Imagine this:
Sitting in a darkened room in Dalston, London… the music pushes across a very nicely tuned sound system, (a la Cafe Oto) the artist says “not quite sure what to do with this track, or what to call it”…. In a moment of bravado one shouts out in reply “Release it!”
Well this is where the very long story starts… we won’t bother you with the other details for now, but this is the start of how we managed to have the one and only Jimi Tenor to grace the fl.oz roster!
Jimi went onto play ‘Release Me!’ live for Gilles Peterson on BBC 6 Music the following day and we’ve kind of been playing catch up ever since, The ‘brukked’ up remix and dub versions come courtesy of Special Guest – the new guise of (ex zero dB) Chris Vogado… more to come:
Watch this one blow up ;0)
Jimi Biog:
Having disbanded Jimi Tenor And His Shamans, the artist embarked on a solo career in the early 1990s, recording his debut work “Sähkömies” on rudimentary equipment in a small New York apartment. The album was released in 1994 on the Finnish imprint Sähkö, who also issued Tenor’s sophomore work “Europa” a year later, expanding on the ideas articulated on the first disc.
In spite of the experimental nature and free form of these early recordings, Tenor’s instinctive grasp of pop appeal, his spontaneity and whimsical sense of humour are clearly in evidence. On the back of a game-changing performance at the Love Parade in Berlin, Jimi Tenor scored his first hit with “Take Me Baby”, entering the charts and signing a deal with the seminal electronic label Warp Records. The three Warp albums – “Intervision” (1997), “Organism” (1999) and “Out Of Nowhere” (2000) – were touchstones in the electronic club music scene of the period. Effortlessly blending jazz, synthesizer sounds, Afrobeats and drum machine dubs, Jimi Tenor created a distinctive sound which he himself rewired and renewed. Not that his compositions were overly academic, on the contrary – they often resembled free-flowing, sporadic sketches, with an infectiously irrepressible touch of the absurd.
