Cuki got a serious case of sneezing, but we'll get this thing out into Cyberland very soon. Gesundheit! Gesundheit! Gesundheit!
OK, you know January is gonna be lean musically. Everybody still paying off their Christmas credit card, the record labels know this! But woooooooooh dare with the stuff that we get to chart this week! Big time clearance to off load certain tunes to ya this week. You'll be needing to use the same credit card to buy the new influx of great music that will hit the streets in the Spring.
A fantastic response to the piece on certain mags and reviewers slating this and slating that for no other reason then they missed the bus to work. Does it really sell more mags?Do you get the feeling that they feel the need to be critical just to be seen as knowledgeable or showing expertise. Who are they fooling? I had over 100 e-mails from producers, labels and artists in particular who felt that they were the victims of an incompetent music reviewer or writer, unjustly treated to bad press for no other reason then it is your turn to get slated. It was interesting to note also that not one piece of mail came back from any of the magazines themselves, and I know quite a lot of you forwarded on the article to certain reviewers. It was very interesting to note too, the man hours spent on certain productions, albums, compilations, the time spent on the sequencing, only to have it dismissed by a reviewer with such nonchalance. More interesting for me was the excitement felt by many in sending the product to a reviewer only to have it slated. Talk about having your world cave in! Yep, the reviewer can do more harm then good sometimes and many e-mails came back saying that a reviewer should just ignore the track if he or she doesn't like it. Someone even mentioned that when you go into a grocery shop and you see something you don't personally like, you don't stand there and scream and shout to everyone that its garbage. You just shut up and don't buy the product, simple as that. Good point! There are a small handful of magazines like Plastiks and Chaser who only review records they like. No one is offended, positiveness is the message with both SNC and Plastiks. I'll get off my soapbox with one final thing. There is only music, some music I/we/you do not feel or experience, it doesn't make it crap. If some 14 year school girl gets off on Britney Spears like I/we/you get off on Stevie Wonder, then good luck to her. Wish the mags had the same outlook.
OK, I've been giving the mags a hard time but there are some worthwhile reads out there as I said. Check editions of Plastiks out every now and then in selected outlets. Now in full English mode so you can give up on your Flemish lessons! Based in Antwerp but containing all your favourite DJ, artist, news, charts and interviews. Respect to the crew in Belgium. Yes Nik, Antwerp is in Belgium! Check out www.plastiks.be for more info. We hear Nik we soon be having a column for Plastiks. Anybody wanna take a guess what it will be about? Forget Gesundheit! Lets all go 'Otaku'! Anoraks at the ready for the next issue! We hoping Evisu make anoraks?
Hot music gossip inna London town soon come!
Miss BBE & Mrs Restless Soul will be doing the warm up set at a one off BBE night at the NHAC on Tuesday Feb 19th - should be a riot!!! 6pm onwards!
Before that, the P_EACE man drops bombs at Bar Rhumba this Monday.
Respect to Junya. The Box CD........ awesome bro
This week in Vienna I went on chocolate cake mission! The Sacher Torte experience, yummy. Vienna really is the sweet tooth of Europe!
There are many stories and myths about the origins of this famous chocolate cake. See, there are two supposedly original recipes! Only the Austrians could fight over a chocolate cake! Sometime in the 1830s, Emperor Franz Josef, of the Austro-Hungarian empire, asked his pastry chef, Eduard Sacher, to create a less filling cake than the whipped cream filled ones then in vogue. At the time, Mr Sacher was working at Demel's pastry shop in Vienna, where he created for the emperor the jam filled cake we know today as Sacher torte. However, after he left Demel's pastry shop and established his own establishment the Sacher Hotel he continued to bake his cake. This is how a dispute arose between Demel's and the Sacher Hotel about which was the authentic cake. Eventually the dispute was settled in 1965, even the Cuban missle crisis played second fiddle to the news that the dispute was over! Laws were put into place about which ingredients are allowed in an authentic Sacher torte and how it must be prepared. Today, only Demel's and the Sacher Hotel in Vienna are allowed, by law, to inscribe the name Sacher on their cakes. Anyway, Cuki dosen't give shit which one is authentic, they both taste super sexy.
Dr Boots prescribes the following for your forthcoming aural pleasure.
