I have to admit I wasn't a huge fan of the Les Gammas or Dusted albums,
though I love some of their singles.
And now for something (almost) completely different...
Some things I'm diggin' right now:
Yonderboi CD (which has a couple nice vocal tracks--in Hungarian!??)
dZihan & Kamien- Refreaked Remix CD (due out on Six Degrees soon)
Omar CD (great vocals)
Nathan Haines CD on Chili Funk (killer jazzy Latin influenced house--some
great vocals and a couple of duds)
Vienna Scientists III CD
Modaji CD (awesome album with a lot of soulful house and r&b vocals-a lot of
people are not going to be ready for this)
the aforementioned Hetz compilation (The Stable) CD--vinyl coming soon from
Groove Dis/Hertz Recordings
Xploding Plastix --4 track EP coming in 2 weeks from Beat Service US/Groove
Dis --check our website in the next few days for plenty of sound samples (or
go to their site www.xplodingplastix.com or www.beatservice.no )
Dirk van den Heuvel
President/GM, Groove Distribution
"Your Guide To The Underground"
http://www.groovedis.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Aregood, Michael [mailto:maregood@comcastpc.com]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:30 PM
To: 'Jason Witherspoon'; Dirk van den Heuvel; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: Neo-tropicália , Blue States
Actually i love the vocals Les Gammas track "See the Sun". That track
wouldn't be so amazing with the intensity of the vocals missing. I
definitely hear you though. There's another track (a soul type track, i
forget the name) on that record that makes me bolt for the stop button every
time. man, that guy gets annoying...
It comes down to personal preference i suppose. For the longest time i could
only play the instrumental side of that "Amazing" track on Main Squeeze
(Bembe Segue grows on you after a while though). And the vocal version of
that KV5 track "Church Candles"... yuk! I can relate to the frustration of
nodding your head in excitement to the first however many measures, then all
of a sudden... bam! toss it into the back of the crate.
argo
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Witherspoon [mailto:arzachel@speakeasy.org]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:40 PM
To: Dirk van den Heuvel; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: Neo-tropicália , Blue States
At 02:21 PM 2/9/01 -0600, Dirk van den Heuvel wrote:
>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.
Okay, okay-- but I defy you to tell me you like all the vocals on the Les
Gammas or the Dusted! Also, I do really like the (limited) vocals on Blue
States, the Hefner's grown on me a fair amount, & the Bent-- well, I *like*
"Irritating Noises", but most of the other vocal trax leave me pretty cold--
Also, why the heck does everyone consider instrumentals to not be "real
songs"? If it's got a melody over some harmony, it's a song, dammit!
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