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When: Thursday Mar 06, 2008
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So one session spread into two due to the large number of submitted tracks, here are my thoughts from both.

 

Session 1 - Saturday 4-7ish - Club (aka rave) Tent

 

5 big screens with the familiar Artist/Title display fading in & out of some nice visuals, Goan-decor and woodchips all over the muddy floor, a massive contrast to a club setting but great to see CDR on the road! Amusing antics early doors from Tony making the most of the big stage! Now, this isn't as chronologically detailed as regular sessions and I missed an hour for Konono 1's set (incredible live show!), however, the music. An untitled tune from KrossBack/Handsman had a wicked kicking squelch to it, great to meet the songs maker Martin who shared the excitement, pride and delight which most who have had their music played at CDR will have experienced. Dave Young gave some wicked four to the floor action and more banging delights continued with 'Kreza' by TBH. Rumbling bass and sick drums in Dialog's 'Run Silent Run Deep', a real epic track! Souled added a broken edge to the session with 'You Make The Music', a brilliant tune with 70s synths, hard punching beats and delightful squelches.

 

A song by Monstatones returned to the bangingness with an Italio Disco flavour, I really liked the deep echoey percussive breakdown. A journey back to Chicago house delights followed in the jacking groove of Joey Tarido's 'Return To Paradise', nice use of female vocal and hand drums. Guy Evans remixed Donna Summer ambiently extending a famous vocal, then came 'Spaghettification' by Sine Winder, moody vocal and good slappy bass.

www.myspace.com/owenhindley 'Tea Could Be Exciting' steady beat with nice surging bassline and a slick vocal loop. Rapid rolling snappy drums in (www.myspace.com/deltason),  'Slowed Up' providing some quality Fourtet-style electronic ambience. Darshan's 'TGV' followed with a deep continuous build and lovely spacey/dreamy vibe. Familiar horn riff in 'Sunshine Of Your Love' Spanky Wilson given a pounding reedit by Hoxton Whores Vs Cream. Super deepness arrived in Tim Smith's 'Don't Explain', with brilliant tumbling drums and a marauding epic female vocal (Billie Holiday sounding), an excellent tune! As was 'Red Waters' by the fantastic www.myspace.com/middlewoodsessions, I hope these guys make the trip from Sheffield to London and play live soon as their music needs to be heard! Loved the afrobeat/Fela/Nomo-like drive 'Red Waters' and I expect it's a song which will delight as many or more people as 'Fall Back' has.

 

Electronics returned with Soul Glow and their 'Let's Go Dancing' remix, then the amusingly named 'Slave to my Codpiece' saw Collective Discharge reworking Cameo's 'Word Up'. Missed the title but really felt the lush chords contrasting with Balearic groove in a song I think was by www.myspace.com/thesecondwhorl.

 'Solero' by www.myspace.com/dannyburns, Danny Burns provided some slick and sick percussion with dance inducing electronics to close the session.

 

So that was the first day, the gigantic space was foolishly low on numbers but those that were there clearly enjoyed the amazing array of music on offer. Well done to Tony (& Gavin if you did also..) for arranging the Sunday session at the Village Green Stage, a far more apt space allowing many Big Chill punters to wander by, hear the superb sounds and sit or dance in the baking sunshine.

 

Session 2 - Sunday 4-6ish Village Green Stage.

 

Gavin entertained those under the blue skies and scorching sun dropping some choice selections from recent CDR excursions. No screen to list artist and title, so cheers to G & T for the passing info down when requested. www.myspace.com/mrbeatnick, Beatnick 's 'Lovely' always delights me, such a strong edit looping the great vocal from Phat Kat's original, sounds much better without the MCing! www.myspace.com/dablo365, D.Ablo; www.myspace.com/guynamite, Guynamite's 'The Turnaround' is another cracking track, love these opening whirls and D.Ablo sounds fantastic (as usual), the chorus is ridiculously catchy "you can make a turnaround, you can make a turnaround", need to get this out to radioshows! If you haven't checked D.Ablo's 4-song sampler EP you must. www.myspace.com/blacksmilemusic, Black Smile amazed me again with a tune whose title I don't know but folks wanting to hear his excellent sounds should check his myspace or the jukebox on his homepage filled with amazing beats - http://www.blacksmile.co.uk . Tony took over and played a selection of newly submitted songs, some highlights of yesterday - Souled, Middlewood Session, Danny Burns - plus some fresh material. Wobbling jungle dub from www.myspace.com/subsbrighton, in his remix of Willie Williams' 'Riddim Armagideon', more hefty and excellent low end delights came in www.myspace.com/kalbata, Kalbata's 'Solution' featuring Clapper Priest, humming basslines, heavy tune! Then came an immense afrobeat song, which I have no info on, G & T?  Maybe my best CDR tune of the weekend! Followed by a big band orchestration of Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name of', sounded good but again not sure who it is.  www.myspace.com/aaronjerome, Aaron Jerome's 'Late Night Mission' sounded terrific with www.myspace.com/yungunmusic, Yungun's storytelling impressing these in attendance. I was wowed yet again by the final song, which I don't have the info for, but it was excellent, disco for this Millennium!

