From marsel Sent Sat, Mar 3rd 2001, 13:50
From marsel Sent Sat, Mar 3rd 2001, 13:50
upcoming on forcefield Various - 2000Black "the GoodGood" - 2x12" - 2000 Black - blacklp01 After nine juicey pieces of vinyl, the sweet, soft and gentle 2000 Black label comes with their first compilation album. Whereas the cd comes as well with some highlights of the vinyl back cat, the this double vinyl brings new stuff of most of the stars of the roster. Fine cuts by Domu, Nubian Mindz and also including a gorgeous remake of Jon Coltrane's Naima and a collaboration with Roy Ayers. Absolutely wicked stuff, pushing boundaries in between of jazz and electronics. Recommended stuff! Moodymann - Forevernevermore - CD - Peacefrog - pf095cd Second or third album by Kenny Dixon Jr? Well, although it got lots of already released material, I still find it more then the other two this more then a collection of tracks. Again it sound slike house, but again it's much more of soul and funk as well. And who still needs an introduction to the magicness of this geezer, should be ashamed and run fast, faster to the nearest. Absolutely lovely. Soul for 2001, much respect. Tate's Place - Burnin' (Jazzanova mix) - 12" - Dynamite Joint - dyn002 Tate's Place's fine tune Burnin' already got some remixes done by As One, as 10" out.. This time the cool geezers from Berlin take control of the remix board, putting it into a really breathtaking discostyled, deep funky tune. As ever too tight, clean production making them some of the best around. Catch it if you can. Soulful tunes. Future Beat Alliance - Audio Photos - 12" - Delsin Records - 12dsr/fba1 Even not that long ago Matthew Puffett was caught into the 4/4 -meausure and did he publish soulful techno records on his label Void. The atmosphere is still there, but nowadays the South England mr Puffett even more exiting rhythms out of his toolbox. Audio Photos sounds like a sequal to Carl Craigs Jazz Funk Classics. (Rene) Madcap - The Solid Sender - 12" - Music for Speakers - mfs06ep Sixth release already on the Dutch Music for Speakers label. Madcap consists of Richard Hermes and Felix van de Vorst, and their music have always been too hard to pigeonhole. Again with this twelve, the serach for beauty seems all around, highliting it the beautiful moody St. Vitus' dance. Other tracks have the same freestyle approach as their previous outings. Adventurous music. Pure Filth/Ne-Grove - Should've been you - 12" - People - people18 With each release the People label keeps suprising, going diverse ways, while keeping the the same gorgeous vibe. This track comes pretty easily in vocal and instrumental version. Deeply it goes into funky seventies disco style, with smooth catchy chords/strings on top. The contrast with the vocals is very breahting which makes it even moe nice. Maybe this is even pop music. Tasty things! Mark de Clive-Lowe - El Dia Perfecto - 12" - Universal - 1580501 One of the finest producers around is Mark de Clive-Lowe. His very smooth combination of electronics and exotic sounds is again proved with these warm, wonderful tracks. Side a goes in a very Jazzanova kind of way, light wieght flowing vocals, along with lots of percussion and deeply jazzy and funky. Side b goes deeply downtempo, freestyler funk and space jamming all around. Very looking forward to an album. Gorgeous. Recloose - Can't take it remixes - 12" - Planet E - pe65257 Recloose's fine tune Can't take it goes into remix mode. Remix duties are taken by Recloose himself, mr Herbert from the UK, and Planet E-maestro himself. The Recloose imx brings the most housey side of Matt above, with still keeping the Recloose twids. Herbert takes the vocals and others into sampling mode, very nice as well. Personal highlight is Carl Craig's mix, going deeply dreamy, repetive, hypnotizing, coming close to his classic Crackdown remix. All mixes are very, very tasty. A brilliant juicy record! Nubian Mindz - Check da Vibe - 12" - 2000 Black - 2010black One sided record, being the tenth 2000 Black outing. With this track Colin Lindo comes very close to his Alpha Omega thing, as it goes pretty uptempo and raw. As in more drum 'n bass records lately, some old school rave feeling is all around. Raw and straight in your face. Nubian Mindz takes it back to basics, vocal samples, thick basslines, raw beats. Energetic thing. Very worth purchasing, check da vibe. Time Undefined - Calling You EP - 12" - Metamorphic - met014 More new stuff on the Metamorphic label. With it's jamming hihats goes in old-school chigago-mode a little, while the other parts of the track bring back memories to early nineties house stuff. Calling You is the nicest track around, as the sample on side b goes somewhat too way back. But nice record nevertheless, from the housey side of Dan Curtin. EU - Reframing - CD - Pause 2 - pause003 EU are from Russia, and go deeply in an Arovane, Autechre kind of way. But luckily with enough originality and soul to make it very interesting. Very smooth, fine warm melodies are going round, with fine soft rhythms along. Good to see sounds going very global. Looking forward for more. Very good and decent stuff. +One - Bare Necessities - LP - deFocus - foc357lp Have been looking forward to this one for a long time, also knowning it's made with a little help from the Plaid brothers. +One is Shaun Spencer, and he brings us fragile, classic sounding electronica all around, taking off somewhat thin, but going deeply smooth further on. Coming close to label brothers Lackluster and Cim, but undoubtly Plaid as well. Personal highlights are Shao, Metro, and Mayday of course. Beautiful listening stuff. .. . :: http://nomorewords.net