A Family Affair [CD]

Artist:: Various Artists
Title:: A Famliy Affair — selected by Jürgen Drimal & Raimund Flöck
Cat. No.:: VIE 009 CD
Format:: CD Compilation
Release Date:: Mon, 26 Nov, 2001
Barcode:: 667548700726
Genre:: Electronica, Leftfield, Funk, Downbeat
Download Release-info (DOC):: Deutsch | English
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Tracklisting

Listen 01 Freedom Satellite & Raimund Flöck — Just Relax Yourself [7:44]
Listen 02 The Funky Lowlives — Inside [5:32]
Listen 03 Troublemakers — Chez Roger Boité Funk [6:46]
Listen 04 Mo’ Horizons — Walk Into Space Pt. I & II [6:57]
Listen 05 Quantic — Fresh Rhythm [3:12]
Listen 06 Orbit Experience — DDR (Freedom Satellite Dub) [8:02]
Listen 07 Fellmann & Louise — The More You Cry [5:20]
Listen 08 Mikrofunk — Pukkah Experience [5:42]
Listen 09 The Menheads — 2000 Black [7:10]
Listen 10 Darcosan & Alexdrum — Funk On Pot [6:51]
Listen 11 Dublex Inc. — Tango Forte [5:02]
Listen 12 Thrust & !Pez — Slight Breeze (Instrumental) [5:35]
Listen 13 Micatone — A Part Of Me [4:10]

Release Info

After one and a half years of continuing fun & friendship, producers/DJs/compilers Jürgen Drimal & Raimund Flöck decided to create a platform for their “floor-rocking” qualities. With “A Family Affair” they present us with a carefully chosen selection of their funky favourites from past, present and future.

“Apart from having a lot of fun on our package tour gigs” says Jürgen Drimal “we always received a great response from our audiences”. “The chemistry simply seemed to work ... not only for the floor but on a personal level as well” adds Raimund Flöck. After one and a half years of continuing fun & friendship, producers/DJs/compilers Jürgen Drimal & Raimund Flöck decided to create a platform for their “floor – rocking” qualities. With “A Family Affair” they present us with a carefully chosen selection of their funky favourites from past , present and future. Partly unreleased, partly avaliable on 7 or 12 inch, the thirteen tracks from “A Family Affair” represent a batch of the toughest grooves the post-2000 years have yet to offer. Ranging from up to downtempo, the “Affair” selection is held together by an “organic feel” that the featured content seems to share. Disco, Blues, Bossa, Jazz, Funk, Soul, D&B, Trip Hop, Dub, Electronic Jazz and Ambient merge into a pleasantly homogenous musical experience.

Track Infos

01 Freedom Satellite & Raimund Flöck — Just Relax Yourself [7:44]

Gritty Wah Wah´s, dirty breaks and dub infused basslines blend into a massive nu-funk monster as Raimund Flöck, Jürgen Drimal and Gernot Ebenlechner present their first co-production. Think Norman Whitfield in a deep dub - electro groove and you get the basic emotion.

02 The Funky Lowlives — Inside [5:32]

Subtile - forceful vocals and crisp rhythms create a trance like state on "Funky Lowlives" "Inside". The title of their latest EP, "Inside" (G-Stone Recordings) displays the formation's distinctive hybrid of electro-acoustic and traditional approaches.

03 Troublemakers — Chez Roger Boité Funk [6:46]

"Les plusieurs faces de Funk" should be the motto of the "Troublemakers" dubophil groove attack taken from their Album “Doubts & Convictions” (Guidance Recordings). Funky Fender Rhodes, razorsharp horn lines, and persistent tambourines display a game plan funk-lovers will find "idéalement gothique".

04 Mo’ Horizons — Walk Into Space Pt. I & II [6:57]

Taken from their extremely successful debut "Come touch the sun" (Stereo Deluxe), "Walk Into Space" presents Mo´Horizons Mark Wetzler and Ralf Droesemeyer in a soulfull mood. Integrating modern production techniques and a handful of talented live-musicians, "Walk into space" vibrates with Horizon’s distinctive blend of smooth accoustic guitars, sparse - funky Fender Rhodes and elegant Bossa harmonies.

