s w e e t b e a t s
april.22.2000 - #168
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artist : Lemongrass
album : Lumiere Obscure
year : 1999
label : Mole
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : MOLDE CD 017-2
url : www.mole.de
quality : 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 Dreams Are Real
02 Comme Toujours
03 Take A While
04 Underwater
05 The Bell
06 Flying Objects
07 Fine Time
08 La Fille Avec Cheveux Oranges
09 What A Night
10 Dream Your Dream Awake
11 Once Along The Way (Weathertunes Remix)
11 tracks | 1:00:53 min | 87.8mb
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Biography (www.mole.de) on Ronald Voss, the man behind Lemongrass...
(As translated from german to english by babelfish, always fun!)
Roland Voss: "my entrance into the music category was made initially by
skirt. I began 1974 then to take instructioninstruction instruction
and oriented myself in the further process stylistic strongly at
directions such as radio, jazz skirt and Free jazz. Between 1975 and
1979 I played then as jazz Drummer in different tape also, which
likewise experimented with jazz, in addition, Bebop and Bigbandsounds.
New Wave was thereafter my next station before I tried between '83 and
'85 quasi also avant-garde sound experiments with electronic devices."
The further way led new nation "across the establishment of the Punkband
"folding chair" and various groups of music groupgroup music to one
Schlagzeuger angagement with the citizens of Berlin Independent
Gitarrenband".
In the tone tonstudio these tape it finally began itself with
Synthesizern to argue Samplern and computers while in its remaining time
its whole interest HipHop applied.
"the broken HipHop Beats facilitated substantially the entrance for me
into the sounds, which came '92 from the UK, during me House and Techno
even at this time only enormously bored."
1993 appeared then its first own CD "Wuwei" under the project name Succa
V. additionally engaged themselves it on different other levels. It
produced among other things. Music for Werbespots and operated in this
time also more frequently than DJ and teacherteacher teachers. First
Jungle productions under the alias "Jungle Moon" developed 1994 together
with the schlagzeuger Torsten Koetter. Work to sucked. Muensteraner "
Spektakel" in July 1996 and a Multimediaprojekt with various artists
under the direction of Dragan Lovrinovic complete then its
career/development.
1997 were finally published the first TRACK by Lemongrass on the
Compilation "Submerged" with Incoming: "buzzer time" was a Drum & a bass
Coverversion with singing, and Lemongrass was discovered.
According to large attention - above all also in France - and plentifully
good criticism brought then the Lemongrass Debut album to "Drumatic of
university verses" in the year 1998: melancholischer, spherical D&B,
jazzy and laminar, digital Beats mixed with guitars -, blaeser and Tabla
Samples - simply successfully and beautiful.
Afterwards the "Orbis" project, its sound aesthetics followed on its
musician driving of many years and founded been based and D&B inter+
pretationen for dancing and hearing in a rare atmospheric density
developed in the autumn 1998; as it were a further step toward timeless
sound art.
Now Roland Voss presents us aka Lemongrass on the music label mole
Listening Pearls with "LumiΦre Obscure" a consistent advancement of its
style; tying to the sound concept of "Drumatic of university verses" we
may look forward to a beautiful album for relaxed well-being.
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