Classics

Winter 2021

We're back. Thrown together in a bit of a rush, but hey-ho. Pick of the week is Aaaron Frazer's soulful "Ride With Me", with A Winged Victory For The Sullen running it a very, very close second.

Dec 18 2020 - Jan 07 2021

New Music I Like 2021

The Kommon

Fresh, new music updated regularly courtesy of TheOtterFM.  April 1-June 30, 2021.

The Otter's Quarterly Report #2 - 2021

Love More

McCartney III Imagined

Seize The Day (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)

The Man Who Sees Tomorrow

Coastin' (Prod. Chill Chap)

"Cookie Dough" Ultra-crisp productions, sophisticated synthline melodies and pitch perfect vocals from Freddie Cruger and Anthony Mills. 

Serious Drug

Out now. Remixes from Tom Misch, Imagined Herbal Flows and Uffe.

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In Poppy’s words, ‘I wrote the song for David Turay, a good friend and an amazing saxophonist [who’s virtuosic playing is sampled in the song]. David passed away in late November last year. The song is for him, for me and for anyone who has lost someone close to them. Writing it was the only way I could make sense of what I was feeling. Mostly I wish he could have known how much we cared about him, and I feel like I’m telling him every time I sing his song.’

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Poppy Ajudha - David's Song (Tom Misch Remix)

From the debut album, Nothing More To Say, available now. Order at shopdaptonerecords.com


The Frightnrs escort Daptone into the world of long-playing reggae with both the sweetest and the roughest record of the decade.

Crafted under the meticulous eye of black-belt reggae mastermind/producer Victor Axelrod (AKA Ticklah), Nothing More to Say is a rocksteady masterpiece the likes of which has not reared it’s head since the golden era of Studio One.  However, you’ll find no imitation here - none of the faux-jamaican cliches of lesser reggae bands.  Like all things Daptone, this record is above all soulful and honest. With the exception of two soul covers (both from the Daptone catalog: Bob & Gene’s "Gotta Find a Way” and Saun and Starr’s “Gonna Make Time”,) the record is populated by original compositions of the highest order.  They are simply great songs, and though their treatment here is masterful, each one of them has the melodic and lyrical substance to hold it’s own in any genre. “Till Then” invokes the coquettish hyper-rhymes of top-form Smokey Robinson, while “Hey Brother” sounds like it fell off the desk of Gamble and Huff, and “Purple” defies any comparison at all.  From the first cracking snares of “All My Tears” through the final pulsing echoes of “Dispute,” the murderous rhythms of Rich Terrana (drums,) and brothers Preet and Chuck Patel (bass and piano, respectively) can be heard chunking mercilessly towards oblivion as Dan Klein pours his endearing poetry over over the top like some other-worldy falsetto potion. The combination is a sound birthday-suit raw, mesmerizing, infectious, and above all, lovely. This record will long be treasured by lovers of reggae, lovers of soul and lovers of love.

Nothing More To Say

The Frightnrs - Nothing More To Say

"Time is a social institution, and not a physical reality."

~Alan Watts

Production/Guitar/Bass: berardi p.
Drums: Tubstomper

Time Keeps On Slippin'

Southwest Side Story

I Want to Be Loved

"I Can't Love You Anymore" is the first single by hard working soul performer Carlton Jumel Smith recorded with Cold Diamond & Mink, and the man has revealed his middle name just for the occasion. Otherwise known simply as Carlton J. Smith, there's no doubt he has swallowed a large pill of soul since seeing James Brown live at the Apollo Theatre as an 8-year old.

Smith's Timmion debut single sinks him into drum heavy southern flavored deep soul, a style that comes out of him naturally as water from a mountain spring. Backing him up on the falsetto parts is Pratt, who recently turned some heads with his Pratt & Moody release "Lost Lost Lost" on Stylart Records, and together the two basically NAIL IT.

When looking for artists, who just seem to move through time effortlessly with a steady air of confidence, passion and precision, one might pick up the phone and give CJS a call. Even though his discography of couple of late 2000's albums and some guest spots in early 90's soulful house 12"s is a bit mysterious, there seems to be not one bit of difficulty to his craft or personality. As a recording artist, "I Can't Love You Anymore" is a new opening into raw soul territory, and it is just what the world needs today. He laid down an album worth of tracks on his last Helsinki visit, and this might be something to look forward to.

I Can't Love You Anymore

I Can't Love You Anymore - Carlton Jumel Smith and Cold Diamond & Mink

Rene & Ray - Queen of my heart

https://soundcloud.com/ellahaber 'Old Friends' out now on Soul Has No Tempo: https://ellahaber.bandcamp.com/album/clay-ep

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Old Friends

Ella Haber - 'Old Friends'

American Love Call

Court of Love

On The Road Again

Atlantic

Uppers

Press Gang

Deadpan Love

Agreeable

Introducing...

Bad News

Over You

You Don't Wanna Be My Baby

If I Got It (Your Love Brought It)

Ride with Me

Lover Girl

'Heartbreak (Kerri Chandler Remix)', out now on OUTLIER: https://outlier.lnk.to/heartbreak-rmxSo

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Heartbreak (Kerri Chandler Remix)

Buy / Stream the EP here: orcd.co/pyramid

London band The Fantastics! return to BBE Music with instrumental jazz-dance masterpiece ‘Pyramid’, the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album ‘Take A Shot’.

‘Pyramid’ was born fully formed in the musical mind of the groups’ saxophonist & flautist Mark Norton – an ethereal instrumental that’s 50% contemplative spiritual introspection à la Pharoah Sanders / Coltrane /Airto Moreira, 50% prime Dingwall’s dance-floor fodder.

Organist Greg Boraman conjured up the intriguing ‘Oblique’, which is a fairly curious musical hybrid. If you had ever wondered what a collaboration between 70’s era Charles Earland, Dexter Wansel and Roni Size for a KPM library music album might sound like – here’s your answer! Fender Rhodes, Hammond, flute and spacy synthesizers ride across James Smith’s sterling drum work, and Sulene Flemings’ ghostly wordless background vocals mark this track out as a spacey jazz-funk oddity.

‘Liquor & Poker’ is a homage to 1950’s organ & sax rhythm & blues became a firm favourite in the bands live shows – it’s combination of old school swinging drums, honking tenor, gritty guitar and organ is always a crowd pleaser, but didn’t quite make it onto the bands forthcoming long player ‘Take A Shot’ – so is included here as a bonus throwback slice of the good groove.

The Fantastics! - Liquor And Poker

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Take Me Higher

Ride for Me

Morning

Karen Harding X Shift K3Y - Morning

Written by James Vickery.
Produced by Maths Time Joy. 
Mixed by QMillion. 
Mastered by Chris Athens.

Somewhere, Out There

DsharpG

Soft-spoken with the look of a slightly disaffected 1950s matinee idol, Aaron Frazer possesses a unique voice that’s both contemporary and timeless. The Brooklyn-based, Baltimore-raised songwriter first came into the international spotlight as co-lead vocalist and drummer of Durand Jones & The Indications, and recently released his solo debut, Introducing..., produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, out now via Easy Eye Sound and Dead Oceans.