RhoDeo 1210 Grooves

Hello, we leave the funk grooves today and exchange them for some hot hiphop jazz grooves, Gang Starr.

On a side note a new host today, Refile they gave me good speeds lately.

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The group was founded by Keith Elam in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985 (then known as Keithy E. The Guru) and DJ 1,2 B-Down (also known as Mike Dee) . Gang Starr was founded in 1987. The group initially released three records, produced by DJ Mark the 45 King, on the Wild Pitch Records record label, but these records received little attention. After a change in line-up, the group consisted of rapper Elam and beat maker DJ Premier. Gang Starr released its first LP No More Mr. Nice Guy on Wild Pitch Records; the group achieved a sizable following and released six critically acclaimed and influential albums from 1989 to 2003

In 1989, the group split and the only member willing to continue under the name Gang Starr was Guru. He soon got in touch with DJ Premier (then known as Waxmaster C) who sent him a beat tape which Guru liked. He invited DJ Premier to join Gang Starr and in that same year they released their first single "Words I Manifest" along with the album No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989). Between albums, in 1990, Guru and Premier contributed a song, "Jazz Thing," to the Mo' Better Blues soundtrack.

In 1990 the group was signed to the Chrysalis record label by then A&R director Duff Marlowe, a former DJ and Los Angeles Times rap music critic. The London-based label offered Guru and Premier unlimited artistic license and major-label distribution worldwide, a platform that the group used to become one of the most influential hip hop acts of that decade. During their career Gang Starr helped pioneer the New York City hardcore hip hop sound. Step in the Arena (1991), on which they perfected the approach of their debut, that is, a stark, hard-hitting jazz-rap production style, complete with Premier's masterful DJ cutting, over which Guru's battle-rap-hardened yet smoothly delivered lyrics -- often thoughtful, sly, and streetsmart -- take flight. Gang Starr's third album, Daily Operation (1992), furthered the duo's approach stylistically; widely considered an East Coast rap classic, it's arguably Guru and Premier's finest work, along with its predecessor.

Beginning in 1993, Guru and Premier began working separately. Guru's debut album, Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (1993), took the so-called jazz-rap style to a new level, featuring jazz musicians such as Lonnie Liston Smith, Branford Marsalis, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd, and Roy Ayers, along with guest vocalists such as N'Dea Davenport (of the Brand New Heavies) and MC Solaar (of French rap fame).

Meanwhile, Premier produced six tracks for KRS-One's solo debut, Return of the Boom Bap (1993); moreover, in 1994 he proceeded to produce three tracks for Nas' debut, Illmatic; two for the Notorious B.I.G.'s debut, Ready to Die; five for the self-titled debut of Branford Marsalis' Buckshot LeFonque project; the entirety of Jeru the Damaja's debut, The Sun Rises in the East; and also a handful of remixes for various artists.

Amid all of this activity, Guru and Premier found time to record their fourth album, Hard to Earn (1994), which was more hardcore-fashioned -- as was the style at the time, in the wake of Death Row's uprising -- than past Gang Starr albums and, also unlike past efforts, featured guest rappers. The album spawned the duo's biggest hit to date, "Mass Appeal."

Following Hard to Earn, Guru and Premier resumed their solo activity. Guru released Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (1995) and a various-artists compilation, Guru Presents Ill Kid Records (1995), while Premier produced the bulk of Livin' Proof (1995), the debut of Gang Starr affiliates Group Home (who featured on Hard to Earn). Also in 1995, Premier produced three tracks on KRS-One's second solo album; and two tracks on Hold It Down, the third album by Das EFX; as well as assorted remixes and one-off productions.

In 1998, after four years between albums, Gang Starr returned with Moment of Truth, their first album to chart number one (on the R&B/Hip-Hop album chart, that is; it peaked at number six overall, still their best showing commercially to date). Moment of Truth was a significant departure from past Gang Starr efforts, very much contemporary in style.

