RE: Neo-tropicália , Blue States

From: Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 23:35:50 CET

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    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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