Flamenco + Hip Hop Beats = Gnawledge

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How about something new for your ears? Taking a wild guess that your music selections are thin in your FLAMENCO HIP HOP catalog, right? Well then, let's remedy that. Gnawledge is a project in Granada, Spain that began with a music grant, a music researcher, and a hip hop producer. They pulled in the skills of many musicians and samples of classics across the genres. Gnawledge has since grown into a larger project including a record label.

Their album Granada Doaba begins with some lovely Spanish guitar. By track two, the beats appear, and as the album progresses you will be swept up in a swirling cloud of Spanish, Arab, classic rhythm and blues, hip hop, and samples. I even heard the Godfather of Soul in there.

This is a fun and mostly instrumental trip across the world, across genres, and across time. You can hear that a great deal of effort was invested by these musicians and producers to bring this gem to the world.

Official Website | FreeMusicArchive | Facebook

MUSIC LICENSE: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
NATIONALITY: Granada, Spain
CLASSIFICATIONS: Dance; Flamenco; Hip Hop; Latin; Sampling
FILED UNDER: Digital: Popular Music: Beats: Traditional

Collage Pop Selections

Today's selections are albums of original compositions incorporating samples from existing works. The end results of the process are fun!

FILM NOIR, SPACE AGE POP
Slipper (Sam Dodson) - Attack of the Killer Lobsters
You Are Not Stealing Records, 2006
© CC BY-NC-ND

MULTICULTURAL DANCE
Les Oreilles En Ballades - Sandwich
Independent Release, 2006
© CC BY-NC-ND

DEMENTED POLKA
G.G. Allin's Dick - King Of The Road
You Are Not Stealing Records, 2005
© CC BY-NC-ND

ELECTRO DANCE
Nood - Shaped Like A Taco
dBUT Recordings, 2000
© ? "NOOD resist stupid copyright laws"

BIG BEAT POP
The Coconut Monkeyrocket / Martinibomb - SPLIT!
Comfort Stand Recordings, 2004
© CC BY-NC-ND

DANCE
Gorowski - Simulators Can
WM Recordings, 2007
© CC BY-NC-SA

Film Noir Spy Themes from GeeNerve

Suspense Dance Delights by GeeNerve (Guido Erfen) is an album we promoted years ago at Oddio. On listening to these film noir spy themes again, we knew we had to share this gem on Blogio, too. See the liner notes for more info. The notes are included in the cover art booklet, as well.

So Healthy Music, the label and netlabel Erfen co-founded, still offers several additional releases for your pleasure.

Official Website | So Healthy Music Label | Internet Archive

Music License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Artist Location: Cologne, Germany

Luxurious Beats

Biga's album B Sides is out now! Fans of his comrade Digi G’Alessio, Brazilian loops, and hip hop beats will enjoy this one.

"Welcome to the eternal summer in the gardens of hip-hop! Life here is easy. Let yourself be refreshed by the light sampling breeze, away from hectic lifestyles and noisy streets. Dressed with an immaculate white kimono, you will be baptized in the fountain of holy funkiness, while angelic voices sing softly over non-quantized rhythms. Immerse yourself into Biga’s universe and let the dream come true."

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license: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported 


[This album uses samples that are certainly not cleared, such as those of Astrid Gilberto. At the same time, this album also allows no sampling?]





Location: Florence, Italy

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Electronic Greats 1955 - 1984 Mixed

"In early 2010, what would eventually become Antique Electronic Synthesizer Greats was simply a concept for a live set. Fluorescent Grey, aka Robbie Martin, cut almost a thousand tiny samples and loops from works dating from 1955 to 1984, limiting his sources to strictly electronic and/or synthesized recordings.

