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Artist.....: Beam Up
Album......: Terra Sonica
Type.......: Album
Genre......: Electronic
Style......: Downtempo, Dubstep, Dub, Reggae, Jazz
Label......: Beaming Productions
CatalogNr..: BEAM02
Url........: http://www.beamup.org
Rel.date...: 01.09.2010
Str.date...: 22.06.2010
Source.....: CDDA
Grabber....: EAC 0.99 prebeta 4
Encoder....: Lame 3.97 -V 2 --vbr-new
Quality....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks.....: 10
Size.......: 66,11 MB
Length.....: 49:15
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Tracklist
01. Abeokuta Nights 05:05
02. Rocker (Vocal) 05:50
03. Dipper 04:21
04. Nahfader 05:10
05. Roller 04:23
06. Suuluup 04:45
07. Dalequedale 06:22
08. Takatakadum 03:09
09. Tanzenhalle 05:40
10. The Cleaning 04:30
Total Time: 49:15
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Release Notes
Fresh from the critical acclaim garnered by his March 2010 release Brass,
Bass & Wires Brian May aka DJ Delay aka Beam Up aka Sonical drops his heavy
dub basslines on Terra Sonica. Space is the place, and dub is his mission on
this new offering and in the best of traditions takes us all by stealth. Dub
is not a genre, but studio technique, coupled with a sensitivity to rhythm.
Anything and everything can and will be dubbed. From echo and delay, to reverb
and rewind, Beam Up bares his dub soul for all to see, with a nod to dubstep,
electro and everything in between. This is not an album of simple pullbacks,
mashing and dropping of lyrics....in his own words:
"The spirit of dub continues to drive all the music I make. This album takes
all those qualities of space, bass, and borderless nature to shape all of the
tracks, whether they be afrobeat, electrodancehall, dubstep, downbeat or
simply original reggae roots"
And his pedigree is impeccable. From his first releases in Australia in 1996
with the band he co founded - High Pass Filter, to sound installations,
festival appearances and residencies in Japan, Berlin and Melbourne have found
him tweaking and mashing on a global scale. Terra Sonica is a distillation of
all this experience and more.
Opening cut Abeokuta Nights is an expansion of a track he wrote for Systa
bb's radio show The Good, The Dub & The Global on RRR in Melbourne where
reggae roots frontman Mista Savona did his best Herbie Hancock contribution on
keyboards and the funk flowed. Rocker sees Cassawarrior from Black Jesus
Experience take to the mic in a dubwise bone shaking tune followed by Dipper
as a summer attack. If you thought that dancehall didn't involve bellydancing,
think again as Nahfader takes the booty to the dancefloor followed by Roller
in straight ahead dub. Dalequedale is his mongrelisation of the Spanish word
meaning "let's do it" in a chilled elephant walk stylee and The Gleaning is a
heartfelt dubstep meditation on the practice of sourcing items that are
perfectly usable, but which today's consumer society disposes in an effort to
buy more and more stuff. Featuring the voice of one of the NYC underground
train network residents, as depicted by Marc Singers epic documentary Dark
Days. He breathes air and space into the tune to counteract the subway vibe.
Terra Sonica pushes the boundaries of dub and digs into the studio techniques
that add light and shade to so many of his previous releases. Outside the
named guests, he contributes all the instruments, trumpet, percussion,
kalimba, field recordings and more , which lends a deep organic flava to the
music.
If you only grab one dub album this year, this is the one to show you the
possibilities of the music. Listen Up!
Also out digitaly (Juno, Boomkat, iTunes etc) on Mushroom Lounge Recordings.
http://www.mushroomlounge.net
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est. 2001