Sundaze 2035

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Today's artists are a mixed bunch you'll hear Deep Ambient, Downtempo, IDM, infused with hints of Neo-Classsical Electronica, Industrial and Liquid Drum’n’Bass.. ..... N'Joy

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Aes Dana is the main moniker for Vincent Villuis, a French composer, sound designer, Dj and co-owner of Ultimae records as well as one of the founding members of Asura.

Bass player and singer in several coldwave and industrial bands as a teenager, Vincent then moved on to composing with machines and specialised in sampling and layering of acoustic sounds digitally transmuted. His music is a fusion of Deep Ambient, Downtempo, IDM, infused with hints of Neo-Classsical Electronica, Industrial and Liquid Drum’n’Bass.

As Aes Dana, he produced 6 solo albums, an audio samples library, participated to about 3 dozen compilations while collaborating on three albums with Swedish artist Magnus Birgersson under moniker H.UV.A.Network and with Greek artist Miktek on the release of EPs and the Fragments Libraries. He is also known for his artistic direction on the Fahrenheit Project series of compilations (Ultimae) and, as head of the Ultimae Studio, has earned a solid reputation for his audio mastering works.
Vincent Villuis was the official Artist in Residence at « Les Dominicains de Haute Alsace » between 2009 and 2012 which led to collaborations with artists and choirs from the Classical Music world and compositions for multi-diffusion installations such as « Le Jardin Magnétique » and creation of audio-guides for the site.

He composed scores and licensed existing works for short and feature films, documentaries and BBC tv programs such as « Atrophy Bank » by Sam Asaert, « The Passport » by Amund Lie, « Mandorla » by Roberto Miller or « Breath of Life » by Susan Kucera which opened new perspectives on composition and sound design and collaborations with various advertising agencies.


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Vincent Villuis, co-compiled and mixed this cd, it's an exceptional disc of psyambient bliss... flowing effortlessly from track to track, it feels less like a 'mix' and more like a single work.

First in a series of compilations bringing together each time artists from the world and electronic scene, Fahrenheit Project takes you further on the ambient journey. All along this project, the diverse musical and geographical influences communicate with one another, evoke their rhythms, their harmonies and inspirations to give you 77 minutes of varied music. An invitation to a different perception of ambient, electro world and trance.

If you wanna see what the Fahrenheit Projects are about, then part 1 is certainly the place to start. 'Fahrenheit Project Part One' is one of the most beautiful works of art I've ever heard. The album is filled with rhythmical lines below the precious environmental dream themes mixed with basses, natural and industrial effects. The synch sequences are built in some kind of trance manner and are accurately sliced and arranged.

Fahrenheit Project part 1 is an impressive beginning and makes clear from the outset that Ultimae's definition of trance is open-minded and progressive. Aes Dana (a duo comprising of the label's co-founders) gives us something new and strange with the extraordinary "Skyclad". The opening oriental flute and eerie background drone could be textbook ethno-ambient until a percussive drum loop kicks in and casts its hypnotic spell. Also of note is Craig Padilla's beatless "Beyond Beta", jaw-droppingly beautiful and almost Berlin old-school ala Ashra with its warm, enveloping shroud of shimmering melody and sad synth chords.

VA - Fahrenheit Project 1 ( flac 492mb)

01 Ambient Temple of Imagination - Devotion (Intro) 1:25
02 Jaïa - L'ivresse Des Profondeurs 6:27
03 Asura - Amber Rain 7:39
04 Toirés - Laâlam 7:31
05 Asura - They Will Come 7:12
06 Hol Baumann - Another 5:11
07 Solar Fields - Outlined Surfaces 6:42
08 Chi-A.D. - Slide (Limited Version) 5:34
09 Distortion Orchestra - Fire Maiden 7:19
10 Aes Dana - Skyclad (High Frequencies Version) 7:10
11 Mystical Sun - In the Sky 3:58
12 Craig Padilla - Beyond Beta (Original Mix) 6:01
13 True Frequencies - New Indigeneous Religion 3:58
14 Ambient Temple of Imagination - Devotion (Extract...) 1:14

