Hi you all, just purchased some real great so called 'triphop'....
I suggest that we please have to call it's something else but.. anyway:
U.N.K.L.E. - The Time Has Come EP - 2 12" - Mo Wax 028
Portishead - Glory Box - 12" - Go! Beat - GODX120
Strata 3 - (It's not) a mans world - 12" - Bush (test)
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Well to start with the greatest:
U.N.K.L.E.
This double 12" contains remixes of the track 'Time has come' which was
together with the track 'Martian Economics' on the Major Force West/Mo Wax
release U.N.K.L.E. vs. Major Force..
What's on this:
A1. "If you find earth boring" - U.N.K.L.E. Mix
B1. Portishead plays U.N.K.L.E. Mix
C1. Howie B. vs U.N.K.L.E.
C2. "Coffee House Conversation" - Plaid Mix
D1. "Sassafras" - Plaid Mix
And on this double Mo Wax again goes a step further, really deep..
Could better call it psychedelic ambient hip hop or something or just leave
those narrow-minded things.. It' music!
U.N.K.L.E. are M. Kudo, T. Goldworthy and lable owner James Lavelle.
The Plaid mixes are done by two of the three of The Black Dog (album will be
released January 14th here in Holland), Ed Handley and Andy Turner. And the
tracks are what remixes should be: a combination of two kinds of music and/or
artists. Not like Mu-ziq (Auteurs), AFX (Saint Etienne, Curve) remixes which
turn out to be 'just' new tracks of the remixing artists...
About that Plaid thing, always thought Plaid was the pseudo used by Ken (the
third Black Doggie) but this seems to be wrong, apologies...
Track C2 is more up-tempo using the 'typical' BDP synths. D1 is a real
combination of U.N.K.L.E. and Black Dog.. synergy at last..
But the other even aren't less. How I dare to say. Check out all tracks!
Like those cool breakbeats in C1 and track A1 which has a lot of samples
from the answering machine from James Lavelle like there is DJ Shadow, Ski..
And the Postishead remix which is a *real* Portishead remix
To me the best Mo Wax release but that's maybe because I'm more into techno
and (psycho)ambient and not into jazz... wow!! how narrow minded ;-)
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Even Bush has gone into the jazambient hop things like Mo Wax (good trend
followers they are..) I mean I don't have any Bush records but I thought they
were more into 'swinging techno'..
Well the record goes more into techno as Mo Wax does.. it's sounds a bit
like the track Ensemble on the Elegy EP on ART records (#006). I don't know
if there's an official release.. It has test on the label of mine (or should
that be the artist?). I think it's a one-sided promo. Only one track but
really cool! It was produced by S. James, D. Jones and C. Child.. Never
heard of them.. Maybe someone did?
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The Portishead 12" is their third 12" of the album Dummy (to me the greatest
album of 1994, maybe cause there weren't much good ones..). After Numb and
Sour Times. Just like Sour Times there's the orginal, two remixes with vocals
and one instrumental (how about some new?), and again it's that wonderful
voice of Beth Gibbons which keeps me putting this record on and on...
Just buy..
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btw. just purchase that Black Dog record saturday.. It has 19 tracks on it..
But it has some 'bolts' but besides those there are 12 real cool tracks left
to listen to.. AND IT'S on WARP! The Black Dog don't want to and isn't going
to do anything with GPR (just as Terrace does... GPR R.I.P.)
It's sleeve isn't done by the designer republic. As 'different' as they want
to be.. Inside of the sleeve Ken Downie delivers us a great computernetwork.
Also there are apologies for unanswered letters and mail.
1995 definitely starts great! :)))))
Cheers! Peel Seamus