One of the things that first drew me into the world of Mp3 blogging, along with the egotistical desire to inflict my listening tastes on the internet, was the chance it gave to promote lesser known artists. Blogging allows you to drop music that wouldn't normally be heard so we at Ear Fuzz are always interested in promoting music made by up and coming artists.

Therefore today we have sounds coming to you from Austria via fellow Myspace addicts and Beattown Records label owners Trishes & Whizz Vienna. Instrumental hip hop of high quality the two tracks come from their latest release Fly Beattown!. Half produced by Trishes and half by Whizz Vienna the album illustrates the duo's love of all things hip hop and a diverse selection of styles and sounds.

Ill Brazil by Trishes is like some evil twin of Mr Scruff's classic track Ug - with a rolling, squelching, farting, funky bassline and ominous strings accompanying the stripped down beats. Has a nice pitch shift halfway through as well. I've yet to try it but I reckon this track would go down a storm played loud and heavy.

Slide Into Confusion by Whizz Vienna is on the more downtempo tip with meaty beats, violins, and a cheeky little music box sample accompanying the quality scratching of DJ Emodee who laces vocal and instrumental cuts over the track with considerable skill.

• Junior

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Trishes & Whizz Vienna

Earfuzz on "Fly Beattown" (22/11/2005)
Ground Lift reviews "Fly Beattown" (30/11/2005)

Unison

Ground Lift reviews the "Sound Networks E.P." (12/12/2005)

Trishes and Whizz Vienna are two Austrian beatmakers who, for the last couple of years, have been bringing it on their very cool Beattown label. This album is the fourth installment in a series of instrumental collections where each producer takes a side. What I like best about this record is that Trishes and Whizz have different styles. Trishes’ is more keyboard-centric, centering around big synth basslines and stripped-down drum tracks. “That’s Love” pairs a liquid bassline with swirling rhodes chords, and cool English spoken word interludes, while “Microgroove Me” uses a cut-up sampled bassline and layered percussion to make a heavy head-nodder. “Ill Brazil” almost sounds like slowed-down broken beat, with its midtempo funky drums and massive synth bass. Trishes adds cascading rhodes lines and cool flute samples for extra flavor. “Aeroflot” takes a refreshing jaunt into IDM territory with ambient synth pads and clicky, minimalist drums. Overall, he has a warm, funky vibe while Whizz’s sample-heavy approach creates a more moody, introspective atmosphere. “A Doctor’s Daughter Killed” is a nice boom-bap cut with cut-up drama samples and a well-placed vocal loop. It has much American appeal, as does “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me.” My only concern with the latter track is that it sounds a little too much like 9th Wonder with its stuttery loops and sped-up soul vocal hook. He gets his groove back on the laid-back head-nodder “Easy Way Out,” “Back on the Boulevard L” and the awesome “Slide Into Confusion” which takes me back to the New Breed/early DJ Vadim days of minimalist beat abstractions. Real nice. These guys are yet another reason not to front on the Austrian scene, along with Dzihan & Kamien and Vienna Scientists. Fans of European beatsmithery need to get up on this.

• DJ Verb

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One of the things that first drew me into the world of Mp3 blogging, along with the egotistical desire to inflict my listening tastes on the internet, was the chance it gave to promote lesser known artists. Blogging allows you to drop music that wouldn't normally be heard so we at Ear Fuzz are always interested in promoting music made by up and coming artists.

Therefore today we have sounds coming to you from Austria via fellow Myspace addicts and Beattown Records label owners Trishes & Whizz Vienna. Instrumental hip hop of high quality the two tracks come from their latest release Fly Beattown!. Half produced by Trishes and half by Whizz Vienna the album illustrates the duo's love of all things hip hop and a diverse selection of styles and sounds.

Ill Brazil by Trishes is like some evil twin of Mr Scruff's classic track Ug - with a rolling, squelching, farting, funky bassline and ominous strings accompanying the stripped down beats. Has a nice pitch shift halfway through as well. I've yet to try it but I reckon this track would go down a storm played loud and heavy.

Slide Into Confusion by Whizz Vienna is on the more downtempo tip with meaty beats, violins, and a cheeky little music box sample accompanying the quality scratching of DJ Emodee who laces vocal and instrumental cuts over the track with considerable skill.

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Unison is an interesting crew. Technically, they are from Vienna, Austria. However, their main voice, MC Shnek, is, as the group’s website states, “half-British and half-Austrian.” It sounds like he has spent a majority of his time up north as he raps with an unmistakable British accent. The rest of the crew is Austrian, and they include turntablist DJ Crum and producer Whizz Vienna. Sound Networks is a nice little EP of various sounds. Shnek isn’t a bad MC, but his flows are no better or worse than your average UK rapper. Crum is sharp on the cuts, but the real story is Whizz Vienna. For a country that’s smack in the middle of Europe, you wouldn’t Austria would be home to such laid-back, jazz and dub-influenced artists like Kruder & Dorfmeister and Dzihan & Kamien. Whizz’s style is similarly “Austrian” in terms of its warm, jazzy, and sophisticated qualities. “Broken Air” bounces along with a bubbly bassline, deep rhodes chords and classy string hits, while “Girls Make My Hair Loose” (?) knocks a little harder with bigger drums, a cool guitar loop and little string and flute bits. Crum comes correct on this one too. “Sound Networks” finds Shnek sounding a bit out of place, busting rhymes over a deep, melancholy steppers groove that sounds like it should be a downtempo instrumental. Speaking of instrumentals, Whizz brings us two nice ones here. “Hinterkopf” is a lazy, jazzy groove reminiscent of early DJ Cam with its live piano runs and nice bassline. “Relaxed” changes the vibe to a thoughtful, melancholy one with its mournful, cascading piano loops and emotional guitar parts. I don’t think the bonus cut “Let Me Rock” appears on the vinyl version of this EP, but it’s one of the most interesting cuts on this CD. The beat is a straight-up deep house track. The earnest, minor-keyed groove works nicely with Shnek’s observations on urban living. Who said hip-house was dead? Seriously, though, it’s worth searching out for those who didn’t get in on their vinyl version. Overall, this is a nice collection of cuts that continues the legacy of tight, jazzy Austrian beatmaking.

• DJ Verb

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