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This compilation is really true quintessence of electro/ambient world music. By listening, sounds move you to remote corners of magic landscapes, to space dimension, imagining once cosmos another tribal places...Every of tracks gets in euphoric mood, great spirit of life and are one and only in them kind, very special. This album is close to anything that could be called awesome. Ultimae records is known for releasing top-notch ambient, but this compilation is beyond anything they've released so far. Solar Fields, Vibrasphere, Khetzal, Aes Dana and Chi-A.D. The names speak for themselves, as The Fahrenheit Project part 2 is the culmination of several great ambient artists merged and mixed together into a floating wonderland with a runtime of 71:16. This is an album any Ambient lover should never be without.

VA - Fahrenheit Project 2 ( flac 512mb)

01 Robert Rich - Somnium Intro 2:07
02 Solar Fields - Electric Fluid 8:31
03 Vibrasphere - San Pedro 8:39
04 KhetzaL - Glaciales Lacrimae 7:45
05 Nuclear Ramjet - Folding Time (ambient version) 6:35
06 Aes Dana - Summerlands 5:39
07 Chi-A.D. - When the Effect Came 6:42
08 Hol Baumann - Bénarès 5:52
09 Cell - Keun Yung 5:42
10 Mystical Sun - Waters of Life 5:15
11 Robert Rich - Somnium 8:12

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The third volume of its Fahrenheit Project collection. A new selection of 10 unreleased ambient downtempo, trancey, tribal and atmospheric tracks. Thought up as a long chill-out journey amongst ethereal rhythms, Fahrenheit Project carries on presenting and promoting a certain definition of electronic music : visual and dreamlike. This time the story was compiled and mixed by Koala (former member of French trance band Jaïa), specialised in novodub and space music.

Some nice quality chillout for these increasingly cold autumn days? in Europe at least. (If you?re living in warmer climes, then just use your imagination.) Fahrenheit Project 3 manages to fit into an as-yet untouched groove, with a definite seasonal feel? the cover artwork features deep autumnal sunshine filtered through cold-starched treetops and the whole album has that vibe of hibernation time. If you accept that our own internal rhythms are in some way connected to those of the earth, and that ancient ancestors would probably be spending time right about now gathering animal skins, nuts and hallucinogenic mushrooms to hoard back into their caves for the winter downtime, then you?ll appreciate this vibe. Compiled and mixed by Koala, previously part of much applauded Jaia, this is a tight collection of beatless trance and tribal world breakbeats that only suffers intermittently from taking itself too seriously. Koala?s track with Xentrix opens the CD nicely with one of the finest bits of chill of the year, a real unfolding and rising atmosphere makes the music take on a mind of its own. Likewise Cell?s Spiritual Moves is awesome and reminds you just how deep this music can go, and Carbon Based Lifeforms? MOS 6581 is supreme: glossy, meditative stuff that brings feelings overflowing and then makes them subside gorgeously. With input from Toires, Solar Fields and Mystical Sun jostling alongside fresher names like Aes Dana & HUVA Network, familiar patterns shift alongside newer ones making this a sublime tribal chillout backdrop to cold, clear Sunday mornings.

