Keyser & Shuriken - newsletter #60: And the beat goes on
Newsflash 21.06.2001
Dear friends,
Do you see, how fast we can be, if no bigger problems happen to us than losing
Shuriken's hard disc with all the music we have been working on till now, just three
days before the deadline for a remix? This happens, if you can't afford anything
bigger and worse than a PC. Anyone happens to know willing industry sponsors like
Akai and E-Mu?
Anyway, because of Leengum was touring with his Moving House theater company in
London, Keyser celebrated his girlfriend's birthday (Happy Birthday Zsofi!), Shuriken
took over the mixing desk for the Kristalykert show this week, and played a 4 hours
long set on Wednesday night. Who said djing is not a sport for the madmen?
This week's reading goes out to all the underground soldiers, who don't get the cred,
they deserve. Keep your heads high, brothers and sisters!
"I wouldn't want to try to figure out why I was overlooked. [...] So, I don't think a
lot of people knew what I was doing or maybe they didn't think it was important, the
people that are running it, trying to run the music. That's one of my feelings. I
didn't try to analyze it. I just kept going and playing with all the people that I
was playing with and having my own band and just kept playing my ass off. Even now,
every time I get behind the drums, it is my most serious time of the day for me. It's
a serious thing in life, to play music and to be as sincere and real as possible. I
don't worry about what didn't happen or what happened. I was playing with the
greatest people in the world. I was one of the greatest drummers ever, from day one
and to hell with that. I mean, I go back to thinking, like, people say, "Oh, you're
underrated." I hate the word. My wife used to say it and just hate to hear that.
People say it as if it's something to brag about. At least I lived long enough to be
able to get some of the credit I deserve. I made a statement one time when I was
receiving an award in Anaheim. I said, "I recently read in an in-flight magazine on a
plane, 'In business you don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.'" I
always knew how to handle myself. They didn't know what I was doing. It took people
like Pat Metheny to say Roy is a motherfucker. OK, Stan Getz in his way. Charlie
Parker in his way. So now they see that I'm still playing and that a lot of younger
people want to play with me, successful people, both financially and musically, like
Chick Corea and all, so now they take attention. The first big award I got was the
Jazzpar prize, which was in another country. And that did a lot for me. They started
looking at me. Roy Haynes is still playing. He's making records. He's got a Grammy
for this and that. A lot of people jump on the bandwagon. I was never bitter.
[...]
Wherever I perform, it will be jazz that I'm performing. And it will be swinging. And
I want people to feel that Roy Haynes is the swingingest motherfucker. I would just
like to sit, over in a dark corner and swing all night. And if I can't swing anymore
then I'll stop, but as long as it makes the audience feel good, the musicians feel
good, and I feel good, I'll keep swinging. And the beat goes on. "
Spotted in an interview with Roy Haynes (one of Shuriken' favourite jazz drummers).
Read the whole piece at: http://wwww.allaboutjazz.com/iviews/rhaynes2.htm
Keep on swinging till next week!
Keyser & Shuriken
Playlist
Tilos Radio (http://tilos.hu)
Kristalykert (Crystal Garden - 20.06.2001) - DJ Shuriken
Listen:
Lo-fi:<http://tilos.hu/mp3/24/Wednesday/0000.m3u>
Hi-fi: <http://tilos.hu/mp3/96/Wednesday/0000.m3u>
1. Tipsy - Fur Teacup (Asphodel)
2. Waxolutionists - Waterdrops (Sound Conspiracy)
3. DJ Krush - Only the Strong Survive (MoWax)
4. Shurik'n - Memorie (Tanto)
5. John Kennedy - Going to the River (Tru Thoughts)
6. Amon Tobin - Wires & Snakes (Ninja Tune)
7. Dub City Fanatikz - Start (CD-R)
8. Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (Instrumental) (Rawkus)
9. Sub Bass Monster - 4 Utem (Acapella) (1G)
10. DJ Spinna feat. Monet - Bahia Blues (Rythmx)
11. Jurassic 5 - In the Flesh (Pias)
12. Beck - Beercan (Bongload)
13. Atlantis - R.M.O. (Strickly Breaks)
14. Roy Haynes - Equipoire (Mainstream)
15. Jazz Q Praha - The Wizard (Supraphon)
16. Assertion - Assertion (Melodia)
17. Rae & Christian - Hold You Down (Grand Central)
18. Sly & the Family Stone - This Is Love (Epic)
19. Mex Nadrabrahma - Steady Rockin (Instrumental) (Blue Juice)
20. Cam - Search for Love (Rythmx)
21. Dynamic Syncopation - Dedicated (Ninja Tune)
22. Mama Oliver - Eastwest (Kruder & Dorfmeister remix) (G-Stone)
23. Madrid de los Austrias - Despejado (Sound Conspiracy)
24. Fug - El Diablo (Nuphonic)
25. Dub City Fanatikz - Drakudub (CD-R)
26. Kela - Keep On (Jazz Fudge)
27. Outkast - Adios King Salsa (Life Enhancing Audio)
28. Da Lata - Inae (Palm)
29. Sergio Mendes & Brazil 77 - Zanzibar (A&M)
30. Grupo X - Xposure (Loft)
31. S-Tone Inc - La Boca Del Rio (Schema)
32. Alola - Jazzmatic (Alola)
33. Eric Truffaz - Sweet Mercy (Bugge Wesseltoft remix 33 on 45) (Blue Note)
34. Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella - New Standards (Schema)
35. Dus - The Kat-Choo (SSOH)
36. Phoney - Trans Pennine Expres (Nuphonic)
37. Truby Trio - Allegre (Compost)
38. UFO - Cosmic Gipsy (Descarga Dub) (Talkin Loud)
39. Stratus - L'Hotel Particular (Universal)
40. Amorf Ordogok - A MIR Helyere az Urbe (CD-R)
41. APE - Blind (Electric Tunes)
42. Ricky Richards - Nature Boy (Treacle)
43. Rae & Christian - It Ain't Nothing Like (AtJazz remix) (Grand Central)
44. Sight & Sound - Fragment of Fear (Strickly Breaks)
45. Lonnie Smith - Play It Back (Blue Note)
46. Marvin Gaye - T Stands for Trouble (Motown)
47. The Adacement - Stone Folk (Strickly Breaks)
48. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Going Out of My Head (A&M)
49. Nancy Wilson - Quiet Nights (Capitol)
50. Fila Brazillia - Another Late Night (Treacle)
51. Lalo Schiffrin - Sampans (?)
52. UFO - His Name Is (Deadly Mission mix) (Talkin Loud)
53. Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor (Blue Note)
54. Szent Gyorgyi Albert TV interview 1974 (Hungaroton)
K&S events in the near future:
30.06 Budapest, Nap Hall: Tilos Party /w Richard Dorfmeister
26.07 Hajdúböszörmény: 10. Kotta Festival
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Respect: all people @ Tilos Radio
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