SFTG is celebrating their 20th anniversary with a vinyl-only “Alchemy” release and special mix for radiOzora after some thoughts from the studio at the end of the garden with Nick Woolfson. Tune in on 14th July 2014 Monday 8pm CET on the Chill channel. Reruns: 15 Tuesday 2pm, 16 Wednesday 8am, 17 Thursday 2am and 20 Sunday 8pm. Stay tuned!
UK duo Elliot Morgan and Nick Woolfson make some of the most stunningly rich, dynamic, bass-heavy downtempo instrumentals on the planet. They are pioneers of ambient dub, an exotic style first championed by defunct UK label Beyond Records and then picked up and continued to this day by North American label Waveform. Although dub in its original form is the tripped-out instrumental flipside of reggae, there is quite often no overtly Jamaican flavour to Morgan and Woolfson's work. The dub element is more in the recording techniques (looping, echo, etc) and lovingly produced basslines that rumble, slide and snake their away around the room with enormous presence. Neither is the duo's take on dub the minimalist approach of modern purists. They concoct soulful, exotic and tuneful widescreen panoramas, wound together with muscular rhythms and big, crisp drum loops that sometimes have a tribal or ethnic edge. Rhythmic downtempo from the psychedelic trance scene owes quite lot to these guys: listen and learn.
Sounds From The Ground don't really belong to any decade or period save an electronic one. Their albums still sound as vital as the day they were released. Any sounds the duo took in from clubland or other circles over the years seems to have been readily absorbed into their arsenal to be used as needed, not because they were trendy at a particular time. Put SFTG's albums on your stereo, crank up the volume and prepare to be moved!
Track list:
1. Sounds From The Ground - Chrome Horizon - Ready Steady Slow - Upstream
2. Vincent I Watson - Sagittaria - Serene - Pyramid Of Mars
3. Floating Points - Myrtle Avenue - Eglo Records Vol 1 - Eglo
4. Aybee - Moon’s Whisper - Worlds - Deepblak
5. Sounds From The Ground - Sharpline - Alchemy - Upstream
6. Kjofol - I Want To Say To Marijane - Lune - Apparel
7. Vlastur - 20 Years Later - Interaxion Dub - EQnation
8. Sounds From The Ground - Tilt - Alchemy - Upstream
9. Peace Orchestra - Shining - Peace Orchestra - G-Stone
10. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Neurotransmitter - Hydroponic Garden - Ultimae
11. Sounds From The Ground - Rye - Mosaic Remastered - Upstream
12. Generic Meds - Given Take - Unreleased -
13. Bluredism - If That’s It - Beautiful Ugly Collection - Teng
"Hope you enjoy it as its a mixed bag of new and old favourites … various styles and of course some SFTG material."
nick@soundsfromtheground.com
soundsfromtheground.com
facebook.com/soundsfromtheground