 VA - Fahrenheit Project 3 ( flac 449mb)

01 Koala & Xentrix - Infinite Dream 7:30
02 Aes Dana - Undertow 6:41
03 H.U.V.A. Network - Morning Call (Ambient Version) 5:34
04 Cell - Spiritual Move 9:26
05 Solar Fields - Something Crystal 6:11
06 Toirés - Nabab 6:05
07 Carbon Based Lifeforms - MOS 6581 6:40
08 Mystical Sun - Blue Magnetic Ocean 6:40
09 Solar Fields - Spiritual Ocean 5:37
10 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Metrosat 4 8:12

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Here the fourth chapter in their Fahrenheit Project series. It is compiled and mixed once again by Vincent Villuis, first out is a new track by Solar Fields (Magnus Birgersson) , this is a really beautiful, floating, deep track with a totally hypnotic melody going pretty fast with a chilled background. Track 2 is a new project by Double Dragon (Steve Good) who lives in Japan. He has released two trance albums (Continuum and Transparent), but here he goes under a different name (Puff Dragon), and gives us a chilled dub track. This track has a nice ethnic Chinese feel, with beautiful flute mixed with some deep dub rhythms. Track 3 is by Aes Dana (Vincent Villuis) himself, the man who has compiled and mixed this compilation. Here we get a new track, deep and floating with beautiful sounds and relaxing down tempo rhythms. Track 4 is by Aural Planet, based in Poland. Again very floating and deep at the same time. The melodies in this one is really beautiful. Great chill out track! Carbon Based Lifeforms (Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Ringström) from Sweden released their first album (Hydroponic Garden) on Ultimae Records. A very relaxing down tempo ambient album. You get a feeling of what the album sounds like with this track. Relaxed down tempo rhythms with floating sounds around, and some tribal didgeridoo in between.

Track 6 by Cell (Alex Scheffer) from France is a totally floating ambient track with really wonderful sounds. After a while, some really slow going deep down tempo rhythms comes in. One of the most relaxing tracks on this compilation. Track 7 is a new track by Swedish Vibrasphere (Rickard Berglöf and Robert Elster). They usually released progressive trance, but they have also released a couple of really good dub tracks on their albums (Echo and Lime Structure). The track we get here isn't on any of their albums. It starts slow with a light melody and some floating sounds. Then comes the deep dubby rhythms in and take control. Not the best chilled track I have heard by them, but not bad. Ochi Brothers (Yoshiaki Ochi) from Japan has released an album (Drum N' Space) on Makyos label Dakini Records. Here we get a new slow ambient track with mostly floating sounds, a few tribal drums in the background and a lot of violin. Track 9 is another track by Swedish Carbon Based Lifeforms. This track is not on the album either. A very slow, totally deep ambient track, without much variation, but it just lasts for a couple of minutes. The last track on this compilation is by another French artist called Hol Baumann. He continues the same style as Carbon Based Lifeforms, in the beginning, but after a while it gets more tribal. It actually reminds me a bit of Makyo, with some relaxed female vocals.

  VA - Fahrenheit Project 4 ( flac 405mb)

01 Solar Fields - Union Light 6:21
02 Puff Dragon - Сhinese Radio 6:24
03 Aes Dana - Memory Shell (Mindgames Festival Live Version) 6:03
04 Aural Planet - Hydropoetry Cathedra (Instrumental Version) 9:47
05 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Epicentre (Second Movement) 5:46
06 Cell - Audio Deepest Night 8:40
07 Vibrasphere - Northern Sunsets 7:53
08 Ochi Brothers - Flowing Synergy 7:03
09 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Decompression 2:40
10 Hol Baumann - Send Away 7:20

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RhoDeo 2034 Grooves

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Today's Artist leads the band, and doesn't really play, but Kip Hanrahan is a forward thinker and an incredible organizer of all-star progressive bands. The founder of the American Clave label, Hanrahan has released Tenderness, Exotica, Darn It!, Anthology, All Roads Are Made of the Flesh, and Desire Develops an Edge. His style is a blend of Latin rhythms and avant-garde. His band has included Jack Bruce, Don Pullen, Leo Nocentelli, Robbie Ameen, and Alfredo Triff. .........N Joy

