Elite Beat - Selected Rhythms '2019

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Elite Beat is a musical collective from Portland, Oregon with a history spanning
back to 2006.

Selected Rhythms captures the finest moments from all three of their ultra
limited cassette series Casual Rhythms.

Packed full of DIY dub mixing, cosmic orchestration and raw, percussion driven
polyrhythms, the recordings have been remastered and put to vinyl for the first
time with sections from Casual Rhythms Vol. 1 being re-shaped into previously
unavailable single tracks.


Recording plays a big role in the Elite Beat creative process. The studio as an
instrument. Much of the Elite Beat music is mixed in an all-hands-on-deck dub
style approach - live with an analog mixer and loads of FX being thrown and
dubbed in real time. The sound is genre-less rhythm music with an emphasis on
live playing, free form expression and technique that borrows from soundsystem
culture. Inspiration can be heard from all parts of time and place. Some Ethio
Jazz, Black Ark psychedelia, Exotica, Malian blues, even Haight-Ashbury in the
summer of love. Each member an accomplished musician in their own right, Elite
Beat thrive on collaboration. 2018 saw the release of their astral-Saharan jams
with celebrated Taureg guitarist Mdou Moctar.

The players get together every Wednesday evening, sometimes to chat, sometimes
to play. The record button gets pressed when they find what they are searching
for. For this crew its all about Casual Rhythms / Harmonious Lifestyles - if
things dont fall under that mantra, then its got to go. Less is more for Elite
Beat and their cosmic sounds.

Tracklist:
01. Elite Beat - Roggish & Unclean (4:50)
02. Elite Beat - Go Back to Oly (4:32)
03. Elite Beat - Budget Dancehall (4:18)
04. Elite Beat - Mellow Fellows (4:46)
05. Elite Beat - North Trini (6:12)
06. Elite Beat - Powerdance (5:52)
07. Elite Beat - Sports Radio (6:35)
08. Elite Beat - RLC (Ambient Mix) (4:59)

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