back in 2009 word got out about this london based producer that was creating innovative beats with samples galore that you could spend days, nay weeks, trying to figure out.
well now we hear that the album, Paul White & The Purple Brain, is coming out on One-Handed Music (home to Bullion and Fulgeance, as featured here) and Now-Again Records in June.
With packaging from past releases looking like this I am almost as curious as what the release looks like as much as sounds like. Almost.....
So, with that, onto the music. Opening up with psychedelic licks and organ grinds Paul brings in the beats that while lending a new angle to hearing the sounds they certainly could easily have been rolled out with the original clip to much love. Gonna be exciting to hear what else he does across the album. Expect to be excited, mesmerized, surprised and quite delighted.
From the press release:
A collaboration of sorts, the entire record is based around and inspired by the work of little-known Swedish psych-rock guru S.T. Mikael. Heavy on Eastern influences and otherworldly concerns, Mikael’s music ranges from searing electric guitar-led dirges to dreamlike ballads to ghostly atmospheric experiments and has been issued in tiny quantities since the 1990s on the Subliminal Sounds label.
just a quick post to share this amazing tune and video from juice aleem. check the album. heavy stuff. think the clonius and roots manuva.
secondhand sureshots is a documentary made by dublab and on sale via stones throw.
"filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab Dublab directors Bryan “Morpho” Younce & Mark "frosty" McNeill sent beatmakers Daedelus, Nobody, J.Rocc and Ras G on safari into L.A. thrift stores with orders to make new music out of five finds while the cameras filmed the whole process. The result is a mini-documentary about putting new life into old vinyl. Over 2 hours of footage, music & bonus material."
never ceases to amaze me how peeps like this can listen to one thing and pull it apart to use parts to create something entirely new. props!
*March 10th, 2010 UPDATE: Just heard that Ghostpoet is joining the Brownswood family of artists which is great news. Needless to say he's happy about this latest development in his journey. Best of luck to Ghostpoet and Brownswood. I can't wait for the album!
been a while since our last installment in the series and once again I am honored to have our latest guest talking about his musical influences. welcome to ghostpoet , a musically talented mc/ spoken wordsmith and gent. i heard him a few weeks back on gilles peterson's bbc show and was immediately struck by the enthralling vocals and minimal beats to accompany. then we got to check him out at the WWAs and the live show was great. much livelier than one would expect and it had the crowd well engrossed.
good things in 2010 ahead of this particular musical poet who i very much look forward to supporting on his journey.
check him on myspace, twitter or his blog.
cheers
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Under The Influence
I’ve been toying with putting this together for awhile, really tried to dig deep and think of the song’s down the years, that has not as much influenced what I make now, pulled at the heart strings and brought a tear to the cheek.
1. Mos Def – Umi Says. I think it was the first neo/soul/hip-hop track I ever heard, it started something, planted a seed of sorts, it was that bass and keys. Mos singing to the heavens and creating that hot summer night’s vibe.
2. Fela Kuti – Water Get No Enemy. The welcoming of the brass, the piano plonk, the words . . . wow . . . The words were like fireflies, dancing amongst the afro jazz haze, I discovered Fela when I was really young and I was enthralled by the stories he weaved around those infectious grooves, love his work dearly.
3. Badly Drawn Boy – Camping Next To Water. Pure emotion, I was too young to appreciate it as a kid, I remember buying the Bewilderbeast album in Woolworth’s as a nipper, it was just so exciting, all that noise, experimentation, waves of sound . . . It’s one of those tunes I’ve always kept close like my house keys.
4. S.i.A - Little Man (Exeman Rmx). Maaaan, I was heavily into oldskool garage as a teen, dj’d and mc’d in my uni years. When Sia’s voice drop’s in, my heart just lift’s, it was the combination of her haunting vocal and production that was just so different for the time, I remember hearing this dropped in at raves and the noise! The joy on ravers’ faces! It made me really appreciate what music can do to people.
5. Wiley – Eskimo. When I got into grime in my teens and more heavily in uni, this tune was a like a firework set off in my brain, I couldn’t play any type of instrument (and still can’t) and here was this monster of a track made using a computer, my love affair with electronics had begun.
(streaming roll deep's eskimo although i prefer the instrumental version)
6. The Streets – Has It Come To This. It was a mish mash of the underground music I loved and I related to the words so much, such honesty and everydayness. So different from everything around at the time, a curveball of sorts and it was a great source of inspiration at the time.