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Kip Hanrahan was born on december 9, 1954, in the Bronx, New York. His grandparents were irish and russian-jewish immigrants. At the age of fifteen he receveid a grant for study of art. Beginning with sculpture, he switched to film studies. At the age of seventeen he moved to Mahgreb, India with the poet Paul Haines, where he studied Islamic architecture for one year. In 1972 Kip Hanrahan travelled to various West African countries, such as Algeria, Mali and Mauretania, becoming familiar with their music and culture. Back in New York, he worked as a promoter with the Jazz Composers Association. In 1979 he founded the American Clavé label. His approach is often compared to the one of a filmdirector. Coordinating and integrating the musical contributions of various artists, he his totally involved with the music, while continously maintaining the detached view of an outsider. This critical distance, typical of Kip and his work, allows him to explore and experiment in unexpected directions, resulting in a unique body of work

Kip Hanrahan has constructed a career and history of recorded music and concerts as complex and unruley as he understands the human heart : an explosively productive creative relationship with Astor Piazzolla, resulting in the recordings Piazzolla was vocal about declaring the "best records of his life...."; a relentless evolving recordings of new music, and new ways of recording (iconoclastic masterworks, say some, many....), under his own name as well as "Conjure" (rooted in and framed by the American Black "Magic Realism" griot words of Ishmael Reed); a complex but musically awe inspiring, and impossible without Hanrahan, method of producing other artists like Silvana Deluigi, and Horacio El Negro Hernandez and Robby Ameen, and his lifetime friend, Milton Cardona, and records involving Paul Haines, Allen Toussaint and others... and tours with Hanrahan's own band which at times have included Jack Bruce (of course), Don Pullen, Allen Tou ssaint, Charles Neville, Fernando Saunders, Giovanni Hidalgo, Horacio el Negro Hernandez, Robby Ameen, Carmen Lundy, Little Jimmy Scott (on his first European tour!), Alfredo Triff Charles Neville and many others... Also, in the 25 years of living, Hanrahan has continued his need to make records that are among the most uncompromisingly MUSICAL and personal made in the world, and of playing concerts, both his obsessively loyal band of musicians - those that appear on his records as in his concerts - Bruce, Pullen (well, not now, he's deceaced...), Toussaint, Cardona, Hernandez, Ameen, Gonzalez, Neville, etc... During the late 1990s, through 2001, Hanrahan formed, recorded ("recording" sounding comically passive for something that's directed to the last note.....) and toured with a project called "Deep Rumba". A band, "Deep Rumba", formed from the absolute best Cuban (including Buena Vista players, like Amadito Valdez), Cuban American, Puerto Rican and New York percussionists and singers. With encouragement from Horacio El Negro Hernandez (Cuba's best trap drummer before his jump to Italy in 1989) as well as from Xiomara Laugart (Cuba's best singer? Yeah, REALLY!), Changuitio, Heila Monpie and Dafnis Prieto, and others, the band toured and recorded, with Charles Neville and other guest stars from 1998 through 2001, as the most creative and exciting band formed from the possibilties of Cuban and Latin US musics in the air.... Great, obsessively greeted tours of Japan, the US and (briefly) Europe encouraged more.... and more.... But, for Hanrahan, it was time to move on: it seemed that the audiences were intoxicated by the quality and vertuosity of the drumming, and the difficulty of the personal words was covered by the fact that they were sung in Spanish, not English, so..... Anyway : If an overused, but still accurate analogue of Mr. Hanrahan's studio work to that of a movie director still holds, the analogie of Mr. Hanrahan's stage work to that of a theater director might be in order. But during a tour, it's not another performance of the same play he directs each night. ...so.... So! With Hanrahan's new band, there were two nights in Vienne last October, and a new record on the way, following up, completing the heart music started by "Beautiful Scars". And Hanrahan's still "impossible", and the audience that shows up to see "how" Hanrahan struggles with Music and Making the Heart heard each night is still there... And anyone who's confused by what happens on stage is still open to becoming a lifetime Hanrahan fan...... FAN....... But, each night on stage, whether it's breathtakingly tanscendental, or a mixture of blindingly brilliant passages with minor train wrecks, each night / concert with the Kip Hanrahan band is always a project in making the heart's music (of that very night) audible, even in it's frustrations, and should NEVER sound like an excersize in just reproducing, QUOTING music that's been made and heard before, on other nights.Mr. Hanrahan often spends the concerts wandering among the musicians, giving new cues, whispering new musical parts and approaches, and changing the music (and sometimes the words) each night, directing, and redirecting the band in an unorthodox manner, disconcerting and distracting to only those who are unable to hear the music. It's a method of conducting (what's he going to do? As a conductor count out the time to the best percussionists in the world?) that was suggested by a vocal fan, Gil Evans, who originally suggested that Kip do what he does, start the concert PLAYING, then move to the pen and paper as the Night defined it's music during the concert. Kip, of course, took it further, by not even starting by playing or singing, as Gil had suggested. Each night makes itself heard, in both clarity and confusion, through Kip and the band members in it's distinction each time.

