NØ Seal of Approval...Facts, not Fiction

After putting the finishing touches on February's And??? posts, I was pondering what to do next. I basically decided that I needed to address some NSS old business. I had numerous suggestions, name-drops, requests from Frenz of NSS that I had not addressed. Then I wanted to get back to one of my longest running series: Musick that Needed Work now on letter R.

I checked out the R folder & realized it was rupturing at the seams. I had just been putting broken files in there & never getting back to them. Between the old business & Musick that Needed Work - R, I have more than enough to fill out March.

While I was perusing the contents of R, I came across a release that I had stuck there over twenty years ago & then completely forgotten. When I first purchased it back in 2004, two of the tracks on the CD were completely unplayable but I so loved the rest that I stashed in the Needed Work folder with every intention of replacing the two tracks. There it languished all these years until now. I found a copy on Discogs for $15 & ordered it. I ripped a totally new copy in .wav, then converted it to 320Kbps in Audacity. I decided I couldn't wait until March to share it with you. 

 

For me this has everything going for it. The project was the brainchild of Charlie McGougan & featured vocals by Cheshire Cat (formerly with Leftfield) & Anthony Joseph. Many top-notch artists helped perfect this release:Keith LaBlanc; Adrian Sherwood; Style Scott; Brother Culture; Gaudi; Gregory Isaacs; & more. It has been on heavy rotation here at Casa Nada. It is now one of my top-ten releases. Something about it just clicks with me. Give it a listen. Let me know what you think. 

 

Red Seal - Black Ops, Flow Records FLR0411CD, 2004.
decryption code in commnts

In a di Battle
Forces of Creation featuring Nick Coplowe (Mutant Hi-Fi) on Chinese banjo
Knowing All Clear featuring Nick Coplowe on guitar
Machine Gun Tommy featuring Keith LaBlanc on drums
Cool Down
Facts Not Fiction
Back One Day featuring Nick Coplowe on guitar
Behold I Come as One featuring Brother Culture on vocals
Voices from Beyond featuring Gaudi on samples & Gregory Isaacs on vocals
Vibration Dub (Forces edit) mixed by Adrian Sherwood
Supernatural featuring Style Scott on drums
Zorushka featuring Irina Mikhailova

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