Os presento a uno de los mejores productores y menos conocidos de la escena techno de Detroit. Techno por llamarlo de alguna forma, ya que la música de este hombre tiene tintes techno, house, hip hop, etc etc. Como el mismo dice, techno, house, hip hop, es todo lo mismo, música de baile!
Con ustedes SHAKE SHAKIR!!!
Aquí el muchacho ha hecho de todo y creado escuela. Muchas de sus producciones se pueden ver como seminales en la creación de nuevos estilos. Por ejemplo, su uso del sample en Arise, donde construye un temazo de techno-house a partir de un sample de Weather Report, ahí lo llevas! (Cuanto hemos renegado durante nuestra época rebelde de grupos como este, Weather Report, o Steely Dan, cuyo tema Peg constituye media canción en el "Eye Know" de De la Soul). En fin, se me caen los pantalones con este tío. No recordaba tanta excitación musical desde los tiempos en que descubrí a UR, no digo más.
Un poco de historia: "
Detroit producer Anthony "Shake" Shakir is one of the more underrecognized, underappreciated names in American techno. A bedroom producer since 1981, Shake had an important role in helping shape the early Motor City sound associated with artists such as Juan Atkins / Model 500 and Derrick May. He worked with May and Carl Craig as a producer, writer, or engineer on several early tracks onMetroplex, and worked in management and A&R for the label (as well, he's often joked, as being the janitor) during its formative years. His first solo material appeared on Virgin's seminal Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit compilation with 'Sequence 10'. Known as something of a techno purist, Shake has distanced himself from the European scene many of his colleagues have turned to for support (this accounts somewhat for his continuing obscurity), and his music is stylistically closer to second wave artists such as "Mad Mike" Banks and Claude Young — hard, stripped-down tracks which owe equally to techno, electro, hip-hop, and funk. Shake's visibility and reputation have risen in more recent years as a result of his Frictional and Puzzlebox labels, the latter of which he formed in 1996 with fellow Detroit electro / techno producer Keith Tucker (formerly of Aux 88). Releasing a series of records both solo and in combination (usually under the name Da Sampla), Shake and Tucker'sPuzzlebox Records has, along with Underground Resistance and Guidance Recordings, become one of the more coveted sources of straight-up, no-bones Detroit techno."
Bueno, yo os pongo aquí la recopilación que el maravilloso sello holandes Rush Hour ha sacado con un retrospectiva del trabajo del caballero en su propio sello Frictional Recordings. La cosa es más relevante de lo que parece, ya que el underground de Shake Shakir solo sacaba ediciones muy limitadas de 200 vinilos. Así que la compilación vale su peso en oro. Si no miren el valor de los EPS en el mercado de segunda mano.
YOURS TRULY