A producer, a composer, a percussionist and facilitator, Kip Hanrahan has an uncanny ability to assemble remarkable musicians and apply their talents in interesting ways. The results are often magical. His records are as enigmatic as he is, and maybe that heightens the attraction and expectation. The results of his American Clavé productions have garnered a cultist reputation, yet a lot of people have heard them or at least of them. He chooses to remain in the shadows, an obscure figure that turns the knobs and brings it all together. Hanrahan’s recorded legacy speaks volumes of his knowledge and abilities to bring out the best of musicians that accompany him on his fantastic sojourns. Kip Hanrahan started out as a percussionist, a fairly left-field occupation for an Irish-Jewish boy, even if he did grow up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of the Bronx, New York. “I don't know where I am in a sense. People tell me that I am a Latin musician. But at the same time, it's not my music. I grew up with it and through it, and I learned it at the same time as everyone else around me learned it. And I think of Latin music as being my first music. But I'm not a Latin musician. I'm not from that culture.” After gaining a fellowship in sculpture at the Cooper Union Arts, in New York, Kip began collect several musical hats, those of producer, director, writer/arranger and conductor. However, his most apt headgear would be one of 'facilitator', for Kip has the knack of being able to connect up people and music together. Kip Hanrahan now has numerous albums to his name. His discography reads like chapters of a book, or betters still, an anthology of short stories, each album reflective of a different phase in his life. “All Roads Are Made of the Flesh,” (1995) is probably his best known work, a compilation of musical vignettes from Jelly Roll Morton to full on avant-garde. Kip has also produced three albums for the late accordion master Astor Piazzolla, the best known of which is “Tango Zero Hour.” Drawing from a rich vein of rock, jazz and blues influences, as well as the Latin influence of his formative years, he has devised a distinctive meld of music, a dialogue between the two hemispheres of north and south, which is informed by the American Clavé. (The clavé is the internal rhythmic pulse around which all Latin music is based.) Kip works with class. Several of the finest Latin jazz percussionists in the world have toured in his band, notably the Puerto Rican Giovanni Hidalgo, who left Kip to work with Dizzy Gillespie, and his protégé Richie Flores, not to forget Milton Cardona, and Anthony Carillo. There is always a fine supporting cast of Cuban players in a variety of roles and instruments. Hanrahan’s musical associates are far too numerous to list or mention here, but on preferred sessions he worked with bassists Jack Bruce, Andy Gonzalez, and Sting, pianists Don Pullen, John Beasley, Edsel Gomez, and Allen Toussaint, sax man Charles Neville, and trumpet man Brian Lynch. More endeavors have included drummers Robby Ameen, and Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez, along with the usual all star line up of top tier percussionists as Paoli Mejias. On his “Deep Rumba/A Calm in the Fire of Dances” (2000) project he featured the vocal of Xiomara Lougart, who shines on her selections. Salsa superstar Ruben Blades does a bilingual version version of “Sympathy for the Devil,” on the “Robby and Negro at the Third World War” (2004) recording. He did the soundtrack for the movie “Piñero,” in 2001, and covered the NuyoRican poetry of Piri Thomas in “Every Child is Born A Poet,” released in 2006. One of his latest projects, also in 2006 has been “Conjure: Bad Mouth.” Bottom line for the musical trajectory of Kip Hanrahan is for the adventuresome listener to dive and explore the profound depths. Kip Hanrahan’s worldly and highly artistic approach provides a road map for ongoing success. Most importantly, Hanrahan paints vivid portraits of life, love and reality without becoming self-absorbed or overbearing. Overall, his productions are generally accessible and entertaining while maintaining that perpetual touch of class.”

