Showing posts with label mixtapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mixtapes. Show all posts

Burning Dervish Vol 25: King Tubby

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Let's start year three right...a new year and a new mix...this one featuring producer extraordinaire King Tubby...from Wikipedia:

"King Tubby...was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s. Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of record producer to a creative height previously only reserved for composers and musicians, would prove to be highly influential across many genres of popular music. He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the remix, and so may be seen as a direct antecedent of much dance and electronic music production...King Tubby's production work in the 1970s would see him become one of the best-known celebrities in Jamaica, and would generate interest in his production techniques from musicians across the world. Tubby built on his considerable knowledge of electronics to repair, adapt and design his own studio equipment, which made use of a combination of old devices and new technologies to produce a studio capable of the precise, atmospheric sounds which would become Tubby's trademark. With a variety of effects units connected to his mixer, Tubby was able to 'play' the mixing desk like an instrument, bringing instruments and vocals in and out of the mix (literally 'dubbing' them) to create an entirely new genre: dub music...Using existing master tapes or his own highly skilled session musicians, Tubby would twist the instrumental parts of songs into unexpected configurations which highlighted the heavy rhythms of their bass and drum parts with minute snatches of vocals, horns and keyboard. These techniques mirrored the actions of the soundsystem selectors, who had long used EQ equipment to emphasise certain aspects of particular records, but Tubby was able to use his custom-built studio to take this technique into unexpected areas, often transforming a hit song to the point where it was almost unrecognizeable from its original... It is unlikely that a complete discography of Tubby's production work could be created based on the number of labels, artists and producers with whom he worked, and subsequent repressings of these releases sometimes contained contradictory information. His name is credited on hundreds of b-side labels, with the possibility that many others were by his hand yet uncredited, due to similarities with his known work...King Tubby was shot and killed on February 6, 1989 by an unknown group of people outside his home in Duhaney Park, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio. It is thought that the murder was probably an attempt at robbery."
Click here for the full entry.

The Tracks:

Gorgon Version by Cornell Campbell & The Aggravators from King Tubby's in Fine Style

Shooter Dub by King Tubby from Down Santic Way: Santic's Jamaican Productions 1973-1975

Corner Crew Dub by Augustus Pablo from King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

King Tubby's Borderline Dub by King Tubby & Augustus Pablo from Dub Chill Out

Shaolin Temple Dub by Barrington Levy from In Dub: The Lost Mixes from King Tubby's Studio

King Tubby Dub by King Tubby from 400% Dynamite!

Free Africa by Horace Andy from King Tubby Meets the Reggae Masters

Dub Is My Woman by Larry Marshall from I Admire You (In Dub)

That's Life/Life Time Dub by Ronnie Davis/King Tubby & Aggrovators from a rip of Clocktower 7" CT 735

Jah Children Rise/Rising Dub by Earl Sixteen & The Heptones/King Tubby from a rip of a Trench Town 10"

South Africa/From Cape To Cairo (extended) by Mighty Travellers/King Tubby from a rip of a Pressure Sounds 7"

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Burning Dervish Vol 24

Monday, May 26, 2008

This week's McCoy post and last week's are both recaps along the way in my McCoy discography project...this post is a retrospective of the tracks I previously offered up from McCoy's initial run on Blue Note in the mid/late '60s...

The Blue Note records are where McCoy's voice as a composer really starts to emerge, specifically his style of explosive left-hand playing accompanied but lightning runs with his right. This crashing, virtuosic style, along with an Eastern/world influence, would define McCoy's sound for the next 5 - 10 releases on Milestone...follow the project for those...

The tracks:

Passion Dance, The Real McCoy
Man from Tanganyika, Tender Moments
Lee Plus Three, Tender Moments
May Street, Time for Tyner
Vision, Expansions via Mosaic Select: McCoy Tyner
Planet X, Cosmos via Mosaic Select: McCoy Tyner
Message from the Nile, Extensions
His Blessings, Extensions
Fulfillment, Asante via Mosaic Select: McCoy Tyner

Download Burning Dervish Vol 24: The McCoy Tyner Blue Note Years, 1967 - 70

Burning Dervish Vol 23

Monday, May 19, 2008

I've been doing "McCoy Mondays" as it were for almost a year now as I try to visit every record in his discography...Now that I am knee-deep into his long run of records on Milestone from the 70s, the current time seems as good as any to pause for a re-cap of some of the music posted already...

McCoy's first two labels as a soloist/band leader were Impulse! and Blue Note. From 1962 - 64 Impulse! put out six records under McCoy's name (a later retrospective of those releases was put out at Great Moments with Mccoy Tyner)...It was almost an exact two years, with the sessions and release dates spanning January '62 thru December '64...McCoy would revisit both labels later in his career, notably in the early 90s when MCA/Universal acquired and revived the Impulse! imprint...

These first records for the label only hint at the dynamo McCoy would become on his later recordings but they each represent a step towards him establishing his own voice outside of his work at the time with Coltrane. This mix contains the tracks from McCoy's '60s Impulse! output already posted here...

Download Burning Dervish Vol 23: The McCoy Tyner Impulse Recordings, 1962 - 64

Burning Dervish Vol 22

Friday, April 25, 2008

I get a lot of questions concerning why I don't write more about the music on the mixes I make.

Especially given that this is a music blog!

I've never had a good answer, or even a mediocre answer. Now that I have been forced to think about it, though, I think the answer lays in why I make these mixes: to amuse myself and to turn you on to music you've never heard (or put songs you know in a different context). So, with that in mind, I give you the track names, the artist names, sometimes images of the records I pulled the music from and leave the rest up to you.