And again......

Over to you Couz Beatnick!

Beatnick (www.myspace.com/mrbeatnick) wrote on the burntprogress' community page (www.burntprogress.com/community)


Afternoon boys and girls, hope today finds you feeling bright, positive and creatively motivated after yet another smashing session at CDR.. I'm feeling NM++ (in ebay record buying terms) when I should be a VG- from the lack of sleep.. That's what oceans of sound do to ya!

Excellent session I thought. Turn out was looking up a bit on last month (the ultra-heads session) - this time I noted a really nice mix of faces in the zone - many familiar to me from previous sessions, and increasingly some new regulars! Unfortunately I was a bit late arriving yesterday (due to other commitments)..

Pacing it through the door just as Tony began, I missed Gav's excellent warm up set, gutted about that.. Uncle G's sets are one of the highlights for me. and I left a bit early too! so if you're unrepped here, hopefully my colleague Mr Verghese caught your tune if it was towards the end. Massive respect Ben by the way!

A couple of observations / remarks before we proceed with the digest - firstly we had some feedback on the feedback itself this week, thank you Darko for the opinions! Much appreciated. It would seem that some feel there is an inherent bias towards repeat visitors in these write ups, and I apologise if some feel I'm repping the "regs" to the death and not writing up our "newbies" enough - a very good point I thought. So to compensate, this week, all the "newer" names at the top, and "oldschoolers" at the bottom. Alright? Feedback and dialogue is what this project is all about!

Secondly, wonderful to see our family now includes increasing numbers of women - you might thing this an obtuse / unpc comment to make, but believe me I think it's important to have a CDR community that reflects all sorts of voices, regardless of background, age, race etc.. A free community where all genres and forms of human musical expression are encouraged!

It would be lazy journalism on my part to ignore not to document how "balanced" the sets and the space feels now in terms of the artistic voices I hear through the speakers - increasing numbers of female beat makers, songwriters and artists are stepping up and doing their thing - massive respect, and keep on it! I think the burnt progress movement has been through more or less "blokey" phases, mostly because production geekery has historically been a male dominated area, whether you like it or not.. Suffice to say it's 2007 now and all you need to write songs in this era are hands, ears and something to say.. and the confidence to say it in public. Welcome to CDR!!

Finally - so many shouts for Dayo, questions about him - Dayo will be back soon I hope, he is currently very occupied. You can catch him djing upstairs next weekend (the 19th) at the big chill house w/Jim Lister and the Unabombers if you're in need of a dayo hug or want to keep his vast archive of your music up to date.. the man is missed.. massive love!!!!!! these words dedicated to his influence as ever. peace uncle D.

Finally - don't hide in the shadows, show yourself. Link up with us through the Burntprogress myspace or our personal pages and tell us who you are. Play us your music. We are interested in you. We mean that.

here's a review focussing on fresh faces first..

Ahmed Siraur - Track 1

Keys and beats with a strong Dilla influence, excellently executed. Ahmed, you earnt serious applause and props with this track. One of the standouts in the "hip hop" idiom of the evening. Magnificent. I presume Ahmed played the chords you hear throughout the track, which displayed a great understanding of clusters, a very jazz type of chordal sound.. BIG TUNE.

Financial Adviser - Breis

Breis - hmm. I think he's been before? Sorry, so many names at this point I get my wires crossed occasionally. Anyway, my kind of uk hip hop - brilliantly executed, perfect mix, lyrics that had me p***ing myself (all about loans and managers, you know how it go.. banks are LONG aren't they). Excellent work Breis, a very strong identity and one i'd sign if I was looking for a fresh alternative to aggro-rappers and a&ring a major label. well done!

Mahon - Human

Mahon's been coming down for a while now, so okay, not really "new". But OHMYWORD this was beautiful. Almost tearjerkingly so. I'm an emotional old sod and it doesn't take much to get the waterworks going, but serve me up a deep slice of dub techno soul with a UK edge like this, that makes the Detroit Escalator Company seem almost weaksauce in comparison.. and.. I might just end up writing a review about it the next day with that tear sort of working it's way back into the eye, just thinking about it. Serious track, so good that it needs to be on underground radio SOON. Well done Mahon, shining music. Even Ade from plastics sat and listened to this one, I noticed.