"His rules allowed for non-synthesized compositions (e.g., Delia Derbyshire's tape cutting based tones) as well as synthesizer audio of any kind, including the Hammond Novachord. And far from simply a stolen sample collage, or meta-mash-up project, Robbie wanted to allow the mix he composed to preserve and highlight the eras' best sounds in a comprehensive backdrop. Some of those painstakingly found and excised snippets may be all but indiscernible to most, while some tease with their familiarity (Depeche Mode bass drum? YMO hi hat?), and some are nakedly in homage (synth lines from Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder). All are as playful as the puzzling track names, one of the most obvious of which are pieces that re-imagine the sound of John Carpenter's best synth-centric movie scores. From the uneasy sounds of horror to the sweet spot of vintage synth-pop and industrial, to the brief satisfyingly bizarre vocal cameos by Alan Vega and a Spanish industrial/noise outfit, it runs the gamut of its chosen time period exhaustively....

"Given the uncannily nostalgic or modern moods evoked, it can be all too easy to forget that the entire mix is comprised solely of an endlessly rotating roster of up to 15 isolated loops, all at least a quarter of a century old, some twice that age. On some songs, you could imagine a DJ dialing into the sounds of AFX or Mr. Oizo, an amusing stunt for some of the source material sounds unmistakably dated in a way that has yet to be retrofetishized. Proto-electronica futurism captured in Chris Carter's sequences or Morton Subotnick's Autechre-like FM synth splatters, works that indisputably sound futuristic in their own right. Dated or not, the novelty factor of an overwhelmingly corny synth brass sample is sometimes too good to resist, making it nigh impossible to prevent that old fashioned sound from antiquing the whole mix.

"This pastiche is offered up in both a mix and an individually tracked album for maximum utility. Use the cover art and the hidden messages contained herein as a resource for your own Antique Electronic Music search...."

-- Arcoplane Recordings

Fluorescent Grey - The Acroplane Guide to Electronic Music by Acroplane on Mixcloud

United State of Pop 2012 (Shine Brighter)

"United State of Pop 2012 (Shine Brighter)" is a mashup by DJ Earworm of the 25 biggest hits of 2012 as determined by Billboard's weekly U.S. Hot 100 charts. Check out DJ Earworm's website for mashups of hits of previous years.

Official Website | SoundClick | Facebook | YouTube

The Hits:

New Life for Classic Polish Grooves

For several years, producer and mixmaster 77cuts has presented a sample heavy critically acclaimed "Polish jazz / retro / lounge mixtape series" called Fonoteka (Tape Library) as Estrada Nagrania (Recording Stage) under the auspices of Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza (National Publishing Agency).

From a fabulous tape catalog of Polish recordings and library music 77cuts  creates seamless releases of jazzy lounge, downtempo, soul, dance, space age pop, now sound, and hip hop beats. (Especially check out Printempo for hip hop beat. Many familiar samples there, such as Roger "Wildchild" McKenzie).

Here's a Google translation of the process:

... Ministry of Culture and Art in Warsaw central switch on the phone standing in a small room next to the minister. Switched to another phone number of the office is the head of the department. Behind the wall of this small room has its head office capital Estrada. Using the same phone line, its employees interact with all the musicians in the country. Created new recordings, records, stage performances - recorded hundreds of tapes. As usual in the history of popular music at the end of the decade began to emerge in a new style.... Developed so naturally and so - in principle - "quietly" that the general public does not realize this, it is at the threshold of a new era of style. But there are already hundreds of recorded tapes.

And from those tapes come 77cuts' new sounds. Several of the Fonoteka recordings as Estrada Nagrania and subsequent remixes are available for free download in '60s stylized blog and for purchase at Bandcamp.

However, the remixes, such as the newest volume, Fonoteka 7: Remixed, include Western samples. This detracts from the unique quality of the original mixes of studio tapes from Poland. This sentiment is echoed in something 77cuts once wrote (another Google translation):

Many critics believe that some musicians use today, for example, elements of Indian music and the blues, do not really know about Indian music and blues. Those critics are right - Recordings Estrada knows only Polish music. Thus was created the music for a period of time in Poland, the peace, the lack of stability. I barely hear it, but still the game will play loud and long.

That knowledge is exactly what makes the original Fonotekas so special.

licenses: uncertain due to sample clearances; released as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

** Videos after the jump...

Reworking An Electronic Innovator

Daphne Oram (31 December 1925 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician. She was the creator of the "Oramics" technique for creating electronic sounds. Oram was a true pioneer in electronic music.

