Members:
BLAKTRONIKs - “SLAPMATIK” is taking the beats back to basics.“We are all about
hard beats, bass lines, and razor sharp melodies”. This time it’s all about the
hardware sounds and
samples.No smoke and mirrors, just beats that stomp a mud
hole in your ears. Blaktroniks has a long discography of creative style and
productions. Oakland artists Edd Dee Pee, MC Veda 36, and Percepticon has
developed a tele-presence in this industry for more than a decade.
Percepticon plays guitar, write compose, arrange, and design etc. Edd Dee Pee drum
programming, digital processing, and bass playing makes up a good team for a
SlapMatik style. Making music with a focus, and knowing when to have fun at the
same time.“When I (Edd) was a kid I use to hook up a drum machine to the deck in
my ride and put my home stereo speakers in the trunk”. Everything must bump or
slap. When we added the technology to the equation, it became electronic. Now it
only made sense to bring the two elements together and form the SlapMatik EP. -
Edd Dee Pee
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Sometimes, the only way to hear something new is to listen in a new way.
Blaktroniks is taking musical risks. Times are changing.
Most of the members are vets to the indi world.
"Yea we rap, we do the live p.a. thang, and or dj with pc's.
Sometimes our shows are none verbal".
.........................................................................................................................................................................Artist: blaktroniks title: mechanized soul release-date: 23rd of may 2008 in Germany. Uk releases will start mid summer.
(kat: pharub002 lc: 13500 labels: rubaiyat/phazzadelic distribution).
With co-op's and remixes to follow. And yes there will be 12' vinyl and hi res mp3's too.
JUST BANKS is drop'n his Album "Under The Enfluence" with fat rap vocals from blaktroniks. Don't sleep on the last E.P. Called "360 Degrees" (vinyl/mp3) availible on his profile page, as well as Itunes, Beatport, etc.
Check with us now and then, we travel
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Sounds Like:
the report card: 07/21/08
(GAS / UK)
- Albums of the week in INTRO (germany..s biggest alternative Magazine)
- Album of the week in ZÜNDFUNK (legendary Public Radio Channel)
- Album of the Month in "Station 2 Station"
- SPEX - CD - "Noon", first song after the intro on SPEX Magazine CD
- Interview in Germanys biggest Jazz-Magazine JAZZTHING
- "Check your people" in Rotation on Public Radio - "On3Radio"
REVIEWS IN
UK:- idj, the wire, q magazine, update magazine, blan b, m8 ...
GAS:- intro, spex, vice, jazzthing, de:bug, raveline, groove, skug,
süddeutsche zeitung,kulturnews, the message (at)
szene (hamburg), you & me (düsseldorf), station to station (kiel),
choices (köln), city (pforzheim), rhein neckar zeitung, jazzpodium,
jazzdimensions, taz,
out-of-space.ch,
kreislauf.org,
1beat.de
soultrainonline.despex-online, intro-online,
aponaut.org,
crazewire.de,
cinesoundz.de,
satt.org,
nitestylez.de ...
PUBLIC RADIO CHANNELS GERMANY - PLAYING THE ALBUM
deutschlandfunk (dlf), radio eins (rbb), fritz (rbb), swr2,
jazz now, hr3, der ball ist rund,
you.fm (hr), br2 zündfunk,
on3radio (br). multikulti (rbb), funkhaus europa (wdr),
ndr-info (ndr), einslive (wdr) ... (over 100 airplays on german radios )
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REVIEW-QUOTES:
UPDATE (UK)
The fifth album from Oakland outfit Blaktroniks busts the hiphop form
out of its constraints with a work of remarkable depth, spirituality
and innovation. Hiphop should always have been about conveying
messages and emotions while blazing exciting new trails. This stunning
album practically reinvents it. With this and Glasgow's scathing Fool
project suddenly the genre seems able to escape the dollar-ruled
pantomime it seemed in danger of becoming years ago. 5 Dancing Men
IDJ (UK)
Embracing the finest lo-fi electronica, Oakland..s Blaktroniks dance
with both a tiptoe and a moonwalk on their fifth album. Steered by the
falteringly tender, blues-y blear of Edward Robinson. ... Hiccupping,
shift ..n..shunt beats - a busy minimalism if you will, that can..t be
played too loud for fear of waking the neighbours - stress the
importance of scene-shaping drums, given that the overlaying production
is, for the most part exceptionally slight ... there..s a fine album in
your hands. The minute adjustments and delicately decorated staggers
have it moving ghost-like in search of space-age soul enlightment.
Q MAGAZINE (UK)
Refreshingly hard-to-categorize experiment from Oakland producer Edd
Dee Pee, who adroitly combines techno, dub and the bluesy tones of his
60-year-old father Edward Robinson, a Detroit-born soul singer.
THE WIRE (UK)
it..s the sheer conceit of Blaktroniks making out they..ve stumbledon
some entirely novel fusion which makes the album half work. The
disconnect, for example between the Marvin Gaye-like vocals on "Open Up
Your Heart" and the dense mesh of cyberbeats which sits tangentially to
its genuinely not quite like anything you..ve heard before. The
pre-gangsta rapping reminds you of a more innocent hiphop era.