*Nu Bitz this week
* Gotan Project - Triptico (Peter Kruder 'Trip De Luxe' remix) CD-R
This back in Fall! Secret rendezvous at the Wirr! Dr Boots undercover bizniz with his big mac on. Man dressed in black walks in with a package. Dr Boots unnoticed, slips this package into his raincoat. Thankfully the raincoat is heat resident cause this package is hot. So hot, he needed oven gloves to put it into the CD player when he got home. Aiight, the best record of the new century gets the Viennese treatment. And oh my god, what a treatment it is. P_EACE ,man delivers what Dr Boots thinks is his finest and most respectful remix ever. A tough job to remix the Triptico track. Its just so f**king awesome as it is. But Mr Kruder comes through with flags, horns, bells, flying colours and a big smile on Cuki's face!
* Jazzanova - In Between (JCR/Compost) CD-R
Well, if you need oven gloves for the 'Trip De luxe' mix then you need full asbestos lining to protect you from the heat with this 13 tracker. Jazznaova come through with the first of what we hope will be many long players. 'In Between' is everything Jazzonva promised to be. All the other tracks they did before, all the remixes! They were just the paving the way for this baby. And you know how good the tracks before were! Hold your horses for April release, because thats when it arrives. The flowers are blowing already. It's big
* Yoshihiro Fukotomi - Playback (Forma) 12"
My ol' mucker Nik Weston been teasing me with this for too long! I didn't have a CD-R. But my bros far east come through wit readies and I get slam this in my toolbox with a big grin :) Just to show there is truth in the old saying, ''good things come to those who wait''! Or that you have the right contacts! Limited Japanese pressing but somehow you just know that some big boy American label gonna get twitchy over this.
Sun Ra - The Satellites are spinning (Zero dB mix)(Mo Smog) CD-R
6 in the am. Flex regulars leaving the very first party of December 01. But wait, the P_EACE man has one more tune to drop. In the back ground crashing drums and horns introduce an exclusive. Someone too is calling planet Earth. Could that really be June Tyson? Er, it's at this time that we totally lose control of our boots! Neil and Chris watch on in amusement. So here it is, the maddest, the craziest remix of the year already. Zero dB excel themselves with this, their most outrageous remix. Some how and in some place far from this planet, the Ra is dancing his cosmic boots to the Z dB! Respect to the Ra, respect to the dB.
Joseph Malik - Diverse (Compost)2xLP & 12"
I'm getting lost with how many great albums coming out of Haggar St. The first, second and thrid are all on Compost. Every damn track hitting Cuki's neurological, biological and physiological systems. Wow, upbeat, downbeat, nubeat, even beats with drum n bass in it. It's all here and it's all very very good. This is an awesome album, it really is. What a talent. Start saving your local currency now brothers and sisters!
* 4 Hero - Hold it down (West London mixes)(Talkin' Loud) CD-R
Dollis Hill gets the Bitasweet treatment. The favourite track from the awesome 'Creating Patterns' album in clubland gets two excellnet Minerva Road rubs. Bugz as a collective and by the free spirited Kaidi Tatham.
* Amma - On my own (Landslide & Spectre mixes)(Inspirit) CD-R
Didn't I tell ya to watch this label! Real two step for the educated sorts. Magic Tim Landslide as usual coming through with the lick, nothing new there. The guys just on it! But check the new kid in town. Spectre trading blows head on with Mr Land and you guys gonna have to be the Judges. We digging the dub Mr Haynes.
* Agent K - Kaidi Tatham is Agent K (Laws of Motion) CD-R
Bugz boy wonder Kaidi Tatham with the long awaited album. I remember all those years ago Chris Fleming at Laws of Motion telling me that he wanted to sign Kaidi for an album. Well, here it is and both Chris and Kaidi can be extremly proud of the result. Always spiritual, Its the way of the Agent K, always moving forward, the natural way of Laws of Motion records. 12 awesome tracks that include Betcha, Ladies, Armz R Deh and nuff tracks about cats.
* Plej - V/T (?)
Exclusive to this chart because it's unsigned. Maybe that Swell guy will give it the props in his next chart too. OK here's the deal. Two very young and very talented musicians in that Gonky town of Gothenburg handed me this CD-R on my last trip. Its the best soft electronica I've heard in ages folks and has been a constant source of pleasure in my CD player for over a month now. Even your girlfriend will like this guys! Arvid and Erik (Plej) also get this sound out live. Last week they backed up the mighty Koop at the Nef and we hear both Magnus and Oscar were suitable impressed by what they heard.
