Name: Breaking The Beats: West London Sounds
Brand: Various

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375 Media

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2020-09-11

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5201072

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5060162575612

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Various

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Z Records

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Electronic

Z Records is a UK label that was founded in 1990 by Dave Lee. It is the successor to Republic Records and has been manufacturing and distributing music through Azuli Records / Azuli Distribution from 1993 to 1999. Currently, the label's vinyl distribution is handled by Prime Direct Distribution. Danny Ashenden serves as the label manager.

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At the end of the 90s, a movement began in West London that birthed a fresh direction in dance music. Though this movement never got mainstream press coverage, never had a crossover chart single, and never really transcended its community roots, there was a unique alchemy at work - a fertile moment of creativity, where a group of friends began to experiment with new cadences, rhythms and distilled influences, crafting a new direction in the attics and bedrooms of their neighbouring postcodes. Their music was a head-on collision between the sounds they had been raised on; the reggae sound system culture of Notting Hill Carnival, the sophistication and sheen of Electro-Funk, Jazz Fusion, Soulful House and Disco, the Afro-Beat sounds of Tony Allen and Fela Kuti, and the raw minimalism of early Hip Hop.Though “Broken Beat” was never a tagline that the producers anticipated, and one that they often publicly resisted, those two words would gradually come to represent the scattered rhythms, rolling basslines and soaring changes that were inherent to this exciting new sound. It’s not clear who first coined the term “Broken Beat”, but try to imagine how it felt to hear it for the first time; the production was grounded in MPCs and SP1200s, the hand-me-down samplers of the Hip-Hop and Jungle golden eras, and the drums that tumbled out of these machines at the hands of these creators had a jagged, stuttering feel, almost as though the groove was close to collapse.Tracklisting:CD11. 4hero - Hold It Down (Bugz In The Attic's Co-Operative Mix) 2. Agent K - Feed The Cat 3. Fourth Kind - Take Me To Your Sky 4. Domu feat. Face - Save It 5. Jazztronik - Samurai 6. Nova Fronteira - Baila Conmigo (AtJazz Remix) 7. Kaidi Tatham - Organic Juggernaut 8. Vikter Duplaix - Manhood 9. Taylor McFerrin - Broken Vibes (feat. Vincent Parker) 10. NSM - DJ Power (Use It) 11. The Sunburst Band - Turn It Out (IG Culture Remix)CD21. Blakai feat. Bembe Segue - Afrospace 2. Agent K - Hands 3. Daz-I-Kue feat. Colonel Red - Rokstone (Soon come) (Several Small Furry Bugz CoOperating in the Attic Remix) 4. Afronaut - Transcend M.E. feat. Melissa Browne 5. Lars Bartkuln - Dimensions 6. Homecookin’ - Lazy Days 7. Hajime Yoshizawa -Endless Bow 8. Incognito - Get Into My Groove (Jazzanova Remix) 9. Mark de Clive-Lowe - Shine 10. East West Connection – Mint Sauce 11. Likwid Biskit - The All New Ummm2LPA1. 4hero - Hold It Down (Bugz In The Attic's Co-Operative Mix) A2. NSM - DJ Power (Use It) A3. Domu feat. Face - Save ItB1. Jazztronik – Samurai B2. Kaidi Tatham - Organic Juggernaut B3. Vikter Duplaix - Manhood C1. Agent K - Feed The Cat C2. Fourth Kind - Take Me To Your Sky C3. Taylor McFerrin - Broken Vibes (Ft. Vincent Parker)D1. Agent K - Hands D2. Nova Fronteira - Baila Conmigo (AtJazz Remix) D3. Blakai Featuring Bembe Segue - Afrospace

Breaking The Beats: West London Sounds

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