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Jah Wobble + Ollie Marland – Running Away (320k)

Jah Wobble’s best known for his bass playing skills and being a member of PiL. What he’s doing nowdays is this for example. Ollie Marland has been playing the world’s biggest stages on several tours as keyboarder for Tina Turner and Cher. This r&b cut features the vocals of Lorna Rowe.

Pulse 2 – Hard Nut To Crack (320k)
Pulse 2 – Dance-85 (320k)

These electrically funking tracks come from ex-Soviet Union. Text below is from back cover of the record.

This disc is issued in a series jointly prepared by the “Melodia” firm and the USSR Sports Committee and may be recommended to accompany sports coaching sessions, competitions and other active recreations.

PULSE 2

Zigmar Liepinš
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC (“Sports & Music” Series).

So probably Zigmar Liepinš is the artist here and Pulse 2 is the title of the record. There’s also a record named Pulse 1 (+ also Aerobic exercises) – these are yet to be found from Rovaniemi… Check Discogs entry for Pulse 2.

Also have my top 6 tunes list for January 2010 (these are not in any particular order):

O Children – Dead Disco Dancer (The Golden Filter Remix) – youtube video
K.I.D. – Hupendi Muziki Wangu (You Don’t Like My Music?) – youtube video
Tesla Boy – Electric Lady – youtube video
Edwin Starr – Contact (Fromage is Looking at You Edit)
Pulse 2/Zigmar Liepinš – Hard Nut To Crack – check @ kynynasty
Kerim Khan – Seaside Rendezvous (Seaside-Dub) – check @ kynynasty

Older lists here.

Stickem – Let Skweeedom Ring! mix. Get it here: http://skweee.com/let-skweeedom-ring

Skweee combines simple synth leads and basslines with funk, r’n'b or soul-like rhythms, overall rendering a stripped-down funky sound. The name Skweee was coined by Daniel Savio, one of the originators of the emerging sound. The name refers to the use of vintage synthesizers in the production process, where the aim is to “squeeze out” the most interesting sounds possible.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skweee

Or slightly less prosaic:

Skweee, or “Scandinavian Conflict R ‘n’ B” to give it it’s full title, is a genre and a movement that’s emerged around the (respectively Swedish and Finnish) labels Flogsta Danshall and Harmonia. Surfacing mostly on 7” vinyl, the sound is a mismatch of boogaloo electro(nics) and modern, Timbaland/Neptunes-style glitch/bling, seemingly created on equipment available well before you’d ever heard of Timmy and Pharrell. Fuzzy-felt 8-bit synths and crunchy, bit-crushed drum hits dry-hump your ears like Rodney Jerkins trying to craft Beyonce a hit with only an N.E.S. and a minidisc to hand.

- http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/inside-skweee

This mix showcases many faces of skweee, from its more synth-pop oriented styles to electro-funkin’ licks.

TRACKLIST
Mrs. Qeada (SWE) Dreamatis Personea
Melkeveien (NO) Fantôme
Claws Costeau (FIN) Cold Smokin’ Tofu
Boss Kite (UK) CMYK
V.C. (FIN) 30:00
Ricky Lemon (DEN) Copenhagen
Bellybelle (USA) Supercell Strut
LaZERcrotch (USA) Neon Dude’s House Party
Spartan Lover (FIN) Zbieg
Wankers United (FRA) Superfönky
Hybakusha (ESP) Lebannon79
Kid Logic (USA) Polyester Shirt
Miramichi (CA) Leggo My Ego
Limonious (SWE) Degenerate
Beem (SWE) Automan
Easy and The Center of the Universe (NO) Yazid
Daniel Savio (SWE) People Die Love Don’t
Rigas (SWE) feat. Markis Sage (SWE/FIN) Love Over Gold
Stickem (USA) This Thing Is On – Beatbully (NO) remix
Mesak (FIN) Sly Filmfestival (Sotchi Montage)
Sprutbass (NO) Hot Water Dirty Pits
Randy Barracuda (FIN/NL) Overnight Romancin’
Mackaper (SWE) Tale of Tale of Tales – Joxaren (SWE) remix
Slow Hand Motëm (CA) feat. Pubs Panseno (USA) They Lied

Nice video.

Kerim Khan – Seaside Rendezvous (Seaside-Dub) (320k)

Binary Entertainment came up with this genre tag called “Dreamwave”. So this one here would probably end up in that category if made in year 2009? Check the Binary blog regularly for getting grips with this whole dreamwave thing. Here’s a quick introduction to clarify what this genre tag might mean:

Taking modern dance production techniques and forms, and applying them to classic, great songs. This isnt anything new, in our minds two of the bigger alternative records of the last year or so were dreamwave, Cut Copy and Empire of the Sun. Those guys are making great dreamwave music. It makes people feel young, pure and simple. And that’s what this music is all about. Often times people associate this music with the 80’s, or just being a fad in the endless cycle of past decades’ reemergence in pop culture…but that’s all just a side effect for what it’s really about. Dreamwave is about nostalgia. It’s about hearing something that makes you think of the last day of school, getting off the school bus and running through bright green lawns that’ll be your playground for the rest of summer. It just so happens that we’re all kids of the 80’s. We feel good hearing it. We feel at peace, one with innocence. We remember what it was like when emotions made us feel desperation, like everyday was the most important day of our lives. Before we’ve grown up and moved on to the real world, become jaded by the responsibilites and pressures of a more adult life in the 21st century, we lived in a time of bright skies and big dreams. Dreamwave is music that makes you remember what it was like to fall in love.

- Binary blog: The Dreamwave Hour 2

Also,

Dreamwave itself is kind of an amalgam of dreampop and new wave music. That’s where it started and it blossomed from there. Pitchfork uses the term and ABC News did a little feature during South by Southwest last year. We coined it and we’re trying to champion it.

- http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/synthful/binary-entertainment/

Was talking about how close Muddyloop is regarding to authentic 80s style electrofunk. Then I found TOPLESS and it didn’t cross my mind that Vamos a Bailar could be 00s. Very convincing / authentic freestyle + italo -combination. For more, head to the Topless myspace. You can follow them on twitter too. Got to have this!