Polar Pair vs Shawn Lee

Lovely. Reminiscient of The Roots when they were experimenting with rock with "the seed", sort of, and Lewis Taylor, sort of, but like neither of those really, deep down. Let's call it "distinctive, guitar driven music with soul, with a strong broken beat influence" and wallow in the quagmire of journalistic cliches forever. Seriously though, watch for these guys, it really stood out.

Hi Life - Afua

Beautiful UK soul / dub feel on this from another relative newcomer. Really, really appreciate Afua's output, always crisp warm and clean. Great!

Oli Widdaker & Dayna

PROPER drum and bass.. excellent use of filtering on the background sounds, drums you couldn't test. This got the more drunken amongst us mashing on the floor in the late stages of the night. Impact driven, emotional jungle music.

Pauletta

Wow! Untitled track, another newcomer.. Dancefloor, sound system influences, wicked vocal. Another 5 star selection. Well done Pauletta.

Simona 23 feat Low Deep

Frantic, uptempo glitch/tronica with breakbeats and a male spoken french vocal that had been "genetically modified" for want of a better term. Unique and different. Simona 23 - keep coming down, this was superb.

Cardiac - Week Impression

Dubstep! And serious dubstep at that. Cardiac have been reaching for a few sessions now, think burial with that kind of "hospital ward" darkness in the feeling, bleeps and chirps conjuring images of machines keeping the heart from stopping..as deep bass smacked us square in the gut. Cardiac you have bare skills in the bottom octave

Regulars:

Donze De Dogon - Oliver Keen

Wonderful african tinged vibes from Oli Keen of Soundspecies fame. I love the work he's been doing with african musicians, very organic, percussive and earthy in feel. Well done Oli, magical stuff.

Sunshine Lazy - Zero Db (Wach remix)

All that time Tony spends playing our tracks, and we bearly get to hear his! Seriously though, you KNOW teach got skills and this was SO excellent, I will be running to the store to cop it when it drops. All the hallmarks of the wach style (staccato drums, deep techno feel), but it felt VERY now. I'll be ensuring this gets into the hands of the most upfront djs around, because some people will always stand out from the rest, regardless of the era. Tony W, well done!

Amazed - Lyric L (produced by Drew)

Lyric L - oh my gosh you have done it again! Drew (producer infamous for Ty's back catalogue for heads that don't know) laid down the track on this one, lacing it with vibes and rhodes and a vintage ATCQ feel, whilst miss hubbla hubbla spits what a Dave Chappelle pastiche would call "HOT FIRE". But it was, honestly. Massive applause for this one, Lyric L is definitely still in the game doing her thing. I doff my hat.

Daisuke Tanabe - Nerada

Daisuke Tanabe is a true artist, no one can deny it. Check this track on his myspace and see for yourself. WOW. Crazy use of the d'n'b idiom up in here. Daisuke, domu arrigato my man!

Masoul feat Sarah Winton - Resolution

Another lovely deep broken tinged work from MaSoul, with a strong vocal, which also earned much respect from the floor. MaSoul always got beats for the feet and soul for the heart.. stay up!

Love No Won - Two - Aaron Jerome's Dilemma

GOODNESS! Aaron's finest tune to date, should my sad hip hop obsessed ears not be deceiving me. The drum breaks in this got all the real (and pseudo-real and definitely un-real) bboys nodding their heads and clicking their fingers.. What a kick drum. Mr Jerome, thee should not fear the hip hop idiom. Massive respect, I need this track.

The Click - Fania Allstars

Second sureshot from the IFMusic family - this time Jean Claude reworking Fania for the new Paul Martin-coordinated comp. LARGE track, it really is that simple, Jean Claude's music is as strong and unavoidable as his larger-than-life personality. Dude, I love this, much respect. Forthcoming on a new 12" with AJ's "I got it like that" on the flip, undoubtably going to be a large, large release.

Track 10 - Jnr SAS

JNRSAS - Dayo's "favourite" beat making troopers - can they do any wrong? Nope. What a track. There's nothing jnr about this beat programming and attention to detail. Music for large speakers. peace family.

Soundspecies - Dusty Funk

WHACKED. In the face. By dusty funk. As the opening bars of Dusty Funk entered the air, everyone jumped to their feet and began dancing. Chopped up disco breaks with amazing keys and stuttery edits. Could be a summer smash, I reckon.

Aether - Tropic

The soul of Derrick May transposed into an unlikely vessel (hahahaha!), if there's one man I can count on at CDR to deliver pure techno vibes every time, it's Aether. Tropic of capricorn, or cancer? Who cares, these lead lines could weave their way around the globe. Package your demos and send them to labels Aether, Poker Flat could do with a piece of ya. big love.

