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CITIZEN SOUND TROUBLE

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

New dubs and reggae sounds from Balanced Records. And a new club mix from Rise Aschen also.

Balanced Records presents Trouble, a brand  new single from Citizen Sound and vocalist, Ammoye. Teaming up to give you Trouble, they deliver a  combination of Ammoye’s sultry vocals and the dub-inspired production from Toronto-based producer Aram Scaram. Lyrically, Trouble calls for an end to the violence among the young people. Ammoye’s soulful delivery and dancehall sensibilities compliment this progressive, bass driven, steppers rhythm.

Citizen Sound is the production moniker of Toronto-based DJ and producer Aram Scaram. In addition to his work in the studio, Aram is co-host of Version Xcursion, a weekly Saturday night radio show that has provided Toronto with some of the wickedest dub for the past 12 years. Through Version Xcursion, Aram has produced and released two full-length albums along with three EPs, including the critically acclaimed Treson meets VX.

Recently recording under the Citizen Sound moniker, Aram released the single Tuff Dub, which is a collaboration with singer song writer Prince Blanco. Citizen Sound has also contributed a version of The Clash’s One More Time for the compilation “Shatter The Hotel – A Dub Inspired Tribute To Joe Strummer”, and is currently putting the finishing touches on a full-length album set for release in 2010.

Vocalist Ammoye blends soul and reggae lusciously in her solo and collaborative efforts. Originally hailing from Clarendon, Jamaica, she now resides in Toronto.

Her style, coined Jamma, is a synthesis of Jamaican and American influences and sounds. This collaboration with Citizen Sound is their first single on Balanced Records and includes the original mix, an instrumental, as well as a hefty broken beat remix from Ottawa’s Rise Ashen.

Citizen Sound – Trouble is available digitally through major digital outlets, including iTunes, Juno, Emusic, Bagpak, Soul Seduction, Wax Poetics and all the other fine retailers.

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Guts new arts & music project out on their own label – alternative hip hop

Thursday, March 18th, 2010


After ten years of releasing with Alliance Ethnik, and ten more of various and eclectic collaborations, plus a solo album with Wax On, Guts introduces you, in collaboration with Mambo the painter, to the Art&Music project called  “ Freedom”, on Guts´s own label Pura Vida.

“Freedom” is an album of bipolar music, dark, yet coloured, oscillating between joy of living and melancholy. The result, as in Guts life, is a musical and emotional voyage. Just like DJ Shadow, Guts albums are entirely composed with samples. In “ Freedom”, for the first time, he lets the samples talk, in order to have them express his thoughts.

This brings on a more conscious and committed conception of beatmaking. He affirms his difference, trying to personalize his music with new messages and sounds.

This way, he tries – with his own words,  to enrich this HipHop getting poorer. As Keith Haring used to say, “I see in my music something that will last and give joy of living”.

Mambo, on his side, is indefinable: Graffiti artist in the beginning, street artist at the Centre Pompidou, painter at the Galerie Agnès B, designer for different brands, illustrator for Canal+ Grosland, graphic designer, he travelled the world with his talent under his arm/in a backpack. Right before leaving for an exhibition in Rio, he has created for “ Freedom” a whole graphic universe overflowing with imagination, you will discover in the inner sleeves of the album.

Guts: “We love what we do way too much to treat our followers as mere consumers, or to abuse/mistreat their ears. From the beginning, our mission has been to offer the best quality in every step of the creative process.  In order to fight against the impoverished sound of dematerialized music, I chose to provide the 2 best supports available nowadays, which are vinyl and cd,  tied together in one packaging.

Freedom is also the possibility of choice. To discover Guts mew world, you can also visit www.analoglife.fr .”

tracklistING A1.  Introducing Mr. F

A2.  Trouble in France

A3.  I AM what I eat

A4.  Bubble (part1)

B5.  Keep the air in my music

B6.  L.U.V

B7.  You’re living like pigs

B8.  Give up your guns

C9.  Teenage rebellion

C10. We want to be different

C11. We hope

C12. Cause we undestand

D13. I want you tonight

D14. Bad side of sex

D15. Te enamores de mi

D16. Silence, ça fume (part1)

Listen to snippets here

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Your voice – what else do you need?

