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Say Vegin e-mail: bart@freestylegrooves.com |
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- Avia : All My Jazz : Catalogue Varied 4 track EP of french nu-jazz - Titonton Duvante & John Tejada : Freaky Deaky EP : Residual Very freaky nu-techno breaks - Various : Phuturesole NI Sampler: Sole Music Jazz-Funk inspired broken beat - Electrotete : Shark : Apollo old-skool mid-nineties ambient with trance influences - Blaktroniks : Truth & Desire EP : Moving Dreamy nu-jazz, including remixes by Mike Grant and Domu - DFA : Microstructural Characterization : Surveillance Mid-tempo spacey house. Think of it like a darker, minimalistic House of 909 variant - Prymer : Tell Them Not Me EP : Gutbucket Typical swingin' atmospheric drum'n bass, with jazzy seiji remix and weird electro mix by Redagian P - Second Life feat. Jimmie Wilson : Inner Love (Give It Up) : Running Back Deep-House may be passé, but you can't deny this is quality stuff |
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- Joakim Lone Octet : Tiger Sushi : Future Talk Chilled nu-jazz meets jazz-scapes experiments - Andrew Gardiner : the ear and quill : Dysgenic (review) - Phenomyna : Unexplained : ART Very spacey ambient-techno. think Nuron, Nu Era, B12, ... - Equanim : Instrumental Language : Balanced Records (review) - Dykehouse : DynamicObsolescence : Planet Mu From Clear-like electro to BoC-esque IDM - Various : Ambient Systems - Interior Horizons : Instinct Ambient Nice warm downtempo and organic ambient. Thanks to Bruno for this one! - Host : Host : Dysgenic (review) - Various : Day By Day : Delsin Second compilation featuring the typical Delsin elements: spacey detroit and dark broken-beat |
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| Old Skool | |
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- Lonnie Smith : Finger-Lickin' Good (Soul Organ) : Columbia 1967 - Peter Jacques Band : Walking On Music : Eurodisc 1978 - Pat Benatar : Love Is A Battlefield : Chrysalis 1983 Okay it's mainstream, but 80s synth-pop doesn't get any better than this. - Various : Blueprints for Modern (Techno)Logy Vol 1 : Plus 8 1991 Compilation of classic early techno tracks from Plus 8 |
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Howard e-mail: howie@freestylegrooves.com |
| Singles & EPs of the month | |
| 1. Fragile State: The Facts / The Dreams // Bar De Lune (le label le plus sexy au monde) 2002 very very loungy-jazz maxi!! check it!! 2. Glenn Underground: Silent Cry EP // Trackmode 2002 finally a new one!! and it's delicious!!! 3. Mr.Scruff feat. Seaming: beyond/champion nibble // Ninja Tune 2002 this is a killer 45 on Ninja Tune!! check also the album :) very funny cover! |
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| Albums of the month | |
| 0. Owen Jay: Mix4 Late Nite jazz (expressive-diverse-functional)// 2002 delicious tracks and excellent mixes of Owen!! Respect (review) 1. Squarepusher: do you know squarepusher ? // Warp 2002 cool new album + extra live from japan + stickers etc.. and an excelent remix of Joy Division (80's). 2. Bjorn Torske: Trobbel // Tellé Records 2001 dammm I buy it again?? yeah I can't play the vinyl version in my car CD player, now I can enjoy it in my car!! very minimal electronics-house record.... special Bjorn style... 3. Mira Calix: one on one // Warp 2000 very very nice one!! chilllllll!!! 4. Blaze: Spiritually Speaking // kickinmusic 2002 Everybody is talkin' about this one and Blaze is a great artist.... so I checked it, my first impresion was ... -->good but afther all I don't find really 'that' cool.... listin' "but buy it?????" 5. Perspective Fragments 'volume one': travelling through todays electronic fields // U-Cover Records 2002 U-Cover is an Belgium electronic label from Borgerhout. You can find artist like, l'Usine icl,Funckarma etc..... nice electronics!!! 6. Atjazz: That Something // Diversions 1999 Say Vegin have this one already a long time! I agree with his choice! 7. 4 hero: creating patterns // Talkin' Loud 2001 hmmmmm good reallllly good 8. Fila Brazillia: Anotherlatenight // Treacle Music 2000 brilliant! 9. Susumu Yokota: the boy and the tree // Leaf 2002 new record on Leaf!!! great ambient album for S.Yokota, check his previous albums! |
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| Classic of the month | |
| 1. BLO: Phases 1972-1982 // (Afro)Strut 2001 Re-press and best off BLO's funky music they make in the 70's and 80's... respect! They really looka fro and make damm funky shit!!! 2. Hidden Strength: Hidden Strength // Soul Brother Records 1975/2002 re-isue of a very deep funky-jazz band!!! must ahve item! 3. Deee-Lite: Groove is in the Heart!!! // Elektra 1999 don't mis your chance this is a limited re-isue of track from 10 years ago that make shake everybody!!!! let's groove! 4. The Blackbyrds: Night Grooves // Fantasy Inc. 1978 Killer album, killer band (Donald Byrd's band!!) include Rcok Creek Park!! 5. The Horace Silver Quintet: Song For My Father // Blue Note (1958) 1997 I'm without words.... hmmmm.... I'm shivering on this music!! a classic respect!!! Horace Silver create this band in 1956 togehter with Donald Byrd,Mobley, Watkins and Louis Haynes!!! |
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