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Reviews -
Disco
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Written by Mr wonderful
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:42 |
MY KIND OF WOMAN (RE - EDIT) courtesy of STEVIE J A few months back I did a review on this record (see past review) and remember saying I was going to post up an edit of it as soon as i got it done. Well here it is only thing is i did'nt do this edit - I tried and tried and tried again, but eventually came to the conclusion that i was useless at this, it just didn't sound right. The other evening Funkineven came by and we discussed the record and its potential - he said he would do the edit, I had it with me within 30 minutes of him getting his hands on the track. (listen to edit below)
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Reviews -
latin
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Written by Mr. Wonderful
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Monday, 13 July 2009 01:43 |
GRUPO DE EXPERIMENTACIÓN SONORA DEL ICAIC (1969 -1976)
One of my favourite groups of all time, really if their was a movie made about me - the majority of their tracks will be on the soundtrack. Grupo de expermentacion sonora del icaic - formed in 1969 - was a collection of talented Cuban artists brought together by Alfredo Guevara who at the time was president of the Cuban Institute of cinematographic Art and Industry. The groups sound was as diverse as their numbers - no coherent procession, some tracks sound like your listening to a Cuban elder reciting an ancient ditty, to , someone sitting in a smokey jazz bar thumping on the piano keys. Their sound doesn't "evolve" from album to album but rather from track to track on each individual album - I guess to show each of the members individual prowess in different genres of music - leaving nothing uncovered. 
The group released 5 albums before they disbanded in 1976, the best one but not by far is 3 (see image above) released in 1975. Again the music arrangement is beautiful and the vocals on some of the tracks are some of the best you will ever hear, and again like albums pre and post you can't nail it to a specific genre - Folk, psyche, jazz, blues - but why would you want to - the bands complexity and musical range is what makes their music extra special and unique. (read more to listen to track).
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Reviews -
Post punk/electronica
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Written by Mr wonderful
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Monday, 06 July 2009 01:00 |
ANTARCTICA - 23:03 (1998) & 81:03 (2000) Antarctica were a post punk / electronic band that within there short tenure produced possibly one of the best albums of their genre at the time. The band formed in New York after Eric Richter decided to leave his previous band CFD (Christie Front Drive). Their first three track e.p [23:03] - released in 1998, and which is actually twenty three minutes and three seconds long - reminds you of the Joy Division or Sonic youth. All three tracks move at the same pace slow, almost dubbed out vocals and the gentle, floaty reverb on the guitar give you the sense that you are in a very peaceful lonely place, a vast beautiful wasteland almost like you're in Antarctica - and suddenly the name of the band almost becomes apt. Their second and unfortunately last release, [81:03] - a double album released in 2000 still features a very similar sound to that of the first E.p but with electronic instruments having much more of a significance, the synth action just adds to the beauty of their music - real cloud music - for eighty one minutes and three seconds you are shut out from the rest of the World and face to face with some of the more beautiful images that music can conjure. Listen to track below [Return To Omma Dawn] |
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Reviews -
sleaze funk
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Written by GUIDO FAWKES
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 17:47 |
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JUNIE - BREAD ALONE - CBS 1980 - WALTER (JUNIE) MORRISON
This is one of those albums that have slipped under the radar for a few people, seems to be the case with most Junie records. I personally didn't know at the time I found this record that the ex Ohio Player and Parlaimentarian had embarked on a solo career -
Solid enough, I thought while listening to it, exactly what you’d expect that sleaze funk sound, lots of fuzz and groany almost whiney vocals, flip it over to the B side, look at the back of the sleeve and there’s a track whose title immediately gets my attention – Impatiently drop the needle on the third track and there's the faint sound of what sounds like a serious baseline which slowly builds with volume, eventually you get this full blast of power funk it’s a dirty, filthy track – the base line says sleaze all through - triple xxx and I loved every single second of its 7 and a half minutes. The other tracks are above average but it really is all about first class seaman (Jock rock) – I’ve never used the phrase desert island disc – maybe because I’ve never pictured my self on a desert island - but if I ever was on one this track is coming with me alongside a life supply of shredded wheat.
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Reviews -
Afrobeat
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Written by Guido Fawkes
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 21:34 |
K.PYTHACUNTHAPUSERECTUS - VOODOO JU JU OBSESSION 7" - JU JU RECORDS (BARCLAY) I can't pronounce the name either. Even though i've had a copy of this record for years now i still don't know too much about it, apparently its quite popular with our neighbours across the channel. What drew me to this 45 - apart from the name - was the distribution label (Barclay records) - tha featured luminaries the like of Gong and The Mighty smoke - and that instead of seeing African names on the records - the name that came up was that of Janko Nilovic. (listen below)
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