Wonderful Trouble - Ben Hadwen & Bruno Bridge

Ben Hadwen is trouble, believe me. Gin and tonics, noisy trumpets and saxes.. Nope I'm not talking CDR, I'm talking about life in our shared house! hahahahah bennyyyy. This one was coming through the floor for the last few weeks and driving me a bit nuts, but when I finally heard the finished mix.. WOW! AMAZING. All hands clapped at the end. Soulful horns weaving their way around CR8000 beats galore. 5 star production, ace.

Energy & The Pimps - Broken Egg

Energy and the pimps sonned me last time with their WONKY and DIFFERENT track Groovin'. Then they sonned me again by changing their name to wonky and different on myspace, which made me laugh and laugh. Suffice to say, their new track is NASTY and BROKEN. Crap jokes aside, this new one was no laughing matter. Attention to detail and a total disregard for trying to sound like anyone else, aka, originality. DOPE!

Joel Harrison - Parallels

Joel Harrison is killing it at CDR these days, as ever. One of our countries most slept on tech/bruk producers. Parallels demonstrates the extra degree of genius that only experience can provide - wonderfully engineered, soulful, broken in nature.. Should be a big track with the leftist house mob and the brukateers. Respect Mr Harrison, love it.

Flowriders - Roll On - Kay Suzuki Dub

Deep, broken beat dub from CoOp's great new hope - well done Kay Suzuki! Keep an eye on Goyamusic, he's starting to drop some CDR classics in the vinyl format.. big respect Kay!

Going On - Duchess & Phil

Duchess may love boxing, but she's all about the sport of it, not the violence (hahahah! easy sis!).. This one hits hard like a tyson jab to the gut. What harmonies.. What soulfulness.. What talent. What a lady! One of our longest running MVPs.. Shame Phil wasn't there. Air Ratting is one of the tunes of the year for me, this is similarly brilliant. Much love to the both of you.

Beautiful People - Nocturnal Sunshine feat MC Angel

Nocturnal switched into the hip hop idiom this time with her grimey S-O-V-alike mate MC Angel spitting some rhymes over the top to lace it with the added flavour. All the hallmarks of the NocSun vibe were there, but at a slower tempo - whilst angelic choral touches floated over the top, as if captured by recording mermaids.. That's what I heard anyway, sorry I'm hazy around 1 am at CDR. Amazing. All were touched, all applauded, well done both of you.

Darko - (complex title I didn't manage to note)

Turkish influence samples, building over a deep, dubby circling groove. Very, very 1 am selection. Menancing and meditative.

I would like to say - thank you to all for your inspiring sounds.. Thank you to Tony and Gavin for providing us with their time, their space and their support - you're all heavy. Thank you to our wonderful screen-typists and thank you to Ben Verghese for the additional support in the writing dimension.

See you next month, if not before.. and send me some songs, I'm always keen to hear em, and I always have enough time on my hands to enjoy them!

peace

beatnick

www.myspace.com/mrbeatnick

Can't say I feel anything but cheery today after another outstanding evening of music, chat, conversation and shared enjoyment with my favourite new producers worldwide, down at CDR Burnt Progress last night.

It's tricky reviewing these evenings you know - unlike most other club nights, there is never the same crowd, or the same feel, or the same music each and every time. Only a few basic rules - total freedom of expression - which tends to lead to only one question - what have YOU got to say? As usual there were all kinds of musical opinions, genres and dialogues on display, on exhibition, ready for sharing, discussion and building on, and it's hard to explain exactly why I was so blown away by the music last night, but I think if you've been riding this train for a while, and followed the personal evolution of the artists, you'd feel as overwhelmed as I do by the good, the love and the support network this project is bringing to us all.

To restate one point though, and one put about by mr Ras G on myspace (look for him - sick beatmaker!) - music is a mission, not a competition. And if thats true, well all of our astronauts are definitely heading to mars in the not too distant future, I can see it clearly. Somebody needs to holla at NASA!

Attendance this session - ratio of "heads" to "innocent bystanders" (hahahaha!) was high.. meaning most people that were in the room were accompanied by a cd this time, giving once again, a different feel to the more "ravin" sessions. Deeper? or more intense? or more focussed? or more intimate? one of the above, maybe all of em.

