CODEK VINYL  (1996-2001)

CR.022 – VINYL 12″
REPELLENT SOUNDS… – REC ROOM RECORD
1. cosmic rocker…logic
2. donna summer…180 morton
3. nelson…electric chaircut…fa remix
4. craig garrett…caribou
5. natasha pachano…campanas/bells

CR.021 – VINYL 12″
BINGO PALACE – Live At The Bingo Palace
1. Live At The Bingo Palace (Cosmic Rocker Lobster Mix)
2. Live At The Bingo Palace (Album Mix)
3. Baby Baby Oh Yeah

CR.020 – VINYL 12″
TRACK & FIELD – In Search Of…
1. Fade Into It
2. Double Happiness
3. Life Below Sea Level
4. Sundazed

CR.019 – VINYL 12″
BROTHER MAN TEL – Golden Bucky
1. GOLDEN BUCKY
2. AGED

CR018 – VINYL 12″
FREDDIE MAS – DETAIL OF A DETAIL
Produced by Champion Soul.
1. WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT YOU
2. DETAIL OF A DETAIL
3. DETAIL OF A … (COSMIC ROCKER MIX)

CR017 – VINYL 12″
FLORA & FAUNA – Harder Outer Layer
3 brand new tracks from the FLORA & FAUNA “Harder Outer Layer” is a great mid-tempo dubby groove. Multi-level is a lovely, mixable tech-influenced nu-jazz/broken beat jam. Metropolitan takes the cake in my opinion…good minimal, clean as hell dub with some great drum work, a really crisp piano lick, and some phenomenal vocal samples. (Tyler)
1. HARDER OUTER LAYER
2. MULTI-LEVEL
3. METROPOLITAN

CR016 – VINYL 12″
ORGANIC GROOVES – Pop Music Plug-In
two brand new tracks from the Organic Grooves producers
1. Pop Music Plug-In
2. Funky Not Stinky

CR015 – VINYL EP
FLORA & FAUNA – Scinautico
Includes a remix by ZEB of “SENSUAL DISCOURSE” plus two new previously  unreleased tracks *
1. SENSUAL DISCOURSE
2. TEAK-PANELD GANGWAY
3. WITHOUT HESITATION *
4. SAUNA DUB *

CR014 – VINYL 12″
D’AFRO DISCO 2
1. yam yam – introspective party people
2. cosmic rocker – solid roots
3. dj michael flume – agolele (remix by cosmic rocker and zeb)
4. bolliger & gloor – alhambra

CR013 – VINYL 12″
ORGANIC GROOVES feat. Muhamadou Salieu Suso – Sutukung
SUSO was born into a family of traditional Gambian musicians/historians that extends back nearly 100 years, Muhamadou Salieu Suso was trained to play the 21-stringed Kora (West African harp) by his father, beginning at age 8. As a young man, he performed widely throughout West Africa and Europe before settling in the United States.
1. Sutukung – Original mix
2. Sutukung – Dub mix
3. Sutukung – Trading Crossroads mix

CR012 – VINYL 12″
THE ORCHARD COMPILATION – VOLUME 4
1. Junior Communist Club – Ultrabollywood
2. MF WILLIS – Aqua Velvet (William Burroughs Remix)
3. Urethane – Tremor In The Broadband Dynasty
4. Takuya – Yosek (Organic Grooves Mix)

CR011 – VINYL 12″
TANTRUM
Fun’Da’Mental have been on the cutting edge and breaking new ground since they began in 1991. Zikar, Qawali music, African folk, Aboriginaal, all held together by the driving force of hardcore beats. Yam Yam are blending natural percussive breaks into unsynthetic bop and refined noise – globalism for the next millennium. Rubber Bullet is produced by Sasha Crnobrnja & Zeb from Organic Grooves
1. FUN>DA<MENTAL – SLIDED LEAD
2. YAM YAM – GOA BOA
3. RUBBER BULLET FEAT. HARMONY – ONE

CR010 – VINYL 12″
D’AFRO DISCO – VOL. 1
The Organic Grooves crew and pals are the folks behind these four Afro influenced dub-funk stunners. – PAPER Mag – February 2001
1. ZEB – SWIMMING POOL
2. COSMIC ROCKER VS. ZEB – HASHISH
3. BOLLIGER & GLOOR – SCHWARZWEISSKOPIE
4. UZO – 2000 ELEPHANTS (Cosmic Rocker Remix)

