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artist · afronaught
release · novamix 06-11
year · 2003
genre · lo-fi
website · www.novaplanet.com
date · 11-nov-2003
quality · 192kbps/44,1khz
source · radio
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01 novamix 06-11 53:25
playtime · 00h 53m 25s
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recorded on radio nova on 06/11/03 (french radio) before the
afronaught gig with eve gardner and gilles peterson at the rex
club.
afronaught is the primary alias of orin walters, a chief
instigator of west londonÆs broken beat scene. not only is walters
one of the best producers in the field of broken beat -- a loose
tag for a brand of heavily rhythmic breakbeat fusion that features
chopped up beats -- but heÆs also been behind the formation of the
bugz in the attic collective, in addition to having released
plenty of the sceneÆs recorded output through labels he has set up
and helped run, like mousetrap, suckers need bass and bitasweet.
walters route into dance music began in the late æ80s, when he
began listening to pirate radio stations and frequenting warehouse
parties. it wasnÆt long before he was spinning house on london
pirates and holding residencies at several clubs. he spent some
time living in chicago during the mid-æ90s and helped operate
clubs like kaboom and the shelter. after returning to the u.k., he
became a fixture at ronnie scottÆs and began collaborating with
phil asher as blak ænÆ spanish. the mousetrap label was initiated
around the same time, and the constantly mutating/developing bugz
in the attic group took shape, taking on production work and remix
work. waltersÆ afronaught productions tend to sound more directly
soul-influenced than those of his counterparts -- for instance,
"transcend me" resembles a hopped-up update of roy ayersÆ early
æ80s projects like sylvia striplin and the eighties ladies, with
the easy, freeflowing nature of those records supplanted with
complex, sputtering drum programming. his debut full-length as
afronaught, the excellent shapinÆ fluid, was released on rs
subsidiary apollo in 2001.
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