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| Artist : Freddie Cruger |
| Album : Soul Search (Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Ubiquity Records |
| Year : 2006 |
| Genre : Electronic |
| Rip date : Aug-23-2006 |
| Store date : Oct-24-2006 |
| Size : 72,6 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Over The Ocean feat. Desmond Foster 04:35 |
| 02 - I Wanna Make You Movie feat. Anthony 03:08 |
| David |
| 03 - What'cha See Is What'cha Get feat. 03:25 |
| Cee-Rock |
| 04 - Running From Love feat. ADL 04:49 |
| 05 - Pretty Little Thing feat. Linn 04:17 |
| 06 - I Feel Quote Whatever feat. Swingfly 04:09 |
| 07 - Pushing On feat. Linn 04:16 |
| 08 - Special Lady feat. ADL 04:18 |
| 09 - The Hustle 06:57 |
| 10 - Something Good feat. Desmond Foster 03:42 |
| 11 - New World New Time feat. Anthony David 05:04 |
| 12 - Bap Yo Head feat. Rapadon 04:24 |
| 13 - Take It Personally feat. Desmond Foster 04:47 |
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| 57:51 min |
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| Integral to the rise of influential independent Swedish labels like Raw |
| Fusion and GAMM, vinyl-buying fans of hip hop and soul will have found |
| it hard to ignore the barrage of 16 releases and remixes featuring the |
| name Freddie Cruger or pseudonym Red Astaire over the past few years. |
| Despite the majority of his music being released purely on vinyl to date |
| Cruger has gained many devoted supporters including names like Jazzy |
| Jeff, Bobbito, Gilles Peterson, Quantic and even Erykah Badu. |
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| Hailing from the southern district of Stockholm, Sweden, Cruger has been |
| making beats for a decade or so. Aiding his graduation from bedroom |
| producer making simple instrumental beats to hit-capable producer |
| carving out an album of soulful reggae, b-boy disco and dark ghetto |
| blues are a handful of guest vocalist. SoulÆstress Linn, who glides in |
| like a Scandinavian Jill Scott on ôPretty Little Thing,ö and the |
| talented MC ADL represent Sweden. Joining them are Swingfly on the |
| dancefloor bound ôI Feel Quote Whateverö, Rapadon, Anthony David on the |
| Latin-tinged ôI Wanna Make You Moveö and bluesy ôNew World Timeö, and |
| Cee-Rock ôThe Furyö from the USA with Desmond Foster from Jamaica on the |
| good-time reggae flavored opener and ôSomething Good.ö ôIÆve had some of |
| the songs since way back in 1998 and have never grown tired of them, so |
| they had to be included,ö says Cruger. ôIt took me a while to get this |
| album done, but now IÆm in the zone, I could make the next one pretty |
| fast!ö he adds. |
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| You wonÆt find Swedish pop or black metal on Soul Search, instead Cruger |
| brings an album that could easily have come straight from one of the |
| five boroughs, never mind Stockholm. ôMy music must have some Swedish |
| feeling to it but I canÆt really pinpoint what that means,ö says Cruger. |
| ôI have always been attracted to rhythm, drums and percussion, and have |
| been deep into Reggae, Soul, Latin, Funk, Rap for as long as I can |
| remember.ö |
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| For Freddie Cruger, real name Fredrik Lager, the first foray into the |
| world of hip hop was as a break dancer in the early 1980s. An older |
| brother encouraged the dancing and introduced Cruger to Black dance |
| music. By the mid-1980Æs Cruger worked weekends at a legendary import |
| record store in Stockholm called Space (although apparently he had to |
| take on janitorial duties to get a foot in the door!) The store job was |
| a way to build a record collection, and Cruger lined his bedroom shelves |
| with electro and rap releases, plus disco and funk 12" and 7"inch |
| classics. The urge to make music took-hold and he bought his first drum |
| machine and turntables before the decade was over, ôthis was the best |
| investment IÆve ever made,ö says Cruger. |
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| Around 1991 he met with Mad Mats and a friendship grew around time spent |
| in Mats downtown Stockholm studio. ôI knew him when he still had hair on |
| his head,ö jokes Cruger. ôBut seriously he was making dope beats way |
| back then.ö Mats would later create Raw Fusion Records, the influential |
| Swedish independent and future home for CrugerÆs music. CrugerÆs first |
| release was a limited edition affair in 1994 under the name Chimney |
| Heads. Since then heÆs released 15 more releases (either original or |
| remixes) and worked as a producer with artists like China Moses |
| (daughter of Dee Dee Bridgewater), Bob Powers (Tribe Called Quest, The |
| Roots), Rappadon, Baz Baz, La Nata (France), ADL, Desmond Foster, Linn, |
| Swing Fly, Anthony David, Bas-1 and many more. HeÆs currently signed to |
| Raw Fusion Recordings in Sweden but and has also released music on |
| Swedish Brandy, GAMM (as the notorious Red Astaire) and his own Home |
| Grown label. Until the release of Soul Search, ôFollow Meö would be |
| Crugers most lauded release to date. A mash-up using the accapella of a |
| well-known soul tune with one of his own beats proved to be a party |
| pleaser with DJs worldwide and the birth of the infamous GAMM mash-up |
| label. In the spring, Cruger released an album as The 3 Foot People |
| called 3 Foot High And Rising, a predominantly instrumental available on |
| his own Homegrown label. |
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| When not producing he might be travelling the world as a renowned DJ |
| spinning a road-block causing blend of soul, hip hop, funk, disco and |
| beyond. With a changing market Raw Fusion has recently taken on the role |
| of production company and farmed out Soul Search to Ubiquity for release |
| in the USA and Canada. |
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