CR009 – VINYL 12″
ORGANIC GROOVES 2 (Remixes)
TRACK 2, 3 & 4 TAKEN FROM THE CD “ORGANIC GROOVES 2″ (CRCD004).
*TRACK ONE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
1. SUBLIME PORKRINDS *
2. SOUTHEAST CHINESE DISCOTHEQUE
3. CYBER-CHRIST-LECTRO-MESSIAH – REMIX
4. ELECTRONIC HILLBILLY – EDIT

CR008 – VINYL 12″
COSMIC ROCKER – Stop Shopping – Remixes
1. FANTASTIC CRAFTSMAN
2. HUT MADE OF DUNG
3. BIB WITH FACE (only available on this vinyl)
Solo project from the producer of Organic Grooves, DJ Sasha Crnobrnja.
You couldn’t find better music to play between Ravi Shankar & Fila Brazillia. Or Dollar Brand and Hawke. DJ Sasha and the Codek camp of Cosmic enthusiasts are leftfield worldbeat specialists, and they approach thir music with knowledge, love and humor. Check “Hut Made Of Dung”, Fantastic Craftsman,” for further evidence. Viva the freak tempo and its heavy band of veteran supporters! Viva Codek! XLR8R Magazine MAI 2000

CR007 – VINYL 12″
THE ORCHARD COMPILATION VOLUME 3
1. COSMIC ROCKER – LOVEGRASS & MAGIC
2. SONIC MONKS – VERSIONS OF SALVATIONS
3. ZEB – SPY FROM CAIRO
4. YAM YAM – SUBDUCTION ZONE
DJ Sasha’s Codek Records EP (Orchard Compilation Volume 3) is a cornucopia of samples and breaks with a crooklyn-dub swagger. Ethno-jazz tracks by Zeb “Spy From Cairo”, Cosmic Rocker “Lovegrass and Magic” and the disco-meets-Latin percussion gem “Subduction Zone” by Yam Yam add up to a creative, soulful beathead symphony. Fuck illbient-these are the true beats. – XLR8R Magazine February 2000

CR006 – VINYL 12″
MACRAME REVOLUTION
1. Pflume Feat. Sad – Island Breeze
2. CösmIk Türkülor – Püfde
3. Bolliger & Gloor – Mailänder Tanzschlag
4. Nickodemus – Anseo NYC
5. ZEB – No Martyrs
Five cosmic leftfield downtempo tracks.

CR005 – VINYL 12″
ORGANIC GROOVES 1
1. Nomadic Furniture
2. God’s Eye
3. Sizzler
4. Joy Of Cooking
5. Blue Monkey
6. Cosmic Cave
Six Tracks from the first Organic Grooves album written & produced by DJ Sasha Crnobrnja.

CR004 – VINYL 12″
Generation 78
1. Cosmic Rocker – The Rhythmatist
2. Nickodemus feat. Miriam on Tablas – Universal Greetings
3. Mr. Motion – Hourglass
4. Family of God – Pip
5. Bolliger & Gloor – Kosakenkaffee
Five cosmic leftfield downtempo tracks.

CR003 – VINYL 12″
The Orchard Compilation – Volume 2
1. Zeb – Orco
2. Family of God – Sabrina
3. Cosmic Rocker – Thank You Larry
4. Junebug Productions – Listen To Your World
Four cosmic leftfield downtempo tracks.

CR002 – VINYL 12″
The Orchard Compilation – Volume 1
1. Cosmic Rocker – Sasha im Exil
2. Knetmasse – Stumpfsinn
3. Zeb – Bombata”
4. Junebug Productions – Tribute to BABA
Five cosmic leftfield downtempo tracks.

CR001 – VINYL 12″
ZEB – Magic Carpets
1. Magic Carpets
2. Fatine Stonate
3. They Always Do That
4. Madno
Four cosmic leftfield downtempo tracks produced by Zeb (Visini).