A double-disc retrospective, Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr (1999), subsequently marked the duo's ten-year anniversary. In the years that followed, Guru and Premier continued to focus on their own work. Guru continued his Jazzmatazz series, beginning with a third volume, Streetsoul, in 2000; he also released solo rap albums, beginning with Baldhead Slick & da Click (2001)

As for Gang Starr, Guru and Premier did reunite for The Ownerz (2003), a celebrated return to form, but the reunion proved short-lived, leaving back-catalog collections such as Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr (2006) to fill the void. Sadly, Guru died at age 43 on April 19, 2010 after battling cancer, suffering a heart attack, and for a time falling into a coma.

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Aside from some scrupulous lyrical stances by Guru and some of DJ Premier's hallmark brilliance behind the turntables, this Gang Starr isn't instantly recognizable as the duo who would soon become one of the most respected rap groups of the 1990s. Here the duo are still in a leg knee-deep in the old-school aesthetic. As a result, Premier's beats are quite a bit simpler and sometimes cruder than fans have come to expect (though they are still several cuts above the rest of the class), and Guru spends considerable energy talking up his own microphone skills and tearing down the next MC's. That is not the same thing, however, as saying that No More Mr. Nice Guy is a subpar album. It is not, by any means. In fact, it's quite good in its own way, but it's also safe to say that the recording is not representative of the Chrysalis-era Gang Starr that devotees would eventually come to revere. Approach this album on its own terms, though, and it has a lot to offer, namely its early, tentative steps into the sampling of jazz. The most conspicuous attempt in this direction is the fine "Jazz Music," which was, nevertheless, reworked to much better effect a few years later for the soundtrack to Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues as "Jazz Thing." Indicative or not, fans of the group will want this album, as will those with a jones for the original new-school revolution.

Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy
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Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy (427mb)

01 Premier & The Guru 3:22
02 Jazz Music 3:24
03 Gotch U 3:04
04 Manifest 4:55
05 Gusto 3:12
06 Positivity (Remix) 4:49
07 Manifest (Remix) 5:09
08 DJ Premier In Deep Concentration 3:07
09 Conscience Be Free 3:54
10 Cause And Effect 3:15
11 2 Steps Ahead 3:40
12 No More Mr. Nice Guy 3:14
13 Knowledge 3:38
14 Positivity 3:30

Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy (163mb)

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The album on which DJ Premier and Guru perfected the template that would launch them into underground stardom and a modicum of mainstream success. Guru's deadpan monotone delivery was shockingly different from other early-'90s MCs, many of who were either substituting charisma for substance or engaging in hardcore "realism" without really commenting on black inner-city life or offering ways to alter the situation for the better. But it is Guru who sounded like the real clarion call of and to the street on Step in the Arena Here we find the first real mature flowering of his street-wise sagacity. His voice would grow more assured by the next album, but here Guru imparts urban wisdom of a strikingly visible variety. Guru is not easy on any aspect of the inner city, from the "snakes" that exploit the community to those that are a product of it, and the result is a surprising but hard-fought compassion , where Guru pleads for the acceptance of responsibility, for not taking the easy path. He seems to have somehow developed a hopefulness out of the bleak surroundings. DJ Premier was already near the top of his game at this early point. His production seems less jazz-fueled on Step in the Arena, opting more for spare guitar lines and tight beats, as well as his unmistakable vocal cut-up style of scratching for a slightly warped and out-of-phase soundscape.

Gang Starr - Step In The Arena (274mb)
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Gang Starr - Step In The Arena (274mb)

01 Name Tag (Premier & The Guru) 0:36
02 Step In The Arena 3:37
03 Form Of Intellect 3:40
04 Execution Of A Chump (No More Mr. Nice Guy Pt. 2) 2:41
05 Who's Gonna Take The Weight? 3:56
06 Beyond Comprehension 3:13
07 Check The Technique 3:58
08 Love Sick 3:27
09 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 2:18
10 Game Plan 1:08
11 Take A Rest 4:21
12 What You Want This Time? 2:41
13 Street Ministry 1:25
14 Just To Get A Rep 2:42
15 Say Your Prayers 1:24
16 As I Read My S-A 3:02
17 Precisely The Right Rhymes 3:25
18 The Meaning Of The Name 2:55

Gang Starr - Step In The Arena (116mb)

