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Burnt Friedmann: Just Landed

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Label: EFA Medien GmbH
Released: 1999.12.23
Time:
 36:23
Category: Jazz Electronic
Producer(s): Bernd Friedman
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.pulaster.de/bf
Appears with: Atom Heart, Señor Coconut, Flanger
Purchase date: 2001.11.30
Price in €: 16,99



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[1] Hut Selector (B.Friedman) - 4:26
[2] Just Landed (B.Friedman) - 3:28
[3] Cassock Attack (B.Friedman) - 4:39
[4] Worldwide Watchdog Peepshow (B.Friedman) - 2:52
[5] Railway Palace, Melbourne (B.Friedman) - 2:19
[6] Hohoura Heads Far North (B.Friedman) - 3:06
[7] I Shot the Fashion Victim (B.Friedman) - 3:46
[8] It's Thunder (B.Friedman) - 3:58
[9] Dub to the Music (B.Friedman) - 4:20

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BURNT FRIEDMAN - Programming, Engineer, Transfers, Remastering, Research, Tape Restoration, Cover Art BERNIE "The Bolt" BOLT - Drums, Percussion
CRUCIAL GUENTHER - Bass, Strings
DJ BOOTH - Keyboards, FX, Turntables
THE COUSIN OF THE SAUSAGE SMEARER - Guitars, Mouthharp

JENS REITEMEYER - Cover Release

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2000 LP EFA 27104
2000 CD EFA 27104



So klingt das also, wenn in einem "sonischen Spezialverhau, direkt vor der neuseeländischen Küste" eine Musikschallplatte von "5 Revolverhelden des Groove" (Presse-Info) eingespielt wird. Diese Cowboys des obskuren Dub um Bandleader Burnt Friedman (Nonplace Urban Field, Drome) toben sich hier auf Stefan Betkes Berliner Label dementsprechend eigenwillig aus und treffen sich in einem gemeinsamen Mixdown, der weniger urban ist, als man vielleicht im Zusammenhang mit ~scape erwartet. Während Leute wie Kit Clayton die traditionsbewußte Dubfraktion wahrscheinlich ziemlich spalten, wird dieser Output zwar zumindest partikulär einige gemeinsame Ansatzpunkte mehr finden lassen, da Friedmans Dub bei allen Soundeskapaden, unkonventionellen Arrangements und Motiven um einige Blunts organischer werkelt, jedoch weiß man bei "Just Landed" nie so genau, mit welchen neuen Streichen die Players einen hinter der nächsten Ecke konfrontieren. Dabei gibt es einen unüberhörbaren Touch der Moderne, der sich im Spiel mit popmelodiösen oder industriellen Zitaten und machmal sogar in einer merkwürdigen Albernheit artikuliert. Unbeschwert, zuweilen bizarr und voller Esprit und Witz.

(mellokat)



Burnt (real name Bernd) offers up a short album of what I call "white-collar" dub. Dub with all of the rough edges sanded off, and only the faintest ghost of anything recalling soul left far behind. While Just Landed is nowhere near the sterility of Chain Reaction or Pole (~scape is Stephan Betke's label), this CD has a very clean, German feel to it. You've heard it too in To Rococo Rot, Kriedler, Tarwater, etc. Burnt Friedman has a far more "rootsy" feel than any of the above referenced. The bass is low and mellow and is accompanied by some fine drumming. Warbly, watery synths venture in occasionally, and find their way around the well-integrated samples. There is no doubt that Burnt can occasionally get funky, though. "Railway Place, Melbourne" features drums that wouldn't be out of place on a Weather Report album. Just Landed is long enough to be satisfying, but short enough (36 minutes) to keep the overall standard of tracks high.

Nirav Soni - ~scape, Zehdenicker str. 14, 10119, Berlin, Germany



In his restless travels, Cologne's digi-dub wizard Bern'd Friedmann (Drome, Nonplace Urban Field) has bounced between Chilean jazz trysts with expatriate amigo Atom Heart and romps with his Unitone HiFi mates in New Zealand. Just Landed catches Friedmann with new antipodean allies the Nu Dub Players, tripping the dub eclectic for Stefan Betke's brilliant ~scape label. The bottom line here is Crucial Guenther's bass. His rock-steady undertow floats the crew's pert and peppy old-school-Kingston melodies and ballasts Friedmann's expertly incorporated digital mischief. Just Landed is about not merely reveling in the spirit of dub but reworking its hands-on tricks and fades for the DSP generation. Friedmann's conspirators in this venture - Guenther, turntable trickster DJ Booth, crafty drummer Bernie the Bolt, and gat twanger/meat meister Cousin of the Sausage Smearer - have determined the daftest digi-dub detours down which to send their songs skanking. The casually paced Just Landed thus becomes a marvelous mixing-desk melee of dubwise heritage, groove-surfing frolic, and microprocessor monkeyshines. Cassock Attack and Railway Palace, Melbourne may radiate roots reverberations, but there's an insouciant current of non-traditionalist mischief running through the album. The opening Hut Selector meanders in a chilled ambient space antithetical to the island swelter of Jamaica. Friedmann's distinctive programming nails the jaunty rhythms of Just Landed and Cassock Attack to modern blueprints. And when his constant production meddling injects Dub to the Music, It's Thunder, and the standout I Shot the Fashion Victim with splashes of Vocoder damage and insidious, speaker-hopping bolts of Pole/NUF-style micro-crackle, it becomes apparent that Friedmann and Co. have indeed successfully stirred up a brave "Nu" Dub.



"From the far-flung corners of the world with a firm focus on heaving bass and rimshot rattling percussion Scape Records are proud to present Burnt Friedman and the Nu Dub Players. Recorded at a secret sonic hide-away on a Great Barrier Island just off the New Zealand coast Just Landed is the masterwork of five gunslingers of the gargantuan groove. Having made his name as conductor for top pop combos Drome, Nonplace Urban Field, SMC and Flanger, Burnt Friedman has summoned up new powers to bring this delightfully dubwise crew together. Those who associate his work with plunderous programming, brittle electronics and Latinged lullabies may be surprised find that it is within the dub soaked melange of misappropriated mischief and endless echo that the smouldering one is most at home. Reining in the individual skills of each of his semi-psychotic sidekicks and channeling them through the mixing desk Burnt ensures that the Nu Dubs highly skilled musical mutterings don´t turn out as a pile of muso wank, this truly is like nothing else you´ve ever heard."
 

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