By DJ Fusion
What’s good Planet Ill crew!
It’s time again for your regular Indiesent Exposure installment – the weekly writeup that provides FREE quality music downloads and info about Independent music artists of different genres who deserve serious credit for keeping things lively and original in the world of music.
Indiesent Exposure is designed to give your ears some respite from some of the daily audio wackness that bombards the masses through the mainstream radio’s definitions of good music.
If you like what you hear and download, PLEASE support (monetarily and otherwise) these artists as much as you can in the future by hitting up their websites, purchasing some product, going to their shows, etc.
This week’s Indiesent Exposure article is going to hit heads with the AfroFuturistic sonic movement called BeatJazz.
Here we go:
Berlin, Germany’s Onyx Ashanti’s has created a jamming mixture of music that’s a pretty dope blend of Funk, Jazz, Electronica, Drum + Bass and Soul Music that he calls BeatJazz.
Ashanti creatively mixes sounds from analog and electronic instruments and samples, including some of his own invention, to make freeform grooves that diverge from “four on the floor” dance tunes to concoct an abstract audio travels Sun Ra-meets-“Lost In Space” aesthetic. Onyx Ashanti’s slow to high tempo songs on the 2 EPs below display the combo of strong passion and solid musicality that will titillate any adventurous listener.
Here is a brief description from Onyx Ashanti’s on what BeatJazz is:
Beatjazz is, in my mind, the natural offspring of jazz and electronic music. The devil is in the details though.
When I say “jazz”, I mean the concept of jazz. In my mind (all of this comes from my own personal artistic perspective unless otherwise noted), jazz is the art of improvisation.
The ability to extrapolate abstract concepts with only minor guides; key, chord progression, tempo, style, etc. it is the ability to convey oneself in any artistic circumstance. side note; IMHO, jazz has been hi jacked, abused, raped and robbed of its power over time by various HWI’s (hacks with instruments)…
Now, when I use the term “Beat”, I mean Rhythm, or rather computer generated rhythm. I do not mean to insinuate a stylistic connotation by its use. In other Words, by beat, I don’t mean hip hop OR drum n Bass OR house OR Breakbeat OR….I mean the common aspects of all of them.
“Beatjazz” therefore is a technical concept of rhythm-centric improvisation.”
Besides the futuristic way his music is created (check out the videos below to see how wild heads go with the live performances), Onyx Ashanti’s music is woth exploring for anyone who feels like trying something different in Black Music, yet appreciates creative jazz improvisation.
Find out more of the latest happenings, music and other good biz with Onyx Ashanti’s creative world over at his official website, http://Onyx-Ashanti.ning.com.
Onyx Ashanti – Recursive Artifact II: Nomadic Summer 2010 Edition (Download)
Preview:
Tracklisting:
1. Slip Groove
2. Sunday at Piedmont Park-Beatjazz Blip *
3. Drexicyan Lullaby-Beatjazz Blip *
4. Solar Flares-Beatjazz Blip
5. Le Le, Let me tell ya somethin’ *
* Personal Favorite Tracks
Onyx Ashanti Live From Bauchhund Gallerie (Official Bootleg – March 13, 2010 – Berlin, Germany) (Download)
Preview:
Tracklisting:
1. Carnival
2. Broken Algorithm *
3. Don’t Stress *
4. The Future is Yours (Sunny Day Reprise)
5. Silicon Ancestors *
* Personal Favorite Tracks
Music Video #1: Onyx Ashanti: This is Beatjazz (May 2011 – TED Full Spectrum Auditions)
Music Video #2: Onyx Ashanti – Beat Jazz
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Music Video #3: Onyx Ashanti Grooves (2008)
[pro-player width=’450′ height=’350′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/v/oBueqplFjJU?version=3&hl=en_US[/pro-player]
DJ Fusion’s E-Mail: djfusion@planetill.com (Back Up: blackradioisback@gmail.com) w/ the Subject Line “Planet Ill Indiesent Exposure”
DJ Fusion is the creator and co-host/mix DJ of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast (hit up http://FuseBoxRadio.podomatic.com for the radio show archives + podcast and our overall official site at http://www.FuseBoxRadioOnline.com) which has been dropping Black Radio vibes since 1998 and the blog BlackRadioIsBack.com, two areas trying to fight audio B.S. one day at a time…check folks out around either way when you can. 🙂
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