CODEK CDS (1996-2001)

CR.012.CD – CD
TRACK & FIELD – ALL THE WAY, ALL THE TIME
1. Leaving for Cosmos
2. Absorb-Reflect
3. I See Colors
4. What We Call Music
5. Rootdown
6. Up from the Skies
7. Do You Dream?
8. Nice Is Beautiful
9. It’s A Business

CR.011.CD – CD
REPELLENT SOUNDS… – SONIC REC ROOM
01. oknard5…in form
02. xar…run through the wind
03. nullsleep…hard 4 u in tha bayou
04. donna summer…180 morton
05. infierno blanco…white woman
06. creme blush…my statement
07. navy…sun visor
08. cosmic rocker…logic
09. blurter…parkonenlatz
10. craig garrett…caribou
11. nelson…electric chaircut (fa remix)
12. natasha pachano…campanas/bells
13. ghost exits…shes beyond good and evil
14. benton-c bainbridge…wormy ambler
15. lisa eriksson…showering in the mojave
16. daniel givens…transcend

CR.010.CD – CD
BINGO PALACE – WHISTLE ME HIGHER
01. I Think I Have A Double Bingo! (4:25)
02. Live At The Bingo Palace (5:09)
03. Whistle Me Higher (4:51)
04. Welcome To The City of Golden Dreams (6:13)
05. Baby Baby Oh Yeah (4:07)
06. Midnight Waltz For My Old Lady (3:01)
07. Panamint Mountain Queens (4:53)
08. Big Indian (6:58)
09. I Want Some More (8:21)
10. Pony Star (I’m Gonna Find You) (7:33)
11. Devil’s Golf Course (6:29)
12. The End (3:22)

CR.009.CD – CD
CARE IN THE COMMUNITY – THE DISCERNING DANCEFLOOR
01. OPTIMO – CAKE AND MILK
02. ORGANIC GROOVES – GOLD WEAVE
03. APHRATEC – ALL THINGS feat. Theo Travis
04. BOLLIGER & GLOOR – SCHWARZWEISSKOPIE (THE FUNKY LOWLIVES REMIX)
05. COSMIC ROCKER VS. YAM YAM – CONCOLO
06. MAX BRENNAN – FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
07. ANGOLA – JE KALE
08. FUSION – DESPUES

CR.008.CD – CD
TRACK & FIELD – “IN SEARCH OF…”
01. Fade Into It
02. Bufo Marinus
03. Double Happiness
04. Plant Life
05. Food of the Gods
06. Cosmic Colors
07. Life Below Sea Level
08. Cut and Paste
09. Myrmecology
10. Sundazed

CR.007.CD – CD
ORGANIC GROOVES 4
01. slim-fast in reverse
02. still puzzled
03. unisex valley
04. barefoot
05. seashore
06. flap-in-the-breeze-pants
07. easy but polished
08. memory pool
09. winter vacation
10. no risk of sexual side efx
11. “how do they know…”
12. easily accessible cargo

CR.005.CD – CD
D’AFRO DISCO – GARRI-MIX
01. hashish – Zeb & Cosmic Rocker/special edit
02. flexible Joints – Cosmic Rocker
03. 2000 elephants – UZO/Cosmic Rocker remix
04. sutukung – Organic Grooves feat. Muhamadou Salieu Suso/trading crossroads mix
05. cape town* – Beat Pharmacy
06. solid roots – Cosmic Rocker
07. alhambra – Bolliger & Gloor/edit
08. introspective party people – Yam Yam
09. agolele – Pflume/cosmic rocker mix
10. funky not stinky* – Organic Grooves

However many synths and samplers are used to make their music of choice, clubbers prize authenticity, and nowhere is this quest for purity of feeling more evident than in the recent spate of Afrofunk revivalism. Given Hugh Masekela and Fela Kuti’s place on the playlists of pioneering DJs such as Larry Levan and Francois Kervorkian, it’s hardly a surprise to hear records like Master’s at Work’s “MAW Expensive” (a cover of Fela’s “Expensive Shit”) and Six Degrees’ Frikyiwa compilations, which include popular African tunes remixed by  clubland luminaries. For what could be more authentic than masses of musicians from the motherland collectively digging the deepest groove they can?

