Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa (Warsaw Village Band): Wymixowanie (Upmixing)

Jaro / Kayax 2008

reggae/dub/ folk/etno

Following a one-year “maternity/paternity leave”, Warsaw Village Band is returning to the world of CDs and concert stages with two new albums. The first to appear will be the remix CD “Upmixing”. In response to countless requests from the world’s DJs, this CD was produced with the consent of the musicians. The band’s only condition was that it should be a Reggae remix album on the basis of their last studio CD“Uprooting”. The Warsaw Village Band wanted to avoid a mix of mutually incompatible styles. They also stipulated that several of the pieces were to be produced in various versions.

Folk music is going back to its roots – dancing and fun. But now it’s not in a village, but a club, not roots musicians but DJs, not a wedding party but a sound system.
This is the brainchild of Warsaw Village Band – joyful, inventive, danceble. The fruit of much research, hundreds of distant journeys, various fascinations, extraordinary meetings and invaluable friendships. These are the sounds of Warsaw Village Band presented from the perspective of other creators that they met and connected with along the way – Polish, British, French and Jamaican. The International success of their „Uprooting” album and BBC World Music Award opened up many varied opportunities for the band worldwide. Valuable Polish music business awards - Fryderyk and Machinery as well as other Polish and foreign awards confirmed the Warsaw Village Band’s special place on the musical map. „Upmixing”, is the futuristic realisation of the band’s latest studio album – „Uprooting”. It‘s a meeting with the best producers and DJ’s in Europe. You can hear here the work of UK giants - Trans-Global Underground, Zion Train and Love Grocer, French global dancefloor stars - Dj ClicK and Recycler. Unreleased and forgotten from the „Uprooting” recording sesssions was a track by Warsaw Village Band which was fortuitously found and beautifully re-arranged by Louis Beckett of On-U Sound/Asian Dub Foundation fame.
Many other spiritual masters also took up this apparently distant sound material of nuroots music and worked their magic.

Listen, get up and dance!
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TRACKLISTA:

1. W Boru Kalinka (Elven Mix) - Perch/Zion Train
2. W Boru Kalinka (Kalinka remix) - Dj ClicK
3. Zagrajcie Muzykanty / Spiritual Revival (Studio AS One remix) - Activator Mario Dziurex & Jarek ‘Smok’ Smak feat. Vibronics, Lutan Fayah + chór Lipsk (voc)
4. Mateusz (Horn Lane Skank) - Trans-Global Underground
5. Zagrajcie Muzykanty (Pro Baltic version) - Wszystkie Wschody S³oñca
6. Sowa - Kuba Mañkowski
7. Koza (Roots Azok Mix) - Louis Beckett
8. Baba w Piekle - Ba-Lan Soundsystem
9. A Przed Wroty (Waiting at the front of the gates) - Love Grocer (C.Petter, D.Fullwood)
10. A Przed Wroty (Przewrotny mix) - Rafa³ ‘Praczas’ Ko³aciñski
11. Siwy Koñ (Yezza remix) - Recycler (mixed by Bernard Maiquez)
12. Baba w Piekle (Studio AS One Herbal Mix) - Activator Mario Dziurex feat. Dave Hake
13. W Boru Kalinka - Marcoos
14. Polka z Sieradzkiego (Warsaw Warrior Mix) - Vibronics
15. Rybicka (Papillons Noir) - Olleck Bobrov
16. Mateusz (Lounge/Chillout Remix)- Pluck