Skipped A Beat

to appease everybody out there demanding that i make an all experimental percussion mixtape i have finally succumbed to the pressure. Skipped A Beat has got everything you were looking for : modern classical greatest hits, rock drummers off the deep end, newspaper drum sticks, sirens, Moog drums, unhinged jazz workouts and weirdo sound explosions. the music is 97% percussion instruments played by solo artists or drum ensembles. you’re welcome. image : Pia Stapilton

Tracklist:

Drumming Part I - Steve Reich and Musicians - Elektra Nonesuch (1987) > buy link Mbira - Olatunji - CBS (1966) Side Looking Radar Image - Bruce Ditmas - Chiaroscuro Records / Finders Keepers Records (1977/2015) > buy link Dripstone Shift - Drums Off Chaos - Nonplace (2018)*** > buy link Persephassa (Fin) - Iannis Xenakis performed by Les Percussions De Strasbourg - Philips (1971) > buy link Onomatopoeia - M’Boom - Columbia (1980) > buy link The Swift And Sordid Purification Of Jimi Jihad - Michael Zerang - Holidays Records (2019) > buy link Ionisation - Edgard Varèse performed by Robert Craft conducting The Columbia Symphony Orchestra - Columbia Masterworks (1972) > buy link The News - Andrew Cyrille - Ictus Records (1978) Aussi Long Que Large - Jacques Thollot - Futura Records / SouffleContinu Records (1971/2019) > buy link Drum Ensemble - Art Blakey, Elvins Jones (first solo) & Charlie Persip (second solo) - Roulette / Disques Vogue (1960/1969)

***track played at wrong speed, on 33rpm instead of 45rpm.