Personal Golf Instructions from Driver Thru Putter_音乐专辑
Personal Golf Instructions from Driver Thru Putter
表演者: The Nextmen
专辑类型: 混音专辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2004-08-09
出版者: Unknown Label
专辑简介
达人兄弟乐队介绍
如果你想组织一场热力四射的party, 有两个家伙是不可缺少的，他们就是来自英国剑桥的二人组The Nextmen—为人和善的Brad Baloo 和Dom Search 。随着他们发行了两张世界范围内大获成功的专辑“Amongst The Madness ”和“Get Over It”，出现了无数对The Next 歌曲的混音专辑，再混音版本和私录专辑，再加上他们个人音乐厂牌“Custom Records ”的成立，注定这两个充满才气的家伙会继续用他们土生土长的英国hip-hop 音乐和品味独特的电子乐把2006 年搞个天翻地覆。
从他们的音乐里你听不到丝毫对时下所谓流行音乐元素的妥协，在对英国音乐充满前瞻性思考的同时，The Nextmen 还不忘从碎拍和舞曲中汲取灵感，他们更是把传统灵魂音乐的摇摆感和诱人曲风吸纳到了自己的音乐中来，可以说是一次对英格兰城市之声的重新界定，当然我们也不能忽视各自家庭对他们在音乐上的影响，“要知道，我们可是听着70 年代民谣，爵士和摇滚乐长起来的。”
The Nextmen 故事的开头并不那么光鲜照人：受到收音机里Ice Cream Tee 一首歌曲的影响，Brad 放弃了一份周末兼职的工作，加入了一支在剑桥酒馆里翻唱“The Police ”歌曲的乐队，担任钢琴手；而Dom 的第一张唱机转盘是他13 岁的时候从一辆垃圾车里翻出来的。“我是在听过“The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff ”后发现那张唱机转盘的，我简直不敢相信Jeff 用一张转盘就鼓捣出了这么美妙的声音，于是我也打算试试，我把转盘配合老式卡带录音机来使用，省去了我以前用火柴棍和胶泥的麻烦，我还用音量控制旋钮来切分段落，一个音节都不差得模仿Jeff 。”
虽然The Nextmen 的两名成员几乎参加了所有80年代末和90 年代初的剑桥hip-hop 演出，但直到97 年Brad 得到为London Posse 的单曲“Style ”重混音的机会，两人才开始了第一次正式的合作。“我们只有最基本的设备，我们都不知道自己乾了些什么，”Brad 承认。“但是大家都爱听，Westwood 和John Peel 甚至在Radio 1 都播放了这首歌。不过我仍然认为它算得上有史以来第三差的再混音歌曲”
The Nextmen 的两位成员都是London Posse 里Rodney P 的忠实拥趸，对“Style ”的再混音只是双方合作的开始，随后The Nextmen 推出了另一首热门歌曲“Hear what I say”,正是这首歌曲把他们带到了伦敦，与唱片公司签约，发行了他们的第二张专辑“Get Over It ”这张专辑网罗了不少国际知名艺人，如Americans J-live and Grap Luva, 牙买加的传奇艺人Cutty Ranks ，还有New Zealand and Fat Freddy’s own Dallas. 但是其实他们的第一张专辑“Amongst the Madness” 就已经用诸如“Mental Alchemy ”和“Turn It Up A Little ”的热门曲目告诉了整个世界，要竖起耳朵来聆听来自这支充满动力的二人组的声音。Dom 对此做出了解释：“第一张专辑受到的欢迎是一个转折点，虽然我们没有很多资金支持，但是我们做出了很多人都喜欢的音乐。”难怪不久The Nextmen 就出现在了The Groove Armada 专辑中，受遥为Public Enemy, Blackalicious 和Morcheeba 进行再混音。
接下来The Nextmen 还将有什么动作呢？Martin Brew 邀请The Nextmen 和MC Wrec的一张名为“Drop The Beat ”的12 寸黑胶已经由Fat City 发行，不久会连同其他The Nextmen 的再混音曲目收录到Martin Brew 的新专辑里。Dom Search 参与作词，制作的“Seize The Day ”被新锐北伦敦女歌手Jess Mills 重新演唱，也出现在了各大唱片店的货架上，不久之后，The Nextmen 更是会在自己的厂牌名下推出新的单曲，这首名为“Spin It Round ”的单曲邀请到了Dynamite MC 加盟 还未发行就收到了电台的关注。通过在戛纳电影节，MTV, 格拉斯通伯里，The Big Chill 等其他音乐节的演出，The Nextmen 已经准备好引爆这个夏天，那么，你准备好了么？
THE NEXTMEN BIOGRAPHY
Widely regarded the globe over as the two most indispensable ingredients for a blazing party, amiable Cambridge-born production duo The Nextmen (Brad Baloo and Dom Search) continued to set 2006 alight. In the wake of their two internationally successful albums ‘Amongst The Madness’(75 Ark) and 'Get Over It' (Scenario Records), countless mixed releases, singles, remixes, bootlegs and the launch of their own label Custom Records, this brilliant pair continue to up the ante for home-grown hip-hop and eclectic electronic music.
