Kidzen
Future Classic
JAZZ
KIDZEN is an alias of heavyweight Sydney musician, composer and bass player CAMERON UNDY. Nominated for the 2006 Australian Jazz Artist of the Year award, Undy's history of playing over the last 15 years reads like a who's who of jazz, having recorded and shared the stage with greats including MIKE NOCK, SAM RIVERS and DON PULLEN.
Cameron has also been closely involved with artists fusing jazz with abstract dancefloor beats. He can be found in the credits for titles such as 'Verve Remixed', and on labels including UBIQUITY, COMPOST and GIANT STEP. He has also toured the world and recorded with top producers such as MARK DE CLIVE LOWE, 4HERO, BUGZ IN THE ATTIC, MEGASHIRA, NATHAN HAINES, SEIJI and KABUKI.
Split across two discs (album and remixes) this release features a formidable cast of Australia's best jazz musicians including CARL DEWHURST, GERARD MASTERS, FELIX BLOXOM, IAN MUSSINGTON, PHIL SLATER, MATT KEAGAN, FIONA JOHNSON, together with vocal contributions by INGA LILJESTROM, PAT POWELL and KYE.
Kidzen's splintered beats and unconventional time signatures unapologetically challenge the listener while rewarding us with a vision of someplace new and very special.
Equally compelling is the second disc of dancefloor re-interpretations by a selection of producers perhaps similar to Undy in their refusal to be afraid of taking music somewhere new - this is no bland exercise in "jazz-meets-dance". The remixes are an album unto themselves with substantial contributions by FUTURE CLASSIC'S own formidable roster of local producers like JAMIE LLOYD, DEEPCHILD, JIMI POLAR, PERET MAKO as well as Sydney beatmeisters REPHRASE and BETAVILLE ORCHESTRA and one of the pioneering broken beat producers, North London's DOMU. The remixes vary between future house flavours, broken beat and dacefloor beats.
STRAIGHT NO CHASER, UK "Illuminates in no small way the talents that abound in the Sydney scene" ...DON BURROWS "(Undy) does not merely recycle what he has heard but will really take music somewhere of his own".
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Um Ah!
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Sweet Happening
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Burn
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Superstitious
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Superpeople
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Mad Stream
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Mu Ha!
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Calm
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Um Ah! (betaville Orchestra's
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Superpeople (jamie Lloyd's Spr
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Burn (jimi Polar's Dimly Burni
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Superstitious (jamie Lloyd Edi
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Mad Stream (rephrase Remix)
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Supersticious (domu Remix)
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Burn (deepchild's Southern Fri
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Calm (peret Mako's Shhh/peacef
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