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Fantastic Freeriding | The Next Chapter
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Fantastic Freeriding - The Next Chapter 5 years of Switchstance Recordings are celebrated on this new label compilation showcasing the talent of all Switchstance artists, bringing you the finest in Downtempo, Instrumental Hip Hop, Raw Funk, Afro and Dub. This one again proves that Switchstance is Germany´s number one Dopebeat, Downtempo and Breaks label and is often called "Germany´s very own Ninja Tune". Highly recommended by Kid Loco, Rob Life, Andy Smith, Boca 45, Giant Step Crew, Karsten John (Vinyl Vibes/GER), Fort Knox Five, etc... Distributor: www.grooveattack.com |
2006 marks the fifth anniversary of Switchstance Recordings, the renowned German label for all things funky and dope. Five years of Switchstance means five years of continuous producing, DJing, promoting and putting out fine records, led through the troubled waters of the post-2000s international music business by the label's founder and managing director Tom Strauch, his partner and label manager Bernd "Kinski" Roesler and their longtime fellow producers, DJs, networkers and, last not least, friends.
Five years of Switchstance also means THE NEXT CHAPTER in the FANTASTIC FREERIDING legacy, the label's own regular artist showcase albums that have become a major staple in the crates of some of the world's most beloved HipHop, Downtempo, Broken Beat and NuJazz DJs and producers - and who will no doubt be delighted by the FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER double album.
Featured on FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER are all the label's acts that have made a well-respected name for themselves in the last five years - ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, DEELA, KABANJAK and PROTASSOV - with the latest exciting variations on their trademark beats and sounds, as well as some new projects that are yet to be discovered: SUBROK MISSION and PROTASSOV & KINSKI offer their vision of THE NEXT CHAPTER here for the first time.
Also included on FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER are two collaborations which are definitely worth a few lines and a good listen: On NAKED, the versatile DEELA offer a touching song in close collaboration with vocalist INGA LUEHNING, who has made a name for herself by touring live with German bands FANTA 4 and RE:JAZZ, providing her voice for a 12" on German House label NEEDS and putting out records under her own name - her second album, in between Electronics and Jazz, is due later in 2006.
And on EASTERN by PROTASSOV & KINSKI, a real legend is involved, playing his beautifully tragic M.F.-horn here: VICTOR BROX who is considered by many as one of the greatest blues singers and performers of our day and has played with big names such as Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Alexis Korner, Screaming Lord Sutch, Stevie Wonder and Keith Moon in his life-long career that isn't finished yet.
FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER follows the tradition of featuring another promising young graphic artist on each of the series' albums. This time, the artwork was done by the Hamburg-based artist STOHEAD, capturing the space-and-time-expanding effect of the album in his own fresh ways.
Rising to the occasion of Switchstance's five-year anniversary, FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER is released in a great packaging: As a CD, the album comes in a 6-sided Digipak with a massive 12-page booklet, the double vinyl is put out in a celebratory all-colour gatefold sleeve.
International Feedback:
From spliffed up beats to jazzed out grooves, Switchstance is the source for dope tracks across the board!
Fort Knox Five (USA)
From Jazz to Cinematic sounds, from Rare Groove to Reggae and from Hip Hop to Post Rock : this is a trip and you'll go far beyond !!! congratulations for the album, this is really good!
Kid Loco (FR)
Thank God for Switchstance! Mellow, deep, dubby freeriding for the folks out there that wonder what happened to Kruder and Dorfmeister. Now I've gotmy soundtrack for Summer!
Gunnar Hissam (Om Records / USA)
I enjoy the many different shades & moods of the music presented here, hold together by a passion for funky hip-hop breaks & laidback atmospheres. Relaxed, soulful & deep while still danceable. I 'm lovin' the whole compilation!
David Borsu (Counterpoint Rec. / BE)
Somehow Switchstance has managed to surpass even their own high standards with this latest crop.Chunky beats blunted to perfection and gorgeous production details have come to define the Switchstance Sound. This isa very solid release packed with winning tracks. I've got piles of music to get through, but I've listened to this one 3 times through on the first day it arrived.
Chauncey Canfield (Soulphonic Soundsystem / Groove Palace Radio / USA)
More than a retrospective of where the label's been over the past five years, Fantastic Freeriding: the next chapter serves as the prequel to where this stylistically diverse and often slept-on label is headed. Fans of Turntables On The Hudson's famed NYC parties, Quantic's dusty offerings and the classic Grand Central / Mo' Wax / Ninja Tune releases of the 90's will all find something hearty and fun on this release.
