After the intro the track really lifts off at 2:55.
This beat and bassline of Stratus has been sampled by Massive Attack in their tune “Safe from Harm”. From Billy’s first solo album Spectrum. Amazing how the track keeps it’s tension.
In 1971, with fellow Davis alumnus McLaughlin, Cobham co-founded Mahavishnu Orchestra, a definitive jazz fusion ensemble. Cobham toured extensively from 1971 to 1973 with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, who released two studio albums and one live album. The original studio versions of tunes on the live album were later released as The Lost Trident Sessions in 1999.
In May 1973, while still with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham recorded his first solo album Spectrum with keyboardist Jan Hammer, from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and guitarist Tommy Bolin, who later played with heavy rock band Deep Purple. Just before the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s last touring leg, in late 1973, Cobham recorded and toured with guitarists Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, in concerts which featured material from their album Love Devotion Surrender, and Cobham’s own material.
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Old skool from 1984! Hip hop or electro? B-boy 808 Beats that still sound fresh When hip hop was still inventive and creative and before the macho hip hop era!
This is one of the all time classics from The nights of the turntables.The Crew was founded 1983 and the Name “Knights of the Turntables” was based on the title of the Cameo Album “Knights of the Soundtable.
They feature on the all time great Electro street sounds collection (My favorite vinyl from 1985). A small bit was in the movie Breakdance.
Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique used to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while manipulating the crossfader on a DJ mixer. Most scratches are produced by moving a vinyl record back and forth with the hand while it is playing on a turntable. This creates a distinctive sound that has come to be one of the most recognizable features of hip hop music. Scratching was developed by early hip hop DJs from New York such as Grand Wizard Theodore and DJ Grandmaster Flash.
Read More Post a comment (0)Funcky Brother from Soul Drifter, early 1970′s. Real Funk for real people!
Cool drum programming with the classic Akai 2500!
A truly great piece of e-poetry by David Bowie all the way from 1969.
He definitely knows what his talking about…
David Bowie for the president!
Lyrics
David Bowie – Memory of a Free Festival
The Children of the summer’s end
Gathered in the dampened grass
We played Our songs and felt the London sky
Resting on our hands
It was God’s land
It was ragged and naive
It was Heaven
Touch, We touched the very soul
Of holding each and every life
We claimed the very source of joy ran through
It didn’t, but it seemed that way
I kissed a lot of people that day
From the album the perfect release, 1979, fantasy aborts reality, yeah!
Lyrics:
Voglio una perla da cultivare I don’t need to take valium or opium to know how it feels to leave you. I don’t need no cocaine highs or Spanish flies to need you. No DMT, DMC, LSD, to blow my mind. Heroine, mescaline or metadream to loose the time. Anyway, drugs tends to diminish my body and it seems so faraway in my mind to me. And if my hilariant form to yours, is a door to each our concentric souls to meet, I don’t wanna miss it. I WANT MY FEMININE BODY: CORPOREAL MIND: MATERIAL SOUL sympathize in a very finely atemptive in the other side of paradise. And I don’t need no blind thoughts, wipes, boots or rubber suits, school girl uniforms to turn you on. Anyway fantasies are only boy’s reality, forcing one to live within a distortion. Pure skin, soul to soul, belly touching, strait is great ‘cause I don’t need the pain or the hate to feel intensively. And I don’t need to be dominated, degraded or flagellated, and I don’t need to be extorted, exalted or supported, complicated, contemplated, tolerated or liberated. BUT I DO NEED TO BE PENETRATED, ELEVATED AND APPRECIATED. And I need to embrace my inescapable femininess, like all the animals naturally embrace. Totally succumb to eroticness of the intuitive risk – life’s hopeful between the guys and all different falls, falls in the base of uncontrolled cries!
