rhoda scott & kenny clarke - jazz in paris
sunny side, 2001
recorded in Paris in may 1977

1. Bitter Street
2. Satin Doll
3. It's Impossible
4. Speak Low
5. Now's the Time
6. Out of Nowhere
7. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
8. Toe Jam
9. On Green Dolphin Street


jazz is the musical way to get to know your inside without hurting yourself.

jazz is celebrating life, the diversity, the absurdity and nonsense, the magnificence and the meaning, the sensuality and the depth of being human. it deals with it. jazz is the greatest individualism. you're standing on the stage, and you say: "that's the way i do things".

jazz is like sitting at the table together with your best friends, after the macaroni, with those funny eyes, imitating rhoda scott playing hammond, barefoot singing "newseee oul a foooobe'".

it's all that jazz. thats what i need.

VA - Hindu The New Bombay Style *****
Sound System, 2003

01 Panjabi Mc - Mundian to Bach Ke
02 Feel Good Production - the Feel Good Vibe
03 Bombay Sound System - Husan
04 Asian Soul Explosion - Gandhi's Nighgtmare
05 Cimarosa Collective - Connected
06 Sanj Ft Lab Janjua - Yaar Nach De (Re-Edit Mix Sanj)
07 Magnetic 4 - Psycho Sitar
08 Magi Shamba - the Ritual
09 Surprize - Tutti Frutti Bali
10 Waves & Clouds - India
11 Lawrence Hill - L'inde
12 Hindi Ensemble - Mumbay
13 Magi Shamba - God's Mountain (Roni Winter Chill Mix)
14 Indian Art - Streets of Calcutta
15 Dj Swami Ft Mc Sarpanch - Eh Yo
16 Stereo Mc's - Fever (Steve Hillage Remix)
17 Achanak - Aj Bhangra Punjabia Na Pauna
18 Bombay Sound System - Hindu
19 Panjabi Mc - Mundian to Bach Ke (Instrumental)

we're gonna have a good time, okey? much fun! happy songs, okey? well sounds good. starting with the overdose hit by panjabi mc, but every single one makes you smile. i probably will do some of this record on saturday.

brenda lee - i'm sorry
mca 1960


i can't get this song out of my head. you know the feeling: a music starts to hit your head from behind, first just a part of the song, (in this case those chromatic violins) then you can't get through the feeling, that you have to hear the song imediatly. well it happened to me today too. after this whole day having the sound of the violins in my head i can only say, this is one of the best love songs ever.

guadalajara brass - tijuana taxi ****
Spinorama Records

a1 tijuana taxi
a2 loneley bull
a3 sombrero
a4 after the aztecs
a5 serape
b1 ole!
b2 holiday in mexico
b3 siesta
b4 the conquistadors
b5 victory of the matador

From the historic city of Guadalajara, capital of the Mexican State of Jalisco, comes our terrific Guadalajara Brass Band. From the ancient rhythms of the mariachi dances, with the blaring brass and the marimba percussion, reminiscent of hundreds of years of tradition, come the unchanged sounds to the top of today s popular music charts... click here for more


funny mexican brass music from the 60's. it's written that you should play the record on 33, but if you do it on 45, you'll hear the funniest dnb ever for 3 euros.

(c)entral heating **** and a half
grand central 1996 (re-released in 2000)

tony d: central introduction
mr scruff & mark rae: how sweet it is
rae and christian: spellbound
tony d: second street gogo
andy votel: hand of doom
funky fresh few: trough these viens
only child: pourqoui
rae and christian/texas: good advice
only child: rain
tony d: its time two

aim: original stuntmaster
andy votel: hemlocked
funky fresh few: you mean fantastic
aim: loopdreams
tony d: when we get together
mr scruff & mark rae: gotta have her
only child: lunagroove
rae and christian: baseball fury
andy votel: spooky driver
aim: souldive (all city mix)
rae and christian: northern sulphuric soul


hiphopjazzfunkwhatever, that't the way i like it. scruff, aim, r+c in one double album, for 8 euros... i agree not all of the tracks are 100% but there's no problem with it. a very-very nice compilation, well done. recommended if you like downtempo.

Meng long guojiang

the dragon tracks of izborn
streamer: call of the wild (kidnap)
amigos: chocolate (jalapeno)
kruder & dorfmeister: deep shit(ninja)
un-cut: off key (warner)
david morley: (quatermass)
populous: ent-the dexo (morr music)

nzanga sese kulu m'bira mobutu jr & iZborn are doing their thing live at tilos. get a huge amount of samples from a bruce lee film together with some depressed and chasing music, try to get in the mood of the kung-fu fighters and you'll find yourself right on the way of the dragon. DOWNLOAD HERE

ps. i must agree nzanga did the heavy part. i'm glad to be a playmate.

