Now for those of you who know me and my insatiable love of cheesy britpop music, you'll be quite horrified to think of me listening to this album.
6000 Year Peach is a funk/breakbeat/hip hop outfit out of Brisbane, Australia and although I often profess my hate for dance music. This is mostly a mere cover-up to maintain my image as *cough* very cool britpop chick. However, give me a beverage and stick me in a darkened room and I'll quite happily dance away.... but not to everything.
Buddha Breaks by 6000 Year Peach is an album that would get me up and dancing. You see, Buddha Breaks does not adhere to what I think of when I think of hip hop, breakbeats and/or funk. Buddha Breaks is extremely cruisey and laid back, almost to the point of me wanting to classify it as lounge music. Forgive me if you would like to disagree, but it's perfect music for the background to a dinner party, a cute little cocktail bar or perhaps... vacuuming (if you make sure you have the stereo volume set to maximum).
It's computerised mostly, but with hints of real instruments. If i had to pick a favourite track I'd choose Computer Is The Sound as it reminds me of cheesy computerised 80's music. Howewver, Cool Cats is also brilliant in my opinion as it's possibly the least dance music-esque track on the album; it's still electronic, but it has it has vocals... incoherent vocals, but vocals all the same. Also, a special mention to the track Poly Br@ke due to it's inclusion of samples from the highly hilarious telly show Summer Heights High (very much worth tracking down if you've not seen it).
Now, if I didn't know Andy (Mr 6000 Year Peach), I would say that the creator of this music had just sat down at the computer one day and decided that they want to be a DJ. However, I know better and now you do too. Andy was in my music classes throughout our later years of high school and when I listen to Buddha Breaks I can hear that there is an underlying musical knowledge that is not just retstrained to flutes, pianos, guitars and glockspiels. As opposed to some idiot that's just slapped together a few breakbeats and called it "music".
Just to work in a britpop reference, i'd like to briefly remenise about the day that Andy played guitar for an horrendous rendition of Blur's Sunday Sunday (with me on keyboards and vocals, no less).... it makes me laugh inside as I think about it even now.
Anyway, back to the point 600 Year Peach has (accoring to his myspace page) played alongside, D-KO, The Funk Trust Djs, Lab 4, Kato, Devastating Dave, Vertical Transport, Chemical Kurt, Juvanille Djs, Anakin Skywalker, Down n Dirty Djs, Travis White, Guy Davy, Adam Phillips, and the Plump Djs, which is quite an impressive list (impressive in that someone with next to no knowledge of the electronic music world, me, has actually heard of some of these artists).
Well, that's about it from me. To hear more of 6000 Year Peach mosey on over to his myspace page or if you're in a position to do so, you can email [email protected] for bookings.
Sal
6000 Year Peach is a funk/breakbeat/hip hop outfit out of Brisbane, Australia and although I often profess my hate for dance music. This is mostly a mere cover-up to maintain my image as *cough* very cool britpop chick. However, give me a beverage and stick me in a darkened room and I'll quite happily dance away.... but not to everything.
Buddha Breaks by 6000 Year Peach is an album that would get me up and dancing. You see, Buddha Breaks does not adhere to what I think of when I think of hip hop, breakbeats and/or funk. Buddha Breaks is extremely cruisey and laid back, almost to the point of me wanting to classify it as lounge music. Forgive me if you would like to disagree, but it's perfect music for the background to a dinner party, a cute little cocktail bar or perhaps... vacuuming (if you make sure you have the stereo volume set to maximum).
It's computerised mostly, but with hints of real instruments. If i had to pick a favourite track I'd choose Computer Is The Sound as it reminds me of cheesy computerised 80's music. Howewver, Cool Cats is also brilliant in my opinion as it's possibly the least dance music-esque track on the album; it's still electronic, but it has it has vocals... incoherent vocals, but vocals all the same. Also, a special mention to the track Poly Br@ke due to it's inclusion of samples from the highly hilarious telly show Summer Heights High (very much worth tracking down if you've not seen it).
Now, if I didn't know Andy (Mr 6000 Year Peach), I would say that the creator of this music had just sat down at the computer one day and decided that they want to be a DJ. However, I know better and now you do too. Andy was in my music classes throughout our later years of high school and when I listen to Buddha Breaks I can hear that there is an underlying musical knowledge that is not just retstrained to flutes, pianos, guitars and glockspiels. As opposed to some idiot that's just slapped together a few breakbeats and called it "music".
Just to work in a britpop reference, i'd like to briefly remenise about the day that Andy played guitar for an horrendous rendition of Blur's Sunday Sunday (with me on keyboards and vocals, no less).... it makes me laugh inside as I think about it even now.
Anyway, back to the point 600 Year Peach has (accoring to his myspace page) played alongside, D-KO, The Funk Trust Djs, Lab 4, Kato, Devastating Dave, Vertical Transport, Chemical Kurt, Juvanille Djs, Anakin Skywalker, Down n Dirty Djs, Travis White, Guy Davy, Adam Phillips, and the Plump Djs, which is quite an impressive list (impressive in that someone with next to no knowledge of the electronic music world, me, has actually heard of some of these artists).
Well, that's about it from me. To hear more of 6000 Year Peach mosey on over to his myspace page or if you're in a position to do so, you can email [email protected] for bookings.
Sal
