the ultrahang reports

AGF (D) The german way to being Laurie Anderson. In the second part I was sleeping. That was good.
Goem (NL) Thats all eye-wash. Minimal.
Vladislav Delay (SF) The funny feminine blond guy made skandinavian rainforest music.
Frank Bretschneider (D) They said it was really fine. I was talking to my gf. That was nice too.
Wasteland (UK/USA) Experimental break, i liked it for 10 minutes.
Belgradeyard Sound System (YU) The serbian did it again. 210 bpm hardcore jazz break, senor coconut and billy jean, penality drum and bass, silent break song by Hal9000, oh my god, they were ... this time, i'd say quite interesting. they're like nannies in an industrial kindergarten.

timo maas - music for the maases vol.2.***
Kinetic Records, august 2003

1. Young Fresh and New (Timo Maas rmx) - Kelis
2. Breaking Up The Girl (Timo Maas rmx) - Garbage
3. See (Timo Maas rmx) - Starecase
4. Unite (Exclusive Track) - Timo Maas
5. Familiar Feelings (Timo Maas rmx) - Moloko 
6. Subfreakie (Timo Maas rmx) - Haktan O'nal
7. Overdrive (Timo Maas rmx) - Spice 69
8. Never Gonna Come Back Down (Timo Maas rmx) - Bt
9. We Are All Made Of Stars (Timo Maas Dub rmx) - Moby
10. Special K (Timo Maas Full Vocal rmx) - Placebo

best german music for a menthal genocide. if you're listen to it you can't feel the fear, the pain, you're just do what you have to do. best music for monday morning to start your week. wow, another flat break deep house record from the masturbating german giant. my fave remixes: garbage, kelis & moloko.

Belgradeyard Sound System Live @ Ultrahang



The belgradian djs are coming to town again to play their jazzy experimental ambient dance music. Check out their page. I'm very very curious.

the bobby hughes combination - nhu golden era ****
stereo deluxe, october 2002

1. Nhu Golden Era
2. Clive the Runner
3. Moogjuus
4. Nhu Beginin
5. MC Arthurs Break
6. Olympic Girls
7. Karins Kerma
8. Harp Junction
9. Nattergalen
10. Brass Interruption
11. Magnificent Mr. Morgan
12. Microneseren

another great record i didn't know. i mean i knew the songs, of course i knew, i use to visit those crate soul pressure parties, and listen to their radio show, but i didn't know the name bobby hughes combination. funky jazzy record, high fidelity easy listening, afro percussions and hammonds, black female vocal, everything what you need if you wanna have a great record for the finest moments. i like it like it.

it's strange how many great records i get in the last days. what's happening? it's got something to mean.

mc kay ****
go beat, may 2003

1. Intro
2. Tell him
3. Bluesin' it
4. Sadder day
5. Thinking of you
6. How long
7. Rising tide
8. Loving you
9. Take me over
10. Five days of faith
11. Thadius star
12. Echo

this is what you get, when portishead and a black magic woman creates a record, and it's landing in spityu' hands. soft hip-hop, real future-erotic-rnb, well, yamm... yamm...

rem - reveal
warner, 2001

1. The Lifting
2. I've Been High
3. All the Way to Reno
4. She Just Wants To Be
5. Disappear
6. Saturn Return
7. Beat a Drum
8. Imitation Of Life
9. Summer Turns To High
10. Chorus & The Ring
11. I'll Take The Rain
12. Beachball

no. i can't stop to listening to rem, my music. the words of the confused lyrics are going to be set together in michael's voice and the harmonies by the instruments, like mandoline, harpsicord, accoustic guitar... all that were forgotten since automatic for the people. autumn's here, i told you. now sweeter you're so sugar sweet you may as well have 'kick me' fastened on your sleeve you know what you are you're gonna be a star.

