s w e e t b e a t s
march.26.2002 - #899
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artist : Joseph Malik
album : Diverse
year : 2002
label : Compost Records
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : CPT 104-2
url : www.compost-records.com
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Melodies 03:00
02.Soul Blues 04:35
03.Take it All in and Check it All Out 05:22
04.As I Rise (Feat David 'Chimp' Robertson) 03:06
05.Ibotribe 07:51
06.Futuristica (Produced by Son of Ugly) 05:23
07.I Don't Want (Feat Colin Steele) 06:38
08.Evil Things 03:37
09.I Am Drifting 03:30
10.Mother's Son 05:56
10 tracks | 48:58 mins | 67,3 MB
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Real music for real people! This is the real life û no synthetic
pleasure. What we are talking about is an upcoming and growing
post-dancefloor generation of young talented singer-songwriters,
who were musical born or raised in DJs clubland, or, on a certain
production level having something in common with club-life and the
streets. ItÆs about talent and own skills of singing and shouting,
writing lyrics, performing songs. ItÆs about club music by authors.
Take singers like Tommy Guerrero, Tim Hutton, Spacek, Victor
Malloy, Victor Davies, Joseph Malik and some others too - all these
people have in common that they are great singers (folky, soulful
or just tasteful).
We do not call a trend here, we are just saying that we are proud
of these talented singers coming back to fill the lack of soul in
clubs, or otherway round merging club land with indie land. The
Nineties were the age of noise, beats, trance and soundscapes, the
new decade stands for songs, human voices, soul, expression û the
opposite of tempting trance. Soulful music was always music by
seducers, but more to heal theirs and listenersÆ souls, rather then
to stir up an uncontrolled (often drug influenced) feeling. Here
are real people behind real music:
Joseph MalikÆs cover-version of the Bill Withers tune "Take It All
In And Check It Outö focuses exactly on what itÆs all about: Open
minded soulful singer-songwriter music by an artist who was always
standing for reality in terms of soul, R&B, folk, country, jazz,
dance and the street life.
Joseph Malik has a music career going back to the early 90ies as a
DJ and club promoter and producer in Scotland. With fellow DJs Sace
and Easi, he organised various club-nights and parties in Glasgow
and Edinburgh, slowly building a rep as a DJ in the scene. But in
1993 Malik moved to Edinburgh to check out the International Arts
Festival. There he hooked up with an old friend from back in the
early 80Æs Hip Hop scene: AJ who had his own studio and was already
producing music for various rappers and singers. So he was looking
for some fresh beats and ideas for tracks. The results were amazing
and the duo had their first release under the name of MFÆ Outa
National on the ground breaking "MoÆ Wax Headzö album Vol. 1 with
the track "Miles Out Of Timeö.
1994 brought Malik and AJ to the Stereo McÆs label "Responseö home
of fellow DJs Sace and Easi now recording under the name of NT and
Mc Mello with a new production name "Black Anizedö, taken from an
old Hank Ballard record. They released a series of killer EPs and
album projects on the Response label.
In 1996 Black Anized set up a home grown label in Edinburgh called
Yush Records. With a host of musicians and visitors from around the
world to their Bedroom beats studioÆs they released various EPs,
albums blending musical vibrations of Hip Hop, Reggae, Latin, Jazz,
R&B, Breaks and Beats, African Asian Chinese experimental music
styles.
In 1997 Malik left Black Anized and Yush Records to turn his
thoughts to the Club scene with partner Tobey Shippy æSalsa
CelticaÆ and Simon Hodge æBig BeatÆ. They launched a new club night
called "The Lizard Loungeö.
Based in an old church run by hippies and called Cafe Graffiti the
club night was a development in mixing DJs and live bands from
around the world.
After three wonderful years, in which they won Club Of The Year
Award 2 years running, sadly the club came to an end, because the
venue was sold to a new owner who was not a music lover. But Malik
moved on to a new project called Futuristica pushing the new wave
UK and euro NuJazz scene with the help of record collector and DJ
Daryl Gannon. The club gained a grassroots support and brought
Malik into contact with Rainer Trⁿby, who asked Malik to sing again
after hearing a track he recorded with Drum & Bass producer Grand
Unifiy "Music Makes Me Feel This Wayö on London ElektricityÆs
Hospital Records "Out Patients Vol.1ö. The track Rainer had in mind
was called "High Jazzö and they recorded it with the rest of the
Trⁿby Trio in Munich at Fauna Flash studios.
While being in Germany, Malik met with Michael Reinboth, label boss
at Compost Records. Malik signed a new recording deal for a singer
song writer project that Malik was working on in secret with studio
Maverick producer David Donnelly, a diverse multi talented musician
whose complex arrangements Malik first heard on DavidÆs Demusphere
project on Parallax Records in Edinburgh. Together their diverse
musical influences focused on Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Curtis
Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, Shuggy Otis, Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young, Ritchie Havens, Joyce, Terry Callier, D'Angelo,
Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Dr. John, Fela Kuti.
--compost-records.com
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