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artist : disJam
title : Money
year : 1997
genre : Acid Jazz
label : Yo Mama! Records (Yo Mama 4024-2))
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ripper : JLG
rls-date : 03/31/2001
encoder : fhg radium mp3 codec v1.263
quality : 192kbps/44,100hz
source : Compact Disc
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01 Hey Hey Hey 4:09
02 Alien Nation 5:45
03 Return of the Manchurian Candidate 4:33
04 Last Year's Model 5:38
05 El Hombre Nuevo (No 1) 3:59
06 El Hombre Nuevo (No 2) 4:05
07 Take the Money and Run 3:31
08 Macho Muerte 3:45
09 Green Emanuelle 4:26
10 In Mama Scorcese's Kitchen 1:33
11 Heavy Behaviour 5:08
11 tracks (00h 46m 32s)
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This album was the last on acid-jazz Hamburg label Yo Mama records
and somehow announces the move to more electronic fields than its
predecessors. It could almost be filed into the lo-fi category
already. Less catchy groovy tunes and more experimental sound
layers and tweaks, well worth listening to.
About DisJam:
The Hamburg acid-jazz troupe known as disJam increasingly slanted
their instrumental talents toward the electronica and trip-hop
crowds. Formed in the early '90s, the band came together around
keyboard player Ralf Petter, bassist Sascha Panknin, percussionist
Oliver Schumacher, guitarist Volker Kurnoth, and reed player Ole
Janssen. The collective soon became popular on the continental
acid-jazz scene, and recorded their self-titled debut album in 1995
(it also earned American distribution through Instinct's This Is
Acid Jazz series). Gradually shedding instrumentalists as the focus
turned to electronic music and dance-jazz fusion, disJam recorded
three albums for Yo Mama, often with help from vocalists (the 1996
album Phuturing the Poetry of Lemn Sissay was a collaboration with
Sissay, a Manchester poet). In 1998, the band -- basically down to
a trio of Panknin, Petter, and Schumacher, plus new addition
Christoph Kaehler on vocals (occasionally) and guitar -- signed to
Shadow Records and released Return of the Manchurian. Once again
distributed in America, disJam returned in 2000 with Hybrid Honey.
-- John Bush, allmusic.com
Short bio:
1992/93
-first appearance as "disJam" (live gigs in Berlin, Hamburg,
Cologne + Munich)
1994
-first album "Phuturing The Poetry of Lemn Sissay", out on Yo Mama
Records,
Hamburg
-tracks on compilations by Instinct Records, New York
1995
-opening act of Maceo Parker, MC Solaar, & others -U.S. release of
the first album
(Instinct Records)
-Tour as Band of "Die Fantastischen Vier" (Germanys biggest HipHop
act)
-open air festivals all over Europe with "Die Fantastischen Vier"
-Ralf Petter as Keyboarder for the 1996 Randy Crawford album
1996
-Second European Tour with "Die Fantastischen Vier"
-again several open air festivals and TV live performances in
Europe
-disJams Christoph Kaehler and Sascha Panknin release the first
album of Butter ("Happy")
1997
-2nd album "Money" out on Yo Mama Records,
-live album with "Die Fantastischen Vier" out on Columbia Rec.,
Germany
-U2 opening act with the "Popmart" tour in Germany (Of course again
with "Die
Fantastischen 4")
-remixes (e.g. on "A Tribute to Lara Croft")
1998
-Ralf Petter as co-producer and co-writer for the 1998 Bootsy
Collins album
-U.S.release of "Money" -production of the 3rd album "Hybrid Honey"
1999
-release of "Hybrid Honey" on 5000 records
-single-release on Masterdetective, London
-release of "Completely Happy With It" 12" EP on 5000 records
2000
-US release of "Hybrid Honey" on Shadow records, N.Y.
(from http://www.5000records.com/disJam4/bio.html)
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