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music: stratasoul - lovesigh (abby lee tee remix)
taken from LUVLY ISLES EP http://ajlavmjuzik.bandcamp.com/album/stratasoul-luvly-isles
STRATASOUL
Poster - graphic design by Oliver Heller. Stratasoul' sonic trademark is his work with processed vocal samples, coming from 90' sould and r'n'b to acapella's of Drake or Diane Ross. The tracks of Luvly Isles are composed of many layers. Stratasoul's mix of keyboard lines, beats and vortexes of vocal samples is sonicaly saturated and at points borders on disharmony. Its is precisely these moments where Stratasoul's music gathers its beauty and intensity.
Nyní se představí v olomouckém Metro Chill Out Clubu v rámci dalšího pokračování večírku pod hlavičkou OOOH!
I am very picky when listening to rap music, but Bene is one of the very best rappers not only in Slovakia.
Stratasoul "Ayure" (DTonate Remix)
Půl roku a tři verze trvalo, než vyšel remix pro mýho oblíbence Stratasoula z jeho posledního bonus EP Luvly Isles. Dokonce to není ani ta samá, která se objevila na mým posledním podcastu, což je o důvod víc si to poslechnout :)
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All that night air has to lend us
If I were a stranger in Bratislava, I’d love to get to one of these. Say, a friend from the internets could take me. Or I could just meet someone on the street, asking for directions to the nearest hostel, and end up here. That would be lovely.
BWO TV is something special. It’s a ticket behind the scenes of Bratislava, a testimony about what varied events take place here and how they actually come to be.
It’s a party without a club but with a camera instead. Every once in a while it happens at a different location, with different people attending, always filled with great music and with a different story each time. “For instance, when Teapot played, his parents called him to tell him they were watching,” Pe:, one of the creators of BWO, who often plays under his other pseudonym Detlef Dakar, recounts one of these stories. “Or the other night we were playing at a studio at Cvernovka when the door opened, models came in and suddenly there was a photoshoot happening right there in front of us.” Where do you get to experience something like this?
This time, the place to be was Biomat’s bedroom, an austere room with a small bed, turntables, a huge vinyl collection and someone’s collection of family heirloom glass in one of the most charming parts of the Old City. You take part for one night - in person or on the internet - it’s great, and then it’s gone. Only a memory remains and it’s powerful.
BWO is a group of people who have been building the atmosphere of this city after dark for years and they’ve always managed do it completely differently than everyone else. They brought us dubstep, streaming of parties more personal than Boiler Room’s and - most importantly - they brought us partying with a big heart. They realized that clubs and pubs are not decisive. A good party can happen anywhere and anyone can participate if someone does it carefully and makes it special. You just need to know how to join, which is not a big secret. Everything else is ready.
"When we were launching BWO TV, it was more thrilling than three chapters from a Neal Stephenson novel," Pe: told me in an attempt to describe the days when BWO guys were trying to figure out how to do the live streaming. I like the comparison, it captures the energy and the adventure of these evenings. They are dark and happy and full of this strange joy.
Cycling home after dark through empty streets of Petržalka, I play the last track of the evening in my head over and over. It seems to be the only right tune for urban midnight. It is the mood of BWO.
Next time join us here.
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Keby som bola cudzinec v Bratislave, chcela by som sa náhodne dostať práve sem. Mohol by ma napríklad so sebou vziať nejaký kamarát z internetu. Alebo niekto z ulice, koho by som sa najprv iba spýtala na cestu do hostela a skončilo by to spoločným žúrovaním.
BWO TV je večer, ktorého sa zúčastniť je ako lístok do zákulisia tohto mesta. Výpoveď o tom, čo všetko sa tu môže udiať a ako to vlastne celé vzniká.
Je to žúr bez klubu, zato s kamerou. Koná sa každý raz inde, vždy so skvelou hudbou, vždy s trochu inými ľuďmi a zakaždým s iným príbehom. “Keď hral Teapot, rodičia mu nadšení volali, že ho sledujú,” rozprával mi jeden z príbehov Pe:, jeden z tvorcov BWO, ktorý hráva ako Detlef Dakar. “Inokedy sme hrali z ateliéru v Cvernovke, zrazu sa otvorili dvere a prišli tam fotiť modelky.” Kde sa vám toto stane?
Tentoraz sa rozoznela Biomatova spálňa, strohá miestnosť s malou posteľou, gramcami, obrovskou zbierkou platní a s dávno zabudnutou vitrínkou plnou rodinného skla v jednom z najsympatickejších kútov Starého mesta. Na jednu noc sa toho zúčastníte - osobne alebo cez internet - a potom je to preč. Ale tá spomienka, čo ostáva, je sila.
