we went for stu's birthday... word cannot describe that boy [dorian, not stu...sorry mate]
so here's some auqful iPhone videos
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
RIP Biggie Smalls
Damn, it's been 13 years already...always gets me to thinking what would Hip Hop be like today if he was still around..?
Dude had the jams, the stories, the flow & the jokes..RIP Mr Wallace
Dude had the jams, the stories, the flow & the jokes..RIP Mr Wallace
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Our influences
Parliament - Flashlight
Squarepusher Circa 1997
Ice Cube - Bop Gun [ft. George Clinton]
Dorian Concept live at the wireless
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon [live]
Just a few of the less obvious J-Treole influences. We're always working on fitting as much of what we like in, as Squarepusher said, [to paraphrase] it's about getting as much as you can in, from the 40s bebop, to the 70s funk, and 90s dnb, the lot!
Parliament, for me, summed up evolved funk sound, psychedelic, bass heavy, synth ridden, and most of all, fun. George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell are all massive influences on all of us in different ways. Get to know Parliament! They changed music for-ever! I think it was important for the idiom too, that it was around the first time funk became loud! James Brown invented the genr, but Parliament jacked it up to 11 [if you excuse the cliche] massive amounts of backing vocalists, marshal guitar amps, Moogs and the lot...
Squarepusher was a really early J-Treole influence, as he was someone taking Jazz in a different way. He played the bass like a bad-man, but had real good harmonic direction to his tunes, proper tunes. His break programming, today, remains un-paralelled, and he keeps shape-shifting, re-defining people's conceptions of him. J-Treole used to cover his Iambic 9-Poetry from the Ultravisitor album, he did a lot for us then, and he still does now.
I threw in this Ice Cube video, not only 'cos it's an awesome tune and features George Clinton, but it's from another time in Hip-Hop, when things were different, back to '93, when G-Funk ruled. Hip-Hop has had some damage done in recent years, but true greats live on. The likes of J-Dilla, Nas, Pete Rock, Doom, Madlib will be timeless, and always overshadow this current fad of Hip-Pop.
Dorian Concept was introduced to me by part-time J-Treole'er Simon Panrucker. This funky-ass glitch master, plays live keyboards [like I've never heard!] and has a free jazz drummer, as well as running ableton loops and doing the most bizzare sound design. All live, this is the key... he dosen't hide behind a laptop cue-ing tunes. He makes music... He's still up and coming, but he's going to make a big difference to a post-dilla scene. See him with the likes of Flying Lotus in terms of hall-of-fame.
Finally, another HUGE influence, mr Herbie Hancock himself. This video is of Chameleon. Amazing how the deepest funk his re-played entierly live! He rips up the Solina, Clavinet, Rhodes, Moog, he only has two hands! This album is a mile-stone in Jazz, Funk and music in general. Herbie did alot for mixing jazz with rock, electro and even drum'n'bass [argueably more than the great Miles Davis, who's last album was a Hip-Hop callaboration] Herbie's been there since early days, being featuired in Miles Davis' "2nd great ensemble" and being at the fore-front of alot of big music. Herbie also was one of the first people in jazz to use samplers [the farlight, youtube it...]
anwyay, enough for now...
Squarepusher Circa 1997
Ice Cube - Bop Gun [ft. George Clinton]
Dorian Concept live at the wireless
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon [live]
Just a few of the less obvious J-Treole influences. We're always working on fitting as much of what we like in, as Squarepusher said, [to paraphrase] it's about getting as much as you can in, from the 40s bebop, to the 70s funk, and 90s dnb, the lot!
Parliament, for me, summed up evolved funk sound, psychedelic, bass heavy, synth ridden, and most of all, fun. George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell are all massive influences on all of us in different ways. Get to know Parliament! They changed music for-ever! I think it was important for the idiom too, that it was around the first time funk became loud! James Brown invented the genr, but Parliament jacked it up to 11 [if you excuse the cliche] massive amounts of backing vocalists, marshal guitar amps, Moogs and the lot...
Squarepusher was a really early J-Treole influence, as he was someone taking Jazz in a different way. He played the bass like a bad-man, but had real good harmonic direction to his tunes, proper tunes. His break programming, today, remains un-paralelled, and he keeps shape-shifting, re-defining people's conceptions of him. J-Treole used to cover his Iambic 9-Poetry from the Ultravisitor album, he did a lot for us then, and he still does now.
