DJ Rap - Touching Bass [PA] *

Artist:

DJ Rap

UPC:

822882002220

Description:

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by DJ Rap.
DJ: DJ Rap.
Recording information: Plank Studios (2001).
Editor: Jack D. Elliot .
Photographer: Randall Michelson.
Arrangers: J. Panutnik; Abbie Gardner ; Lee Rous; Robin Twelftree; Jason Cohen; Janet Rushmore.
The first release to really approximate a live DJ Rap set, Touching Bass is a double disc, separated into one disc of drum`n`bass and one of breaks. After the pop crossover of her first production album, it`s clear Rap`s in no danger of hitting the charts with this mix, a set of furious hardstep tracks that starts out with a tech edge (Danny C, Dillinja) and rapidly reaches the sort of tempos not heard outside of specialty rooms since the brief reign of hardcore and gabba during the mid-`90s. Two impossibly driving, minimalist productions by Sonic & Silver bookend the excellent Accidental Heroes track "Even When It Rains," just before Danny C makes the first of several more welcome appearances -- he remixes two DJ Rap tracks and co-produces a third, "The Riff." The breaks disc doesn`t begin on a good note ("Out There" by DJ Rap and Konverter is weighed down by a weak vocal sample), but for the rest of the set Rap shows as sure a hand with the selection and mixing as she does with drum`n`bass. She grabs tracks from some of the best in the breaks business (Plump DJs, Dylan Rhymes, Phil Kieran, Rennie Pilgrem) and cleverly works in a few nods to her breakbeat past: the Moving Shadow classic "Helicopter Tune" by Deep Blue and "The Stammer" by Raw as F**k (including Aston Harvey, co-producer of her classic "Spiritual Aura"). ~ John Bush

Track Listing:

DISC 1: DRUM & BASS:

1. Intro
2. Goin In
3. Twist `Em Out
4. Funkstation
5. Even When It Rains
6. Rocket Launcher
7. Come 4th - (Danny C Remix, Danny C remix)
8. Hardstep - (Danny C Remix, Danny C remix)
9. Crackdown
10. Riff, The
11. Music in Me
12. Way, The
13. Fire - (Original Mix)

DISC 2: BREAKS:

1. Out There
2. Scram
3. Muzika - (Rolling Groove Mix)
4. Crisp Biscuit
5. Hold Back
6. Helicopter Tune, The
7. Robocallgirl
8. Slammer, The
9. Cous Cous - (Royal Mix)
10. Dirty Waltzer
11. Sunset Baby
12. Chunka Funk
13. Egyptian, The

Album Information

Release Date:

06/17/2003

Type:

Performer

Genre:

R&B

Subgenre:

Dance

Label:

Surge Recordings (Warlock)

Producer:

Matthew B; DJ Rap; Dillinja; Dylan Rhymes; Jason Mendelson; J. Panutnik; Matt Cantor; Abbie Gardner; Lee Rous; S. O`keeffe; Robin Twelftree; Jason Cohen; J. Byrne; Janet Rushmore; Alex Harvey; Rennie Pilgrem; Sonic & Silver; Transformer Man; Uberzone; Wells

Catalog Number:

22

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

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