WRUV Reviews

01/29/2009, The Rapture, !K7 Tapes, (!K7),  The group of 4, The Rapture become the latest of great compilers on K&D’s !K7 label.  Talk about non-stop funk and electro, around 115-120 bpm of funk and junk.  Play EVERYTHING.  Great Stuff

01/28/2009, Jazzanova, Of All the Things, (!K7), German DJ Troupe Jazzanova combine great 70’s motown-ish arrangements with new up and coming soul vocalists.  Could help but feel like I was listening to Marvin Gaye at times.  Good stuff.

Play All.

Filed in RPM but also is Jazz

01/28/2009, Tittsworth, 12 Steps, (Plant Music) DJ Tittsworth shows his stuff on the production end of things with a tour of old skool street breaks, with rhymes, cuts, stabs and more. 

This will be filed under RPM, but may be of interest to Urban and Hip Hop DJ’s too

Pseudo FCC on 7, “Drunk as F*ck”—Listen first, play if you dare, also 3, 11

Jazz inflected pieces with an American flavor. These are original and/or premiere recordings.

Try tracks 3, 6, 9 (a well recognized work)

Instrumental pieces written by a computer composer, returning to his instrumental roots. Most of these pieces are his first compositions for the instruments involved–nice works!

Try tracks 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11

Title piece written in homage to a still uninhabited village in Britain which was taken over by the military in WWII. Pieces are slow, quiet, lyrical, muted, almost ambient. Try sampling since pieces are on average 30 mins long.

Computer music with voices and occasional instruments. Very quiet. Definitely avant-garde. Liner notes say “Polansky creates musical expositions of phenomenal reality.” I don’t understand that, but perhaps someone else does! Worth exploring and sampling.

Soundscapes, muted voices, muted instruments, daily sounds, a crow–eerie, delicate, quiet. Songs are on average 12 mins long–try sampling any!

Contemporary Brazilian composer. Pieces can be ominous, yet playful, and keep you listening.

Track 4 quite lovely, light in tone, but with some sadness.

Track 5 has male chorus in addition to instruments

Contemporary chamber music performed by Ensemble Dissonanza. Some pieces are ethereal.

Try tracks 7-9 or 11-13 (very lyrical)