Anywhere featuring Reggie Watts
MotionLab
Kajmere Sound Volume One, 2006
Kajmere Sound Recordings
I heard this song at Busquelo and DJ Scribe’s Soulnado party a few weeks ago and I had my first “what time does the record store open tomorrow?” moment in a while.
I don’t know when the next Soulnado is but definitely check it out. As the website will describe better than me, it’s a collaboration between DJs playing broken beat tracks and live instrumentation (flute, keys, sax, trumpet and percussion at the 3/19 edition). It raises a whole set of technical questions, like how do the musicians keep up with the random key changes as the DJs change records? (assuming that the DJs don’t spend the time to figure out what key all of their records are in) and to compound that problem, doesn’t changing the speed of records to make the beats match leave the pitch somewhere north of south of the pitches that the instruments are tuned to? Well, seeing it live makes you realize that to look at it technically is to miss the point. It’s the best of two worlds that rarely come together: complex rhythms and manipulated sounds from the studio (that can’t be replicated live) and live crowd-interactive improvisation not to mention my personal favorite, more than one person on stage (I’m a DJ, who am I complaining too?).
Look out for the syncopated bass kicks that mimic the vocal pattern near the end (3:13, 3:22).
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