22 March 2011

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE vinyl rips!


Već prije sam postao jedan album od AHC, ali ovo je pravo blago:
5 albuma izripanih sa vinila u lossless formatu. Dakle prava rijetkost, ali i nevjerovatan gušt jer bas ore duboko i trese tebe, sobu, namještaj, susjedov luster i goblene njegove bake (ionako su ružni i imaju premalo pixela).
Pronađeno negdje drugdje na netu kao i obično...(čuvajte se Rusa!)
Hvala Avaxu na udarxu.
A sada za one koje zanimaju pojedinosti i tehnikalije evo ih u svom njihovom sjaju:
African Head Charge - 5 Albums
Drastic Season - Environmental Studies
My Life In A Hole In The Ground - Off The Beaten Track - Songs Of Praise
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz FLAC tracks Artwork Filesonic 4,2 GB
Reggae, Dub Label: On - U sound 5 LP stereo
E, pazi sad ovo je vrlo bitno: zvuk je nekompresiran i ovo je DVD - AUDIO, ponavljam DVD - AUDIO. Ako želite ovo slušati u nekom "manjkavom" formatu, bježite od ovog posta glavom bez obzira.
- 24bit/96khz vinyl rips of 5 African Head Charge albums:

1 Drastic Season
2 Environmental Studies
3 My Life In A Hole In The Ground
4 Off The Beaten Track
5 Songs Of Praise

The DVD-A has a menu system allowing selecting of each individual album or track on an album for playback.
This DVD-A is only playable in any DVD-A player.
ManWhoCan's vinyl ripped by Euripides.

Rip rig: Nu vidju kakav rig srcetij****m

Vpi HW-17F Record Cleaning Machine,
Heybrook TT2 turntable,
Origin Live! Power supply and DC motor,
Origin Live! modified Rega RB300 Tone Arm,
Lyra Helikon M/C Cartridge,
Denon PMA 8500 Integrated Amplifier (Phono Section Only)
ESI Systems Juli@ Sound Card sampling at 96Khz/32bit.
Measured S/N ratio for this system was -86 dB
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1)
African Head Charge - Drastic Season
On-U Sounds October 1983 (UKLP) ON-U LP27 Recorded - 1983
Electronic, Reggae, Dub, Experimental, Lee Library

Featuring percussion by the one Style Scott; Congos by Bonjo I; produced by Adrian Sherwood. You should already know about African Head
Charge, but for those who don't....

(from Skysaw):
It always seemed that Adrian Sherwood's future-proof labelling of his early eighties On-U Sound albums, as for example - "another 1992 On-U
Sound production", was an affectation at best & mild megalomania at worst. Listening back to that work now the arrogant young producer's
artistic licence can be acknowledged as precociously well founded, especially when applied to the work of the unit known as African Head Charge
(AHC). This virtual band coalesced around the percussion talents of Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, Bonjo to you & me, subsequent to the demise of
Creation Rebel, a real time band who had been subject to the rigours, disciplines & boredom that recording, rehearsing, touring & playing
inevitably bring.
The "Drastic Season" LP (ON-U LP 27) was originally released on vinyl on the 20th of October 1983. Like its predecessors it was a largely
instrumental affair with little actual dubbing & no detectable vocal samples. However the sound of Sherwood's production had become radically
different with the move to Southern Studios, where state of the art digital studio hardware lived in harmony with the hard edged punk ethic of
the musicians who inhabited the area by night. The first phase of AHC's development was coming to a logical conclusion, as on their future
recorded output we would discover more studio generated ideas & the introduction of more chants & captured vocal & ambient sounds (samples)
whilst Bonjo conversely emerged as the leader of not only a real band, but also a fully-fledged touring outfit.

