| BREAKIN' NEWS:
June 17th, 2002
The breakbeat newsletter
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ILS
Marine Parade's ILS has been nominated for a DanceStar
award for Best Breakbeat Act for his single "Next
Level". The global DanceStar awards are handed
out on July 3rd at Alexandra Palace in London (UK).
Also nominated for the breakbeat prize are the Stanton
Warriors for "Stanton Sessions", Kosheen
for "Resist", Shy FX & T-Power for "Shake
Ur Body" and FC Kahuna for "Glitterball"
.
Other notable DanceStar nominees include the Stanton
Warriors' "Stanton Sessions", Fatboy Slim's
"Brighton Beach" and New York-based Liquid
Todd's "Solid State" for Best Compilation;
The Streets and Sticky ft. Ms Dynamite for Best Garage
Act; Skint and Astralwerks for Best Label; and Fatboy
Slim's Big Beach Boutique festival in Brighton for
Best Event.
ILS' fantastic debut album "Soul Trader"
is due out July 1st on Marine Parade and features
"Next Level" as well as forthcoming single
"No Soul". See www.marineparade.co.uk for
more info.
To vote for Best Breakbeat Act, visit www.dancestar.net
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James Zabiela
"Progressive house is dead - long live the breaks!"
Muzik magazine exclaims in its latest issue. Prog
is "the latest byword for boring."
"Breaks is the new fancy of the previously progressive
DJ. As the prog tag becomes tired, DJ's try to stay
ahead of the game, and right now that means making
- and playing - breaks," according to top UK
dance mag Muzik.
Muzik claims well-known progressive DJs Danny Howells,
Red Jerry and James Zabiela have all dropped prog
in favour of house and breaks.
"There are only so many synth lines you can listen
to again and again" James Zabiela was quoted
as saying. "About 30% of my music is breaks now.
I love the warped bassline of people like Meat Katie
and Whole 9 Yards."
In a reaction posted on the message board of the Global
Underground site (www.globalunderground.co.uk), James
Zabiela says he says he was misquoted by Muzik and
never claimed that progressive is dead.
Muzik and other British music mags are notorious for
filling their pages by declaring dance music styles
to be either dead as a doornail or the next big thing.
In past years, both big beat and trance were declared
dead by the mags, while electro (in its poppy electroclash
guise) was recently hailed as the next big thing.
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Sasha
Top progressive DJ Sasha is set to release his debut
album on August 5th. The album, called "Airdrawndagger",
is said to be highly focused on breaks - apparently
only one of the 11 tracks is in 4/4 style while the
rest is all breaks. Guest performers on the album
include Dutch breaks and progressive house producer
Junkie XL.
"Across the 11 tracks, there's the time and space
to reflect his love for music that rarely gets the
chance to shine in clubs, whether that's punishingly
gnarly breakbeats or glittering modern classical film
scores. It's a symphony for all ravers that grew up
but never grew out of chasing that buzz," gushes
an official press release posted on www.djsasha.com.
Who writes this stuff??
Sasha's previous dabblings in breaks include the single
"Xpander" (co-produced by Andy Page) and
the fondly remembered remix of Hysterix' "Talk
To Me" on Deconstruction.
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Nu Breed
Australian progressive breaks/house act Nu Breed have
signed an album deal with Tayo's UK based label Mob
Records. The lads have already released a remix of
Jasp 182's "Millennium Dawn" on Mob and
are about to release their first single on the label,
"Ionosphere" / "Beats and Rhymes".
Nu Breed broke through internationally with their
brilliant remix of Apex - "Symmetry" on
Marine Parade last year. They have recently remixed
"Stealth" for Way Out West, reworked Skunk
Anansie and had a track included on Dave Seaman's
"Global Underground" CD.
"Expect a whole lot more from this talented trio
(including a stunning live show) over the next few
months," according to Mob Records.
For more info see www.mobrecords.com
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Global Underground
The latest CD in the succesful Global Underground
series was released last month. Mixed by Dave Seaman,
the "Melbourne" double CD offers breakbeat
tracks from Nu Breed, Frakkar (a new breaks project
featuring Hybrid's live drummer), Infusion and Phil
K's Lo-Step project, among others.
Due on on June 21st, the next "Global Underground"
is called "Barcelona" and was mixed by James
Lavelle. Expect an eclectic selection with plenty
of breaks - James' FabricLive CD featured tunes from
Meat Katie, Plump DJ's and Bushwacka! as well as that
Adam Freeland fave, Forme - "Kick A Hole".
Rumous has it that DJ Hyper, the man behind the "Y3K"
CDs and recent "Bedrock Breaks" CD, has
been approached about mixing an upcoming "Global
Underground" CD.
