Native Force – Music Box
Compost boss Michael Reinboth has nothing but praises for the exciting music of Native Force.
buy here: https://compostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-box
Title: Music Box
Release: 23 October 2000
Cat.-No.: CPT 075-1/-3
Format: 12″ / Digital
“Music Box blew me away when I first heard it and I have rarely heard such an energetic good quality electrified and rough tech-jazz record in the last ten years”, says Reinboth, “For me it is alongside the likes of Galaxy II Galaxy „Hi-Tech Jazz“ or Patrick Pulsinger’s “Claire” one of the rare outstanding powerful jazz-tech moments. Could be an electro-jazz future classic. The track “Music Box” was listed in Gilles Peterson’s playlist in Straight No Chaser, and seen in Jazzanova playlist as well. Listen carefully to the track after “Music Box” called “Rain”. It is one of this beautiful deep moody downbeat moments, which are quiet rare nowadays. And “Chase” is a quirky percussive house-tune with lots of live elements played by Simon Donohue.
Native Force (a.k.a. Simon Donohue) started producing music at the age of 14 using 4 track tape machines, guitars and drum machines. At 18 he landed a job as a recording engineer at a commercial recording studio. From there he entered the world of electronic music. He soon joined forces with Andy Smith and formed the Sunrise Society which went on to produce a number of Detroit Techno style EP’s on London’s Pacific Records. In 96 Simon went solo and started producing Drum’n’Bass under the name of Odyssey. His first D&B track “Expressions” was released on 720 records/ Logical Progression 2. “Expressions” quickly gained anthem status being played to death by the likes of Fabio, Bukem and Blame.
While working at the recording studio Simon engineered for numerous artists covering a broad spectrum of musical styles, one group in particular, an African percussion band, inspired Simon to learn to play congas and percussion. This in turn, led to the production of a track called “Ritual”. “Ritual” was a fusion of D&B and manic African percussion which crossed over into all areas of the D&B scene being played by Blame, Goldie, Doc Scott and the rest of the MetalHeadz crew. Simon also produced more jazz influenced downtempo tracks for Good Looking Record’s sub labels such as Earth and Cooking Records.
In late 1999 Simon started a new project under the name of Native Force and signed to DJ C1’s acclaimed Zozan Music label, from where Compost picked up this release.
Native Force project has only just began and is destined to bring some new, fresh and surprising music to light in the near future.
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