I know our Wicked Sound System brothers were feeling this one when it came out. Maximum respect always family! #WorshipWednesday To help you work off those post-holiday calories we put together a special #worshipwednesday to get you moving! This episode is brought to you by label head Rob Paine and long time breda Zack Eberz with their track “Night Life” off of WOR.04 ‘Night Life’ EP. Paine and Eberz released the track back in 1999 as Solomonic Sound System and deliver vibes that will certainly to get you nice for any holiday leftovers! “Night Life” is an extra special track because it is one of the songs that would essentially define the Worship Recordings sound. This sound is a cross pollination of Reggae and Dub with the groove and swing of #house at its foundation. Night Life kicks out a 4/4 drum that puts the listener in the midst of a tribal gathering lead by a bubbling bass line that hypnotizes like the most experienced Shaman. Saving you from this hypnosis is a spacey breakdown that brings you back to the reality of the jungle. During its release the EP conjured instant respect from some of the industrys biggest heavyweights. Mega producers and Morgan Page is quoted to saying, Pete Mosss remix is pure late night bliss! It worked into my mix show perfectly!. The release also gained quite the reaction from Shaboom Records creator Dick Johnson aka Magik J and BBC Radio 1 legend Rob da Bank. Let’s take a look at what Rob and Zack had to say looking back at this release! Be sure to also head over to the labels YouTube channel to catch the whole E.P! ( bit.ly/1yxoShU) Rob Paine- “The productions under the Solomonic Sound name (Zack Eberz + Rob Paine) pretty much defined the sound of what Worship Recordings is all about. Reggae and dub influenced house with a techy but groovy feel to it. We produced this before digital recording. So all the sounds were either played out of the AKAI S1000HD or S5000 and a bunch of outboard keyboards like the Roland Juno-106, Proteus 2000 or Emu Classic Keys. We used every channel of the Mackie 32x8 mixing console. Mixing down each take live and using the Ensoniq DP4 as our main dub weapon. Everyone thought we used the original Space Echo but we didnt acquire those until later on. We would play the DP4 as an instrument. It had 4 individual effect processors so we could run them on the first 4 aux channels and then a plate reverb from the lexicon LXP15. It was all hands on dubbing in a King Tubby fashion. Zack Eberz- “I would come down from Vermont and stay with Rob pretty much monthly at that time. I would sleep in the studio @ Christian St. (during the day if any) and we would work on tracks through the night. We were fresh of the Beating Heart session and our dub influenced house sound was emerging. I brought down with me a few reggae records that had some wicked samples and we really vibed on the Jah Thomas lyric from this Barrington Levy Jumpy Girl 12. The session was pure vibes, no real planning out anything just adding elements as inspired, I feel this session really was crucial to our sounds development, we were on a roll here and right after this we produced Children of Israel, which really took off.”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:43:36 +0000
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