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Freestyle crew
members (EzBoy, Say Vegin, Howie & Outspan) and Friends
offer you the coolest tracks we discovered in September
2001
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EZ Boy real name: Bruno Fierens a.k.a.: B.F. icq n°: 2665138 e-mail: bruno@freestylegrooves.com |
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| - Lowend : Do you like robots EP : Farris Wheel Moogs, funky breakbeats, jazzed up riffs all around. - Room604 : Future Flair : Dessous Yes I buy these Dessous releases for the b-sides and this one is absolutely headspinning - 75 Moods : The D.T. EP : Patt Recordings Heavy subbass, driving rythm, melodic flutes, the ideal recipe for deep groovy house - ADNY & J Sheperd : Alma Latina EP : Corner Shots Never tiring, these quality ADNY releases - East West Connection : North south : Chilli Funk Superb deep groovin' track with lots of sax - Envelop : Programm (Loft mix) : I Records Kevin Yost at his best with dreamy atmospheric retro grooves - Shawn Ward : In the city EP (Alma Jazz) : Turbo Pay attention, the funk spits out of this track - The Rurals : West Side EP : Large Mostly instrumental rural deepness - Thumble & Combo : SUMO EP : Track Mode Moody early evening deephouzer with nice melodies all over |
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| - Ursula Rucker : Supa Sista : !K7
Music is the message |
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Leon Haywood : I'm out to catch : Cassablance Rare but superb eighties funk release - Move D : Kunststoff : Source Rec The musical sun of genius Miles Davis, with an amazing early '95 release |
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Howard real name: Howard Djalti a.k.a.: Howie icq n°: 34040960 e-mail: howie@freestylegrooves.com |
| Singles & EPs of the month | |
| 0. Ralph Lock / Felix Huber (75 Moods) the d.t. ep PATT recordings 2001 Comment: My favorite of the mont a killer EP repect to Ralph and Felix for their great since of music, regards....Howie, see you in Berlin!!!! 1. Jon Cutler feat. Kemdi: You groove me // Distant Music 2001 2. Andre Harris: To My Love // Estereo 2001 3. Reset: Robodisco / Pickpocket // Papperrecordings (60) 2001 4. Terence FM: Feeling Kind Of High // Cajual 2001 5. Tim Harper: Reincarnation (PROMO) // Nite Life Collective (009) 6. Nathan Haines: Suprising // Chillifunk 2000 7. Miguel Migs 'Petalpusher': breakin'it down // Naked Music 1999 8. Blue Six: Pure // Naked Music 2000 9. Blaze: Elevation // Life Line 2000 10.Pete Moss: Deep Desires // Large 2000 11.Jori Hulkkonen: Hösh! sounds like trouble// F-Communications 2001 12.John Tejada & Titonton Duvanté: Only For The Freaky Ones // Palette Rec. 2001 Comment: A mix between the minimal beats of Titonton and the electronic sounds of John result in a killer maxi!! 13.Tommy Hools: Premiers Mouvements (PROMO) // Kung Fu Fighting Rec. 1998 Comment: Down Beat Jazzy sounds with Hip-Hop influences. 14.Richard Les Crees: The 5th avenue // I recordings 2001 15.Dependers of the faith: Kola Kola // Grayhound 2001 16.SF DJ's come Home: Panhandle Rec. 1999 Comment: feat. Iz&Diz, Miguel Migs, Spencer & Kincy and Lance D. 17.Kick Squad: Walk South Central /.... Peng // 2001 Comment: respect to the people at Peng, THX Spectron(Oli) from Thun(CH) for this record!² 18.The Rurals: Sweeter Sound EP // Peng 2001 Comment: Respect to The Rurals and one again quality is the key!! BTW Marie don't like french people I'm 1/2 french.... hmmmm but I like your voice Rurals lady!! 19.The Rurals: Mummba Sub/ Fake Cake Weird // 8th day 2001 Comment: very nice release typical Rural style, niceeeeee.... released on 8th day, the new label of the Rurals!! Keep in Touch! 20.The Rurals: this change e.p. // Peng 2000 Comment: one more!! still quality!!! |
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| 1. Toko comp.: Soul In Your Spacesuit // Toko 1999 2. The Rurals: headsongs // Peng 2000 3. The Rurals Sweeter Sounds Peng 2001 |
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| Classic of the month | |
| 1. Glenn Underground: Take me back (Promo) // Cajual 1995 Comment: Finally I got him!!! For me the best GU track ever!!! 2. Derrick Carter & Cajmere presents: The Many Shades Of Cajual // Cajual Rec.1996 Comment: Finally I got this one too!!! All the best of Cajual!!!! enjoy!!!!!! 3. Dajae: Fakes + Phones // Cajual 1996 Comment: Include GU Remix 4. BMC: Disco Juice e.p. // Nite Life Collective 1998 5. A Man Called Adam: Beachflea / A.M.C.A. // Luxery Service Rec. 6. Forbidden Pleasures: Get UP/ etc... // Luxery Service Rec. 7. The Rurals: Space Funk E.P. // Rural Promotions 1995 Comment: this Record was never released , but Spectron could have a few copies at his last visit to The Rurals place!! |
