Rhotation (31) Into BPM

Hello Rhotation 31 this week and as always it kicks off Into BPM. Now as announced last week part 2 of the Dubnology series, again a double bill split into 3 easy to digest parts, 2,5 hours to spliff away....First came after but then this came before he released Endtroducing..which had the musicpress fall over eachother for praise as..this guy didnt play an instrument either..and he used that which those guys of the press have in abundance..records..finally here was a guy that knew what to do with them ! All they could come up with was a review for maybe one in twenty they got send. The rest ended up..well you get that picture on the cover. Indeed i have a cynical view on the musicpress..anyway you wont get Endtroducing now, but the work that preceded it..though in the album format it got released a year after..confused ? Don't be it's only music...without instruments...and even that is a matter of opinion...

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike ( 97 ^ 317mb)

Davis grew up in Hayward, CA, a predominantly lower-middle-class suburb of San Francisco. The odd white suburban hip-hop fan in the hard rock-dominated early '80s, Davis gravitated toward the turntable/mixer setup of the hip-hop DJ over the guitars, bass, and drums of his peers. He worked his way through hip-hop's early years into the heyday of crews like Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MC's, and Public Enemy, groups that prominently featured DJs in their ranks.

DJ Shadow began his music career as a disc jockey for the UC Davis radio station KDVS. Through the college radio station, Shadow began releasing the Reconstructed from the Ground Up mixtapes in 1991 and pressed his 17-minute hip-hop symphony "Entropy" in 1993. His tracks spread widely through the DJ-strong hip-hop underground, eventually catching the attention of Mo' Wax. During this period he was significant in developing the experimental hip hop style associated with the California-based Solesides record label. His early singles for the label, including In Flux and Lost and Found (S.F.L.), were genre-bending works of art merging elements of funk, rock, hip hop, ambient, jazz, soul, and used-bin found records.

Although he previously released several original works (during 1991-1992 for Hollywood Records) by the time Mo' Wax's James Lavelle contacted him about releasing In/Flux on the fledgling imprint, it wasn't until his association with Mo' Wax that his sound began to mature and cohere. Mo' Wax released a longer work in 1995 -- the 40-minute single in four movements "What Does Your Soul Look Like," which topped the British indie charts -- and Davis went on to co-write, remix, and produce tracks for labelmates DJ Krush and Dr. Octagon plus the Mo' trip-hop supergroup UNKLE. He eventually formed the label Quannum Projects in 1999 out of the previous label Solesides. Shadow's first full-length work, Endtroducing....., was released in late 1996 to immense critical acclaim, in fact the music press fell over eachother like lemmings in praising Shadow. Endtroducing would make the Guinness World Records book for "First Completely Sampled Album" in 2001. The only pieces of equipment Shadow used to produce the album are the AKAI MPC60 12-bit sampling drum machine.

Given that Endtroducing was a masterpiece of subtly shifting texture, Preemptive Strike almost seems purposely incoherent, even though the tracks are sequenced chronologically. The jerky flow can make the album a little difficult to assimilate on first listen, but it soon begins to make sense, even if it never achieves the graceful flow of the album. Several of the selections on Preemptive Strike were available in different forms on Endtroducing -- parts four and one of "What Does Your Soul Look Like" are in their original forms here, presented along with one and three, and there's the "extended overhaul" of "Organ Donor." All of these are significantly different than the LP versions, and "What Does Your Soul Look Like" is necessary in its original, half-hour, four-part incarnation. But the key moments are the seminal "In/Flux," which arguably created trip-hop, and "High Noon," the dynamic, fuzz-drenched single that was his first single release since Endtroducing. Those three A-sides are reason enough for any serious fan of the debut to pick up Preemptive Strike, but the B-sides and "Camel Bobsled Race" are equally intriguing, making the package a nice summation of DJ Shadow's most important singles through the end of 1997.

Nearly six years after his debut production album, the proper follow-up, The Private Press, was released in June 2002. The following year Shadow released a mix album, Diminishing Returns, and in 2004 he released a live album and DVD, Live! In Tune and on Time. In 2006, he signed a deal with Universal Records, and released his long-awaited third solo album, The Outsider, but instead of following the blueprint he used on his past two records, Shadow enlisted help from Bay Area rappers. DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist have created three popular mixtapes entitled Brainfreeze, Product Placement, and the recent The Hard Sell. These mixes fuse jazz, funk, and soul in the framework of a cohesive concept. They toured in 2008 in support of their mixtape The Hard Sell with Kid Koala opening for them.



01 - Strike 1 (0:26)
02 - In/Flux (12:12)
03 - Hindsight (6:52)
04 - Strike 2 (0:15)
05 - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2) (13:51)
06 - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3) (5:12)
07 - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) (7:12)
08 - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) (6:21)
09 - Strike 3 (And I'm Out) (0:26)
10 - High Noon (3:57)
11- Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul) (4:26)

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Various - Dubnology, Lost In Bass ( 96, 154min ^ 885mb)

The Lost In Bass compilation is a two-disc, 24-track collection of spacy mid '90s electronic ethno dub, The utility of dubnology, lies in its ability to appeal to altered states of consciousness, as well providing some of the best chill music going, without completely going into floating mode. There's still something going on and thru out some harder breaks to keep your attention..



Various - Dubnology 2: Lost In Bass ( ^445mb)

01 - Funki Porcini - Dubble (6:35)
02 - Zion Train - Fear The Bass (4:28)
03 - Dreadzone - Skeleton At The Feast (5:39)
04 - Loop Guru - Shrine Kaya Dub (Zion Train Mix) (5:47)
05 - Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor - Eternal Feed Back (6:19)
06 - Transglobal Underground - Lookee Here (Dread At The Controls Mix) (9:20)
07 - Knights Of The Occasional Table, The - Bowl (6:14)
08 - Death In Vegas - GBH (Dub) (3:40)
09 - Ruby - Paraffin (Richard Fearless Dub) (8:07)
10 - Dubstar - Stars (Mother Dub) (6:24)
11 - Children Of Dub - Nemesis (Bumpy Bosh Remix) (5:48)
12 - Sabres Of Paradise, The - Ysaebud (6:07)
13 - African Head Charge - Orderliness, Godliness, Discipline And Dignity (3:21)

Various - Dubnology 2: Lost In Bass ( ^ 440mb)

14 - Main - VIII (6:33)
15 - Blue - Diamanda (9:07)
16 - Alien - Xyloid (6:31)
17 - Underworld - Born Slippy (Tel Ematic) (9:39)
18 - Acacia - Hate (Nico Dark Matter Mix) (7:38)
19 - Seefeel - Gatha (5:59)
20 - Mr. Night & Mr. Day - We Are On Earth To Learn (7:17)
21 - Test Dept. - Critical Dub (5:42)
22 - Dub Syndicate - Hey Ho (Tribal Drift Mix) (4:54)
23 - Fun-Da-Mental - Mother India (Sabres At Dawn Mix) (7:59)
24 - V-Human - Viv Dogana (5:46)

***** ***** ***** ***** *****
All downloads are in * ogg-7 (224k) or ^ ogg-9(320k), artwork is included , if in need get the nifty ogg encoder/decoder here !