Purple Penguin

 

Offical site

http://mission.netgates.co.uk/purplepenguin/purple1a.html

http://www.purplepenguins.co.uk/

http://www.smelly-tongues.com/fans/fanart/computer/purplepenguin/
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cup of tea

albums

1996 Purple Penguin

1997 De-Tuned

1998 Question 这个专集封套见下：

EP

1994 Passion/Tribhuwan

1995 Pressure

1996 Mountain

对Purple Penguin club的采访

特约编译：ala

忘记Britpop吧!Bristol已成为英国那一场音乐革新运动—新浪潮运动的圣地。随着Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky在国内外大获成功，Bristol的情形现在看来比以往任何时候都火。

我同 Ben Dubuisson碰了次面，他是Purple Penguin唱片公司和旗下dj们的管理者，有空的时候会以Purple Penguin的化名录制自己的音乐。

Purple Penguin唱片公司的唱片,设在Colston Hall上一排挺有点意思的不落俗套的专卖店里。出售的音乐是jazz-funk, hip hop, drum & bass, 实验hip hop，以及任何你期望在一个酷club里听到的，但不是house或严格意义上的jungle而是以上一切的混合。这家店特别出售从美国引进的独立hip hop音乐比如Solesides。由于很多大零售商只经销主流品牌，与时兴的独立品牌，因此能在伦敦以外的地方找到这样一家唱片店,能买到比如Jap Hip Jazz的cd，前卫jazz，rare groove,以及其他罕见的音乐风格，简直是象呼吸到新鲜空气一样让人惊喜不已。如果你想碰到Bristol的艺术家们，这是个好去处。“他们中大多数人会时不时突然来访，portishead乐队的Andy Smith ，Geoff Barrow会在这里买他们公司旗下的唱片，Ronnie Size也偶尔来。he has brought his DAT round to pick up breaks这是个非常友好的地方，在录音室里大家互相间都很帮忙，想出不少主意。 ”

Purple Penguin的构想最初是作为著名的Cup of Tea之夜的一个加场开始的。 Ben Dubuisson协同Pip Diaz (who runs the up and coming Cup of Tea records).筹办了Cup of Tea之夜。他仍与Cup of Tea的一群人保持密切联系，因为他自己的作品就是在Cup of Tea厂牌下发表的。 Ben Dubuisson在Henry & Louis and Smith & Mighty 和 the More Rockers的其余人合集录音了一张名为Vision Factory的录音室专辑。“我让乐手们唱歌，吹喇叭；我录制伴奏音乐。” Cup of Tea确实声势日壮，尤其在他们定期做短期表演的欧洲地区。值得一提的是很多演出采用团队现场表演的形式，于是演出不再是dj们唱独角戏。Cup of Tea还是个地下的小厂牌，但旗下的Static, Spaceways, Monk & Canatella , Crustation,当然还有Purple Penguin的逐渐被大众青睐，使得Cup of Tea厂牌正引起市场的一阵骚动。

我问 Ben Dubuisson 在Bristol的club现场场面怎么样。他说“It's small outside of house as everything seems to be，尽管house已濒临彻底死亡。Techno可能成为很棒的东西，但house已融入主流而且它也无力拓展音乐的边界了。Club的场面比现在这会儿活跃得多。”不过，说起来还是有些不错的夜间活动和不错的club的。“我想说这会儿最热闹的是Sky Juice，在一家名为Leo's的 Club里。他们今晚会找来Alex Reece大玩一场，而且总在后面一个房间专门播放slow beats/ grooves。”

Cup of Tea之夜还在进行中。有一个星期六晚上John Stapleton doing one room, Dr. Jam每隔几周星期五在一个很好的，真真切切让人感觉音乐无限的夜场Thekla也有表演。“我在做它时，我们让Kruder &Dorfmeister的每个人to getting regular drum and bass DJs outside of a jungle night, 让Geoff Barrow 和 Andy Smith 在四个录音座上打碟。在'Bass is Maternal'正式发行后More Rockers ；Smith & Mighty在那里第一次做了特别表演。Smith & Mighty的再生令人激动振奋，他们完全有理由没到过场，因为London Records拒绝出版他们的作品。他们站在他们的时代之前，而伦敦人太落伍做不出那样的音乐。

我问 Ben Dubuisson,jungle是否在Bristol受欢迎。“是的，像Full Cycle就深得人心，More Rockers的情势看涨，Bristol drum and bass有自己十分独特的声音，不是我能定义的一些东西。有人做这种音乐很久了，可能最早的drum and bass唱片出自Smith & Mighty。我想如果你要尝试找到Bristol新声的起源，你得追溯到80年代有极大影响力的Dugout Club。Wild Bunch的成员们正是在这里培养了他们的天才。”

