Earth N Bass, Vol. 1

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Triloka Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 793018523028
EAN: 0793018523028
ASIN: B000069CO3

Release Date: 2002-07-23

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Listmania:

Sonic Spanda, Volume 1: Expanding Consciousness

Tracks:

Future Days Introduction - Mighty Junn
Dias Futuros (Lando Calrissian Remix) - Sultan32
Ebaye - Ex-Centric Sound System
Clandestino (Latino Remix) - Manu Chao
Madindo (Transglobal Underground Remix) - Tarika
Distance - Karsh Kale
Dourbiha - MoMo
Soul Drummers (Celebration Mix) - Kalahari Bushmen
Yo Afro - Temple Of Sound
Inta Omri Remix (Jean Mouawad Remix) - Mohammed Abdel Wahab
Zomaye (Bill Laswell Remix) - Gigi
Tanto Tempo (Peter Kruder Remix) - Bebel Gilberto
Baba Hanuman (Dub Farm Remix) - Krishna Das

Customer Reviews:

Amazing World-beat for all.......2004-10-05

I stumbled across this album quite accidentally at my local record store, in the "Various" folder of the world music section. The thing that caught my eye was the label--Triloka, whom I've dealt with in the past. They've produced some truly innovative stuff, so I decided to give this a go.

What a purchase. This album is 1000% worth the price and then some. This is world beat at it's best..quite simply the best sampling of voices from around the world mixed into an album that would shake any dance floor. It is truly a melting pot of styles..you've got electronica melted into traditional instruments of every style. The voices come from every corner of the globe.

This is one party you do NOT want to miss. I wish I could rate this a '6'.

smooth continental drift.......2004-06-12

Ethno electronic collections are nothing new, but there's something especially poignant in Sultan 32's bio regarding the onset of globalization. Aside from being an evil buzzword for the new millennium, the traffic has hybridized cultures, races and certainly music. The smooth continental drift heard on Earth N Bass Volume One amalgamates a variety of different cultural influences, along with traditional clashes against techno modernism, without it ever sounding androgynous or forced. Sultan 32 uses one of those modern touchstones on his own track, "Dias Futuros" (Lando Calrissian remix) with its sampling of the vocal mantra from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also exploring revisionism is Jean Mouawad who does something as simple as adding a backbeat to Mohammed Abdel Wahab's Middle Eastern classic "Inta Omri." There's a little Africanism from Ex-centric Sound System, barrio from Manu Chao and a parts unknown feel with the Transglobal Underground remix of Tarika's "Madindo." Things get a little trancier through material from Karsh Kale, Moroccan with Momo, some surreal from Bill Laswell and an electro-tinged Peter Kruder mix of Bebel Gilberto's "Tanto Tempo." All around, Earth n Bass Volume One is a well-travelled disc worthy of giving a spin. -- review from Raves.com by Yuri Wuensch

give it a chance, you may never turn back.......2002-09-24

If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't.... This saying has always peed me off, cuz THIS is too good to be true, yet here it is! A compilation of world electronica that features tracks you can't find anywhere else! Unlike all the other compilations saturating the market today, this one boasts a who's who of world music electronica stylee to permanently pry your ears open to what's going on around the globe.

The future of worldbeat is here!.......2002-09-22

A stellar collection of the latest big names in world music produced by the visionary MC Sultan is a must-have for any fans of international music, electronica, and dance. The producer, himself of mixed Arab-Latino heritage, has assembled some of the most EXTRAORDINARY, never-before released REMIXES of the likes of Mohammed Abdel Wahab (the Professor of Egyptian music) and Ethiopian diva par excellence Gigi. In fact, the price of the CD alone is worth these two tracks that have never seen the light of commercial release: the Jean Mouwad remix of Inta Omri takes a classic Egyptian percussion feast and marries it with a relentless pumping nuevo-house beat straight out of South Beach, while the inimitable Bill Laswell takes Gigi's Zomaye and gives it a hard-driving, "hands in the air and everywhere" groove. Not since the Hardfloor remix of Mory Kante's Yeke Yeke has someone remixed an African track resulting in pure ECSTASY whether you're on the dancefloor or in the middle of the Kalahari desert: IT IS THAT GOOD!!!
The first volume of Earth N Bass (with lots more to come, hopefully) also gives a taste of MC Sultan's DJ style, mixing an inspirational potpourri of artists from literally every corner of the globe, and traversing the musical genres from downtempo to upbeat tracks. The pride of Madagascar Tarika's track--Madindo--an homage to her Nusantaran ancestors, appears in a delicious remix by Transglobal Underground that can best be described as Jaipong-House! Bebel Gilberto, the voice of nova bossanova, receives a stunning remix by Peter Kruder (of Kruder & Dorfmeister fame) that is amazingly effective in showcasing her bossa vocals over an electrobeat track. All in all, this CD is the perfect preview of things to come from the talented MC Sultan, indeed the future of world beat!

The Beat Heard Round The World.......2002-08-26

With an absurd grouping of forms - from classical Indian music to acoustic Malian blues to salsa to yoiking, etc. - falling under the category of "world music," new terms need to be set. While this genre remains (and hopefully will remain) without moniker, it is evident that one sound will lead the way; namely, bass. Earth 'N Bass is the underlying rhythm to a variety of musicians across the globe. Taking sounds from Madagascar (Tarika), Brazil (Bebel Gilberto), Spain (Manu Chao), Indian-inpsired America (Karsh Kale, Krishna Das), and well beyond, Sultan32 presents a mixed CD biding for top electronica release of 2002.

Earth 'N Bass is an accessible compilation suitable for a variety of venues, from dance club to lounge, to be spun by global travelers and suburbanites alike; it has instantly compatability to any DJ's collection and grooves steadily for a 9 to 5er's car ride home. Behind the language differences and eclectic instrumentation of all these performers, the album's strength is both in the standout potential of each track and the mercurial fluidity that unite them. Sounds of bossa nova, African percussion, and tabla swirl in one hour of auditory existentsialism. That is, Earth 'N Bass stretches past the ordinary to return to what's most important: One rhythm with a thousand arms spreading their wings over all earth's inhabitants.

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