Work for you?

Good.

Welcome to Burning Dervish Vol 22:

Pay Dar Doran - Memory Of Cycles by Madjid Khaladj
Uncle George by Steel Pulse
Majority Rules by Jimmy Cliff
Tchela atbelegn by Asnaqetch Wergu
No Call Dread Name by The Itals
12 Tribes of Israel [Extended] by Linval Thompson
Tezeta by Seyfou Yohannes
Congoman by The Congos
The Tryst by Azam Ali
Soy Campesino by Ska Cubano
I Man by Herman Chin-Loy
Much Smarter by The Meditations
Ene Negn Bay Manesh by Girma Beyene
Reggay Train Dub by Cornel Campbell & the Aggrovators

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Burning Dervish Vol 21

Sunday, April 20, 2008

What? A jazz mix on a Sunday? "How cliche!", you moan...Starting off with Jobim? "It must be because the weather is warming up!", you declare...

Right and right...wrong and wrong...been working on this one for a few weeks and having been enjoying the finished product for a several days now...I hope you do, too.

Lemme know.

Thanks.

Burning Dervish Vol 21 is:

Triste by Antônio Carlos Jobim
Beale Street by Donald Byrd
Deed I Do by Diana Krall
Daddy Bug by Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Come Sunrise by Grant Green
Just You, Just Me by Thelonious Monk
The Cat by Rusty Bryant
Passion Dance by McCoy Tyner
Totem Pole (Alternate Take) by Lee Morgan
Ask Me Now by Joe Henderson

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Burning Dervish Vol 20

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

This might be my favourite of all of my mixes here yet...although I am working on another one now that will be a close second...

Who cares what I think, though? I am really looking forward to the feedback from some of the music nuts that read this blog...

Anyway, some great tracks here, spanning roots, dub...lots from Africa with some psychedlia, funk, even electronica as well as more folky, traditional vibes from Algeria and Ethiopia...

  1. Get Together -by- Brigth Engelberts And The B.E. Movement
  2. Roots Controller -by- Groove Corporation
  3. Heywete -by- Tesfa-Maryam Kidane
  4. Me Waan Justice -by- The Itals
  5. Chispa Tren -by- Ska Cubano
  6. Desert Equations -by- Sussan Deyhim / Richard Horowitz
  7. Mal Hbibi Zaafan -by- Cheikha Remitti
  8. Kulun Mankwalesh -by- Mahmoud Ahmed
  9. Hit Me -by- Lee "Scratch" Perry
  10. Stay A Little Bit Longer -by- Delano Stewart
  11. Yellow Fever -by- Fela Kuti
  12. Brace's Tower Dub No. 2 -by- Augustus Pablo
  13. Envy No Good -by- Mercury Dance Band
  14. Do Good -by- Everton Blender
  15. Come Away Jah Children -by- Original Survivors


Download Burning Dervish Vol 20 now.

Burning Dervish Vol 19: The History of Metal pt 1

Friday, March 14, 2008

Here we have it - part one of the who knows how many parts or when I'll get around to them History of Metal project I've had going on the past several weeks...

I nominated the songs from a variety of metal subgenres and you voted...here is what you came up with for the final mix:

01 Sweet Wine by Cream
02 I'm Eighteen by Alice Cooper
03 Into the Void by Black Sabbath
04 Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll by Blue Oyster Cult
05 Victim of Changes by Judas Priest
06 Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones
07 Neat, Neat, Neat by The Damned
08 Ace of Spades by Motorhead
09 The Zoo by The Scorpions
10 Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden

Great work!

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French Talent 08

Monday, March 10, 2008

Man, there is some great music coming out of France right now...The songs offered up today are from a sampler that was included for free with the UK-based music industry trade magazine MUSICWEEK called, aptly enough, French Talent 08 (sounds mildly pornographic to me...).

Lots of good "experimental" pop with psych overtones...little dash of Middle Eastern sounds, even a jazz cover of Britney Spears' Toxic!

I picked a few of my favorites from the sampler (and am including links to a web or MySpace page for each artist so you can learn more).

Download a subset of French Talent 08 here, featuring:

Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free by Zombie-Zombie
Ikalane Walegh by Toumast
The (Over) Song by Nelson
Laisse Aboyer Les Chiens by Benjamin Biolay
Toxic by Yaron Hermann

New Wave of British Heavy Metal

Friday, March 07, 2008

I can't abide this! ANOTHER TIE! So here's our track list after the most recent voting:

01 Sweet Wine by Cream
02 Into the Void by Black Sabbath
03 Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll by Blue Oyster Cult
04 I'm Eighteen by Alice Cooper
05 Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones
06 Neat, Neat, Neat by The Damned
07 Victim of Changes by Judas Priest
08 The Zoo by The Scorpions


This week's nominees are from one of the most famous and popular branches of metal, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal...this is the metal a lot of us children of the 70s and 80s grew up with...dig.

There are so many bands to pick from, so to make the voting that much tougher, I pick only two:

The Ace of Spades by Motorhead
Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden

Download the two tracks from each nominee and cast your vote in the upper left hand corner of burningdervish.com now!

Burning Dervish Vol 18

Sunday, March 02, 2008

I had an opportunity to meet one of my musical heroes last Monday through my job...That's always a dicey proposition, you never know how it's going to go...this time it was a real blast, a treat, a highlight...

Anyway, this guy is known as a pretty heavy music geek, so I made him a mix CD of some obscure R&B track