Welcome to another Druffmix edition. The Druffalo Hit Squad is dedicating this one to the old school chapter of the International Disco Flamboyance Preservation Society. Never Surrender!
Charly Brown – The Twilight Zone DJ Spinna – Ladbroke Groove Deep Sensation – Can’t Give You Up Stan Francisco – Lover 2 Lover Les Claudettes – Alexandrie Alexandra Joey Negro – Universe Of Love Disco Elements – Muzik Takes Me Higher Solar House – Peace Of Mind Ratcliffe – Grape Soda Jasper Street Company – Music Rhythm Section Feat. Donald O – Do You Know Victor Simonelli Presents 21st Century Rockers – Ease Into The Dance Stevie Wonder – All I Do (Remix) Chubby Chunks – Testament One Terrence Parker – The More I Want Stacy Kidd – Lost Angels The Meat Men- All Locked Up Dino + Terry – Moon Dub Armand Van Helden Feat. Duane Harden – You Don’t Know Me Deep Sensation – Togetherness Deep Sensation – Soul Heaven Dazzle – You Dazzle Me (Kenny Dope Edit) Black Science Orchestra – Where Were You Kerri Chandler – Dizko Satisfaction Romanthony – In The Mix Brothers Of Soul – Disco Era
Welcome to another Druffmix edition. The Druffalo Hit Squad is dedicating this one to the old school chapter of the International Disco Deconstructivist Conspiracy. Venceremos!
Johnny D & Nicky P – Like Morning Agent X – In The Morning Sensory Productions- Houseluck House 101 – I Got The Music Glenn Underground – I Need GU Jellybean – Twilight Dome Pt. 2 Freestyle Orchestra – Twi-Lite Glenn Underground – Functions Mada – Good Stuff Raw Grooves – Three Markus Nikolai – Rood Audiomatrix – Miss You Level One – Give It Up Nature Boy – Tobago Travis Nelson – Breakin’ Rocks Mike Dixon – Love Is… Nail – Dancin’ Netto – Kula DJ Spen – Tedd’s Beat Goes On Johnny Dangerous – Kill For A Day Daniel Wang – Not Feeling It Whirlpool Productions – It Happened Last Night Sound Stream – Motion Stacy Kidd – Take It Easy Paul Johnson – Hear The Music Ghetto Godfathers – Love Junkie Brother Of Soul – Eyes Of Love Bim Marx – Stronger Eddie Kendricks – Thank You For The Memories (Dam Edit)
Haruomi Hosono – 3.6.9 (Monad) Ryuichi Sakamoto – The End Of Europe (Ariola) Yellow Magic Orchestra – Neue Tanz (Alfa) Masami Tsuchiya – Kafka (Epic) Hajime Tachibana – Theme From Nihon No Sugao (Ralph) Virginia Astley – Some Small Hope (WEA) The Beatniks – Le Sang Du Poète (Plexus) Logic System – Convulsion Of Nature (EMI) Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Garden Of Poppies (Plexus) Lizard – Sa Ka Na (Phonogram) Haruomi Hosono – Alternative 3 (Another Record Company) Yellow Magic Orchestra – Snakeman Show (A&M) Miharu Koshi – Petit Paradis (Alfa) Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Private Music) Name – Do We All Need Love (Soft) The Bach Revolution – Narega Tama, Akumuyori Mezameyo (Excerpt) (RCA)
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Before Long (CBS) Hajime Tachibana – Arrangement (Ralph) Masami Tsuchiya – Secret Party (Epic) The Beatniks – No Way Out (Statik) Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott – Just About Enough (Plexus) Susan – Ah! Soka (Epic) La Sellrose Can Can – Happy Morning (Soft) Logic System – Clash (EMI) Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Thomas Dolby – Field Work (Ten) Haruomi Hosono – Body Snatchers (Another Record Company) Yellow Magic Orchestra – Taiso (Alfa) Ryuichi Sakamoto – Rain (I Want A Divorce) (Virgin) Yellow Magic Orchestra – Shadows On The Ground (Alfa) Miharu Koshi – Parallelisme (Alfa) Ippu-Do – Magic Vox (Epic)
Ippu-Do – German Road (Epic) Salon Music – Hunting On Paris (Phonogram) Yellow Magic Orchestra – Key (Alfa) Miharu Koshi – Ryugujo No Koibito (Alfa) Earthling – You Go On Natural (Phonogram) Hajime Tachibana – Liquid (Ralph) Sandii & The Sunsetz – Sticky Music (Alfa) The Eastern Gang – Charlotte (Miracle) Minako – Town (Alfa) Yukihiro Takahashi – Drip Dry Eyes (Alfa) Miharu Koshi – L’Amours Toujours (Alfa) Testpattern – Modern Living (Alfa) Yukihiro Takahashi – Walking To The Beat (Alfa) Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian – Bamboo Houses (Virgin) Ippu-Do – Morning Menu (Epic) Ryuichi Sakamoto – Kimi Ni Tsuite (Nippon Life Insurance Co.)