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Four years in the making, this odd follow-up to Hanrahan's equally peculiar "A Thousand Nights and a Night" finds the composer getting even more ephemeral. It is intriguing to try to follow the meandering thread that runs through obscure recitations, loose jazz passages and wild percussive jams; Lest anyone miss the point that the albums that comprise Kip Hanrahan's A Thousand Nights and a Night series are all of one piece, this installment, volume two, picks up at literally the moment where the previous album ended. Volume one's closing fade out is indeed the same lovely Steve Swallow bass solo that opens the present work. The same elements present in volume one are at work here: half spoken, half sung narrations loosely based on the Thousand and One Nights over dense rhythmic structures and deft instrumental breaks, most notably from pianist Don Pullen. Kip Hanrahan calls this album a Shadow Night, meaning that it recounts alternate versions of the stories told in its predecessor. A Thousand Nights and a Night's greatest strength lies in the depth that it adds to what preceded it. Its principal frustration is that, true to its intended purpose, it sounds more like a long excerpt than a completed work.

 Kip Hanrahan - A Thousand Nights And A Night (Shadow Night 1)  (flac   381mb)

01 Faith in the Pants, Not in the Prick (Vallejo's Folk Song) 5:37
02 When I Lose Myself in the Darkness and the Pain of Love, No, This Love 5:36
03 She Turned So the Maybe a Third of Her Face Was in This Fuckin' Beautiful Half-Light 4:31
04 At the Same Time, as the Subway Train Was Pulling Out of the Station 4:28
05 I Told Him 'I Don't Have to Be Beaten to Be Understood' 6:01
06 Look, the Moon 5:05
07 Half of Sex Is Fear 6:26
08 Gillian's Folk Song 3:46
09 History 5:15
10 There Was Something About His Anger That Was So Inaccessable to Me 5:44
11 If I Knew How to, If I Knew What Muscles to Relax 3:13
12 You're No Pimp, and I'm Certainly No Whore 1:31
13 Deep Summer 4:13
14 Look, the Moon 5:44
15 In Place of an Epilog Lullabye for My Daughter 3:04
16 In Place of a Moral: Geography 5:04

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The bad news: Kip Hanrahan uses volume three of his adaptation of the Thousand and One Nights as a statement on economic powerlessness, reducing his narrative voices to rote Noam Chomsky sound-alikes. The good news: Shadow Nights, Vol. 2 features one of the hottest percussion sections since Max Roach and Gene Krupa recorded together. Particularly on "Commerce" (be warned, the title is typical of this album), drummers Negro Horacio Hernandez, Roby Ameen, and J.T. Lewis play together with an extraordinary mix of precision and abandon. Shadow Nights, Vol. 2 is mostly for Kip Hanrahan diehards -- but don't miss those drums.

