izborn

deep with k

- oh, i know this situation. he's listening to music and you don't know, what to do, do you? - asks a guy k in the record shop. k knows what to do in a record shop: she shows me some of her kind of tunes, she wants to listen to.

zero tolerance - brace/rearview ****
subtitles music 022, 2002
she said it's o.k. nice magical dnb, i liked this.

un-cut - fallin **
warner, 2003
- album version
- james yarden remix
- total science remix

we like un-cut. we really like them. but these remixes are tasteless and boring. that happens when you want to do a dnb remix, becouse the group's profile. it's like the koop remixes. you can't make dnb from everything.

futuro flamenco Vol.2 sample ***
outcaste, 2002
last a known label. i like outcaste recordings since christian showed me some of their compilations in i+i record store back in 2000, and since badmarsh and shri were here to give an open-air gig. well, she said this record's just average and boring. my expectations of asian drums and instruments weren't fulfilled neigher, but i liked this too.

and here are my choices:

a fingerlickin sample ?*?
fingerlickin, 2002
wanna be original? wanna be hypertrendy? then buy this one! it'll cost you an arm (4500HUF~20E), but do not care this vinyl contains the purest fingerlicking silence right from london town! well, some beats can disturb you, cos after 30 seconds of pure fingerlickin silence comes the beat of a well known fingerlickin tune... ok, i'm jokin, but i know, i could't do anything with this records. this one is for the real dj's.

apollo kids: the wrath ****
fat!004, 2003

A1 The Wrath
B1 Front Line

yammie, fine breakz. yamm, yamm, yamm...

one note samba

it's a hidden fave of mine, hidden in my medulla oblongata it's so familiar, so well-known, so aboriginal. every big name played this song, like quincy jones, frank sinatra, dizzy gillespie, perry-kinsley, even ugly duckling made a cover version. so you're ready for a little sing-a-long? it willn't be hard, it's about to sing one note, alright? o.k. ready, steady, go!

This is just a little samba, built upon a single note. Other notes are sure to follow, but the root is still that note ... Now this new note is the consequence of the one we've just been through As I'm bound to be the unavoidable consequence of you ... There's so many people who can talk and talk and talk And just say nothing or nearly nothing I have used up all the scale I know and at the end I've come To nothing I mean nothing So I come back to my first note as I must come back to you I will pour into that one note all the love I feel for you Any one who wants the whole show show do-re-mi-fa-so-la-si-do He will find himself with no show better play the note you know.

daddy - comeback ****
fat!, 2003

Daddy - Comeback (friendly rmx)
Daddy - Comeback

i was looking for some fresh fingerlickin' breaks in afrofilia records on tuesday. well, they were out of stock but dj caretaker said it'll be good. he was right. this dirty dirty noisy break is just like a male pair of skeewiff (if that'd be female). it contains a brilliant sample by jimmy hendrix, so it'd be endurable for people they dont like breakbeat. endurable? they'd be jumping and dancing like crazy mice!

skeewiff - cruise controll *****
jalapeno, 2002

1. Prelude
2. Cruise Control
3. Nitty Gritty
4. Watermelon Man
5. Feelin’ Fine
6. Theme From Dave Allen
7. Now Im Livin’ For Me
8. Pinstripe
9. The Bone – Part One
10. Overdrive
11. Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya
12. Armageddon
13. Booty Shaker
14. The Bone – Part Two
15. Coming Home Baby
16. Badinerie

that's not fair! why i didn't know this group? i mean, i knew almost every song, played in different sets by ursula1000, suhaid and negró but... why i didn't know the artist? why i didn't have this record earlier? why? it's full of party, full of overdriven emotions, you just jump up and down even while your sit in a chair, even while you work or travel on the tram. and you jump up and down in parties when you here this beat.

that's the ultimate iZborn music. you've got the well known jazz-funk theme's played on horns, hammonds, flutes, then you've got that female vocal, that 120 bpm, the instruments, the scratch, the hip-hop flavour, that black feeling... the only thing i'm missing is just the high-speed-dubbed rap.

