
01. The Warning/Fantasy for Ralph – David Axelrod
02. Journey in Satchidandanda – Alice Coltrane
03. Laying The Trap – Charles Bernstein
04. Baptismal – Joe Zawinul
05. California Dreaming – José Feliciano
06. Soul of a VIllage part II – Joe Zawinul
07. Illusion – Andrew Hill
08. Mothers and Daughters Now Mothers – Chris Bowden
09. No Co-Operation – Roy Budd
10. Vine of Happiness – Rotary Connection Feat. Minnie Ripperton
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