rem - up
warner, 1998

1. Airportman
2. Lotus
3. Suspicion
4. Hope
5. At My Most Beautiful
6. The Apologist
7. Sad Professor
8. You're in the Air
9. Walk Unafraid
10. Why Not Smile
11. Daysleeper
12. Diminished
13. Parakeet
14. Falls to Climb

i always liked this one of rem in my backbrain. i didn't know why, but i played this one always, when i was sick, tired, sad, disappointed or when i was just down in the dumps. this - i think the most - philosophical rem record helped me always when i was down. after this crazy day, this was the half of the cure. i'm the screen, the blinding light i'm the screen, i work at night. i see today with a newsprint fray my night is colored headache grey don't wake me with so much daysleeper.

ralph myerz & jack harren - special album ****
emperor norton, may 2003

1. Here Is Love
2. Nikita
3. Casino
4. Think Twice
5. You Never Come Closer
6. A Special Morning
7. Feel It
8. Funky Biznizz
9. Savannah
10. Lullaby

after i've been uploading this album to my mobile, pushing the shuffle button, i was thinking, this will be another three star downtempo record. it'd be nice just to forget this crazy day, just to relax, switch off my toughts on the tram. well, i was wrong. after the second random track my feet started to beat the rhythm, turned the volume up, and i knew it isn't another average downtempo thing. ok, it's not skeewiff, but more than i was expecting. well done. i like it.

dj miss bliss ''search to lose'' *****

miss bliss and her mix again. after being really pissed off and then being tired i'm just listening that sweet female vocal. miss bliss heals. she knows how to put your pieces together with fine breakz.

the soft pink truth **
soundslike,april 2003

everybody's soft
gender studies
promofunk
make up
coat you
soft on crime
for satie
soft pink missy
big booty bitches
over you (no love)
i want to thank you

i wanted to hear some soft technoid-like electro beep-beep background music. this has been sound like, but there are tracks made me very very nervous. two points. didn't like that much.

ps. "big booty bitches"'s that song i wanted to hear. yeah. terrific elecrto break techo hip-hop rap. yeah. party's not over.

koma & bones - black satsuma ****
tcr, august 2003

A Black Satsuma (8:03)
B Basic Emotion (7:50)

another great breakbeat release, the only problem is that i don't remember what the big shot in these songs were. i only know, that she whispered to me i've got this at home, so if you want to have it... of course. so i went to the next record.

doug lazy - let it roll (pussy2000 Remix) **
jalapeno, september 2002

Let It Roll
Let It Roll (Instrumental)

they say: Alternative pressing of this rework of Doug Lazy's 1989 hip house classic, this time remixed by Pussy 2000. Corker. I say: too housy, too dumb.

soul of man - back2back EP *****
fingerlickin, august 2003

A Kickback
AA Outback

they say:SOUL OF MAN'S LONG AWAITED NEW RELEASE IS HERE: PROGRESSIVE ACID SYNTHS, SLAMMIN BASS AND CUT-UP VOCALS ALL ROLLED IN WITH THIER TRADEMARK BEATS.

have you ever been waiting in the record shop to buy the brand new records? 'cos yesterday we did. that's a special feeling, when the postillion arrives with that big white blank box. these are fingerlickin vinyls says dj caretaker, and shows me the content. the case is full of magic, glittering fresh black vinyls, even before a noted dj should have touched. soul of man, stereo8, plump djs... i was really hesitating which one to buy, but i was sure in this one. it's that smartsoul of man sound, great drums and beats, bass, well.. i can't explain it, both tracks are great. i mean really great. best buy. and i'm really proud to have this one.

stereo 8 - groove diggin' / get above yourself ****
fingerlickin, 2003

A Groove Diggin
AA Get Above Yourself

great record, but Soul of Man was better. this one will be the next i'll buy. they say:Terrifyingly funky fat-ass grooves from Stereo 8 on yet another awesome 12" from Fingerlickin' Records - the A-side should be locked up for threatening behaviour.