7. Roots Manuva – Dreamy Days. Brings back so many memories! Such a contemplative tune, is it the piano melody? Is it the strings? Or manuva mc just doing what he does? Discovering Root’s Manuva made me really look at what I was doing musically. Him, Ty and The Streets gave me the confidence to just be me me me.
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Pin. New York Indie has a place in my heart, such great music. Loved this track for it’s energy, melody and dark lyrics, it just drew me in and didn’t let me go for awhile, was really captivated by there artwork as well, gave me real food for thought.
9. Bloc Party – This Modern Love. Just beautiful, the guitars intertwining, the gathering pace of the drums, Kele’s lyric’s get to me every time, mantra’s to a unseen lover, jostling for emotional positioning, great stuff.
10. Square pusher – Lambic 9 Poetry. There was not one person I played this tune to who wasn’t moved in some way, it just trot’s along, starts to swerve left and right, then opens out into this opus of beauty, I still listen to it today and time stands still, nothing else matters for 6 minute’s and 56 seconds.
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also check out the amazing 'cash & carry me home' over at jus' like music
yes, yes, yes. erykah badu is getting ready to return with New Amerykah Part 2: Return Of The Ankh.
New Amerykah was for sure one of my favourite albums of 2008 with honey and soldier topping the charts. check out this seiji remix of honey that will bowl you over as well as two remixes featured in last week's soundcloud special.
one of the most innovative and exciting hip-hop artists around so expect an album that will stretch your imagination and keep you wanting more.
now everybody try and find a good hiding place
this old tree is gonna be the bass
i'm gonna close my eyes & hide my face
and count to 100 by 5's.
Download 04 Hide & Seek (Unkle Ho Remix)
ready?
go!
happy thanksgiving to all my US mates. a day late but some west coast feel for ya'll cruising the highways and maybe even highway 1 with the pacific to your side.
i miss the west coast. cruising. sun. bass. movement. fish tacos. mission beach. dolphins. shorts.
this is for you all.
love the funk, bass and west coast feel.
buy: iTunes
this goes out to paul over at northern by nature who showed great patience as he awaited this post.
i love it when you have a tune that you adore and then find the original that was sampled. special. then you start reading on both tunes to figure who's who and the stories behind them. a lot of the time there is no connection at all. but sometimes, special times, you find out great connections. love that.
tonight i was putting together a mix for the mint collective (out of my old hometown San Diego) and put in the tune 'watchdog' by Ann Winley. I hadn't heard it before last night and recognized that it was sampled by 'rhymin' & rappin' by Paulett & Tanya Winley (With Harlem Underground Band). It only clicked then that the last names were the same. off i go to wikipedia to find that Ann produced the tune and was their (step?) mother, married to Paul Winley who had started Winley Records as a doo-wop label in 1956 that evolved into one of the first hip-hop labels that was the first to release afrika bambata.
first got 'rhymin & rappin' on this party keller compilation a few years back. both are class tunes.
as benji b said on this week's show "i've got something very, very, very interesting to play you.... you don't know what's coming next, trust me."
Kon went ahead and mashed up dam-funk's 'hood pass intact' with notorious b.i.g. 'going back to cali'. nicely done!
yes yes ya'll. we're back with 'under the influence' and this time round we have the mpc master fulgeance talking about some of his musical influences. if you haven't heard any of the tunes that have been produced you need to check them out. fulgeance is from the excellent one handed music label run by the gent alex chase that also gives a place called home to bullion, paul white, guy-roy and tranqill. deffo a label to watch with great beats, treats and musical feeling oozing from their pores.
check out fugelance's sounds over at bandcamp so please listen and purchase away in support. also try and check out the live show "He plays live via two MPC’s and is completely mind blowing to watch. His fast paced and energetic performance approach is a refreshing outlook from the 'head in your laptop' era. Fun and highly talented, this is a welcome return." I especially recommend 'sour socca', got it well on rotation these days.
much thanks to fulgeance for taking the time out to share his influences with us and for creating a mix of al the sounds. a great read and listen.
also check out the bodytonic interview.
