Name: Les Amis (Actual Magic Remix) - François De Roubaix, Actual Magic by ACTUAL MAGIC
Duration: 3 min 12 s
Description: Official re-work of the original track by François De Roubaix. Artwork by Kris Chau !

My absolutely favourite song. it sounds like the whole world's coming to sing it. so mellow. amazing. love it. 👌

really nice, any download link available por favor?

Cattaneo Cattaneo

This release is a special one; a moment where the two halves of the Mr Bongo record label unite, our heritage re-issues and our contemporary artists roster. 

Minoru Muraoka’s 'The Positive and the Negative’ is a firm favourite at Mr Bongo. It sees a master of the shakuhachi, a traditional bamboo Japanese flute, flex his prodigious skill resulting in a unique mix of breakbeat jazz and Japanese folkloric music. 'The Positive and the Negative’ featured on the 1970 'Bamboo’ album, which Mr Bongo reissued in 2019. Heralded by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon, and many others. The record’s cult status had us thinking how could we pay further homage to a sublime track such as this. The opportunity came to us in an email from Melbourne’s Surprise Chef with a link to the fabulous reinterpretation of the track which they had just recorded. 

"Minoru Muraoka’s ‘Bamboo’ LP has long been a fixture in our record bags, mostly for the killer shakuhachi funk cut The Positive and The Negative. The record is possibly our favourite from Mr Bongo’s extensive catalogue of reissues, and certainly the most influential to Surprise Chef; The Positive and the Negative’s cinematic atmosphere paired with the wonky drum feels and dramatic performance makes it a near-perfect amalgamation of what we try to capture on Surprise Chef records. We’ve borrowed an element or two from the tune over the last few albums (such as the percussion on ‘The Limp’), so it felt right to go head first into reinterpreting the entire track for ourselves. We recorded the tune in Karate Boogaloo’s attic studio with our man Henry Jenkins at the controls and Hudson Whitlock on percussion. We spent an entire day trying to get the take; we felt such a deep responsibility to capture the intensity of the original, we must have done 20 or 30 takes before we were finally happy. We stuck a fork in it late into the night, satisfied that we’d had our best crack at paying homage to a masterpiece by the great Minoru Muraoka.” - Surprise Chef

Forged in their signature sound, "The Chef" have made 'The Positive and the Negative' their own whilst simultaneously treating the original with utmost respect. The shakuhachi and koto have been replaced by synths and guitars, but the breakbeat psychedelic vein flows richly through both instruments  

The 7" vinyl format was the right fit for this release, so the original Minoru Muraoka recording which clocks in over nine minutes has been edited into a 7” version to accompany Surprise Chef’s new take.

B. Minoru Muraoka - The Positive And The Negative (Mr Bongo 7" Edit)

01. What Have I Done Wrong* (1965) - Faye Crawford
02. In Return For Your Love (1967) - Kim Toliver
03. In Orbit (1967) - Joy Lovejoy
04. I Am Controlled By Your Love (1967) - Helene Smith
05. I'm Gonna Git Ya (1967) - Betty Harris
06. I'm Missing You (1965) - Loretta Williams
07. The Love Of My Man (1966) - Pearlean Gray & The Passengers
08. Deep Shadows (1969) - Little Ann
09. Can You Remember (1972) - Rhonda Davis
10. That Boy (1966) - The Sequins
11. Ruler of My Heart (1963) - Irma Thomas
12. Lighten Up Baby (1967) - Ty Karim
13. You Keep Me Hangin' On (1971) - Bonnie & Sheila
14. Just Loving You (1968) - Ruby Andrews
15. Maybe This Time (1972) - Alice Clark
16. Never Gonna Cry (1964) - The Cineemas
17. My Heart (1968) - Florence Ballard
18. Your Heart Belongs To Me (1962) - The Supremes

No.62 African American Soul 1962-1972

Tommy Brenneck is an American multi-instrumentalist, writer and record producer, perhaps best known as the founder and leader of Menahan Street Band, and core member of The Budos Band. Tom also produced renowned soul artist Charles Bradley, performed with the iconic Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and has worked closely with Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. Brenneck is the founder of Dunham and Diamond West Records whose studio is based in Pasadena, CA.
Dig into this all 45s mix of 60s soul, r&b and funk 
JEFF DALE - DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME BABY 
THE HARMONICS - LET ME GO 
RHETTA HUGHES - HIS HAPPINESS 
MIKE WILLIAMS - I’M A LONELY SOLDIER 
BARBARA LYNN - TELEPHONE RING JEFF DALE - A SUFFERING PAIN 
CREATIONS - I’VE GOT TO FIND HER 
THE JAGGERZ - (THAT’S WHY) BABY I LOVE YOU 
CHUCK JACKSON - I KEEP FORGETTIN’ 
THE LINTONS - LOST LOVE 
LEE JONES & THE SOUNDS OF SOUL - THIS HEART IS HAUNTED 
ELLA WASHINGTON - THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER (ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FENCE) 
JAMES BROWN - GOODBYE MY LOVE