Their music is an eclectic, uncompromising sound that is becoming more and more their own. On one hand it's a blend of their own razor sharp slice of forward-thinking UK production which reconfigures the format for British urban music, drawing on lessons learned from diligent drum’n’bass programming, the highest grade rhythms of dancehall, the sway and seduction of classic soul, and their families musical backgrounds ("We both grew up around mysterious prominent figures in 70s folk, jazz and rock").
Pick some favourite Nextmen tunes, like 'Highscore' from ‘Get Over It’, featuring Full Cycle don Dynamite MC over a swerve-inducing halfstep drum’n’bass track. Damn, it's packing enough heat to give Tim Westwood an all-over tan and heart attack in one sitting.
Which is all a long way from their humble hip-hop beginnings: Brad abandoned a weekend job playing covers of The Police on a piano in a Cambridge pub after hearing an Ice Cream Tee track on the radio, and Dom finding his first turntable in a rubbish skip aged 13 years old.
"I found that turntable just after 'The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff' had come out and I couldn't believe what he was doing on it with a turntable. I wanted to work it out for myself, and using this old shitty thing with a tape deck attached where I had to use matchsticks and blue-tack to make it work, I used the rotary volume fader to cut with. Copied Jeff syllable for syllable."
Despite the fact that they both attended virtually every hip-hop show that called into Cambridge during the late 80s and early 90s, the pair didn't link until later on when Brad had been offered the opportunity to remix the London Posse's 'Style' single in 1997. "We had really basic equipment and didn't reallyknow what we were doing," admits Brad. "But everyone loved it and Westwood and John Peel played it on Radio 1. I still think it's the third worst remix of all time though."
Both The Nextmen are big fans of London Posse's Rodney P and that remix was the start of a relationship which has seen him appear on several of their records, culminating in the genius release 'Hear What I Say'. It also pushed the pair to move to London in 2005, sign a deal and make amongst many other things, their second album ‘Get Over It’, which featured such international talent as Americans J-Live and Grap Luva, Jamaican legend Cutty Ranks and New Zealand and Fat Freddy’s own Dallas. But it was their genius debut ‘Amongst The Madness’which featured such gems as ‘Mental Alchemy’and ‘Turn It Up A Little’that initially made the world prick up its ears to this dynamic duo. "The reception to our first album was a turning point," declares Dom. "We didn't have much in the way of funding but we managed to reach a lot of people." No wonder The Nextmen soon found themselves appearing on the Groove Armada album, and remixing Public Enemy, Blackalicious, and Morcheeba.
So what’s next for these Nextmen? A new 12” from Martin Brew featuring The Nextmen and MC Wrec called ‘Drop The Beat’is out now on Fat City Records, and is also included on Martin Brew’s new album, along with several other Nextmen mixed tracks. The Dom Search co-written/produced ‘Seize The Day’(Nuff Rope Records) by new North London Songstress Jess Mills is fresh on the shelves of all good record shops. A new Nextmen single will be released on their own brand-spanking-new label Custom Records very soon. The track featuring Dynamite MC is called ‘Spin It Round’and has been earning some advance love from Radio around the UK pre-release.
And with rocking sets from The Nextmen due at the Cannes Film Festival MTV Party, Glastonbury Festival, The Big Chill, and Bestival among others, this summer is set to sizzle!
曲目
1. The Grip
2. The Stance
3. The Woods
4. The Irons
5. Chipping And Putting
