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Tone Scientist

Basic Moves 16

Basic Moves

2xLtd 12"

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Cat Number

BM016

Release date

4 Nov '22

Format Info

High fidelity 2x12" pressing

Far over on the West Coast of the USA we find a room full of drum machines, samplers and keyboards. Hard at work is Israel 'Iz' Gravning aka Tone Scientist, who's been using this Seattle studio to produce genre-defying future music for more than 25 years.

Landing somewhere between Luke Vibert's Wagon Christ moniker, Pat Thomas' recently reissued "New Jazz Jungle" LP, Objekt's high-tek bass hybrids and a soundsystem friendly smattering of breaks and bass; Tone Scientist has conjured up something decidedly fresh but totally following the lineage of modern nightclub developments so as to sound natural and logical. An impressive double EP that skirts through numerous tempos and flavours, all with the dub woofers and a heavy sense of rhythm in mind. Recommended!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: A more breaksy offering from Basic Moves and Tone Scientist who observes the early days hardcore, jungle and broken beat and re-packages the vibe for modern dancefloors. Plenty of bass across a jam packed double 12" pressed super heavy and nice for the DJs sticking two fingers up at the controller brigade.

TRACK LISTING

Tone Scientist - Discrepancy
Tone Scientist - Heartache
Kris Moon - Bossman (tone Scientist Remix)
Tone Scientist - Pyramids On Mars
Tone Scientist - Things Get Done
Zion12 (aka Tone Scientist) - Esoteric Junglist

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Young Scientist

Results, Not Answers

Bureau B

When you think of the music to have emerged from Seattle, grunge and Sub Pop are probably the first things that come to mind. But Seattle was already home to a vibrant alternative music scene back in the 1970s. One of the most prominent synthesizer acts of the period was the trio Young Scientist. Influenced by the likes of Cluster, Harmonia and Tangerine Dream, they released their music exclusively on cassette. We are delighted to present their superb debut album from 1979, the hypnotic-meditative-cyclical "Results, Not Answers" on vinyl for the very first time!

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Scientist

Watch This - Dubbing At Tuff Gong

Jamaican Recordings

When people think of Tuff Gong they usually think of the record label Bob Marley set up to release Wailers tracks in the 1960s. However Tuff Gong was also the name of a complex that included a top level recording studio, pressing plant and distribution centre.

Located at the former residence of Island Records boss Chris Blackwell at 56 Hope Road, and moved to Marcus Garvey Drive following Marley's untimely death from cancer in 1981, Tuff Gong studios was used by many of Jamaica's top musicians and producers.

Engineers working at the facility included Errol Browne who had worked at Treasure Isle studios, and Hopeton Overton Browne known as “Scientist”, named by the great producer Bunny “Striker” Lee who, having worked with him previously at King Tubby’s and Channel One studios, described Browne's style as being like that of a scientist.

For this release Jamaican Recordings focus on the work carried out by the great Scientist on the songs of the Black Solidarity Label run by Ossie Thomas (aka Joe The Boss) recorded at Tuff Gong studios.

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Scientist

The Dub Album They Didn't Want You To Hear

Jah Life

Totally killer previously unreleased dub companion to Flick Wilson's "School Days" is now on CD for the first time ever. Jah Life was no slacker when it came to mixing dubs, and sat in with Scientist at King Tubby's for the mixing of many of the classic Junjo / Radics / Scientist albums. But more importantly, they also mixed a ton load of dubs for Jah Life himself, many of which, like this album, remain unreleased ...until now! Nine out of ten tracks from the Flick Wilson album are dubbed here, and one track from the Wayne Jarrett "What's Wrong..." album. Classic Scientist 1980 style mixing, nothing else like it, hard stuff. Cover features a fantastic previously unseen photo from Beth Lesser.

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1. Jah Turn The Dub
2. My Lady's Dub
3. Yallas Dub
4. Slave Master Dub
5. Where Wicked Gonna Dub
6. Facts Of Dub
7. I Don't Mind Dub
8. Don't Give Up Your Culture Dub
9. Rockers Dub
10. School Days Dub

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Seventeen Evergreen

Steady On, Scientist

Lucky Number

“Uplifting future-pop anthems that sound like a mixture of first-album MGMT and Little Dragon” The Guardian.

Five years after the release of their debut LP, Life Embarrasses Me On Planet Earth, San Francisco’s Seventeen Evergreen make an exciting return with sophomore long player, Steady On, Scientist!, via Lucky Number.

Sonic references are broad, explosive and reformulated. Late 80s/early 90s dance era pulsing pop-beats rise, hot with hope, fuelled by unique bass-lines, played like classic 60s Fender riffs, but with added synth propulsion, whilst lyrical and musical themes are always stretching beyond norms. Lyrics are immediately provoking and mind grabbing and across the album, vocals are textured like instruments in their own right.

This album is about space and density – the polarity and the duplicity of life. Names like New Order, Air, Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, Sonic Youth or Flaming Lips may come to mind, but sonically and spiritually, it’s a singularly triumphant and liberating concoction, an anthemic vision. Like their debut, Steady On, Scientist! is entirely self-written, recorded and produced and, once again, it emphasizes its creators clear and unique identity, away from the pack.

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1. Polarity Song
2. Bucky
3. President Clavioline
4. Wasting Time / Castlefield
5. Del Paso Heights
6. Fluorescent Kind
7. Dancespider
8. Burn The Fruit

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