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Freestyle crew
members (EzBoy, Say Vegin, Howie & Outspan) and Friends
offer you the coolest tracks we discovered in October
2001
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EZ Boy real name: Bruno Fierens a.k.a.: B.F. icq n°: 2665138 e-mail: bruno@freestylegrooves.com |
| Oldskool Only | |
| Crown Heights Affair : Think Positive : 1982 Delite - A heave funk dance album that gave the final blow to my old amplifier Donald Byrd : Love has come around : 1981 Elektra - Produced by Isaac Hayes, early eighties funk sound from Donald Byrd Fatback : Wild Dreams : 1979 Spring - Fatback's jammy funky deepness with spacy disco juice over it Wally Badarou : Chief Inspector : 1984 Island - The big classic one from Wally Badarou Cherrelle : I didn't mean to turn you on (12" version) : 1984 Tabu - Heavy synth funk masterpiece from the time Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis where at the creative height of their career Crusaders : Ghetto blaster : 1984 MCA - A surprisingly cool Crusaders workout in eighties style Cameo : Cameo megamix 12" : 1984 Club - The big ones : She's strange, Single life and Attack me with your love, nicely blended |
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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 | |
| 1. Kick Squad: trees e.p. // Peng 2001 2. Soul Movement: fin del verano / the playa // Nite Grooves 2001 Comment: Nice one!!!! 3. The Rurals: West Coast Sampler // Peng 2001 4. the rhythm slaves: timeslip // Peng 2001 5. Like This Productions : Shredded Melody EP // Panhandle 2001 6. Tumble & Combo: S.U.M.O. EP1 // Track Mode Rec. 2001 7. The Rurals: West Side EP // Large 2001 8. Marc Moulin: into the dark // Blue Note 2001 9. Domu: Body Electric / Get The Glimp // Archive 2001 10.DJ Abstract: You Used To Know // Palette 2001 11.aphelion: click // defocus 2000 12.Glenn Underground (Test pressing): Fathers Little Girl /Traditional House) //Defender 1998 13.Glenn Underground: Do.Functions.Rob's Dance.Genie's Disco // Cajual 14.Glenn Underground (Disco Thieves): I'm DisC / Party Hard /Bugged / Hold On Tight //Daisy 15.Blue 6: Sweeter Love // Wave 1998 16.Aquanote: True Love // Naked Music 1999 |
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| Albums of the month | |
| 1. Earth (5): Good Looking // 2001 just excelent! lot's of various sounds from hip-hop to d&b, lounge, jazz funky and elctronic beats!! 2. Supa Sista: Ursula Rucker // !K7 2001 3. Aqua Bassino: beat's n bobs // F-Communications 2001 4. New Sector Movements: download this // Virgin 2001 5. homecookin'do what u wanna // Sole Music 2001 6. The Guidance Collection mixed by A:xus: Music is our spiritual guide thought life //??? 2000 7. berger,hodge,moufang,ruit: Conjoint // KM20 1997 8. FSOL (Future Sound Of London): Lifeforms // Virgin Rec. 1994 9. Ingredients // Good Looking Rec. 2001 10.Tiefschwarz: RAL9005 // Fourmusic 2001 11.ralph Lock (75 Moods) // Patt-Recordings 2001 Comment: Ralph Lock gives this CD to us when we visit him in Berlin, all his best productions of this year!!! very deep, check the record,75Moods Patt-Rec.2 or mail: office@patt-recordings.com |
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| Classic of the month | |
| 1. Eric B & Rakim: Paid in Full / Eric B is On the Cut // Island 1987 2. Kevin Saunderson (E-DANCER): Pump The Move / Grab The Beat // KMS 1991 |
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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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- Tim Tetlow : cyrenic / and god created manchester : planet mu from the limited 7" series, one gentle piano ambient and one distorted IDM mayhem track - Moss : Moth : Pork The great, but so often overlooked, sound of pork: blunted and smokey - Minotaur Shock : Motoring Britain Remix EP : melodic 45 Strange combination of chilled electronica and melancholic post-rock - Holland Tunnel Project : The Second Trip : Liquid Instrumental hip-hop breakbeats with a touch of acid-jazz smoothness - The Tenth Planet : Below the Event Horizon : CDr (Promo) Four atmospheric ambient pieces, brand-new old-skool quality - Christian Zimmerman : Diary of a Lost Girl : Giant45 This label released only 3 twelves during 3 years, but they're all essential jazzy downtempo material - Chris Gray : Probe of the Outermental EP : Fragmented Closest thing I've ever heard to the sound of Glenn Underground! And these are 4 mighty fine deep-house cuts, mid 90s quality. ;-) - Friend + Dr. Kosmos : Single of the Week : dot Double 12" filled with deep 'n funky electro reminiscent of the Clear-era. That's no big surprise if you see colaborations with Clatterbox, Daniel Ibbotson and Metamatics. - Primary Motive : Serve Chilled : Creative Source (Promo) Jazzy drum'n bass, traditional in sound but high in quality - Jason Brunton : relativity / divisions : Sirkus Pretty good afterhours deep-house with crazy moogs |
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- ISAN : Beautronics : Tugboat Classic debut album from this duo, mysterious analogue electronics. - savath+savalas : folk songs for trains, trees and honey : Warp / Hefty Can't get enough Scott Herren releases. This time he's combined post-rock elements with his trademark glitchy production skills. - Bullitnuts : Roast : Pork Classic jazzy stuff from the pork sty - Various : Volume Transmission Soundtrack Series : Worm Interface Varied selection of droning ambient with a few electronica elements - Kyoto Jazz Massive : Kyoto Jazz Massive : Life / Ninety-Nine Japanese import, probably hard to find! Collection of KJM related productions featuring dj Krush, Mondo Grosso, Masters at Work, ... |
