s w e e t b e a t s december.23.1999 - #100 ============================================================================= album : bedroombeats - sweetbeats one hundred artist : various year : 1999 time : 11 tracks, 58:53 minutes ============================================================================= A little journey to smoothen your mood and moisten your moment, let this be your escort into internationally influenced electronic beats in the finest, sweetest of style. Sweetbeats celebrate our one hundredth release with a compilation of a special kind. Each member has chosen one track from our past ninety nine releases. As our theme, each track includes a female voice. It has been just less that 2 months since the inception of Sweetbeats as a named group, though the true essence of us stems from a long history of friends who simply share music. As the mp3 phenomenon develops, doors open, the music flows, and friends come in... ============================================================================= To accentuate this compilation each of us offers their thoughts about their choice of track: 01 Kosma - Les Promesses d'une Chevelure Kosma--Universal-1997-sb (Instinct) Can we say seductive? The gentle rolling drumbeat, funky organ samples, string ensemble, and flute work so well together. The feeling I get when i listen to this song almost makes me wish that my living room's decor included lava lamps, a shag rug, a disco ball and a hot tub in the corner. There’s not many tunes out there that make you feel sexy; this tune happens to be one that does. ...and that voice, that ever so sexy french voice speaking just barely above a whisper. The beauty of this tune almost makes you cringe with delight. I admit I cannot speak French. I have no idea what this girl is saying. The fact that I don’t understand her makes the song all that much sexier. For all I know, she could be talking dirty, or she could be insulting me and telling me how much she hates me. You know what? With a voice and accent like that, I couldn't care less what she's saying. --k 02 Tosca - Natural One_Step_Ahead-(vinyl)-1999-sb (Straight Ahead Records) Anyone familiar with downtempo electronic, knows Richard Dorfmeister, one half of the legendary K&D. You may also know his other project Tosca, but you might not know this track, which I think is one of Tosca's finest. There is a hush of female vocality here, gliding along in melodic midtempo on high spirits. Music is in the air - all around us, on its own medium that we tap into. We dig and dig, searching palates for just the right colour, that specific sound that makes us say 'yes!'. For those moments that we capture it, we hear magic.. and we owe all of this to the musician. Music is so important to me that it is like my food, my nourishment. I thrive on it, and it thrives on me. --h 03 Statik Sound System - Amazed by you (Aim mix) Statik_Sound_System--Remix_Selection-1998-sb Good music creates an atmosphere when you listen to it, which makes it deeper and more meaningful than the inputs that went into making it. Aim's mix of Statik Sound System's - Amazed by You, features everything that I like in a track -- solid beats you can nod your head to, and vocals that add to the depth of the music, together creating a positive, energizing atmosphere. It's a track that you can put on at any time of day, and regardless of your mood you'll be happy with your choice. --s 04 Arling and Cameron - Gershwin Donuts_3-Lazy_Beats_for_Lounge_Lizards-1999-sb (Bolshi) There are a huge amount of songs that I wanted to put on the sweetbeats compilation but because it wasn't supposed to be a 40 CD release I was forced to pick one good track from all the gems out there. One criteria to recognize a good song is that I get aroused in the same way as when my girlfriend is stripping. Things that get my dick up, beside viagra and my girlfriend, are DJ Cam's Mad Blunted Jazz, portishead, massive attack and from now on this track can put it up as well. Eventually, after long consideration, Gershwin from Arling and Cameron was chosen to represent me on the compilation for a couple of reasons. Although I never had heard of them I fell in love with the song right away. During this six minute ear orgasm a mighty female voice was frying my brain while redefining chillin' out while having a party. --g 05 Nicola Conte - Bossa Per Due Eighteenth_Street_Lounge--Jet_Society-1999-sb It was immediately obvious - within the first minute of hearing this track, that Bossa Per Due would become one of my favourites for times to come. this music is definitely an international thing- bringing us closer to all parts of the world. It transports us far away, yet brings us all together at the same time. Nicola Conte does just that for me. Listening to this music reminds me of another place, a simpler