我问 Ben Dubuisson他认为b最近的潮流动向是什么。

“Bristol的情形过去是在这里，在公众的注意前；将来也会在这里。Bristol新声像美国东西岸不同的hiphop那样，他是这块地方的特性，这里有一种不同的对生活的态度。与伦敦的距离使它理所当然成为另一个世界，人们实际上并不总以伦敦为焦点。Bristol有一个优势：它是一处文化大融合的所在。结果是促进了相互间友好合作，创造出个性的声音而不是导致敌对 。

 

 

原文：

The Bristol Revolution - Down with the Purple Penguin

Forget Britpop, Bristol has become the mecca for the new wave of British innovation in music. With the success of bands such as Massive Attack, Portishead, and Tricky on a national and international level, the Bristol scene is looking stronger than ever.

I met up with Ben Dubuisson, who runs Purple Penguin Records, DJs and still finds time to record his own material under the monicker of Purple Penguin.

Purple Penguin Records is situated in an interesting, leftfield, row of specialist shops just above Colston Hall. The music sold is a blend of "jazz-funk, hip hop, drum & bass, and experimental hip hop, everything you'd expect to hear in a good club, that isn't house, or strictly jungle, but that gives a good mix of everything." The store especially deals in imported U.S. independent hip hop such as Solesides. A lot of the major retail outlets only deal with major label stuff and trendy independent labels, so it is a breath of fresh air to be able to go somewhere outside of London where you can find Jap Hip Jazz records, avant-garde jazz, rare groove, and other equally refreshing vibes. If you want to bump into some of the Bristol artists, this is a good place to come. "Most of them pop in from time to time, Andy Smith and Geoff Barrow from Portishead buy some of their records from here. Ronnie Size comes in occasionally, he has brought his DAT round to pick up breaks. It's a very friendly place. People help each other out a lot here in the studios and with ideas."

The concept of Purple Penguin started out as an extra night to the well known 'Cup of Tea' nights, which Ben helped organise with Pip Diaz (who runs the up and coming Cup of Tea records). Ben still has close contact with the Cup of Tea posse as he releases his own material on the label. He records his music at the Vision Factory which is where Henry & Louis and Smith & Mighty and the rest of the More Rockers collection record: "I get musicians in like vocalists or trumpet players, and I do the backing tracks." Cup of Tea is really starting to kick up big, especially in Europe where they regularly do gigs. The great thing is that many of the acts can play as live groups, which doesn't restrict the nights to just DJ affairs. The label is still underground and small but it's creating a buzz with the likes of Static, Spaceways, Monk & Canatella , Crustation, and of course Purple Penguin.

I asked Ben what the club scene was like in Bristol: "It's small outside of house as everything seems to be, although the house thing is dying a complete death. Techno might be going some but the house scene has crossed over to mainstream, and it's not pushing any boundaries. The club scene has been more lively than it is at the moment." However, saying that, there are some good nights, and some good clubs; "The night I would say that's creating the biggest buzz at the moment is Sky Juice, at Club Leo's. For instance, they've got Alex Reece playing tonight and they always have slow beats/ grooves in the backroom.

The Cup of Tea night's are still running, there's a Saturday night with John Stapleton doing one room, and Dr. Jam, there is also a night every other Friday night at the Thekla which is a great night ,and is really pushing boundaries. When I was doing it we had everybody from Kruder & Dorfmeister, to getting regular drum and bass DJs outside of a jungle night, to having Geoff Barrow and Andy Smith playing on four decks." More Rockers and Smith & Mighty played their first gig back there after 'Bass is Maternal' finally got released. The rebirth of Smith & Mighty is exciting, they might as well nothave been on the scene, with London Records refusing to put out their material. They were ahead of their time, and the people at London weren't tuned in enough to work that out."

I asked Ben if the jungle scene was kicking it big in Bristol, "Yeah, stuff like Full Cycle (the label co-run by Roni Size and D.J. Krust) is causing a stir, and More Rockers are going strong. Bristol drum and bass has quite a distinctive sound, but it's not something I can quantify. There have been people making this type of music for a long time. Possibly some of the earliest drum and bass records were things by Smith & Mighty."

I guess if you were to try and trace the origins of the 'Bristol Sound', you would have to go back to the hugely influential Dugout Club during the 80s. It was here that the Wild Bunch posse (including Nellee Hooper and 3D, Daddy G, and Mushroom from Massive Attack) first nurtured their talents. I asked Ben what he thought of the recent surge of interest in the Bristol Scene; "The Bristol scene was here before the publicity and it will be here afterwards. The Bristol sound is like the difference between East-coast and West-coast U.S hip hop. It's kind of the nature of the place, it's laid back and it creates that kind of groove. There's a different attitude to life, 120 miles from London it might as well be another world. People don't actually look to London as a focus."

