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a r t i s t blade and the bazay jam band
a l b u m soda pop
l a b e l butter beats
g e n r e funk
r i p d a t e 11-11-2004
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Those of you down with graff and Hip Hop culture will know that BLADE
was an early New York graffiti pioneer. He painted over 5000 subway
cars throughout the early 1970s and his work was featured in
documentaries like Style Wars and From Here To Carnesie. Most of his
fans dont realise he was also a well known and influential bass
player and band leader from the Bronx. His funky style was also found
in his fat bass playing for groups like THE FIRST CLASS GOOD TIME
BAND and the BAZAY JAM BAND. These groups occasionally toured
throughout New York State, but rarely recorded. One box of four track
cassette tapes remained for all those years of playing.
Those tapes sat dormant at BLADES apartment for years, occasionally
getting played to European art collectors who constantly visit him
hounding him for new paintings. Tash and I were visiting BLADE at his
NYC Bronx based apartment, to pay our respects and get some old
school knowledge. Tash was particularly interested in finding out
about the old school female writers. I always dig any old school
story from someone who was there. I had made the pilgramage to New
York City on four seperate occasions for this very reason.
BLADE has lived there most of his life. New York City born and bred.
A true Bronx Bomber. From his window, you can see the trains running.
His parents live in an apartment block right next door. Near Dyre
Avenue in the Bronx. Well worth the travel to check out the legend
and his old school flicks. BLADE bought Tash and I lunch for the
local chinese takeaway.... beers, bud and black bean sauce... Looking
thru lots of old school flixs and getting some bass guitar tips. To
get the party moving he busted out some old tapes. Early
recordings..... the tapes were fat psychedelic hard fat funk and
early electro bombs from the heart of the Boogie Down Bronx.. That
day was one of the high points of both our lives.
THE RECORDINGS TRANSFER
These recordings were made in the late 70's and early 80's. One of
the tracks features male vocals reminicent of Tom Jones. BLADE told
us that this vocalist was a huge Jones fan. The rest of the tracks
are home recordings made in his Bronx apartment. On the 80s
recordings a FOSTEX home studio 4 track onto cassette tape was used.
Drum programming and keyboards are all by BLADE. That fat bass was
played live by Rickenbacker master BLADE.
Once I had permission from BLADE for the recordings I had to find a
studio. I spent a couple of days trying various friends I had and
then thru the VILLAGE VOICE I tried a bunch of studios. I could not
find any studios with the old recording equipment. I had a moment of
clarity and I relised I had to take the 4 track recorder down to a
studio. So I had to take his old four track down to little studio on
the east side lower Manhattan and get the recordings made into
protools. A big chunk of trust was needed as I could have easlily
hocked the 4 track.
I had the tracks, 11 in total all transferred onto protools. Each
track seperated still. I fly back to Australia 3 days later. Once
back I gave the recording to Jigsaw Geoff to cut down. Some of these
jams were 12 minutes long and often with tape damage in sections. We
made copies of a number of tracks and then sent them out to
Australias best beats producers- RANSOM, PERIL, JIGSAW GEOFF.
THE RECORDINGS
11 Original recordings by BLADE
Excerpts from a taped interview Kasino made with BLADE in 1997.
Images from BLADE's archive of 70's graffiti images.
On each CD you will find 11 original tracks, 3 remixes as well as
some excerpts from an interview I conducted with BLADE in 1997. I
interviewed a number of New York legends including DERO, BLADE,
FLITE, KEL and MIN ONE. All recordings were made on tape and sat in a
box at my place Brisbane for the last 5 years. Now grab this rare
chance to listen to these funky recordings.This is raw funk from the
heart of the Bronx.
PRESSING
This is a one time only release of these rare tracks and these songs
will never be found again. This disc also contains a number of train
phots from his 5000 various panels in the 70s. We are only making 500
copies of this recording. We will not be repressing this CD. It is
strictly for the underground heads.
...and remember: s t a y f u f f e n s f o r l i f e
t r a c k l i s t
pac man 05:26
interview 00:34
bacardi straight 04:37
soda pop 05:56
soppin the biscuit 05:23
interview 00:50
bass is poppin 04:35
gimme dat green 04:56
bazay jam 76 04:33
skelly 05:40
takes time 04:54
sunny days 04:05
foot through a cloud 04:26
gettin it on 82 04:38
blades theme 05:14
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