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▀▀▀▄ ARTIST.......: Slam ▄▀▀▀
▀▄▄ TITLE.......: Virtuoso ▄▄▀
▀█▄ SOURCE.....: Vinyl ▄█▀
▄█▀ STYLE......: Techno ▀█▄
▄▄█▀▀ LABEL.......: Soma ▀▀█▄▄
▄█▀▀ CAT.NR........: SOMA 118 ▀▀█▄
▀ QUALITY.........: VBRkbps/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo ▀
▄▀ URL...............: www.somarecords.com ▀▄
▄ RIP.DATE...........: Jun-04-2005 ▄
█ LENGTH............: 16:43 min █
▄ ■▄ SIZE.............: 26,6 MB ▄■ ▄
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██▓▓ Slam is Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Synonymous with GlasgowÆs underground club ██▓▓
██▓▓ scene and their sound-searching record ██▓▓
██▓▓ label, Soma, the duo have garnered a ██▓▓
██▓▓ reputation as international DJs, ██▓▓
██▓▓ accomplished recording artists and respected ██▓▓
██▓▓ collaborators. Their schedule regularly ██▓▓
██▓▓ takes them to clubs worldwide confirming ██▓▓
██▓▓ their status as one of a handful of artists ██▓▓
██▓▓ that truly shape their genre. Resident at ██▓▓
██▓▓ Fabric, London and Pressure, Glasgow, they ██▓▓
██▓▓ are about to undergo their 8th annual Slam ██▓▓
██▓▓ tent at ScotlandÆs T in the Park festival ██▓▓
██▓▓ (15 000 capacity). YEAR ZERO Slam were ██▓▓
██▓▓ nearing the end of their 'Alien Radio' tour ██▓▓
██▓▓ when they shared an epiphany. Rather than ██▓▓
██▓▓ feeling jaded after trekking around the ██▓▓
██▓▓ world at a time when the media were ██▓▓
██▓▓ reporting on the so-called ôdecline of dance ██▓▓
██▓▓ musicö Slam were fired-up, focused and ready ██▓▓
██▓▓ to start work on their third album. The duo ██▓▓
██▓▓ had been searching through their record ██▓▓
██▓▓ collections collating ideas for a radio one ██▓▓
██▓▓ æBreezeblockÆ guest show and re-discovered ██▓▓
██▓▓ the music that had brought them together in ██▓▓
██▓▓ the first place; Tom Tom Club, Funkadelic, ██▓▓
██▓▓ Mantronix and urban labels like Celluloid ██▓▓
██▓▓ and Sugarhill. This music was Slam's 'year ██▓▓
██▓▓ zero', informing their salad days. "It ██▓▓
██▓▓ usually takes us ages to make an album," ██▓▓
██▓▓ laughs Stuart McMillan, "but we knew what we ██▓▓
██▓▓ wanted to do. When we first met we were ██▓▓
██▓▓ listening to electro, funk and reggae. What ██▓▓
██▓▓ was exciting about the early house scene was ██▓▓
██▓▓ that it wasn't just about one thing. We ██▓▓
██▓▓ wanted to step back to go forward." Orde ██▓▓
██▓▓ Meikle agrees, "We were looking for a ██▓▓
██▓▓ fresher feeling. What we used to play when ██▓▓
██▓▓ we started Djing was niche-less, a very ██▓▓
██▓▓ eclectic mix of music. We wanted to return ██▓▓
██▓▓ to these influences but draw something fresh ██▓▓
██▓▓ out of them." After the success of 'Alien ██▓▓
██▓▓ Radio's collaborations with Dot Allison and ██▓▓
██▓▓ Tyrone Palmer, whose soulful 'Lifetimes' ██▓▓
██▓▓ Orde believes is their most requested track ██▓▓
██▓▓ - Slam were confident that 'Year Zero' ██▓▓
██▓▓ should be song based. "It is electronic ██▓▓
██▓▓ music with vocals," Stuart says of their ██▓▓
██▓▓ formative influences and the ensuing tracks ██▓▓
██▓▓ on the aptly titled album. Despite having a ██▓▓
██▓▓ canon of masterful club tracks to their name ██▓▓
██▓▓ ('Positive Education', 'Virtuoso' and 'Step ██▓▓
██▓▓ Back' to name just three) Slam admit they ██▓▓
██▓▓ are still exploring and experimenting. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Working with vocalists, in particular, is ██▓▓
██▓▓ relatively new territory. "We are used to ██▓▓
██▓▓ working on our own," Orde admits, "throw ██▓▓
██▓▓ someone else into the melting pot and you're ██▓▓
██▓▓ never sure how it's going to turn out." Dot ██▓▓
██▓▓ Allison and Tyrone Palmer return alongside ██▓▓
██▓▓ Elbee Bad, Envoy and the legendary voices of ██▓▓
██▓▓ Ann Saunderson and Billy Ray Martin. "It's ██▓▓
██▓▓ less club influenced," reckons Orde, "the ██▓▓
██▓▓ songs and music carry the album." To reflect ██▓▓
██▓▓ the warped and weird electro funk on which ██▓▓
██▓▓ they were raised the duo dug out older ██▓▓
██▓▓ synths and analogue equipment to work their ██▓▓
