Xploding Plastix ft. Sarah Cracknell & other: July 2008

Zion Train

Artist: Zion Train

   Genre(s):
Dance
   Reggae
   Electronic

Discography:

boxes & amps remix's-(10 inch-eggy025) Vinyl

Year: 2007
Tracks: 4

Natural Wonders of the World in Dub

Year: 2005
Tracks: 15

Original Sounds of the Zion

Year: 2002
Tracks: 10

Live At Glastonbury Festival

Year: 2001
Tracks: 10

Secrets of the Animal Kingdom in Dub

Year: 2000
Tracks: 14

Alive

Year: 1997
Tracks: 13

Grow together

Year: 1996
Tracks: 13

Passage To Indica

Year:
Tracks: 5

Love Revolution

Year:
Tracks: 13

Multimedia acid-dub corporate Zion Train comprised singer Molara, DJ/bassist Neil Perch, trumpeter David Tench, melodica instrumentalist Colin Cod and trombonist Chris. Formed in North London in 1990, its members initially came together as a dub well-grounded system; their outset undivided, the limited edition roots 7" "Big businessman One" (issued on their have Zion Records impression), at once sold out, spell its followup "Power Two" was a major favourite at shaka dances passim 1992. For their following exploit, Zion Train teamed with Studio One vet Devon Russell to remake his rage authoritative "Jah Holds the Key" -- the group's most successful phonograph record to engagement; it garnered airplay passim Europe and light-emitting diode to the release of their debut LP, the mellow nickname field day Passage to Indica.

Coincident with a series of remixes including tracks from the Shamen, Chumbawamba, Afro Celt Sound System, Junior Reid and Loop Guru, Zion Train issued with their following single, the acerb house-inspired "Take after Like Wolves." The acclaimed Natural Wonders of the World in Dub was side by side, debuting in the Top 20 of the U.K. indie charts; A series of limited edition EPs recorded in collaboration with Knights of the Occasional Table, Diatribe, Conscious and Trancemasters followed in 1994, and were later collected on the Siren LP. After signing with the China label in early 1995, Zion Train issued the single "Arrive Ready," trailed a few months by and by by the full-length Homegrown Fantasy. After 1996's Grow Together, they returned the following summer with the two-disc hits aggregation Single Minded and Alive. Passion Revolutionaries followed in mid-00.

Confirmed: The ‘Wall-E’ Oscar Campaign Is On!

Courtesy of Disney/Pixar and AMPAS

Vulture buddy Nikki Finke reports the happy news that Disney and Pixar plan to campaign heavily for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Wall-E, a campaign that we're already fully onboard with. Finke sniffs out some controversy in claiming that one roadblock to a Wall-E nomination is Andrew Stanton's claims to the New York Times last weekend: “I never think about the audience,” he said. “If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.” Finke gets an outraged response to this from, hilariously, a "bigwig Hollywood marketer," who sniffs, "Nobody can say, 'I don't care what the audience thinks', especially when making a mainstream movie for families. Nobody can live outside the envelope like that. His disdain for the audience was really obvious."

Hey, you know what, bigwig Hollywood marketer? Andrew Stanton wasn't expressing disdain for the audience. He was expressing disdain for you. And you know who can say "I don't care what the audience thinks"? A guy whose company's eight amazing movies have made over four billion dollars, that's who. So we're not too worried about this particular controversy.

'Wall-E' Orbiting Best Picture Oscar Nod? [Deadline Hollywood Daily]

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Little Man Tate - British Bands Brawl At Gig

Rock bands LITTLE MAN TATE and THE TROUBADOURS were involved in a fight at a university gig this weekend - over a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey.

The two groups had to be separated by police and staff at Aston University, England after a brawl broke out on Saturday (07Jun08) over a misunderstanding about their backstage requests.

A statement from Sheffield, England-based Little Man Tate says, "The Troubadours were acting like rock 'n' roll thugs all day, stealing bottles of Jack Daniels and winding everybody up. When they threatened our sound man, vocalist Jon Windle confronted them and it was carnage."

But The Troubadours have hit back in their own official release, claiming that the alcohol was for everyone, not just the Sheffield rockers.

