The CBS associated Mosaic Records was a short-lived label in the mid-eighties for the output of well known producer Michael Zager, who went for the more electronic, popish, rapish and funk side of things on this outlet. Rhythm Magic is a funny track with some slight go-go feelings(at least for me), nice and friendly drums on a very dancefloor-friendly production. The other side has a Dub on it where not much is happening during the whole length, but it's keeping up the tension in a remarkable way. What is Michael Zager doing these days?
My good friend Marco (most of the time more familiar as the mighty Dj Rare:groove) from Ulms very own Deep Shot crew forwarded me the 6th episode of his Future Thinking mix series, which is offering a very interesting and enjoyable ride through his dubstep galaxies and deep electronic underwater worlds. Oh lord, what a nice mix it is! He brilliantly fills the gaps between experimental beat excursions and harmonic melodies using appropriate transitions with the right sense of creating a fluent dramaturgy. The Track selection is ace, capturing the current who is who of producers from dubstep to electronix, featuring the likes of June Miller, Burial and Lusine, just to name a few. You can catch him doing the Step-up radio show in irregularly intervals and while playing his monthly resident nights called "Deep Shot" at club Schilli near the city center. Marco, well done mate!
Up and away to the blue Skies! Above and Beyond is a very classic tune from a very unusual source. Edgar Winter is the younger brother of the blues-rock guitarist Johnny Winter and not only due to this, most of his compositions were similar to the efforts of his older brother. But if you look more precisely to the release info, you will just notice a very familiar name in the disco game, no less than Tom Moulton. If nothing else, with his little help, Edgar turned his ideas into pure gold!
Well, having Hunee playing a bleepgeeks night is a really special thing for us! Bright eyes, winged hearts, liberated souls and tons of pleasant anticipation, all at once is going the circuit in our sweet and cosy bleepgeeks office!
Let's get to know Hunee a little better:
Hunee is a good eater. He comes from a grey and boring city, where heavy industrialization and green forests go hand in hand. In his teenage years, he used to colour this environment with rap and soul music.
Now being a Berlin resident for almost ten years – he eats bumpin’ disco for breakfast, heats up deep jackin’ music for lunch and slows it soulfully down for dinner. In the night he prefers to spend his time cookin a special meal on the turntables. He is a good swimmer too – when he’s out of the water, he makes records for labels like feel music, W.T. Records, Permanent Vacation, Internasjonal and Retreat.
Ok guys, i'm not that big frikkeloni, but this one's i'm a bit proud of. I've just build up this pc-system from actual components and assemblies with the aim to put my dusty Pulsar II-Recordingcard into it... and: it's working like in past... :) Incredible, this card was sleeping for more than 4 years in the box. It includes the very old 3.1. Scope fusion platform software which is now looking quite antique on the screen. Will i come back to do music again like in the ol' days or will i still hang in the record-collectors-net? It's a mess... But it's a start. As it is in every case if when you have musical gadgets: You can have a studio like a Popstar, but if this makes you like an Popstar is the question. Or in other words: You can have cool synthesisers and stuff, but this doesn't mean you can make cool music.
The influence of afro-american musical cultures on british / continental-european youth cultures is and was tremendous. It seems to be an iron law of history that european kids pick up and appropriate contemporary afro-american music styles. Of course, american mass media has almost supernatural powers on the rest of the world, but this does not explain, why so many kids are much more attracted by the styles of black cultures than by styles of the predominant white culture. A recent series on the sixties on the french / german TV channel ARTE sheds a light on the origins of this phenomenon, among other things, of course, but for us, as house and disco informed individuals, this seems to be point of matter.
The rise of disco music in Europe was by no means the first major invasion of afro-american music culture into european discotheques, teenage bedrooms, rehearsal rooms and music studios. Earlier examples where certainly even more tremendous. The impact of jazz music goes far ahead of the sixties. The term Mod, naming the famous british youth culture emerging in the late fifties, was referring to modernist, or Modern Jazz. Not only listening to jazz music, but also copying the modern fashion styles of jazz musicians, these european white kids where certainly deeply moved by black styles. The early sixties in Britain brought up a musical and thereby a cultural revolution. Young people with working class and lower middle class backgrounds started picking up american rhythm and blues music, copying it, and then to transform it into a new and unique form of british rhythm and blues music that electrified kids all over the globe to suggest new ways of being. Whereas most european efforts to imitate or to evolve afro-american music fell hopelessly short of their american role models, think of shitty UK house music, of euro dance, of german hip hop and disco music etc., this bands of the sixties really stated a difference, not forgetting the italians who really mastered their own form of disco music, but never really had a greater cultural impact. It may sound stupid, they are such an established part of our public awareness, of education, of delusion of the public, but The Beatles and even more The Rolling Stones had a incomparable revolutionary impact on global culture and global thinking. I'm not necessarily a fan of the music of The Rolling Stones, but on any account, they where the most revolutionary effective of all bands that touched the planet.
You can watch the films of the TV series for a few days after TV broadcasting. So be quick seeing it.
'British Blues Explosion' is a documentary on the appropriation of rhythm and blues music in the early sixties.
'Mods & Rockers' is a documentary on the myth of the hassle between mods and rockers. It's also giving an introduction into the mod culture.
I would like to especially recommend 'One Plus One', a film collage by Jean Luc Godard, encompassing very interesting footage of The Rolling Stones working out their song 'Sympathy for the Devil'.
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