Keyser & Shuriken - newsletter #54: The Knife
Newsflash 11.04.2001
Dear friends,
Imagine the following situation: you dj at a party organised in a cinema until 3:00
AM, you get home and can't help messing around in your bedroom studio until 6:00 AM
working on some nasty blues hop loops. You know you should not miss the start of the
biggest annual record fair at 9:00 AM, because the competition among crate-diggers
has grown fierce in the last year. You know that if those bastards get there before
you, you won't find anything else but cheap euro-disco, Best of Bay City Rollers
albums and loads of prog rock. When you wake up, you have to realise of course, that
it's well over noon... a vinyljunkie's nightmare.
That's exactly what happened to Shuriken last Sunday. Still - with definitely mucho
help from the god of vinyl-addicts - he has managed to come across a great deal of
old school funk/soul/jazz gems that form the core of this week's radio sessions
doubled up with the heavyweight packages of new stuff that hit Keyser's mailbox.
(He's the man to send your crunchy beats to in case you wouldn't know). Whooohaaa!
The mix is so hot, it might melt your wires while downloading/streaming, so you'd
better watch out.
This week's reading goes out to all the hard working people who sleep less to produce
more great music:
"If you were a cab driver in New York in the late 1950s, chances are Donald Byrd was
a fare at one time or another. So much was happening in New York, and Byrd was at the
center of it, working every day - cabs to the studio in the morning, cabs to the
clubs at night, cabs home in the morning. There was an almost insatiable demand for
the hard bop Byrd and his contemporaries from Detroit were playing, and Byrd shuttled
from Blue Note to Savoy to Prestige, offering his services. He literally performed on
60 albums from 1955 to 1958.
"We called him 'The Knife,'" said bandleader Mel Lewis of Adams, "because when he'd
get up to blow, his playing had almost a slashing effect on the rest of us. He'd
slash, chop, and before he was through, cut everybody down to size."
http://www.mosaicrecords.com/DisplaySelectionDetail.asp?SelectionID=984
Do check Byrd's slashing and chopping in the mix from an extra-extra large Blue Note
album, one of Shuriken's greatest findings on the fair.
Keep on groovin till next week!
Keyser & Shuriken
Playlist
Tilos Radio (http://tilos.hu)
Kristalykert (Crystal Garden - 11.04.2001) - DJs: Keyser & Shuriken
Listen:
Lo-fi:< http://tilos.hu/mp3/24/Wednesday/0000.m3u>
Hi-fi: < http://tilos.hu/mp3/96/Wednesday/0000.m3u>
(start: 23:50:15)
1. Zeljko Kerleta - It Was So Nice Overthere (Cosmic Sounds)
2. Tim Love Lee - Exit 747 (Tummy Touch)
(00:00)
3. Hefner - An Evening With Hefner (Inertia)
4. Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble -Yoruba Road (Comet)
5. Mains Ignition - Electric Blue (Tummy Touch)
6. The Paul Nero Sound - This is Soul (Sunset)
7. Kool & The Gang - Jungle Jazz (De-Lite)
8. Ty - Jealousy (Big Dada)
9. Basement Khemists -I'm Doin Ya (Beyond Real)
(00:30)
10. Sub Bass Monster - 4 Utem (Acapella) (1G)
11. Billy Wright - Summer Love (Beyond There remix) (Counterpoint)
12. Dynamic Syncopation - The Plan (remix) (Ninja Tune)
13. The Nextmen -Shine On (Scenario)
14. Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging (De-Lite)
15. Os Brazoes -Tao Longe De Mim (Thorn's Backtrack Archive Series)