05 Quantic — Fresh Rhythm [3:12]

With "Fresh Rhythm" british producer Will Holland aka “Quantic" created one of the most intriguing retro-breakbeat tracks this side of the millenium. Hard grooving organs, psychadelic country strings and classic old skool break patterns collide into three minutes of "rare groove" heaven.

06 Orbit Experience — DDR (Freedom Satellite Dub) [8:02]

On their semi-legendary 2001 remix of Orbit Experience´s "DDR" Freedom Satellite´s Jürgen Drimal and Gernot Ebenlechner pump up the bass, add in some gutbucket Soul vocals and turn the beat to "rock da´dub". Last summer the “DDR - Remix” already put a frenzy on the international club crowds…Straight for the floor!

07 Fellmann & Louise — The More You Cry [5:20]

Since their foundation in 1999 Hamburg based Fellman & Louise aka “Electric Mojo” Resident Michael Sauer & Pianowizard Max Fellmann have been pursuing a distinguished mélange of Breakbeat, Electro, Jazz and Funk. "The more you cry" adds a subtle hint of Delta Blues to their recipe - with breathtaking results ... hypnotical mesmereastion!

08 Mikrofunk — Pukkah Experience [5:42]

Space infused Jazz Keyboards and tight Break patterns set the tone for the premiere - release of the brandnew artist “Mikrofunk”. With it’s soothing - hypnotical qualities "The Pukkah Experience" already offers the taste of their upcoming productions.

09 The Menheads — 2000 Black [7:10]

The Menheads latest production carries their deep funk trademark, but this time with a harder, slightly abstract electronic edge. More hypnotical than its predecessor this “electronic break-funk dittie” matches the floor as well as the living room…

10 Darcosan & Alexdrum — Funk On Pot [6:51]

"Funk on pot" presents us with the long awaited follow up to Darcosans “Vienna Scientists” (COL 492829-1) contribution - and good things certainly come to those who wait. Supported by drummer Alex Deutsch (who already collaborated with such greats as Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard, Marc Ribot, Erykah Baduh, Lala Hathaway,...) Darcosan fuses spherical harmonies with abstract drum-loops and discharges a contrasting tension that owes as much to D&B and Dub as to Electro and Funk.

11 Dublex Inc. — Tango Forte [5:02]

Letztes Jahr beschlossen die Dublex Produzenten Felix Stecher und Florian Pflüger mit den DJs Rino Spadaveccia und Robin Hofman gemeinsame Sache zu machen und gründeten Dublex Inc.. Üppige Streicher, knackige Percussion und ein up - tempo Rhytmusensemble vermengen sich auf "Tango Forte" zu einer genialen Minisymphonie "for da´ floor" ! Michael Nyman goes afrocentric.

12 Thrust & !Pez — Slight Breeze (Instrumental) [5:35]

Die gekonnt-eklektische Verbindung von Einflüssen und Stilen zählt zu den grundsätzlichen Eigenschaften des Berliner Duo´s Thrust & !PEZ. Brazil und Two Stepp vermengen sich auf ihrem Debüt "Slight Breeze" mit minimalstischen Gitarren Riffs und konsistenten Drum Loops – ihre erste EP auf Vienna Scientists Recordings soll demnächst folgen.

13 Micatone — A Part Of Me [4:10]

Ein warmer, vibrierender Glanz durchsetzt Micatone’s (Sonar Kollektiv) extrem entspannten downtempo-dittie "A part of me". Sublimer instrumentaler und vokaler Support wird von Lisa Bassenge, Boris Meinhold, Stefan Rogall, Tim Kroker und Paul Kleber gewährleistet. Smooth!

Statements

"…a useful primer when digging for Petersonesque beats and a pleasant aural smoking jacket alike…" © MIXMAG / UK, December 2002

"…Jürgen and Raimund have selected tracks that will rock floors and coffee tables around the world…" © HOUSEMUSIC.COM, 2002

"…this is an album for both the headphones and the bass bins… vienna scientists are on the verge of greatness…" © ECHOES / UK, December 2001

"…Wonneproppung in Jazz not Jazz, Electric Mojo und artverwandtes Umfeld…" © STYLE & THE FAMILY TUNES / D, December 2001