One of the advantages of Bristol is that there is a great cultural mix, however this doesn't lead to antagonism but rather to mutual friendliness, co-operation and a unique sound. Check new sounds on the abstract experimental tip from Purple Penguin, Static, Henry and Louis, Crustation (now signed to a major label), and the rest of the Cup of Tea posse.

You can contact Purple Penguin Records at:
70 Colston Street
Bristol
BS1 5AZ
Phone +44 (0)117 929 0860

Written by Phil Meadley


editor@fly.co.uk Published on 26th of April 1996

Track List

Artist: Purple Penguin
Album: De-tuned
Label: Iron Music
Date: 1997
01. Tombstone
02. Only
03. Mountain
04. Tribhuwan
05. No Action
06. New Harlem
07. Mute Noise
08. Razor
09. Passion
10. So High
11. Pressure (Re-Mix)
12. Memphis
13. End Theme


Artist: Purple Penguin
Album: Question
Label: Cup Of Tea
Released: 10/13/1998
1. Intro, Opening Question 3:54 (Purple Penguin)
2. B- Drum 4:22 (Purple Penguin)
3. Melody 4:07 (Purple Penguin)
4. Return 3:46 (Purple Penguin)
5. Descendent 4:35 (Purple Penguin)
6. Non Deadly 3:40 (Purple Penguin)
7. Raw Deal 4:04 (Purple Penguin)
8. Apollo 4:37 (Purple Penguin)
9. Indoctrination 3:58 (Purple Penguin)
10. Western Interlude 2:54 (Purple Penguin)
11. Diamond 4:08 (Purple Penguin)
12. Dust 5:00 (Purple Penguin)
13. Closing Question 3:37 (Purple Penguin)
14. (Untitled Track) 4:38 (Purple Penguin)
15. (Untitled Track) 6:22 (Purple Penguin)
16. (Untitled Track)

also appears on
Title:Sonar '98
Label: Import (generic)
Released: 08/25/1998

1. So Tell the Girls That I Am Back in Town (Johanson, Jay Jay)
2. Caravan (Tenor, Jimi)
3. (Untitled) (Hippaly)
4. Plis Infinis No 2 (Galliano, Frederic)
5. Beyond Thoughts
6. Owai (Mouse On Mars)
7. Peter Gang's Theme "TV People Eat Brain Sauce" (TV People)
8. Apollo (Purple Penguin)
9. Braille (Digi Ozone)
10. Aeropuerto 77 (Nairobi Trio)
11. Assym Joy (Sloan)
12. Disperata (Professor Angel Dust)
13. Dallas (Allen, Mel)
14. No Estaria Mal No Tener Que Saber Qué Es Lo Que Va a Pasar (Astrud)
15. Time & Space (K, Francois)
16. Message (Digs & Woosh)
17. Akira
18. Neon Madonna
19. Heaven 11 (Mayer, M.)
20. From: Disco To: Disco (Whirlpool Productions)
21. Funk Me Down (Molina, Angel)
22. Last Day (Ainsele, Oriol)
23. Shake It (Zimt)
24. Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) (Make Me Sweat Radio Edit) (Les Rythmes Digitales)
25. Shadows (Full Duplex)
26. Skyfunker (Grau, Jordi)
27. Flashback (Garnier, Laurent)
28. Explore (Porter Ricks)
29. My Life as Sparring (Loe)
30. 903 (Cockrockitagain) (Doctor Walker)
31. Timber (Coldcut)
32. Break It Down (AUX Eighty Eight)
33. I Will Be Heard (Funk Empire)
34. Dali Bop Horizon (Modernist)
35. 9 Hours into the Future (Sugeon)
36. Clique (Tarrida, Dave)
37. Ultramonotone (Sugar Experiment Station)
38. Bells (Mills, Jeff)
39. My Life Is Hell (DJ Hell)
40. Glitch (Denham, Jay)
41. 365 (Ambar)
42. Sechs Uhr Morgens (Schaffhauser, Mathias)
43. Teehetki (O [1])
44. Under Currents (Brennan, Max)
45. Beautiful Pool (Neotropic)
46. 565 F.S. (Club Off Chaos)
47. Diamond Head (Prism)
48. Torn Open (Co Fusion)
49. Doalogue (Mick Harris Remix) (Surgeon [1])
50. Untitled Music for Geography (Lopez, Francisco)
51. TGL 10-5 (Signal [1])
52. 149kia (Panasonic)
53. White Lines (Potuznik)
54. FM

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