This time: music from the U.K., mostly as a pair, new & classic ones, UK Dance & Brit Pop, heroes of the 1990s and beyond.
Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, brought the track Brimful of Asha by his remix to the dancefloor in 1997. In 2009, Tjindar Singh and Ben Ayers a.k.a. Cornershop have published a great feel good album with Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast which comprises all the best of their sound between Asian Beats and Brit Pop.
The duo Goldfrapp always reinvent themselves anew. This was already the case when they have let succeed the Electro Pop album Black Cherry (2003) to their debut Felt Mountain, then they created the better Confessions On A Dancefloor album (Madonna): Supernature (2005). Last, they did the Folk influenced Seventh Tree (2008). The new release Head First is for the dancefloor again, but this time their tracks are inspired by the 1970’s Disco era, e.g. the beautiful Alive .
Faithless who invented the maybe most cool songline of all times with God Is A DJ  , are also still alive by continuously publishing new releases. Though they never reinvent themselves, they continue to spin their catchy sounds further on for the album The Dance and the first single Not Going Home: It’s not over. I’m not going home, til’ I can take you with me. This is not worldshaking, but quite okay.
The Anglo-Indian Brit Pop band Kula Shaker was quite successful in the 1990s (Govinda , Tattva ). Then they were vanished before they tried a not so successful comeback in 2007. But now they have published the amazing new Brit Pop album Pilgrim’s Progress with an obituary for Peter Pan (Peter Pan R.I.P ).
Dreadzone is also a band from the 1990s (Little Britain 1995, Earth Angel 1997), their sound was/is a mixture of hypnotic Dance, Dub, sometimes Celtic melodies. They’re back with Eye On The Horizon, Yeah Man! is a Breakbeat track with slight Dubstep influences, isn’t it?
Neil Hannon a.k.a. The Divine Comedy delivers the hymn of the Indie disco. Afterwards, the disco is full of Indian Village Vibez by Osmani Soundz (from the first Nasha compilation Eastern Drum & Breaks, 2003). The Blaqstarr remix of XXXO , the most catchy song from the new M.I.A. album Maya, reminds me of the track before. Then, a heavier track: a Drum’n'Bass remix of Paper Planes of the predecessor album Kala. Paper Planes is also known from the soundtrack of the B/Hollywood film Slumdog Millionaire.
Shara Nelson is known from Massive Attacks Unfinished Sympathy (Blue Lines 1991). Now, Calibre has created a Drum’n'Bass remix of the 1998’s Sense Of Danger feat. Shara Nelson which is accompanied with the title track of her 1993 solo album What Silence Knows. This mood is kept by the ambient The Dim Light by the DnB DJ D-Bridge. Before the lights in the disco will be completely switched off, Dreadzone whispers Just Let Go .
In the following, there are the links for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud as well as the playlist.
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2010-08-23: UK Disco”
23 August 2010 | iskra | →  Deutsch
File under: Asian Beats, Big Beats, Brazilian Beats, Dubstep, Global Beats, Jazz, Latin Beats, Transglobal Beats, TripHop, X Beats, Flying Sparks, Recent listening
Before there will be a new Flying Sparks mix set (soon), here a flashback to one from October 2009: At that time I searched my vinyls to prepare a party and found the following. I hope, you’ll like the mix set between Funk, Big Beats, mashups, Bollywood and Global Beats and with some references to film classics.
The musical trip starts in the East (not the Middle nor the Far East), but in the eastside of Germany, because there is a really cool soundtrack of an espionage TV series (Das unsichtbare Visier) from the late 60’s. After that we listen to some Hollywood classics (Getaway, Get Carter, Enter The Dragon, Shaft), get some tunes from Egypt, Morocco, Bollywood, Peru, and Brazil. Finally, we come back to Europe and listen to some Asian dubstep tracks from the UK.
Please note, the mix set is split into two parts. The break is after the Letta Mbulu classic What Is Wrong With Groovin’? . If anybody has an answer to this, she/he can message me…
In the following, there are the links for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud as well as the playlist.
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2009-10-28: Yippie Yippie Yeah!”
23 May 2010 | iskra | → Deutsch
File under: Arabian Beats, Asian Beats, Deutschbeats, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep, Global Beats, Latin Beats, Mashups, Transglobal Beats, Türk Beats, X Beats, Flying Sparks, Recent listening
Ascension.
The trip starts in Argentina, we stay over in Damascus, make a detour to Berlin, then we travel along the Eastern highway. The journey ends on a strawberry field where we together with Zoe meet very closely the levitating president.
The music on our trip? Cumbia, Arabic and Indian sounds between jazz and electronics, German pop, bass-driven music between drum’n'bass and dubstep as well as Beatles sounds from Mumbai, Istanbul and Washington.
Remark:
I ran riot during the Headhunter & Djunya vs. Indigo’s tracks.