5 CD's for less then 10 Euros, that means quantity. Well, I'm not that reagge-freak, I can't take jamaican music more than a half hour, but I think everybody must have some records like these. Average reagge-jamaican-afro-latin-calypso music, so if you're in the mood, these cheap ones are useful. Otherwise... what's this crap music???

- fruit of freedom (75 min of the finest african and latin music feat busi mhlongo, orchestra baobab, bellamou messaoud, ousmane kouyate, oumou sangrae
- the heptones: pressure (pure pure overdose reagge from jamaica)
- dennis brown: bless me jah (take a look at the cover... isn't beautiful? and! incl hits like blackmagicwoman and everybodystalkingatme)
- ken boothe: a man and his hits (He's one of reagges most enduring hitmakers)
- raw kaiso2: trinidad rio and brigo (live in concert in port of spain, trinidad, incl. book translating the english lyrics to english)

joakim - fantomes ***
versatile, april 2003

A1. Onto
A2. Are You Vegetarian ?
A3. John - Instrumental
A4. Epilogue De John
B1. L'Amour, C'est Pour Les Caniches
B2. Partly Fish, Partly Pauper
B3. Prelude A Une Mouette
B4. La Mouette
C1. The Minimum Of Life
C2. Resistance On An Island
D1. Commercial Break
D2. Come Into My Kitchen
D3. Into
D4. Fantomes


Electronic robot mixer, come into my kitchen. "Whats's this post-kraftwerk feeling? Tell, me!" - get the question from nskmbm jr. yeah, this is pure electro, hc bit-music, house break and ambient at the same time. "Fantomes will hount your spirit for a long time" -it's probably not right, but well a nice electro record. I have to be used to this one.

bugz in the attic - zombie 2003 *****
bittasweet, 2003

zombie 2003
acapella

Zeee-toda-ooo-toda-emm-toda-bee-toda-aaaay-toda-eeee. I'm talking zombie.

Deffinitly the summertune of the year. as kesyer was playng this tune in february, i said whats this funny afrocrap? tipical story. every time you hear you're going to feel yourself funnier, older, wiser, start to move, just like mj does in thriller, but with a everlasting smile on ya face. Fela Kuti knew whatstheflash. Let's start the selfesteam! (Gotta buy this...)

koop - the dnb remixes *
jcr, 2002

summer sun
tonight

why people think that every music can be mixed as a dnb track? koop can't. why? i'll explain... it's quite impossible to speed up the lovely downtempo wonders of koop. i mean, its possible, but then you feel how the dj was holding the PAUSE button during the making of the remix. it's no good.

wicked lester - the amigos ep ****
jalapeno, 2002

Amigos
Chocolate
Skeewiff`s Batucada With Lemon
Skeewiff`s Batucada With Salt

"Delicious Mexican flavours combined with fat breaks and irresistible bass lines on this four track pack from the irrepressible Jalapeno label. Can't fail to bring a smile to your face" It's quite right. There's the fat bassline, then the mexican horns, a lot of drums and you get this funny party tune. Actually I bought this one, couse dj nzanga sese kulu m'bira mobutu junior formally known as dopamin before known as dj broaf ... ehm... a small dj friend of mine's got more of these latin tunes. In case of playing b2b together with'm, now i've got something to play too.

streamer - call of the wind ep ****
kidnap records, 2003

a call of the wind
b1 head over heels
b2 under a spell

I don't know much about this dutch label, but the music this streamer makes it's really alright. call of the wind's a funky 4/4 beat, with some jungle noise, but the main attraction is the head over heels. breakz breaks and funny in the same time. i had to buy this too. i don't mind.

the first 25 mins on tilos
Tilos Radio 4th jan 2003

Bergendy együttes: Kikapcsolom az idegrendszerem (Pepita)
Sparky Lightbourne: Where You Goin' Chicken? (Tree In Da Coup Mix - Skint)
Koop: Bright Nights (Rima Techno Chimp Dub Mix - JCR)
Mr. Scruff: Shrimp (Dub Mix - Ninja Tune)
Krafty Kuts feat. TC Izlam: Ill Type Sound (Finger Lickin' Records)

remembering the first day i ever played my vinyls. the firts time i ever played in tilos as a guest in RM . that was the first day i ever tried to beatmix vinlys. well, today i came across this mix, i should say this mix is quite o.k. happy tunes in the sunshine. dowload here if you want to.

zero7 - simple things
ultimate dilemma, may 2001

A1 I Have Seen
A2 Polaris
A3 Destiny
B1 Give It Away
B2 Simple Things
B3 Red Dust
C1 Distractions
C2 In The Waiting Line
C3 Out Of Town
D1 This World
D2 Likufanele

zero7 is like being in love. now i understand.

bundubag flag *****
fh034, 2003

flag
(...and some other tune...)