Sidewinder - Ego Riot / Missing Link ***
fenetik, 11 august 2003

Ego Riot
Missing Link

...and this tiny 7". Yepp, it's a nice little 7". It's just a chilled break, nothing really special, but everybody do sometimes buy a record, just becouse it's got a nice sleeve art work. this little one has got a style. And it's printed in the Czech Republic, in the same manufacture where the Karel Gott LP's were printed. That's a perversion, i know.

adam freeland - tripped out (live in chicago) ****

hmmm... v says this isn't a good freeland set. why? after listening it for the fourth time it's getting just better and better. well, he's been in his dark downtempo mood, so all serene. you can't party all the time loudly losing your brain. it's for the quiet moments, for the silent parties. i'd enjoy it live as well. download starts 5...4...3...2...1...now.

best moments:
evil nine - crooked
(and the one after that)
freeland - burn the clock
kelis(?) vs tone lock - wild thang

soutien gorge - emotiv *and a half... maybe
cdr, 2003

01. 2002. hmm :)
02. Hányszor mondjam, hogy elég legyen?
03. Majdnem végleges
04. Viszonzatlan
05. Utolsó neked

ok, i agree i've got preconceptions. first of all: i'm not that big experimental-music expert, aphex twin or squarepusher weren't my fave artist never. second: i remember this guy from 030301, and that day he made me very angry. well, this tiny little album is just a compilation of notes and silent beeps. i miss that smashing emotion, that kindness, that humor and that conception i feel in music made by Tigrics. by the way Tigrics. his effect on S.G's music is more than just an influence, track 02's like a copycat of Tigrics musical joke "nem kell mindig keseregni". about the cover art i can't tell you anything, i'd be prejudiced. nice try, but i didn't like this album. it's not my style, this is

miriam makeba - keep me in mind ****
drg, 1970

1. Lumumba
2. For What It's Worth
3. Brand New Day
4. I Shall Sing
5. Kabala
6. In My Life
7. Down On The Corner
8. Ibande
9. Measure The Valley
10. Tululu

miriam makeba, the south african godess, how i missed you since A lost her LP. how i missed these african melodies packed in seventies jazz style, that pata-pata feeling, your powerful lovely voice, your survival and happiness in your sweet african songs. how i love you cover my fave beatles song in my life or that classic one for what it's worth. now i got you.

freeland - now and them *****
marine parade, september 2003

1. We Want Your Soul
2. Mind Killer
3. Burn The Clock
4. Big Wednesday
5. Heel ‘n’ Toe
6. Physical World
7. Supernatural Thing
8. Reality 3-D
9. L.I.F.E
10. Nowism

today's the day, now and them's out now in stores. mr freeland did the same as kosheen did to drum and bass, he made mainstream from breakbeat. well done, adam, this album's an overground masterpiece. o.k, we (adam freeland fans) knew a lot of these songs from his earlier sets, but i don't care, this album wouldn't be so coherent without the dark and powerful "burn the clock" (it's like army of me by björk) or the original version of the party anthem "supernatural thing". must have album of the year, like un-cut

seal - IV ***
warner, september 2003

Let Me Roll
Get It Together
Love's Divine
Waiting For You
My Vision
Don't Make Me Wait
Touch
Where There's Cold
Loneliest Star
Heavenly
Tinsel Town
Reprise

how i feel sorry for washing the dishes yesterday, cos this one could have fit.

today, one of my old fave artist seal came out with his 4th solo album. i was thinkin, let me check, cos his latest album human being showed some signs to go to digital. this time, under the arrangement of his good old pawl, trevor horn he's back to his second album, and that kiss from a rose style. hey, seal, it's 2003! come on, you could have been good!!! boring, overemotional ballads follows some funk based future-called songs. ok. i agree, the first "hit" song heavenly is really a good track, he sould have been follow this line... maybe the remixes. promise me, seal, you'll let remix these boring tracks!

off:tori
autumn's here, it's time to get your soft blanket. it's time to listen to tori amos. nuzzle close to me.