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Austrian vocal ONLY band astonished with their genre crossing live performances in Mumbai India – at The Blue Frog.

It must have been a surprise to the audience the forst couple of times they performed there. No instruments, only voice.

But really talented people makes for good live performances, and now they released a limited edition CD with recordings

captured the six nights they played at “The Blue Frog” in Mumbai.

Here is what they write about the project – (courtesey MCON):

“NOTHING BUT HUMAN VOICE AND A MICROPHONE

Austrian vocal acrobats Bauchklang (”gut-tone”) have already received international accolades for their unique genre-crossing sound, created without using any instruments other than their voices.

Which makes Bauchklang the epitome of a live band, and an unforgettable experience for audiences after they overcame the initial surprise.

Their stunning mix of Electro, Dub, and Hip Hop earned Bauchklang two “Amadeus Awards” (the alpine version of a Grammy) at home, and travelled well abroad.

With just their microphones to bring, they became regulars at the most prestigious European music festivals, and now can boast fan communities in over 20 countries, including diverse places such as Canada and India.

Four years after their latest album release, the self-professed “vocal groove collective” now emerges tightened to five members, audibly ripened, and with two new releases ready. Which marks the launch of a new phase of Bauchklang going global, including a fresh web platform, new collaborations with artists around the world, and an international film project.

What started in January 2008 with the first Indian live appearance of an Austrian band completely unknown, and in a newly opened club in Mumbai, just a year later culminated in three sold out nights at what had become India’s premiere live-venue:

Bauchklang live at the Bluefrog club.

Bauchklang first ever live-album, “Live In Mumbai”, features a selection of songs performed on these six nights, including the new track “Signs” – a first taste of the like-titled upcoming studio album – and guest appearances of gifted young Indian singer Shilpa Rao and prolific Indian percussionist Vivek Rajgopalan.

The album “Live In Mumbai” is released as a limited edition collectors item including a bonus DVD with four live performances on video.”

Indeed a very special treat that I would love to experience live. Check them out here.


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Riva Starr – perfect winter chill out

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Its this time of year where my home country is cold like the darkest corner in your freezer.

Everything is hard and cold and when the sun is out it looks as though it shouldn’t have left home today. In bed is the best place to be, chilling with some nice hot coco or something.

Some say there is a special nordic sound, a tone, melancholic in its ground substance.

Whether this is true or not I don’t know.

All I know is that melancholy is definitely a state of mind familiar to many Nordic people this time of year.

In Copenhagen we are lucky to have some daylight even when the days are their shortest, but all the way up in Norway where icebears and reindeers cruise the streets of every middle sized city, people litteraly go crazy this time of year when there is so little sunlight. Alaska should also be a tough place for humans in the winter.

Anyway the point is, its dark and cold and the best place to be is in bed.

I am not sure where, but somehow I stumbled over this track, that is almost perfect for this kind of weather.

Its called “Fanfar One” and is by Riva StarrRiva Starr who should be familiar to anyone into modern house music.

He is a talented producer of many music styles and has been around for a little over a decade

Producing and writing in many different genres under a lot of different names.

With a love of reinventing  music that inspires him, Stef created the term “Snatch!” as his way of describing his bootleg remix style of snatching/pick pocketing other music styles for his own. It’s also a play of words with the type of folk/Balkan/rock music he draws a lot of his  inspiration from, often carrying that gypsy spirit.

Having given away a number of widely praised and blogged “Snatch” mixes online (his recent remix of ‘The End’ by The Doors has well over 10,000 downloads on Discobelle alone), it wasn’t too long before some of these found their way into the DJ sets of some of the biggest names on the circuit.

I recommend “Fanfar One” to anyone blinded by winter or just life itself.

