Frantically Calm

artist: DJ Trax
title: Frantically Calm / (ICR remix)
label: Misspent Music
catalogue: MISSPENT003
format: digital download
date: 11/2007
country: Hungary

"Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace." - Marianne Williamson

info:

It's been 18 years since his debut and DJ Trax doesn't seem to be put off by the new millenium angst that's creeping into every genre. More to the point, he delivers a hefty piece of MUSIC. Is it drumandbass? Is it an extremely cinematic and emotional sample of an Eastern European expressionist movie sountrack? Frantically Calm is creeping in at halftempo and then gets 'frantic' in an avalanche of breaks and an ear-mollesting bassline intertwined with acoustic guitar licks that make you wish you knew how to play a damn instrument! The flip has the man behind Misspent, ICR, picking up the main elements of the original and coming up with his own interpretation of Frantically Calm: live breaks, muffled melancholic piano chords and the ubiquitous guitar licks run through the remix sounding like there's a whole band jamming on stage rather than one man and his computer.

words by TRG (myspace.com/trgproductions)

Song For A Change

artist: ICR
title: Song For A Change / (faalb remix)
label: Misspent Music
catalogue: MISSPENT002
format: digital download
date: 10/2007
country: Hungary

"While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

info:
ICR keeps coming up with intricate atmospheres to keep the chin-stroking massive busy, and he's also got the straight beats and pounding subs to make a change. Oh, that's exactly what the tune says! Song For A Change is a plea against aggressive-for-the-sake-of-it drumandbass that has been plagueing the scene, but at the same time taps into a social vein that listeners can't ignore. It's that type of song that makes you associate sounds with colours, events, feelings and when it becomes tactile, it peaks and leaves you in a higher state. Faalb is an up-and-coming electronica producer that takes the sweet harmonies in the original and, in Gescom style, skilfully glues them on a Skam-esque skippy and distorted pummeling beat. It serves as a delicate but firm aftershock of it's dnb cousin but it should become a firm favourite to fans of Bola or Vector Lovers.
words by TRG (myspace.com/trgproductions)

Spotlight mix by Stunna

"For the next installment of my 'spotlight' series, I've chosen to shed light upon one of Drum+Bass's most prolific producers to date. With his unique and diverse creations, ICR (Zoltán Gál - Budapest, Hungary) has released music on countless labels throughout the world. Recently launching his very own digital label to distribute his mass amount of work output, MISSPENT MUSIC is a breath of fresh air for music lovers in search of quality through diversity."

http://www.musicv2.com/listen.php?m=38967

Tracklist:
01. Something About Nothing (Intro)
Misspent Music 2008 ( from the digital download album Something About Nothing - http://www.myspace.com/misspentmusic )
02. Skin Shades To Red
Tentative Recordings 002 2008 ( http://www.myspace.com/tentativerecordings )
03. Weight Of Soul (Part One)
Misspent Music 2008 ( from the digital download album Something About Nothing - http://www.myspace.com/misspentmusic )
04. Coral (Prode): ICR rmx
from the forthcoming Versus album featuring 21 free tracks
05. Simply Peace
from the forthcoming Versus album featuring 21 free tracks
06. Fly feat. Jason Brock
Counter Intelligence Dub ( http://www.myspace.com/counterintelligencerecs )
07. No More
Misspent Music 2008 ( from the digital download album Something About Nothing - http://www.myspace.com/misspentmusic )
08. ICR vs Mentalien - Playground
from the forthcoming Versus album featuring 21 free tracks
09. Sense Of Touch
Misspent Music 2008 ( from the digital download album Something About Nothing - http://www.myspace.com/misspentmusic )
10. Almost There
Influence Records Dub
11. ICR vs Aus - Stargazing
from the forthcoming Versus album featuring 21 free tracks
12. Watch Me, Absurd
Exegene Dub ( http://www.myspace.com/noisecorrosion )
13. The Nonbeliever
Counter Intelligence Digital Dub ( http://www.myspace.com/counterintelligencerecs )
14. Leadium (Gnome): ICR rmx
from the forthcoming Versus album featuring 21 free tracks
15. All Your Secrets
from the forthcoming Versus album featuring 21 free tracks
16. Touche
unsigned
17. Fake
unsigned
18. Love, Hate & Between
Transmute Digital Dub ( http://www.transmutedigital.com/ )
19. Angels
Misspent Music 2008 ( from the digital download album Something About Nothing - http://www.myspace.com/misspentmusic )
20. Overtime
Red Mist 005 dub ( http://www.myspace.com/hazeyhaze )

Misspent / Long For You

artist: ICR
title: Misspent / Long For You
label: Misspent Music
catalogue: MISSPENT001
format: digital download
date: 10/2007
country: Hungary

