Author Archive for r jamz

24
March
2009
tags: La Chansons, ATL, Blue Screen Love Scene, Atlanta, Artists.

Synths in Atlanta

Hello dear readers, long time no post from me. Seeing as how I’m the last of the Res family left in Atlanta after Shaun’s exodus to NYC, I’ll be writing more frequently and will do my damnedest to keep shining some light on ATL’s little music gems.

La Chansons are the husband and wife duo of Greg and Carson Keller, and for the past few years they’ve been steadily releasing their material and playing live in that all-too-familiar trapping of many electronic bands: girl singing out front, guy playing laptop and keys in back. Which is all fine and good, but admittedly not as fun to experience, especially in a city like Atlanta with widely diverging scenes and no real center…..bands without an actual band tend to have a hard time here. (Judi Chicago being a notable exception.)

They’ve since added a live band, and are poised to become pivotal among Atlanta’s electronic-centered talents.

La Chansons live

La Chansons - Candybar Man

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Res darlings Blue Screen Love Scene have remixed two of La Chansons songs, giving them their brand of creamy dreamy epic synthy feel:

La Chansons - Leotard Stories (Blue Screen Love Scene remix)

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La Chansons - Mall Magic (Blue Screen Love Scene remix)

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Blue Screen Love Scene is currently on hiatus due to their bass player moving to NYC, but they sent us a new track regardless. It’s got a brooding, darker tone than their previous tracks:

Blue Screen Love Scene - BeatBot

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Hopefully this isn’t the last we’ll hear of them!

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25
September
2007
tags: Gorilla Zoe, hot trax, Atlanta, Artists, Mp3.

Atlanta Zoo

ATL’s own Gorilla Zoe will be dropping his debut album today, “Welcome to the Zoo.” Now me, I don’t know too much about Gorilla Zoe, other than he is Young Jeezy’s replacement in Boyz N Da Hood, and that his role there is way fitting, seeing as how he sounds damn near just like Jeezy. But I was driving home earlier tonight and heard this little gem on V-103….

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Gorilla Zoe-You Don’t Know Me (Feat. D. Woods)

This is pop perfection. I know, I know, the rest of the album sounds pretty much like every other Atlanta/dirty south fare, but this track is gold. New rule: let’s have more exquisitely produced goodness like this coming out of our fair city because, goddammit, we’ve all heard the other stuff to death. I know it’s going to be a rarity though, since this track is the equivalent to a drum n’ bass pantywetter, and you just don’t hear a lot of good pantywetters among all the WOMPWOMPWOMP typical dn’b torrent of bullshit out there. I’m saying it now though, this is the standout track of the album.

-rjamz

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29
August
2007
tags: The Wake, Marcel King, Factory Records, Section 25, 52nd Street, Tony Wilson, Thick Pigeon, Mp3.

A bit late here, pardon the pun.

With the recent passing of Tony Wilson a few weeks ago, I’d like to shed some light on some lesser known Factory/Factory Benelux bands. Everyone knows New Order, Joy Division, Happy Mondays, and to a lesser extent, A Certain Ratio(who we here at Camp Res disagree on….or I should say rather, no one likes except for me.)

First up is Section 25, who took their name from a British mental health provision. This track is from their third album From the Hip from 1983. For my money, this is an obvious influence on early Detroit techno and Chicago house.

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Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop

Next up is The Wake out of Glasgow. Before they were indie darlings on Sarah Records, they put out several singles and two albums on Factory.
On Our Honeymoon was from a self-released single that intially got the attention of New Order’s manager, Rob Gretton.

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The Wake - On Our Honeymoon

It’s hyper, minimal, and kinda tinny, but I love it nonetheless. They really start to shine on the 1982 album Harmony. Very Factory-sounding, warm, bouncing bass line pop perfection!

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The Wake - Testament

Okay, time to lace up them skates ya’ll. Various New Order members, but most notably Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook, produced many great 12″s under the moniker of “Be Music”. The productions range from cold and arty to warm and organic, the latter of which I think they did fantastically.

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52nd Street - Look Into My Eyes

Total paradise garage jam. Now that’s some shit to skate to.

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Marcel King - Reach For Love

By the way, the Marcel King track is, according to the Happy Monday’s Shaun Ryder, the best single released on Factory. Stack up them trivia points!

And finally, here’s some weirdness from Stanton Miranda and Carter Burwell’s calloboration, Thick Pigeon. Carter Burwell later went on to score films, including all of the Coen Brothers films(Big Lebowski, Fargo, Raising Arizona, etc).

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Marcel King - Thick Pigeon - Troglodytes

All these tracks and more have been re-released on LTM. They do tons of Factory, Factory Benelux, and Les Disques du Crepuscule reissues so get on it. I’ll have none of those “but it’s out of print, Mr. Jamz” excuses.

Buy LTM releases stateside here at Darla, or at their own site here.

-R.Jamz

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29
March
2007
tags: Mp3.

R. Jamz presents: Bidnezzman’s Steak Dinner part1

It’s time to share with you, our adored readers, more music that you can rollerskate to®!

Man Dre - Freak is Nice

I won’t lie, I don’t know too much about this track. Searching for information about it on the series of tubes that is the internet yeilded barely anything, except that it appears on a bootleg 12″ along with other funk classics.
All I know is that you can rollerskate to it. And sometimes that’s all you need to know.

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