At first, D’Afro Disco, a mix -CD featuring tracks from a pair of recent EPs of the same name, might look like mere pseudoexotica for beat heads. But that’s not what it feels like. Put together by DJ Sasha Crnobrnja, the main man behind Brooklyn dance indie Codek, D’Afro’s d’Africanisms never feel d’rivative. Where most clubbers seem to think African music begins and ends with Fela (whose funk infused Afrobeat was, in truth, something of an anomaly even in Nigeria), these producers are all over the map, injecting styles from traditional West African music and Nigerian highlife, as well as the expected Kuti-isms. It’s also no doubt helpful that Crnobrnja is familiar with the group dynamics crucial to the gestalt of the music he adapts here: As host of the weekly Organic Grooves party, he leads an improvisational group of live musicians (including guitarist Zeb, who collaborates with Cosmic Rocker on a pair of tracks).

Happily, you needn’t know much history to dig into the rock-hard bass and fuzz guitar driving Uzo’s “2000 Elephants (Cosmic Rocker Remix),” Mahamadou Salieu Suso’s blurred vocals running through Organic Grooves’ “Sutukung (Trading Crossroads Mix)” or the highlife guitars of Yam Yam’s “Introspective Party People.” Introspective D’Afro isn’t, though; instead, it sounds like one of the year’s most buoyant dance albums.
-Michaelangelo Matos, TIMEOUT Magazine, April 2002

CR.004.CD – CD
AUDIO MESSAGES 2
AM2 continuously mixed by ORGANIC GROOVES DJ COSMIC ROCKER includes previous vinyl releases from codek records and 2 new tracks *

01. island breeze – Pflume
02. sauna dub – Flora & Fauna
03. no martyrs – Zeb
04. bib with face – Cosmic Rocker
05. spy from cairo – Zeb
06. hut made with dung – Cosmic Rocker
07. pop music plug-in * – Organic Grooves
08. tremor in the broadband dynasty – Urethan
09. one – Rubber Bullet feat. Harmony
10. omo * – Aria
11. subduction zone – Yam Yam
Listening to Cosmic Rocker’s (a.k.a. Sasha Crnobrnja) superb selections from the always dependable Codek back catalogue makes me yearn for the warmer months of the year when he and his buddies take over New York’s infamous Frying Pan for their weekly Organic Grooves parties. No substitute for those heady dj-musician improv free-for-alls, Audio Messages Etc 2 still comes correct with enough dubby bass and polyrhythmic funk to make you forget it’s still cold outside. -James Friedman/ XLR8R Magazine  (March 2002)

CR.003.CD – CD
ORGANIC GROOVES 3
Written & produced by Sasha Crnobrnja & ZEB
01. concept of motion
02. continuous movement
03. banal reality
04. different components
05. ideal infiniaty
06. strange forms
07. homage to new york
08. kinetic surprise
09. accidental tonalities