SPEX (D)
"...self-contained and innovative productions, where you can discover
new particles, even after endless listening-sessions" - to compare
music is not the best thing to do, but here..s a try: ... Freestyle
Fellowship and the Roots come to mind relating to the political
consciousness in hiphop, Blaktroniks share the bandwith of syncoped and
straight beats with 4 Hero and the sonical experimentation-joy reminds
of "Sun Ra with many tracks"
SPEX-Online (D)
... the Rapstyles remind of early Jungle Brothers or Sensationel, or
Madlib" ... the instrumentals are the outstanding thing about the
"mechanized soul"... the production is precise"
INTRO (D)
"they merge, deephouse, drum and bass influences, Avant-Hiphop to Soul.
No this is not the usual Entertainment, The Voices, the Rappers have a
serious authority, like for example Guru from Gang Starr, which makes
him to more then the usual MC. Sonic waves as a soulfull
history-lesson"
DE:BUG (D)
"the title of the fifth album is truly the concept: it..s about SOUL -
the feeling of Hitsville Detroit and not Hit-Factory Mark Ronson...
the whole thing is days overdue - this shall and has to set the
standard !"
SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG (D)
"who needs a soul-record sounding like 40yeas ago ? blak music always
looked forwards. and without risk no adrenalin ! Blaktroniks show how
to do it on their new album "mechanized soul" ... abstract-soulful
techno, soul in the sense of spirituality ... proving that you can save
the voices of the parents into the present in non-emberassing way !"
THE MESSAGE (AU)
"the playing is experimental, but it..s done on purpose and everything
else but amateurish ... Blaktroniks withdraw from the usual approach of
musicians totally.... Blaktroniks create their very own state of art
and stand out from the crowd ... the magic of the
father-son-cooperation shines above it all... "
GROOVE (D)
"to be recommended ... the new blaktroniks-album ... always full of
experiments with breaks, poetry and hiphop"
VICE (EUROPE)
"7 points !"
CHOICES (D)
"very cool urban sound"
STATION to STATION (D)
"in the truest sense deeply impressing album,
10 of 10 points - record of the month"
RHEIN NECKAR ZEITUNG (D)
"highest score: Gigantic ! a great father&son-project ...."
PLAN B (UK)
"Its ace."
M8 (TECHNO) (UK)
"Love it "
LITTLE DETROIT (UK)
"Loved this album, very different from the usual stuff."
OUT-OF-SPACE (CH)
"I am thrilled, a mixture, like I never heard before.... you have to
listen to this, you never get to hear something like this. actually
there..s only three words for this: wonderful, perfect & unique" - 10
from 10 points - TIPP !!!
NITESTYLEZ (D)
"Slow, sluggish beats meet what might be named as Advanced HipHop here
plus a lot of oldskool'ish, crooning Soul / Gospel / Blues references
... "Mechanized Soul" is to be regarded as future classic anyway and
will sound fresh in ten years time, no matter what happens in between
..
KREISLAUF (D)
...this cd is running in my cd-player on rotation since days t and is
on it..s way to be nominated as the music of the year
... actually the album is not a slight fare, but still Eddie Patrick
manages it to make it sound easy ... now the summer may come ...
ONYX ASHANTI live set at the PEOPLES PARTY in OAKLAND 28/08 was insane. (
www.thepeopleoakland.com)
Watch
mogulus.com/blakltronivision in full screen!
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www.mogulus.com/blaktronivision.com
The songs that did not make this release, is in the new, "Lost Tapes Podcast".
Do not sleep on this one!
Search "MECHANIZED SOUL" on "google" to see what the press is saying a bout our album.
Remember Just Bank Album "Under the Influence" Due May 30th.
Keep your eyes and ears alert for reviews, features and playlists, of Blaktroniks -
Mechanized Soul"
on net stereams, podcasts and radio such as:
>AGAINST THE GRAIN RADIO! (ATL) (
Podomatic.com)
> will be "album of the week" at Zündfunk -
>>
zündfunk.de
>-GERMAN RADIO
> HOST FOR: LOUNGE-RADIO-SHOW (WEEKLY)
> LIVESTREAM AVAILABLE ->
>
http://www.you-fm.de/index.jsp?rubrik=12412
> + EUROPEWIDE ON ASTRA DIG. RADIO (ADR)
>
>-PLAYLIST YOU-FM LOUNGE
> (EVERY SUNDAY 5 - 8 + 21 - 0 H) ->
>
http://www.you-fm.de/index.jsp?rubrik=12274),
- RADIOPELLENERA
>
www.radiopellenera.com/LOGO/logo-jazzitup/jazzitup_real.html
>
> - DANCE & SOUL
>
www.danceandsoul.com/radio/jazz_it_up.html
>
> - RADIOZEROGRAVITY
>
www.radiozerogravity.net/playlist.php?
> srch=Simone%20Jazz%20It%20Up%20!!!%20Vimercati
(
http://www.danceandsoul.com/radio/jazz_it_up.html)
(Mr. Mikey's Futuristic Sounds) (UK) (Live stream and Podcasts)
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