404 25.9.2004 @ helsinki
SWELL CHART AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 04
1. Mark De Clive-Lowe Tides Arising Antipodean
Mister De Clive Lowe - continuing on his broken not broken tip and evolving it further into future funk land! This is what I need! Something about the synth layering and keys makes me want to name him the Herbie of the new millennium. This is how many of dem broken beat style producers dream at night that their future albums are going to sound like
2. Ernestos Album Hollow
Out at last! A very personal and different journey that prooves what an artist our dear friend mister Bäckelie really is!
3. Isley brothers Taken to the next Phase (reconstructions) - Epic
Many great contributors give their hot versions of the I-brothers including a beautiful balad by Mos Def and party action by De La Soul & co. Though its the Ignorants feat Dead Rabbits version of Take me to the next phase that is the true floorfiller on this comp! Made the young ones soar at Nefertiti last week.
4. Beatsie Boys Ch-check it out rmx white
Le mix turns the place into babylon wherever I go
5. Sleepwalker feat Pharoah Sanders The Voyage - Especial
In a perfect world Sleepwalker would team up with Mr Sanders himself and do a 12 minutes long massive collaboration
wait a minute! This IS a perfect world!! + The b-side is really hot too! Blew up Nefertiti when mr Especial Shuya Okino payed us a fantastic visit in August..
6. Duke Ellington - April in Paris (remix) White
Old school with a new twist for anyone who likes their big band business FAT! Lets try it one more once.
7. Plano alto 30 degrees/Summerbreeze Downshall Plastics
Hooray! The nu-jazz scene has been officially electro-shocked back to life! This is the only latino clash record well ever need except for Cuicas remix of S-tone inc from last year J! Seriously, this record is hilarious and even though the A-sides cheekyness makes me happy its the B-side that I want to play over and again.
8. Rosalia De Sousa Reconstructed by Raw Deal & Zero DB - Schema
The Zero DB! What a mix! Violent but still sexy
watch out for bass biz! Jimbo also does a great work.
9. Loose Digz CD-R
The local tounge twista knüller
10. Max Sedgely Happy (Spiritual South happy in rio mix) - Sunday Best
The Euro cup is over but this track will keep accelerating and survive until world cup 2006! I love this track to death!!
11. Double Beat Jazz Musician Big Sur
A hypnotic puzzle of muffled slices of jazz
coming to you on a swell sound system late at night. Did I say its hypnotic?
12. Ame Mifune Sonar Kollektiv
Is this the Elle of german tech-house? Sure it is! Really cool track that grows at home and sounds fat in a club too. Props for oooldschol synth layering!
13. Street Choir Funky Kingston Street Choir
Our favourite bootleg label deliver their coolest so far. This describes señor swells new carribean flavor just perfectly!
14. Emo feat Daddy Ous I want my Love - Stereo Deluxe
Mellow and beautiful dub landscapes from the land of Emo.
15. Nieminen & Litmanen Leo Jokela Grandpop
From their 11 tracks of Scandinavian action jazz. The world has for a long time been in need of a new organ/drums duo to be the next superstars in this genre. Well, here they are!
Andreas Saag aka Stateless aka Swell Session will perform with Hird at 404 on the 25th of September.
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15. Nieminen & Litmanen – Leo Jokela – Grandpop
From their 11 tracks of Scandinavian action jazz. The world has for a long time been in need of a new organ/drums duo to be the next superstars in this genre. Well, here they are!
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Tää pariskunta kyl rokkaa! Tuli silti aika huvittavan yllätyksenä tolla listalla..
Vois muutenki tulla tsekkaa Andreaksen menoo taas. :)
New release on DNM - Dealers of Nordic Music:
HIRD - MOVING ON (dnmcd005/dnmlp001)
"A perfect autumn soundtrack, very atmospheric and deep! Respects due!"
Rainer Trüby
"A lovely album and a great example of why jazz inspired music from Sweden is so hyped at the moment."
Mad Mats/Raw Fusion
This album has enough subtle diversity to make this a very special audio pleasing item of essential purchase .It's an album you will return to for many years to come and on every listen you will discover something new.....'
Nik Weston - Mukatsuku Pr/Exceptional Records
I love this album! Beautiful and sensitive like night under the midnight sun. Transparent sounds. Evergreen melodies''
Shuya Okino/Kyoto Jazz Massive
Liner notes by Alan Brown (Soul Seduction, Vienna):
The music of Christoffer Hird Berg is an exhilarating example of this wonderful relationship between the attentive listener and the thoughtful music maker. Its very hard to imagine that this fine musician and accomplished producer is only 21 years of age! A family of music, mother and father highly trained and renowned composers and musicians, a teenage brother that excited us all with the playful and hypnotic track Thinking of you on Nordic Lounge 2, all go some way to helping us understand this. Not so hard to imagine though, is that he is extremely sensitive, compassionate and very excitable. A charming young man actuated sometimes more by emotion rather than reason! What we hear, is in fact, very close to what he is and what he will be. The heedful hearkener will no doubt familiarize him or herself with the persona of the Hird. This is the reason why we relate to music so passionately. Its simply an extension of whom or what we want to be also.
Capable of falling in love in a heartbeat, as well as being crushed by the dilemma of break-ups and loss. Vulnerable, fragile, introvert yet out going, a boy and a man filled with lifes moving of the mind and soul. Most of all, a young man with a strong feeling and sense that some desire will be fulfilled. It will be the likeminded listener who will really understand and appreciate this wonderful musical travelling.
The hopefulness yet realism of Fading Blues and Moving On. The serenading and romanticism of souls through Keep you Kimi and I love you my hope. The intimacy and warm belonging felt on Getting closer. The fun and fantasia fantastically felt through Buddy Rich, what a wonderful yet extreme song! The soulful yet industrial sound felt on Burn4 and Under my Bridges, reminiscent of his youth and upbringing in Gothenburg. I find myself totally connected by participation and association, as if I was involved in a good read.
Thinking about it, good music is in fact like a good book! You wonderfully feel and experience the characters, and their adventures. And like a good book, you never want to put it down. Something very similar Im experiencing here with Moving On.
More info: http://www.dnm.se
Also available from Hird:
KEEP YOU HIRD, 12" (dnmep003)
5/5 A beautiful & timeless record , IDJ Magazine
7/8 Just beautiful, M8 Magazine
4/5 Lovely, electronic, deep house number from Sweden , Muzik Magazine
I LOVE YOU MY FRIENDS EP, 12" (dnmep004)
5/5 - Magical , IDJ Magazine
8/8- This guy is a genius , M8 magazine
4/5Beautifully layered shuffling upbeat number , Blues & Soul Magazine