BART MARIS - trp & fx
GRAZZHOPPA - turntable specialist
HARRY ARLING - drums
FLORIS VERMEULEN - electric bass
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"Minirock from the Sun" (EXCO / EB 0406)
Second Future Jazz / Turntablism album by ELECTRIC BARBARIAN. BART MARIS on trumpet, GRAZZHOPPA on turntables, HARRY ARLING on drums and FLORIS VERMEULEN on electric bass.
Ten tracks coming straight to you, like a piece of the sun! The Low-lands collaborating with the top of the bill from the US. The album features special appearances by New York saxophone player ANDY LASTER, OMNI (L.A. based BLX-crew), KAIN the Poet, DJ’s KYPSKI and LAMONT and feedback specialist PETER v/d HEIDE (Whipster) on guitar.
Brazilian poet Luanda Casella performs on three tracks and will be touring with Electric Barbarian in 2007. Luanda Casella is a performer, a writer and most of all a story teller. She uses both rhythm and tonality of words to create a sound atmosphere. No matter the language, a story is told. The poet from Sao Paulo is featured on three tracks of the new album.
Her poems are reflecting every day thoughts and situations in an abstract way. She is a virtuoso in the performance of spoken word with an astonishing flow.
The artwork contains a specially designed cartoon by famous New York Graffiti artist QUIK supporting the track “Shuffle-O-Five”.
I figured the guys from Electric Barbarian would give me a decent roadmap to guide me to the essential crosscroads of their music, so I could write some real impressive liner notes about the scales and patterns these freaks use for their music. But they just gave me the record. Oh, yeah, there were some funny smiles too.
Mmm. I thought I knew a little bit about hiphop, about jazz, about that big mistake many rappers make thinking that hiphop could be something like bebop, while in fact the only chance hiphop ever had of sounding anything like jazz was at some fine New York Underground Moments Of Cool. But then what the fuck were these Barbarians up to? O, don’t get me wrong: I recognised some stuff. The instruments, a few scary beats, a legendary voice rhyming about things to come, but that was it.
Okay. I do know a few things about ‘jazzy hiphop’. And it’s dead. Even in New York loosing your cool is the hip thing to do in the underground.
Yes, yes, hold your horses. This is all just a temporary congestion in the majestic evolution of beats & rhymes, but while you’re all wachting your favourite dj’s giving up soul for soundeffects I took a chance and sank into something smooth.
Cause these Electric Barbarians sound smooth. Cool and calm like gangsters in a black & white movie (You don’t wanna fuck with that cliché. No really. You don’t.), warm like a bathtub full of freshly poored blood, and hot at the same time. Hot as a shot of bourbon on an empty stomach? No. I’m sorry. I’ve got to stay honest about this stuff. Hot as that 16 year old booty that lives across town, that piece of ass you know you cannot touch, so all you can do is spill your horny notes. On a sidewalk perhaps, wearing a hat, while it’s raining. When all of a sudden someone or something joines in, whispering.
You’ve ever been whispered to in a dark alley by a thing that might have been a monster, but could have been an angry god too, disguised as the whino from hell? Did it make you wonder about the company you’re keeping? I mean: what were you doing in that alley in the first place, huh? Looking for some barbarian entertainment? And don’t these whispers haunt you like your biggest childhood nightmare?
Heh. Wanna know how they sound on music? O, come on, you know you do. No, there’s no comforting explaination for these whispers. I would be lying now, wouldn’t I, if I’d call them ‘urban’ or ‘jazz’ or ‘hiphop’ or ‘fusion’. And you want the truth. The truth and the scare.
Well, allright then. I cannot put my finger on this stuff. I cannot classify this music. It’s your problem now. Deal with it!
linernotes from él (EXCO / EB 0304)
Nanne Tepper Febr. 2004
für alle die in Wien auf die Bühne wollen haben wir Booking etwas leichter gemacht. http://www. artoxic. com/locationwatch/ ... alle wiener Bühnen mit mailadresse, tel,.. und einem Bewertungssystem. Viel spass damit - und immer fleissig voten!
Nog een kleine week en dan gaat de Beukorkesttour eindelijk weer van start.
Vanaf 1 april geven Rik van Iersel en Stuurbaard Bakkebaard met hun gasten 11 spetterende optredens langs de verschillende podia in Nederland.
De tour begint met de premiére in de Effenaar op 1 april.
