Kabuki-Signal_to_Noise-CORE022CD-2004-sour-int

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| 01    6:07   Kabuki - Transworld                                            |  
| 02    5:46   Kabuki - Sexdrive                                              |  
| 03    6:10   Kabuki - Speed of Sound                                        |  
| 04    5:01   Kabuki - Implant                                               |  
| 05    5:18   Kabuki - Lizard                                                |  
| 06    5:24   Kabuki - Ghosthack                                             |  
| 07    4:32   Kabuki - After the Fire (Altern. Vers.)                        |  
| 08    6:07   Kabuki - The Way I Swing (Rmx)                                 |  
| 09    5:29   Kabuki - Logic Bomb                                            |  
| 10    5:54   Kabuki - Spend the Night (Rmx)                                 |  
| 11    5:00   Kabuki - Pacemaker                                             |  
| 12    4:53   Kabuki - Shibuya Nightlife                                     |  
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        |       | Imagine someone is standing in the centre of  |       |        
        |       | an imaginary musical big bang. All components |       |        
        |       | one would be able to compose something from   |       |        
        |       | and from which most people would later say:   |       |        
        |       | ônow that is musicô, fly all around him,      |       |        
        |       | passing him by. So a never ending stream of   |       |        
        |       | acoustic information û weÆll keep it simple û |       |        
        |       | blows away in time and space and tries to     |       |        
        |       | become as loud and big as possible. This is   |       |        
        |       | where we speak of din, racket, the white      |       |        
        |       | whoosh, noise!                                |       |        
        |       | Imagine this man is a composer. He is fast    |       |        
        |       | and dynamic, but he also possesses a clear    |       |        
        |       | mind and he is balanced, rushing to grasp     |       |        
        |       | every piece of information he can get. He     |       |        
        |       | arranges the sounds three dimensionally,      |       |        
        |       | organically and playfully, but transparent    |       |        
        |       | and with a sturdy precision. Yes, it is       |       |        
        |       | rather arranging the elements, a technical    |       |        
        |       | drawing, than painting. The manÆs name is     |       |        
        |       | Kabuki and he challenges the noise, he sets   |       |        
        |       | the signals and selects he information, as an |       |        
        |       | opponent to entropy, the striving for the     |       |        
        |       | biggest possible chaos. The process is called |       |        
        |       | Signal to noise, the actual album. The power  |       |        
        |       | of the big bang maintains.                    |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | æWhen I am producing for                      |       |        
        |       | Kabuki-the-solo-artist, I compose drum&bass   |       |        
        |       | tunes especially for my record case. I donÆt  |       |        
        |       | really feel to play dirty amens, but I also   |       |        
        |       | dislike to play intellectually abstract. That |       |        
        |       | is why I always look for the pieces that      |       |        
        |       | mediate the deepness I want to have on my     |       |        
        |       | set.Æ                                         |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | That was four years ago, when Kabuki decided  |       |        
        |       | to produce solo drum&bass tracks  to fill up  |       |        
        |       | the gaps in his sets, beside his successful   |       |        
        |       | projects Makai and Megashira. Indeed, Kabuki  |       |        
        |       | tracks are very melodious, without neglecting |       |        
        |       | to rock the dance floor. KabukiÆs partner     |       |        
        |       | Mainframe is the engineer in all projects Jan |       |        
        |       | Henning is a part of. Mainframe takes care of |       |        
        |       | the warm and clear sound that still is so     |       |        
        |       | pressing you canÆt separate a slower track    |       |        
        |       | from a 170 bpm.                               |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | These off beat tracks, with which Kabuki has  |       |        
        |       | created himself another compositional         |       |        
        |       | freedom, have made him to one of the hottest  |       |        
        |       | and most futuristic artists offside           |       |        
        |       | drum&bass.                                    |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | ÆI have a strong affinity with smooth tracks  |       |        
        |       | that still take off. It is my goal to combine |       |        
        |       | a raw Detroit/garage sound with drum&bass.Æ   |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | Especially the Detroit parts in his to        |       |        
        |       | house/techno speed kind of tracks, made       |       |        
        |       | free-style sets a must, because they always   |       |        
        |       | bear in mind the dance floor and              |       |        
        |       | functionality.                                |       |        
        |       | DeBug described Kabuki as a ôcinematic        |       |        
        |       | minimalistô, a very poignant description when |       |        
        |       | it comes to the work and ambivalence of his   |       |        
        |       | music: big cinema with lots of ingredients,   |       |        
        |       | but very sharp and precisely set, with        |       |        
        |       | minimal shifts reaching the biggest possible  |       |        
        |       | effects. There always seems to be a lot of    |       |        
        |       | room between the chords, the beats and the    |       |        
        |       | basses, despite the denseness of the music.   |       |        
        |       | The synths Kabuki uses to make melodious      |       |        
        |       | sinuses or to refer to Detroit, are timeless  |       |        
        |       | and cannot be placed in one special epoch     |       |        
        |       | (please note, no 80s!). They donÆt have a     |       |        
        |       | passed-by-date and the signals donÆt belong   |       |        
        |       | to one particular genre. DonÆt limit his      |       |        
