Well for the record those "diva/bad lounge-singer" tracks are my favorite
cuts on the Blue States, Bent, and Hefner albums. I love instrumental cuts
but an actual song with a vocal and lyric wins almost everytime for me. Look
out for the Xploding Plastix album (on the same label as Sternklang) for
some excellent vocal-free downtempo jams as well as the new Hertz album
which is quite nice (and 99% vocal less).
Dirk van den Heuvel
President/GM, Groove Distribution
"Your Guide To The Underground"
http://www.groovedis.com
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From: Jason Witherspoon [mailto:arzachel@speakeasy.org]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:04 AM
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: Neo-tropicália , Blue States
At 9:56 PM -0800 2/8/01, Leslie Shill wrote:
>3/. Andrea Marquee - You Don't Know Me - Zumbi - Stern's Brasil
Folks who are feeling this Andrea Marquee album as deeply as I am owe
it to themselves to check out the new Lucas Santtana disc-- totally
on the same neo-tropicália/electronica tip, very Gil-esque, though
the influences are myriad. Great, great record--
Also just picked up the Blue Slates record, which is awesome on first
listen. Very little of that diva/bad-lounge-singer spoiling 1/4-1/2
the album that's plagued nearly-great releases from Hefner, Bent,
Dusted, & Les Gammas recently (anyone w/me on this? easy on the
vocals, downtempo dons-- esp. when they blow!), & more lively &
creative than the mainly-instrumental Bonobo.
Anyone heard Regular Fries?
Also picked up the other full-length on 2 Banks of Four's label,
Sirkus; soundtrack to a (non-imaginary?) film called _Soul Circuits_.
Wow-- truly *the shit* for me of late. It's too all over the map for
me to really try to pin it down this late in the evening, but if
you've read this far you def. want to check it out--
o/o--
--Jason Witherspoon ICQ #62837760
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