The foundation of all good beat-oriented music is the drum and bass so it was a logical step for this drummer and bass player to combine their instrumental skills with their background in electronic music and interest in recording studio as instrument to create a musical partnership. Guiding their digital wayback machine through sonic realms of dub, funk, and all manner of like music they pave the way from the future to the past.

On this, their second release, our heroes disassemble, then reconstruct, 4 diverse tracks that sketch out some parameters for their upcoming travails.

The Tracks:

Casino vs Japan – Very Sunny

2 part reworking changes this floating bit of digital fluff from the “Go Hawaii” CD into a funky head and body trip. Part 1 takes some cheesy handclaps and shyly introduces elements of the original track until the little girl’s voice comments that it’s “very sunny”. Then a full scale nod-party erupts complete with Hawaiian guitar and layers of echo & reverb.

Offwhyte – Complex Destiny

Grabs the jazzy aspects of this gritty dissertation and grafts it to a new live “drums and bass” rhythm, slices and dices the both female vocal and Offwhyte on the mic, and dubs the whole thing up.

Common Factor – Disco Excorcism

Keeps the sneaky Afrobeat guitar and tweaky synth melody from this disco-techno number and wraps it in a massive stepper’s bass and 4-to-the-floor kick, adds some soaring female vocals, then radically freaks the mix.

Systemwide featuring Dr Israel – People of the Book

Completely strips this track of all but the vocals, builds a radical, junglish rhythm track then throws the kitchen sink and everything else into a wild mix that nearly devolves into straight-up thumping techno track before it collapses completely.

The Players:

Curtis Ruptash – Basses, Programming & Production

Phillip C Hertz – Drums, Programming & Production

Brett Larsen – Guitar (Track2)

Grazyna Auguscik - Voice (Track 4)

Previous Release:

Tschikago 2.001 – CROSS03 LP (collaboration with Kyborg, agf, Sarah Marrs)