Abacus--Analog_Trks_Volume_One-(GDR-012)-Vinyl-1997-dh

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                                                          28.01.2005

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     artist   : Abacus
     title    . Analog Trks Volume One
     type     : EP
     year     . 1997
     genre    : House
     subgenre . House
     label    : Guidance Recordings
     cat      . GDR 012
     URL      : www.guidancerecordings.com
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     grabber  : EAC
     encoder  . Lame 3.90.3
     quality  : VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo
     source   . Vinyl
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     A1.We Cookin Now                                                08:00
     A2.Taxi Blues                                                   04:07
     B1.Opinion Rated R                                              05:14
     B2.Blax Thanxs                                                  07:33


     24:54 min  36,9 MB
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     The deep house crew brings you once again a high quality release of
     soulful dance music.. music with emotion that deserves the promotion..

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     Phase 1: The Vinyl Years

     Guidance Recordings was founded in 1996 by current partners Ivan
     Pavlovich, Rob Kouchoukos, and Sid Stary. Pavlovich and Kouchoukos
     first met while running the day to day operations at Curtis Jones╣
     (a.k.a. Cajmere and Green Velvet) legendary Cajual, Prescription and
     Relief labels. Having helped guide the label group to the pinnacle of
     the house music renaissance that swept through the Windy City during
     the mid 90╣s, the two left Cajual and joined forces with Sid Stary,
     who had just completed a finance degree at the University of
     Illinois, to launch their own record company. Inspired by a new wave
     of producers who were successfully expanding upon the Chicago house
     music blueprint by adding state of the art production techniques and
     a cosmopolitan edge to art form, Guidance embraced the emerging
     globalization of electronic music culture by assembling a diverse and
     talented roster of artists from across Europe, the UK, and North
     America. The label released its first two singles, Free Energy
     "Happiness" and Projekt: PM╣s vocoded house classic "When the Voices
     Come" in May 1996, and haven╣t looked back since. It followed with a
     string of timeless twelve inches that helped launched the careers of
     house music legends such as: Austin "Abacus" Bascom, Deep Sensation,
     Blueboy, Fresh and Low, Kevin Yost, and Chicago╣s very own Glenn
     Underground, prompting Muzik Magazine to proclaim Guidance "the best
     new house label in the world" in its 1997 year end issue. Although
     Guidance initially made its mark in the industry on the strength of
     its deep house singles, the label╣s goal has always been to release a
     diverse spectrum of soulful urban electronic music encompassing but
     not limited to house, dub, downtempo, hip hop, lounge, electro and
     world influenced sounds. All three of the label╣s founding partners
     came of age in club culture during the late 1980╣s when things were
     much more open and DJ╣s weren╣t afraid to take chances and rock
     reggae, hip hop, house, freestyle, electro and techno all in the same
     set. Guided by the mantra that "good music is good music regardless
     of the sub-genre assigned to it by a journalist or a record store
     clerk", the label encouraged its artists to indulge themselves and
     include different styles and tempos of music on their releases. This
     open minded music policy soon paid off in spades when Blueboy╣s
     "Remember Me" an infectious downtempo mash up of Marlena Shaw╣s
     soulboy classic "Woman of the Ghetto" became a world wide smash hit,
     remaining on the top ten of the British pop charts for six straight
     weeks, and achieving gold record sales status in several countries.

