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"Max Brennan is very well known and much loved in Britain as well as elsewhere. He records for Holistic as Fretless AZM and for Peacefrog as Maxwell House. He is a tireless live performer and can be heard jamming away from Brighton to Aberdeen drumming up highly enthusiastic reviews wherever he goes. He is a really unique talent and is gradually pulling in admirers from all areas of the music community. Now he comes rocking back onto the Sublime Records roster with yet another believable serving of undiluted funky Funk! He's been out on his home island, The Isle of Wight, watching the skies and it would appear that he's made contact! This album is dedicated to our continuing love affair with those little green/gray men in saucers and each slice of fat grooves comes liberally sprinkled with references, hence the title. But to say that this is an album about aliens is to ignore the real power of Max's musical excellence and this record oozes the kind of funk that you'd associate with artists such as Herbie Hancock or Roy Ayres. There are only nine tracks on this collection but they stretch over a massive 75 minutes and will draw the listener into an utterly unique world; the not-so-private world according to Max Brennan. This is a place where the laidback grooves of classic funk meet the new ideas of the 21st century. There are fat basslines that one feels already familiar with although Max Brennan plays everything live and originally; no samples get used in the musical department! But this is not a retro effect, it really is some new kind of alien funk, other-worldly but without a shadow of a doubt from this planet!"
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"Born in Cleveland, OH, Warren Harris aka Hanna, was surrounded by music from an early age. His mother sang with the world famous Cleveland Orchestra thus Hanna's early years were spent in an environment that was completely imbued with music. In his early teen years he learned a huge array of instruments and became involved with many projects ranging from classical music to thrash metal. He works with Hip Hop artists and jazz musicians but this album is a result of a long-standing friendship and collaboration with fellow Clevelander, Dan Curtin who signed an earlier album and released it through Dan`s Metamorphic. Severance is brimming with The Funk, whether it`s old-school Hip Hop style or laid-back P-Funk. There`s plenty of soul, melodies catch the emotions and draw you into the moods of this complex and deep excursion into instrumental grooves."
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Features the original mix, Co-Fusion remix, Claude Young remix and Funk D'Void remix.
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"Co-Fusion release their debut album on Sublime records after 2 splendid solo EPs and a joint release with Ken Ishii (aka Flare). DJ Wada who makes up one half of Co-Fusion is a very well established feature of Japan`s nightclub scene, being one of the first exponents of the 'mix' (most DJs in Japan had previously opted for chatting between records!). The technique of their work is embodied here as a cut-up, like a fast-working DJ moving from track to track on the decks. Each title seems cut and spliced then thrown into a monster filter to emerge bristling with energy. There are more reflective moments too but overall this album is driven by percussion; breaks that are looped, filtered and sliced up mercilessly."
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"It's been a year since we saw anything of Dan Curtin and finally here is the new material. This EP lays the foundation for his forthcoming album; it's tougher and in some places a lot more accessible and less abstract than usual, although the album will contain some gems of obscurity. This EP opens with a track that is melodic but absolutely no-nonsense dancefloor 4x4 stuff, there's the disco wonderland of 'With Me Tonight', cheeky use of that familiar Earth, Wind & Fire vocal that launches into a ruff barrage of jacking Chicago style techno. Swooping chords herald 'Sword Of Orion', a classic Curtin tune, and then his 'Latin Odyssey' mix of 1996's excellent 'I'll Take You There' that breaks off as if it's two tracks into a fiesta frenzy that shows just how classy Curtin is. Orlando Voorn bends Dan's 'Page Me' track to the breakbeat vibe and Dave Angel takes him out to the edge of deep sublime techno-scapes."
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Subtitled: Detroit Meets Hip Hop. "This album is one that's aimed more at the listening market. It will appeal to lovers of Detroit techno because the roster of artists is absolutely second to none, and will also be loved by those who like to play, and merely listen to, the more laidback sounds that this album contains. The label has chosen this avenue because they believe that the record buying public want to hear more than minimal obscure techno that many of these and other artists represent. It is a fascinating insight into the roots of what has become the famous Techno Sound of Detroit." Featuring K-Hand, Lark Daddy (Kenny Larkin), Eddie Flashin Fowlkes, Will Web, Hood Scientific (Robert Hood), De-Yang Crew (Claude Young), Tomas Barnett, Graffiti (Stacy Pullen), Anthony "Shake" Shakir & Sean Deason.
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Fantastic 3rd anniversary compilation of Sublime-associated artists. Packed in oversize box with a large piece of foam keeping the 2 discs apart. The 2nd CD is a 3" CD-ROM which includes a live Flare/Dr. Y.S. video clip and interactive Sublime catalog. The main CD features all new and exclusive tracks by Co-Fusion ("complex drum and bass, hinting at a jazz-trance fusion at times"), Dan Curtin, Max Brennan (aka Fretless AZM), Da True B-Boy Descendant (new unit from 4-Hero's Dego), Rei Harakami (lush & elegant atmospherics), Prism, Why Sheep? (bizarre & out programming), Okihide, SK8, Dr. Y.S. and the Cosmic Drunkards (cyber-fringe drum 'n' bass from Yoshiro Sawasaki) & Flare (stunning new Ishii track).
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Brilliant album of Juan Aktins-influenced techno from the Midwest. While this album can also be found as an UK Sublime pressing, this Japanese edition adds two bonus tracks (remixes by Ken Ishii and K. Hand) and has different and superior cover art. "Ohio's genius Dan Curtin's full album. Romantic and mellow techno jazz."
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