L'envie #166 :: Tommy Brenneck

Born and raised in Northern Arizona, Michelle Branch got a record deal with Madonna’s Maverick Records when she was 17 years old. She released her debut album The Spirit Room in 2001 which earned her the first of four Grammy nominations. In 2002 she won for her collaboration with Carlos Santana, “The Game of Love”. She’s just finished writing her 6th studio album which she will start recording in the new year. She splits time between Nashville, TN and Charleston, SC with her husband Patrick Carney (of The Black Keys) and their two young children.
Check out Michelle’s mix for Radio L’envie, up on Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Spotify and Apple Music!
Links in bio & story
Billy Swan - Don't Be Cruel
The Shangri-Las - Heaven Only Knows
Marty Robbins - Don't Worry
Alessi Brothers – Seabird
Karen Dalton - Something on Your Mind
Lion - You've Got a Woman
Margo Guryan - Sunday Morning
The Three Degrees – Collage
Smith - Baby It's You
Bloodstone - Natural High
Cocteau Twins - Cherry-coloured Funk
Bobby Charles - Small Town Talk
Penny & The Quarters - You And Me
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Like a Ship
Big Maybelle - I Can't Wait Any Longer
Lee Hazlewood - Your Sweet Love
Link Wray - Fallin' Rain
Donnie & Joe Emerson - Baby

L’envie #172 :: Michelle Branch

Marshall Allen presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: 'In The Orbit Of Ra'
Mastered from the original tapes, out now on Strut

iTunes: http://geni.us/SunRa
Amazon (LP): http://bit.ly/OrbitOfRaLP

Marshall Allen on Sun Ra:
As a Sun Ra fan, it has been a pleasure to be able to do an edit of Sun Ra material. Sometimes its more of a restoration project, than it is an opportunity to do an edit. In any case, the goal is always to preserve the original integrity, and direction of the song, while somehow making it appealing to an new and emerging fan base of listeners from the traditional school, and emerging electronic market. Sun Ra's fan base, and listeners might be changing and expanding, but you can always expect the end result of my work to highly respect the integrity of the original version. My version emphasizes the flute and percussive parts in this song. 

More from Mike Huckaby:
https://soundcloud.com/mikehuckaby

More from Strut Records:
http://www.strut-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/StrutRecords
https://www.youtube.com/user/strutrecords

More from Sun Ra:
http://www.sunraarkestra.com
https://www.facebook.com/SunRaMusic

Sun Ra - "The Lady With The Golden Stockings" (Mike Huckaby edit)

Raindrop Rhythm (prodbyixsanity)

Japanese jazz fusion pioneer Ryo Kawasaki gets the reissue treatment on a new 'Selected Works' collection from @nunorthernsoul.

Ryo Kawasaki - Dreams For Radha I, II, III (Worldwide Premiere)

Buy / Stream: https://BBEmusic.lnk.to/VestibuleAMSE
'Vestibule' and 'A Mere Subjective Experience' open the doors to a new voyage called 'Ravine', courtesy of The Incognito Traveller. This time around the music takes an introspective twist and looks within to discover what lies beneath the skin, beyond all exterior definitions and right into the deepest definition of self. Through proper jazz-infused trip-hop, 'Vestibule' and 'A Mere Subjective Experience' unveil unexplored interior spaces and beautifully complex inner worlds.
Milton Erickson’s “A Special Inquiry with Aldous Huxley into the Nature and Character of Various States of Consciousness” serves as the conceptual basis for a whole album’s worth of cinematic jazz explorations. In the study Aldous Huxley is guided into a deep hypnosis and, in such state, he describes meeting with his own self at different ages and revisiting his own stages of growth and intellectual development. 'Vestibule' and 'A Mere Subjective Experience' reference closely two specific instants in the author’s recount of the experience.
Eyes closed, the listener gets easily carried away within, into a grand voyage of self-discovery and inner aperture. 'Vestibule' is a classic jazz/trip- hop piece with an imposing break and uplifting release to bring illumination to the spirit; whereas uptempo quasi-freejazz piece 'A Mere Subjective Experience' offers internal divine light and harmony for the soul.

The Incognito Traveller - Vestibule

Hello!!! this song gonna be soon deleted, cause a label want to release it, see yeah soon

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Official re-work of the original track by François De Roubaix. Artwork by Kris Chau !

Les Amis (Actual Magic Remix) - François De Roubaix, Actual Magic

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