Now-Again Records

Psych Funk 101 Full Page Review In The Wire

We think it’s a first for us here at Now-Again; it’s certainly a first for our cousins at World Psychedelic Funk Classics Records. A full page, glowing review of the Psych Funk 101 Comp in The Wire Magazine by Peter Shapiro.

An excerpt:

“I have said it many times before, but I will say it again: there is no more exciting sound in music than the sound of a guitarist barely familiar with electric amplification – or, as evidenced on this fabulous compilation of syncretic out-there funk, a saz player trying to come to terms with a fuzzbox.”

Check a pdf of the article here and go out and support The Wire, one of the last great music magazines left.

Mr. Chop Talks DOOM, Pete Rock, Future Of Fuzz Funk In Hiphopdx Interview

Mr. Chop’s Pete Rock inspired For Pete’s Sake is out now. The man himself explains it’s genesis in this interview with Hiphopdx.com

” Throughout the album, released on November 3, Mr. Chop freaks some Funk of his own with a series of intermezzos. Asked about their genesis, the producer and engineer revealed, “The interludes on For Pete’s Sake are ideas I wanted to throw in there to break up Pete’s instrumentals and help the album flow as a whole. They weren’t intially intended from the start, but after I finished the Pete Rock tracks, it became apparent that something was missing. I had a few ideas, sketches of my own that I made while editing the tracks had become tiresome. I usually do that while working on a edit, something else mutates and I’ll have to side track for a while and capture a potential new piece. This was the beginning of what became seven intermezzos. ‘Intermezzo 3’ was the first idea that bore fruit, I think they create nice little breathing spaces and perhaps the listener who is familiar with the original works of Pete Rock & CL Smooth, can do a little reminiscing of their own.” ”

Link.

Not Really A Podcast Pt. 4 – Roberto Carlos Lange’s (Savath & Savalas) “Oscuro… Parte 2.”

Savath and Savalas’s The Predicate Dub Version is out now on Stones Throw’s Webstore.

So as promised we’re now giving y’all the second part of Roberto Carlos Lange, aka Heldado Negro’s, “Oscuro Como Boca De Lobo.”

Check out over thirty minutes – “Parte Two” – of his “Oscuro Como Boca De Lobo” mix of music from the Latin American disapora here: Roberto Carlos Lange: “Oscuro Como Boca De Lobo Parte Two.”

Track List:

1. Chano Pozo – Mongo Santamaria y Amigos
2. Se Me Olvido Que Te Olvide – Grupo Folklorico Y Experimental Nuevayorquino
3. Nananina – Bush y Sus Magnificos
4. Sombrero de Panama
5. Pollera Colorada – Corraleja 71
6. Canto Asoyin – Grupo Folklorico Y Experimental Nuevayorquino
7.Abusardora – Blas Duran
8. Intro – Atahualpa Yupanqui
9. Untitled
10. Yo Que Soy Americano – Nelly Palacios

Now-Again In DJ Hero

That’s right – Now-Again’s Connie Price and The Keystones and Freedom Express (pictured above) are featured in DJ Hero, out now. Get you blend on and cut up Freedom Express’ “Get Down” and Harlem Underground Band/Afrika Bambaataa’s “Zulu Nation Throwdown” or blend The Keystones and Bobby Bland.

The Freedom Express will be featured on the Soul-Cal anthology CD and 2LP, which we’ll release in conjunction with Stones Throw in early 2010.

Announcing: Savath & Savalas The Predicate Dub Version

We really enjoyed an album we released earlier this year with Stones Throw – Savath and Savalas’s La Llama. It served as an excellent summer soundtrack, with Eva Puyelo Muns’ breathy vocals sliding around casual melodies and caressing rough hewn beats crafted by Prefuse 73 and Roberto Carlos Lange. Well, summer’s gone, fall is upon us and winter will be here soon. So this new entry into the Savath and Savalas book – etched by a new production entity we know only as “The Predicate” (Prefuse knows all types) – fits perfectly.

Who woulda thunk it – “Catalan-folk-psych with minimalist-electronic-sensibilities” re-imagined as an excursion in neo-dub? Not us, but La Llama: The Semi Dub Porn Version eases us into autumn with a just enough bounce to remind us of the warm days past.

It will be up as a digital album this week Stones Throw’s webstore. We’ll be releasing part two of Roberto’s “Oscuro Como Boca De Lobo” podcast at the same time. Stay tuned.