Browse by Artist: COBBLESTONE JAZZ

Artist:	COBBLESTONE JAZZ
Title:	Dump Truck EP
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WAG 014EP

"Danuel Tate, Tyger Dhula and Mathew Jonson release their first record on Wagon Repair. We have waited for this moment a long time! 'Dump Truck' has elements from our live sets with a new twist and some really nice new keys from Danuel. 'Peace Offering' is something all new from the same mix session after we drank some Jameson's and had a smoke in celebration of mixing 'Dump Truck.' Only a few weeks old! Enjoy! Dump Truck Peace Offering -- written, mixed and produced by Cobblestone Jazz. Cobblestone Jazz is -- Danuel Tate, Tyger Dhula and Mathew Jonson."

Artist:	COBBLESTONE JAZZ
Title:	India In Me
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WAG 018EP

"Cobblestone Jazz has been performing live electronic music for five years together. The three members of the group are programmer Tyger Dhula, keyboardists Danuel Tate and Mathew Jonson. The nature of their music balances electronic composition with a live and moving element that results in the exploration of many different styles. Cobblestone is a bit of an anomaly in this day and age of studio refinement, opting to approach music from a performance perspective first, as opposed to recreating studio pieces for their live shows. A large part of this is due to the involvement of Tate, whose background as a jazz musician has led to a large emphasis on playing live. The group's influences range from jazz and dub to breakbeats and minimal techno, and many points in between. Likened by some to electronic whales singing to each other, the groove undulates and develops constantly over the course of each session. Both tracks are recorded and mixed in a live outboard setting. No pre-arrangement was done; the tracks are just improvised and mixed straight to tape. Both build and destroy dancefloors, capturing minds and feet, waking us up to the unique and unmistakable sound of Cobblestone Jazz."

Artist:	COBBLESTONE JAZZ
Title:	DMT
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WAG 025EP

Limited one-sided release. "After the overwhelming success of last year's singles 'India In Me' and 'Dump Truck,' the irrepressible Cobblestone Jazz present DMT as a taster in anticipation of their debut album. DMT was recorded while making the upcoming full length, however will not feature when the album drops later this year. It is a white label teaser, and the track's pulsing and imminent progression mimics the very purpose of its release. Cobblestone Jazz produce their tracks live, with a strong emphasis on improvisation, and the trio of programmer Tyger Dhula, keyboardists Danuel Tate and Mathew Jonson, make full use of their formative jazz training to transform the musical outfit into a pragmatic and responsive unit, a living and breathing creation, free of formulaic sequence. 'DMT' is a particularly good example of this, progressing with a confidence and purposefulness that borders on sensual mastery. Samples and trace sounds are revealed into the mix, weaving a hypnotic and infectious reverie that calculatingly refrains from climax. A display of power that is anything but vulgar, Cobblestone aren't showing us all their cards just yet. Magic."

Artist:	COBBLESTONE JAZZ
Title:	Lime In Da Coconut
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WAG 029EP

"The irrepressible Cobblestone Jazz present the first single from their debut album 23 Seconds, forthcoming on Wagon Repair. Cobblestone Jazz produce their tracks live, with a strong emphasis on improvisation, and the trio of programmer Tyger Dhula, keyboardists Danuel Tate and Mathew Jonson, make full use of their formative jazz training to transform the musical outfit into a pragmatic and responsive unit, a living and breathing creation, free of formulaic sequence. 'Lime In Da Coconut' is a potion brimming with transformation. Cobblestone approach a simple key melody from every angle imaginable, with the harmonies, disharmonies, bubbling accents and rhythmic permutations exposing the otherworldly potential of the simplest of tunes. A sinister whispered vocal conducts affairs, seemingly flustered at its inability to contain the unruly elements in this wonderful experiment. On 'Saturday Night' a deep synth line and ghostly vocoded moans progress through a jungle of percussion and falling echoed tones, steadily approaching a beat that enlivens like water on a desert journey, or rather, like vodka on a Saturday night. The dizzy finale spins around your ears, a bit like the ceiling after a particularly heavy weekend adventure... be sure to be well rested before tackling this sensory safari."

Artist:	COBBLESTONE JAZZ
Title:	Chance EP
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WAG 060EP

Wagon Repair presents a teaser 12" in anticipation of Cobblestone Jazz's second album. "Chance Dub" features a gentler sound -- deeper, smoother, maybe more reflective. A lone chord progression leads the way, and around it builds swelling synth pads, sub-bass pressure, sprightly bass sequences, and high-precision rhythm programming. Mixed and recorded in real time, the track is always evolving and in motion, without being busy. This is driving, sensual, properly analog house -- the way it was meant to be.

Artist:	COBBLESTONE JAZZ
Title:	The Modern Deep Left Quartet
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	WAG 062LP

Canada's Cobblestone Jazz are back with a second powerhouse album that captures their live-in-the-studio energy like never before. A mixture of heady, jazz-inspired house grooves and below-the-belt analog funk, it raises the bar for electronic dance music in 2010. Titled The Modern Deep Left Quartet, the record marks an important addition to the Cobblestone Jazz line-up, as the trio of Mathew Jonson, Danuel Tate and Tyger Dhula bring aboard Colin de la Plante (aka The Mole). De la Plante is no newcomer to the Cobblestone crew: the four musicians have been playing together for nearly 15 years, since their first performances in small-town Victoria, British Columbia, and they've all shared the stage as the Modern Deep Left Quartet. (In 2005, they also recorded an EP for Wagon Repair.) Now, using that moniker as their new album title, the band officially anoints de la Plante a full-time member of the studio line-up. "Rehearse" and "record" actually mean virtually the same thing for Cobblestone Jazz: their method is spontaneous, in part because their gear requires it. There's no saving patches with analog machines like theirs... antiques like the TR-808, TR-909 and SH-101; newfangled head-scratchers like Cwejman and Doepfer modular synths; strange, custom-built doohickeys of uncertain purpose; and of course, Tate's trusty vocoder and Fender Rhodes. Tracks begin from scratch and develop across freeform jam sessions that often see day turning into night (and sometimes, back into day). The final mix is done in real-time, with three of the four musicians spread out across a semi-circle of machines, attacking all the buttons, knobs and faders they can handle, yelling out the changes, filtering and looping on the fly. At the same time, Tate lays down his Rhodes solos and accompaniments in one shot. Rather than making the music busier, the extra set of hands has finessed it even further. All the staples of the Cobblestone Jazz sound are there: subtly swinging machine beats, mind-bending arpeggios, Detroit-inspired chord progressions and, of course, powerful bass lines that roll like beads of quicksilver. But the sound of The Modern Deep Left Quartet is unusually fluid, open and nuanced. In marked contrast to today's hypercompressed, digitalist dance music, this is a sound that breathes like no other. The more deeply you listen, the more hidden details you'll hear.

Artist:	COBBLESTONE JAZZ
Title:	Lunar Lander
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WRL 008EP

Cobblestone Jazz are back with their second installment in their Wagon Repair series. "Lunar Lander" is a spaced-out zero-gravity jam -- its sparse and jittery beats complimented by some sweet key stabs and a thick and burly analog bass line. "Your Life (You're Life)" is an uptempo slugfest of crunchy beats and a driving bass line. Both tunes were recorded live in the studio and have been culled and edited for your mixing pleasure (A-side by Tyger Dhula and B-side by Danuel Tate).

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