This is a 70’s reggae track by Jackie Mittoo. It’s almost Minimal, very basic.
True. It’s got some Techno appeal, it’s just rhythm. That’s what I like about this Dub stuff, there are so many things you can recognize that were used later on in electronic music like House and Techno. Dub was so important for that.
So these ancient production techniques are still valid? There seems to be a direct line from Jamaica to today’s productions.
Yeah, I listen to Dub. I don’t listen to a lot, but I like some of it. But I like to use the state of mind of Dub in my music. It’s more a musician thing. I like to use the techniques of it. I’m getting more into the music, too. It’s amazing, the way they were mixing the bass and the drums in the 70’s. Really crazy.
They also put some emphasis on just doing tracks, not songs.
It really is the basis of what came afterwards, from Hip Hop to House to Techno. Drum and Bass also, of course. They all took elements from Dub, that’s really interesting.
> Yukihiro Takahashi – Walking To The Beat (Pick Up Records)
The next one is by Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi. A Synthpop track.
It is interesting. It has this kind of proto-House feeling. What I really liked was this crazy soprano sax solo at the end. It is almost like Free Jazz, for 30 or 40 seconds, and then it stops. That was quite bold.
I think he actually wanted to do some kind of pop hit though. The singer on this record is the one from the 80’s pop group Icehouse for example. But for a pop hit it is probably too weird.
I think the harmonies are built up quite traditionally, but this solo part really surprised me. It is almost like New York ‘s Post Punk era. Trying some new crazy stuff.
Maybe you should use some sax solo in a House track.
Well, I used to play sax in the past.
Really?
Yeah, for a long time. But I kind of really got tired of the sound and I don’t think I’m going to use it. But you never know. I started playing Alto Saxophone when I was 13 years old. I had tried piano a few years ago, but I wasn’t so much into it. I don’t remember why I chose saxophone, but I remember I wanted to do a wind instrument. With the saxophone, I learned to play jazz and I absolutely loved it! I began rehearsing with a few bands, mostly Jazz or Funk groups. When I discovered DJing, I was instantly hooked and I started playing less and less saxophone, until I quit around 2001. DJing, collecting and discovering music became more important for me. I dabbled into production around 1996, but got a home studio setup two years later. I remember that my main reason for producing was that I found that certain records were lacking something or were arranged in a way that I thought was not so effective. I was thinking “Hmm, the producer should have put this part first” or “the chord there doesn’t sound nice although the beat is dope”. After a while I just thought I should make my own tracks.
I remember that a lot of the early Deep House tracks used the same sax sound. Really flat and synthetic. They seldom used a real saxophone, always this cheap sound effect.
The Druffalo rave saga continues. This time round the Druffalo Hit Squad travels back to the New York City of the early 90′s, when labels like Nu Groove, Strictly Rhythm and many more dropped several bombs each week on the city’s manic floors, and the according sound was a sample-heavy and stylistically irresponsible mixture of roots in Disco, Hip Hop, Freestyle and clues from worldwide House and Techno proceedings. An overdose of signals both deep and kicking, and a decidedly street approach to structure the madness.
At that time you could even dance to that, whenever and wherever you wanted to.
We sure did, and still do.
How about you?
The Sound Vandals – Extasy (Nu Groove) Full Moon – Allelujh (Dope Slap) Jam To It Again – Aquarius (City Limits) Brooklyn Funk Essentials – Change The Track (Minimal) Bobby Konders – Let There Be House (Nu Groove) Intellectual Harmonious Sanction – Save The Whales (R&S) Mental Mayhem – Joey’s Riot (Atmosphere) The Untouchables – Trippin’ (Strictly Rhythm) Direct – Techno Gone Mad (R&S) Project 86 – Industrial Bass (Nu Groove) Sound Factory – Cuban Gigolo (Capitol) Jovonn – Back To House (Goldtone) Static – The Native Track (Strictly Rhythm) House Syndicate – Jam The Mace (Dopewax) The Dope Wax Allstars – Angelo’s Groove (Dopewax) 33 1/3 Queen – Searchin’ (Nu Groove) Gypsymen – Bounce (E Legal) Foremost Poets – Reasons To Be Dismal (Nu Groove) Metro – Straphanger (Nu Groove) Open House Feat. Pace – Seven Day Weekend (Nu Groove) Arthur Baker And The Backbeat Disciples – Silly Games (A&M) KC Flightt – Planet E (RCA) Earth People – Reach Up To Mars (Underworld) J. Of Barcelona – Red Light District (Rey-D) Landlord – I Like It (Bigshot) A Bitch Called Johanna – I’m A Bitch (Project X) Ooscha – Ich Will Dich (Quark)
Die Divenschnipsel und die wohligen Flächen können bei vielen Trittbrettfahrern der House-Wiederkehr nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass sich der aseptische Grundklang nur schwerlich mit den tradierten Grundfesten des Sounds vereinbaren lässt, und sich entsprechend auch nur rudimentär von der Preset-Beliebigkeit der TechHouse-Schwemme der letzten Jahre unterscheidet. In der Flut solcher Missverständnisse ragen schon seit geraumer die Produktionen vom Stuttgarter Boy Wonder Danilo Plessow heraus, der eben genau jene notwendige Emotionalität und Dreck in seine Tracks impft. Die Geschichte mit House und dem Feeling halt.