They say, "So protective were they (Little Man Tate) over the stash of booze, you'd have thought they'd have been down the offie (off-licence liquor shop) themselves.

"A scuffle broke out, and with just two Troubies outnumbered by this other band and their mates, we can only assume they had 'little man syndrome' or something."

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Dstar

Artist: Dstar

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

18KOHM Vinyl

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

Jerk

John Klemmer

Artist: John Klemmer

   Genre(s):
Jazz
   R&B: Soul

Discography:

Touch

Year: 1975
Tracks: 8

Waterfall

Year: 1972
Tracks: 8

An participating composer and an trailblazer on the electrified saxophone (victimization echo personal effects quite an in effect), John Klemmer was also a very strong Coltrane-inspired acoustic tenor saxophonist. His solo sax recordings preceded smooth jazz and fresh age and his variety of projects earned him a gravid take of crossover appeal that includes his medicine sampled by rap music artists of the '90s. Over the course of his vocation, Klemmer collaborated with a number of malarky and pop artists and performed the albums by Steely Dan, John Lee Hooker, Lauren Wood, Roy Haynes, and Nancy Wilson, among others.

Trick Klemmer began playing music at a young old age, starting with the guitar and switching to tenor saxophone by high school day. In addition to individual music lessons that continued up through college, he likewise accompanied Interlochen's music camp. In school, Klemmer studied a mixed bag of liberal arts including graphics and optic humanistic discipline, authorship, and puppeteering at schools that include Chicago's Institute of Art. Early on in his music vocation, Klemmer lED his possess groups at gigs around the East Coast and Midwest, and was also busy touring as a sideman with bad bands. Among the people he worked with during this time are jazz musicians such as Chicago piano player Jodie Christian, tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris, rock guitarist Harvey Mandel (with whom Klemmer supposedly co-led a stripe for a time in the '60s), and producer James Guercio (wHO worked extensively with the stria Chicago). Klemmer made his debut recording as a drawing card in 1967 and affected to Los Angeles the next year. There he became a headstone soloist with Don Ellis's groundbreaking big stria for the adjacent 2 eld, piece besides working with artists such as Tim Buckley and Oliver Nelson, with whom Klemmer went on a State Dept. turn of West Africa.

From this time, up through the early '70s, John Klemmer lED fusion groups and recorded a number of albums, chiefly for Cadet Records. After studying picture make-up with Albert Harris, Klemmer began transcription for other labels: first Impulse, then ABC, MCA, and Elektra. He also worked as a manufacturer for pop, jazz ,and R&B artists. Klemmer's possess music gained crossover voter appeal, as his function with manager's Bill Siddons (wHO worked with the Doors) and Gary Borman (wHO went on to work with Faith Hill) brought his music to a maturation number of pop listeners. With his electrified saddle horn (victimisation an echoplex), Klemmer recorded democratic albums for MCA and Elektra that were in the leisurely listening, pop nervure from the mid-'70s through the former '80s. He enjoyed a hit record with Touch and went on to record solo sax albums such as Cry out, which ar considered by some to be direct predecessors of fluid jazz music.

Klemmer alternated the more pop-oriented projects with fiery efforts; his finest jazz album was the two-LP set Nexus (largely reissued on CD), a put of duets and trios with drums and occasional bass. In 1989, Music came out on MCA and Klemmer went on sabbatical, choosing to stop touring and recording in order to focal point more on composition. Although it was rumored that this sabbatical was due to health problems, this is not true; it was plainly Klemmer's decision to contract a break from the limelight.

Gospel According to John Klemmer has co-written pop songs (for other artists) with, viz., David Batteau (the two wrote the successful song "Walk in Love," made pop by Manhattan Transfer) and Danny O'Keefe; the music on Klemmer's own jazz albums is composed solo. The late '90s base Klemmer returning to the microscope stage, often on the West Coast scene. He too returned to the studio, guesting on albums by such new age artists as 3rd Force, David Arkenstone, and Craig Chaquico. During this time, Klemmer too founded his own record label, Touch Records, on which he released the albums Simpatico and Making Love, Vol. 1 (1998). By 2000, near of John Klemmer's earlier recordings were still awaiting CD topic. His own website is at web.johnklemmer.com.