Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Mutefish - Muteation (2009)



01 Muteation
02 Slainte
03 Fields Of Russia
04 Penetration
05 Monymusk
06 Dolphins
07 Reggae Song
08 Gypsies On The Moon
09 Irska
10 Breaveheart Theme
11 Bon Schanson
12 Mother Of Earth
13 De La Ferme
14 Miss Thorntons


Boozoo Bajou - Dust My Broom (2005)




Label: Studio !K7
Country: Germany
Released: 22 Aug 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Downtempo

Tracklisting:
  1 Keep Going (4:58)
  2 Take It Slow (5:34)
  3 Killer (4:56)
  4 9 Below Zero (4:45)
  5 Way Down (5:24)
  6 Biwak (1:36)
  7 Blast (4:02)
  8 Moanin' (4:36)
  9 S.I.P. (4:02)
10 Treat Me (4:51)
11 Barkensignal (4:20)

Solid Steel Presents Bonobo: It Came From the Sea





Release: 2005-09-30
Label: Ninja Tune
Country: GB
Type: Compilation
Length: 60:34

Tracklist:
  1.  Solid Steel Intro (0:32)
  2.  Diesler - Sandcastles (1:46)
  3.  Flutter (1:37)
  4.  The Karminsky Experience Inc. - Exploration (3:06)
  5.  Pick Up (3:10)
  6.  Flevans - Hey Mr Bundle (1:36)
  7.  Black Grass - Score (1:52)
  8.  Solid Steel Players - Les Fingres (2:40)
  9.  Belgradeyard Sound System - Munchies' (I-Wolf feat. DJ Collage remix) (3:45)
10.  Paul Murphy - Soul Call (1:52)
11.  King Seven - Hidden (3:31)
12.  Recurring (4:52)
13.  Change Down / The Sugar Rhyme (4:10)
14.  Jazz Juice - Marra Bossa (4:20)
15.  Cannonball Adderley - Introduction (1:01)
16.  Hugo Maldoro - I Know a Little Cuban (3:52)
17.  Troubleman - Change Is What We Need (6:42)
18.  Amon Tobin - Easy Muffin (4:31)
19.  Savath & Savalas - Paths in Soft Focus (3:17)
20.  Super Numeri - Otter's Pool (2:22)


Mikkel Metal - Peaks and Troughs (2008)



With our appetites whetted nicely by the 12" series, Mikkel Metal presents the full length version of 'Peaks and troughs' featuring some strong performances from his vocal spar and muse Paul St Hilaire. The teflon coated dub of 'Jeman' initiates proceedings with Paul St Hilaire providing an intimate accompaniement. 'Bodium' shifts up half a gear with a solid sub driven dub house groove hinging on dubstepped snares before 'Newson five' introduces rougher textures balanced by some lush spherical scaping. Recent single 'Frico' slips the set into a wicked M5 alike groove and the shocking spacial awareness of 'Stephan' will provide some real production treats for the keener listeners. The cracked emotion of St Hilaire's delivery on 'Visions of Life' benefits from some crafty harmonic manipulations making for a superiorly sinister and killer composition, and it would be safe to say the best is saved for last with 'Get Over' bleeding naturally into 'Peaks and troughs' to deposit us at the end with a comforting dub house bump. This is probably one of the most highly developed and thoroughly engaging dub tech albums we've heard in a long time, and the vocals from Paul St. Hilaire really lend this a gravitas all of it's own. Highly Recommended!

Tracklisting:

Tracklist
01. Jeman (feat. Paul St. Hilaire)
02. Bodium
03. Newson Five
04. Frico
05. Never Run Away (feat. Paul St. Hilaire)
06. Stephan
07. Who-Man
08. Visions of Life (feat. Paul. St. Hilaire)
09. Lumever
10. Get Over (feat. Paul St. Hilaire)
11. Peaks and Troughs

Beat Pharmacy - Wikkid Times (2008)




Beat Pharmacy’s fourth and most ambitious album to date is a collection of protest dub songs that combine deep and poetic lyricism of the very timely kind with atmospheric dub techno grooves. The result is a compelling and haunting record that is bound to float around in the listener’s head long after the music stops. Thick sub-dub basslines burble beneath reverberating chords while echoing melodies and textures dance atop syncopated grooves.

The album opens with the catchy “Rooftops” that features socially conscious UK MC, Coppa. Think LKJ and the Stereo MC’s meets Luomo. On “Time,” Damon Aaron offers up a fragile folk-style vocal with a beautiful choral harmony that drifts in an out of the Augustus Pablo-style melodica. Simply epic. Mysterious UK dub poet, Spaceape proves on “Strangers” and “Ghostship” why he is fast becoming the most sought after vocal among dubstep producers.
His articulate lyrics are reminiscent of some of the greatest protest singers of our time. Paul St. Hilaire offers up two distinctly different vocals. On “Sunshine” he croons his way through the bass heavy rhythm, while on “Nuclear Race” he delivers the vocal as if he was sitting next to you in a quiet room. All the vocalists involved have stepped up to the plate BIG TIME. There are no preaching or clichés here, just heartfelt truth innovation.


