Une petite news en bref : Buck 65 vient de balancer (hier) un album MP3 gratuit et légal sur la toile !
Ça s’appelle Dirtbike, c’est la première partie d’un triptyque et c’est Buddy Peace qui a laché l’info sur le forum de Ninja Tune. On y apprend que Dose One, Claire Berest et Buddy lui-même sont aussi de la partie.
Pas encore écouté, mais d’après les premières réactions c’est du Buck tout craché, entre Vertex et Secret House ; bref je m’attend à du très gros… LE LIEN !
ps : Le fichier est un et un seul MP3, un petit français a découpé ça en morceaux, plus simple à naviguer.
Plus d’infos sur son journal (depuis hier seulement).
Je copie sa lettre ici parce qu’il arrive qu’elles disparaissent sans prévenir…
Lovers,
I’ve been doing some woodshedding. I’ve been making beats and collecting them from some friends. I put together this thing called Dirtbike. Actually – at the risk of sounding nuts or esoteric or pretentious – the project is called Dirtbike (I figure it will be an on-going endeavor) and the first piece of it is called Lettersongs (Different Kinds of Dirt). I don’t really even understand it myself.
Anyhow, it’s a new project. It’s kind of an album. It’s one very long piece and in many ways it’s a lot like the original versions of Vertex and Man Overboard. It’s an hour and ten minutes long and is very lo-fi (sounds like crap). This is just something I did on my own time for fun – like I said: woodshedding.
But I didn’t work alone. My old friend and collaborator Jorun contributed an amazing beat that Moka Only raps on. Moka also contributed a beat for a part that was inspired by Vivienne Westwood’s Active Resistance Manifesto. There’s a « hook » in the song that goes « take action… ». I also had input and added production or instrumentation from: Buddy Peace, Emily Wells, Tom Inhaler, D-Styles, Skratch Bastid, Andrew Glencross and Serafina Steer. Oh yeah, and Doseone raps on a part – yes, raps.
There’s a « song » about Fatty Arbuckle, one about St. Anthony the Great, one about La Golue who was featured in many Toulouse Lautrec paintings. There’s also a cover of a weird French song (in English) from the late ’70′s (maybe 1980).
Anyhow, it’s a very strange, experimental, un-commercial project. I made it for my own perverted pleasures and never considered for a second that it might be a proper release. I gave a few copies to friends and that’s all I ever planned for it.
Well, I tell you about all this because it’s out there. If you’re interested in hearing it, I don’t think you’d have to search on the internet very long or hard to find it. The key word is Dirtbike1/3.
Before I put it together I felt as though I was sitting on around four hours worth or material of the same sort that I now plan to complete before the end of October. So there may be more of this kind of thing to come – soon.
I’m also working on the « proper » follow-up to « Situation » and the Bike For Three! album will be out in January.
That’s all. Hope you’re good.
Buck