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EZ Boy e-mail: bruno@freestylegrooves.com |
| New Discoveries | |
| - Till Brönner : Blue Eyed Soul : Verve Brought back some real goose bumps of pure musical joy at last with soft deep funkin' jazz - The Sushi Club : Sushidelic : ElektroLux Nice chilled jazzy electronics. Celebration of warm moogs - Delph : Lowness : Coastline One letter missing in the artist name to make it really interesting, but nevertheless touching mid nineties styled ambient - Pole : R : ~scape 009 Intelligent & subtle jazztronica - Tomasz Stanko Quartet : Soul of things : ECM Just very fine easy listening jazz - Hab : Tu casa : DOT Recordings Ambient with a soul, touching emotions, that's what it is all about - Esbjörn Svensson Trio : Strange place for snow : ACT Music Well worked out soulfull jazz, getting a little funky at times |
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| Oldskool : this month only rediscoveries of unique musical moments | |
| - Sam & Eddy @ Radio Galaxy sunday evening ambient show in mid nineties Amazing effects listening to the now over 5 year old tapes still have. Monumental radioshow in ambient history ! - Young America '84 mix by Fredo Vanpoort @ Radio Gemini Energetic & amazing mix of the finest funk of 1984 - Rave Explosion @ Silo in Leuven with Stacey Pullen Putting an extraordinary funk level in deep techno - DJ Adolphe @ Odeon in Gaurain Ramecroix in mid nineties How much deeper could a dj throw a trance set at that time in this industrial extravaganza environment ? - Roy Ayers @ Ronny Scotts in London No matter how tired one is, this man bumps the latest bit of energy out of your body. |
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Howard e-mail: howie@freestylegrooves.com |
| Singles & EPs of the month | |
| 1. DJ Marky & DJ Patife: The Brasil EP // V Recordings 2001 Comment: Brasil Drum & Bass.. very cool.. with killer track: 'Sambassim' 2. Various artists Natural Instinct: native sampler three / theory recordings 2001 Comment: nice soft tech-electronics record 3. Transcendent Minds: Lunar Visionz / Phoenix // KarmaGiraffe 2002 Comment: ... that's where jazz and electro come togehter... 4. Rae & Christian feat. The Pharcyde & Kriminul: It Ain't Nothin' Like // Grand Central 2000 5. Shadow 10.10 // Moving Shadow 2000 6. the menheads: la politique // Vienna Scientists Rec. 2000 Comment: cool frensh textsssssssss.... 7. Andre Harris: To My Love (Unreleased / PROMO) // Estereo 2002 Comment: cool track!!! but ahrd to find! 8. Naked Music presents: Petit Fours // Naked Music 2002 Comment: last Naked.... same style as usual! various Naked artist! 9. 75 Moods (Ralph Lock (Berlin))/// My Love // Patt 2002 Comment: Tribute to Christina, previously unrelased! THX Ralph for sending this demo (mp3).. this track rullez and gonna be a killer song! |
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| Albums of the month | |
| 1. Aphex Twin: DRUKQS // Warp 2001 Comment: 4 wired record in a limited box...... what can I tell you more????? :))... 2. The Collection: Internal Bass Rec. presents the first then 12" <vinyl cuts> Comment: must have vinyl box!!! in it the 10 first hard to find Internal Bass records!!! 3. The other people place : Lifestyles of the laptop café // Warp 2001 Comment: check that stuff!!!!!!!!! 100% high-Q soft electro stuff!!!!! 4. Boards of Canada: geogaddi // Warp 2002 Comment: waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhwwwwwww , again great new album!! respect! 5. 100% Syntetika // Shaped Harmonics 2002 Comment: together with Markant one of the best chill-electronic music of the year!!! Respect to our Russian friend! (review) 6. Cookin'CKEP008V // Cookin' 2002 7. Andrew Fearn: infant, growing up // neo ouija 2002 Comment: again neo ouija stands for high quality soft electronics music! (tip of the month) 8. Miniskirt: Skeewiff // Jalapeno Records 2000 9. James Hardway: Straight from the fridge // Hydrogen Dukebox 2001 10.MGRS RMXS // 2001 Comment: THX Spectron (Thun 'Swiss') for the gift!!! This is a limited not selled double LP. A culuture organisation in Swiss maked this limited record for free.. for a special culuture event! Very cool elctronic sounds with artist like: Ovuca,Atom,Biosphere,Isolee...... check if you can! 11. Susumu Yokota: Grinning Cat // Leaf 2001 Comment: killer ambient Cd on leaf rec.!!! check it! |
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| Albums of the month | |
| 1. Herbie Hancock: Sunlight // Columbia 1978 2. Billy Paul: 360 Degrees Of Billy Paul feat. Me and Mrs.Jones // Columbia 1972 |
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Say Vegin e-mail: bart@freestylegrooves.com |
| Nu Skool Singles | |
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Lisa Shaw : If I Could : Sirkus Misa Negra vs. Pacific Express : Afrika Underground Excursion : CounterPoint (review) Mode-M : Inner World EP : Void Fini Dolo feat. Sonja Sohn : Heartbeat : People Future Beat Alliance : Audio Photos : Delsin SK Radicals : Evolution : People |
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Slim : 0097 : em:t New Composers with Brian Eno : Smart : Fax Pole : R : ~scape Future Beat Alliance : Disconnected : Delsin (review) I am Robot and Proud : The Catch : Catmobile Various : The Freest of Radicals : No Type (review) |
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| Old Skool | |
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The Blackbyrds : City Life : Fantasy 1975 James Ingram & Michael McDonald : Ya Mo B There : Qwest 1983 The Black Dog : Spanners : Warp 1994 Various : Ambient Systems : Instinct Ambient 1995 |
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