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On Step in the Arena, DJ Premier and Guru hit upon their mature sound, characterized by sparse, live jazz samples, Premier's cut-up scratching, and Guru's direct, unwavering streetwise monotone; but, with Daily Operation, the duo made their first masterpiece. From beginning to end, Gang Starr's third full-length album cuts with the force and precision of a machete and serves as an ode to and representation of New York and hip-hop underground culture. The genius of Daily Operation is that Guru's microphone skills are perfectly married to the best batch of tracks Premier had ever come up with. Guru has more of a presence than he has ever had, slinking and pacing through each song like a man with things on his mind, ready to go off at any second. Premier's production has an unparalleled edge here. For an underground crew, Gang Starr has always had a knack for crafting memorable vocal hooks to go with the expert production, and they multiply both aspects on Daily Operation. Every song has some attribute that stamps it indelibly into the listener's head, and it marks the album as one of the finest of the decade, rap or otherwise.

Gang Starr - Daily Operation (274mb)

01 Daily Operation (Intro) 0:27
02 The Place Where We Dwell 2:27
03 Flip The Script 4:02
04 Ex Girl To Next Girl 4:39
05 Soliloquy Of Chaos 3:14
06 I'm The Man 4:04
07 92 Interlude 0:29
08 Take It Personal 3:10
09 2 Deep 3:39
10 24-7/365 0:24
11 No Shame In My Game 3:55
12 Conspiracy 2:47
13 The Illest Brother 4:44
14 Hardcore Composer 3:16
15 B.Y.S. 3:05
16 Much Too Much (Mack A Mil) 3:30
17 Take Two And Pass 3:17
18 Stay Tuned 2:31

Gang Starr - Daily Operation (115mb)

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RhoDeo 1210 Goldy Rhox 62

Hello, today the 62nd post of GoldyRhox, classic pop rock. After leaving The Fab Four, todays mystery man launched a successful solo career and formed a band with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine. BBC News Online readers named McCartney the "greatest composer of the millennium".

His 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the United Kingdom and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single. Based on the 93 weeks his compositions have spent at the top spot of the UK chart, and 24 number one singles to his credit, he is the most successful songwriter in UK singles chart history. As a performer or songwriter, he was responsible for 31 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, and has sold 15.5 million RIAA certified albums in the United States alone.

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Most of the albums i 'll post made many millions for the music industry and a lot of what i intend to post still gets repackaged and remastered decades later, squeezing the last drop of profit out of bands that for the most part have ceased to exist long ago, although sometimes they get lured out of the mothballs to do a big bucks gig or tour. Now i'm not as naive to post this kinda music for all to see and have deleted, these will be a black box posts, i'm sorry for those on limited bandwidth but for most of you a gamble will get you a quality rip don't like it, deleting is just 2 clicks...That said i will try to accommodate somewhat and produce some cryptic info on the artist and or album.

Todays mystery album was released in 1973. It was the band's third album and became its most successful album and remains the most celebrated of his post-Fab Four albums. After the success of Red Rose Speedway and "Live and Let Die" - the featured song for the James Bond movie of the same name - The band began contemplating its next album. They began writing new songs at their Scottish retreat soon after concluding their 1973 tour. Bored with recording in the United Kingdom, they wanted to go to an exotic locale. After asking EMI to send him a listing of all their international recording studios, they happened upon Lagos in Nigeria and were instantly taken with the idea of recording in Africa.

Upon arriving in Lagos, the band discovered a country in stark contrast from their visions of paradise. The country was run by a military government, with corruption and disease running rampant. The studio, located on Wharf Road in the suburb of Apapa, was ramshackle and underequipped. The control desk was faulty and there was only one tape machine, a Studer 8-track. More incidents would plague Wings' Lagos stay. While out walking one night against advice, Paul and Linda were robbed at knifepoint. The assailants made away with all of their valuables and even stole a bag containing a notebook full of handwritten lyrics and songs, and cassettes containing demos for songs to be recorded. Nevertheless recording of the album was completed by the third week of September.