Reworking Daphne Oram is an album by People Like Us created with recordings from Oram's archives.

INFORMATION

"In January 2005, Sonic Arts Network, the leading UK body for electronic music and sound art, was asked by Daphne’s descendants to care for her collected papers, recordings and other items. It was with the benefit of experimental electronic music practice in mind that Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studio (EMS) collaborated with the Sonic Arts Network (SAN) to bring this collection into the academic community where it could be properly studied and developed. To this end, a grant was awarded to Goldsmiths, University of London in 2007 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to catalogue the collection, digitise the audio tapes and initiate related research.

"In June 2008 People Like Us were invited into the archives of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, to rework them into new compositions, to be presented as part of a day-long symposium at London's South Bank Centre. Here are the results." -- People Like Us

BIOGRAPHY

Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, The Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Maxxi in Rome and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU has had over a million "listen again" downloads. since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.

Vicki recently completed the creation of a new live a/v performance called "Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another)", which premiered at transmediale in January 2013. She is now working on a film for live improvisers called "Gesture Piece".

Stereogamy from Stealing Orchestra

Originally released in 2000 (NorteSul, EMI), Stereogamy was the first full length album by Stealing Orchestra. The album's tracks run the gamut from cartoony sound collages, like those of The Bran Flakes, to experimental work, like that of Renaldo and the Loaf, to more traditional instrumental compositions. In reviewing Stealing Orchestra at the time of the Stereogamy release, Cool and Strange Music Magazine wrote, "No matter how off the map Mascarenhas' musical funhouse gets, with things running backward and jumping in at the most inappropriate spots, there is always the semblance of a song.... It's like a soundtrack a spy movie run through a blender."

 

license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License

Walking On Eggshells

So good! This is a stimulating 24 minute documentary in which artists from writers to musicians to painters discuss modern culture and "appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age." (Jonathon Letham talking about culture references in Bugs Bunny cartoons will hit home with several generations.) The artists have fascinating points of view.

The filmmakers Jacob Albert, Ryan Beauchamp, and Brendan Schlagel created this film as their final project for the seminar "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age" at Yale University.

Available on YouTube in 3 parts. All worthwhile.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Bubbles!

BUBBLES is a fun, free, compilation of previously released & unreleased material by The Bran Flakes created from 1998-2007. Fun fun fun fun!

(see this old post for more info)

album license: Attribution-NonCommercial License

YouTube Music Mashup

Oh hell yes, children! Kutiman is blowing minds with his tunes composed of audio and video samples from YouTube. He has seven built, and an eighth video where he demonstrates his method. He is calling his excellent project Thru You, and you are gonna love it!

Many thanks to Steve K in the old M-D!

Tuesday's Dozen

Tuesday is a real good news day. Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs to get you through the work week! Eat up and be sure to spread the love by supporting these artists!

Magestik Legend Detroit, Michigan rapper shares 15-track Free CD; shared stage with hitters like George Clinton, Wu-tang, Ludacris, De La Soul, Rakim [rap, gangsta]	Crate Kings enjoy the mixes (pictured: Crate Kings vs. Henry Mancini), breaks, tutorials and network offered up by these master hip-hop DJs [hip hop]	Ne Zhdali Estonian group pairing "punk energy with the complexity of true progressive rock" (Allmusic.com) shares much of their discography [rock, prog]
Mercury Theatre finest radio drama of 1930s, famous for War of the Worlds broadcast, featured acclaimed drama company founded by Orson Welles [spoken, OTR]	Marxist.org interesting respository of Soviet history, including national anthems and soviet songs [soviet, war, Russia]	Tasmin Little star violin soloist and orch director shares her The Naked Violin CD with works by Bach, Patterson and Ysaye [violin, classical]
Jason Ferris this guitarist and singer-songwriter based in New South Wales, Australia shares his 8-song acoustic rock CD titled All I Said online for free [pop, rock, acoustic]	Da ! Heard It fun netlabel "influenced by electronic, 8 bit, Easy-Listening, Acid, Toyz-Pop, Breackore, Electro Surf, Electro bass, Miami Bass" [electro, chiptune]	Foolk from the Slovak Republic comes "lo-fi hip hop, beats, jazz cuts and bleeps... with live musical instruments and weird electronics" (aka Foolcut)
Lokua - Trails listening to the urban beats Lokua (Joshua Keckner) lays down, it is easy to connect he is a Chicago native [electro, hip hop, downtempo, house]	Animic - Hau o Hiu stirring together the sounds of their home with folk music and electronic sounds in Catalan, Spanish and English [folk, lo-fi, pop]	Crate Digger Death-Match "What (albums) can 12 musicians create in 12 hours with only $12 of thrift store finds?" Whole albums of fun jams! [sampling, varied]