I threw in this Ice Cube video, not only 'cos it's an awesome tune and features George Clinton, but it's from another time in Hip-Hop, when things were different, back to '93, when G-Funk ruled. Hip-Hop has had some damage done in recent years, but true greats live on. The likes of J-Dilla, Nas, Pete Rock, Doom, Madlib will be timeless, and always overshadow this current fad of Hip-Pop.
Dorian Concept was introduced to me by part-time J-Treole'er Simon Panrucker. This funky-ass glitch master, plays live keyboards [like I've never heard!] and has a free jazz drummer, as well as running ableton loops and doing the most bizzare sound design. All live, this is the key... he dosen't hide behind a laptop cue-ing tunes. He makes music... He's still up and coming, but he's going to make a big difference to a post-dilla scene. See him with the likes of Flying Lotus in terms of hall-of-fame.
Finally, another HUGE influence, mr Herbie Hancock himself. This video is of Chameleon. Amazing how the deepest funk his re-played entierly live! He rips up the Solina, Clavinet, Rhodes, Moog, he only has two hands! This album is a mile-stone in Jazz, Funk and music in general. Herbie did alot for mixing jazz with rock, electro and even drum'n'bass [argueably more than the great Miles Davis, who's last album was a Hip-Hop callaboration] Herbie's been there since early days, being featuired in Miles Davis' "2nd great ensemble" and being at the fore-front of alot of big music. Herbie also was one of the first people in jazz to use samplers [the farlight, youtube it...]
anwyay, enough for now...
Monday, 22 February 2010
Update
Mad busy week, we've been prepping for our Finley Quaye gig on March 5th
get tickets here:
http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=448546&filler3=id1egigs
We got a wee suprise in store, I am actually so hyped, I can't wait.
In the mean time have this little treat from the StonesThrow YouTube channel
get tickets here:
http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=448546&filler3=id1egigs
We got a wee suprise in store, I am actually so hyped, I can't wait.
In the mean time have this little treat from the StonesThrow YouTube channel
Monday, 15 February 2010
Releases...
It's time for a musical up-date. Today is the day that our good friends 'Hot Donkey' release their first of many EPs [we hope?] aptly named 'The Carrot EP' As my html let's me down everytime I jump on here, we're reduced to simple copy-paste jobs.
http://www.myspace.com./hotdonkeymusic
and buy their EP here:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-carrot-ep-ep/id352563226
It's got some crackers on there, and it co-written and produced by J-Treole's own Engineer, Mike Hall. In-fact these pair of donkeys [especially Daryl...] go way back in J-Treole's history, but that's a story for another day.
We're also waiting on the next Kaana Ellie EP from the Remedy camp. It's been kept well under-wraps, so no clips so far as I know... but here's their links:
http://musicisremedy.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/musicisremedy
I think on the radar too is music from old-school buddies Lines of Lorenzini [http://www.myspace.com/thelinesoflorenzini] and hopefully something from the ever impressive Mazoulew [http://www.myspace.com/mazoulew].
So, some news from J-Treole...
A week or so ago, we took to part 1 of our strings recording... it was a day of much coffee and stress, but ultimatly, an amazoing step towards making our EP super-awesome-mega-wikid.
there was
Anna Scott on Cello [of Mozzy Green and Underground Rail Road, recently played with Imogen Heap]
Anil Joshi [of the Joshi Brothers]
and Nicola Hutichson [of Paddy's band, and too many others to name!]
links
http://www.mozzygreen.com
http://www.myspace.com/urailroad
http://www.joshibrothers.com/
More news to come, as it happens
http://www.myspace.com./hotdonkeymusic
and buy their EP here:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-carrot-ep-ep/id352563226
It's got some crackers on there, and it co-written and produced by J-Treole's own Engineer, Mike Hall. In-fact these pair of donkeys [especially Daryl...] go way back in J-Treole's history, but that's a story for another day.
We're also waiting on the next Kaana Ellie EP from the Remedy camp. It's been kept well under-wraps, so no clips so far as I know... but here's their links:
http://musicisremedy.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/musicisremedy
I think on the radar too is music from old-school buddies Lines of Lorenzini [http://www.myspace.com/thelinesoflorenzini] and hopefully something from the ever impressive Mazoulew [http://www.myspace.com/mazoulew].