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Say Vegin real name: Bart Holvoet a.k.a.: El Barto icq n°: 11995924 e-mail: bart@freestylegrooves.com |
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Jimi Tenor : Cosmic Relief : Sähkö - PUU
Jimi returns to his home label with 4 jazz-fusion tracks full of poetic/funny (depending on your mood) vocals and his typical lo-fi production. GOSUB : Miami to Brooklyn EP : Isophlux Deep and atmospheric music, situated somewhere between miami-bass and brooklyn electro ... hmm who would've guessed that? :) Kick Squad : Walk South Central : Pêng Really great future-jazz track from the Rurals' label. Thanks to Howie for this one! The Royal Family : It must have been the music : RJ3 (Promo) First track from Big Ben Hillman's new deep-house project. I've been humming these vocals for days! Mettle Music : Honeycomb Remixes : Toko 32 (Promo) (see review) element.act : Jusqu'oû peut-on pousser le bouchon? : Pleemobil Experimental and dark electronics from the local K-Town crew. |
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ISAN : Lucky Cat : Morr Music
Super sensitive slow-mo ambient electronics. Ursula Rucker : Supa Sista : !K7 Spoken-word meets spaced-downtempo, high quality stuff. Chico Hamilton : Forestorn : Koch Jazz Nice fusion of jazz, blues, raregroove, ... Charly McLion : The Nature Of the Universe : Kingfisher (see review) Pilote : doitnowman : certificate eighteen Weird combination of breakbeats, ambient, strange vocals and poppy synths. |
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Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue : 2350 Broadway : Fax 1993
Double CD containing 140 minutes of minimalistic ambient soundscapes. Essential yet hard-to-find classic. Jhelisa : Galactica Rush : Dorado 1994 Carefully blending trip-hop, acid-jazz, r&b, jazz-dance to a superb album. Excellent vocals and production by Jhelisa. |
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Outspan |
| The "I'm not gonna be overly optimistic about new releases BUT..." section | |
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: supersempft baby : Compost 'De-focus' type eletronics with funky vocoder voices and the greasy Compost touch. Nice one. 2. Ursula Rucker : supa sista : U-Love Maybe playing these two records in a row would be a bit too much of the same, but the funky music and heavenly voice sure make for a nice combination. Maybe she just reminds me of Dana Bryant :) 3. Solid State : the state of grace : Creative Source I don't buy many D 'n B releases. In fact, I never buy any D 'n B releases. Except for those by Solid State. I buy'em all. Seldom I've seen one group standing so high above the pack of standard music, but Solid State is about the only name that justifies having a D 'n B section in your local record shop... |
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| The "Return To Jazz 'caus the Winter's coming" section | |
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Davis : highlights from the plugged nickel 6 tracks. Each one over 10min. Each one live. Each one honest, in-dark jazz. Each one Miles Davis. Each one a trip of its own. 2. Roy Ayers : virgo vibes/daddy bug : Atlantic The earliest Roy Ayers recordings, revealing the talent that has rocked the jazz-funk world for over 30 years now. Although the juicy lyrics are absent in this jazzy collection, his talent with the vibraphone makes these albums essential, not to mention the assistance of Herbie Hancock. 3. Blue Note artists : blue funk : Blue Note very very Blue Note :) |
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| Guest Chart | dj Spectrum From K-Town e-mail: frederictoye@hotmail.com |
| SPECTRUM'S FAVES | |
| - Ursula Rucker: supa sista (cd, !k7) Jazz-headz around the globe have been eagerly waiting for this album. Straight from Philly comes a stunningly beautiful, socio-cultural masterpiece of poetry and nu-jazz! After collaborations with Josh Wink, the Roots, King Britt, Jazzanova and 4 hero, members of the Cosmic Lounge deliver the beats on her debut album, and so does King Britt himself. But in my opinion, the 2 tracks produced by 4 hero, 'what??!!' and '7', really stand out above all the rest. Overall, a totally essential debut album!! (cd-version includes full lyrics) - Homecookin': do what u wanna (2lp, sole music) / Afro Force: goza (12", 2000 black) The Bugz in the @ttic continue their string of quality releases with the Homecookin' album, the pseudonym of Paul "Seiji" Dolby. Deep house is the key word with - again - top class broken jazz-funk. Mark de Clive-Lowe is on the rhodes, Izzi and Marcus Begg are on vocals and off course my man Kaidi Tatham is doing his writing/producing/persussion/flute/keys-thing. Tatham also composed the new 2000 black release, a G-force-and Afronaught-production which also featured on