Artist: Hoodska Explosive
Title Of Album: The Misleading
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: None
Genre: Israeli Traditional Ska, Reggae
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 75:07 min
Total Size: 106 Mb (2 CD)
WebSite: www.hoodska.com

2CD - After a few years the name “Hoodska Explsive” was running around Tel-Aviv the band decided to make themselves official by releasing a 2-CD debut Album. Session I - Is fast and lyrical, was recorded live in fazi logic studios mixed by Gad “vandrshmuken” Baruch Hinkis(2006). Session II - has a Hot instrumental traditional Sound, was recorded live in a secret underground gravel cave on the Israeli cost line with unique analogue equipment and analogously Mixed be Uri Mixmonster (2007).

cd1
01 skin-inc in ska 04:52
02 fat man 03:07
03 the avraham family 03:52
04 (what a mess is) sms 01:22
05 the misleading 03:16
06 trouble to a mon 01:28
07 "and"!!! 03:39
08 summer in the sity 2005 06:33
09 instinct to resist 03:32
10 into 03:43

cd2
01 cigarette 03:19
02 skaka 05:03
03 come lets bussa 03:25
04 the whistle 03:48
05 comme les fous 04:51
06 russian sleeping song 06:05
07 snack snack 03:36
08 a ball and a cat 03:48
09 skin-lnk cubabo 04:11
10 skinlnkdub (mixmonster remix) 01:37



In the summer of 2,004, lead singer and bass-player Haggai Zehavi was offered a deal by a friend tattooist – to write him a song in exchange for a tattoo – an offer you can’t refuse! Out of that challenge grew the HoodSka Explosive, and 3 years later the song “Skin Ink in Ska” would be the opener of the band’s 2-cd debut album – “The Misleading”.
The song was written. Next, In order to pay for the tattoo, there was a need for a group. 2 friend –musicians Yoav Elkayam (percussions) and Ido blaustein (drums) were also into the idea of playing ska, and the three started gathering musicians who were into playing on a weekly basis - Eyal laserovich (keyboards), Yotam Troim (trumpet) and guitarists and sax players who came and went like socks do. For nearly a year the band spent it’s time on writing songs and playing old ska hits (mainly by The Skatalites), trying to figure out how to play ska traditionally. Things went on like this, until new arrivals joined the band – Alon the big and real (tenor Sax) and soon after Benny “Benon” Matalon (guitar). Finally the band started taking form. In September 2,005 they were encouraged to go-out on stage by fellow Israeli ska band Los-Caparos, and the 2 bands started playing venues together. Since then the band kept performing and set-out to record it’s first album. In the midst of this process Yotam the trumpet-man left, and his space was filled by Nimrod Talmon (trombone), and so the final cast of the band was revealed. The Hoodska Explosive sound is, and apparently will, remain evolving. With Ska as its mother ship, the band decided to research different influences of umza-umza music and combine them in their style - Kleizmer, polka and reggae music are some. In this setting the band stands today, before releasing the 20-track debut album, in January 2008. Today the band plays in venues, clubs, and festivals, all over Israel, as-well as it’s weekly basking gig in the Nachlat-Binyamin ‘arts and crafts market’ in Tel-Aviv, every Friday morning. It also plays weddings and events when requested, which works out, because ska is all about happy music! (They do Bar-Mitzvas and Brit-Mila as well).