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Tuesday's Delectable Dozen

Bourbonese Qualk entire discography available online, think Clock DVA and 808 State (thanks for the news, Nash Rose) [industrial, pop, experi, electro]	Tortue Super Sonic the Neogrotesque CD lays together traditional and some electronic instrumentation with dreamy and sexy results [downtempo]	Bob Ostertag recordings of accomplished experimental artist with the likes of Fred Frith, Kronos Quartet, John Zorn [experi, avant garde]
Victrola Flores, Nubes, y Pajaritos release featuring seven songs: "sweeping, orchestrated short movies of sound" ( also on last.fm) [trip hop, downtempo]	Wesley Willis some of the recordings of the late schizophrenic artist who gained a cult following for his unique, simple music and funny, bizarre lyrics [rock, spoken]	Vinnie Bell enjoy mp3s from perhaps the greatest session guitarist of all time, see the hit records for yourself! [rock, oldies, space age pop, guitar, sitar]
OurTeamIsFresh official site of the Brekfast Club, "a heavy collective of... hip-hop enthusiasts who move for the preservation and progression of real hip-hop"	VA - Skafferi Stefan Zachrisson put together this comp in the '90s through his award-winning (Scandinavian Indies) zine [indie, pop]	Michael Leigh our pal Jim shares our pal Michael's 1992 60 minute tape of an American radio show of "stuff he'd got at charity shops and jumble sales" and sent to America [varied, sampling]
The Normals [FR] from Strasburg, France play muddy, fuzzed out and loud garage rock [garage, rock]	Forestbrook Brona McVittie, UK singer-songwriter shares sounds and images of her gentle world, including tunes in tribute to outsider musicians	Musica per Bambini Manuel Bongiorni and collaborators hail from Italy and perform theatrical shows; enjoy tracks from their first three CDs[electro, rock]

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MUTE, Men of No Words

MUTE - Pavement Politics Vol.1 is a new arrival today at Jamendo. You can download it there or get the oggs below. (myspace profile)

cover art
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 01 - Hay Fever (Sleepless Night)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 02 - A Blue Hill Sunrise
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 03 - Brothers (version 4)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 04 - The Flats (Streets in the Sky)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 05 - Death by the Sword
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 06 - The Thief
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 07 - They Got What They Want
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 08 - Telescope 8
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 09 - Is It Too Late for Us All
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 10 - A Bloodly Death Smell (edit.1)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 11 - I Was in Hell (It Took Me)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 12 - TSP Meets El Primo

Your New Dozen Has Arrived

Tuesday is a real good news day. Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs! Eat up!

Bester Quartet - official site [klezmer, chamber]	US Navy Band - World Class Marches [orch]	Voks - official website [experi, toy]	Luke Palmer - official website [composer, classical]
Labelable All Stars - official site [mixmasters]	Jens Lekman - Presents for You [pop]	Mark.Nine - Artificial Horizon (site) [electronica]	Say Hi to Your Mom - official website [pop]
Peter Peter Hughes - The One Hundred Thousand... [singer-songwriter]	Larry Carlson - official site [tripped out collage]	Francis E. Dec - The Rants of (audio) [mental rants, offensive!]	Dalt Wisney - Lifetime Psychedelic Dance Lessons [collage, remix]

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