Tijdens deze avond zal ook de eerste officiële Beukorkest CD gepresenteerd worden.
Op deze CD staan opnamen van Beukorkest 2007.
Na deze première speelt Beukorkest op de volgende ..
2 april: Paard van Troje in Den Haag aanvang: 20:30 uur
3 april: 013 in Tilburg aanvang: 21:00 uur
4 april: Burgerweeshuis in Deventer aanvang: 21:00 uur
5 april: Brogum Zierikzee aanvang: 21:30 uur
6 april: Tivoli De Helling in Utrecht aanvang: 20:30 uur
8 april: Melkweg in Amsterdam aanvang: 20:30 uur
10 april: Vera in Groningen
11 april: Patronaat in Haarlem aanvang: 20:30 uur
12 april: Het Bolwerk in Sneek aanvang: 21:00 uur
13 april: W2 in Den Bosch aanvang: 16:00 uur
Zorg dat je op tijd aanwezig bent want het programma begint stipt!!
Kaarten voor Beukorkest zijn te koop via www. ticketservice. nl of via de websites van de desbetreffende zaal.
Tijdens de Beukorkestavonden zal er weer merchandise te koop zijn met nieuwe
T-shirts en de officiële Beukorkest CD "Der Kleine Hausmeister" (release 1 april 2008)
Get your free copy of ‘Disgustings things’ now, the new single by Photo Opportunity! All you have to do is point out our new single to five of your friends using this link. That’s it? Yeah, that's all!
Mmm... sorry, kon alleen zaterdag komen, en jullie stonden helaas op vrijdag. Ik heb het dus helaas gemist. Maar mooi dat het goed was! Groeten Flip met de Hoed
Yas!! Clutter House is here and what a line up we have got! Not only do we have 808 State firing out some classic oldskool acid rave, we have Mr Ed DMX (DMX Krew) tripping us out with his unique blend of wonky electronic breakage!
Support from "scratch master" Mike bell and twisted dubstep from Dr Chop, doors at 11, Studio 24, Calton Road, Edinburgh.
For updates and future dates go to the all new Clutter House Myspace and Add us as a pal :)
Dear Barbarians, STriCat has been nominated for the people's choice award 2007 from the Dutch world music magazine Beyond. If you like our music, support STriCat and vote here! Thank you for your vote! STriCat
DUBSTEP TECHNO SHOWDOWN!! @ RED STAR INSTITUTE Proceeds from the bar go straight to Oxjam, 10-3 free entry all night!
This Thursday we've brought together two of our favorite up and coming Dubstep DJs and two of our favorite techno DJs to the red star institute.
For the Dubstep side of things we have Captain Shitbeard who runs Oscillate in Glasgow and Absolute Chancer Edinburgh’s Grimey mad man
For your techno we have JD Pyz and Ingen who both play regularly at Split and Access, coupled with Red Star's new tag team duo Cave Sedem and k3nnEth playing deep techno, minimal and electro this night's sure to go off with a pop, a bang and a wobble!
If you like bad ass Dubstep action, then get down early, the bass monsters Chancer and Shitbeard are on the first two hours and will be sure to rattle your brain. AYE!! :) RED BAR AND CLUB, 73 COWGATE, EDINBURGH
DUTCH: Splash! krijgt een Nederlands broertje! Het grootste hiphopfestival van Europa vindt elke zomer plaats in Duitsland, maar zal dit jaar ons land gelukkig maken met een wintereditie en volgend jaar met een zomereditie.
Op 27 oktober zullen beide zalen van de Amsterdamse Melkweg gevuld worden met een dikke lading hiphopacts
We zien je 27 oktober in de Melkweg!
ENGLISH: The biggest hiphop festival of Europe, that takes place in Germany every summer, will be coming to Amsterdam with a Winter Edition and a Summer Edition will follow next year.
INVITAATSIE : fijn feestje van Radio CENTRAAL ter gelegenheid van onze CD RELEASE, morgen vrijdag 28 september in de prachtige retro Spiegeltent van Magic Places, in Antwerpen bij het Noordkasteel ! Sommige dj's spelen 'n ander genre dan je van hen gewend bent... Kom zeker op tijd want de (gratis) vuurshow begint stipt vanaf 21u30. Check www.radiocentraal.be voor flyer & updates.
thats really hot stuff - keep me informed bout what you..re doing. if you need something from vienna we can get it. george caper would love your stuff. greets, Artoxic Prod. - Georg Bildstein