pest - necessary measures ***
ninja tune, march 2003

1. Chicken Spit
2. Duke Kerb Crawler
3. Jefferson Shuffle
4. Heard Yer Bird Moved
5. Slap on Tap
6. St. Pest
7. Dr Umz
8. Moody Hoe
9. Murda
10. Relief

silent sunday, so what's the tune, mr dj? well, this pest is kinda good in mood, it runs over and over, it's the "chicken spit" begins like a hip-hop beebop thing, but very childish. it' not stiff but strainded jazz, very unnatural for me. the second one "duke kerb" is more dynamic, the samples made of bells are just beautiful and unforgettable, then the third track "jefferson shuffle"'s a real grooviie iZborn track. then again a crap one, then a crazy one, then a beautiful downtempo ballad, then ... these guys made just a fun record, without thinkin about the sideeffects. how do i use to say? nice music in the background

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.

freeland - we want your soul *****
marine parade, 2003



no need to say anything. this will be the hit of the year i'm sure. and i've got both vinyls right from the berwick street.

fekete pákó - kislány vigyázz *
2002

Kislány vigyázz
Jánosbácsi a csatában
Lenn a délibábos Hortobágyon
Add ide a didit
Hogyha nékem sok pénzem lesz
Kis kút kerekes kút
Száz forintnak
Mi mozog a ...
Az a szép
Elment a Lidi néni
Vörösbort ittam az este
Minek a szöke énnékem
Utcára nyílik
Megy a gözös

iZborn listened to fekete pákó. accidentally.
and probably never'll do it again. a terrible experience. terrible. there's no drink enough to get me in the mood that i'd listen to this crap again. neverever.

adam freeland in budapest

the crazy guy is back in town. in 2000 the first time i've seen adam freeland playing live at tilos radio party (download part one and part two) i was shocked. the same feeling i had in may as he played in budapest again. and today, he's back. it doesn't matter if it'd be cold outside in the night, we'll move to the rhythm.. and the song we want your soul will be one of the best tunes of the year deffinitly. it's made in 2002 but the first time i remember this song i heard was the end of march, in fabric, london,. that was huge party, isn't, é, dtt, djmenö?

ps. and adam looks like me on this picture. oh yeah. he's just like i am. :)

big yellow taxi by joni mitchell, keb' mo', counting crows, pinhead gunpowder, amy grant, bob dylan and janet jackson

i really like this song. so sweet, so nice, so tender. the first version i heard was made by amy grant in 1992(?) and it's been a nice experience. then there was the janet jackson song got til its gone (still a fave of mine) containing the sample of the original joni mitchelle version, so i was thinkin to get all of the versions. now i'm tryin to get all of them. you know more versions? mail me izborn at hotmail dot com

malente - fertig *****
unique 2000

A1 Fertig
A2 Sunshine / Stars
B1 Sweet Soul Music
B2 Twist

malente - the spirit of malente ****
unique 2000

1. Boogaloo 
2. I Sell Marihuana
3. If I Was You
4. Fertig
5. Sunshine/Stars
6. Spirit
7. Ska Wars
8. Mash up the Town
9. Life Don't Work
10. Sweet Soul Music
11. Twist
12. Rock

malente - no risk no funk *****
unique 2002

1.We came to party
2.Funk the rich
3.The fever
4.Till I die
5.Listen up
6.Fire
7.Mind your head
8.Don't stop
9.The law is wrong
10.Highlife
11.Overkill
12.Phat thai

Having Malente on vinyl makes you feel like the king of the party, this guy knows how to make the crowd go crazy. His recipe is the same as Ursula1000 use: take a sample from some old german 60's tune, give the funky beat, feel yourself happy, and let it go! His first vinyl Fertig, the anthem of the 2000 olympic games is one of my fave 12"s, and there's no party without Fever taken from his second LP No risk.... It's frisky, it's funny, and don't forget the german language he speaks! Check out his website www.m-a-l-e-n-t-e.de and you'll have a taste of it.
oh god, i just wish, that those fake sk8r videos i direct are going to stop in my head