     Phase 2: The Compilation Era and the Move Towards Artist Development

     Inspired by the critical and commercial success of Blueboy╣s
     "Remember Me", Guidance forged ahead with its diversification plans,
     launching its well branded Mundial Muzique, Midnight Express, and Hi
     Fidelity House, Dub, and Lounge compilation imprints, all of which
     have found their way onto the top compilation of the year charts
     published by leading music industry magazines uch as DJ, Muzik,
     Mixmag, and Urb. This foray into the CD compilation market proved to
     be a crucial phase in the label╣s expansion, exposing the Guidance
     sound to a wider music buying audience beyond the confines of DJ
     culture and paving the way for the label╣s transition into a full
     scale record company dedicated to artist development. Over the years,
     Guidance has been very fortunate to have a number of the acts on its
     roster grow with the label and evolve from DJ╣s producing the odd one
     off single into versatile artists capable of releasing engaging full
     length albums. The year 2000 marked the release of the label╣s first
     proper artist album, A:xus "Soundtrack for Life" produced by
     Toronto╣s Austin Bascom. Hailed by critics as one of the best
     electronic albums of the year, the record╣s seamless fusion of house,
     electro, jazz, downtempo and drum and bass sounds proved that these
     disparate underground styles could co-exist to form a compelling long
     player that could be enjoyed on or off the dance floor. In early
     2001, Guidance followed suit with "Doubts and Convictions" the
     masterful debut album from Marseille, France based trio the
     Troublemakers, whose potent blend of evocative funk rhythms and
     cinematic film score inspired soundtracks prompted Muzik Magazine to
     describe their sound as "lounge music from heaven!▓ "Doubts and
     Convictions" became a massive commercial success in Europe, placing
     the Troublemakers in the same peer group as artists such as Kruder
     and Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation, and Air and heralded
     Guidance╣s long and fruitful foray into the electronic album market.
     Refusing to rest on its laurels, the label continued to keep the
     quality level high, delivering the sterling sophomore album "Numero
     Deux" from Milan based duo, The Dining Rooms, which is now widely
     regarded as one of chill out╣s crowning moments and has become a
     perennial favorite amongst the Hollywood music supervisor set. The
     next stop in Guidance╣s never ending search for the perfect beat
     landed it in Helsinki, Finland, home to Nuspirit Helsinki, a
     multi-talented collective of local DJ╣s producers and musicians that
     ascended to the forefront of the European nu-jazz scene on the
     strength of their peerless singles productions for Guidance,
     Jazzanova/Compost and Ubiquity. Nuspirit╣s self titled 2002 debut
     album, an exquisite longer player fusing smoky live jazz funk
     arrangements, melodic neo-soul grooves, and dark undulating broken
     beat rhythms was praised by critics as a release of major beauty and
     importance and compared to the works of legends such as Miles Davis,
     the Weather Report and Lalo Schriffin. Since the album╣s release,
     Nuspirit have taken their big band show on the road, dazzling crowds
     at jazz and electronic music festivals across the UK and Europe with
     their forward thinking fusion of accomplished musicianship and
     relentless dance floor energy. Recent Guidance releases such as
     Norwegian folk electronica trio, Flunk╣s stylish synth pop love
     affair "For Sleepyheads Only" and Caia "The Magic Dragon" a
     captivating album of far east inspired electronica from Andy Cato of
     Groove Armada, have further solidified the label╣s status as one of
     the world╣s leading purveyors of stylish and soulful electronic
     music. With the recent signing of Bent, Nottingham, England╣s
     undisputed champions of leftfield dance music, as well as exciting
     new artists such as Seattle╣s Young Circle and Tennessee╣s Skyway 7,
     the label╣s future is in very capable hands as all of these acts add
     depth and diversity to the repertoire while falling comfortably
     within the parameters of the trademark Guidance sound.

     Phase 3: Label Diversification

     During its eight year history, Guidance Recordings has built an
     unparalleled catalog of quality electronic music which has enabled
     the company to diversify and enter markets outside the realm of
     traditional record sales. In addition to the inclusion of titles from
     its catalog on countless compilation albums, the label has been
     commissioned to compile exclusive premium CD╣s for leading national
     retail chains, boutique hotels, music and lifestyle publications.
     Within the realm of synchronization licensing, Guidance has
     repeatedly placed songs from its repertoire in major motion pictures
     (Forces of Nature; The Truth About Charlie); National Advertising
     Campaigns (Apple Computers) and Nationally Syndicated Television
     Shows (HBO╣s Emmy Award Winning series Six Feet Under and the Six
     Feet Under Soundtrack; HBO╣s Sex in the City, Showtime╣s Queer as
     Folk, and CBS╣s CSI: Miami). In recent years, the label has also
     tapped into the burgeoning video game market, compiling the
     soundtrack and companion soundtrack album for the popular Play
     Station 2 game Smuggler╣s Run, and placing songs from the Guidance
     catalog on Midnight Club 2 and Grand Theft Auto III, currently the
     number one selling video game in the United States.

     Phase 4: The Future for Guidance Recordings and the CompanyÆs Place
     in the Emerging Digital Music Revolution

     The music industry is currently experiencing a shake up of epic
     proportions. An entire generation of teenagers and college students
     have come of age downloading their music collections for free,
     unaware that they are infringing copyright laws and depriving record
     labels and their favorite artists of much needed revenue. 12 year old
     kids from Eastern Europe can now crack any copy proof CD technology
     the Recording Industry throws at them in a matter of minutes, and
     Steve Job╣s prophesy that the CD will become obsolete by the end of
     the decade is looking more and more accurate by the millisecond.
     Despite these vast potholes in the ever-changing music industry
     landscape, the Guidance crew remains steadfastly optimistic about the
     label╣s future. Guidance Recordings was built on the philosophy that
     what matters most is musical content and regardless of what formats
     emerge to take the place of phonographic records and compact discs,
     as long as the label continues to make good on its mission to deliver
     a steady stream of quality and innovative sounds into the global
     marketplace, technology will only make it easier for the company to
     identify and captivate a receptive audience of music lovers.
     Accordingly, Guidance has embraced the nascent digital music
     revolution by forming strategic partnerships with forward thing
     companies such as E Music and Apple╣s I-Tunes store, both of whom
     have proven that there are millions of honest music fans who are more
     than willing to purchase the music that they love in a digital
     format. Viva la digital revolucion!

     remember to support artists.

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        shoutouts to the groups that love the music they promote..

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     Now releasing VBR and CBR encoded rips on ripper's choice

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     If you're down with the deep house music, music with feeling..
     music that makes you groove no matter where you are.. and you
     keep the feeling real. .∙· d e e p h o u s e  2 0 0 5 ·∙.

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a1-abacus--we_cookin_now-dh.mp311,84 MB
a2-abacus--taxi_blues-dh.mp35,93 MB
b1-abacus--opinion_rated_r-dh.mp37,60 MB
b2-abacus--blax_thanxs-dh.mp311,51 MB