MC Slave (aka Loggy Log aka Mark Williams) & Chopper Reeds (aka Doughboy aka Scott 'The Power' Towers) playing good music from across the ages.
OLD DOGS - NEW TRICKSMC Slave (FFD) & Chopper Reeds (FFD)Racket Bar - Fri 24th May - FREE ENTRY
Bastard Jazz is proud to present The Love EP from Cork, Ireland based DJ and producer Colm K. Colm, a 2009 graduate of the Red Bull Music Academy, has been making waves for a few years now through after his debut Basics 12" for Bastard Jazz and a 7" and a 10" released on sublabel BSTRD Boots (the latter of which is sold out and regularly changes hands for upwards of $50 on eBay and Discogs), and recently shared billing with Mr. Scruff on a Hypnotic Brass Ensemble remix 12" on Choice Cuts.
Here on The Love EP, Colm's musical vision has truly matured on a fully realized 12" that draws on such disparate influences as Herbie Hancock, 80's boogie, J-Dilla, vintage House music, Floating Points and Q-Tip productions. Things kick off with "The Attic", paying homage to the classic " " by " " with it's immediate synths coupled with hard hitting boom-bap drums, rhythmic percussion, deep bass, and twinkling keys before transforming into a seriously bouncey boogie bounce midway through. Next up, "Nothing" works in a "Love Hangover" inspired vocal line sung by ______ with it's booming kicks, astrologically inspired synth leads and acoustic guitar stretches. On the flip, "Good Fridays" bumps nice and tough with it's neck-snapping drums, synth chords and plunging sub-bass before a midway changeup into a seriously deep piano driven monster - a perfect late night surprise. The EP rounds off with the 63 BPM cosmic jam that is "Spaced" with it's slap bass and delayed synths sitting perfectly in the pocket. Art for the EP comes from graphic artist Donal Thorton, notable for Onra's Long Distance cover, and many of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble covers on Choice Cuts.
Getting upfront play from Lefto, Kev Beadle, Robert Luis (Tru Thoughts), Nickodemus, Garth Trinidad (KCRW), Bradley Zero (Boiler Room)
I BELIEVE YOU ARE A STAR is a collection of magazine interviews written between 1992 and 2003 by Peter McLennan. He talked to locals just starting their recording careers (P-Money, Stellar, SJD, Black Seeds), through to established artists (Salmonella Dub, Shayne Carter, Bailter Space). They are fascinating insights of where these artists were at, and provide a look into their creative process.
The book launch will be held at Conch Records, 115a Ponsonby rd, from 3pm, Saturday May 25th, with special all-NZ vinyl DJ set from Dylan C. Books on sale on the day - first 25 copies come with a free mix CD of recordings mentioned in the book. Read about the artists and listen to them at the same time!
Before starting his blog Dubdotdash in 2003, Peter was a freelance magazine journalist for a handful of magazines, including Real Groove, North and South, NZ Musician, Rip It Up, Pavement, Selector, Planet, Lava and Stamp. This collection of interviews draws together some of the articles he wrote and is focussed on local musicians, DJs and artists.
There's some interesting threads in these interviews, like Stellar discussing their sizeable album budget and comparing it to what Straitjacket Fits or JPSE got, then Fiona McDonald having a similar conversation round her album budget, citing JPSE and Stellar.
There's Tigilau Ness (Che Fu’s dad) talking about how he got sent to prison after the 1981 Springbok tour protests, which is a pretty heavy story. Tigilau got chucked out of school for refusing to cut his afro, how staunch is that?
Or Shayne Carter, explaining why he didn’t want to send out advance copies of his debut album as Dimmer (after making me sit with him in the Sony boardroom and listen to the album in its entirety), and me suggesting that if I’d had the album before the interview, I could've written some pertinent questions. To which Shayne replied with words to the effect of “Oh, I didn’t think of that.”
Peter says “I got to meet some fascinating people writing these pieces. I feel very lucky to have met them - that’s part of the reason why I got into magazine writing. I wanted to meet these creative people and find out their process, and they turned out to be people I’d want to meet anyway.”
