DMX Krew presents the music that has influenced him, from Kraftwerk to LL Cool J, from fusion jazz to hardcore rave, it’s a chronological journey from a unique voice in electronic music.
DMX Krew’s ‘Bass Drop EP’, Turbo 057, will be released in December. Here’s the press release for that to give a bit more background:
We at Turbo are longtime fans of DMX Krew, so it’s a real honor to work with him again 6 years after his last contribution to our now defunct sub-label ‘White Leather’. We don’t normally trace an artist’s history or include much biography in our press releases, but we feel the need in this case to pay our respects to a long and brilliant career. With all the crap that gets paraded around nowadays it’s easy to forget who the real masters are… ED DMX is one of them.
I’ve always held a soft spot for Ed, he was one of my favorite producers in the proto-electro heyday. Hearing his live version of the Knight Rider theme at Sona (Tiga’s club circa ‘96) was (believe it or not) a revelation. Of all the artists I’d met up until then, he was the coolest: he could play synths better than anyone I’d ever heard, he had the balls to do vocals in his live-set, but he was a sweet, soft-spoken, and super funny guy.
For reasons I’ve never understood, Ed’s pop side didn’t seem to take off and for awhile things took a distinctly experimental turn… interesting stuff, but a departure from the bright immediacy I loved in his earlier records. I was starting to put him into that category of genius artist that pissed me off because they weren’t making the music I wanted them to make, but were on some brain-trip doing things I didn’t understand (think Aphex Twin, Prince, Jori Hulkkonen…). So I let him fall off my radar… And THEN…
2007 rolls around and his alias 101 Force drops ” ‘Tha Return’, followed shortly thereafter by ‘SH101 Triggers MS10′, easily two of my favorite records of the year and some of the best acid house ever made. Buy them now. I could blather on and on about how incredible those records are, but the important thing is that we took action and signed ‘The Bass Drop.’
This EP doesn’t reference or pay homage to Acid House so much as it embodies it. This is the real deal.
It is with great pride that we bring you DMX Krew, same as he ever was, the analog don back to school all you blog-turds in the art of the acid groove.
Comments
thanks for the lesson in music. really enjoyed this podcast. some really amazing sounds going on. the last tune is a journey.
Nice use of delay and perfect cues, great podcast
the Joey Beltram bit is the best moment ever in podcasting
As soon as you kicked off this podcast, I was hooked. As a kid I used to have the K-Tel ‘Breakdance’ LP and cassette which had both Rockit and 10 Speed’s version of Tour De France. Both of those songs have a huge place in my own life so it was wicked to hear that you had a personal experience with the same songs. Cheers.
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I keep listening to your podcasts (36 and 38) over and over. It’s like you grew up with 95% of the same songs I was taping off the radio in Berkeley California, but you were 5000 miles away. I appreciate your passion and your love, thanks sharing the tunes and the commentary. hope to see you in NYC sometime, where I live now.
respect, Phil