The evening began with another splendid selection from Uncle Gavin - Gavin always kills me with the mix up fix up of big CD-R tunes from previous weeks (I think many of you actually miss some killer recap spins - come early! you might hear something familiar )

a few that did it from the warm up

richard brown - vision on - a sublime and elegant track, there is nothing but pure crissness (to adapt a dayoism) in rich and bruno's work

mark pritchard and steve spacek - killer track, large benji b favourite, sound system pressssssure! love this

daisuke tanabe - the original leftfield cdr superstar - every little thing he does is magic. respect! I can't remember the title, apologies daisuke sir

duchess and phil - air ratting - LARGE!!! UK SOUL MUSIC!!!!!! VOCALIST!!!! BIG BIG TUNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! serious. it's got legs, fam.

then Tony proceeded to give a welcoming intro speech - a few points to highlight here

-tony hosts the red bull music academy session at the roundhouse next friday 20th, with danny breaks, kieran hebdo (fourtet), zinc and seiji. free. turn up and make beats with some of the most talented heads in the industry! for free! don't be scared! they won't bite! quite the opposite

-CDR is running a competition to provide some lucky winners with studio time, courtesy of the carbon logic crew. a great chance for some of ya to polish off a gem or two. have a crack! free studio time, in london? killer

-freeness. tony talked about freedom.. he said "free, free, free, free". isn't freeness good? in every respect. i agree!

and now for the music.. well from the word go, it was like being smacked in the head by soulful sounds from passionate, dedicated, original folks. ridiculous, honestly, i shook my head in awe at times, i'm being honest.

antichronological due to bad note taking:

d.ablo - start again

killer soul from the terrafirma master. it's all about the lemonade! d does an acoustic live show tuesday, holler him on myspace for details (search for that name)

5acydemusic feat Jovi Rockwell

illest female ragga vocalist I've heard in a while. sick production. respect imran.

duchess and phil - air ratting - bruno remix

bruno KILLED it with this track, which earnt much noise and respect. A lovely remix of the big cdr fave mentioned above, featuring our talented ben hadwen here and there. unmissable, undissable

this old house - aether

i am a fan of aether's work - this one was a house dub with a "traditional" underpinning, but the usual depth associated with the mans work. nice to see a few peeps shake to this in the corner. respect as usual!

brendon - one ounce

Brendon's work truly is a joyful noise unto the creator. For this one, he adopts the swing, bounce and feel of dillaology, but applies pure brendon funk to it. Result - something wonky, boogiefied that wouldn't sound out of place on specialist beats shows like BTS radio. I absolutely need a copy of this, it put a massive smile on my face

time to believe - bergs

wow. startling. Another cat who never fails to deliver. Beautifully produced and engineered I:Cube esque "tech house" (hate that term..) dub.. but there's something really unique in there for me, you ALWAYS know it's bergs. kick drum biz. give this to theo parrish, i can hear him playing it! big applause for this too, respect sir

grooving - energy and the pimps

Unique! 45 rpm speed up sample flip of Letta Mbulu's peerless jazz dance classic "what is wrong with groovin", on some pal joey steez - i wish Dayo had been there to hear this! Wonky! Unexpected! different! Energy and the pimps need to keep bringing this vibe to the table, they/he/she have always come LEFT in the area. peace

bark! - jason sparks

BARKING mad.. so different! Soundscape with beats, i have no words to describe this, sorry! Some things are just so out there at burntprogress.. I really enjoyed it.

oriol - untitled

Give the guy a deal.. I still don't have any beattapes and I need them sir. Wonderful, wonderful music as usual. You know we love this!

Surgical Inspectah

the mighty Niita comes through with a strong slice of hip hop!!! Killer rapping from a school friend too!! this was so dark and heavy, I was not expecting it! Niita - well done!

see you around - mahon

Sublime.. UK soul music, JDaveyesque. Second tune of the evening (in chronological order) after Bruno's, and the passage of one into the other was a CDR soul feeling... Wonderful vibes as this was playing, big response too!

Rockit Science - Rockit The Boat

D.Ablo and Guynamite's Rockit Science project comes through with a naughty rerub of Aaliyah's rock the boat. Smooth but yet raw, we all drifted away to this. I've always loved Rock The Boat, fantastic track.

nocturnal sunshine - Travelling Through Your Mind

Maya Coles is on the next level, you know that. Perfect engineering, killer productions and slamming sounds. As usual, a strong 4 to the 4 feeling with contrasting moods and plenty of darkness... excellent listening.

mr hudson - ask the dj - moody boys remix

Well well well what have we here, it's my trubadour amigo getting a rerub from some GRIMEY dubstep cats. I really really enjoyed this, purely for the fact that these kinda crossovers are surreal - for fans of the Jamie Woon - Burial remix. Sounds like a large one for the pirates to me. Bass pressure. props to the moody boys.