Kip Hanrahan - A Thousand Nights And A Night (Shadow Night 2)  (flac   257mb)

01 You Can Tell a Guy by His Anger 7:45
02 The Last Song 3:34
03 As in Angola (Red Star in the Morning Sky) 3:35
04 Red Star 6:53
05 You Can Tell Someone Who'll Never Fullfill Their Potential by the Way They Measure the Evening 1:28
06 What We Learned That Night in Vera Cruz and How We Applied It 2:36
07 G-d Is Great 10:34
08 As in the Bronx (You Can Tell Where Someone Comes From by What They Laugh At) 4:27
09 You Can Tell a Moment of Clarity by the Digital Trace It Leaves 6:01
10 As in the Red Morning 8:00
11 The Last Song on the Album 3:24

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It is said that a master perfects technique in order to transcend it. This deeply satisfying disc, which merits a presence on 1998 best-of lists, applies the theory to rumba and proves it. Steeped in the tradition of voice- and percussion-based music, the members of Deep Rumba allow their talents and spirits to soar. The players are enormously sensitive to each other at all tempos. Most instructive is their "Sunshine of Your Love." Typically, a Latin jazz band would simply play the tune with a different beat; here the familiar rhythmic underpinning provides the basis for inspired percussion improvisation, and one doesn't notice until it's over that the melody never made an appearance. Also of note is Jerry Gonzalez' contribution on "The Bronx With Palms Trees," where his dreamy trumpet vamps weave in and out of the complex of sound, reminiscent of the tone and texture of early electric-era Miles Davis bands. Least satisfying are the couple of vocal ballads toward the end of the disc, essentially generic Latin pop fare. On a program of over 63 minutes, they were not needed as filler. The percussion section is extremely tight throughout (Amadito, El Negro, Richie, Milton...) and Andy González' bass is very prominent, which I think is one of the strengths of the album. Kudos to Kip and Puntilla for creating an innovative, if not fully satisfying, record.

Kip Hanrahan -  Deep Rumba ‎– This Night Becomes A Rumba (flac   382mb)

01 Vallejo 0:22
02 Cuentale 4:21
03 Columbia Dos Santos 6:18
04 Una Noche De Verano Comenca 8:46
05 Yambhoracio 2:14
06 Sunshine Of Your Love 2:49
07 The Bronx With Palm Trees 4:45
08 Negro And Andy Run This Very Night Into The Rumba 3:56
09 Calma, Morena 0:54
10 Yambu Chevoret 7:08
11 Si! No! 9:34
12 I Wish You Love 9:51
13 Vallejo (Reprise) 0:43
14 Distancia 1:33

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Another page is written in rhumba history, New York chapter. Kip Hanrahan's ever inventive, ever experimental (sometimes to their own detriment) American Clave label offers a follow-up to their first deep rhumba release, This Night Becomes a Rumba. In very much the same spirit, the percussion is thickly layered and pulsing, the arrangement ideas are out of the box, and the emotional tone is at times melancholy and searching, at others fierce and impassioned. With truly the very finest percussionists in the business at his disposal, including drummers Horacio "El Negro" Hernández and Robby Ameen, congueros Richie Flores, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Paoli Mejias (to name just a few), and timbalero Amadito Valdes, there is an overabundance of percussive talent. At times, the blanket of rhumba-funk can be so thick as to stifle the tune, but when used in more sparing measure, it's glorious. The unexpected standout of the record is the vocal styling of Haila Monpie, a former member of the Cuban vocal group Bamboleo. Her tone and improvisational talent are heart-wrenching and inspiring. All in all, there's enough variety and nuance in this record to captivate even those who are not rhumba obsessed. For those who are, say goodbye to friends and family for at least a week. You're going to be glued to the stereo. This album is a real joy to hear with some good headphones.