Other interviews include... SJD, Pitch Black, Sola Rosa, HDU, Darcy Clay, Graffiti art in Aotearoa: DLT, Otis Frizzell & Dan Tippett, Roger Perry, Dawn Raid, Kog Transmissions, Subliminals, Solid Gold Hell, Weta, Hinewehi Mohi, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Phase 5, Jakob, DJ Sir-Vere and the ITF DJ champs • PLUS: articles on the Aotearoa Hiphop Summit 2001 (and a NZ hiphop timeline), and the state of NZ music videos in 1992, and 1999.
Peter McLennan is a writer, musician, DJ, graphic designer, blogger and pop culture fiend, based in Auckland, New Zealand. The book is published independently by Dunbar Noon Publishing, thru the print on demand service, Createspace (book/e-book). Book design by Peter McLennan. RRP $20.00.
Jamaican R&B and the Birth of Ska! It took years for ska music to become an overnight success. When tunes like 'My Boy Lollipop' hit the airwaves in Britain in the sixties, most listeners assumed that the odd and addictive back-to-front beat was something dreamed up in the studio the month before. Some realised that the music had connections with Jamaica, but few people knew that the genre had been gestating for some years. The music owed some debt to Jamaica's indigenous folk music, mento, but the strongest, most obvious ingredient of ska was American r&b. By the close of the 1950s the advent of record pressing facilities on the island had enabled records to be manufactured, without sending tapes to Britain and waiting for records to be shipped back. A number of enterprising Jamaicans began to supervise recording session and released the results on their own labels. Compiled by specialist black music writer Mike Atherton (Record Collector, Echoes), Youths Boogie portrays the popular music of Jamaica in the period 1959 to 1962, before it became formally known as ska, but by which time most of the characteristics of ska were present and correct, alongside the influences of American r&b. Disc One showcases the productions of Chris Blackwell, a white Jamaican who ran the local R&B and Island labels, before moving his operation to Britain, and Duke Reid, who ran the Trojan sound system, and issued many of his productions on the Duke Reid's label, before founding the famous Treasure Isle label in the sixties. Disc Two looks at the productions of other individuals like Simeon Smith, Charlie Moo, Dada Tewari, Byron Lee, Roy Robinson, Vincent Chin and the London-based Sonny Roberts, who were all vying to make names for themselves. Taking its name from a Rico instrumental, Youths Boogie features the work of male solo artists like Laurel Aitken, Owen Gray, Derrick Morgan, Wilfred "Jackie" Edwards, groups such as Derrick Harriott's Jiving Juniors and the Blues Busters, male/female duos Derrick & Patsy, Roy & Millie, and Keith & End, as well as a rare (for this era) solo female outing by Hortense Ellis. Tracks by Charlie Babcock, Al T Joe and Lloyd Williams are making their debut on CD. As well as Mike's notes, the 20pp booklet features a wealth of Jamaican and British label shots. SIDE ONE 1. Boogie in My Bones (Laurel Aitken) 2. Please Let Me Go (Owen Gray) 3. What Makes Honey (Duke Reid) 4. Tell Me Darling (Wilfred Jackie Edwards) 5. Lost My Baby (The Blues Busters) 6. Baby Baby Baby (Charlie Babcock) 7. One Kiss for My Baby (Lord Lebby) 8. Let the Good Times Roll (Derrick and Patsy) SIDE TWO 1. Parapinto Boogie (Lloyd Clarke) 2. Midnight (Hortense Ellis) 3. Mitty Gritty (Ernest Ranglin) 4. I Feel Good (Owen Gray) 5. Slop 'n' Mash (The Jiving Juniors) 6. Morning Train (Errol Dixon) 7. Crazy Dog (The Beans) 8. Midnight Love (The Downbeats ) SIDE THREE 1. Running Around (Owen Gray) 2. Early One Morning (The Blues Busters) 3. Dumplins (Byron Lee and The Dragonaires) 4. I Pray for You (Derrick Morgan) 5. Crackers Rush (Bobby Aitken) 6. Dream Girl (Ricketts and Rowe) 7. If It's Money You Need (Laurel Aitken) 8. Joy Ride (Byron Lee and The Dragonaires) SIDE FOUR 1. Sugar Dandy (The Jiving Juniors) 2. Midnight Track (Owen Gray) 3. Let Me Dream (Alton and Eddy) 4. Nobody Else (Owen Gray) 5. Youths Boogie (Rico's Combo) 6. Stop, Look and Listen (Al T Joe) 7. Misery (Lloyd Williams) 8. Worried Over You (Keith and Enid)
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