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Henry Snowstorm meets MC Jon Wayne

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Four Henry Snowstorm beats have been used on the recently released DannyHouse EP by MC Jon Wayne.

MC Jon Wayne - DannyHouse EP
1. Read The Script
2. Sexual Harassment*
3. Not Bombs*
4. Lyrical Diabetes*
5. Interlude
6. Don't You Think?*
7. Garbage Rhymes

These beats were originally available on the Henry Snowstorm instrumental album Civil Unrest.

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Henry Snowstorm
Civil Unrest album (free download)
Homepage: http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/henrysnowstorm/
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/henrysnowstorm
MC Jon Wayne
DannyHouse EP (free download)
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/captaincookiejw

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble : War / Mercury 10" single

This record just arrived in the post, so I slapped it on the turntable and immediately the clouds parted and the sun began to shine, a feeling began to develop inside and a smile appeared on my face. Music rarely gets as good as this!

Here are the cover notes…

THE SONGS ON THIS RECORD ARE A PAIR OF FIGHT SONGS

"War" is pure battle sound from beginning to end; it draws your blood and attunes you to the conflict you face. Any master fighter can tell you the realest war is not the one flashing on your television or the one sparking in these streets; it's the one waged within. We dedicate this song to all our gutter people in the world that they be spiritually uplifted and psychologically prepared for the struggles that surround them.

The tones in "Mercury" are based on an ancient Chinese weather tactic whereby an emperor, having assembled his troops for battle, would call on a priest or shaman to send rainstorms over a rival's army. But while that idea illustrates the scope of military theater, the song's solos represent the ritual of warfare from the perspective of a faceless soldier thousands of years ago; the preparation for battle, the drama of the battle itself and finally, the joy and elation a man feels when he's won the battle and rejoins his family in the village.

Limited to just 500 copies, so rush to it!

http://hypnoticbrass.blogspot.com/
www.myspace.com/hypnoticbusiness

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra live recordings

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modelled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, their music incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa. (quoting wikipedia)

The Internet Archive hosts 15 Antibalas live recordings which are all available for free download. So, what are you waiting for? If you wonder which to try first, Live at Culture Room on 2003-04-28 is not a bad place to start.

(If you wonder how to convert the different audio formats into something a bit more manageable, I recommend pacpl, the Perl Audio Convertor.)

Henry Snowstorm - Civil Unrest

Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Henry Snowstorm - Civil Unrest Henry Snowstorm has just released his first album, entitled 'Civil Unrest'. It's available as a free download from the Wild Beast, so head on over to www.thewildbeast.co.uk/henrysnowstorm/ and give it a listen.

File it under beats, under hip-hop, under jazz, under funk, under leftfield, file it under whatever you want – it's an entirely instrumental, 27-track album.

conflict is part of existence and nothing is gained without struggle

Mute Groups

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Mute Groups is a new feature in the CVS version of Hydrogen, the drum machine for GNU/Linux. Hydrogen is a great program and a lot of fun to use too. Mute Groups allows you to add 2 or more instruments to the group, say an open hihat and a closed hihat, and a beat on one member of the group mutes all other members of the group, allowing a more realistic, human-sounding rhythm. Fantastic. Future plans for Hydrogen include a simple chord and bassline editor.

FAVE 2005

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

I heard about this event recently. Music production, sound recording, Trinity Road (ex-)Church, sounds good.

"FAVE is a community event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. It's taking place on Saturday August 20th 2005 at the Trinity Community & Arts Centre in Bristol, UK." www.fave.org.uk

Sound Mirrors

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Sound Mirror Although an instrument of war, the Sound Mirrors' harnessing of sound is an interesting phenomenon. …The mirror was shaped to form part of a sphere and a sound collector was mounted on a pivot at the focal point. The collector was usually a trumpet shaped cone connected to the ears of the listener with rubber tubes … He rotated the sound collector horizontally with a hand wheel and vertically by way of foot pedals…

Early warning sound mirrors
The Hythe sound mirror system

Related: Clock DVA Sound Mirror 12"
Clock DVA Sound Mirror

slab of blue wax

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Blue Print

Lately I've been (re)discovering the appeal of 7" and 12" pieces of grooved, circular plastic - probably it is at least a little tinged with nostalgia. This (pictured) promo that I received recently, (Blueprint, Print Is Goin' Off/No Half Smokin', Rhymesayers BLPT-001), with its blue vinyl, brought back some memories of a handful of Dickies singles that I had as a kid, all of which were released on coloured vinyl, (as were several other A&M releases of the time). What a good feeling it seemed to give me watching it spinning on the turntable - kids can be so easily amused!

I sold my turntable a looooooooong time ago, but I'm considering getting another one soon - there are several good things coming out on vinyl-only releases, particularly instrumental versions of hiphop albums. Vinyl is Not Dead!

Currently listening to: Orchestre Régional de Kayes, "Sanjina" World Psychedelic Classics 3 (on CD!)

… Well baby, your play gives my wig a solid flip…

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

"The daWB must have slack" and a little boogie woogie with that is just the tonic: Freddie Slack, "House of Blue Lights" (streaming audio).

Also of note in the Mosaic Select series, Grachan Moncur III, "Hipnosis" (streaming audio).

If I had one of those amazonian want lists, these 2 would probably be on it.

The Stones Throw website has announced a Madlib and Melvin Van Peebles project, Brer Soul Meets Quasimoto, that should be hot!

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