From: Mark Turner (nugroove_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 2003-06-24 06:51:12
Playlist from DJ Rocky Rococo
Filling in for Trinity on "Rucker Park"
KFJC 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA
June 7, 2003, Noon-3pm
The planned highlight for this week's fill-in edition of "Rucker Park" was
supposed to have been a live phone interview with the Viennese dub band,
Dubblestandart. Unfortunately, one of the hazards encountered by musicians
in a dub band is the occasional loss of short-term memory. Perhaps that's
why they failed to call in. Nevertheless, they played a great set at San
Francisco's Dub Mission the following night... so for that, I forgive them.
;-)
Artist | Track | Album
----------------------
Sleepwalker | Ai-No-Kawa | SLEEPWALKER
Sun Ra | Satellites Are Spinning (Zero dB Remix) | RECONSTRUCTION
Arkestra One | Seu Paraiso (Crate Soul Brothers Remix) | COSMIC SOUNDS
REMIXED
RSL | Wesley Music
RJD2 | Good Times Roll Pt. 2 | "The Horror" EP
Yesterday's New Quintet | Suite for Weldon Irvine
Madlib vs. Donald Byrd | Steppin' Into Tomorrow | MADLIB INVADES BLUE NOTE
Jungle Brothers | Black is Black | STRAIGHT OUT THE JUNGLE
Jazzanova | The One-Tet (DJ DSL Remix) | JAZZANOVA REMIXED
Freddie Cruger | Running From Love (feat. ADL)
Vivien Goldman | Private Armies (Dub) | WILD DUB
Dubblestandart | Return from Planet Egalica | STREETS OF DUB
Mark Pistel's Electronic Dub Collective | Orenda | BABYLON IS OURS
Jackie Mitoo | Peace Treaty | CHAMPION IN THE ARENA, 1976-77
Dumas | Les Filles Elastiques
Black Strobe | Me and Madonna | CHANNEL 2
LCD Soundsystem | Losing My Edge
Kit Clayton | Humbaba
Sutekh | Mouth Party
Beth Orton | Anywhere But Here (2 Lone Swordsmen Remix)
Dublex Inc. | Tocame
The Latinaires | Guajira | CAMEL WALK
Mamborama | Es Solo Musica | ROUGH GUIDE TO LATIN JAZZ
Gotan Project | Triptico | LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO
Arto Lindsay | Ex-Prequica | LIVE AT TONIC VOL. 1
Drumagick | Malta
Funky Porcini | The Big Sea | FAST ASLEEP
Lee 'Scratch' Perry vs. DJ Spooky | Jungle Soldier | DUBTOMETRY
Antipop Consortium | Staph | ANTIPOP VS. MATTHEW SHIPP
Evolution Control Committee | No Time for Yes | PLAGIARYTHM NATION
Oneness of Juju | Liberation Dues | AFRICAN RHYTHMS
SOON COME: Another guest stint on "Rucker Park" coming up Saturday, July 5,
Noon-3pm on KFJC.
And now some record reviews...
Various Artists
SUPER RAP
Landspeed Records
What we're gonna do right here is go back...way back...back into time. Back
to Harlem, circa 1979, where a new musical form was about to rise like a
Phoenix from the ashes of the 70's disco inferno. That new sound was called
hip hop, and helping to document its birth was an independent record label
called P&P Records, run by Peter Brown & Patrick Adams. Having experienced a
modest amount of success in the disco market, they were perfectly situated
to capitalize on this newest underground sound. The P&P tracks collected
here are about as "old school" as "old school" gets; Chic's "Good Times"
rhythm even gets an airing on the track by Sicle Cell & Rhapazooty. Other
tracks delve deeper into rap's disco influences, particularly the
instrumentals by Super Jay and Cloud One. And the futuristic, proto-electro
side shows up on tracks by Troy Rainey and Naomi. All in all, though, this
collection is about a time when rap was FUN. Drop the needle on any track
and you'll soon be wanting to throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em like
ya just don't care!
Cinematic Orchestra
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
Ninja Tune
For their third album release, Jason Swinscoe's Cinematic Orchestra have
progressed from creating their own imaginary movie soundtracks to creating
the soundtrack for a real film. The film in question is Dziga Vertov's
silent Soviet masterpiece, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA. It's hard to believe
that a film from 1929 incorporates the kinds of techniques and tricks we
normally associate with modern-day music videos, like rapid-fire editing,
repetition, animation, double exposures, split-screens, freeze-frames, slow
motion sequences, and more. Yet it's all there, and that makes the Vertov
film a particularly inviting one to re-score. Swinscoe's six-piece orchestra
(plus string section) have done a fantastic job, with an all-instrumental
soundtrack that deftly combines jazz and classical elements with trip hop
beats, electronic noodlings, and more. Be sure to check out the 9-minute
downtempo epic, "The Awakening of a Woman" as well as their playful and
upbeat instrumental cover of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's "Theme de Yoyo."
-- Mark Turner/DJ Rocky Rococo nugroove_at_pacbell.net www.jazzadelica.com