        |       | music on a superficial basis.                 |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | Kabuki always allows the sun to come in with  |       |        
        |       | his music, despite the spirit that rules. In  |       |        
        |       | doing this, he unites two worlds: the high    |       |        
        |       | speed intensity for the dance floor,          |       |        
        |       | following the dance diction but at the same   |       |        
        |       | time the warmth and compulsory nature of pop  |       |        
        |       | and soul. It is the bridge between technology |       |        
        |       | and the organic. It is lonely at this         |       |        
        |       | mountain top for Kabuki. He doesnÆt like to   |       |        
        |       | exaggerate and if it has to be rock, than     |       |        
        |       | only with a funk that likes to be just that,  |       |        
        |       | with a playful monotony nobody has been able  |       |        
        |       | to copy until now. Layer after layer the      |       |        
        |       | pieces build up, without ever being full or   |       |        
        |       | overloaded. A master of reduction and variety |       |        
        |       | at the same time. It is KabukiÆs gift to be   |       |        
        |       | able to give every sound and every moment in  |       |        
        |       | his music an inalienable place. To compare    |       |        
        |       | Kabuki tracks with anything alike, would mean |       |        
        |       | to roam around the world: it will be          |       |        
        |       | difficult to find. Kabuki music is elegant    |       |        
        |       | and perfectly edited, like songs from Steely  |       |        
        |       | Da. It is also glamorous and funky like John  |       |        
        |       | Tejada`s techno. This, just to explain the    |       |        
        |       | wide range of KabukiÆs music and to name two  |       |        
        |       | artists from entirely different worlds that   |       |        
        |       | Kabuki unites on this album - as it seems     |       |        
        |       | only on the sideline - the classical pop song |       |        
        |       | and the classical functional dance floor      |       |        
        |       | track.                                        |       |        
        |       | Because of songs like After The Fire  (feat.  |       |        
        |       | Cleveland Watkiss), Sexdrive  (feat. Vikter   |       |        
        |       | Duplaix) or Lizard (feat. Fat Jon) he         |       |        
        |       | absolutely strikes a pose as a serious artist |       |        
        |       | in the global pop circus, born in the         |       |        
        |       | classical music world and raised in the       |       |        
        |       | intensity hell of the parallel drum&bass      |       |        
        |       | universe. Pop music in his own language,      |       |        
        |       | obliging enough to find docking possibilities |       |        
        |       | for anyone who is addicted to any kind of     |       |        
        |       | club music.                                   |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | During the past 4 years, 35 compositions and  |       |        
        |       | remixes emerged that were released on labels  |       |        
        |       | like Precision, Spectrum Works, Sonar         |       |        
        |       | Kollektiv, Best Seven Head To Toe, to name a  |       |        
        |       | few. The decision to compile older and more   |       |        
        |       | recent tracks to a new album didnÆt take us   |       |        
        |       | long, as all these tracks only appeared on    |       |        
        |       | vinyl at the time and were therefore only     |       |        
        |       | accessible to a small group of experts and    |       |        
        |       | deejays. The album also is a time document:   |       |        
        |       | an album against forgetfulness, a compilation |       |        
        |       | for those who drown in the format flooding.   |       |        
        |       | The format of the future is the single. Not   |       |        
        |       | as an actual real sound carrier, but as a     |       |        
        |       | downloadable option. That is why in this      |       |        
        |       | transitory phase, in which all formats cd,    |       |        
        |       | vinyl or MP3 are or can be used equally, the  |       |        
        |       | decision to release an album that collects    |       |        
        |       | singles and remixes of one artist is a        |       |        
        |       | logical step to take.                         |       |        
        |       | Signal to noise also means: the filtering and |       |        
        |       | choosing of the best information: the most    |       |        
        |       | beautiful tracks and best songs on the        |       |        
        |       | classical expression format of a music        |       |        
        |       | artist: the album.                            |       |        
        |       | Combination being the label for his solo      |       |        
        |       | album was a logical decision, for us, but     |       |        
        |       | also for Kabuki. He wanted to publish on a    |       |        
        |       | label that on the in- and outside doesnÆt tie |       |        
        |       | itself down on one particular genre, but is   |       |        
        |       | somewhere in the middle: the label he already |       |        
        |       | joined with two of his tracks: on the         |       |        
        |       | compilations Traffic I and II.                |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | [taken from the label site]                   |       |        
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        |       | Why an -int?                                  |       |        
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        |       | 1. this one deserves to be in the sour        |       |        
        |       | collection                                    |       |        
        |       |                                               |       |        
        |       | 2. its ripped in vbr                          |       |        
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01-kabuki-transworld-sour.mp38,32 MB
02-kabuki-sexdrive-sour.mp39,13 MB
03-kabuki-speed_of_sound-sour.mp39,49 MB
04-kabuki-implant-sour.mp38,13 MB
05-kabuki-lizard-sour.mp37,63 MB
06-kabuki-ghosthack-sour.mp38,28 MB
07-kabuki-after_the_fire_(altern_vers_)-sour.mp36,54 MB
08-kabuki-the_way_i_swing_(rmx)-sour.mp39,21 MB
09-kabuki-logic_bomb-sour.mp38,35 MB
10-kabuki-spend_the_night_(rmx)-sour.mp38,95 MB
11-kabuki-pacemaker-sour.mp37,66 MB
12-kabuki-shibuya_nightlife-sour.mp37,59 MB