It became 1974's top-selling studio album in the United Kingdom and Australia, and revitalised his critical standing. In 2000 Q magazine placed it at number 75 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked #418 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.


Goldy Rhox 62 (flac 236mb)

Goldy Rhox 62 ( ogg 95mb)

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RhoDeo 1210 Aetix

Hello, Aetix time again and once more one of my favorite bands from that time is in the spotlight, they could have been big but at the moment they got some well deserved global attention they collapsed, previous work got cheap releases and the band itself was destabilized and when they finally released their weakest album the title Go Bang said it all, from the ashes rose King Swamp but they quickly sunk, by 92 Shriekback was revived and released Sacred City another highlight which got ignored as there was no recordlabel support, since they've released 5 albums with their latest 2010's "Life In The Loading Bay" arguably the best they released since Sacred City still alive then but still in limbo...

Shriekback's music was always an appropriate soundtrack for life in the dark, but with the emphasis on the possibilities rather than the dangers. Though often haunting, it was not gothic and harbored strains of pop and dance that rose to the surface from time to time. Shriekback celebrate the blessed dark — the place where they were always most at home. Songs to sing in your sleep...the shape and rhythm of two different kind of nights — nights of heat and weirdness...and nights incandescent with moonlight and dreams.

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Shriekback are popular for their exploration of the darker, funkier side of rock music, usually featuring Dave Allen's driving basslines. Self-described as an "avant-garde musical outfit", they are popular among a limited audience, both for their poetic, often intellectual lyrics, and for their dance-worthy music which range from disco and new wave. They formed in the early 1980s , Barry Andrews, formerly of XTC and League of Gentlemen (keyboards/synthesizers/vocals), Carl Marsh (guitars/vocals), and Dave Allen, formerly of the Gang of Four (bass), were joined by Martyn Barker on drums in 1983.

The first Shriekback release was the six-song EP Tench (82), followed in 1983 by the album Care, also on Y, which featured the underground club-hit "Lined Up," the song that put Shriekback on the map for many people. Care was picked up and released in the U.S. by Warner Brothers, with an altered running order and two different tracks, including the polyrhythmic "My Spine (Is the Bass Line). Although Care was critically acclaimed and garnered a fair amount of airplay it was not enough for Warner Brothers, who dropped Shriekback and deleted Care shortly after its release (idiots). As a result, the follow-up, 1984's Jam Science, was released only in Europe. Toward the end of the Jam Science sessions, Shriekback became a quartet with the addition of drummer Martyn Barker; however, they quickly became a trio again when Carl Marsh departed midway through the recording of their third album. Oil and Gold sold well in its U.S. release on Island Records. So did the follow up 1986's Big Night Music. Shriekback seemed on the brink of unlikely stardom, but Allen departed before the recording of Go Bang! (1988), which was poorly received by both critics and fans.

That appeared to be the end of Shriekback, who dropped out of sight in the late '80s and early '90s. But Allen, Andrews, and Barker reunited in 1992 to record the excellent Sacred City, which essentially picked up where Big Night Music left off. There was another long silence after that, but as of 2000 some form of Shriekback was apparently still in existence; an album called Naked Apes and Pond Life was released, In 2003 followed by Having a Moment , Cormorant (2005) and Glory Bumps (2007) latter two on Malicious Damage Records which does make it a harder to get, add to that it's overpriced, i doubt the boys have learned their lesson here, the music industry maybe very unreliable but squeezing your fans is bad business. Proof to their releases are badly managed is their latest excellent album "Life In The Loading Bay" which was already months old before I as a first minute fan got wind of it last year. Considering the amount of Google hits it still exists in limbo, shame ! Such a pity they didn't sign with, say Virgin at the start, (they had plenty of pedigree) theirs is a story of 3 decades of let down, incompetence and cheat by their recordlabels.

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This "best of" is really just a collection of tracks from Shriekback's first year or so of existence: a bunch of songs from Care, a few from Tench, and the single "Working on the Ground." Still, it contains some phenomenal songs that are otherwise hard to find, including "Clear Trails," "Evaporation," and "Sexthinkone."

