Burning House - Walking into a burning house '2013

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urning House is a bombastic sonic summit created by beat-maker extraordinaire
Chief Xcel (Blackalicious) and keyboard wiz Hervé Salters (aka General
Elektriks). One of the founding members of heralded San Francisco Bay Area
Hip-Hop collective Quannum Projects (Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Latyrx …),
Xcel met Salters when the latter moved from his native France (Paris) to S.F in
the early 2000s. Quickly realizing that they both shared a common love for all
things funky and irreverential, and both agreeing that when it comes to music,
anything goes, The Chief would go on to invite Hervé and his vintage keys on
numerous tracks and projects, while Salters invited Xcel on his first album as
General Elektriks. The Frenchman then joined Blackalicious live on keys for the
year 2005 (then touring behind ‘The Craft’). The seeds for what
would become Burning House were planted around that time. They blossomed slowly
but very loudly until 2012, when Xcel joined Salters for a week in Paris, and
when much of the writing and producing groundwork for their first album was laid
down. They reconvened a few months later, this time in Berlin where Hervé was
now residing, and finished the album then. They weren’t quite done with
the country hopping though, and decided to head back to San Francisco to mix the
record. Burning Houses first album is a radical and unprecedented collage of raw
funk, relentless hip hop, contagious club music and brash jazz. Switching gears
effortlessly between dance-floor scorchers like ‘Post Party Stress
Disorder’, Boom Bap hard-hitters like ‘The Nightbird’ and a
future fresh Jazz ballad like ‘Frozen Conversations’, Xcel’s
beats and Salters’ keys whip up a completely personal take on what the
two still believe modern music can be: a place over which creativity and freedom
reign. They are joined by fellow backing vocalists and instrumentalists on a
selection of tracks; lead vocal duties are handled by Salters.

01. Burning House - 28 steps to... (1:30)
02. Burning House - Turn off the robot (2:31)
03. Burning House - Post party stress disorder (5:30)
04. Burning House - Tokyo airport (2:12)
05. Burning House - The nightbird (3:05)
06. Burning House - Emergency exit (2:09)
07. Burning House - Frozen conversations (2:59)
08. Burning House - Copy that (3:00)
09. Burning House - Daydream mama (3:45)
10. Burning House - Scatterbrain (2:27)
11. Burning House - Whispers in your headphones (4:18)
12. Burning House - 1988.5 (2:28)
13. Burning House - Rhythm in the machine (2:49)
14. Burning House - Boomerang (3:43)

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