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ARTiST....: michna
TiTLE.....: magic monday
LABEL.....: Ghostly international
GENRE.....: electronic
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 67,8 MB
REL.DATE..: sep-27-2008
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01] triple chrome dipped 03:59
02] swiss glide 03:47
03] believe in it 03:34
04] skunk walk 04:55
05] bumper car master 05:37
06] levitation 05:02
07] raw paw 04:24
08] redline flights 04:53
09] do what you want to do 02:46
10] italian visitor 01:45
11] avante 03:54
12] third orbit 03:21
TOTAL TiME : 47:57 min
Michna (born Adrian Michna) is a world traveler,
seeking knowledge at all points along the way. He
has gigged everywhere from Shanghai to Budapest,
and has spent most of his life between the
extremes of NYC and Miami. In return for his
adventuresome spirit, these travels have blessed
him with musical influences in spades.
New York City is the place young Michna cut his
teeth. Whether DJing parties with tapes as a teen
or sneaking in to play with his band at CBGB a few
years later, Adrian found his way as a DJ under
his Egg Foo Young alias, earning him a URB "Next
100" nod in the process. Production gigs for Bonde
do Role and Diplo followed, allowing Michna to put
his deftness at both the drum machine and the
trombone to good use, creating tracks out of dense
blankets of sound and texture.
Apart from the tightly woven musical amalgam of
hip-hop, booty and electro, it's the detailed
process that makes Michna's debut album, Magic
Monday, move. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of
the album is its rich element of musicality; in an
era when hip-hop tracks have devolved into
two-note keyboard loops, songs like "Skunk Walk"
live up to their name with full-bodied funk and
live horns. When Ghostly owner, Sam Valenti IV,
asked Adrian which samples to clear, Adrian
replied, "What samples?"
With its solid backbone of sound collage, Magic
Monday pulls together MichnaÆs variety of
influences to reveal the sound of New York City in
transition. At a time when so many New Yorkers
complain that their fair city has been sanitized
beyond recognition, this is a record that keeps a
nice layer of grit beneath the fingernails. After
all, itÆs the details that matter in the end.
Buy me if you love me :)