Artist : Arthur Russell
Title : The Sleeping Bag Sessions
Genre : Disco
Year : 2009
Date : 03/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Sleeping Bag Records
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 65:02 min
Size : 96,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.bonzo goes to washington - 5 03:18
minutes (b-b-b bombing mix)
02.felix - tiger stripes 06:53
(extended version)
03.sounds of jhs 126 brooklyn - chill 04:14
pill (underwater mix)
04.clandestine feat. ned sublette - 04:52
radio rhythm (s-i-g-n-a-l-s-m-a-r-t) (e
05.dinosaur l - go bang! 12:30
(walter gibbons mix)
06.indian ocean - school bell tree 10:26
house
07.indian ocean - treehouse 07:02
(extended bootleg edit)
08.felix - you can't hold me down 05:40
(extended version)
09.bonzo goes to washington - 5 04:08
minutes (r-r-r radio mix)
10.clandestine feat. ned sublette - 05:59
radio rhythm (s-i-g-n-a-l-s-m-a-r-t) (e
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65:02 min
With the magnitude of Arthur Russell's legacy
quite firmly prominent in the minds of most
music lovers today each new reissue of rare
or hard-to-find material is rightfully greeted with
feverish glee.
To give you a bit of background on this one,
Sleeping Bag was Arthur Russell's record label,
set up in 1981 with Will Socolov and including
Kurtis Mantronik amongst the labels A&R, with
a roster that included Russell working under a
plethora of pseudonyms alongside Mantronix,
Cash Money & Marvelous, EPMD and Just-Ice
among other seminal NYC acts during the
mid-late 80's exploring the nascent genres of
hiphop, disco and proto house, or basically put,
dance music.
This compilation looks at the work of Russell at
the helm of the studio behind Sleeping bag, in
various roles credited as Editor, Writer, Mixer,
Remixer and Producer behind some of the labels
finest moments and influencing decades of dance
music to come. The set's opening track '5 Minutes'
by Bonzo Washington is included in two forms remixed
by Russell, with stuttering tape edits spliced together
by the genius to create an freaking wild Art Of Noise
style sample collage with a mean electroboogie groove,
while Felix's 'Tiger Stripes' crediting Russell as writer
under his Killer Whale alias with Nicky Siano on
production is simply a stone cold dancefloor classic
that really needs no introduction.
The 1984 joint 'Radio Rhythm' by Clandestine feat.
Ned Sublette sounds like an ancient Primus track but
in it's remixed form by Russell takes on a proto
technofunk vibe with driving synthlines and almost
psychedelic multitrack layering, or check his mix for
Sounds Of JHS 126 Brooklyn splaying the vocals into
dynamic panning for a totally next level effect.
The two versions of Indian Ocean's 'School Bell/Tree
House' are unbelievably sublime, and easily amongst
his best work, while the 12 minute, heavily reverb treated
Walter Gibbons mix of Dinosaur L's seminal 'Go Bang!'
is worth the price of admission alone.
We could rattle on about this record all day but in the
interests of the economy and your patience we won't,
just trust us and Arthur Russell's Sleeping bag Record
co, that you seriously need this album if you have any
interest in disco, house, hiphop or amazing 20th
Century music.