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has." - Anita Brookner

info:

Shying away from the blueprint of techy liquid rollers or formulated drumfunk, ICR goes for leftfield sonic aesthetics to express his own take on progressive, positive music. Misspent is a moody piece of drumandbass that sets off with an incredibly physical and epic soundscape that brings complex architecture to mind. The drumwork reclaims his Offshore affiliation with a driving yet understated b-line and sub stabs that punctuate the tune's discourse. Misspent is cinematic and emotional, a Mihalkov movie set to music of a higher form and function. Long For You follows the same aesthetics but in a more optimistic, liquidy manner over a straight 2-step pattern, with instrumental elements that make this one for the sunrise crowd.
words by TRG (myspace.com/trgproductions)

Jah Meditation / Totem

artist: Loxy & Munk / Matt-U & ICR
title: Jah Meditation / Totem
label: X-tinction Agenda
catalogue: XA008
format: 12" vinyl
date: 07/2007
country: UK

Loxy & Keaton's label represents the near 'X-Tinct' sound of true D&B. Loxy and Munk take smash X side to bits, with the brooding 'Jah Meditation' A harmonious cocktail of mysterious ambience, energising beats and bassline menace. Matt U & ICR freak out on side Y. Paranoid intensity 'Totem' is pure darkness dancefloor D&B at its best. Lurking bass reverberation build a sense of dread as they roll over acid bleeps and melodic mist.

Back 2 Front / Razor Blade Runner

artist: ICR
title: Back 2 Front / Razor Blade Runner
label: Flatline Audio
catalogue: FLATLINE003
format: 12" vinyl
date: 07/2007
country: USA

info:
Flatline Audio, the USA's premiere hard and heavy D&B label is back with another stomping release. This one comes courtesy of ICR and the lead track 'Back 2 Front' mixes a Hip Hop swagger with enough harmonic discordance to seriously upset your sense of balance. 'Razor Blade Runner' on the flip is equally as disturbing, with esoteric sounds blending with a rumbling bassline and stepping drums to create another slick ear grinder.

V.A. - Buried Treasue

artist: V.A.
title: Buried Treasure
label: Offshore
catalogue: OSRCD001
format: CD
date: 04/2007
country: USA

info & tracklist:

Offshore is proud to present it's first album, Buried Treasure. In the form of 10 unmixed, exclusive and unreleased tracks, this CD is sure to please current fans and cultivate new ones.
To sweeten the deal, Offshore's aesthetic mastermind, CEDE, created an actual "Buried Treasure" comic strip featured on the CD insert and stars the ever popular mascot, Bing. All of the favorites are here, so take a musical journey through 10 tracks that help further define the Offshore sound and carve out a new future with the addition of a new format to the catalog.

01 ASC "Fragments"
Written and produced by James Clements. ASC wrote this with Offshore in mind. Those are always the tracks that we love!

02 Graphic "Stop Motion"
Written and produced by David O'Brien. Graphic's original beat for his project with Beans. Beans wrote lyrics for it, but they didn't mesh nearly as well as "I Am Metal".

03 ASC "Fotophresh (Cloak & Dagger Rmx)"
Written and produced by James Clements. Additional production and remix by Evan Gach. ASC remixed a Cloak & Dagger tune, so Cloak & Dagger came up with the 'combine and remix' idea for two of ASC's great Offshore tracks, "Photosphere" and "Fresh".

04 Graphic & Slide "Crash Kit"
Written and produced by David O' Brien and Seth Orgain. Graphic and Slide watched this track get added to and removed from the release schedule numerous times. We can't let them go through that again.

05 Raychem "Time for What?"
Written and produced by Jón Berg Jóhannesson. Raychem constantly sends us great music. We finally decided to showcase it.

06 Martsman "Marksman"
Written and produced by Martin Heinze. Martsman captured Offshore's attention with this track. We planned a 12" backed with "Ago", but that appeared on the second split with Commercial Suicide.

07 Intex Systems "Aural Void (ICR Rmx)"
Written and produced by James Clements. Additional production and remix by Zoltan Gal. ICR remixed this "Troubled Waters" exclusive after ASC's remix of "Change Inside" appeared on OSR011. We can't keep it to ourselves any longer.

08 Resound "Something"
Written and produced by Ilpo Karkkainen. Resound brought us this piece as the B-Side to OSR011. In the end, it did not appear on that release.

09 Fanu "Defunct Drums' Depression Decade VIP" Written and produced by Janne Hatula. Fanu gives his Offshore debut the VIP treatment. We don't have another 10" series though.

10 Sileni "Twitchy Droid Leg VIP"
Written and produced by Chris Leamy. Sileni's VIP of his seminal track. As the fifth rework in total, this marks the final chapter.

