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Some netlabels decided to get together, published and released a album of remixes. These collection of remixes are inspired by Crepusculum and are being remixed in post-production by various artists.
This release is called ‘the Sky Diaries Edits’, co-released bij 12rec and Zymogen. This collection of remixes is inspired by Crepusculum (Fred Baty).
‘Sky Diary Edits’ is really quite thrilling, the musicality of the original tracks of being remixed into the extraordinary beautiful. Where the original album by Crepusculum was totally acoustical guitar based, in the remix version the taped noises, clicks and added instruments do contribute in making a truly lucid and meditative gesture.
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Found out today.. R.L. Burnside is dead…
(for a while now, November 1, 2005, but news doesn’t seem to catch up on me fast or anything..) but I am truly very, very sad..
R.L. played the blues like no other (well maybe Junior Kimbrough along side next to him).. in very basic maybe naive way.. but he was cool doing so, he was about no bullshit!! his co-operations with the blues explosion are still very dear to me.. But most of all the life of R.L. himself is the life of a postmodern bluesman.
I understand he was playing in the sixties, I remember some obscure folk recording, but he didn’t got a proper audience untill the 90′ies. It’s so bad, you know?, that Junior died during a fire in his juke joint. Mississippi life is truly harsh.. People die in strange manors..
What is the attraction of R.L.? This old guy? playing dusty blues?.. Maybe it’s because he’s the total package of being the blues… Is it maybe because he adopted a white kid? Is it because he is mean? Is it because he his total musical appearance is so basically attractive?? Well I dunno but I for one am truly fascinated by the guy….
Other producers (like Eric Empire) took on his tracks, overdubbed and reproduced some delicate beats.. so nice to see these girls groovin’ on good ol’ R.L. ‘gonna put my foot in ya ass’ Burnside..
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so yes well whats is jmdkmBlog about?
well lets be honest about it… it aint gonna be pretty…… 
but dont be afraid.. there lots of fun and loads of stuff te be learned at jmdkm side of perceiving a natural enviroment like the one YOU are surrounded by…
for instance i would like to utter some inlfuences i’ve been lately undergoing myself..
in organising and checking out some action at the cultblender flickr group I stummbled on a artist called Steven Laurie
the question is not why the burning of rubber and the thick layers of smoke should satisfy my willingness to explore the boundaries of ‘the rough and the though’ but why this artist stripped the context down to core. To the nitty gritty I should say…he built an object, a machine just to do that voodoo that it should do, and it does it very well…
my first glimpse on the pages with pictures of this happening, reminded me of some specific kind of metal concert where adrenaline and sweat could fill up buckets.. only but for the smell of asphalt (and of course the actual burning rubber) pointed out the context of rural car admiration en social use, like for instance speed and racing…
I would like to make a connection with the work of Tijmen Smit.. at first I couldnt grap it quite, it took me some time but to be able to see more artists working on such a specific theme and material at the same time.. I believe im getting more understanding with this way of making and presenting art…
the intensity and clarity of stunning loud and overwhelming performances..
‘i’m going the distance, i’m going for speed..’