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DABRYE - HYPED-UP PLUS TAX (Ghostly)
Each time somebody asks me what is my favorite track, I give this one. So futuristic music, even today, minimal and groovy with maybe 3 elements/instruments...When I heard first time that track, I could imagine people dancing on a futuristic dancefloor, and not just banging crazy but dancin "groovy" way, and I'm happy that today, because of Dabrye and many more, we could have that kind of music in good clubs...best track ever, for me.
Maybe I go too far, but I'm ready to play this on coins.And so bass, strange beat structures still used in my stuff, even if I love to do some 1/2 music, heheh.
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btw: check out the big tune played on bbc1xtra tonight w/ mistajam, the streets and ted mayhem. the streets w/ giggs.
via @skinnermike
Download The Robots Are Taking Over
gearing up for some quality hip-hop and all round fun tonight with q-tip and his live band coming through town tomorrow night at the button factory and then the afterparty, with q-tip dj'ing, at twisted pepper. gonna be a big night all round no doubt.
so, going old school with J jabre & mc melodee with 'and you don't stop'.
just lovin' this. first heard it on benjib's show last week. had seen @RealTalibKweli mention it but hadn't picked up on it.
from yearoftheblacksmith:
"Kweli and Hi-Tek are in the studio working hard on their long-awaited
second album. They wanted to let all their friends online know they've
linked back up, so they made this ode to technology, with a throwback
funk feel to it. The legendary Bootsy Collins was chillin in the studio
with Hi-Tek and wanted to jump on the song as well. This is just some
different stuff to let y'all know they're on the way back."
Download Internet Connection feat. Bootsy Col
if you liked that, check this out.
also, trying to put together a mix of all this kinda stuff that i've been coming across lately: rollin', deep bass, west coast, boogie, bbq, summer party tunes so hopefully will have that up in nexk week. need to call in assistance of my mate sam for some 'technical assistance' though. ;)
"For
Corners is
the first full length album from Diego Bernal, a civil rights attorney and
beatsmith, located in San Antonio, TX. For Corners is Diego Bernal's love letter to the music,
cultures, era and people that nurtured him.
The music is dusty and layered with Latin soul, from the triumphant blasts of
horns to the laid back groove of lowrider melodies. It is a call to return to
the simplicity and integrity of hip-hop's best moment and an invitation to
enjoy a slightly different kind of southern comfort. Not so much dirty south as
directly south. The full album is a completely free download. Enjoy!"
i particularly like " from the triumphant blasts of
horns to the laid back groove of lowrider melodies". and the bit about being a civil right attorney.
kinda reminds me of tommy guerrero but with fuller, southern style beats and bass and more latin feel.
this one goes out to ya'll in atx (and cali) who'll bop their heads along to this at summer bbq's and parties, especially covert.
Download 13 MC Rakim Cool Kane and the Furiou
for krissy
michna. that's all you need to know for this big up style, bad bwoy tune.
interesting stuff about michna:
"growing up in both NY and Miami, Michna (real name: Adrian Michna) is
that unique breed of artist that draws from both the urban and the
tropical. As a youngster, Adrian started DJing parties with cassettes
and playing trombone in a band on the NYC bar circuit including the
infamous Lion’s Den and CBGB’s."
...from ghostly
also get over to rcrd labl for 'triple chrome dipped'.
buy: iTunes
apologies to all (especially ken) for missing yesterday's post. got much sidetracked over the weekend.
gonna post two tunes today to make up for it.
first up is junior boys (playing dublin, march 14th). much thanks to covert for turning me onto this album. i've had it on and off for the past two weeks with some tunes off the album, Begone Dull Care*, grabbing more attention than others but overall a really interesting and enjoyable album to listen to.
dunno why i hadn't posted this next tune before. nialler9 he talked about jaydiohead back in january, describing the album as "2009s first worthy mashup album" and great stuff it is with 'wrong prayer' being such a big tune. jay-z is just a powerful rapper. pure poet skills.
get the album here.
*Begone Dull Care is also a movie made in 1949 which has a plot , as described by imdb as being 'Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.' posting the whole thing here as its great and this then counts as a design/art post aswell as i'm due one.one the best depiction of music i've seen and its drawn like an animation. brilliant.
if i was back in Austin i'd defintiely be heading to the q-tip/ cool kids show at stubbs this thursday.
top beats and treats guaranteed there i tell you!
so, for those of you going, this is for you.
enjoy ya'll.
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