“Organic Grooves, NYC”: Dozens of locations, six years of experience, four musicians and three DJs make up one of NYC1s most enduring and unique underground experiences. From Brooklyn warehouses, to Queens lofts, from piers on the West Side to antique shops on the east, Organic Grooves has held underground events throughout the last six years that fuse the sounds of contemporary dance music and traditional world music in untraditional settings. The travelling event started in an apartment building basement on Manhattan1s Lower East Side, where four musicians came together, wanting to play music that didn1t exactly fit into the club scene, without any of the scene1s restrictions. The early events drew a like-minded crowd willing to experience a new take on dance music and clubbing. “If you wanted to come in, you weren1t picked, you weren1t chosen. It was open ears, open attitude,” says Erika Lively, Organic Grooves1 party organizer. Defining Organic Grooves is problematic. The best word is probably “collective.” The collective was originally made up of the core musicians, event organizers and faithful fans. As time passed, the number of musicians, the size of the crowds and locations and the means for expression all grew. Now, in addition to the musical group, there are numerous DJs and a variety of visual artists who participate in the events. “I think the reason that we1ve had such longevity is because Organic Grooves isn1t just a party, it1s a happening and an event. And, the people help to make the event happen, it1s not just us,” says Lively. Additionally, the ever-changing locations keep the party fresh and different. “Every time the party took on a new feeling whenever you walked into it. But it was still the same in regards to the content of the music and what we do.”The music stands at the center of every Organic Grooves event. It1s nearly impossible to guess what the night1s music will sound like, but one can be sure it will be eclectic and danceable. The current incarnation of the band has seven members playing turntables, trumpet, keyboard, melodica, kora and multitude of percussion instruments. Various types of world music, deep house and Afrobeat all meld together to create a distinctive sound. “Recently, the Afrobeat has become very popular. But this other style of music, which mixes in everything, whether it be hip-hop, electronic beats or horns from Yugoslavia has already been mixed into our stuff.” There is something magical about the energy of Organic Grooves1 music, which creates a unique mood at the parties, at which they are always the headliners. With the DJs usually placed near the back of the group, the focal point is always the drummers, who energetically lead the dancers. It is not just location and music that make the party; it is also the loyal fans who are willing to travel throughout the boroughs to catch the latest Organic soirée. “We know that we are going to provide a good base with the location, atmosphere and music,” says Lively, “but (our success) also has to do with the energy of the people who attend.” Like the music, the crowd is quite eclectic. Artists, club kids, hippies, music industry types and a large international contingent all come together to experience the Organic Grooves happening. The desire to keep such a well-rounded crowd is one of the things that have kept the party out of the clubs. “I don1t want to got to big, major clubs who are going to shut down what we are about, who restrict who can come through the door,” says Erika. However, underground locations are becoming quite difficult to come by in New York, due to the city1s clamp down on unlicensed venues as well as the big clubs. There is a constant search for new locations, though Erika concedes that they often haphazardly discover spaces: “That1s the whole Organic Grooves thing.” With such a “go with the flow” attitude, it appears that the event will never be predictable, which is what keeps it so fresh and organic. Nonetheless, the collective has big plans for the future. They started a Studio K7-distributed label, Codek Records, whose intent is to give the rest of the world exposure to their unique music. Organic Grooves has also started taking their happenings on the road, travelling throughout the States and abroad. However, Organic Grooves will continue to concentrate on their innovative New York productions. In addition to monthly events, they will start holding small-scale parties “where we don1t advertise, and you have to call our line to know what is going on,” says Erika.  In a city where cynicism, greed, pretension and politics often dominate the dance music scene, Organic Grooves offers a refreshing alternative to the conventional event. This happening is about people coming together to dance, where the music is more important that the fashion. Despite their success, the music and parties refuse to be constricted by any of the rules that dictate clubland. Always evolving and changing, Organic Grooves judges it1s success not by how much money they make, but how many people they move. -Orion Ray-Jones / Mixer Magazine (August 2001)

CRCD005 – CD
FLORA & FAUNA – SCHOEHN
Produced and recorded by
Sasha Crnobrnja & Fa Ventilato

No cheap gimmicky build-ups, or over-wrought, anthemic melodies typical in so much of today’s pedestrian electronic dance music. Instead a much more clean and stripped-down formula. Schoehn blends the afro-beat syncopation of hip-hop with the lush, synthetic sounds of electronica

01. Sensual Discourse
02. Aggressively Modern
03. Even Airflow
04. Delirium And Excess
05. Beauty And Efficiency
06. Towards A New Architecture
07. Finnish Minimalism
08. Global Ambition
09. Summer In San Tropez
10. Teak-Paneled Gangway
11. Smooth Landing