██▓▓ magic, which, on some tracks they felt was ██▓▓
██▓▓ quite literal. On the exquisite, spooksome ██▓▓
██▓▓ 'Ghost Electric' Orde believes that the ██▓▓
██▓▓ machine wouldn't leave a particular sound ██▓▓
██▓▓ alone. "It kept going back to it, finding ██▓▓
██▓▓ the right sounds of its own accord." With ██▓▓
██▓▓ the machines on their side 'Year Zero' is ██▓▓
██▓▓ Slam at their most accomplished. Stunning ██▓▓
██▓▓ opener 'This World' channels prescient ██▓▓
██▓▓ social comment through Tyrone's soulful ██▓▓
██▓▓ voice. "WeÆd been listening to Prince's ██▓▓
██▓▓ 'Sign O' The Times', " Stuart admits, "and ██▓▓
██▓▓ wanted to write something similar but ██▓▓
██▓▓ relevant to now, though it's not just about ██▓▓
██▓▓ the war in Iraq." Orde reflects that after ██▓▓
██▓▓ "too many evenings in foreign hotel rooms ██▓▓
██▓▓ watching News 24", it was a song they felt ██▓▓
██▓▓ had to be written. Joining Tyrone from the ██▓▓
██▓▓ 'Alien Radio' sessions is fellow Glaswegian ██▓▓
██▓▓ and Massive Attack vocalist Dot Allison ██▓▓
██▓▓ whose unique voice graces 'Kill The Pain'. ██▓▓
██▓▓ "It's a haunting song with a message about ██▓▓
██▓▓ dependency" Orde explains. 'Fast Lane' is ██▓▓
██▓▓ lyrically in a similar vein as Hope Grant ██▓▓
██▓▓ (a.k.a Envoy) sings, with a delivery ██▓▓
██▓▓ reminiscent of Prince, "Sometimes I feel ██▓▓
██▓▓ like giving up/Sometimes I just can't get ██▓▓
██▓▓ enough." The killer bassline apparently ██▓▓
██▓▓ travelled with Stuart to Brazil and back ██▓▓
██▓▓ before he could transfer it from his head to ██▓▓
██▓▓ the studio. 'Metropolitan Cosmopolitan' is a ██▓▓
██▓▓ timeless piece of electro (from a time ██▓▓
██▓▓ before it received the trendy ôclashö ██▓▓
██▓▓ suffix). Over FX-driven breaks Elbee Bad ██▓▓
██▓▓ delivers a relentless rap about nocturnal ██▓▓
██▓▓ animals. They had met the Berlin based New ██▓▓
██▓▓ Yorker (the inspiration behind classic ██▓▓
██▓▓ techno epic 'Smokebelch II') on tour and had ██▓▓
██▓▓ hoped to record his charismatic speaking ██▓▓
██▓▓ voice. "We weren't sure what he was going to ██▓▓
██▓▓ do when he came to our studio and he ██▓▓
██▓▓ surprised us with a rap," Stuart recalls. ██▓▓
██▓▓ The electro theme continues on 'Blow Your ██▓▓
██▓▓ Mind' a slow, salacious grind that conjures ██▓▓
██▓▓ images of hot summers, beat boxes and ghetto ██▓▓
██▓▓ kids finding the funk in Kraftwerk. 'Bright ██▓▓
██▓▓ Lights Fading' is a sparkling, synthetic ██▓▓
██▓▓ soul track as the peerless Billy Ray Martin ██▓▓
██▓▓ sings about a fading star on one of the ██▓▓
██▓▓ album's highlights. "Pick me up off the ██▓▓
██▓▓ floor put me in your show tonight. I'm ██▓▓
██▓▓ designed to blow your mind if you just let ██▓▓
██▓▓ me be myself." It's beautifully skewed. ██▓▓
██▓▓ 'Year Zero' concludes with the ██▓▓
██▓▓ aforementioned 'Ghost Electric' and 'Human' ██▓▓
██▓▓ - a stomper for fans of their techno ██▓▓
██▓▓ orientated DJ sets. "We wouldn't be telling ██▓▓
██▓▓ the true story of Slam if we didn't cover ██▓▓
██▓▓ all our loves," says Orde of this jackin' ██▓▓
██▓▓ beast. Elsewhere 'Known Pleasures' is ██▓▓
██▓▓ so-called because Stuart reckons it is "the ██▓▓
██▓▓ archetypal Slam track. It's one for the ██▓▓
██▓▓ clubs and continues our love affair with ██▓▓
██▓▓ strings." 'Lie To Me' - featuring Ann ██▓▓
██▓▓ Saunderson - will also appeal to fans of ██▓▓
██▓▓ Slam's rolling bass and use of emotive ██▓▓
██▓▓ strings. ItÆs a beautiful, twisted love ██▓▓
██▓▓ song. Penned with the Inner City chanteuse, ██▓▓
██▓▓ it will be the single before the album ██▓▓
██▓▓ release. "We always try and make records ██▓▓
██▓▓ that sound like classics, those are the ██▓▓
██▓▓ records we love," Orde sums up. On 'Year ██▓▓
██▓▓ Zero' they have made the album they always ██▓▓
██▓▓ threatened to make; an album of fully ██▓▓
██▓▓ realised songs and future classics. Slam ██▓▓
██▓▓ will be touring with their live æYear ZeroÆ ██▓▓
██▓▓ show this summer including a showcase ██▓▓
██▓▓ performance at their own 15000 capacity ██▓▓
██▓▓ æSlam TentÆ at æT In The ParkÆ. ██▓▓
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