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BHP MUSIC
BOB MARLEY REMIXED by Asphalt Jungle: The electronic duo were given access to the Marley vaults and they chose to add their vision to deep catalog items that haven’t been given the revamping by others yet. Taking the opportunity to bring the catalog into the 21st Century, the AJ duo apply their magic to the tracks starting by making the Marley vocals so present that it sounds like he’s in the room singing right to you. Apparently all acts of genius need to be updated. When it’s done in worthy hands, the results, like the ones here, are killer. Totally hot stuff that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
30010
MASSIVE MUSIC
STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS/Our Moon is Full: New kids on the Barry Adamson roster lie some old wisdoms to waste. People were pissed when Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard weren’t in the same studio when they dueted on “Pancho & Lefty”. This crew of 9 musicians and their confederates weren’t even on the same continents when they recorded this via Internet. Feeling like an experimental soundtrack with touches from all the great foreign composers in tow, this crew is cutting edge all the way. Their work fuses a great deal of modes and feelings into the kind of set a college kid that hates the mainstream would love. With the pedigrees of the gang on board, you can’t go wrong if this is the kind of thing that’s up your alley.
5 (Central Control International)
EVAN BARTHOLOMEW/Borderlands: A classical pianist with a fondness for Eno that gets his kicks by being a DJ, Bartholomew ditches his Bluetech persona to put himself front and center as a new ambient star. Different from a lot of other ambient works by being denser and more compostionally oriented, Bartholomew breaks new ground in a genre that has a tendency to marginalize itself. This might be ground zero for 21st Century head music.
(New Land Music)
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
ZAP MAMA/Supermoon: A long, long way from her beginnings as the leader of an accapella quartet, Mama serves up a fully realized world beat set that pulls in loads of first call guests to fill out the sound into something wild and wonderful that brings world beat to the next level. Like nothing that she’s done before, this is the kind of music that open eared adults that used to buy music religiously would be compelled to pick up if they saw it in places they hang out now. A tasty set that will simply knock you out, you have to appreciate an artist that isn’t afraid to push the envelope and deliver killer results.
3132 (Head’s Up)
Volume 30/Number 260
July 18, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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