Arts And Entertainment

After a kinda productive and elating 2010, autarkical land adjudge Voodoo Rhythm Records has kicked off the newborn year with a big ol’ compilation. Featuring twenty-one artists that hit worked with the adjudge over the years, this newborn compilation, the ordinal volume in a short line of comps since the label’s inception in 1992, boasts what most labels would move not confess, that their releases are “records to smash some party.” Why is that digit of Voodoo Rhythm’s slogans? Well, the answer is simple, I think. Basically, Voodoo Rhythm has made it a stagnant practice of signing idiosyncratic bands and singer/songwriters whose sounds didn’t just good nicely into some single singable niche but instead were either genre and subgenre hybrids or innovators of fantastic styles still unheard of in subsurface music.

Because Voodoo Rhythm Records was supported by land singer/songwriter title Beat-Man, there are a lot of grouping who hit come to associate the adjudge with the ontogeny one-man band movement. It’s true, the adjudge has in fact worked with a handful of international one-man bands throughout the eld â€" King Automatic, John Schooley, Elvis Pummel, and Urban Junior, to name a some â€" but there is no such criteria for the bands recorded and distributed. Quite simply, what Beat-Man looks for in the artists he works with is originality and a good that moves him. Operating thus, he has brought on artists whose sounds hit been stamped primitive rock’n’roll, blues trash, Cajun-core, gospel punk, gypsy funeral jazz, Eurobilly, unreal folk, illegalise country, and garage rock, among others. 

On the Voodoo Rhythm Records, Vol. 3 assembling release the twenty-one killer tracks include such artists as The Dead Brothers, Possessed by Paul James, Sixtyniners, Bob Log III, Delaney Davidson, Hipbone Slim and the Knee Tremblers, Movie Star Junkies, King Khan and His Shrines, and title Beat-Man himself. Of the some songs on the album, digit of my individualized favorites would hit to be The Juke Joint Pimps’ filthy, rockin’ edition of the blues standard “Dust My Broom” and Mama Rosin’s upbeat Zydeco ska sort “Le Pistolet.” Then again, I am able to listen to the comp all the artefact through, from prototypal song to the last, with a enthusiastic take of appreciation for each artist.

With nearly a cardinal releases low the label’s belt to date, between CD and DVD and vinyl format, digit can exclusive surmise that Beat-Man and Co. are doing something right. In fact, in addition to the label’s “Records to smash some party!” slogan, there is added that claims, “We attain a addict discover of everybody!” Well, I don’t undergo most everybody, but they’ve sure made a addict of me.