So this set finds Head Charge very much in mid-stream. Bonjo had not yet carved out his niche as the happy-go-lucky king of the ethno-chant so
beloved by the festival-goers of UK & Europe. The sound of "Drastic Season" is stop-go, at once urgent but searching, wired & speed-fuelled,
some would find the listening experience failing to stop short of the psychotic. The band suffered from not conforming to one particular category
or another, not reggae or new wave & certainly not new romantic! Who would play this on radio? Which promoter would take the risk of presenting
this stuff in live performance before a crowd of innocent & gullible students? Where was this music coming from? The answer was - the mind &
fingers of Adrian Sherwood who regarded the album's studio sessions as...

"...experiments in active frequencies, out of time noises, rhythms within rhythms & endless tape edits (edits on edits) resulting in the ultimate
cut-up & paste job..."

...which, in retrospect, can be seen as an integral learning experience for the then young producer. When "Drastic Season" was originally released
On-U Sound were not in the habit of commissioning sleeve notes for their albums. However, a few sporadic press releases crept out of the On-U
bunker, including this one:

"A high-tech rhythm mix of human, animal & machine sounds, captured on the Southern Studios digital rig by the "wackid' mixer ADRIAN
SHERWOOD, up in sunny Wood Green, "DRASTIC SEASON" features that On-U rugged bass sound. Check it if you're a dancer, a listener, a film
maker, a computer programmer, a human or an animal. Special treats in store for steam locomotive enthusiasts & biologists. You've never heard
such sounds in your life (to quote ESP)."

2)
African Head Charge - Environmental Studies
UKLP: ON-U LP19 September 1982

Drums: Bruce Smith,Ben Bow,A.V.Scott & Mus' Come
Bass: Keith Logan, George Oban & Crocodile
Guitar: Crucial Tony
Keyboards: Fuse, Nick Plytas & Steve Beresford
Percussions: Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah
Melodica: Dr.Pablo
Harp [Chinese]: Kishi Yamamoto
Horns - "Deadly" Headley Bennett , Dave Flash Wright , Steve Beresford
Sounds, Effects - Crocodile

Engineer:Steve Smith
Producer:Adrian Sherwood
Studios:
Recording:Berry Street (London,UK)
Mixing:Berry Street (London,UK)
Mastered By - Kevin Metcalfe


3)
African Head Charge - My Life In A Hole In The Ground
On-U Sound Records 1981 UKLP: ON-U LP13

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE My Life In A Hole In The Ground (Original 1981 French issue On-U Sound label 9-track vinyl LP.
One of the most revered albums of the post-punk era on Adrian Sherwood's label, largely due to it being an impressive
retort to the collaborative success of Brian Eno & David Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts released earlier that year.
Film trivia fans take note, Far Away Chant was used to scary [& surreal!] effect in David Lynch's Wild At Heart. Glossy
picture sleeve ON-ULP13).

This LP my dear visitors is one of the very best On-U Sound
productions as far as I'm concerned. I would call this 'Urban
Ethnic Experimental Dub ina London Sauce', all stirred up to this
magnificent dish by 'Chef' Adrian Sherwood. Close your eyes and
let the music take you on a staggering trip without boundarys.
And again it's from 1981, what a year indeed.

4)
African Head Charge - Off The Beaten Track
On-U Sound Records August 1986 (UKLP and UKCLP) UKLP: ON-U LP40 / UKCLP: ON-U LP40C
Electronic, Dub, Reggae, Lee Library, World Music

Additional Musicians - Skip McDonald, Jah Wobble

5)
African Head Charge - Songs Of Praise
On-U Sound Records November 1990 (UKLP/CD1/CLP) UKLP: ON-U LP50

Personnel:

Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah (percussion),
Prisoner (drums),
Sunny Akpan [aka Sonny Akpan] (congas, percussion),
Crocodile (bass),
Junior Moses (bass),
Bruce Smith (drums),
Charlie Eskimo Fox (drums),
George Oban (bass),
Nick Plytas (keyboards),
Perry Melius (drums),
Tony Phillips (guitar),
Wayne Nunes (bass),
Skip McDonald (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals),
Jah Wobble (bass),
Andy Moses (djembe, percussion).

link list:
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