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we've been getting great reviews for the album...
here's a few snippets and you can get the full reports here
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boomkat: ... next up is 'guernica dub', with some trojan worthy digital machinations, before 'zak' struts into the room trailing some 20ft tall funk and motown influences galore for a vitamin c slice of stereo mc-style business...
elsewhere, 'rudy' is a spacious vista of slow-mo reggae, 'revolutionary heartbeat' is a sample fest of the highest order, whilst 'on her majesty's secret pissup' is the sound of benny hill directed by tarantino...
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record collector: ... surrounded by reggae, dub and drum and bass that serves as a communal anthem, a festival soundtrack and a call for a tribal gathering all at once...
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drop-d: a fine adjustment of time is an analogue mindfield masterpiece in my opinion... appealing to the masses in the sense that there's someting for everyone to enjoy...
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connected: i was so impressed I simply had to recommend it... they've progressed considerably in the short time since 'digital brainwave'...
their general sound becoming more polished while retaining the
d'n'b, trip hop, roots and general leftfield mash-up vibe they invented...
and 'rise up' is perhaps the best Irish reggae tune I've heard!
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uk reggae: normally I’d say which are my favourite tracks but they’re all so damn good... this is summer music... festival music... as sampled “head” terry mckenna might have said in the 60s, “turn on, crank up, bliss out”...
LOOK, JUST GO AND GET IT,
YOU CAN THANK ME LATER...
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there's a track on the malicious myspace where you can also see the video for the city's got an attitude [well what's left of it after the usual youtube compression]
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the band have also got some festivals gigs lined up for the summer:
the life festival
in lough cutra castle,
june 15/16/17
[alex paterson's on here too]
full details here
the masterpeace festival
near skipton in yorkshire,
july 27/28/29
full details here
the spirit of voice festival
in galway,
oct 26/27/28/29
this still has to be confirmed...
full details here
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blending elements of trip-hop, reggae, drum & bass and ambient, dublin-based analogue mindfield’s mission statement is simple “create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes.” - gizzy d
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you can visit them at www.analoguemindfield.com
or befriend them and have a listen here
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analogue mindfield are snapper j, gizzy d, lariman, yolazy and kitty b
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the band have worked on a number of collaborations for these recordings including:
tim bran [subsonar, dreadzone, transmission]
dr das [asian dub foundation]
eric rico [producer/remixer jurassic 5, pharcyde, tupac shakur tribute album]
belka & strelka [the orb, transit kings]
electric forgiveness [jon dawson - third of never, john 'rabbit' bundrick - the who,
bob marley]
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snapper j and gizzy d met while playing with irish urban guerrillas the subtonics...
snapper j began his musical career fronting one of ireland’s most popular reggae
bands keltic posse, gigging with reggae legends derrick morgan and laurel aiken as their support band, whilst in their own right headlining at the montreaux jazz festival...
gizzy d, founding member and resident producer of loop studios in dublin has worked
with primal scream, the thrills, shane mcgowan, thin lizzy, relish, andy rourke [the smiths], the frames,
jerry fish, blood or whiskey… and more...
he is also a director of cpu,
ireland’s biggest online music resource...
nigerian-born lariman originally shot to fame in turkey where he was the leader in
the vibrant reggae scene that swept the country in the 90’s... moving from there to
ireland he became the resident mc for the legendary firehouse skank soundsystem
performing alongside brother culture [trojan soundsystem] and supporting
reggae superstars lee scratch perry and the skatalites...
kitty b’s reputation as one of dublin’s most respected session vocalists, brought
her to the attention of snapper j and gizzy d, who recruited her for the current album...
since then she has worked with belka & strelka and is due to record with labelmates
transit kings [alex paterson, dom beken, guy pratt] in the near future...
yolazy, musician/producer/remixer first began working with analogue mindfield when
he added some drum tracks and mastered their first album... he has worked with
colm o’coisoig [my bloody valentine], leroy [the prodigy], nina hynes, produkt,
the pale, stano, and has remixed and mastered for a host of others...
“a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with a vibrant brass-driven trip - they skank like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts”.
- cheshire cat of leftfield
“you’ve got to get weatherall to listen to these tracks man, he’ll fookin love ’em”
- mani [primal scream]
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