‘All I Ever Wanted’ is the 4th single from Magic Number’s sophomore album ‘Badly Written Songs’. The original, as we know by now, is an 80s-tinged pop crossover number loaded with class, it nods to those Synth-Wave classics and is beautifully topped off with the gorgeous vocal tones of Sophia Marshall.
Considering their long history of musical antics together (and there have been many!), it seemed fitting to have Atjazz jump on remix detail initially. Atjazz smooths things out with his usual sound set of layered Rhodes, Moog, Poly-Synths and other twiddly noise-making machines. Martin firmly nails these shimmering remixes with clear beat production and modern stylings.
This is the first in a long series of reworks for this beautifully colourful album. Keep your ears open and your eyes peeled for more.
A Chi Huo. I can dress up my interests to look as high-brow as I like, but ultimately, who am I trying to kid? There are a small number of key drivers that ultimately motivate me. Music is one and food is another. So much so that the very first Mandarin phrase I learned was ‘chi huo’. It kind of means foodie, but more so, chow hound.
My days are far simpler now I live in China. Time is divided purely over: Sleep, eating, exercising, teaching, writing, music, and love. On the subject of time, being late is intolerable, similar to a mirror not being straight.
Q3: Why?
There doesn’t always have to be a defined reason. But striving to be genuine, original and a little left-field seem to be good justifications for any efforts I put into stuff, like music.
Q4: Watching?
My attention span has always been…
OK, the last movie I rewatched was Quadrophenia, mainly because it serves as a fascinating time capsule of Britain. But it’s the two accents it features that tickle me. Disenfranchised London youth’s 60s lingo, or the upper class received pronunciation. No in between.
Barbin ili is a Chinese robotic dancer. I watch her quite a lot. Some of her concepts and coordinating dance moves are outstanding and I’d love to have her in a music video one day. This video is her most skilful, IMHO.
I watch way too many podcasts on YouTube, too, namely by these guys
People watching is ‘the best’. I do it all day in China. Always intriguing.
Q5: Hearing?
A lot more detail in my more mature years. Thankfully, this includes music. I appreciate a lot more of the syncopation and tonality in the music I love and this carries through to the music I produce.
It also includes details from people’s points of view.
Q6: Playing?
All roads lead back to the classics. Well, what I view to be the classics. Life’s cycles tend to result in the return to certain moments in music. These often include copious amounts of 90s Hip Hop, The Clash and Stevie Wonder.
Q7: Loving?
I love being able to do just three things in life and they are Music, Writing and Teaching. Of the music, my new album, Clyde Beats – Hyper Reality 2 (An English Gentleman) is available now!
After the overwhelming response to the first party, Atjazz is inviting some more friends and up-and-coming artists from his label Atjazz Record Company to join him in the booth; it’s certain to be a brilliant party.
This time Bristol-based house music legend Sean McCabe is bringing his own unique style of house, broken beat and nu-jazz.
The venue is the wonderful Artum which is situated within Birmingham’s Hockley Social Club. The room is designed with one thing in mind; hearing music at its best, so we couldn’t think of a better place to hold this party. This is a small and intimate event with VERY limited tickets so please don’t hang about, get them quickly to avoid disappointment.
Andrew Ashong & Inkswel’s Eachother (Fallin’) taken from Inkswel’s ‘Astral Love’ Long Player has been in a firm place in the boxes of many DJs over the last year. We now bring you two incredibly deep remixes from Brooklyn’s very own DJ Spinna, and our own son of sound, the mighty Si Tew.
Spinna’s ‘Galactic Funk remix’ is reminiscent of his classic and untouchable “Here to There” album on BBE Records. Spinna’s beats bump along freely while he reaches into the universe for synth textures & bottomless bass drops, this is unmistakable Spinna business.
Si Tew deepens things even more with his otherworldly sound textures and pads that warm up this brilliantly crafted revision. This will fit tightly into any chill or deep house selection
“A perfect example of great sonics from everyone here” – Atjazz
The Encyclopaedia Britannica says “funk defies literal definition”. Damn right it defies literal definition. What on earth is “funky”? Are any of those “funky house” tracks truly funky — ie, exhibiting that unmistakable marriage of bass and beats that propels heads to nod. Those are scarce.
In fact, if you want remarkable funk, head to the unremarkable English city of Derby where Clyde, aka Clive Astin, resides. His track Serve It Up is outrageously funky. You’d have to be in a coma not to rock your head to this tremendous tune that features the laid-back rap of San Francisco’s Capitol A. And there are many other up-tempo corkers that will elicit a similar finger-snapping response.
Roll Of The Beast, Broken Slang, and Gedaroom will all send booties a-shaking, such are their infectious rhythms. But before you whip out your flares, understand that Clyde’s sound is a contemporary one. Amid the catchy grooves are elements of hip hop, soul, and a hint of house. Combined with Clyde’s knack of fusing fulsome basslines with beguiling beats and you have a rare phenomenon: a dance album that’s genuinely funky.
Track 6 (Mix 1) Throwing a mixture of styles from Afro to Tech with lush undertones. Another no-nonsense dance-floor release from Martin Iveson aka Atjazz as he continues his musical journey through sound, stamping his assonant trademark as per usual.
Track 5 from this increasingly popular straight up house jams series from Atjazz. These are, as stated, “no-nonsense dance-floor releases” from Martin as he continues his musical journey through sound, stamping his assonant trademark on route. Track 5 gets very emotional and continues the super crisp sonic of the previous 4 Tracks. Sun-downers and late-nighters all in one sound.
Not at all what you would expect to be delivered by a young South Africa producer with his heart in dance music!.
Jazzuelle is a gentle and humble soul who dives to great depths where others fear to go. Inaugural EP is true artwork in it’s naked form, and with your eyes closed this wonderful music guarantees to create beautiful images for it is loaded with imagination. I for one ‘Martin Atjazz’ am seriously taken a back with this entire release and wanted to write about this awesome work myself as it has really touched my soul.
My choice cuts from the EP are Birth Of Venus, Dark Arts, and also Belverdere Café. All of the offerings on the EP are amazing but these three for my tastes really jumped out at me. You will find influences from far and wide within this collection and even fans of Steve Reich, Bonobo, Motorbass & J Dilla are going to love the diversity of this wonderful collection of songs.
“I’m very proud to have this record on my label, it’s not often once receives this amount of imagination in one hit” Atjazz