* Mum - The Fishing (Klein) 2xLP
Mum mix it up like no other outfit of the Klein label. Expect thunderstorms and lightning strikes along side the sweetest slices of melancholy in the forthcoming 'Szabotnik 15 mission' album. The Fishing track though spooking out Bootsville tenants and guests alike. Lights off here in the 15th Bezirk.
Microfish - Keen/Its me (Stereotyp mix)(Dialog) 12"
Excellent moody music from the Sonar Kollecktiv group including that man from the 18th district Mr S/Typ on remix duty. In fact its the B side that kills ya with Stefen's mix and a beautiful ballad featuring Mr Meitz on keyboard duties and Onna on the vocals.
Art Konik - Vendetta Society (Comet) CD
Excellent long player from Parisian based drummer and percussionist Nicolas Gorge. He's giving us a bundle of awesome twelve's these last few years on the ever consistent Comet label and now 10 tracks sit nicely in the CD player. More educated nu jazz for the headz!
* Ultra Nate - Twisted (Giant Step) 12"
Well, this record was charted well over a year ago. CD-R bizniz, then we got to chart it courtesy of Mr Ruttens' last 'Tribes' comp and one year later we get to give it another honour. Simply too good to resist and those who missed out should seek this one of the best downtempo moody 4 Hero productions ever. The diva of despair gets the most respected broken beats to complement her soothing voice. This twelve will be limited so seek out early
* Waldeck - Rears running dry (Herbert's level dub)(Dope Noir) 2x12"
Waldeck, one of the true ambassadors of the Viennese scene gets that man Matty Herbert on his new double pack. And you know what to expect with the man. House music for those who got slightly feed up with house music. Expect lots of noises from the kitchen, the Amazon jungle maybe even a few car crashes. He sure don't get his samples from records!
Donnie - Clouds/You've got a friend (Giant Steps) CD
Stevie sound alike oozing class every time and surely only a matter of time before the big time arrives! 'The Coloured section', the album, one of the most anticipated joints forthcoming in the 02. 21st century soul music, it really is.
John Kong & Moonstar - Future Visions (Zero dB remix)(Fluid Once) CD-R
This time Chris and Neil giving Toronto the treatment. The ZdB take their imperial measurements to the 'Movement' man and last years dance floor secret weaponery Moonstar and deliever another top form remix for the true nu jazz collective. Soon come.
* Henri Salvador - Jazz Mediterranee (Koop & Readymade mixes)(Source) 12" Koop doing what they do best. Mixing up the old with the new, turning out another soft and sensual summer song. The flip gets a little tougher but only just, Readymade do their best interpretation of Herbert which is no bad thing really. Been after this for yonks so you guys probably know about this already but hey,
Vikter Duplaix - Sensuality (K7) CD-R
Taken from Vikter's forthcoming comp for the DJ kicks series with this the exclusive track stealing the limelight. We though have to wait for a twelve as it didn't hit the finished version of the vinyl album. Without doubt Philli's finest ladiez man in ridiculous form. If 01 was big for Vikter then 02 gonna be even bigger. Check this for the start of it.
Nuspirt Helsinki - Album (Guidance) CD-R
It's been a long time coming but Thomas, Kasio, Lil Tony and the crew finally finnish (no pun intended) this their first long player. Anybody that got off on the Compost twelve or the excellent releases for Guidance surely in need of this. Cuki getting excited by the nice down tempo tracks too.
Kasar - The newcomer (Crippled Dick) CD
Monster remix track from the 'Iron Curtain' revisited remix album project. Other tracks on the album (including Les Gammas & Kabuki) cut the mustard but this one the Cuki choice for moving the floor with minimal amount of ease and maximum amount of wastage on the foot wear.
Koichi Ozaki & Hiro Nakamura - In the mood (Eurasian Suite) CD-R
We diggin a little left field music outta Hiroshima. Subtlety for sure as gentle tribal rhythms and drums lead you into a conscious move. Bottom and mid notes from the piano hypnotize you into a state of air and freeness. Yes, we getting airborne with this little groove.
* Mannie Montana - Walking Jazzman (Dope Noir) 12'
Chunky slice of abstract hip hip. And I'm not just talking about the 180 gm vinyl that Dope Noir are famous for! High hats and rims get a right good beating. More like, walking lunatic than walking Jazzman but we enjoying the pure aggression of this 95 bpm fun laden tune.
Aardvarck - Find the cow (Delsin) CD
23 tracks that make you think very hard about what you are listening to. If you can get through to the music then the result is very rewarding. It really is electronica, ambient meeting broken beats. And with each listen it gets more intresting too. Give it a go.
