Tao Groove

Since these are performance build tracks, there are certain extended elements and loops that were designed to be merged into the larger soundscape of the show. This is especially pronounced in clop. These tracks are circa 2001-2.

1. Height
2. Clop
3. Copa Cabana (Remix)

This record coincided with Tao Groove’s involvement with David Scott and The Logixhouse Collective, an international thinktank of musicians and artists. In 2004, Logixhouse helped to coordinate Windsor Ontario, CA’s branch of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (Movement 2004) with Derrick May.

1. Fuzz Monkey
2. Disko Stikka
3. Instant Zen
4. Shibba Baby
5. Bombs Over Baghdad (Remix)
6. It’s Still Coming Around
7. Let It Rain Down On Me
8. Get Up Offa That Thang (Remix)

For the same reason, the styles in each of the live performances (Live PAs) are distinct from each other to build on the flow of the evening, depending on who else was playing.

1. Kollider Live At Movement 2004
2. Unification Live @ Motor Lounge Detroit
3. CuChulainn Live At The Blue Room

1. Call You Out
2. Modulous
3. Shasta Tig Matha

1. Gandalf
2. Ruafo
3. Level Lifter
4. Puree (Full Flow Mix)
5. Teeth (Full Tax Mix)

1. Jamboree
2. Nutmonkeys On Racing Finish
3. Shitar
4. The Monkey Song
5. Turkey
6. What’s My Name

FYI: The piano from “Reconciliation” was recorded over the phone into a laptop microphone in the business office of Brilliant Studios in San Francisco. It was the hippie waitress girl Tao met at the Mexican restaurant down the block from the studio. She had been learning piano. The rest of the track was built around that single piano line.

Samples in “Light Cannot Escape” from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Samples in “Phreak” from Full Metal Jacket.

1. Anna’s Piano (Remix)
2. Lament-Kaijhin
3. Soon It Will All Burn Down
4. Saxofix Hoax (Live)
5. Reconciliation
6. Light Cannot Escape
7. Safe In My Pocket
8. Phreak
9. The Dark War
10. Transubstantiation

The track “Dictophone” alludes to a connection between Tao Groove and the then Detroit/NYC based 8 bit peoples collective. Tao Groove was one of the original members of 8bit before their chiptune style became fully realized. He still maintains a close relationship with 8bit founder Mesu Kasumai.

Stylistic differences caused Tao Groove to recede from involvement with 8 bit peoples early on.

1. Building The Golem
2. Cuisen Art of The Iron Chef
3. Dictophone
4. Gibby Moves Me
5. Inca From Detroit
6. On My Way To The Pagoda
7. People Parts
8. Powerfugg
9. The Funk
10. Tmasiw (808 Cow)

Many tape effects and tricks were used in the making of Holy, old school 2 inch tape style. As a result of the many analog to digital conversions and crude equipment, there is a warm saturation to all of the Holy tracks that muds up easily depending on your system.

1. Adelaide Vox
2. Everything You’re Afraid Of Is Hiding In The Bushes
3. My Ghost
4. Some Far Off Place (Secret Garden Mix)
5. Some Far Off Place (Spaceman Dante vs. The Dirt Bomb Mix
6. When You Got Nowhere To Go And Your Remix Is Flat

1. French Fuck Jesus
2. Glib
3. Harsh (Riddim Mix)
4. Jig
5. Pay The Piper

In the original release, there were 4 tracks, the 4th being a remix of “I Made A Radio Song”, without vocals, to play live. Several speakers were destroyed because of the track, which lead to a version for safe play in clubs. This is the version we’ve released here. We also compressed and normalized it too, so you’re safe. Hopefully.

1. Sod (Flunkin)
2. I Made A Radio Song
3. The Biggest Ugliest Drummer In The Jungle

The Busta Rhymes remix was constructed as the ending of the Unification Live Set, but it’s not included in the final Live mix because of a technical failure.

1. All The Plasma In The World
2. Amba
3. Bringin On The Funky Nugs
4. Bump Original
5. Busta (WooHaa
   Remix)
6. I Got This Spot
7. Joe Normal

It’s worthwhile to note it was created on an AKAI S01 sampler. An 8 bank rackmounted beast that got around 27 seconds of sampling time to work with and it cost $1000. It was the bronze age comparatively to what is available now as software.

1. Bella Aboriginal
2. Francesconi Foo
3. Glow
4. Nihon Segue
5. Sippa Bass Ninja
6. Super Mario Bass Ninja (Remix)
7. Hidden Track

FYI – “Ambassador Snap” used to be a connection phone number in Detroit (run by Linda G. in the nineties) that you could call to get information on where all the parties were that weekend. We’re talking about back in the rave days in Detroit where you had to drive to map points and through similar various hurdles to get to a warehouse party. It was necessary due to the constant police assaults on the parties at the time. PS – “Space 19″ was a ticket point underneath a coffee house in Detroit.

1. Ambassador Snap
2. Batau
3. Chunk
4. Crazy Shlit At Space 19
5. Don’t Drink The Water
6. Goya
7. King Pong
8. Rain Dance
9. Roll The Drums
10. Tribe