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artist : disJam
title : Phuturing The Poetry of Lemn Sissay
year : 1994
genre : Acid Jazz
label : Yo Mama! Records (YO 0907-2)
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ripper : JLG
rls-date : 03/31/2001
encoder : fhg radium mp3 codec v1.263
quality : 192kbps/44,100hz
source : Compact Disc
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01 Lemn Sissay - Intro 0:39
02 disJam & Lemn Sissay - Wake Up 5:13
03 disJam - Peter Bond 4:00
04 Lemn Sissay - When It's Cold 3:26
05 disJam - Point Blank (ft Eric IQ Gray) 2:33
06 disJam & Cunnie Williams - Softboiled (ft Eric IQ Gray) 5:30
07 disJam & Lemn Sissay - Stoned On War (ft Sandra Blake) 4:35
08 disJam - Junk 4:47
09 disJam & Lemn Sissay - Strange City 6:26
10 disJam - The Storyteller 2:05
11 disJam - Denmark 13:11
12 Lemn Sissay - Outro 1:15
12 tracks (00h 53m 40s)
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disJam & Hamburg Yo Mama record label were at the forefront of
quality acid-jazz of the mid-1990s period. This album - their 2nd -
features one of my favorite tracks from then : 'The Storyteller', a
2 min. percusive humorous yet groovy instrumental track i love to
spin on the occasion. It also has to more known vocal 'Stoned On
War', that appeared on numerous acid-jazz compilations.
About DisJam:
The Hamburg acid-jazz troupe known as disJam increasingly slanted
their instrumental talents toward the electronica and trip-hop
crowds. Formed in the early '90s, the band came together around
keyboard player Ralf Petter, bassist Sascha Panknin, percussionist
Oliver Schumacher, guitarist Volker Kurnoth, and reed player Ole
Janssen. The collective soon became popular on the continental
acid-jazz scene, and recorded their self-titled debut album in 1995
(it also earned American distribution through Instinct's This Is
Acid Jazz series). Gradually shedding instrumentalists as the focus
turned to electronic music and dance-jazz fusion, disJam recorded
three albums for Yo Mama, often with help from vocalists (the 1996
album Phuturing the Poetry of Lemn Sissay was a collaboration with
Sissay, a Manchester poet). In 1998, the band -- basically down to
a trio of Panknin, Petter, and Schumacher, plus new addition
Christoph Kaehler on vocals (occasionally) and guitar -- signed to
Shadow Records and released Return of the Manchurian. Once again
distributed in America, disJam returned in 2000 with Hybrid Honey.
-- John Bush, allmusic.com
Short bio:
1992/93
-first appearance as "disJam" (live gigs in Berlin, Hamburg,
Cologne + Munich)
1994
-first album "Phuturing The Poetry of Lemn Sissay", out on Yo Mama
Records,
Hamburg
-tracks on compilations by Instinct Records, New York
1995
-opening act of Maceo Parker, MC Solaar, & others -U.S. release of
the first album
(Instinct Records)
-Tour as Band of "Die Fantastischen Vier" (Germanys biggest HipHop
act)
-open air festivals all over Europe with "Die Fantastischen Vier"
-Ralf Petter as Keyboarder for the 1996 Randy Crawford album
1996
-Second European Tour with "Die Fantastischen Vier"
-again several open air festivals and TV live performances in
Europe
-disJams Christoph Kaehler and Sascha Panknin release the first
album of Butter ("Happy")
1997
-2nd album "Money" out on Yo Mama Records,
-live album with "Die Fantastischen Vier" out on Columbia Rec.,
Germany
-U2 opening act with the "Popmart" tour in Germany (Of course again
with "Die
Fantastischen 4")
-remixes (e.g. on "A Tribute to Lara Croft")
1998
-Ralf Petter as co-producer and co-writer for the 1998 Bootsy
Collins album
-U.S.release of "Money" -production of the 3rd album "Hybrid Honey"
1999
-release of "Hybrid Honey" on 5000 records
-single-release on Masterdetective, London
-release of "Completely Happy With It" 12" EP on 5000 records
2000
-US release of "Hybrid Honey" on Shadow records, N.Y.
(from http://www.5000records.com/disJam4/bio.html)
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greetings to sweetbeats, quadrophenia, sour, mindscape, deephouse
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