Beats Antique – Collide (2008)

1. Beauty Beats
2. Dope Crunk
3. Erase
4. Scratch
5. Roustabout
6. Nesatovo – Beats Antique, Brass Menazeri Balkan Brass Band
7. Caterpillar
8. Slapdash Era
9. Sweet Demure
10. Milieu
11. Shrine
12. Borino – Beats Antique, Brass Menazeri Balkan Brass Band
13. Roustabouts [Bassnectar Remix]

Their sound is a unique blend based in old’ & new. They blend old time turn of the century dust bowl Americana roots based music with middle eastern Bellydance, electronica, and down tempo hip hop to create a unique fusion all their own. Tribal Derivations is centred in Middle Eastern bellydance, down tempo hip hop, old school jazz, classical Indian and North African Gnawa music.The measured funk of “Beauty Beats” opens the set with a catchy melodic hook played on the saz (Turkish lute) by David Satori, complemented by Sidecar Tommy’s dark cello and a flurry of hand drums. “Dope Crunk” adds hip-hop and bent electro beats to the mix. The melody is picked up by a sax and clarinet that float over and around clay drums and computer percussion effects. “Sweet Demure” is a quiet desert tango marked by long sustained notes played on accordion and the subtle squawking of electro percussion. “Roustabout” sounds like Balkan circus hip-hop played by a reggae band; “Caterpillar” is a 9/8 groove borrowed from Romanian wedding music mixed with the rhythms of flamenco handclapping, French Gypsy jazz violin, and keyboard bass; while “Milieu” features a flurry of percussion played over a dark ambient drone accented by the tinkling of a toy piano. On two tracks, the horn section of the San Francisco Bay Area Balkan band Brass Menazeri adds uncontained mayhem to the mix. “Nesatovo” opens with the brass in full flight, riding an Arab hip-hop beat and backed by a fat thumping reggae bassline. On the Balkan hip-hop jazz of “Borino,” a trumpet leads the charge as Menazeri’s horns clash with a booming electro bassline and spacy dub percussion. ~ j. poet, All Music Guide