The Zengineers consist of Phour Trakk and Sick-E who formed the band in 2005. After having produced truckloads of tracks and beats on their own they decided to finally join forces in the probably vain attempt to save the world from whack muzak. Their influences range from electronic music in general to Hip Hop, Jazz, Trip Hop, Worldmusic and Drum and Bass, an eclectic mixture heavily influencing their own production-style.
Check this video out! Kawagoekaido Timelapse (Music: Zengineers)
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW: "PHOUR TRAKK - SLIP INTO SOMETHING MORE COMFORTABLE"
When the god of small things and the Indian goddess of music get together, then Phour Trakk might be the cause. After his previous side trip to the roaring maze of western metropolises, he packs his bags again in order to leave eastbound while in his mind he has already arrived there. And it goes without saying that he has remembered to slip into clothes both typical for the country and comfortable.
Consequently, his fourth EP on iD.EOLOGY comes along in a guise just as colourful, elegant and rich in texture as a dhoti by Manish Malhotra. Hilarious Bollywood-style vocals meet earthy downbeats, eastern harmonies contrast smoky blue-notes and breezy tabla-rhythms blend with deep fretless basses heavy as lead. While the memories of the skyscrapers' silhouettes slowly fade, all these details, all these small things coalesce to generate a wistful anticipation of a far-away culture.
Before fascination and rapture now make you light a candle and start making oblations to the gods, you might as well slip into something more comfortable and give this e.p. another thorough listen or two. After all, Phour Trakk has hidden quite a few more niceties for the attentive listener. Or was this, too, the god of small things in the end?
NEW DOUBLE ALBUM OUT NOW! ZENGINEERS - The Return of Intelligence: Yamiyo & Hikari
If you have a mission to fulfill, you might be well-advised to activate a network of supporters. In the case of Zengineers the mission is to revive a musical language written off by many with some new content.
A network, consisting of the netlabels iD.EOLOGY and musicartistry, is already there to back them up. And so their dichotomic approach to the question whether these days there still is anything left to say on the topic of drum'n'bass bestows upon us a netaudio-premiere in the shape of a double-album release divided upon two netlabels. "Hikari" and "Yamiyo" act complementary to one another in style and content and yet the two halves unite 24 tracks, on which Zengineers easily recombine genre characteristics of past and present days with stylistic tidbits from synthpop-vocals to world-music-vibes and jazz-elements. FREE DOWNLOAD AT www.ideology.de & www.musicartistry.de
And once again...Monogirl sent her friend flyloon out to let her lovely fellowers know that she had been productive and finally finished a new demo.
"I hope you're grooving in the sky" she laughed and so the message was out. The End Not more to say I'm done now Thank You Be Well Love.Light.Color.Passion
Musikalisch macht sich das Duo GROOVELASTIG zur Aufgabe, Elektronik mit einem breit gefächerten Live-Instrumentarium (Gitarre, Kontrabass, Vocals, Percussion) zu organischen, club-orientierten Tracks zu verschmelzen.
Wenn die drei Kölner Musiker THE SMACK die Bühne betreten, machen Vinyl und Laptop ihre wohlverdiente Pause. Alles, was es für eine Stunde Ekstase braucht, sind Drums, Keyboards und Bassgitarre. Pumpende Four-to-the-Floor Beats gepaart mit treibenden Bässen und fetten Synthi-Riffs. Ausrasten und Abspacken ausdrücklich erwünscht!
MEHO PLAZA NOPSE REMIX EP available on cassette from ick ick records...available digitally from better looking records... vinyl is in the works too from sp1records...........
