Release : 1000 Names - Toys Room Combat
Artist : 1000 Names
Album : Toys Room Combat
Genre : Electronic
Source : CDDA
Label : Eklektik Records
URL : http://www.myspace.com/1000names
Date : 03-14-2009
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 170kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 25
Time : 67:03 min
Size : 82.16 MB
1 Intro 2:08
2 Whiz Bang Scienze 3:00
3 It Started As A Remix 1:28
4 Rhythmatic Train Behaviour 2:38
5 Cloudride (with 215: TFK) 2:26
6 Meee-Loooo-Deee 1:32
7 Remixing In The Block (with Dena) 1:45
8 Pum 3:28
9 Monobinate 3:16
10 What Is Like 2:19
11 Roccin On Ur Radio 2:28
12 NN (with Jackhigh) 2:28
13 Plush Save 3:05
14 He's just Who! 2:36
15 In Unfunky UFO 3:13
16 Three That Shift 3:20
17 Puppies 2:35
18 We Can Only Speculate 2:25
19 Ant On My Button 3:28
20 Sonotron 2:24
21 80's Debut 2:27
22 Simmer Down (with C.Monts) 3:33
23 Toys Room Combat 3:17
24 Distant Call 3:50
25 Outro 1:54
Hip-hop is not dead! Well, at least according to duo 1000 Names. The two
producers, Casio Blaster and 99 Mistakes from Sofia, Bulgaria, are crusading
against the tired, plodding
beast that is today's commercial hip-hop.
"It's not dead but it's not what it used to be. The vibe is different now. It's
much more alive in terms of its elements; it's much more expressive," says Casio
Blaster. "We're taking all this bling bling stuff and doing it in a funny way.
We're making childish bling." A sentiment reflected in their latest record,
æToys Room Combat'.
It's a collection of jaunty, glitchy and playful beats. A happy mix of
experimental production and more traditional beat making. "It's something
between dance and head music," says 99 Mistakes."We like keeping it strange all
the time," adds Casio Blaster. "We don't produce a certain style and try to
perfect it, we think about it more as art. We're trying to combine different
influences to develop it and not make the same old beats."
Along with the likes of French beat wizard Fulgeance, 1000 Names are part of an
emerging, progressive scene in European hip-hop heavily influenced by detroit
legend J Dilla. They're also a great example of artists emerging from
flourishing musical communities linked by technology. "None of this would be
happening without the Internet. It would be very hard for us to do this without
it. The whole interaction drives everything," says Casio.
Interesting considering the not so distant political situation in Bulgaria. "For
many years Bulgaria was a closed country, there were no shops selling western
music here," says 99 Mistakes. "We were just getting bootleg cassettes. I
remember my first tape, it was Beastie Boys on one side and Run DMC on the
other."
Despite these restrictions and the lack of a defined hip-hop scene in Bulgaria,
1000 Names manage to make a unique and creative contribution to the genre. Using
one of its staple tools - the MPC sampler - they explore and redefine the
obscure and forgotten. "We discovered the MPC by ourselves; there was no one in
Sofia really making beats like that," says Casio. "We sample everything we find
interesting. We are really inspired by experimental composers who made
commercials in the '60s and '70s, people like Raymond Scott. These pieces are
full of exciting sounds, full of life. We're really in love with glitch sounds
and toy sounds. We've been friends for a long time, we've always been interested
in more outsider music and we've always discovered it together."