the "Phuturistic Dancin'"-compilation. Again two essential releases from the Bugz. - Mr. Hermano: free as the moring sun (2lp, disorient/mr bongo) Laws of Motion-labelboss and former Marlena Shaw-drummer join forces on the second Mr. Hermano album. Sweet and beautiful bossa nova and latin jazzdance. Favourites are the love-bossa "capoeira love affair" and "suco", a jazzdance-affair which will move dancefloors from tokyo to berlin. Yummie ! - Björk: Vespertine (cd, one little indian) In her own words: 'think drinking a hot chocolate milk in your sofa on a cold winternight'. Indeed Iceland's most talented performer has delivered a very introvert 5th album which she presented overwhelmingly beautiful in Brussels last week. A choir from Greenland, a 40 piece orchestra and Matmos joined her for a stunning concert. She's up there with the big ones now… (if she wasn't already). - Amalgamation of Soundz: alone / Kyoto Jazz Massive: substream / Intuit: a new beginning (12", compost) / Victor Davies: sound of the samba (12", jcr) After their stunning "one hundred" compilation, Compost records have a heavy release-schedule coming up in the next couple of months. First up are 3 new 12"'s. Amalgamation of Soundz disappoint a bit unfortunately with their balearic-like house tune "alone", although the b-side is much better (but was also featured on the compilation). Much better sounds come from Kyoto Jazz Massive, doing what they do best: jazz-dance house music of high quality. Extra treat on this 12" is the very good remix of now-classic "eclipse" by Afronaught. Top scores however, go to Intuit from Freiburg who already released on compost as Supersempft. 4 nu-jazz/nova bossa tracks that stand out of the pack! Keep your eye on these guys. Jazzanova Compost Records are set to release Victor Davies' self-entitled debut album next month and if the single is anything to go by, this could be big! Think Terry Callier jamming with João Gilberto: soul, folk, jazz and samba in one song. Amazing… - Plutonia: what u know / forever (opaque remix) (12", visions) / Beatless: life mirrors / love from the sun (12", ubiquity) Two times Alex Attias. First with Dego on his own Visions-imprint. "What u know" is heavy, vocal broken beat bizniz. I really like this! Seiji delivers a much-hyped remix of the massive "Forever"-tune but i believe he deserves more credit for his "life mirrors"-remix. Beatless is Attias with Talkin' Loud-labelboss Paul Martin. Beatless do electronic nu-soul (remember spacek ?) and they do it damn good. Album coming soon. |
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| Summer catch-up | |
| Osunlade's 'paradigm'-album for Soul Jazz Records is IT if you're into deep nuyorican house music with roots in african-american culture. Dig! <> Also just out is 'bienvenida' from french wizkid Alexis Mauri aka Alexkid (f comm.) with collaborations from Dorfmeister, Ursula Rucker and 'nuff live musicians. Very nice. <> The long-awaited second At Jazz lp is also out on mantis and getting wild reviews but i haven't been able to catch it yet. Hopefully a full report next month… Look out for At Jazz-remixes poppin' up everywhere though and new releases on Mantis. Magic Number's 'that day' is one of the latest: deep house deluxe that comes with a splendid waiwan-remix. <> More live deep house biz coming from Anthony Nicholson as Space 7 on clauraudience. 'Maximus (free soul movement)' is heavenly music! The man is a genius… <> Kirk Degiorgio takes time between As One- and Off World-albums to release Nairobi: detroit techno at it's best, with a free carl craig remix! <> Flanger and Yukihiro Fukutomi deliver wicked nu-jazz remixes for Gak Sato ('tangram' on temposphere). <> Hiphouse is ready for a revival! Check 'ataride' from Wagon Christ on ninja tune. Yeah-woow! <> Finally, Gert Keunen (really!) releases some mad latin beats on downsall plastics as Briskey. After a wild remix for Groove Armada, his 'lovelier without make-up' ep will blow up every party. A job very well done! | |
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Little "Vyleda" Infu from La Suite house privé (Italy) |
| Playlist | |
| - NEON SUNSHINE, Neon Sunshine White - SWEET ABRAHAM, Life Stage Pt 2 Diaspora US Smooth and soulfull - KICK SQUAD, Walk South Central Peng Hi-class NuHouse record - WARD, Shawn In The City EP Turbo: Dance It! Fantastic loop - FORME, Aqua Note Svek Sweden Svek forever !!! - HARLEY & MUSCLE FEAT. DAWN TALLMAN, He did it White This is deep house - RUBBA J, Past Bedtime Wally's Groove World Belgium A very respectable Belgium lable. - RURALS, The Magic EP Large US - TEDDY G, Brazilia City Mix Glasgow Underground Hipnotic deep tracks! - SOULSTICE, Lovely Remixes Om - DEEP BLUE, Shadow Life Visage After 5 a.m. only |
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