So, some news from J-Treole...
A week or so ago, we took to part 1 of our strings recording... it was a day of much coffee and stress, but ultimatly, an amazoing step towards making our EP super-awesome-mega-wikid.
there was
Anna Scott on Cello [of Mozzy Green and Underground Rail Road, recently played with Imogen Heap]
Anil Joshi [of the Joshi Brothers]
and Nicola Hutichson [of Paddy's band, and too many others to name!]
links
http://www.mozzygreen.com
http://www.myspace.com/urailroad
http://www.joshibrothers.com/
More news to come, as it happens
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
swine flu over
90 million swine flu doses ordered by the Government from GlaxoSmithKline @ £6 / dose in 2009. [That’s £540 million spent on something with little research.]
5 ¼ million actually diagnosed cases in this country. There £508 ½ million worth of the drug being stored now. What a waste! On top of that, I dread to think the needless strain on the NHS who had extra training and endless meetings and consultations about this, the services created money pumped into the service created or the time wasted!
Yet again another fear mongered pandemic blow out f proportion by tabloids, QUANGO fear campaigns, the GMC and everybody else. Next time something that supposedly threatens human existence comes along, let’s take a deep breath and have a look at bird flu, SARS, foot and mouth, CJD or any of the others.
GSK are partly to blame for the extortionate rate they charged the government [and developing it in Canada!] but the real criminal is Rupert Murdoch who’s empire made us believe only Robocop armed with 200 billion vaccines could save humanity from certain extinction.
Of course the government over ordered ‘cos if it hadn’t they would have been criticized for lack of foresight or negligence. Okay, I’m being sensationalist now, which is awful, but next time, can we please just be realistic, after initial exposure this had caused only a handful of deaths in mexico [of all places!] and less than 10 over here, where our awareness is heightened and medical care better.
Every time a virus , bacteria or parasite mutates, a much stronger ones mutates with it: humans! It’s not all doom and the end is nigh type shit.
5 ¼ million actually diagnosed cases in this country. There £508 ½ million worth of the drug being stored now. What a waste! On top of that, I dread to think the needless strain on the NHS who had extra training and endless meetings and consultations about this, the services created money pumped into the service created or the time wasted!
Yet again another fear mongered pandemic blow out f proportion by tabloids, QUANGO fear campaigns, the GMC and everybody else. Next time something that supposedly threatens human existence comes along, let’s take a deep breath and have a look at bird flu, SARS, foot and mouth, CJD or any of the others.
GSK are partly to blame for the extortionate rate they charged the government [and developing it in Canada!] but the real criminal is Rupert Murdoch who’s empire made us believe only Robocop armed with 200 billion vaccines could save humanity from certain extinction.
Of course the government over ordered ‘cos if it hadn’t they would have been criticized for lack of foresight or negligence. Okay, I’m being sensationalist now, which is awful, but next time, can we please just be realistic, after initial exposure this had caused only a handful of deaths in mexico [of all places!] and less than 10 over here, where our awareness is heightened and medical care better.
Every time a virus , bacteria or parasite mutates, a much stronger ones mutates with it: humans! It’s not all doom and the end is nigh type shit.
some awesome tunes to check out
Jahcoozi - Sir Your Wife by Jahcoozi
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers (Unknown mix) by Sei A
Electrosoul_System_'Grad'_[Future_Engineers_Remix]_Kos.Mos_Music by Future Engineers
Sloper (updated) by OnCartel
Soarer 3 by CIRCLE
Flying Lotus-Tea Leaf Dancers (Mark F Remix) by Mark F
And Me Too by Different Productions
Oceanwater - feat. Jeff Pevar by Cornflower
Angel Echoes (BBC session) by Four Tet
Nina Simone 'Baltimore' (Ex-Friendly refix) by Ex-Friendly
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers (Unknown mix) by Sei A
Electrosoul_System_'Grad'_[Future_Engineers_Remix]_Kos.Mos_Music by Future Engineers
Sloper (updated) by OnCartel
Soarer 3 by CIRCLE
Flying Lotus-Tea Leaf Dancers (Mark F Remix) by Mark F
And Me Too by Different Productions
Oceanwater - feat. Jeff Pevar by Cornflower
Angel Echoes (BBC session) by Four Tet
Nina Simone 'Baltimore' (Ex-Friendly refix) by Ex-Friendly
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)