There is a Spanish Central Europevibe vibe to it, and its bound to get your spirits up a little.

So put your legs up, close your eyes and chill to this track.

Riva Starr – FanfarOne

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check out this Gui Boratto remix of downtempo legends

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Here is some good old piano chords – acoustic style – from triphop Bristol Legends

Massive Attack.

Its the track “Paradise Circus” that Gui Boratto is playing with in this remix.

Really slow piano playing with lots of deep single drones like Massive Attack have used it many times before. Piano bass tones that siiiiing out for a long time.

And the occasional nice acoustic bassline – sounds almost Pink Floydish with its very rhytmic fast figures – Morricone sound on that bass, but sometimes played a bit like “The Edge” would play his bigger than life guitar riffs.

You know, like from a huge irish cliff overlooking “The Atlantic Ocean” – all rocky with sunglasses and trench coat.

Its a great remix, and I almost forgot to mention the very sensitive vocal that comes along with the package.

Female singer creeps in under your skin and stays there and makes you wanna hide somewhere and just listen to that voice – I like it.

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All the best here from the blistering cold frozen town of openhagen.

Some more chill out and downtempo sounds for you to enjoy under the sheets or whereever you hide. Maybe on the beach.

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New tracks coming out of a deep frozen country

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Coming Home

Seems like winter is here to stay in this deepfrozen city of Copenhagen.
Looking out of window and all I see is white snow falling gently before it hits the street and turns into this undistinguishable mass of salt and snow. Pretty on the way down towards darkness though.
I have managed to squeeze out a few crisp tracks from inbetween the stiff fingers of this horrible winter.
From down below the fireplace I give you the arabic inspired track “Coming Home” featuring long time collaborator Helle Chirholm on vocals arabica – mostly anyway.
It has been underway for a long time since this summer in New York where I made the first parts and Gbatokai Dakinah layed down a funky bass to go with it. Right there on the corner of 1st avenue and 9th street.
Its a nice track I think – if such a thing is possible at all. There is some arabic feel to it, and the different roles play well together, so I pad myself on the back.  Listen to Coming Home
Great job from Helle and Gbatokai – they make it come alive.
Its already featured on “Dubai Fashion Week” – something like that.
At last I want to point your attention to this blog where you can listen to these good peoples idea of the best music of 2009 – some good tracks inbetween.

Happy New Year

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Comfort Fit new remix album – new downbeat tracks

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Comfort Fit’s  player “Polyshufflez” goes into the second round with fourteen que re-interpretations by Laurent Garnier, Domu, Opolopo, Atjazz, Boom Clap Bachelors, Robot Koch, Jay Scarlett and other artists.

Laurent Garnier and  Atjazz (Innervisions/Sonar Kollektiv) remixed Comfort Fit’s “Ask the Devil” featuring the bestselling book author Howard Marks.

Further dancefloor crashing remixes come from Comfort Fit, Sweden’s finest funkateer Opolopo (Especial/Tokyo Dawn Records),   Jacob Korn (Running Back/Permanent Vacation), global bass buccaneer Tim Turbo and  a  special remix from  breakbeat guru Domu (Treble O/Tru Thoughts), who  just recently announced his retirement from the music business to the shock of  everybody.

Other contributers are Jay Scarlett (Beat Dimensions), Lazer Trooper Robot Koch (Robots Don’t Sleep), the brilliant Swede:art (new album on Tokyo Dawn 2010), Singing Statues ( Jack High, Ghostly International), Germany’s up and coming Hip-Hop producer fLako (Kwatro), Denmark’s Boom Clap Bachelors and rtformat (Tokyo Dawn).