Released May 7, 2007 in the UK and June 4, 2007 in the US. Available digitally right now from Bleep! Preorder your copy at Breakbeat Science.

Stumbled Upon Me

artist: ICR
title: Stumbled Upon Me
label: Fragments
catalogue: FRGMNT051
format: CD
date: 04/2007
country: Ukraine

info:
Has been releasing music since more than three years now on such labels as Breakbeat Science, Basswerk, Nerve, Offshore, Good Looking, Fokuz, Exegene to name but a few. After last year's debut LP on Covert Operations - not to mention his acclaimed free diary albums - ICR is back with a new CD. Stumbled Upon Me features 12 unreleased tracks, some old and never heard before, some new, but all in the usual ICR-favour which you might know well for now. The CD will be released in April 2007 only in Ukraine.

tracklist:
01. Touch The Sky
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=913
02. Aphelion
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=912
03. Snowdrop (remix)
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=911
04. Second Chances
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=910
05. Distant Grace
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=909
06. On Your Side
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=908
07. The Blues
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=907
08. Pointless
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=906
09. Four Some
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=905
10. Fading Aquarius
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=904
11. Stumbling Hungarian 7000 Miles From The Caribbean
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=903
12. Every End
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=902



http://fantomas.com.ua/music/i26406.html

V.A. - Discoveries Of The Deep CD

artist: V.A.
title: Discoveries Of The Deep - Mixed by Dreazz & Drumorigins
label: Fokuz
catalogue: FOKUZCD001
format: CD
date: 11/2006
country: Netherlands

tracklist:

Few weeks after the release of the Album, Fokuz decided to release the official fokuz mix cd including all the album tracks , plus a few bonus tracks of earlier released material to spice up the mix. This album is a pure bliss. Listen to it from beginning till the end, and you�l know what we mean. The mix flows up & down like an ambient rollercoaster, and once you join the ride theirs no stopping it no-more. The mix features a wide spectrum of artists who can be considered the most upfront producers of todays atmospheric drum&bass scene. Artist involved are Bcee & Lomax, Autumn, Spinor, Drum Origins, Mav, J cut, Stunna, ICR, Syncopix, Soulproof, Physics & Resound.

tracklist:
1. Implex - Shape of time
2. Drum Origins - 16th Chapter
3. Bcee & Lomax - Letting Go
4. Syncopix - Treat me Right
5. Autumn & ICR - Yesterday
6. Kubiks & Lomax - Destiny Calling
7. Mav - Ocean Phantom
8. Soulproof - Whisper in my ear
9. J CUT - Deep End
10. Stunna & Release - Halucinate
11. Physics & Resound - Starshade
12. Spinor - Revenge

So Unloved / End Of Me

artist: ICR / Macc
title: So Unloved / End Of Me
label: Counter Intelligence
catalogue: CI006
format: 12" vinyl
date: 09/2006
country: Netherlands

info:

So much quality music out there that we want to give props to right now� so for CI006 we're bringing you prime tasters from two producers that always take the time to craft something truly unique�

Side C: ICR - So Unloved

24 years old Zoltan Gal from Hungary has played a significant role in Hungary's emergent dnb scene, not only is he editor of Hungarian dnb webzine Impulsecreator.hu, he has also represented his country on wax since 2003. In that time, he's had a very healthy smattering of releases on labels such as Breakbeat Science / Orgone, Basswerk, Offshore, Good Looking, Covert Operations, Nerve and Fokuz.

Now he comes to Counter Intelligence with 'So Unloved', a haunting low-key roller inspired by the moody and reflective world of minimal movie soundtracks. A low tremulous piano is keyed ominously, marking time as the track's gliding rhythms propel it ever-forward, culminating in a cut-up drum workout that never feels at odds with the deep and heavy atmospherics that remain so prevalent throughout�
Watch out for further material from ICR here on Counter Intelligence and on Flatline Audio, Thermal and Exegene, plus appearances on Offshore and Vibe'z compilation LPs. Details of all his latest releases can be found by checking http://www.drumandbass.hu/icr

Side I: Macc - End Of Me

Drum-propagandist Macc is on something of a roll right now and thus it's a pleasure to welcome him back to Counter Intelligence after his proxy appearance on CI002 with Beta 2's remix of his awesome 'Drum Day'. Here, on 'End Of Me', Macc takes on the famed Apache break and feeds it through the studio rhythm-grinder with the dexterity that only a man schooled in Jazz proper could really achieve� the flow is never interrupted throughout, and the breaks roll effortlessly against a backdrop of beautiful melancholia.
Keep an eye out for forthcoming Macc 12"s here on Counter Intelligence and on Offshore, Outsider and Subtle Audio.