Jackson 5 - Get it together (4 Hero mix)(Universal/Japan) 12"
Ta to Alex for getting a twelve over to Austria for me. 4 Hero, this time in top hip hop form bring the Jackson's into the 21st century. The most obscene bass line and the sharpest snare tap bringing mucho head nodding from all that get to hear this wonderful remix.
Twitch - Blow your Blues away (Key) 12"
In Hungary they play the national anthem at midnight on new years eve! This is the record that you play 1 minute past midnight! Firecracker bizniz. Wow, what a tune to bring in the new year and much love and thanks to Gabor aka DJ Shuriken for slipping this into my box! DJ Simbad and F McQuinn are the guys behind this, the perfect blend of Jazzy Afro American groovy madness straight outta the sixties. Bring ya thickest soles!
Meikbar - Feelings (Rushhour) 12"
Moodymann meets Patrice Rushen? Absolutely no info on the artist, its where about's and release, but boy is this funky monkey. If this ain't Moodymann then it is sure one helluva of impostor! Pure Detroit house bizniz outta my favourite label at the mo, the Dutch 'Rushhour' imprint. Clocked at just over 112 bpm's but maximum wastage on the soles of your shoes guaranteed.
Miss Bombay - Hindustan Ambassador (Mantis) 12"
I really thought Andy and Martin were taking the pee here but its all true. Ex Indian beauty queens getting tricky with the 4/4. Well if Moodyman meets Patrice in the last record then this gotta be Moodymann meets Bollywood! Check this flip for a wired up and very left of centre house groove.
Partial Arts - Canopy (Out of the Loop) 12"
Great little label getting stronger with every single release. This maybe the finest yet. Is this really Russ Gabriels label? Anyway check this for a infectious groover with all the right ingredients to shuffle dem boots.
Frederic Galliano & The African Divas - Super Boujueor (F Comm) CD-R
Murderous groove that bangs on in the carnival spirit. It dosen't do much in the way of changing direction but it sure does move feet. The divas take a rest on this one but can be found in other areas of the album.
Koop - Waltz for Koop (JCR) 1xLP
You know, I actually get more a kick from seeing this record in all it's glory sitting on a shelf in my local Virgin record store then receiving it in its 'hush hush' form all those months/years ago. It belongs to the masses, not just a few upfront DJ's. Respect to JCR/Compost/International rescue records for finally getting out the album that was a favourite in everybody's CD-R collection. A timeless album outta Stockholm Sweden and the perfect combination of new meeting old. Check out a twelve too for solid remixes of 'Summer Sun'.
Gerardo Frisina - Saeta (Pt 2)(Schema) 12"
Cuki get wit it bro! You been sleeping on this little baby for too long now! Yep it happens, it arrives courtesy of the nice people at Family Affair a couple of weeks back and some how finds its way into a pile of records that I just didn't investigate. Enough percussive pressure and old school samba running's.
Stereotyp - Gazzui Matter (Ecco Chamber) 12"
There's a mad car chase going around the 18th district! Dinner at Puglia's but quickly back in the car! We have to catch the man! We drive with the Scheibosan but follow the protégé in his custom built speedstar! His car has more knobs then ours so we never catch up! We enjoy the chase though! He has no mix tapes in his car either as the mentor informs me! No distractions! The spookiest soundtrack of the year just found it's way onto a slice of vinyl & the best record Kraftwork never made!
Jol - V/T (?) CD-R
Hanging out in a Gonkyburg studio and now it all makes sense! A CD-R that has been doing the rounds and still needs a home of its own. 23 year old sounding like he be doing this for 43 years. Late night music for the headz. Awesome and maybe still unsigned!
This weeks Java Joint.
Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Travelling
Flying Dutchman (FD 101163) 1973
Lonnie's first album as a leader. All those years playing with the Pharoah Sanders and Miles's electric band paying off with this an excellent debut . Lonnie's band were known as the Cosmic Echoes and that's exactly where they take you. Lonnie's best trait on this album, is that he can make the piano sound more electric then even an electric piano. It gets deep on this player but Space is a pretty deep place to take your sound. The music though always makes a point of calming the listener no matter how intense it gets. Featured players include Cecil McBee, David Lee Jr, Badel Roy, James Mtume, Joe Beck, George Barron. No brother David though! He appeared on latter albums.
Bussi babba's, stay lovely and luv ya boots
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The one sweet daddy
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