Codek records, formed in 1996 by DJ Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor in a New York flea market, is a label and artist collective that has been producing a number of exciting releases as well as the Organic Groove parties, store and graphic design outings. On his latest, Sasha teams up with Fa Ventilato as Flora and Fauna to create some cultivated down-tempo material that sounds fresh and lets your mind retreat into a more relaxed state. Not as Dub-heavy as either volumes of the Organic Grooves albums, Schoen stills has some Dub elements as well as Afro-beat rhythms, both old and modern synths, vocal samples, and yes, melodies created by someone just whistling them out. A lot of the percussion parts rely on intricate and funky snare rolls created by more acoustic sounding kits. The bass on tracks like Even Airflow is immersed in lush reverbs and filters that lead their way into Japanese gongs and a rolling keyboard line that will make for a perfect Sunday morning selection. Similar to Thievery Corporation’s Sounds of the Thievery Hi-Fi, Shoehn is a primarily instrumental album with some vocal samples and snippets that add nicely to the tracks. You can see why Sasha was selected to remix for a recent Tosca single. The Indian chants of Beauty and efficiency push the track into a heavily ethereal esthetic already established by the beautiful classical piano part and reverberated percussion. The vocal sample on the opener Sensual Discourse sounds exactly like, erm, Louie Armstong, and again gives the track that extra push to laid-back perfection. Perhaps it is their Swiss/European upbringing but Sasha and Ventilato have this kitschy, Julie Andrews, Sound of Music vibe buried just below the surface of some of their tracks. They seem to have an affection towards old, and sometimes silly, keyboard sounds that are by no means bad, but most definitely a creative alternative to the heavily used Hammond organ sounds on a lot of today’s trip-hop records. These older key sounds on tracks like the purposefully titled Aggressively Modern provide the back-up to the previous mentioned whistling that drops you right on top of the Swiss Alps for a late day picnic and flower collecting. Summer in San Tropez also has whistling but this time with a more spaghetti-western atmosphere and intertwines with the samples of kids playing in the pool and a basic synth-bass line. This album has many different styles that come and go through out the album and does anything but stick to just one formula. As opposed to some of the more goofy synth songs, tunes like Teak-Paneled Gangway have fluid and modern keyboard sounds, drum breaks that are funkier than any track by The J.B’s, and yes, R2-D2 sounds. Smooth Landing is probably the roughest and moodiest tracks on the whole album with a desperately lonely harpsichord playing alongside of hard drums and expressive French Horns. Towards A New Architecture might remind you of early Black Dog Productions material with its rhythmic pattern established by a looped international dial tone and ambient synch washes. One of the most pleasant things I found about Schoehn is that Sasha and Ventilato have created a record that is easy going, soothing, dramatic, and highly produced with a variety of different styles that won’t demand all of your attention. It kind of sits as a soundtrack in your head and worked wonderfully on the subway when I wished to escape and pretend as if I was headed to San Tropez instead of work.
- Justin Hardison for hybridmagazine.com (December 2000)

CRCD004 – CD
ORGANIC GROOVES 2
Produced and recorded by
Sasha Crnobrnja & Zeb
01. Caveman Cum Spaceman
02. Blacksmiths & Microchips
03. Cyber-Christ-Electro-Messiah
04. Polyglot Pooch
05. Medieval Timewarp
06. Electronic Hillbilly
07. Southeast Chinese Discotheque
08. Middle Eastern Cowboys On Mars
09. Internet Pygmies
10. Fleamarket Epiphany
11. Wallstreet Witchdoktor

CRCD003 – CD
DJ SASHA CRNOBRNJA aka Cosmic Rocker – “STOP SHOPPING, START CRAFTING !”
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY DJ SASHA CRNOBRNJA
AN ADVENTURE INTO THE WORLD OF FREAKY HAND-MADE CRAFT HOP. ORGANIC BREAKBEAT AND NEO-FOLK DANCE MUSIC THAT INSPIRES THE HIDDEN ARTISAN WITHIN YOU.

01. LET’S MAKE A CAP
02. POPSICLE STICKS, BEADS, AND GLUE
03. FUN WITH JUTE
04. ILL-FITTING TUNIC
05. FANTASTIC CRAFTSMAN
06. RAW MATERIALS
07. HUT MADE OF DUNG
08. RAINY DAY ACTIVITY
09. DIRTY STREET MIMES
10. BUCKSKIN THONGS
11. I’M NOT WEARING ANYTHING
12. BENEATH MY PONCHO