This is not the most chilled downbeat around, but definitely some interesting downbeat tracks inbetween.
My favourite must be the Atjazz Deeper mix: “Ask the devil”

TRACKS:
1. Next Incarnation feat. Caits Meissner (Boom Clap Bachelors remix)
2. Seen Not Heard feat. NOTE (Jay Scarlett remix)
3. Yer Daddy feat. Wallis Bird (Domu remix)
4. Peter Pan (Portformat remix)
5. Exabyte (Singing Statues remix)
6. Exabyte (fLako remix)
7. Fired up! feat. Blaktroniks (Opolopo remix)
8. Ask The Devil feat. Howard Marks (Atjazz Deeper remix)
9. Seen not heard feat. NOTE (Tim Turbo remix)
10. Wicked Game (Swede:art remix)
11. Fired up! feat. Blaktroniks (Robot Koch mix)
12. Superposition (Comfort Fit remix)
13. Snare Wars (Jacob Korn remix)
14. Ask The Devil feat. Howard Marks (Laurent Garnier mix)

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New chill out downbeat Track from Ganga

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

I think I was too quick the other day when I wrote about a new track that I finished. That wasnt here by the way…hm. On myspace…But anyway.
Its one of the tracks I was working on in New York a few weeks back.
Its finally coming together, and I thought I did it… but no. After some days break, and some other ears, I decided to work on some more details, all smalln stuff that needed fixing.
Helle Chirholm sings on this track, and does a beautiful job combining english lyrics with also some arabic sentences. Making it all work together beautifully.
Gbatokai Dakinah put down a nice bass – right on the actual corner of 1st avenue and E 9th street on that rainy afternoon.
Really nice bass playing.
Now its just gonna take me a few days to finish this, and then I will put it up for listening.
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New funky downbeat out on Poets Club Records

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

ckp209_cover_72dpiWinter is creeping in on Copenhagen and I tug in under my blankets with my computer and listen to some new material from Poets Club Records. The active little german label just south of the border – way south of the border actually. Its Oliver Kieser now out with his solo project “Egotrip”.
Some may know Oliver Kieser from the 90s where he recorded on G-Stone Recordings (Kieser.Velten was his project) and developed his unique deep and groovey sound.
This release is called “Shanty Boogie” and consists of the original track “Shanty Boogie” and two remixes.
One dubby house mix by Razoof and Emanuel and the other one by fellow funk brotheres Quincy Joints (one half of Geriba with releases on Funk Weapons and Citrona records).
All very funky stuff – almost old school qualities in some of these funky riffs, if you are in to this kind of funky keys and old school synts and the occasional vocal drops.
Nice release.

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“The Black Angels” – chill out with the brainwaves in Webster Hall

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Just happened to catch a show last week with “The Black Angels” in Webster Hall New York.
Very cool band with tons of backward references such as Velvet Underground, Doors, Black Sabbath and possibly others I cant remember right now.
Even the artwork for one of the posters was nearly a total ripoff of an old Velvet Underground cover. A blackhaired woman in a psychedelic bedding of what appears to be flowers.
It sounds maybe not so cool to ripp of stuff like that, but in regards to the music its actually very original and they play with great nerve and black intensity. Very dark, but a beautiful darkness that lets you take of on that journey that so much other is the essence of listening. Definitely not your average downbeat listening experience, even though many of the tracks are slow.
Got their album also, after only hearing one song maybe.
But I think I would have bought the vinyl anyway, just because the cover was so great looking.
Thats the way to go – make a great cover and your vinyls will be sold not for the music, but because they look good.
Dont really care so much for CDs. I will rather download if I can get 320 kbs mp3s – ofcourse my favourite bands I would love to have on CD – so I guess its not totally true.
Next show was the Raveonettes – my fellow countrymen from Copenhagen, whom I had never heard live before and really didnt know know too well.
But they delivered a truly amazing concert. Noiserock and retro sounds in one nice combination. I love her voice – wish she would sing on more tracks than she does.
I can understand what they are trying to acheive with the dubbing of their leads – they kind of blend well together, but they also sound good alone – both of them. I must admit they were better than The Black Angels in terms of “The Show” they put on. And one funny detail. The drummer is standing up and they are performing with a backtrack and click track for the drummer. Makes it a little stiff I would say, but you hardly notice because they play so well.
Nice noises.
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