 Kip Hanrahan - Deep Rumba - A Calm in the Fire of Dances (flac   408mb)

01 Cubana 2:18
02 Medley: Robby And Negro Opening Time - Pensamiento 4:18
03 Bom Bom Bom Bom 3:08
04 Prelude To Un Golpecito Na' Ma 2:58
05 Kip Quest 1:58
06 Quimbara 2000 7:52
07 Carlos And Andy Discuss The Science Of Voodoo And The Voodoo Of Science 4:26
08 Besame Mucho 1:37
09 Tradicion 2:18
10 Sugar And Cotton (Black Hands In White Labor) 4:37
11 Cantar Maravilioso 4:58
12 Giovannito 2:05
13 Arabian Nights 5:29
14 El Solo Nino 4:27
15 Yamba De Las Cocas 8:25
16 Work And Play (Real Life Dramas) 5:56

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RhoDeo 2034 Re Up 253

Hello, looks like holidaze have limited the number of requests this week, good thing because my provider Ziggo still sucks, i pay for 25mb uploadspeed but getting 2,5 usually i get 9/10 and i can live with that  but 2,5 is unacceptable the thing is i never know what i'm getting and it makes no sense to me why the fluctuation, aaahrgh.and this week it's even weirder during the first hour of uploading i got the speed i pay for, but then all of a sudden it was drip drip drip...



Here at Rho-xs visitor numbers have been stable but i did notice a big rise in re-up requests which points to my visitors spending more time at Rho-Xs (glad to be at service). Alas over the years i've lost access to a number of disks, specially the loss of my Aetix and Roots collection hinders my capability to re-up. Obviously the torrent world offers a solution, but this scene is dynamic and suffers the same fate as my posts , the hosts delete the file when demand has dropped, in the torrent world this even worse. Unfortunately this means whilst bigger names get revived the more obscure tend to completely disappear, a fate that is suffered by roots artists as an example Salif Keita a relative big name is nowhere to be found in flac these days (just one album) when a few years ago there were many titles to be had. Same goes for many a reggae artist and even in Aetix the choice of what is on offer is diminishing day by day. I'm doing my best to fulfill requests but it's difficult and in the future i will request you my visitor to give back the odd title that you downloaded via Rho-xs and repost it here.


12 correct requests for this week , none  too early,  1 double, no confused=people requesting at the wrong place, whatever another batch of 44 re-ups (14.5gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to Augustus 23rd... N'Joy

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4x Aetix Back In Flac (Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues, Talking Heads - The Name Of (77-79), Talking Heads - The Name Of (80-81) )



4x Sundaze Back in Flac (Ryuichi Sakamoto - Heartbeat, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Sweet Revenge; Ryuichi Sakamoto - Smoochy, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Raw Life Osaka)



3x Grooves  Back in Flac (Defunkt - Defunkt, Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat, + Defunkt - Avoid The Funk )




4x Grooves  Back in Flac  (Con Funk Shun - Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun - Secrets, Con Funk Shun - Loveshine , Con Funk Shun - Spirit Of Love)



4x Grooves Back in Flac (Commodores - Machine Gun, Commodores - Movin' On, Commodores - Caught In the Act, Commodores - Commodores (Zoom))




3x Aetix  Back In Flac  (Meat Puppets - Mirage, Meat Puppets - Huevos,  Meat Puppets - Monsters)




4x Roots 1421Back in Flac (Various -  Nigeria 70 Vol.1-1, Various -  Nigeria 70 Vol.1-2, Various -  Nigeria 70 Vol.2-1., Various -  Nigeria 70 Vol.2-2)





3xAetix Back in Flac (Camper Van Beethoven - C V B, Camper Van Beethoven -  II & III, Camper Van Beethoven -  Telephone Free Landslide Victory )




4x Aetix Back In Flac (Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes, Violent Femmes - Live Femmes , Violent Femmes -  Hallowed Ground, Violent Femmes - The Blind Leading The Naked)



3x Aetix Back in Flac (Buggles - The Age Of Plastic, Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless, The Passions - Michael & Miranda)



4x Aetix  Back in Flac ('Til Tuesday - Voices Carry, 'Til Tuesday - Welcome Home, 'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now, 'Til Tuesday - The Spit, Boston 1 03 84 )



4x beats Back in Flac (VA Clicks n Cuts 1-1, VA Clicks n Cuts 1-2, VA Clicks n Cuts 3-1, VA Clicks n Cuts 3-2)


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