For more info see www.globalunderground.co.uk
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Akademia
Sheffield (UK) based progressive label Choo Choo Recordings
has launched a sister label for breaks called Akademia
Recordings.
Managed by Dean Muhsin aka DJ Filth, Akademia kicked
off in April with "Drop Zone" by Hyper Tension
(a project of DJ Hyper's), featuring a remix by TCR's
Breakneck. Next up are Vigi & Flip with "Proteen"
- rumoured to be their last-ever joint release.
"We’ve always dabbled in breakbeats as producers,
and after the success of 'Desanitize' which we did
for Acetate Ltd, it seemed natural to look further
into the scene," Sarah Whittaker-Gilbey told
progressive-house.com. Sarah is Choo Choo's label
manager and part of progressive house/breaks act Mara.
"Dean is Choo Choo’s promotions manager
and it seemed like we were having the same ideas of
where to go, so the concept was born."
"It’s wicked to be running a breaks label
with likeminded people," Dean told progressive-sounds.com.
"Being involved with one of the best underground
house labels in the world is no bad thing either!"
Forthcoming releases on Akademia will come from Bad
Cop, Wrecked Angle (aka Russel Pearce and Steve Gerrard),
Caustic Soda, Das & Dj Welten and DJ Filth himself.
For more info check www.choochoo-records.com, www.akademia-recordings.com
and www.progressive-sounds.com
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Electroclash
New York's flamboyant electroclash darlings Fischerspooner
were trashed by the British media after their first-ever
live performance in the UK, according to skrufff.com.
Following their London show, both Music Week and the
Guardian compared Fischerspooner to ridiculous Eighties
band Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
"It is as if Sigue Sigue Sputnik have been cast
in a regional production of Starlight Express,"
the Guardian sniffed, while the Standard concluded
that, "Fischerspooner are not really for people
who love music."
The Chemical Brothers also trashed Fischerspooner
and other electroclash artists. In an interview with
British mag NME, the Chems branded DJ Tiga's "Sunglasses
At Night" as crap and said Fischerspooner were
pretty unremarkable, according to inthemix.com.au.
The Chems counterattacked after electroclash main
man Larry Tee put them down in a recent interview.
"The Chemical Brothers' time is over!" Tee
reportedly said. "We don't want musicians who
look like your mates. Electroclash is about music
that you can relate to and stars that you want to
fuck."
Electroclash is the name of the festival which Larry
Tee and DJ Hell, head honcho of Munich (Germany) based
electro label International Deejay Gigolos, put on
in New York last fall, and Tee also uses the name
to describe New York's new kitschy electro scene which
has the A&Rs in a feeding frenzy, with Fischerspooner
reportedly signing to Ministry of Sound in the UK
recently for a whopping £2 million. Electrocash!
Larry Tee is a well-known figure on the New York club
scene and was behind Keoki's legendary Disco 2000
night as well as RuPaul's "Supermodel" hit.
"Everyone's looking to New York for the first
time in a long time," he said, predicting that,
"From beginning to burnout, we have a good four
more years. We haven't hit mainstream America yet."
Fischerspooner's "Emerge" is out now in
the UK with a new 4/4 techno remix by Dave Clarke,
apparently a staunch supporter of the duo.
Montreal (Canada) based DJ Tiga recently revealed
just how long it took him to make "Sunglasses
At Nite", an electro cover of a Corey Hart song,
it became in a top 10 hit across Europe this spring.
When a reporter from worldpop.com asked him if it
took him one day to make, he revealed that, "You
overshot it by about 23 hours."
Los Angeles-based Manifesto Records is launching its
new electronic leaning label Orbisonic (www.orbisonic.com)
with an electroclash compilation called "definingTECH".
Out now, the CD features Fischerspooner, Miss Kittin
& The Hacker, Peaches, Adult, Mr. Velcro Fastener,
Detroit Grand Pubahs and Felix Da Housecat, plus lesser
knows like Memory Boy a.k.a. John Selway, Shapeshiftr
& The Sentinel, Dexter, Innate and Bug Orchestra.
In the UK, Sony's dance label Inc-redible (www.inc-redible.com)
is also jumping on the bandwagon with a "nuwave
electro" compilation titled "This Is Not
The 80's". Out now, the CD features tracks from
Goldenboy, Adult., Miss Kitten & The Hacker and
Detroit Grand Pubahs. Compilation of the month in
Mixmag.
For more info about electroclash see www.gigolo-records.de,
www.electroclash.com, www.fischerspooner.com and www.tiga.ca
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The Propellerheads
Wall of Sound's The Propellerheads are making their
long-awaited comeback with a new album due out next
year, featuring some unexpected guests.