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| George Duke : Guardian of the Light : CBS 1983 | |
| Guest Chart | dj Spectrum From K-Town e-mail: dj_spectrum@hotmail.com |
| SPECTRUM'S FAVES | |
| - Omoamusic Sampler One (12", omoamusic) // Jazzanova: that night/days to come (12", jcr) ***not available yet***mp3-downloadz*** Straight from Detroit comes the new Omoamusic-label from Recloose. The first release is an amazing 3-track sampler with brand new talent from Motor City: Dapp, Marc Alphonse and Ayro. Ultra-deep jazz tunes on da house-tip! Ayro delivers the best of these excellent tracks with 'Let This', an offbeat soul/gospel/house affair and a strong contender for single of the year! Check it out at www.omoamusic.com and buy straight away! Jazzanova go deep as well with this taster for the new album due for release next year. Both tracks have a deep house vibe and are definitely a whole new approach to the Jazzanova-sound. Plus Vikter Duplaix brings his talent to complete the cake. Breathtaking… - 4 Hero: Les Fleur / 9 by 9 (2x12", talkin' loud) Although very similar to the original, Dego and Marc Mac's production talents really make this cover a masterpiece! B-side '9by9' is a vocal drum'n'bass track like only 4 Hero can make them: innovative beats, lush strings and soulful vocals from Imani Uzuri. All very promising for the forthcoming 'Creating Patterns'-album. '9by9' gets soulful treatments on a second 12" from Marcus Intalex & S.T. Files (very funkin' d&b) and Philly's finest King Britt aka Scuba (deep and atmospheric house). Buy or die! - Herbie Hancock featuring Chaka Khan: the essence (Joe Clausell sacred opus remix) (12", transparent) Given the chance to remix Herbie Hancock must have been quite an inspiration for Joe Clausell… The 13-minute piece begins as a very deep nuyorican d&b-track that in the second half turns into a spiritual life bomb. Clausell's percussion, jazzguitar-licks, Chaka's vocals and Herbie's piano melt together on a trip to musical heaven. An instant classic! Excellent remixes from LTJ Bukem and DJ Krush are also available. - Dom Um Romao Remixed (12", head 2 toe) Latin legend Dom Um goes West-London! This first release on new IRMA-offshoot H2T brings together some of the best producers around to do magical things with Romao's songs. Alex Attias/Mustang, Seiji/Opaque, G-Force and Nubian Mindz provide the beats for these stormers; jazz, technofunk, 2step and lots of broken stuff will damage sound-systems and legs alike. Don't let this catch you sleeping! - Purveyors of Fine Funk: stigmata jackson (russ gabriel remix) (12", nepenta) // Andy Caldwell: all i need (12", naked music) Two great house twelves. Dan Curtin purveys some fine funk indeed with this new one. Fierce bassline and very effective piano- and trumpetloops are the main ingredients. However, it's the remix by Russ Gabriel that needs to be heard: jazzy Bugz-style funk with added live vocals, percussion and strings. I like!! Naked Music 17 is yet another quality release for the label. Soulful vocal house in 4 different mixes; 2 for the clubs, a deep down and dirty version plus the refreshing original. Tips! - Hajime Yoshizawa: endless bow (12", especial) // The Underwolves: remixes (12", jcr) Always something to look out for and never disappointing: it's new Especial material. After his moody jazz-album Yoshizawa comes with another great Japanese bootyshaker: uptempo, jazzed-up beats and mighty keyboards… oooh baby! Fauna Flash and Jimpster provide good and excellent remixes respectively. Fauna Flash also appear on the new Underwolves remix-package, following the fabulous 'Under your sky'-album. Their 'Timbales Mix' for Studio Brussel-hit "Shaken" is a fine house version in the best Compost tradition - do watch out for repeating yourself guys - but Earthbound's '120 bpm' deep jazz-take on "Bird Song" gets top scores here! - Domu: up+down (2lp, archive) After establishing himself as a drum'n'bass producer (Sonar Circle) Dominic Stanton drops his debut album as Domu. He already caught my attention with his Archive 12"'s and his remixes but now he's really shown what he's capable of: making a diverse full lp. Broken technofunk, a slice of hip-hop and nu-soul (with the vocal talent from Valerie Etienne) are on the menu in Domu's world thus creating an abstract atmosphere where it's very enjoyable to wander... Lend this man your ear, he deserves it. - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble: the allenko brotherhood ensemble (cd, comet) Former Fela Kuti drummer TONY ALLEN and his mates get a full cd-release following the 6 limited 12"'s released over the past year or so. Based on drum patterns by Allen, these tracks give some of the key-players in the nujazz-scene the chance to showcase their - already established - talent (Kirk Degiorgio, IG Culture, Cinematic Orchestra, Joakim Lone, Bozoo Bajou, Jeff Sharel to name a few). Picking standout cuts is a tough job because each track has it's own vibe, all feeling very comfortable with Allen's rhythms. Setting high standards once again… - London Xpress - a selection of rare dance cuts (2lp, nuphonic) At the 2001 Muzik Magazine Awards Nuphonic's "London Xpress" was voted Best Radio Show and now it's a very fine and diverse album too! A collection of rarities or previously unreleased and exclusive tracks from the likes of Björk, Coldcut, Groove Armada, Faze Action, David Holmes and Red Snapper who arguably deliver the best track: the very house-inspired "Dnipro". Tune in to London Xpress every Sunday from 1600 to 1800 GMT on http://www.xfm.co.uk or for more info go to http://www.nuphonic.co.uk |
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