From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Mon, Sep 21st 1998, 10:21
From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Mon, Sep 21st 1998, 10:21
Dave Walker wrote re Anthony "Shake" Shakir: > Don't forget, he also had a hand producing Octave One's classic > track "I Believe". Shake is a guy who toiled in undeserved > obscurity for years -- he did lots of uncredited production and > engineering work on all kinds of records on KMS, Transmat, > Metroplex and UR. > > He's also a _very_ exciting DJ, if you ever get a chance to see > him spin out. He was a huge _direct_ influence on Claude > Young -- Shake was Claude's DJ "instructor" in his early years. ***More Shake: "The Life Of A Planet Raider" (from Various--"True People: The Detroit Techno Album" on React/1996), "Sandblaster" (from Various--"Detroit: Beyond The Third Wave" on Astralwerks/1996), "March Into Darkness" and "Happy To Be Here" (from a split 12" w/ Claude Young; it's the first Frictional release, actually, from 1995); Shake cowrote "I Believe" with the Burdens, a classic recorded in 1989 and still getting appreciated. Lawrence Burden talks about the recording of "I Believe", not being paid for it, and lots more in a recent Octave One interview (go to http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition and click on "Octave One"). The RA is a 20 min excerpt from a 60 min interview done a couple of weeks back. A long feature will be going up on the Cognition Audioworks website this week that goes into more detail on "I Believe" and the early Octave One/430 West days. Thanks. Andrew -- Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks 1096 Queen St #123 Halifax NS Canada B3H 2R9 TEL 902-422-7132 FAX 902-422-1262 http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition (Cognition Audioworks/In The Mix: listen : read) In The Mix show 574:Octave One/DJ Orion 573:Mike Dunn & Byron Stingily/ Dylan Drazen 572:Walt J/John Tejada *upcoming:Neil Landstrumm, Juan Atkins, UR, Merrick Brown, D.JeRome, Miguel Graca