K15

Didn't catch the track title, but this was a STRONG slice of UK hip hop. It's kinda hard to pull off the whole producer rapper thing (I can name examples to and for - Diamond D is still the original producer/rapper to me ) - but K15 does it - the beats are tough and the rhymes are honest and straight up. I feel you! great to chat, lets link. peace

dubside - random man

think Dayo would know what's up with this feeling, he checks for these guys - another big slice of housesque deep dancefloor dub sounds. Moved the floor. nice!

wah syndicate vs asher d vs omar vs phil c

Now THAT is one hell of a crazy line up - and the results of it were intense! this had more clothes changes than a seaside panto, vocals galore, of all kinds, it was a journey through sounds and genres. I'd love to hear this again, because there was no way I could take it all in in one sitting! Large crowd response too, shout to all mans involved.

Jnr SAS feat Kyza - Ravin

KYZA! Terrafirma innit (or isn't it anymore! ask d.ablo..).. Anyway, one of my favourite emcees over the crew that bring the beats each time.. We love em.. JNR SAS take bow!! Uptempo dancefloor lick with Kyza spitting about getting dressed up, suited and booted and getting messy with the dames BIG!!!! thanks for the card and make sure you hit me with the cd sir.. one!

afrofantastic - clever bunny

I don't know much about clever bunny... but I do know this one got love! afro-latin, latin-afro as the old song goes.. sunshine vibes, much needed!

walk away - imran

and to round it off for this month.. pure, hardcore, unadulterated HEAVY METAL!!!!! Great to see the bboys nodding to some rock biz for a change.. how about some hardcore, you know we like it RAW!!! shout to everyone who gave it some handheld devil horns and cheers at the end.. it's not all about MPC this and Moog that you know

Ahmadinnerjazz - I see you darling..

Triangle Posse, Feel Music - yeah yeah..

big love to all musicians involved.. Tony and Gavin, full respect

we dedicate this to dayo adewuyi, who was much missed last night.. back soon, no doubt.. everyone was asking after you as usual sir! legend.

I would like to request - if you are a musician listed here, please post your myspace or contact details on this thread (or on the subsequent myspace blog of this if there is one! ) - that way some other people can check out your work and see where the audio is at!

one and see you next time

mr beatnick

www.myspace.com/mrbeatnick

News and Things


You Knew what you needed to do!

With this month's Plastic People's Funktion One speaker dust now settled, a catch up with you was now in order.

Thanks to all of you who came to the CDR:Session this month, Good to hear your productions evolving, especially those collaborations, more please don't you think?

Heads up to our growing 'Yousendit' Crew too! we are developing more provision for you so keep those beats coming!

Mr Beatnick documented the session (Thanks B!). Read his perspective on our MySpace or Community Page (www.burntprogress.com/community)

Feel free to let us and other CDR heads know what your thoughts are too; Why don't ya!

burntprogress presents 'Completion Process #1 ' - An opportunity to develop work in progress

Throughout the year we will be partnering up with like-minded industry heads to help you further your creativity.

First off, we've teamed up with Carbon Logic (www.carbonlogic.co.uk) to create a chance to finish one of your tracks for free at Snorkel Studios (mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/snorkelstudios), London.

Carbon Logic is a free online service run by Pete and Giles, fellow CDR heads.

Like us, It focusses on the development and promotion of new independent music. Every 3 months a competition is held where a chosen track wins a two day all expenses paid day recording session. The next one includes your very own Tony and Gavin on the panel.

It's Simple:

- Register yourself on the site to upload the track you want to take to the next level at www.carbonlogic.co.uk
- We will listen to all uploaded tracks and decide which project receives the recording time.

Your track must embody the words '(CDR Version)' in the track title eg. trackname (CDR Version).mp3

You need to know:

For non-London/non-UK residents, accomodation will be provided for up to four people for one night.
the deadline for uploading your track is 31st March 2007.

For Further information check out the Competition page (www.carbonlogic.co.uk/competition).


That's it for now, Next CDR:Session, April 12th

Regards 'n Progress



burntprogress

I definitely woke up this morning with a smile in my face and a spring in my step, despite having got a fair few hours less sleep last night than usual. The smell of spring in the air, a touch of sunshine, some new beats from my contemporaries on the beatnik pod, and a satisfied grin, because last night, I feel like the community took a larger step forward than usual down at CDR.