Wobei es eigentlich seit der Teenie-Genese von etwa Ron Trents Frühwerk nicht weiter verwundern sollte, dass jemand in jungen Jahren schon dieses Feeling aufweist. “Das Thema mit dem Alter ist zwar schon in Inverse Cinematics-Zeiten überstrapaziert worden, aber trotzdem: ich habe schon sehr früh angefangen, Musik zu machen. Erst am Schlagzeug, dann mit billigen Software-Sequencern. So sind die ersten Releases auf Pulver entstanden. Durch Jazzschlagzeug und die Liebe zu Hip Hop und das Finden von Samples begann die Suche nach Jazzplatten. Ich bin in einer Kleinstadt mit nur einem Plattenladen aufgewachsen, aber da der Typ auf Death Metal spezialisiert war, konnte ich mit Schülergeld an einige Schätze kommen. Unter meinen ersten fünf LPs waren John Coltranes “Love Supreme”, The Awakening auf Black Jazz Records und auch Moodymanns “Silent Introduction”, wobei mir letztere erst mit 15, 16 Jahren, nach dem ersten Clubbesuch, so richtig als Meisterwerk bewusst wurde. Das war noch in den Anfangszeiten des Internets, d. h. man hatte noch nicht die Möglichkeiten in Sekunden an jedes Release zu kommen, war auch gut so. Ich hatte also nur meinen kleinen Mikrokosmos aus wenigen Platten, die ich immer wieder hörte, und ich hatte Glück, die richtigen für mich zu erwischen.“ Read the rest of this entry »
Bridging the generation gap right here, the Druffalo Hit Squad lends a helping hand with a heads up call to the hopes and dreams of boys and girls anywhere, anytime, anyplace. You might feel disillusioned, disenchanted, shattered, heartbroken, isolated, ignored, left over, left out, misunderstood, mistreated, underestimated, unwanted and unloved. We’ve been there. We suffered. We nearly dropped. But we draw conclusions. And we reached out. And we set in motion. And we found what we were looking for. This is for the survivors…
The Colourfield – Castles In The Air (Chrysalis) Heaven 17 – Let Me Go (Virgin) Mike Francis – Survivor (RCA) Chris Rea – Josephine (Magnet) David Bowie/Pat Metheny – This Is Not America (EMI America) Laid Back – Fly Away (Metronome) Madness – Yesterdays Men (Virgin) The Pale Fountains – Unless (Virgin) ABC – All Of My Heart (Neutron) Culture Club – Romance Beyond The Alphabet (Virgin) Icehouse – No Promises (Chrysalis) Tears For Fears – Advice For The Young At Heart (Fontana) The Dream Academy – The Love Parade (Blanco Y Negro) Talk Talk – It’s My Life (EMI) Bryan Ferry – Don’t Stop The Dance (EG) The Stranglers – Always The Sun (Epic) Electronic – Getting Away With It (Factory) The Lotus Eaters – You Don’t Need Someone New (Arista) Spandau Ballet – Gold (Chysalis) Danny Wilson – Mary’s Prayer (Virgin) The The – Uncertain Smile (Epic) Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring (Parlophone) The Go-Betweens – Bachelor Kisses (WEA) Blancmange – Waves (London)
Brian Protheroe – Pinball Ned Doheny – Get It Up For Love Bobby Caldwell – What You Won’t Do For Love Hall & Oates – Sara Smile Roxy Music – Just Like You Yvonne Elliman – I’ll Be Around Samantha Sang – Emotion Hot – Angel In Your Arms Angela Bofill – Angel Of The Night Maria Muldaur – Midnight At The Oasis Elkie Brooks – Only Love Can Break Your Heart Karla Bonoff – Personally Jorge Santana – Tonight You’re Mine Toto – Georgy Porgy Lulu – You Win, I Lose Rupert Holmes – Him Frankie Valli – Grease Mary Macgregor – I’ve Never Been To Me Olivia Newton-John – Please Don’t Keep Me Waiting Boz Scaggs – Lowdown Bette Midler – Hang On In There Baby Salazar – Never Gonna Let You Go Fleetwood Mac – Sara Genesis – Follow Me, Follow You Jan Hammer Group – Don’t You Know Elton John – Mama Can’t Buy You Love Agnetha Fältskog – Wrap Your Arms Around Me The Korgis – Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime Climax – Precious And Few The Hollies – Ait That I Breathe David Bowie – Moonage Daydream Scott Walker – Do I Love You Crosby, Stills & Nash – Just A Song Before I Go Al Stewart – End Of The Day
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