Create something! Create Something! Create Something! Fuck it if it’s not perfect. Flaws bring flavor and flavor brings feeling! Sasha Crnobrnja provides inspiration for Summer camp flunkies and shopping mall junkies on “Stop Shopping, Start Crafting.” The man behind Codek and the Organic Grooves parties in NYC has already established the fact he doesn’t color within the lines. His first LP brings the point home riding on lopsided plexiglass oxen. Can this music be categorized? They say file under: Trip Hop, Leftfield, Cosmic. Am I wasting my time. No, that is the point, this is uncategorizable by name but fits many comfortable niches by vibe. I’ll give it a go and throw something at you…Sounds of the World with shaky bead stoned folk banjo slangin’ hippy flip flops with mad dub echoes. Fuck it… Put this in the player and you get “Let’s Make a Cap” which starts off with some ancient strings then jumps into a faded pygmy who bops around to some roots style drums with rubbery bass. Sasha surely earned his Boy Scout merit badge with “Ill Fitting Tunic.” He must have stayed up all night fashioning those Spanish trumpets to fit so nicely with metallic drums, and somehow a thumping dancehall bassline. The soap box derby is won with “Hut Made of Dung.” It cruises down the lane with groovy organs and crisp drums before deep analog stabs drop in to accompany the snares as they get their flange on. If you missed the Smithsonian Folkways series buy this album. It has nothing to do with the Smithsonian Folkways and will make you forget you ever thought about that in the first place. This music has a true Earthy feel. You might not know who Sasha with the strange last name is yet but soon you will. This is just the tip of the iceberg as he slowly lifts the covering from his sound. dub diagnosis: Are Sasha’s drum machines and samplers made out of punched leather and paper mache?
CD review by Mark “frosty” McNeill” at DUBLAB.COM (December 1999)

CRCD002 – CD
AUDIO MESSAGES, ETC.
FULL LENGTH CD MIXED BY DJ NICKODEMUS
Mix includes previous vinyl releases from codek records and 5 new bonus tracks. Expect only the unexpected on Audio Messages, etc. Surprising the listener at every turn, Nickodemus presents a leftfield assortment of cosmic, spaced-out, breaking, down-tempo rhythms that defy categorization. Far from the usual bland mix of typical trip-hop, this disc pushes barriers and challenges the listener with a vital new funk that is at once futuristic and folk-organic.

01. Organic Grooves – Sound Serpent
02. Zeb – Bombata
03. Nickodemus – Dippin’ South
04. Cosmic Rocker – Thank You Larry
05. Zeb – Madno
06. Junebug Productions – Listen To Your World
07. Family of God – Sabrina
08. Knetmasse – Stumpfsinn
09. Cosmic Rocker – Barrabas
10. Zeb – Magic Carpets
11. Junebug Productions – Tribute to BABA
12. Zeb – Orco
13. Cosmic Rocker – Sasha im Exil
14. Nickodemus feat. Miriam on Tablas – Universal Greetings
15. Bolliger & Gloor – Acqua Minerale & Kosakenkaffee
16. Cosmic Rocker – “The Rhythmatist
17. Zeb – “Fatine Stonate
18. Mr. Motion – “Hourglass
19. Family of God – “Pip
20. Joseph C – “Tokyo Static
The CD opens with a mystic downtempo groove, provided by Organic Grooves and appropriately titled “Sound Serpent.” I was hoping that this same vibe would continue throughout the entire CD, but instead the album progresses into a harder mid-tempo beat, with several transitions. Track 6
through 11 recapture the brilliant opening vibe with loads of organic sounds. The concept of this compilation showcases the label’s style and stems from their weekly Organic Grooves parties in New York. All 20 tracks are taken from the label’s vinyl catalog, including 5 unreleased tracks. This
full-lenght CD is continuously mixed by DJ Nickodemus, taking the listener on a splendid journey into tripped out midtempo chill, New York style. – Review by Allen Voskanian, LOTUS Magazine (1999)

CRCD001 – CD
ORGANIC GROOVES 1
All tracks written & produced by
DJ Sasha Crnobrnja
01. Nomadic Furniture – Modular cardboard creations for flexible lifestyles
02. God’s Eye – A cornerbrightener composed of yarn in muted earth tone
03. Nude Body Panting
04. El Topo – Organic percussion for a psychedelic sci-fi western
05. Sizzler
06. How to “Take Part” A workshop dedicated to the engineering of one’s creative energies
07. Joy of Cooking” “Strategies of Randomness” Repetition for the production of the authentically new
08. Blue Monkey
09. Cosmic Cave – 1000 dubbed out disco hippies, listen to new wave at the wrong speed
10. Bean Scene