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- luiz henrique - a trip to brazil
02
- slow motion replay - tropical forest
03
- johnny 'guitar' watson - i'll remember april
04
- the bas lexter ensample - los hermanos (remix)
05
- players - whats your problem (martin brew mix instrumental)
06
- dena deadly - 1608
07
- captain planet - enter the esperanto
08
- amadou & mariam - ce n'est pas bon (jd twitch edit)
09
- kasso - walkman (extended version)
10
- chico mann - dilo como yo (te estan llamand)
11
- bachman-turner overdrive - easy groove
12
- dedy dread & dj rebel - trip to brasil (remix)
13
- little kirk - ghetto people broke version
14
- fingers inc. - mystery of love (instrumental)
15
- ali love - pussy
16
- captain rapp - bad times (instrumental edit)
17
- anthony red rose - electric chair version
18
- vangelis katsoulis - the eternal return
After
19 Beatz & Carrots compilations on this blog - here finally is
#20. And it might as well be the last one (but not the end of this
blog. I probably just want to give things a slightly different/new
direction). I started compiling these Beatz & Carrots
compilations as a way to organize some of my monthly discoveries and
favourites. Some of my friends liked them - and so I got the idea to
start this blog. Just as I write this I realize it is more or less
exactly three years ago that I began writing on this blog - to be
precise October 31st 2011. What a coincidence. In the future, beside
posting compilations of exciting music, I also hope to blog more about
recent producers, djs, musicians and labels who produce, release and
re-release amazing and fresh sounding music. Today there are so many
talented people out there who deserve to be exposed to a wider public
- and the wider public also has the right, once in a while, to be
exposed to all the exciting, different and manifold music that exist
beneath mainstream boredom &
twerking...
On the first track
Luiz Henrique is taking us on A Trip To Brazil, a joyous and mellow 'bossa
moderna' song from his 1964 debut album A Bossa Moderna de Luiz Henrique.
Unfortunately I can't find too much info on Luiz Henrique's first
album. Not even a discogs entry. But I do love this song! On track
#13 we have Dedy Dred
and DJ Rebel subtly
and respectfully rebooting Luiz Enriques' original: ''Tweaking the
beat enough to elicit a shimmy from the modern latin breaks fan.''
(via Monkey Boxing).
On track #3 - still feeling like in sunny and warm Brazil - we have a
slammin' fast & bouncing bossa piano version of I'll Remember April by Johnny Guitar
Watson. From his 1963 album The Blues Soul of Johnny Guitar Watson.
This one needs to be re-released - if not only for the fantastic picture of him on the cover. Nice Johnny "Guitar" Watson album, and one that
features him playing no guitar at all! Instead, he plays piano, and
with a nice bluesy style that sounds great. He plays mostly
standards, but in a fantastic way that twists them inside out, and
that gives them all these great soulful edges. Check out my Beatz & Carrots #14 post for some more info on the
''Gangster Of Love''. On track #09 we have an extended version of
Kasso's Walkman from 1984. Next to 1986's One More Round it is probably one of
the most well known songs by Kasso, a project of prolific
Italian producer Claudio Simonetti. Simonetti is known as
member of Goblin, a 70s dark disco outfit that scored many George
Romero horror movies, and for his involvements with the acts Vivien
Vee, Easy Going, Capricorn and Kasso. Be sure to give Frankie
Knuckles '86 house mix of ''One More Round'' a listen. Sweet sweet sweet! That's how I like my house! Track #11,
Easy Groove, is a
''beautiful and slightly awkward disco tune'' by Bachman-Turner
Overdrive from 1977. Thanks to Contain Yr Brain for introducing me to this be
beauty. Be sure to check out his blog - full of rare and
under-the-radar beauties... On track #13 we have the b-side/version
of Little Kirk's Ghetto People Broke. You can find the original
on Little Kirk's '85 album Ghetto People Broke -
as well as on a not so recent anymore French repress of this
impossible to find digi showcase LP. Killer! Little Kirk, the older
Brother of Beenie Man,
released a whole heap of amazing digital tunes in the mid- to late
80ies before becoming a soulful almost R&B styled crooner singing
Gospel. I am feeling those 80ies early 90ies b-side and ''instrumental''
cuts
- the synths, the minimalism or even ambientness,
the
insistent pulse of drum and bass, scattered and shuffling percussion,
the sparness, a certain rawness and sometimes shards of vocals - and
all the time being uncompromisingly electronic. And these
riddims
have swing & bump. Some Detroit Techno/House & or even Acid
House tunes spring to mind. I am working on a compilation of some of
my favourite Riddim ''versions'' and b-sides. More soon! Track #14
gives us the instrumental version of Fingers Inc.'s Mystery Of Love. Let me quote Jon Savage,
who wrote an entire article
about the ''vocal'' version of this track for The Guardian in 2010: A
deep and hypnotic 7:12 minute long ride ''beginning with a
syncopated bass figure, before a four-on-the-floor kick drum comes
in, fast and clean (...) The rest of the track is an ebb and flow of
Heard's melodies, beautiful laminar keys, hi-hat cymbal patterns, and
echoed hand-claps over a deep groove. Much like his other work under
the Fingers alias, Mystery
of Love
has a strong ambient vibe and evokes a sense of dreaminess and
hypnotism. Way ahead of its time.'' My late night house record! I
love my b-sides and instrumentals - more on track #16, where we have
an instrumental version
of Captain Rapp's Bad Times (''this song didn't need a rap the beat
got it all by itself ''). Check out this rare original footage
from Detroit's
own ''version'' of the Soul Train (like this comment on the
Soul Train video: ''How
can we move from dancing like this to some girl swinging off a
demolition ball naked, and call it progress?''
). Lots of nice people having fun, dancing and making some crazy
moves to Captain Rapp's ''Bad Times''. More rare digital
ammunition on track #17: The b-side/version of Anthony Red Rose's
Electric Chair. A
ruthless digi-stepper. Thanks to Mark Ernestus and Honest
Jon's-curated Dug Out label this utterly effective piece of
Digi-weaponry is being repressed on 7inch vinyl. ''Jolting stab
syncopations and throbbing futurist basslines''! Listen to the vocal
version here: Anthony Red
Rose, famous for his seminal Tempo vocal on the rhythm of
same name, grills soundboys on the electric chair as he delivers his
speech in fine style over this chillingly cool and ruthlessly
effective digi riddim produced by Dennis Star in 1989. I am fading
out this compilation/mix with some breathy flutes and swampy
percussion on Vangelis Katsoulis' The Eternal Return. Taken from the official
compilation Vangelis Katsoulis - The Sleeping Beauties: A Collection of Early and Unreleased Works,
which was released on Into The Light Records this year. Beautiful stuff - and
for me definitely on of the Top 10 albums from 2014.
Enjoy!
DubMe
This
compilation fits perfectly on one CD - just click "NO PAUSE
BETWEEN TRACKS" when you burn it - and the CD will be exactly just under 80:00
minutes long...
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