For fans of Pop Ambient compilations, this is one of the very few Andrew Thomas' records. Little info on him can be found around, most reliable is New Zealand's Involve site (check here).
In the Discogs review it's described as 'one of the best Kompakt releases so far'. I totally agree. A must-hear.
I guess you must have noticed I've never posted a Kompakt record before. I don't think they need the promotion - everybody knows their style - and sincerely I don't like to fuck with 'big' companies. So, this small ambient jewel will stay up only for a few days. The only reason I'm posting this is that I feel it's totally overlooked and it's a real shame.
Andrew Thomas - 2003 Fearsome Jewel
Info here.
P.S. 2010-02-01 Link removed, for the reasons explained above. One week was enough. If you liked it, go and buy it.
Fearsome Jewel
Wickedness Rerubbed
Unitone HiFi is a group of New Zealand origin with Jamaican influences and New York connections releasing on a German label.
And that's more or less what I knew about them before this post. Anyway, I gather they're virtually unknown to anyone outside NZ and specialist fans of the Crooklyn sound or Incoming! (*) electro dub.
On the sleeve they characterize themselves Dub-Hop, which in a way sounds right cause they use some junkbeat drum loops and samples and some scratching. Still the rest are all dub as you know it, heavy and weird. Their first album here presents their style really adequately.
The remix album contains reworks by Incoming projects like Drome, etc. plus some from Muslimgauze, Rockers Hi-Fi, Manasseh, Immersion (Colin Newman & Malga Spigel) and a classic by Funki Porcini.
Unitone HIFi - 1995 Wickedness Increased
Part 1 - Part 2
Info here.
Unitone HiFi - 1996 Rewound & Rerubbed
Part 1 - Part 2
Info here.