As already mentionend in the Flying Sparks post before, here now both the Milanese remix of Jahcoozi’s Close To Me and the dubstep interpretation of The Beatles’s Hey Jude by David Starfire. ‘cos it was so cool, we continue with the Turkish adaptation of Love Me Do by the D.E.F. Orkestra, the Indian version of Tomorrow Never Knows by Studio Pagol, Strawberry Fields Forever as a fidget house mashup, and conclude with Yesterday in the original. All my troubles seemed so far away… Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
In the following, there are the links for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud. Have fun!
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2010-05-13: Ascension”
I’ve just browsed through some nice music on a Sunday evening in April… It resulted in a mix between cool jazzy, Latin, Balkan and Bollywood tunes, I hope.
One of my all-time favourites is the track I Love My Baby by the United Future Organization, here in a Norman Cook & Ashley Slater remix. The track got a new reverence by the The Jivers on the Jazz & Milk-Compilation Jazz & Milk Breaks Vol. 3.
Recently, I listened to the remix compilation I Like It Like That of Fania Latin classics in more detail. I already had put the remix of La Lupe’s interpretation of Fever into my 2009 review. Now I discovered another track on that compilation: Ray Barretto’s O Elefante in the SSH remix is really cool!
Miss Platnum’s If You Were Mine was also already in my 2009 review. She used a sample of a cool Bollywood tune which is on the Bombay Connection compilation Bombshell – Baby of Bombay: Kahan Hai Woh Diwana .
Apropos cover versions: Listening to the Balkan track of Fanfare Ciocarlia, I remembered Cake’s interpretation of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps . Then another one, perhaps? – Okay, the version of Sunray… Finally I digged out an older track from Fatboy Slim and one from Moby.
Here the links for a listening @ Mixcloud:
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2010-04-11: On a Sunday Night in April”
30 October 2009 | iskra | → Deutsch
File under: Asian Beats, Balkan Beats, Bulgarian Beats, Deutschbeats, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep, House, Review, Russian Beats, Transglobal Beats, TripHop, Flying Sparks, Recent listening
The summer is gone. We have autumn now. But, let us look back to late summer time and to great music, I enjoyed in that time:
First, there is the the long awaited debut album Rise from the project Black Canvas, who are Mr. Melody, Rider Shafique and King Chubby J., already well-known from the work with Pressure Drop.  Some tracks were already published as 12″s, now the album with quite nice reggae, breakbeats, drum’n'bass and hip hop tracks.
Lynx & Kemo gave a nice DJ & MC set in Icon club in Berlin some months ago. Their album The Raw Truth provides very interesting and varied drum’n'bass tracks and beyond.
Miss Platnum’s brand new album The Sweetest Hangover is the continuation of her successful fusion of Balkan tradition and soulful R’n'B music. There is a wonderful cover of Kate Bush’s Babooshka song.
Switch & Diplo, who provide crazy mashups sometimes, released a funny album full of disco, dancehall, hip hop, baile funk spirits: Guns don’t kill, lazers do!
The fusion of house with 1920’s coffee house, charleston & Balkan styles is characteristic for Parov Stelar. He did it again in Coco, his new 2CD album. Between pop and dancefloor. And I like it. And Monster is a monster track. And Nosferatu is cool, too.
There are also new and exciting dubstep tracks by the Bassbin Twins (Woppa), Quest & Mutiny (One Big Rhyme), Ramadanman (this artist name is really brilliant, Revenue) and DJ Wonder (What including the Caspa remix). The last one is not really new, because it is from 2008.
I listened to some Asian Beats tracks, too. Joi (Without Zero picked once again) vs. Parov Stelar (see above), Ed Solo & Skool of Thought (When I Was A Yout is almost already a classic) meet Chase & Status in an Eastern Jam (an Asian Dubstep monster), and MIDIval PunditZ (on the new Ethnotechno’s Revolution Rising compilation, but they also released their new album Hello Hello on Six Degrees Records) in the mix. Also new stuff from OMFO (“our man from Odessa”). The Ukrainian who lives in the Netherlands investigates the Oriental tradition of the former Southern Soviet Union’s countrysides (album Omnipresence). And I also listened to the classic track OK from Talvin Singh, because he was in Berlin recently giving a concert. The newly released sampler Eastern Standard Time (compiled by Alien Disko, label Weltraum Disk) consists of cool, funky, sometimes crazy tracks from the Far and Middle East. Let’s dance.
Furthermore, wonderful, not necessarily new music from Le Peuple de l’Herbe feat. JC001 (album Cube), Indian Ropeman (album Elephant Sound from the 1990ies is still cool!), Dhoop Sticks (German project with Indian music, album Indian Traffic), Thom (album Istory provides very beautiful electro pop songs from Germany), and Stoyan Yankoulov & Elitsa Todorova (Drumboy) from Bulgaria. Kinny & Horne cover the Reggae classic Bam Bam from Sister Nancy (12″ Us On Fire Ep from the cutting-edge label Tru Thoughts).
Furthermore, new studio and concert recordings as well as new remixes (e.g. from DJ Spooky) from the terrific debut Orphica are released by the London based Greek musician Mikhail on his lovingly designed 3 CD box Morphica.
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