BWO sú ľudia, ktorí roky budujú feeling tohto mesta po zotmení a vždy to robia úplne inak ako všetci ostatní. Priniesli sem dubstep, priniesli streamované večery osobnejšie ako tie boilerroomovské. A hlavne, priniesli sem žúrovanie s dušou. Uvedomili si, že kluby a krčmy nie sú určujúce. Že dobrú party si môžeme spraviť kdekoľvek a zúčastniť sa môže ktokoľvek. Stačí vedieť, kam prísť alebo sa pripojiť. Všetko ostatné je pripravené.
“Keď sme BWO TV rozbiehali, bolo to napínavé ako tri kapitoly z Neala Stephensona,” povedal mi Pe: o dobách, kedy chalani pred rokmi vymýšľali, ako zmajstrovať live stream zo žúrov. Strašne sa mi to prirovnanie páči, lebo vystihuje energiu a dobrodružstvo sršiace z týchto večerov. Ich temnotu a radosť.
Bicyklujúc nočnými ulicami domov do Petržalky, prehrávam si v hlave posledný track večera. Toto je tá správna hudba pre mesto po polnoci. Toto je nálada BWO.
Nabudúce sa pridajte tu.
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Photos by me & BWO crew Thursday, 2013/04/18 @ Biomatova izba BWO TV Luvly Spring: Stratasoul, Biomat, Pha, Detlef Dakar FB, bwlog
Stratasoul – Hip Hop from Heaven
Listening to the Slovak producer Stratasoul is like a hot air balloon ride – floating and sinking into a magic aural stratosphere, bumping into a chunk of beats here, catching on a string of clinks and clanks there...so easy and carefree.
“I remember feeling fascinated when I first heared a sampled amen loop on an Atari ST computer,a gift from granddad. Without any musical knowledge or experience I set myself a goal to make music, out of fascination with something indescribable, which grew inside of me and I still could not explain, but I’m getting some hints now.”
Rarely does one come across a beatmaker whose music in not overtly dominated by the beat. It serves more as a backbone, a gentle anchor pulling together the invisible strings of infinite ethereal sounds and melodies that form probably the most pleasant sonic chaos your ears have ever met.
“Usually I’d start with some synth and basic sound design which fits my current mood, and then I’d search for chords with my shitty piano skills. I usually make a sketch instantly, and then edit it in a MIDI sequencer. Here suddenly I find myself in a process which is not of this world anymore and everything comes naturally. It actually takes a short time, but to me it seems like forever until a sketch of a track is made. Then the obsessive disorder takes place and fine-tuning of arrangements, etc.”
Stratasoul’s compositions feel like a dreamy stream of consciousness – a risky modus operandi, for it is only too easy to lose the listener on a trip where the next step is a surprise even to the guide. Here, however, you press play, and before you realize, you find yourself lost in the subtle, yet firm hold of this hypnotizing sound.
What’s the trick? I believe it has to be love, and the sheer joy of creating and perceiving music without burdening this two-way process with a heavy message or complex meaning. This simple, unconscious way of expression has detail and depth that gets richer with each listen.
“When I write my music I feel overwhelmed by something. It’s as if I feel connected to some stream of calmness. I try to give an expression to what I feel at that moment, and that is why I value the very presence. It may sound megalomaniac, but I feel it in an intimate way. My music is an expression of my attitudes, sometimes naive, unsafe, you know luvly isles, honestly just sharing with people.”
Like so many other electronic musicians these days, Stratasoul is mostly drawing the vocal part of his works from 90's soul and r'n'b classics. Funnily enough, it is the interpretation of this already clichéd source that happens to be the most characteristic and unique trait of his sound. Instead of looping whole words, phrases or riffs, he deconstructs voices into fragments and sifts them through multiple effects. The result is a heavenly love message pronounced in an unknown muffled language, chipped and clumsy and shy, but full of warmth and sincerity.
“I think we are the kids of the onset of information and globalization age, so we are getting connected more and more through other aspects than our geographical or traditional cultural affinity.”
Indeed, Stratasoul’s music does not seem rooted in any realia – be it cultural, ethnic or social. In fact, it does not have anything to do with Earth at all. It is the sound of angels making hip hop on an imaginary island floating in the sky – hip hop from heaven.
<a href="http://ajlavmjuzik.bandcamp.com/album/stratasoul-luvly-isles" data-mce-href="http://ajlavmjuzik.bandcamp.com/album/stratasoul-luvly-isles">Stratasoul - Luvly Isles by ajlavmjuzik</a>
by Snezhana Bezus, find her at her blog Beatbucket.