Tone Scientist // Basic Moves 16 2x12 "

This is the latest work released by Tone Scientist, a dance writer in Seattle, USA, from basic Moves in Belgium in February 2022.

Contains 6 songs from Jungle-Trip Hop-Deep House.

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Basic Moves:

"Far over on the west coast of the USA we find a room full of drum machines, samplers and keyboards. Hard at work is Israel'Iz' Gravning aka Tone Scientist, who's been using this Seattle studio to produce genre-defying future music for more than 25 years.

An avid student of jazz fusion, hip hop, house, techno and others, he was galvanised to build his own studio after hearing jungle and drum & bass on a trip to London in 1995. His musical course thus intersected with the collectives then pushing new dancefloor sonics rooted in the rich tradition of Black music – like Nuyorican Soul over on the east coast, and the new broken beats of IG Culture, Dego and Bugz In The Attic in London. Then, in the early 2000s, Iz put out a handful That's not to say he stopped making or playing music, though. Far from it.

Fast forward two decades and our very own Walrus, chilly but happy in the depths of a Toronto winter, happened across'Lion Dub' in the legendary Play The Record store. Intrigued, he tracked Iz down and discovered he had been active all this time . A short email exchange later and this 2xLP of archive material was born.

These six tracks explain fully why Iz calls his studio the'Time Machine': vintage equipment and instruments converse with up-to-date software; classic sounds and textures twist into fresh configurations; and Iz's own creativity and musicality sings to us from a location beyond the trappings of time or genre. "

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All music written, produced and mixed by Israel Gravning aka Tone Scientist in Seattle / Washington between 2005 --2008 except for “Things Get Done”, written and produced in 2003, and “Bossman”, originally produced by Kris Moon and remixed by Tone Scientist ..

Artist: Tone Scientist

Label: Basic Moves