Adam Kurzawa (Giant Step / USA)
....loving the new Freeriding LP and EP...favs from the LP are the two Subrok Mission tracks which have that dope soul-jazz, boom-baphip-hop style that is proper golden age! those guys know how to cook beats!...pick from the EP is Ancient Astronauts '36 Hours' which is an excellentgood-time carnival track perfect for the summer.
Steady Diggin Workshop (UK)
Five years of Switchstance also means THE NEXT CHAPTER in the FANTASTIC FREERIDING legacy, the label's own regular artist showcase albums that have become a major staple in the crates of some of the world's most beloved HipHop, Downtempo, Broken Beat and NuJazz DJs and producers - and who will no doubt be delighted by the FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER double album.
Featured on FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER are all the label's acts that have made a well-respected name for themselves in the last five years - ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, DEELA, KABANJAK and PROTASSOV - with the latest exciting variations on their trademark beats and sounds, as well as some new projects that are yet to be discovered: SUBROK MISSION and PROTASSOV & KINSKI offer their vision of THE NEXT CHAPTER here for the first time.
Also included on FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER are two collaborations which are definitely worth a few lines and a good listen: On NAKED, the versatile DEELA offer a touching song in close collaboration with vocalist INGA LUEHNING, who has made a name for herself by touring live with German bands FANTA 4 and RE:JAZZ, providing her voice for a 12" on German House label NEEDS and putting out records under her own name - her second album, in between Electronics and Jazz, is due later in 2006.
And on EASTERN by PROTASSOV & KINSKI, a real legend is involved, playing his beautifully tragic M.F.-horn here: VICTOR BROX who is considered by many as one of the greatest blues singers and performers of our day and has played with big names such as Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Alexis Korner, Screaming Lord Sutch, Stevie Wonder and Keith Moon in his life-long career that isn't finished yet.
FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER follows the tradition of featuring another promising young graphic artist on each of the series' albums. This time, the artwork was done by the Hamburg-based artist STOHEAD, capturing the space-and-time-expanding effect of the album in his own fresh ways.
Rising to the occasion of Switchstance's five-year anniversary, FANTASTIC FREERIDING - THE NEXT CHAPTER is released in a great packaging: As a CD, the album comes in a 6-sided Digipak with a massive 12-page booklet, the double vinyl is put out in a celebratory all-colour gatefold sleeve.
International Feedback:
From spliffed up beats to jazzed out grooves, Switchstance is the source for dope tracks across the board!
Fort Knox Five (USA)
From Jazz to Cinematic sounds, from Rare Groove to Reggae and from Hip Hop to Post Rock : this is a trip and you'll go far beyond !!! congratulations for the album, this is really good!
Kid Loco (FR)
Thank God for Switchstance! Mellow, deep, dubby freeriding for the folks out there that wonder what happened to Kruder and Dorfmeister. Now I've gotmy soundtrack for Summer!
Gunnar Hissam (Om Records / USA)
I enjoy the many different shades & moods of the music presented here, hold together by a passion for funky hip-hop breaks & laidback atmospheres. Relaxed, soulful & deep while still danceable. I 'm lovin' the whole compilation!
David Borsu (Counterpoint Rec. / BE)
Somehow Switchstance has managed to surpass even their own high standards with this latest crop.Chunky beats blunted to perfection and gorgeous production details have come to define the Switchstance Sound. This isa very solid release packed with winning tracks. I've got piles of music to get through, but I've listened to this one 3 times through on the first day it arrived.
Chauncey Canfield (Soulphonic Soundsystem / Groove Palace Radio / USA)
More than a retrospective of where the label's been over the past five years, Fantastic Freeriding: the next chapter serves as the prequel to where this stylistically diverse and often slept-on label is headed. Fans of Turntables On The Hudson's famed NYC parties, Quantic's dusty offerings and the classic Grand Central / Mo' Wax / Ninja Tune releases of the 90's will all find something hearty and fun on this release.
Adam Kurzawa (Giant Step / USA)
....loving the new Freeriding LP and EP...favs from the LP are the two Subrok Mission tracks which have that dope soul-jazz, boom-baphip-hop style that is proper golden age! those guys know how to cook beats!...pick from the EP is Ancient Astronauts '36 Hours' which is an excellentgood-time carnival track perfect for the summer.
Steady Diggin Workshop (UK)
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