Rambling and blogging for over 8 years, from good food and drink around town, eclectic electronic music, absolutely anything to do with digital media, throw some sport (more than likely cricket) in and the odd personal experience — as seen through my viewfinder.
Spank Rock - Touch Me
Cobblestone Jazz - Lime In Da Coconut
Cobblestone Jazz - Hired Touch
Model 500 - Pick Up The Flow
Jazzanova - Another Fine Day (Doctor Rockit’s Vocal Itch featuring Ovasoul7)
Astronomy Class - Vibe Won’t Stop
DJ Yoda - Bargain Hunters
Hot Chip - Over and Over
John Gaiser - And Answer
The Sentinel - Watch Your Back full track
Billy Dalessandro - Come With Me (Jon Gaiser Remix)
Womack and Womack on the Singstar - Photo courtesy of Rozie
Argy – Love Dose (Luciano remix)
Coldcut – Walk a Mile In My Shoes (henrik schwarz remix)
Womack & Womack – Teardrops
John Tejada – Asanebo
Robert Hood – The Core
Arthur Russell – Get Around to it
Kurtis Blow – The Breaks
Martin Buttrich – Cloudy Bay
Pharoah Sanders – Summun Bukmun Umyun
Io – Claire
An absolute abomination… and no, this song is not originally by Soul Central! Whilst the original is well known, here’s the Flam-Boy-Any Mix of “Strings” that appears on MS-4. Sure, it’s not “Strings of Life” but it’s darker and deeper and at 1:24 you’ll recognise those classic strings.
Drexciya – Sea Snake
Rayon – The Panther (Rubber Re-Edit)
Daniel MehlHart – Dunkelkammer
Modeselektor – Hasir
Bonde do Role – Melo do Vitiligo
Japanese Telecom – Beta Capsule
Deep Chord – 6:03.07
Trickski – Sweat
Anthony Rother – Genstruktur
Sascha Funke – In Between Ways
Hurrah! Charts are returning to the site this week. It’s been three months without a personal laptop, but I’m able to start reporting again on the tunes that are doing it for me, plus a wrap of my favourites for 2007. Better late than never.
Master record cutter, mastering engineer and record producer at Sound Enterprises (formerly National Sound Corporation or NSC) in Detroit passed away on January 13.
In 1989 two businessmen by the names Steve Martel and Ron Murphy decided to open a store specialising in old phonograph records, situated at 17610 W. Warren in Detroit, Michigan. They named the business National Sound Corporation.
They had the idea of also being able to cut Dub plates and records for the use in their customer’s jukeboxes, and so some record cutting equipment was also set up in one of the shops back rooms. Shortly after opening they where visited by Derrick May and Juan Atkins, who whilst looking for records noticed the cutting lathe and asked about having some acetates made.
After cutting a couple of dubs for Derrick and Juan, Ron was told that there were a lot of Detroit producers that needed a local place to have dubs and masters cut. Ron decided to upgrade the equipment whilst Derrick and Juan spread the word about the new cutting service.
The first master to be cut was Plus 8 label, followed a week later by Underground Resistance label.
Since those first masters were cut back in ‘89 there have been thousands that have followed, all inscribed with the initials NSC.
Producers were encouraged by Ron to make their records unique, by including information and phrases written onto the records, and even going as far as to talking Kevin Saunderson into cutting one of his records in reverse, and cutting locked grooves for Jeff Mills’ Discovers The Rings Of Saturn project.
The death of Steve Martel in 1994, and the subsequent problems that arose with the remaining estate, led Ron to purchase the equipment and relocate the recording service to a new location, the success of which had already led to the closure of the retail side of the business.
The new name chosen was the Sound Enterprises, however Ron has continued to put the old NSC logo on each master produced, in memory of Steve Martel without whom the business would have never been started.
Great tune from Lupe Fiasco - “Kick Push”, a real breath of fresh air. Clean sounding break with some smooth strings and a nice flow from Lupe rapping about skateboarding. No bitches, no hoes, no bling, no $1000 bills - motifs that are all too common with the more commercial end of hip-hop from the US.
