Buttermilk bath and she a big momma!

Just released this single on streaming services. Roll up!

https://open.spotify.com/track/45kOFxhqFVAX68s0bzO4ln?si=cc445aaff7ba4bfe

-K

Driveway

From Best Friends:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6TqHslKwe3AtYOgWJp8Uk4?si=_OMw1X1bSFCEHEQyKK52CA&dl_branch=1

Know It

Ever since he remixed Abimaro & The Free’s ‘Mark’ back in 2014, NuNorthern Soul boss Phil Cooper has kept in touch with Daniel Stenger, the producer and self-taught multi-instrumentalist behind the Flashbaxx project. Cooper was always convinced that Sanger would be capable of crafting a very special release for the label but was willing to give him time to come up with something special.

With Take Care My Friend, a mini-album inspired by the German producer’s deeply rooted love of jazz-funk, Stenger has repaid the faith shown in him. He’s delivered a collection of quality cuts marked out by audible warmth, effortless musicality and memorable, sun-soaked songs.

As he makes clear in the liner notes included with the vinyl version of the mini album, the project began with the recording of luscious, Rhodes-laden opener ‘Alright’. After staying up all night recording the track, Stenger not only decided to continue recording with the same relatively limited set of instruments (think bass and electric guitars, drums, piano, electric piano, organ, hand percussion and a handful of synthesizers), but also stick to a hybrid sound that added a subtle Latin shuffle to his Balearic-minded take on jazz, funk and soul fusion.

We’re biased of course, but there’s no denying that Stenger’s creative choices have resulted in a superb set of tracks. While the restricted kit list provided focus during the music-making process, there’s still plenty of musical variety across the six tracks that make up the set.

For proof, compare and contrast the jazzy, loose-limbed headiness of ‘It Just Happens’, where simmering synth-strings, twinkling melodic motifs and glistening guitar licks rise above smooth jazz-funk bass and a gentle broken beat rhythm, and the slow-motion soul brilliance of ‘Strangers’, where Kathryn Kempf’s evocative and poignant lead vocals rise above a sumptuous downtempo groove and heart-aching piano lines.

This subtly varied but musically coherent vibe continues across the mini album. Stenger indulges in a bit of New York daydreaming on ‘Brooklyn Love Boat’, a wonderfully musically detailed chunk of 1970s style jazz-funk heat that offers knowing nods to Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock and the jazz-fusion stylings of Azymuth, before opting for a deeper, slower and even more seductive sound on the Hammond-sporting bliss of ‘Take Care My Friend’.

Closing cut ‘City Lights’, a gorgeous, soft-focus affair smothered in echoing Rhodes riffs and immersive chords, has the feel of an underground classic in waiting: a stirring, string-drenched future sing-along whose emotion-packed lyrics are delivered brilliantly by Glasgow-born singer/songwriter Chris Pookah.

Despite the song’s subject matter – the painful final breakdown of a relationship – there’s something strangely uplifting about the combination of Pookah’s pitch-perfect vocal delivery and the absorbing warmth of Stenger’s comforting and sonically detailed music. It provides a fittingly impressive finish to a mightily immersive mini album.

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Bora [sample pack vol.2 out now]

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All For You

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Moods & Wayne Snow - All For You

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Milan93 reveals his new EP 'Empty pool'. In a long-distance relationship for years with his girlfriend, the producer creates a sound influenced by his amorous travels and reunions. An intense atmosphere governs the project.  The single "Amber Interior" represents this aspect, with its frenzied drum kit symbolizing a furious road trip. It's a track where piano and trumpet blend perfectly, just as the producer and his love do.

Milan93 - Piebald

After releasing SOUL FICTION in May 2023!  Cosmo Klein & The Campers will release a Soul Fiction Remix album with remix-management by Berlin based DJ Daniel W. Best of Best's Friends Music. The Moods remix of “Head” is the first release of the remix-package.

In the past the Cosmo Klein from Berlin has dedicated himself to different genres of music such as Pop, House Music, Soul, Jazz & Funk. Numerous hits like "Beautiful Lie", "Feel Alive", "All I ever need" or the Duet with German singer Maya Saban have made Cosmo Klein one of the few internationally successful music exports from Germany.

​Being a huge fan of camping vans, Cosmo recorded some of the best Jazz musicians in the game like Cory Wong from Vulfpeck, Benny Greb, Hanno Busch, Claus Fischer, Peter Weniger, Jakob Manz, Felix Lehrmann, Jost Nickel and yes, many more in his 1988 Hymer Camper Studio.

​„I just don´t like studios. As a child I always wanted to play outside and I guess it´s still the same way. I just can´t stand to sit in front of a computer and go to the same workspace everyday. I can´t see anything inspirational about that. Recording musicians in different sceneries all around Germany was beautiful and the fact that I stick to the same instrumentation on every track glues the pieces together. It was a great journey and I learned so much, working with these great cats.“ Cosmo Klein.

Head (Moods remix)

Cosmo Klein and The Campers - Head  (Moods Remix)

Stream / Download - https://moods.lnk.to/MGVHH

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Good Vibrations (feat. HIGH H​Ø​Ø​PS)

To Survive

"these are difficult times for all of us, in one way or another, and personally, it has perhaps been one of the most difficult experiences dealing with myself during these months. so with my brother decided to create a project, motivated by the desire to somehow channel everything we live and transform it into a personal experience from which to learn and enjoy. it is really enriching to carry out a project like this, which arose naturally, and in order to strengthen a relationship as special as brotherhood. thanks to Jaime Altozano for giving the opportunity to share this with more people and thanks to my brother for always supporting and accepting me."

GF - réveiller en l'été

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