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Vinyl pressing of the NICK JOHNSON EP vol. 1

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about

In 2004, while my brother-from-the-other-side-of-the-moon, Tsuyoshi a.k.a. DJ T-Bone Steak, was visiting Seattle from Japan to record and make beats with local 206 artists, we did alot of record digging. ALOT. One spot we frequented because it was so close to the apartment I shared at the time, lower Queen Anne location of Easy Street Records. We kept noticing that almost all of the jazz vinyl that we'd gravitate to had this mysterious signature and extensive custom liner notes tagged on the front and back covers. And once we fed these mysterious "NJ8" tagged records into our MPC's to chop, we knew something more than a competitive inside joke was brewing...

10+ years have since gone by, and many more "Nick Johnson" records have been unearthed, and many more beats have come of it. With the closing of the Queen Anne Easy Street location (West Seattle Easy Street lives on!!) in 2014, it felt like a fitting time to share this project, which hopefully serves as a homage to all independent record spots in Seattle to worldwide that risk being pushed out by big bank business.

Later...I found out through a bit of sleuthing and casually asking my friend Roswell at Holy Cow Records, that Nick Johnson was in fact a jazz radio DJ at the former Seattle listener-supported FM station KRAB, and hosted programs under the moniker of "Captain Baltic." I was eventually able to track down Captain Baltic himself to share what we created and how his record collection had inspired a new generation. Nick in turn was enthusiastic about the project and gave us his blessing via email:

"Glad to see some of the old LPs are actually being used/heard...I'm not much into the sampling and remixing thing, although when well done (as yours is) I do find it interesting, and if my joints weren't so old and bad I'd probably be up dancing instead of sitting here tapping my feet and mentally swinging....Consider your project blessed by this long-time music lover - it is, as we used to say, really in the groove!" - Nick

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Interview w/ Nick Johnson aka Captain Baltic & Ear Dr.Umz by Dave Segal (The Stranger) -

www.thestranger.com/music/feature/2015/04/01/21984728/how-seattle-radio-legend-nick-johnsons-record-collection-inspired-a-new-generation-of-jazz-aficionados

"This dusty sprinkling of classically-minded boom-bap rolls along in that (head-nodding instrumentals) spirit. Good stuff." - 206Up.com

( 206up.com/2014/10/13/new-music-nick-johnson-ep-vol-1-eardr-umz-t-bone-steak/ )

credits

released August 8, 2014

Originally produced in 2004

by Ear Dr.Umz & T-Bone Steak

Mixed by Dr. Umz at The Canal - Seattle, WA

Additional Engineering by Melvin "Sentric" Reyes

Mastered by Barry Corliss, Master Works - Seattle, WA

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