The Modaji album looks to be coming out in early March, the Nathan Haines
should be out in the next couple of weeks. Both are very nice and actually
sound a bit similiar. The production on the Nathan Haines is real standard
Restless Soul sounding (which is a good thing in 9/10 instances). There's
one cut with a weird noise running through it--sounds like a windows 98
error bleep to me that I could live without.
My feeling is the Modaji album is going for a bigger audience, which it may
or may not find. The Nathan Haines is more housey, whereas the Modaji has
several cuts that are straight up soul/r&b..(nu_soul/nu_r&b anyone?) There's
definitely a movement by more producers to go after the kind of r&b/soul
sounds of the Hefner album or Neon Phusion. My two fave cuts on the Modaji
album are Shockas Joint (a moody jazz instrumental) and Outside From The
Inside (a 8 min long vocal cut).
Basically if you liked (not loved, but at least liked) the single One And
The Same you'll LOVE (not like, love) the album. If you didn't like One And
The Same I think you'll HATE the album (though you might dig a track or
two). Since I liked the single I'm way into the album...
On a completely unrelated note, if anyone out there works for a company with
some big marketing money to spend we are currently looking for sponsors for
the next free Groove Dis CD Sampler (1.03 for those of you who are
counting), to be released at Winter Music Conference in conjunction with
XLR8R magazine. Help expose 5,000 more people to this music.
Dirk van den Heuvel
President/GM, Groove Distribution
"Your Guide To The Underground"
http://www.groovedis.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sherburne [mailto:philip@askjeeves.com]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:06 PM
To: 'Dirk van den Heuvel'; Aregood, Michael; 'Jason Witherspoon';
acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: Neo-tropicália , Blue States
So when's that Modaji getting released, anyway? Can't wait to get my hands
on that...
How does the Nathan Haines LP compare to yr typical Phil Asher production?
I dig the 12", but am curious as to how the rest of the album holds up.
Cheers
Phil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk van den Heuvel [mailto:dirkv@groovedis.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:36 PM
> To: Aregood, Michael; 'Jason Witherspoon'; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: RE: Neo-tropicália , Blue States
>
>
> 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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