It's hard to describe exactly where that sensation of progress comes from. To some, progress is getting your name out there, hustling your work in the open market, gaining radio support and label support, and all the wheels that keep our musical subculture turning and "tuning up" to quote Andy Bey. But for others, and I suspect, many of our growing body of CDR producers, composers and musicians, progress is all about the artistic process itself. In this open digital music market, where we're constantly bombarded with the latest dubstepjazztronic podcasts, find music flying at us from our phones, ipods, car radios, adverts, myspace and all the different carriers you can imagine, it can be hard for an individual to refine their own identity in the midst of oceans of sound. CDR constantly proves to be providing an oasis of calm in the eye of the storm though, and the fruits of this oasis are approaching, it seems to me, a point where they are capable of being shared with the world.

Enough rhetoric.. I just felt the need to summarise where we stand and where we're going.. As the room began to fill with smiling, cheery faces from 9:30 onwards, a fairly early start given the long evening we were headed for, I felt as though the new layout of the room, and the reputation of the event has started to attract more and more differing cycles of regular, irregular, diehard attendees and one-off interested visitors. There were definitely some fresh faces in the house last night. Some of our nearest and dearest were definitely conspicious in their absence though. I'd like to particularly single out mr Dayo Adewuyi in this respect, a gentleman whose persistant support of the CDR movement, has definitely contributed to building the family, and who was missed last night like the uncle you always try to find excuses to go and visit! God bless you Dayo, all our thoughts are with you.

In lieu of Dayo, I decided to get there early doors to check another of Gavin's excellent warm up sets. Gavin set the tone for the evening brilliantly, spinning tune after tune from the rchives, all strong.

D.ablo - Find A Way

Ski Oakenfull - Dobie Remix

Jnr SAS - This is your life

All of these were played during the intro, all CDR classics, all music that I would gladly pay money to own. D.ablo repping Terrafirma fam, Jnr SAS doing it UK hip hop style but without the tick-tack drums and played out rhymes, and Dobie's spinetingling remix of Ski Oakenfull. Take bow Dobie, I think your work is still criminally underrated by the heads and forces at large. Sick producer, simple.

Gavin also pulled out an Oriol track that was so lethal and fuming you could use it to strip asbestos... believe! A few heads around me went nuts and demanded to know what it was.. Gavin said it was an OLD tune. Oriol, much respect and happy bday sir.

Enter Tony Nwachuku, always larger than life, always ready to go with the warm greetings to newcomers and the enthusiasm, even when he's clearly been working himself silly - a soldier! Respect. Tony began with a lovely chat about CDR, and then invited us to sing happy birthday to an absent Oriol, down the telephone - that must have been a surreal call to receive. Wicked! And then it was on to the tunes.. And WHAT a selection.

As I said, and please trust me on this, I really am trying to maintain some critical distance here - but certain heads are refining their styles. Progress. If you're reading this to get feedback, know that the more you can strive to do you, the more you are sowing seeds that will bloom in the future. And so many of you are on the right path right now! Respect.

Here's some of the ones that particularly transported me somewhere else last night..

Daisuke Tanabe - Rain

The only way to kick off a session.. Wow. Daisuke is an artist, he deserves that word. Rain was a world filled with soft bursts of white noise and beautifully designed textures. Sound system sonics. Domu arrigato sir.

Kay Suzuki - Feeding you alternative love

Hope I got the title right. So sublime. Kay is improving day by day. Watch for material on Goya, one of the freshest new talents in the so called "broken" scene. Great work Kay!

Bergs - Untitled

Oh my word. File under PROGRESS! Bergs shifted up a gear last night.. Influnences from Metro Area and ICube to my ear, but subtle enough and gradual enough and impact driven enough to get the whole room moving. Peerless. Bergs, that song's got legs. Seriously.

Richard Brown - Vision On

This whole review is just going to be full of superlatives, I can tell. Richard Brown and Bruno's Vision On was one of a handful of songs I would say were "tearjerkingly good". I would file it under EMOTION.. Emotive techno as Dayo would say. Peerless, sublime, production of a release standard. hint hint, because I need this on wax. Well done guys.

Air Ratting - Duchess and Phil

I have a major weakness for Duchess's work, we've collabed in the past (Insert Coin) and I'm looking forward to doing some more work with this spirited and talented VOCALIST!!!! Sorry we can't do a cdr standout without that Adewuyism coming in here.. Air Ratting killed it. UK soul of a strong standard, fantastic changes, great harmonies, another one that crossed the line into release quality standard. Keep on it you guys.. Duchy P - go gyal!!! Air Ratting is a hilarious title, loved your explanation.


D.ablo, Morgan (Spacek), Eska - Welcome

Welcome to you guys.. Gosh! Has Morgan ever made a crap beat? Not any that I've ever heard, excuse me but you all know it's true. Bad ass drums. This man loves to work sounds slowly and cleverly.. He turned D.Ablo into Eric Robertson for this one, whilst Eska's backing vocals took the shrug step beat to the next plateau. Well done all three of you. Pro shit.


