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cDr|m's
.:: a klangwerk release ..................................................::.
artist :: joseph malik
release :: take it all in and check it all out
year :: 2002
genre :: lo-fi
label :: compost records
catalogue :: COMPOST 103-1
ripper :: *
date :: 16-mar-2002
quality :: 192kbps
source :: vinyl
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a take it all in and check it all out 5:19
b1 futuristica 5:21
b2 evil things (original version) 3:34
playtime :: 00h 14m 14s
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Real music for real people! This is the real life - 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. It's about talent and own skills of singing and shouting,
writing lyrics, performing songs. It's 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 - the
opposite of tempting trance. Soulful music was always music by
seducers, but more to heal theirs and listeners' souls, rather
then to stir up an uncontrolled (often drug influenced) feeling.
Here are real people behind real music:
Joseph Malik's cover-version of the Bill Withers tune "Take It All
In And Check It Out" focuses exactly on what it's 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 80's 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 MF' Outa National on the ground breaking
"Mo' Wax Headz" album Vol. 1 with the track "Miles Out Of Time".
1994 brought Malik and AJ to the Stereo Mc's label "Response" home
of fellow DJs Sace and Easi now recording under the name of NT and
Mc Mello with a new production name "Black Anized", 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 studio's 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 'Salsa
Celtica' and Simon Hodge 'Big Beat'. They launched a new club
night called "The Lizard Lounge".
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 Trüby, who asked Malik to sing
again after hearing a track he recorded with Drum & Bass producer
Grand Unifiy "Music Makes Me Feel This Way" on London
Elektricity's Hospital Records "Out Patients Vol.1". The track
Rainer had in mind was called "High Jazz" and they recorded it
with the rest of the Trüby 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
David's 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.
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greetings :: sb, qdp, sour, dps, it, rac, dh, sfe, hbz, igr and mgc
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