again a good advice from dj caretaker

dj smash - phonography 2 ***
blue note, march 2003

1 Street Sounds (Charlie Hunter feat. Mos Def)
2 Poetry In Motion (Greg Osby)
3 Bridge To Bama (Dub) Hi Tek Remix (Soulive feat. Talib Kweli / Hi Tek Remix)
4 Kiss - DJ Smash Remix (Bob Belden Project feat. Jimi Tunel / DJ Smash mix)
5 Magrouni (Erik Truffaz / Imhotep remix)
6 Jazz Mediterranee - Koop Remix (Henri Salvador)
7 Battlefield - Joe Claussell Remix (Wild Magnolias)
8 Into The Dark (Marc Moulin)
9 So Flute- original mix (St. Germain)
10 Mesquelero- original mix (Goran Kajfes)
11 Pat & Joe- DJ Smash Remix (Bobby McFerrin)
12 Belmondo's Lip - DJ Spooky Remix (Don Byron)
13 Uninvisible - DJ Smash Remix (Medeski Martin & Wood)
14 Come Together- DJ Kingsize Remix (Bob Belden Project feat. Cassandra Wilson & Dianne Reeves)
15 Planet Rock (Jason Moran)

nice mix from blue note records. you don't have any idea of music when you wanna cook? well, that a good choice. it begins with downtempo, then you get some kitchen-house music, and at the end comes the drum and bass, so everybody will be happy. just play it softly!

king of woolworths - l'illustration musicale *****
mantra recordings, 2003

01 G-Plan
02 Montparnasse
03 Sell Me Back My Soul
04 Hub 100 
05 Evelsong
06 123 (Brillo's Beat)
07 Delia Derbyshire
08 Nuada09 A12
10 This Is Radio Theydon

king of woolworths again, cos i forget how great this album is.

Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko OST ***
Enjoy 2002

1. Carpathian Ridge
2. The Tangent Universe
3. The Artifact & Living
4. Middlesex Times
5. Manipulated Living
6. Philosophy of Time Travel
7. Liquid Spear Waltz
8. Gretchen Ross
9. Burn it to the Ground
10. Slipping Away
11. Rosie Darko
12. Cellar Door
13. Ensurance Trap
14. Waltz in the 4th Dimension
15. Time Travel
16. Did you Know Him?
17. Mad World
18. Mad World (remix version)

I'm still under the influence of yesterdays movie donnie darko. it's music's worth too to listen to. well, you can't use this CD on a party, but while you work, you should get a try and listen to the record just to get yourself in the mood and increase your effectivity. i fell in love with the waltzes the album contains, and there's a masterpiece cover of the Tears for fears song Mad World. A Jewel.

Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair [REMASTERED] ****
universal, 1985/2001

1. Shout
2. Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants to Rule the World
4. Mothers Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head over Heals/Broken [Live]
8. Listen
9. Big Chair [Bouns] [Mix]
10. Empire Building [Bonus] [Mix]
11. Marauders [Bonus] [Mix]
12. Broken Revisted [Bonus] [Mix]
13. Conflict [Bonus] [Mix]
14. Mothers Talk [Bonus Beats]
15. Shout [Bonus Beats]

yesterday we've seen the movie donnie darko. it had been a great movie, you'll love it, like everybody did love memento. anyway, this isn't a movieblog. so, the movie features a lot of 80's music, among others two tracks from Tears for Fears. My sister did love this group, and i was tolerating that hcmf 80's sound, except the sowing the seeds of love and woman in chains (they were my fave tracks really). but after a while i had to admit, that i love this band more than my sister does. And years after the last time i've been listening to T4F it hasn't change anything. Pure quality eightees. Roots.

plump djs - when the funk hit the fans/the gate *****
fingerlickin, 2003

must get this one. eddie bo's vocal is like an atheist preacher, the djs are doing their breaking thing, and the result is just a perfect party record. i can't imagine that there'd say anybody that you can't move to this beat. the gate means just a nice B side for me.