Blake Baxter

   
Artist: Blake Baxter

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   

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Discography:


   
 Prince of Techno ep

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Perhaps the most underrated figure of Detroit techno's number 1 wave, Blake Baxter began recording in the mid-'80s before Motor City mainstays like Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. Presaging the influence of erotic house during the late '80s, Baxter was inspired by the sexual soul of Barry White and Prince as well as cosmic funk machines like Parliament and Funkadelic. He released his number 1 single on the seminal Chicago sign label DJ International and recorded several classics for Saunderson's KMS Records, and by the '90s cultivated his connexion with Detroit's techno subversives Underground Resistance, for whom he served as a directing wanton.


With the Detroit scene on the prove after the spill of his DJ International and KMS material, Baxter ducked the hoopla centered around the important compilation Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit (though his productions figured prominently on it) and affected to the dark Incognito pronounce. Seminal releases Sexuality, the Crimes of the Heart EP, and his 1990 debut record album The Underground Lives signalled a freshly independent-minded producer, and he as well exhausted much time in Berlin during the early '90s. The extended stay put yielded several releases, including the Logic singles "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" -- later sampled by the Chemical Brothers -- and a 1992 record album highborn The Project. He also recorded with Orlando Voorn as the Ghetto Brothers. Back in Detroit, he recorded "Prince of Techno" for Underground Resistance and set up his have labels, Mix Records and Phat Joint (the latter focussed more on rap). In 1995, Baxter released a retrospective on Disko B entitled The Vault. Two years later, The H Factor (Hurricane Melt) followed, also on Disko B. The mix record album A Decade Underground appeared in 1998. Ambition Sequence was issued in 2000; Dream Sequence 3 followed a year later.

Madonna 'planned Glasto film screening'

Madonna had planned to hold a screening of her new film at Glastonbury Festival, according to a report.

The star apparently considered answering fans' questions at the Somerset event but pulled out after talks with organisers.

I Am Because We Are, recently shown at the Cannes Film Festival, is about Malawian children.

"Madonna hoped the film could be shown on the Saturday and there was talk of a question and answer session," a source told the Mail on Sunday.

"But poor ticket sales for the festival put her off. After talks with organisers it was decided the festival was not the right venue to showcase the film."



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Brazzaville

   
Artist: Brazzaville

   Genre(s): 
Latin: Dance
   Indie
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 East LA Breeze

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 East L.A. Breeze

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Welcome To...Brazzaville

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Hastings Street

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Rouge On Pockmarked Cheeks

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Somnabulista

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Brazzaville

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11

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Led by Beck saxophonist David Brown, Brazzaville's alien, globally minded indie pop was as much a product of Brown's extensive travels as it was the Los Angeles coffee shop scene from whence most of its members came. Born in L.A., Brown had been a teenage fugitive and diacetylmorphine addict in front cleaning up and finding a new take on sprightliness from his sexual love of traveling the earthly concern on the cheap. He crisscross Europe, South America, and Asia, picking up melodious influences from the Far East, Brazil (bossa nova and Tropicalia), Africa, and France (night club pop), among others. Eventually, he returned to California, where he studied the saxophone at L.A. City College. There he first met Beck, and was introduced to a community of artists and musicians centered some the Los Feliz/Silver Lake area of L.A. When Beck tally the big time, he tapped Brown as the saxophonist in his touring band, and invited him to play on the Odelay album.In 1997, during the human race tour encouraging Odelay, Brown conceived the mind for Brazzaville, pickings the name from the working capital of the Congo, which in a recent work had been branded with the worst timber of liveliness of whatsoever major urban center in the world. Brown added guitar to his implemental repertoire (which grew to let in pianissimo, trombone, and percussion as good), and when he returned to Los Angeles in 1998, he cast together a diverse lineup of musicians -- scenesters and sitting manpower -- that reflected his own wide-ranging tastes. Trombonist/saxophonist David Ralicke worked with numerous acts, including Natalie Merchant, Ozomatli, Ben Harper, Macy Gray, and Ziggy Marley, and later coupled the L.A.-based Cambodian rock candy band Dengue Fever. Guitarist/bassist Kenny Lyon, who'd full-grown up in Zaire and Spain, had performed with alternative bands like the Lemonheads and the Divinyls, as well as singer/songwriters like Mark Curry, Jann Arden, and David Baerwald. Guitarist Smokey Hormel was another Beck regular wHO besides performed and recorded with Cibo Matto, Sam Phillips, John Doe, and Tom Waits, among others. Percussionist Danny Frankel had played with musicians from Victoria Williams to Luscious Jackson to bluesman Ted Hawkins. Pianist Mike Boito was another Beck cohort who'd besides played with Ralicke in the ska isthmus Jump With Joey.Together with turntablist DJ Swamp and several other players, this version of Brazzaville recorded a self-titled debut record album and released it on Brown's possess South China Sea imprint in 1999. It standard favourable reviews of its crossbreed of indie pop, sofa jazz, world medicine, and noir-ish air, and was most ofttimes likened to Tom Waits or Morphine. Later that yr, the Engine mark picked up the record's distribution rights and reissued it under the title 2002. The reexamination Somnambulista, released in 2001 on South China Sea, welcomed several new members, including Guadalupe-born/Paris-raised percussionist Joel Virgel Vierset (who'd worked with Nina Hagen), bassist Joe Zimmerman, and Latin-influenced trumpeter/accordionist Mick Bolger. Brazzaville's third uncut, Paint on Pockmarked Cheeks, appeared in 2002 with much the same frame of characters. Afterwards, Brown relocated to Barcelona and assembled an alternate European lineup of Brazzaville, which included guitar player Paco Jordi, keyboardist Richie Alvarez, bassist Brady Arthur Lynch, and drummer Ivan Knight.





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