a typical almost bought record. great dancehall/dub (???dermothelpme) track, so called almost drum and bass :) with the funny female (raggamuff :)) voice, you can't stand to start the dance. i left the record there cos i was planning to go to this years extra-expensive jazz turbulence, and i was reaally tired came back from VOLT, and all my thoughts were somewhere else. this pic isn't the cover, it's just a bundubag

VOLT reports

kispál és a borz live (zero*):
boring, boring, boring, boring...

kosheen live ****
they know what it means to play at festivals. fast songs, drum and bass and hard rock in one, a witch on the stage, pierced dog-collars, great gig

yonderboi live set *****
started with the same old hip-hop beats, followed by some "funnybreak, bunnyfreak" tunes like ericsumo's mix of amorf ördögök, moloko, and some other 80's stuff (i did once klf 3 AM eternal, now he did it as well.. i was thinkin... he-he-he, mine's been earlier... well, jerkwater) and then some f*n great breaks. this boy can. this is high quality hungarian product. KÁF.

dzihan and kamien live set ****
my icons. the only problem was the had to play 3 hours, so they played their cheap-trick gig. maybe they thought 'aaaight, this's just a small town in hungary where we will play, so the classic cuts will be enough' so they played the SAME TRACKS IN THE SAME ORDER as they did in 2001 and 2002. (download here: 2001 part one 2001 part two 2002 part one 2002 part two) i was standing there like give me your BLÖKSHARDT, i can do it too. (o.k, not, but, well, so... ehmm..) during the 3 hours set they played only 10 new tracks. Nope, not some new D&K, but average tunes, i didn't know that they've got (like malente-we came to party, slide-slipperly slide, war-galaxy2000) Somebody should give them a record-token to buy some new plates. Not all the mixes were professional, but at the end, they seemed to be more easier, when they were playing their favorite jazztracks from the 70's. vlado was dancing in the background with his happy smile, and mario was doing his hocus-pocus: 'a sprinkle of the high's a smack of the low's, now it can be crossfaded'.

VOLT special report
rain, rain, piercings and metal music. suxxx. cant wait til 1AM

VOLT
july 2003

Zagar
Kosheen
Dzihan and Kamien
Dj Ludmilla

Vlado and Mario are coming. And as always I'll be there. They're the wizzards. I must see them again.

bill wells and isobel campbell - ghost of yesterday ****
classic june 2002

1. All Alone  
2. Ghost Of Yesterday
3. Who Needs You
4. Please Don't Do It In Here
5. Preacher Boy
6. Tell Me More And More (And Then Some)
7. Somebody's On My Mind

19 minutes of sweet loneliness. A piano, some quiet noise, and a magical veiled voice is all you've got. If you're depressed, this is the cure. It works fast.

greens keepers - the ziggy franklen radio show ***
classic march 2003

Upgrades
Fluid
Dark Sky
Smoke Daddy
Mesoptamian
Low And Sweet
Dixie Gan
Should I Sing Like This?
DC Minor
Big Noise
Andy Woman
Daughter Of The Sun
Upgrades Outro

Work it! Got something to do but nothing to listen to in the background? This is it. It's Swing, jazz, afrobeat and house in one, Django Reinhardt goes to a Tommyboy party, with some easy listening tunes. Nice one, nothing special, very similar to Rudolf Steiner. (I probably would play Low And Sweet sometime. I know that Crska'll go mad. )

mixes
I'm listening now to mixes made by tmnk, bdi, dpmin, and other friends. nice easy tunes in the background.
hot discothek
nice gesture
jazzy kermit
shy bear

un cut - the un-calculated some*****
warner july 2003

1. Midnight
2. Skin 2 Skin
3. Things U Do
4. Fallin'
5. No Way
6. Lost In Music
7. Loveless
8. Chinese Silk
9. Off Key Bass
10. Music is M
11. Obsession (Part 2)

meaning of a dnb fan
... It's probably not what you'd expect,... the album incorporates Motown, R&B, Hip-Hop, Northern Soul, Jazz, Funk as well as D&B. The concept is superb - an album of all different musical genres but with a unified sound throughout; and they nearly pulled it off to a tee. Tracks like the Lauryn Hill like 'Fallin'; the Bullit-esque funk flavour of 'Off Key', or the soulful spoken word style of 'Music Is M' are all beautifully executed, as is 80% of the album. However I would suggest there are a few tracks here that are a bit cynically aimed at the charts, and stray towards a more commercial, slightly cheesier vibe. You can't be too critical with albums like these as it takes a lot of bottle to do something different; and this is a groundbreaking, genre-bending album that smacks of genuine talent. The production is excellent throughout, and Jenna G's vocal ability is absolutely unquestionable.

This is a must have album for any broadminded music lover, although its eminently missable if you only like drum & bass.

I do agree. Thatswhy I cry
Album of the year.