Excursions -- Compiled By DJ Junior

[JSngry]

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1. DJ Day - A Place To Go

2. The Rebirth - Talking Me Down (Domu Mix)

3. The Politik (Mark de Clive-Lowe & Bembe Segue) - Money (Don't Let It Catch Ya)

4. Electric Conversation - Dancing

5. Joy Jones - The Joy (Daz-I-Kue Remix)

6. Jonny Miller - Starz (Record Breakin' Edit)

7. Donn - All The Beauty

8. Part Time Heroes - You Don't Know (ft. Monday Michiru)

9. Bansuri - Pay to Play (Ft. Eska Mtungwazi)

10. Rasiyah - U Better Run

11. Channel Two - S'posed To Be (ft. Joy Jones)

12. Black Pocket (Steve Spacek) - Thank You and Credits

13. Daru – I Was Wrong (ft. Reggie B)

14. Kamara - Rise (ft. Deborah Jordan)

15. Jazzreloaded – JD4U2 (ft. Julie Dexter & David Okumu)

16. OK MA - Blue Skies (ft. Nanar Vorperian)

17. Malena Pérez – What Do I Do

* A percentage of profits from this compilation will go to the Ase Academy in Philadelphia.

Let me put it this way - if you think you might dig the whole broken-beat thing, check this compilation out. If you can get with it, then there's a whole (underground) world going on to check out. If it don't work for you, hey, game over, simple as that, no harm, no foul.

But hey hey hey - the more I hear of Daz-I-Kue, the more I'm thinking that this is a cat to put on The Pay Attention List. This cat's serious about his shit & is not lacking in eitehr skills or imagination. Definitely a cut above in a "genre" that is already that "as is".

[Indestructible!]

Hi Jim,

Hey, there's some good shit to be found on this CD! I see that Monday Michiru makes an appearance as well.

Check out this website for some samples of this album:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...friendID=178268

Cheers,

Shane

[JSngry]

Hi Jim,

Hey, there's some good shit to be found on this CD! I see that Monday Michiru makes an appearance as well.

Check out this website for some samples of this album:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...friendID=178268

Cheers,

Shane

The only sample on that page that I could really call broken-beat is the "Money..." cut. The other songs are all pretty straightforward contemporary R&B-ish in origin, which is not waht the vast majority of the CD features. Go figure, keepin' it underground, I guess...

But ehy now hey - check out Daz-I-Kue's MySpace page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=50943353

The way this cat plays/manipulates/layers the rhythms....

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Jim,

Never heard of any on there other than Bembe Segue and Monday. I'll be checkin it out!

So 'broken beats' is the genre du jour here? Have not known what to call it but electro house and smooth jazz ain't it and straight modern R&B, neo-soul etc is close but not really.

I've been on a binge as of late while skimcoating my basement to podcasts from Gilles Peterson (Brownswood, Ubiquity, TruThoughts)as well as stuff I've loaded up from emusic and the like. (the music can at times cover my curses while alligator-bellying yet another swath of finish mud or maybe it's these broken beats that's causing my gypsum to go ala Pollock - the job ain't my gig and i know what i'll be doing in hell)

Listening to only choice cuts from Quantic, Cinematic Orchestra, Nostalgia 77, Radio Citizen & Bonobo (found about the time you were humping Bajka), 4Hero, re:jazz etc ... all mixed in with some of the better Theivery Corp, Koop, Beasties and on. Along with some MAW, Vega, Quintiero, Tony Allen remixes for afrolatin hits.

The thing of it is is that the redundancy that initally pulls you in can really undo the appreciation over the long haul. For me it's those cuts that rise above that that have made this my go to as of late. And the trickling from source to source opens up a whole new roster of players who jump from group to group and labels that have their own particular sound within the genre - ie: found Cinematic Orch doing "Theme de YoYo" as instru breaks and then feature Fontella Bass on another record entirely.

The stand out female vocalista find for me is Alice Russell. Never heard of her before last week but blown away by the voice. Her cover of a White Stripes tune - "7 Nation Army" is killer! and that she can layout a ballad grittier than Dusty (Springfiled that is) is a big plus for another blond blue eyed brit who can keep up with the Sharon Jones thing and doesn't sound as trumped up as a Joss Stone. Could see her fronting a bonmbastic James Bond movie theme with the Daptone horns more than Amy (haveabitmore) Winehouse.

I'm sure I'll be over my phase with this (and maybe what I'm listening to is not evne this at all and I'm off topic in a broken way) and that it won't sound too "ten minutes ago" anytime soon. Now on to some Favelactronica.