We've dug the man out to do us something special...
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Tonight!!!!!
Hour 1: T-Power (Digital Soundboy, UK)
Marc Royal has been many incarnations throughout the years, and the mix he's given us proves his diversity even more! This is not what you'll expect. Straight off the heels of a recent release with Shy FX, he's switching it up again with an upcoming 2 part album, set to drop this summer.
First coming to to prominence working with hardcore techno group Bass Selective, whose 1991 hit "Blow Out Part II" was an influential proto-jungle track. He's since risen to new acclaim as a solo artist with an experimental blend of lush ambience and often over-the-top rhythmic complexity. His 12-inch "Horny Mutant Jazz," as well as the follow-up full-length The Self-Evident Truth of an Intuitive Mind (both for the Sound of the Underground label) are widely considered early masterpieces of ambient-jungle, and did much conceptual trailblazing where jungle's absorption of jazz and other more measured, relaxed compositional elements are concerned. Although subsequent work has strayed from jungle's rhythmic syncopation into more traditional techno and even entirely beatless ambient, drum'n'bass remains the core element of much of TPower's music. Royal's roots are, not surprisingly, in hip-hop, in which he immersed himself during it's U.K. heyday in the early to mid-'80s. Burning out on hip-hop early, Royal's affection for breaks and hard-hitting rhythms followed him into his explorations of the music of David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Pat Metheny, and those two components -- complex breaks and a keen sense of melody -- inform much of his solo work to the present day.
And yes, the junglist massive may be aware of some work his done with that nice Shy FX chap...
Hour 2: Eve (Art Of Beatz/The Konspiracy Group)
Our lady of bass hits the decks. Who knows what Eve
willrock it with, but I hear rumours of breaks and bass. There's lots in the pipe line from Eve so keep an ear to the ground and be ready...
As always, Motomasa and Kuma and will also be in house to keep it crackin'
102.7 FM in Vancouver
12-2 AM PST
3-5 AM EST
8- 10 AM London
Streaming live via http://www.coopradio.org
http://www.artofbeatz.org
http://podcasts.artofbeatz.org
AOB: Setting loose the dreamweapon in the 06'
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Tonight!!!!!
Hour 1: T-Power (Digital Soundboy, UK)
Marc Royal has been many incarnations throughout the years, and the mix he's given us proves his diversity even more! This is not what you'll expect. Straight off the heels of a recent release with Shy FX, he's switching it up again with an upcoming 2 part album, set to drop this summer.
First coming to to prominence working with hardcore techno group Bass Selective, whose 1991 hit "Blow Out Part II" was an influential proto-jungle track. He's since risen to new acclaim as a solo artist with an experimental blend of lush ambience and often over-the-top rhythmic complexity. His 12-inch "Horny Mutant Jazz," as well as the follow-up full-length The Self-Evident Truth of an Intuitive Mind (both for the Sound of the Underground label) are widely considered early masterpieces of ambient-jungle, and did much conceptual trailblazing where jungle's absorption of jazz and other more measured, relaxed compositional elements are concerned. Although subsequent work has strayed from jungle's rhythmic syncopation into more traditional techno and even entirely beatless ambient, drum'n'bass remains the core element of much of TPower's music. Royal's roots are, not surprisingly, in hip-hop, in which he immersed himself during it's U.K. heyday in the early to mid-'80s. Burning out on hip-hop early, Royal's affection for breaks and hard-hitting rhythms followed him into his explorations of the music of David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Pat Metheny, and those two components -- complex breaks and a keen sense of melody -- inform much of his solo work to the present day.
And yes, the junglist massive may be aware of some work his done with that nice Shy FX chap...
Hour 2: Eve (Art Of Beatz/The Konspiracy Group)
Our lady of bass hits the decks. Who knows what Eve
willrock it with, but I hear rumours of breaks and bass. There's lots in the pipe line from Eve so keep an ear to the ground and be ready...
As always, Motomasa and Kuma and will also be in house to keep it crackin'
102.7 FM in Vancouver
12-2 AM PST
3-5 AM EST
8- 10 AM London
Streaming live via http://www.coopradio.org
http://www.artofbeatz.org
http://podcasts.artofbeatz.org
AOB: Setting loose the dreamweapon in the 06'