Cut from Skimo's web site:
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KOSMIK REYS : Kosmik Fallout 2 12" (PHONOFORUM) $6.15
"...in 1994 a group of local DJ's, graphic designers, promoters, and
producers met up and formed a collective that was known as Kosmik Reys in
Miami. Later in 1997, they were instrumental in the formation of MTA 94.3
fm, one of the many pirate radio stations that plagued the airwaves of
commercial radio stations throughout the city. Miami's Transmit Authority
was dedicated to the cause of underground urban electronic music. Kosmik
Reys hosted a 1 hour show known as Kosmik Fallout, which was an hour mix of
mostly classic underground house music by artists such as Phuture, Fingers
Inc., Metro, N.Y. House'n Authority, Egotrip, Bluejean, and Adonis just to
name a few. The closing of the show was dedicated to classic and underground
hip hop and abstract electronics, everything from X-Clan to Autechre.
Unfortunately, MTA 94.3 fm would only exist for 5 months before internal
conflicts and the FCC caused its demise. Its shut-down helped in the
foundation of WOMB 107.1 fm (a station dedicated to electronic music).
Kosmik Reys quickly started a 4 hour show on the newly formed radio station
which came to be known as Phonoforum, and which had the original Kosmik
Fallout show integrated into it. Phonoforum wouldhave special guests
including members of Miami's underground labels such as Chocolate
Industries, Beta Bodega, and Schematic stop by. The show continued with the
promotion of classic house and hip hop but also added in the latest in
experimental electronic hybrids. In 1998, after the raid on the WOMB 107.1
fm and the brief creation of OHM 94.3 fm, the two founders of Kosmik Reys
left the United States and went back to their country of Ecuador where in
1999 they founded Phonoforum as a record label. With the same framework as
the radio shows in mind, Phonoforum presents the follow-up to Kosmik
Fallout: Volume 1, which was only distributed throughout Ecuador and Puerto
Rico. Kosmik Fallout: Volume 2 contains updated reworkings of some of Kosmik
Reys favorite classic house and hip hop tracks by themselves and by some of
their talented associates in Miami and Europe. A must for any
dj........highly limited!" .(note: that Phonoforum has some well known
artists from Schematic, Beta Bodega and Chocolate Industries doing untitled
and nameless remixes of old school house and hip hop, a must for any seroius
dj and real limited.)
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I just heard this and it is truly incredible. Head directly for the
nameless remix of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature". You'd think that from
the get go such a sonic reworking would be doomed for failure...but think
again...
Michael Jackson (and Nas for that matter) get the remix treatment from some
unknown Ecuadorian producer on this 001 virgin release on Phonoforum
Records. Beautiful synth washes, deep rounded bass and sick drum
programming serve as the middleground for this mystery producer as s/he
continues to blend in an out Michael Jackson's ultra-processed lamenting
vocal snippets and the original haunting Quincy Jones melody. From there
the track takes a more ominous feel as producer X peppers it with Prefuse-73
styled vocal cut ups of Nas' track which uses the same Jackson melody to rap
over (I unfortunately don't know the name of it, but I figure your
collective knowledge will educate me on it).
I'm not going to lie, I own no "King of Pop" recordings because I think most
of them suck! But this is Michael Jackson meets Nas inbetween the static or
two different radio stations in an alternate universe while
on Ketamine and 'shrooms combined. WOW! Go out and get it...like now! :)
Oh yeah, the rest of the record is really good too with some Miami IDM meets
classic house and electro business but the truth of the matter is that this
remix will not leave my record box or my tables in a really long time.
Enjoy,
Pedro Cevallos
--
"...beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into
time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the process,
we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a world
made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded."
-- Neil Postman --
http://www.geocities.com/mr_cevallos/
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