The Props (Alex Gifford and Will White) have recruited
Debbie Harry, KD Lang, Rufus Wainwright and Joey Arias
as vocalists on their new album, the followup to their
superb 1998 debut "Decksanddrumsandrockandroll"
which featured a guest vocal by Shirley Bassey.
"I guess you could say we’ve been experimenting.
About the time the last record came out, it just seemed
[that there was] a saturation of similar kinds of
music so we just started to poke around in slightly
different directions to see what we could come up
with," Alex Gifford told Rolling Stone magazine.
The new album will apparently have more of a soulful,
R&B influenced sound.
"She’s such a sweetheart and such an icon,"
Gifford said of Blondie's Debbie Harry. "I've
got an amazing song for her, the thing is to write
songs for people, for that singer particularly, not
one that suits their voice, but their personality."
In addition, New York drag queen Joey Arias sings
on "Lately" while Canadians KD Lang and
Rufus Wainwright sing a duet on another track.
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Y4K
The Dub Pistols will be mixing the next 'Y4K - Next
Level Breaks' compilation for Distinct'ive Breaks
for a September/October release, and are currently
collecting and compiling new music for it. Distinct'ive
are asking artists to send new, unreleased material
you'd like considered for the Dub Pistols' "Y4K"
mix to the address below.
Distinct'ive Records
1st Floor Berners House,
47-48 Berners Street,
London, W1T 3NF
Previous artists to mix Y4K include DJ Hyper, Tayo,
Koma & Bones and (most recently) FreQ Nasty. A
CD mixed by Future Funk Squad (aka Glen Nicholls)
is also in the works and is rumoured to include an
exclusive Loes Lee & 10 Sui remix of DJ Vela's
"Irresistible". The track, teaming up three
of breaks' leading ladies, is also out soon on Loes
Lee's label Moving Target.
To promote the "Y4K" series, Hybrid, FreQ
Nasty and Tayo will be playing on the Glastonbury
Festival's Dance Stage which once again is organised
by Exeter's Future Underground Nation / Beatz &
Bobz. Also lined up for the Dance Stage are Loophead
(aka Steve Hillage and The Orb's Alex Patterson),
Terminalhead, Spoon Wizard and The Beatz & Bobz
All Stars (residents Ben & Lex, Bitesize, Chuckling
Boy and Tom Real). There will also be a Warp Records
showcase with Plaid playing live plus surprise guests
from the label. More DJs and live acts are to be announced.
35K of Surroundsound Turbosound, Cinema quality video
projections and Vegetable Vision controlling the lights.
More info at www.distinctiverecords.com
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Address changes
Waxworks has now moved to new offices!
Waxworks
1st Floor
12 Oval Rd
London
NW1 7 DH
UK
Tel : +44 (0) 207 4829742
Fax: +44 (0) 207 4249857
Dave London has a new address and phone number:
Dave London
Director of A&R
Funk Wax Records Inc. / Yes Mate Recordings
Funk Wax Platinum
300 Sunport Lane
Orlando, FL 32809 USA
T: 407-251-2878 Ext 310
F: 407-888-9152
Kingsize Records have moved office on June 1st:
Kingsize Records Ltd
The Old Bake House
Hale Street
Staines
Middlesex
TW18 4EN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1784 458700
Fax: +44 (0)1784 458333
Email: info
kingsize.co.uk
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MOFO
Issue 4 of London's free breakbeat magazine MOFO is
now available. 34 pages of interviews, reviews, ads,
clubs, cartoons and jokes.
Interviews with:
* Plastic Raygun. The Welsh breakbeat label talk to
Mofo about the days of promoting illegal warehouse
parties, the pitfalls of running an independent, keeping
their profile alive with bizarre marketing tools and
the artists and tracks ready for release.
* Danny Mcmillan talks frankly and honestly about
the reasons why his label In-flight Entertainment
had to fold, his passion for deep melodic breaks,
Rennie Pilgrem, DJing in the U.S.A and his radio show
at Ministryofsound.com.
* Breakbeat and House DJ James Zabiela gives Mofo
the low-down on what's it like to be 22yrs old and
have a radio show on Groovetech, playing Space in
Ibiza, warming up for Sasha and remixing Depeche Mode.
* Breakbeat DJ Ms.E from San Francisco gives Mofo
a guide to discovering breaks in the Bay Area and
Miss Bliss from New York tells Mofo how to get around
the breaks scene in the Big Apple.
Plus stacks of breakbeat single and album reviews,
jokes and cartoons, and the excellent Fabric CD series
is put under the microscope.
To get hold of the latest issue send an SAE (self-addressed
envelope), minimum size A5, to:
MOFO
PO Box 32128
London
N4 1GA
UK
For more info email mofo
dircon.co.uk
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