New Tunes

Massive Muscles wrote: »

Nice one, like these guy(s) a lot. They were supposed to be supporting Animal Collective in Tripod a while back but never happened. Shame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVDQkxF8Mx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8wtasgjjo

Detroit producer Anthony "Shake" Shakir is one of the more underrecognized, underappreciated names in American techno. A bedroom producer since 1981, Shake had an important role in helping shape the early Motor City sound associated with artists such as Juan Atkins / Model 500 and Derrick May. He worked with May and Carl Craig as a producer, writer, or engineer on several early tracks on Metroplex, and worked in management and A&R for the label (as well, he's often joked, as being the janitor) during its formative years. His first solo material appeared on Virgin's seminal Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit compilation with 'Sequence 10'. Known as something of a techno purist, Shake has distanced himself from the European scene many of his colleagues have turned to for support (this accounts somewhat for his continuing obscurity), and his music is stylistically closer to second wave artists such as "Mad Mike" Banks and Claude Young — hard, stripped-down tracks which owe equally to techno, electro, hip-hop, and funk. Shake's visibility and reputation have risen in more recent years as a result of his Frictional and Puzzlebox labels, the latter of which he formed in 1996 with fellow Detroit electro / techno producer Keith Tucker (formerly of Aux 88). Releasing a series of records both solo and in combination (usually under the name Da Sampla), Shake and Tucker's Puzzlebox Records has, along with Underground Resistance and Guidance Recordings, become one of the more coveted sources of straight-up, no-bones Detroit techno.
- Sean Cooper
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Anthony+Shakir?anv=Anthony+%22Shake%22+Shakir

*THIS 35-TRACK, TRIPLE CD BOX SET IS NOT ONLY ONE OF THE MOST PRECIOUS, FORWARD-THINKING COLLECTIONS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC EVER MADE, IT IS ALSO MAKES IT CLEARER THAN EVER JUST HOW MUCH OF A VISIONARY ANTHONY SHAKE SHAKIR HAS BEEN, PRE-EMPTING SO MANY STRANDS NOT ONLY IN TECHNO AND HOUSE MUSIC, BUT ALSO IN DUBSTEP, BROKEN BEAT, UK/FUNKY AND ALL KINDS OF BASS MUSICS. MISS THIS AT YOUR PERIL* My oh my oh my. Has there been a more anticipated release this year??? What we have here are three CD's and 35 tracks of classic, untouchable, unobtainable, UTTERY IMMENSE tracks from Anthony 'Shake' Shakir from the Frictional vaults - all of them long long long unavailable on any format and even including a previously unreleased track, making for a tally of 35 tracks - every single one an absolute treasure. Shake's influence is irrevocably written through the last 20 years of dance music history. From his earliest roles cutting tape and assisting the earliest productions of Derrick May and Juan Atkins, to managing the office of Metroplex and appearing on the seminal 'Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit' compilation, his integral participation in a major musical movement is hugely respected by those in the know, but criminally underappreciated by nearly everyone else. These 35 tracks go a long way to redress the balance, giving credence to an artist hailed as a massive influence by everyone from Autechre to Smith 'n Hack, T++ to Cooly G. The guy is simply a rhythm master in the truest sense of the word. His beats are crafted with a funky sleight-of-hand and inimitable flex that blatantly comes from his past, splicing inches of tape and manipulating hardware, while also informed by a knowledge of the rhythm mechanics that make up the classic soul, disco, industrial and synth music which coalesced into techno and house around early 80's Detroit and Chicago. Whether it's the filtered jack beats of 'The Floor Filler', the electric gremlins weaved into the disco magic of '...Like A Dream' or the percolatin' trademark 'Frictionalized', Shake sets his own agenda built on masterful sampling and edit techniques. It's this innate understanding, alloyed with the ebullient personality that imbues his tracks with so much melodic character, which makes them fearsomely effective dancefloor tools, and charmingly unique artifacts of a modern black art. A triple CD and digital release will follow in the coming months, but right now this is about the most essential set of tracks you can lay your hands on, finally untethered from logistical wranglings to hopefully influence a new generation of beat makers and breakers in the fields of dubstep, hiphop, post-garage, House and Techno that owe this dude so much.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=254242

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YW6wIQtP3o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiF5H4K4i-A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozdtO_hrBA

old gregg wrote: »

no doubt not to the taste of many but my old mates UK Psytrance outfit OOOD have decided to give away their first album from 1997 for free.

and the free album:
http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/oood-alive/