16. The Poets of Rhythm - Poets of Rhythm - Discern/Define (Quannum)
17. Grupo X - X-posure (Loft)
(01:00)
18. Lionel Hampton - Where the Lillies Grow (Brunswick)
19. Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out (RCA)
20. Les Gammas - People Getting High (Spinning Wheel)
21. Nickodemus - Original Dub (Mush)
22. Fog - Overflow (Nuphonic)
23. Donald Byrd Band & Voices - Elijah (Blue Note)
24. Jack De Johnette - Mirror Image (Milestone)
25. Koop - Relaxin At Club Fusion (Superstudio)
(01:30)
26. Hipnotic - Naima (Ian O'Brian mix) (Laws Of Motion)
27. Rhythm - Are You Ready For This (RCA)
28. Stratospheric - Neo Carlito (U.F.O. mix) (Internal Bass)
29. Art Konik - Afro Monkey (Abstract Soul remix) (Comet)
30. Soul Patrol - Release Your Mind (Spinning Wheel)
(02:00)
31. Gerardo Frisina - Descarga Pt.2 (Schema)
32. Africanism by Liquid People - The Dragon (Yellow)
33. Phoney - Groupie (Nuphonic)
34. I:Cube - Prism (Sun Orchestra remix) (Versatile)
35. Fenomenon - Pacific Memories (Nuphonic)
36. Madrid De Los Austrias - Sport in Lissabon (Sunshine)
37. Organic Audio - Autosave (Tummy Touch)
(02:30)
38. Os Brazoes - Modulo Lunar (Thorn's Backtrack Archive Series)
39. The Poets of Rhythm - Eulogize The Source (Quannum)
40. Big Bud - Soul Food (Good Looking)
41. Micatone - Step Into The Gallery (No Zession)
42. Neon Phusion fet. Sylvia Telia - How Times Fly (Seiji Remix) (Laws of Motion)
43. DJ Zinc - Casino Royale (True Playaz)
(03:00)
44. Gabor Szabo & California Dreamers - San Franciscan Nights (Impulse!)
(end: 03:00:00)
K&S events in the near future:
13.04. Szombathely, Keptar: Anima Sound System presents Sweetbeat
20-21.04. Sopron, Sportcentrum: VOLT Festival /w Jazzanova, Dj Vadim, Yonderboi,
Palotai a. o.
28.04. Trieste (I): Electro-Sacher
29-30.04. Zagreb (CR), Aquarius: Kontrapunkt Festival /w Eddy & Dus; Da Lata; Hefner;
Gotan Project; Boyz From Brazil; Karl Injex; Paolo Scotti; Tom Wieland; Lil Tony;
Seiji (tbc) and Domu (tbc)
04.05. Veszprem, Syrup Club
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Thanks for the support: Alan Brown (aka Cukipapa); Tom (Les Gammas crew); Eddy & Dus;
Anna @ Acid Jazz; Martin & Antibalas, Paul @ Afro Art; Paul @ Blow Up; Pat @
Chocolate Fireguard; Manu & Eric @ Comet Records, Rainer, Michael, Kaisa & everybody
@ Compost Records; Zeljko @ Cosmic Sounds London; Vlado & Mario @ Couch Records;
Micke @ Diesel Music; Ecco Chamber; Paul @ Fenetik; Jonny & Grupo X; Iain @ Grand
Central Records; Christian @ Klein Records; Andre @ Jazid Club & Records; Jazzland
Records; Chris @ Nuphonic; Jürgen, Barbara & Sonar Kollektiv; Nicola & Filippo @ Fez
Jazz/Schema; Gak Sato & Rocco @ Right Tempo; Nat @ RhythmLove; Marcus, Oscar, Reini &
Toasta @ Spinning Wheel Records; Oli & Sammy @ Stereo Deluxe; Alex "Reggie" @
Straight Ahead; Heinzi & Chris @ Sunshine Enterprises; Ali @ Switch; Rob @ Tru
Thoughts; Hannes & Flow @ Twentysomething Tunes; Laszlo @ UCMG Hungary; Tim @ Tummy
Touch; Yonderboi & Trevira Modern, Ambi & Amorf Ördögök; United Future Organization &
Kaori; Vinnie @ Ubiquity; Nik @ Universal Jazz; Unique Records, Werner @ Uptight;
Pita @ ParaRadio; Gilb-r & Didier @ Versatile/Future Talk; Rune & Dag @ Voices of
Wonder; Tosha (Pencilbrain); Enrico Riva & everybody else who we forgot to mention
Respect: all people @ Tilos Radio
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