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January 14, 2005
I got your pasta cowboy right here
Last November, Ubiquity Records (the cats what brought you releases by Badmarsh, Bugs, Nobody, and John Beltran) put out this collection of old film and TV score tracks by studio musicians, Ubiquity Studio Sessions Vol. 1: Music And Rhythm, assembled by Shawn Lee. The premise was to go back to some old school "library music" - bed music that got peddled to film and TV - and put out the best of the best on a compilation aimed at the modern deejay. You may have run across Shawn Lee on Zero 7's Back To Mine, or on Vikter Duplaix's DJ Kicks - or at the grocery store, really, I mean how the fuck should I know. But anyway, the concept is pretty zany at heart, the idea that this library music is now potentially surfacing on dance floors or in chill rooms... or on obscure music blogs, for that matter.
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Bollywood
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Swamp Samba
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Pasta Cowboy
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Psychedelic Sambai
These and other fine, fine tracks can be heard on Comfort Radio. See you next week.
Posted by Scotto at January 14, 2005 09:00 AM
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My favorite library music track description is for a song on BMG called "Trailer Park" - Shadowy ghetto vibes from the minds of the paranoid crackheads. As I understand it, most library music is from France and Germany. Not sure why the hep cat composers here in the states haven't caught on to the cash cow. Seems more profitable than the underground dj circuit.
Posted by: kat at January 14, 2005 09:14 AM
looks like i might have spoken too soon... shawn lee might not have been simply inspired by library bed music; he might have written and performed all this music hisself. amazon says, perhaps misleadingly, "Many of these obscure library records are highly collectible for their one or two tracks, but on this release, Ubiquity compiles all killer, no filler tunes for the DJ, funk connoisseur, film, TV, ad or radio music supervisor." even the Ubiquity artist page on the album isn't 100% clear - it just says shawn "produced" the album; but several reviews i dug up say it's all his original stuff... although not the XLR8R review, which just says that he "stitches together a motley collection of studio-musician grooves". i can't tell. also, i don't care.
Posted by: Scotto at January 14, 2005 11:04 AM