LIVE FROM NYC- I first got introduced to Jaco Pastorius several years ago when a close friend wanted a couple of albums converted to MP3. He gave me 3 albums to transfer, but for some reason, this one album was just calling me – Jaco Pastorius self titled album on Epic Records released in 1976. I knew he played for Weather Report, but I never looked into his solo or guest appearance credits. I was in for a treat once I played the first track “Donna Lee” originally played by Charlie Parker.
"I am the greatest bass player in the world"Jaco Pastorius
Before recording with Weather Report he released this album, which had special guest such as Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Narada Michael Walden, David Sanborn, Wayne Shorter, just to name a few. The list features the best in jazz during a time where everyone’s outlet was music and everything was groundbreaking.
In 1977 Jaco joined jazz fusion band Weather Report and blew the world apart with the album “Heavy Weather” their most successful album ever! Jaco continued to record with Weather Report until 1982. During the times with Weather Report, Jaco would dabble in heavy drugs where friends noticed his erratic behavior when in the studio. Jaco was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. His health started to deteriorate and by 1986 he was living on the streets of New York City. With the help of his ex wife and friends he was back home in Fort Lauderdale Florida in 1987. He got into a fight with a bouncer at a club where he received multiple facial fractures and a broken arm. He fell into coma and the great bass legend passed away on September 21, 1987, aged 35.
Jaco played a fretless bass!!! Guitar frets are the strips made of stainless steel or nickel alloy embedded along the fretboard (in simple terms the neck) located at exact points that divide the scale length in accordance with a specific mathematical formula. A fretless bass??!! Do you know what that means? It means freedom, the freedom to create your own style. He had such a unique style of playing, a bit avant garde, but with structure. He’s one of those guys where it’s hard to describe and if you love music like I do, then no matter what background you will appreciate his style. The tones and intricate fast pace picks changed the bass world forever.
Jaco’s the father of all electric bass players!!
Here’s the link to his album “Jaco Pastorius” uploaded by yours truly:
LIVE FROM NYC- In 1960, Kingston Jamaica gave birth to one of the most influential dub fathers in Reggae music, Hopeton Brown AKA “The Scientist”. Being introduced to electronics from his father, Hopeton began building his own amplifiers and buying transformers from King Tubby’s Dromilly Road Studio. After numerous requests Hopeton begged King Tubby to give him a shot to mix down a record and so the story begins. By 1979 he left King Tubby Studio to be the principal engineer for Joseph Hoo Kim’s Channel One Studio where he met Volcano Records founder Henry “Junjo” Laws. By 1980 he started to produce albums backed by The Roots Radics.
Dub music strictly emphasizes on the drum and the bass of reggae music with added effects of echoing, reverb and voice dubbing. There are two albums that made me appreciate Scientist’ style, but since I can only pick one to review, it has to be – “Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampire”. If you are not a dub listener, this is a great entry-level album for the untrained ear! From the minute you put on the cd or the record and play the first track “Voodoo Curse” you hear an evil laugh and then all of a sudden out of the sky…..BOOOM!!! HERE COMES THAT BASSLINE THAT DRAWS YOU IN!!! Every track on this album has a catchy groove and it’s so hypnotizing!! By the time you hit the track “The Mummy’s Shroud”, you will be in a world where it’s just you, the sounds coming out of your speakers, and the next track that makes you wish you were in a room filled with smoke hanging with people lost in the echoing sounds of the drum and bass.
Five songs off the album are also featured on Grand Theft Auto 3 – San Andreas on K-Jah Radio. Since the birth of dub, it has basically influenced all the genres of music – Hip Hop, Jungle/Drum and Bass, Techno, House, Dubstep, Rock, and even post punk acts such as The Clash have experimented with Dub, check out The Clash “Magnificent Seven” if you don’t believe me!! Without dub music we wouldn’t have a lot of the music that influences us today.
Thank God for the Scientist, King Tubby, Lee Perry and the rest I forgot to mention because without them we wouldn’t be DJ’s and producers.
Here’s the full album uploaded by yours truly Sir Golden Child:
San Francisco- That’s right kids, you aren’t seeing things, the winners of URB Magazine’s Best Party 2010 Award are back in full effect at their new home at the DNA Lounge, and if you haven’t been to a Blow Up SF party, then you are simply sleepin’ and need to wake the fuck up!
The Designer Drugs, Jeffrey Paradise, + more TBA Party at DNA LOUNGE is coming on Friday, March 11th!