Tracklist:
1 Rooftops feat. Coppa
2 Time feat. Damon
3 Strangers feat. Spaceape
4 Sunshine feat. Paul St Hilaire
5 Hope & Frustration feat. Ras B
6 House of Love
7 Piece of Mind feat. Coppa
8 Ghostship feat. Spaceape
9 Nuclear Race feat. Paul St Hilaire
10 Backwards Never feat. Infinity
11 Assassination of the Mind feat. Ras B.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Barrington Levy - [2002] Original Ragga Muffin




1 Re Murder
2 While Your Gone
3 Come
4 Ragga Muffin
5 On The Telephone
6 Open Book
7 My Bible
8 Romantic
9 Collie Weed
10 Get Up Stand Up
11 Girls I Like
12 Giimmie The Grass
13 Black Roses
14 Murderer

Malcolm & Martin - [2009] Movement Music



What The Hell Happened to you?
A New Day – Skull Snaps
Status Quo – Saul Williams on the wake up show
Rock Bed – J. Trombey
Its my thing – James Coffey
Do Your thing – Malcolm & Martin
Hihache – Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Do What you Gotta dp – Eddie Drennon & B.B.S. limited
Welcome to the Movement – Malcolm & Martin
Lunchtyme Cyphers – Malcolm & Martin
Making Tracks – Night Train
Sample Culture – Saul Williams on the wake up show
Talking loud – James Brown
Sayin’Nothing – Malcolm & Martin
Hollywood Swingin’ – Kool & The Gang
Jungle Boogie – Kool & The Gang
Let the Drums Speak – Fat Back Band
Word to the Drum – Malcolm & Martin
Mind Power – James Brown
Funk for the Folks – The Soul Searchers
Melting Pot – Booker T & The MG’s
Another Victory – Malcolm & Martin
Make my Funk – Parliment Funkadelic
Feel the Funk – Ceasar Frazier
The Ka$H – Malcolm & Martin
Misleading Words – Saul Williams on the wake up show
Against the Wall – Malcolm & Martin
Great Nation – Bambu
Kissed my baby – The Meters
Time Machine – Styliztik Jones/Randy Pie
Win or Lose-Malcolm & Martin
Ghetto funk- Duralcha
Sista Big Butt – Malcolm & Martin
Gotta be Funky – Monk Higgins
Hung Up – Salt

Up-and-coming duo Malcolm + Martin have teamed up with DJ Revolution, to bring listeners their latest street album.

Mozaik - [2007] Changing Trains


Andy Irvine: vocals, bouzouki, mandola, harmonica
Donal Lunny: vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhran
Bruce Molsky: vocals, fiddle, guitar, 5-string banjo
Rens van der Zalm: fiddle, mandolin, low whistle, oud, guitar
Nikola Parov: kaval, gaida, gadulka, nickelharpa, tinwhistle, guitar, percussion
Liam O'Flynn: uilleann pipes, tinwhistle

The original idea of Mosaic (as it was spelled then) dates from the mid-1980s, when Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny briefly performed with Hungarian singer extraordinaire Marta Sebestyen, Scottish singer and fiddle player Dougie MacLean, and a few others. With a slightly different spelling, a new Mozaik emerged in 2002 when Irvine asked the current members if they would tour Australia with him. The band's first album, "Live at the Powerhouse," was recorded live in Brisbane in March of that year. "Changing Trains" is Mozaik's second album, and the first to be recorded in a studio. It features the typical blend of Irish, American, and Eastern European traditions which is the trademark of the group, and to which Andy Irvine fans have been accustomed for a long time. The latter sings two of his own songs, a fun one about the good old days at O'Donoghue's, Dublin's famous pub and music landmark, and Actually, the album sounds downright Planxty-like at times, especially with Liam O'Flynn guesting on uilleann pipes and whistle on several tracks, except perhaps with a more pronounced Eastern European tinge than before. Multi-instrumentalist Nikola Parov often plays the O'Flynn part in the group as well, while Bruce Molsky brings his unmistakable fiddle playing and singing to the fore on numbers like "Sail Away Ladies," "Reuben's Train" (cleverly married to a Romanian tune), and "Train on the Island." This is an eclectic band to be sure, but the superior musicianship of the participants holds it all together, producing not just a wondrous balancing act, but a fascinating and most pleasing soundscape as well.

Planxty - [1972] Planxty


1. Raggle Taggle Gypsy - Tabhair Dom Do Lamh 4:28
2. Arthur Mc Bride 2:52
3. Planxty Irwin 2:16
4. Sweet Thames Flow Softly 4:11
5. Junior Crehan's Favourite - Corney Is Coming 2:38
6. The West Coast Of Claire 5:34
7. The Jolly Beggar - Reel 4:23
8. Only Our Rivers 4:06
9. Si Bheag, Si Mhor 3:34
10. Follow Me Up To Carlow 2:21
11. Merrily Kissed The Quaker 2:41
12. The Blacksmith 4:09

Christy Moore, Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn, and Dónal Lunny formed Planxty, a slang version of the Irish word "Slainte" meaning "good health," in 1973 after collaborating on the Christy Moore record Prosperous. Their self-titled debut arrived that same year to the delight of traditional Celtic music fans across the globe. Their tight, organic, and authentic renderings of tunes like "Raggle Taggle Gypsy," "The Blacksmith," and "Merrily Kissed the Quaker" set them apart from many of their more experimental contemporaries. "Sweet Thames Flow Softly," a Ewan MacColl-penned song about a London Romeo and Juliet, features a beautiful vocal take by Moore, and deft bouzouki work from Irvine, whose original composition "The West Coast of Clare" would begin the artist's long career of timeless ballad writing. Versions of "The Jolly Beggar Reel" and "Arthur McBride," the latter an anti-recruitment song from Donegal, are energetic and well-played, glowing with the warm compression of the early-'70s British folk scene. Many groups at that time, the Boys of the Lough, the Chieftains, Sweeny's Men -- featuring Andy Irvine -- struggled to find an audience outside of the pub, while the members of Planxty managed to work their way into halls and theaters. Planxty is a remarkable first record from one of the genres most influential acts. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

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