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1. mp3 download
3. new deadbeat album
3. tourdates
4. upcoming releases
1. MP3 DOWNLOAD
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www.scape-music.de:
deadbeat "requiem"
taken from the forthcoming album "something borrowed, something blue"
free mp3 download on www.scape-music.de coming soon
2. NEW DEADBEAT ALBUM
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artist: deadbeat
title: something borrowed, something blue
label: scape
cat. #: sc21cd/ sc21
format: cd/do12"vinyl
distr.: indigo / mdm
steet date: march 8th 2004
Deadbeat returns to scape with the sequel to 2002's ²Wild Life
Documentaries², a chronicle of the nine months leading up to his marriage
in June 2003, entitled ²Something Borrowed, Something Blue².
Continuing to explore dub's far-reaching root system, this sequel sees
Deadbeat push the boundaries of his frame of reference to further
extremes at both ends of the spectrum. While the legacy of Kingston's dub
proper and Berlin's techno hybrids are still audible, the album's
crunchier moments adopt a more aggressive version of the dub recipe, with
echos of perhaps Tackhead or African Head Charge bouncing around some far
corner of the reverb tank. The cinematic format of Wild Life
Documentaries is also taken to new heights here, with track boundaries
becoming increasingly blurred, thoughts left to unfurl in slow motion,
and sounds disappearing and reappearing like characters in an ever
thickening plot...or perhaps forgotten and and frantically remembered
entries on an ever-growing wedding reception "To do" list.
As one might expect from a document of such an intense time in a person's
life, "Something Borrowed, Something Blue" is an emotional landscape of
widely varying elevation. "A Brief Explanation" begins the journey by
introducing us to a new friend, a cricket, who perhaps was caught in the
hard drive spindle at the completion of the last chapter. Like all good
friends, he remains for the duration of the journey. "Head Over Heels"
provides the warmth and comfort of a crackling fireplace on a cold winter
night, set to a jangling ukelele melody augmented with piano shards and a
round, insistent kick. "White Out" captures the raging blizzard just
outside the door: icy chords and a militant dancehall stomp build to a
climax before being shattered and reconfigured into triplicate techno
shrapnel.
"Requiem" provides an excellent reference for testing the bass response
of even the most well-equipped sound system. Drums and bass are submerged
to the furthest depths of the dub sea, with shimmering chords burbling to
the surface throughout. "Steady as a Rock" is perhaps the album's most
deliberate nod to the Jamaican kings, with a roaring organ and fractured
guitar line pulled along by a chugging engine of drums and bass. "Fixed
Elections" sees Deadbeat voice his political frustrations with a slippery
Detroit synth line and a tear-jerking reggae chorus." A Joyful Noise Part
1" weaves digital-synth textures and heavily processed field recordings
around a hopeful organ and rolling bassline. "Part 2" sees the same
sources deconstructed and reassembled to form a lullaby of static and
melodic noise. On "Quitting Time" Deadbeat bashes out a colossal
kick-snare pattern on his bath tub in a mournful ode to the exhaustion
we've all felt after a hard day's work. Our journey ends with "Portable
Memory (The Final Cut)", a cloud of digital debris that rises to a
distorted crescendo before dissipating into the final sustained chord and
the familiar chatter of our friend the cricket, bringing things, as is so
often the case, full circle.
Tracklisting:
cd vinyl
1. - a brief explanation... 0:59
2. a1 head over heals 7:23
3. a2 white out 7:52
4. b1 requiem 8:36
5. b2 steady as a rock 5:32
6. c1 fixed elections 6:38
7. c2 a joyful noise (part 1) 7:17
8. d1 a joyful noise (part 2) 6:21
9. d2 quitting time 9:51
10. - portable memory (the final cut) 8:54
LISTEN TO track 2,5,6 on www.scape-music.de
DEADBEAT´s ALBUM "wild life documentaries" IS AVAILABLE ON VINYL AND CD
AGAIN!
3. TOURDATES
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DEADBEAT
05.03 berlin - maria
06.03 bern (ch) - dampfzentrale
10.03 cologne - studio 672
11.03 leuven (b) - stuk
12.03 barcelona (e) - cube club
13.03 gran canaria (e) - o+
14.03 den haag (nl) - t´paard
17.03 rom (i) - teatro palladium
18.03 duesseldorf - johanneskirche
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TRIOSK
28.02. sydney - side-on cafe, annandale (9 pm)
16.03. melbourne - bennet´s lane jazz club
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BUS
06.03 bern (ch) - dampfzentrale
11.03 leuven (b) - stuk (FEAT. MC SOOM-T)
09.04 glasgow (uk) - subclub (FEAT. MC SOOM-T)
07.05 berlin - maria
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JAN JELINEK
06.02 madrid (e)- low club (aka farben)
27.03 zittau - hallersche villa
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POLE
12.03 goetheburg (s)- ideal festival
14.03 den haag (nl) - t´paard
4. UPCOMING RELEASES
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artist: headset
title: space settings
label: scape
cat#: sc22cd /sc21
format: digipak cd / do12" vinyl
distr. indigo/MDM
street date: early may 2004
Plug Research owner Allen Avanessian in collaboration with Jimmy
Tamborello (Dntel)!
More info on www.scape-music.de, soon!
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artist: august enkilde presents epo
title: electronic panorama orchestra
label: popscape
cat#: popsc01cd/popsc01lp
format: digipak cd / LP
Vertrieb: indigo/MDM
VÖ: end may 2004
August Enkilde, bass player on pole´s recent album (mute) will release
his debut on the new scape sub division POPSCAPE: August Enkilde presents
EPO - featuring the wonderful voice of Frida Asmussen. More info will
follow soon on www.scape-music.de
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