The dude ran 4 CDJs, no laptop, and mixed up a storm of dubstep, house, and heavy electro seamlessly, while entertaining the fuck out the crowd, and getting more into than anybody. I just happened to learn Feed Me is also the UK DnB producer Spor. (Now, in my best British accent) I had the good pleasure of watching Feed Me perform.īy that I mean, he raged my fucking face off, but I feel like I have to be to try and be courtly about it, because this dude seriously sounded like a British gentleman. I saw a lot of frowns leaving the festival, because I basically people-watched for entirety of the storm, and after Excision’s set, I saw a WHOLE LOT OF SMILES. The sky raged as hard as crowd, and goddamn am I glad he opened with something that sampled fire, because I was freezing my ass off in the rain for 3 hours. There was truly too much great music to talk aboutĮxcision started the night off, after a raging thunderstorm, absolutely slayed it, showing everyone that a whole lot of water wasn’t going to put out the Rage. Crammed scheduling compounded with the fact that I never received a single schedule (they failed to print enough and had to ground-score one) made it overly difficult to see some of the biggest acts I drove 16 hours to see.īut enough with the negative vibes, the whole festy was amazing, and I’m going to try and hit you all with some of the more electronic highlights of the weekend. I know it sounds a bit harsh, but anyone who makes me choose between Big Gigantic, Bassnectar, Lotus, ESKMO, and Porter Robinson needs to be re-assigned to cleaning out the shitters. If I ever meet the person who came up with that schedule, I will fucking slap them. If I have one complaint to make, it was the scheduling. If you want to check out the line-up, swing by the Electric Forest website. With bands like Rubblebucket, Zion I and the Grouch, the New Deal, Paper Diamond, Break Science, Two Fresh, ESKMO, Pretty Lights, Conspirator, EOTO, there was more than music to try and catch. The lineup was a fusion of electronic music, reggae, hip-hop, backed by headliners like the String Cheese Incident, Stephen Marley, and Tiesto. No festival does it like Rothbury, and I have to say that I have never raged with so many fucking awesome people in my entire life the vibe of the whole festival was out of this world, as made evident by the smiles permanently glued on everyone’s faces. The song also topped charts internationally reaching #1 in New Zealand, Norway and the UK.īBR is very proud to bring you SONGS OF LOVE, completely re-mastered and repackaged complete with extensive liner notes and extended bonus content.Now if you’ve never had the good fortune to step into the Rothbury grounds, then I’ll let you know it’s filled with some of the funkiest, happiest, and trippiest people you’ll ever meet and some of the craziest things you’ll ever see in any altered state of consciousness. ‘Ring My Bell’ was an instant hit and up-tempo disco classic which eclipsed the success of Donna Summer’s ‘Hot Stuff’ and Sister Sledges ‘We Are Family’ in the summer of 1979 by reaching the pinnacle across all of the main Billboard singles charts, securing an R&B, Pop and Disco #1 and selling over a million copies in the process, propelling Songs Of Love into the Billboard top ten. That track was the now legendary ‘Ring My Bell’, which became the albums only US single.
She was initially sceptical about the track but the song was recorded with Knight being one of the first to use synth-drums at that time. Anita’s performance on this record strongly compliments the very assured song-writing and production from Knight with the stand out tracks being ‘Spoiled By Your Love’ and ‘There’s No Doubt About It’.ĭespite having a very strong set of songs it was decided that the album was missing a final track so Knight re-worked a song he had written for a previous project and presented it to Anita. The majority of the tracks on the album are mid-tempo grooves and stunning ballads which Anita owns with her warm soprano voice.
The result of those sessions produced Anita’s debut LP SONGS OF LOVE (R&B #2 /Pop #8) and a deal with the legendary label T.K.
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Anita then concentrated on a career as a teacher but her vocal talents could not be denied so before long her manager had turned her on to song-writer/producer Frederick Knight (who himself had a substantial R&B crossover hit in 1972 with ‘I’ve Been Lonely For So Long’ on the Stax imprint) and Knight was so impressed with Anita’s talents that the initial session progressed into a full albums worth of material.
Having honed her strong soprano voice singing Gospel in Memphis, Anita recorded with the Rust College A Capella Choir before going on to record with her own Gospel quartet. Anita Ward hails from that hotbed of Southern Soul music Memphis, TN, and unsurprisingly started her association with music from an early age.