Shriekback - The Infinite ( flac 279mb)

01 Lined Up 4:05
02 Clear Trails 3:45
03 Accretions 4:31
04 Sway 3:55
05 Madness Into Method 5:45
06 My Spine (Is The Bass Line) 4:02
07 Mothloop 4:42
08 Sexthinkone 3:40
09 Evaporation 3:21
10 A Kind Of Fascination 4:35
11 Working On The Ground 3:26

Shriekback - The Infinite ( ogg 103mb)

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The second volume of Kaz's Shriekback compilation offers one song from Care and two from Oil and Gold, but the real selling point is the five songs from Jam Science, which are otherwise unavailable on CD. The disc is filled out by well-chosen remixes ("Hand on My Heart" and "Fish Below the Ice") and rarities ("Despite Dense Weed" and "Nerve").

In 94 these two samplers were repackaged and released together as Natural History (The Best Of Shriekback)

Shriekback - Evolution (flac 327mb)

01 Nemesis 3:39
02 Fish Below The Ice (12" Version) 5:46
03 Hand On My Heart (12" Version) 5:38
04 New Home 3:38
05 Despite Dense Weed 3:48
06 Midnight Maps 4:09
07 Mercy Dash 4:03
08 Malaria 4:18
09 Under The Lights 3:17
10 My Careful Hands 3:51
11 Nerve (12" Version) 2:40
12 Lines From The Library 3:38

Shriekback - Evolution (128mb)

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Oil & Gold, the third full-length Shriekback album, is widely considered the band's highest moment. Released in 1985 on Island Records after the failure of 1984's Jam Science on Arista Records, Oil & Gold saw the band metamorphose from contemplative to rocking. The addition of Martyn Barker on drums and Lu Edmonds on guitar gives many of the songs an almost rock feeling. In many ways, Oil & Gold is the bridge between the old trio of Barry Andrews, Carl Marsh, and Dave Allen, and the new vehicle for Andrews alone. Longtime singer Marsh left the band halfway through the recording, leaving Andrews to take over the vocals. Still, the album's highlights, including the three opening songs, sung by Marsh, and the minor hit, "Nemesis", became the band's signature sound.

The two songs "This Big Hush" and "Coelocanth" were featured in Michael Mann's 1986 film Manhunter and "Faded Flowers" was featured in Band of the Hand. The song "Everything That Rises Must Converge" refers to the short story of that name by Flannery O'Connor. The song "Nemesis" is about the hypothetical star orbiting the Sun (Niburu/planet X). After the album was released, Marsh left the group, and was replaced, for one American tour, by former Voidoid guitarist Ivan Julian.

Shriekback - Oil And Gold ( flac 233mb)

01 Malaria 4:29
02 Everything That Rises Must Converge 4:03
03 Fish Below The Ice 4:24
04 This Big Hush 6:11
05 Faded Flowers 3:44
06 Nemesis 3:43
07 Only Thing That Shines 4:23
08 Health And Knowledge And Wealth And Power 4:44
09 Hammerheads 4:17
10 Coelocanth 4:13

Shriekback - Oil And Gold ( ogg 140mb)

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Big Night Music is entirely free of digital heartbeats of every kind." Except for a few familiar-sounding entries, this radical departure resembles nothing in the Shriekback's previous repertoire and thus requires a real commitment to get over the shock of hearing evanescent continental delicacy and understated piano music instead of pounding dance-rock bizarritude. But do it — your efforts will be well rewarded with beauty, grace and originality. After the album, Dave Allen left to form King Swamp, making Andrews the only remaining original member. Mike Cozzi (now in Sky Cries Mary) played guitar on much of the album and left shortly after this album.

Shriekback - Big Night Music (flac 292mb)

01 Black Light Trap 5:08
02 Gunning For The Buddha 4:34
03 Running On The Rocks 4:53
04 The Shining Path 4:35
05 Pretty Little Things 3:49
06 Underwaterboys 4:47
07 Exquisite 4:28
08 The Reptiles And I 4:28
09 Sticky Jazz 4:20
10 Cradle Song 4:11

Shriekback - Big Night Music (ogg 108mb)

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