Don’t follow the leader. Dance to the beat of your own drum and don’t be scared to do it. (Juan Atkins)
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French duo Air recently built their own studio and stuffed it full of vintage synthesisers. They give the Guardian a private tour and talk about their new album, Love 2
Burundi Black
The original source of this tribal rhythm is a recording of 25 drummers, made in a village in the east African nation of Burundi by a team of French anthropologists. The recording was included in an album, Musique du Burundi, issued by the French Ocora label in 1968. It is impressively kinetic, but the rhythm patterns are not as complex as most African drumming; they are a relatively easy mark for pop pirates in search of plunder. During the early 70’s, a British pop musician named Mike Steiphenson grafted an arrangement for guitars and keyboards onto the original recording from Burundi, and the result wasBurundi Black, an album that sold more than 125,000 copies and made the British best-seller charts… Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, and several other bands have notched up an impressive string of British hits using the Burundi beat as a rhythmic foundation. But the Burundian drummers who made the original recording are not sharing in the profits. Nobody told them to copyright their traditional music, and trying to obtain copyright for a rhythm would be a difficult proposition in any case.
dark and moody, humorous and visceral, not for a corporate working day. probably the best and most surprising mix I listened and enjoyed in the last 5 years or more.
a combination of irony, solitude, melancholy and a scary things:
the dreamland of Nosferatu falling in love, breathing helium and having deep insights on the meaning of life and death, getting furious, having moments of tenderness. not the usual monotype and monotone club mix. (oh. click on title to download it while it lasts).
Tracklist
01. Neil Young - Guitar Solo 1
02. Yo La Tengo - Everyday
03. Journey To Ixtlan - Corpse On The Mesa
04. Jad & David Fair - Nosferatu
05. Zola Jesus - Devil Take You
06. Bruce Haack - Mean Old Devil
07. Krause Duo - Canopolis
08. Burial Hex - Will To Chapel
09. Suicide - Ghost Rider
10. Amadou & Miriam - Ja Pense À Toi
11. Shackleton - Death Is Not Final
12. Entombed - Night Of The Vampire
13. Maddalena Fagandini - Interval Signals
14. Burundi: Musiques Traditionnelles - Chant Avec Cithare