SUPER SPECIAL Advanced Discount Tickets Now Available
Starring:
Jeffrey Paradise
Tenderlions
Midnight Conspiracy
Ava Berlin
Hosted by Shotwell
Photobooth by Jonathan Saunders
Video by UH-1 and Jon Becker
Photos by Holy Mountain
and TONS more!
Chicago- Fools Good Diva/Darling Kid Sister is back with a bangin’ mixtape featuring remixes from Caspa & Laidback Luke and a feature from none other than Gucci Mane!
You know you wanna grab this right now and let it bump wherever you are (so go do it!)…
Tracklisting:
01. Kissin-tro
02. Kiss Kiss Kiss
03. Work Them
04. Green Velvet – Everybody Wants
05. Carte Blanche – Do! Do! Do! (Original / Laidback Luke Remix)
06. Daydreaming (Douster Remix)
07. Lookout Weekend f. Nina Sky
08. Gucci Rag Top f. Gucci Mane
09. Click Clack (Show It Off)
10. Don’t Stop Movin
11. Right Hand Hi (Caspa Remix)
12. Paul Wall – Imma Get It
13. Jo-DE-Ci f. DJ Gant-Man
OK, so I’m a bit late on getting this up and out to everyone, but in case you have been living under a rock, here’s this year’s Coachella lineup (and it looks bad ass as usual)!
(Damn shame you have to break out a magnifying glass to see the “good stuff”)
San Francisco- That’s right kids, the Wu-Tang Killa Bees are gonna swarm once again! The RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and Masta Killah are invading San Francisco for one night at Mezzanine SF.
The tix aren’t cheap ($40 for general, $55 for VIP), but when are you EVER going to get to see the Wu in a smaller venue where you can get up close and personal!
Perennial party fave and recent Blackberry commercial star, Diplo is back with another mix to keep your head nodding and fill with bass heavy goodness to help celebrate his latest release “Blow Your Head Vol 1 – Dubstep“. While the mix may not appeal to the hardcore trainspotters, we think this one helps illustrate why the dubstep sound has so much crossover appeal.
Big shouts to the family over at Mad Decent for blessing us with another banger!
Brooklyn, NY- Dave Gee and MC Diggadee have teamed up to form Heavy Weight Division and bring you “Round 1.” While they are known to perform together live, this is the first official mix from these partners in grime. “Round 1″ is a high speed ride through a dark world of bass and powerful beats. It consists of various unreleased tracks from some of the genres most prolific producers as well as the Cops remix by Dave Gee & Trigon ft. DZ.
The DJ/MC Dubstep duo have had a busy year between playing dozens of shows up and down the East Coast including Winter Music Conference and Starscape and making their way out to Puerto Rico and Paris in the last several months but when they’re at home in Brooklyn, they hold down a residency at Brooklyn’s premier dubstep monthly, Dark Room.
With residencies at Dark Room and Dub Nation, original tunes in the works, and a rapidly growing show schedule, this is an act to keep an eye on heading into the new year.
This past Spring, the BasslineRumble.com staff got together and decided to issue a call to all N. American producers to submit their best tracks to be showcased as part of the BasslineRumble.com Spring 2010 Compilation EP. The winners would be featured in our In The Lab artist spotlight series, get their tunes pushed around the world and get undying love from us for supporting the cause!
In this installment of our “In The Lab” Artist Spotlight series, our video team (courtesy of WOMP.tv) sat down with the winners so that all of you out there could get the lowdown on what’s going on in their world and let us know what we can expect in the future.
We hope you enjoy!
IN THE LAB: Spring 2010 EP Artist Spotlight
In addition to the EP, as part of the In The Lab series that we did with each of the winners, the guys were nice enough to bless us with 4 solid full length mixes to help us say “Thanks” once again! You can stream/download the mixes for FREE, just click on the player below for options.
Brooklyn- If there’s one party throughout NYC that gets a nod of respect from every spectrum of the Hip Hop world, it’s definitely “The Rub” at Southpaw in Park Slope.
Whether it’s their parties or the mixes tha DJs Ayres, Eleven and Cosmo Baker are consistently droppin’ on heads, they come with a slice for everyone to rock their body. They’re been dropping their History of Hip Hop series of mixes for a minute now (you need to cop the older mixes, seriously…) and they’re back with the Year 2000 mixed by Cosmo Baker.
It’s one hell of a tracklist, so throw this on and enjoy the ride!