time. It could be any place really, but there would be friends and smiles all around, and life would be wonderful. --a 06 Mo Horizons - Foto Viva Mo_Horizons--Come_Touch_the_Sun-1999-sb *yawn* just waking up from a previous bedroom session here... the sleeping kind. what oh what does mo'horizons--foto viva mean is the question. It seems to me it means silence with a voice. what more could music mean in its truest form. if one artist's expression could captivate a listener enough where the lyrics and instruments convey thoughts from one mind to another. mo'horizons can, and do, take their art to this level in "come touch the sun." in picking "foto viva," i only hope to open you, the listener, up to the experience i have taken from this album. enjoy it, and remember that we all contribute in different ways to art. my contribution is to make you aware. you may use that knowledge to make a better selection the next time you are in my place. --mbj 07 Attica Blues - 3ree (A Means To Be) Attica_Blues--Attica_Blues-1997-sb 411 Videomagazine once did a profile on Chad Fernandez, he was skating to this beat that was just unbelievable strong. I found out in the credits that it was a song called "3ree" by Attica Blues. From that moment on my search began for their album. Nobody in my area had that CD for sale. So I emailed my sister in Amsterdam and put her on the quest. She found the CD and sent it to me. My sister r0x! So does this album. BUY IT! --hp 08 Journeyman - Spy Ninja_Cuts-Funkungfusion-1998-sb (Ninjatune) What does he want? where is he going? Those where the first questions that raised the first time i heard this track. Very low, almost dissynchronised beat, lower than down echos and then... this voice, tragically there, majestically there, this voice sampled live from nowhere that keeps the track together and brings it up, up higher than up. A vertical audio landscape that works for both opening and closing my eyes. After a couple of years of intense listening, i found that this track keeps on asking me, "what do you want ?", "where are you going ?" and that questions put together, can be asked with a smile on my face. --c9 09 Sven Van Hees - Tsunami (inside my soul) Sven_Van_Hees--Gemini-1999-sb Sven is great for those easy late night dosing off experiences. He makes you feel the now totally. His flowing drumloops and samples makes you wonder how cavemen liked to chill... Enjoy this sweet like chocolate taste from Belgium. Peace out to all headz that know the true meaning of the word GOD: Give Or Die. --o 10 Lahr - Backyard Rising Lahr--Lyrical_Amusement-1999-sb The buildup of this track has the same atmosphere as most of Massive Attack's Mezzanine has, the guitars remind me of the KLF's Chill Out album, both are classics. It's also a track with the least obvious female vocals in it, as that's mostly not my cup of tea ... Outside of that, just listen to it, talking about it is just a waste of time. --ch 11 Anthea - Don't Explain Serve_Chilled-1999-sb (hedkandi) Even though we passed up on releasing the incredible full length effort by anthea, a few compilations featured her outstanding vocals. encompassing a spectrum from the helpless danzel in distress to a hardened diva, anthea's vocals on this track transcend above butter into the divine state of liquefying butter. basslines remain faint, allowing her vocals to stand out, and yet maintaining a consistent and chilled rhythm for the whole four minutes. perfect for the aftermath of bedroom session, anthea will bring the mood down and calm your pulsing heart from a pounding throb to a subtle twitch. --ap ============================================================================= We worked quite a bit on this release, from the basic choice of the tracks, the covers and our write ups. We really hope you enjoy it. secret handshakes all round to cool new friends we have met underwater (who's names i'd like to mention, but won't) oh and umm: happy winter solstice, merry christmas and safe new year! ============================================================================= Mp3's are here to improve music, link artists to listeners and not products to consumers.. Who in hell defined music as a product? We believe in promotion through exposure. By discussing, sharing, and introducing quality music to people who may otherwise never be able to experience what we call the downbeat. From labels like Pork, Ninjatune, Ubiquity, Mo'Wax, Warp, Hed Kandi, Instinct, SSR, News, Compost, Mole, OM, Dorado, Tritone etc, etc. Above all, our finest respects to the artists and their labels. s w e e t b e a t s greetings to groups who love the music they share ------------------------------------------------- kw mgc impg sour cms ube igr grve qdp ms emission =============================================================================