Richard Spaven, Robert Mitchell, Bembe Segue

More pros, showing us how you do this. Operatic broken beat meets jazz excursion from a drummer that has killed it with everyone from PPP to Ty to.. Planet Rescue? hahahaha.. and a keyboard player and singer that many of you should be familiar with. Excellent, excellent music.

Guynamite - Free, Bad Boy

Two licks from Guy and co.. Both the strong, dancefloor beats with featured vocalists (Joe Joseph in the house). Excellent work as usual! The crowd moved, reacted and made noise to both.

Moxo Tengu - T Minus One and Counting

PROGRESS!!! A welcome return for my favourite space boogie alien, making something so weird that it's normal, so wrong that's its right. Ben Hadwen on various instruments adding a little touch here and there.. Sick. Welcome back Moxo!

joel Harrison

Didn't take details for this sadly, but an ace dancefloor track in typical Joel Harrison style.

Aether - Untitled

PROGRESS!!!! Oh my word. Aether and Bergs playing up the ante with themselves and each other. Deep, churning, soulful, electronic, techy.. Big up yourself sir. Fantastic.

Abstract Roots - untitled

Interesting work from a relative newcomer, and very hard to describe. Somewhere between live organics and techno influences.. But very promising. I'll be checking for abstract roots in future

Simbad & Robert Owens

OHDEAR!!!!!! Massive, massive tune from Simbad with the voice of Chicago house classic history.. Not a bad word can be said about this. Large in every aspect!

Drea Parks - Alright

PROGRESS!!! Drea's been off the scene for a while, but CDR's answer to June Tyson meets Georgia Anne Muldrow uptown proves yet again that no one does those offbeat oddball soul tracks quite like her. A unique talent.


Nocturnal Sunshine - Analog Breakdown (?)

Larging up Maya Coles.. I couldn't stay late enough to catch her latest opus in all it's glory, suffice to Maya can't put a foot wrong at the moment. Stunning work from a producer skilled beyond her years

more to come, there's just too many this week - heavens above!!!!!!!! pages of notes here..
Beatnik


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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:45 pm
Nykia and Bruno - Fly Away

Bruno, the secret weapon, or one of them, in the Richard Brown connection, tears the room apart with this soulful carnival-esque broken beat rinse, featuring the vocals of Nykia.. Second play we've heard for this (last one was at Big Chill House) - and it gets better each time

Oblique - untitled

Oh my word. For me this had the best, deepest bottom end of the night. A rumbler. Jerry of Foundation Music fame is the man behind this and the other killer tunes under this moniker we've heard. If you like your techy-house music with a bit of o'bleak, then this is for you. By the looks of my living room this morning, you can buy Oblique in stores now! I recommend you do so! Killer.

Mahon - The Moment

CDR debut? I reckon so. Excellent take on traditional songwriting meets electronica from a talented female singer/producer. I assume.. Welcome to CDR!!

Sutha - untitled (psycho!)

Wow! Very, very distinctive music. Electro / rock / tech with a punky female vocal and hilarious chatted intro.. "I'm a psycho". D.ablo was trying to freak me out to the scary parts of this one.. PSYCHO! PSYCHO! Huge applause, I was pleased to meet and congratulate Sutha on her successful debut of this track (first of the night as well.)

Soundspecies - ?

Wow! Crazy PROGRESS!!! from Soundspecies. This was a techno sandwich with dilla-esque stuttery beats as the peanut butter centre. I had to shake my Beatbutt to this one.. What a kick pattern. It's all about the offcentre triplets. Massive love to Henrique Jetson..

Analog Jones feat. Selina

Sorry Jones, I didn't manage to note the title legibly at that time in the morning. Killer vocal dancefloor steez from a man who constantly brings quality. File this under PROGRESS!!! too, very polished and accomplished. CD-R please ?


Paul White - Silent Witness

A joyful noise unto the creator, Paul White's Silent Witness literally could move me to tears. I've run out of superlatives to describe the finest beatmaker I've heard for years. What a command of hip hop he has.. And what an ability to twist the sources. This choral piece is actually based on something religious, possibly why I felt like I was worshipping at an altar of beat technology, listening to it that loud. I will listen to this for years to come. Please go to www.shhhhh.co.uk and check out "features" for a free mix of Paul's stuff, created by my friend Ahu. It will cheer you up on a rainy day.

Fantastic, wonderful session. Love to all family, past present and future. Special shouts to Kewba the Great, Morgan Spacek, Beccy G from Worldwide, all in attendance.

Tony and Gavin, you are large.

till next time

p.e.a.c.e. and beats

nicholas AKA The Beatnick

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