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This is a documentation of works between 2006 and 2007, working at a gas station and attending a community college where I grew up. This album captures the last page of this chapter of my my life.

Superiority Complex

Her 12 Faces’, out 18th February on Inertia Recordings, is the stunning new album from producer/guitarist Lanu. Drawing on his passion for a sonic world where Beat culture collides with indie, dream pop, lounge and folk music, this solo record marks a stylistic point of departure for the prolific musician who is better known as Lance Ferguson, the composer, bandleader, lead singer and creative force behind acclaimed Australian funk outfit The Bamboos. Lanu’s vision is paired with the captivating vocals of Megan Washington for a mix of modern, kooky immediacy and timeless charm. Think the eclectic, immediate crossover appeal of Little Dragon, Feist, Emiliana Torrini, Charlotte Gainsbourg or Janelle Monae.

Ferguson has always had a clairvoyant’s sense for collaborations (the first Lanu album featured then-little-known Aloe Blacc), and he first introduced Megan Washington to his fans as the voice of The Bamboos’ 2008 hit cover version of Kings Of Leon’s “King Of The Rodeo”. 

Album opener and first single “Beautiful Trash” is one of five Washington-voiced songs on ‘Her 12 Faces’; a supreme nugget of outsider pop. Supported by spectacular animated video by Lucy Dyson (Sarah Blasko, Augie March, Gotye)

‘Her 12 Faces’ flows effortlessly between finely crafted indie-leaning pop songs and lush instrumental/electro pieces; mesmerising instrumental track “The Coral Route” takes its name from the path flown by TEAL Airways Flying Boats through the South Pacific islands in the ‘50s. It’s also a special ode to his Hawaiian-style steel guitar playing grandfather, Bill Wolfgramm, who released New Zealand’s first ever LP and a host of records during the time the Coral Route was in service. “It’s really a tribute to him – and if I had ever been able to make a tune with him it might have sounded a little like this”. 

The album closes with a French language version of “More Than This”. “Yeah it’s a Roxy Music cover. I was going for some kind of ‘Life Aquatic’ twist on this and I thought having a Frenchman doing it would be just the ticket”, says Ferguson. “When he left my house after recording I asked him, ‘What are you doing for the rest of the day?’ His response: ‘I am going to make love to my girlfriend for 24 hours’. True story.”

A perfectly pitched mix of the sentimental, the irreverent, the personal, the humorous, the acoustic and the electronic, ‘Her 12 Faces’ is set to break yet more new ground for Ferguson, whose recent work with The Bamboos, Kylie Auldist, Lyrics Born & Washo has collected widespread recognition & acclaim both here at home and abroad.


1988

OVERdUe

Hugo places a unique “twist” on the JAY-Z hit

99 Problems

Boogie Down Productions - HipHop Will Never Die (HipHopPhilosophy Radio)

Courtesy of www.HIpHopPhilosophy.com Radio

Boogie Down Productions - HipHop Will Never Die (HipHopPhilosophy Radio)

I'll be making a beat a day for 50 days in tribute to one of my biggest influences.
DAY 50.
Enjoy!
* Sorry for not finishing "September"
** "LATENYC out now! www.ta-ku.me
*** LP "SCARLETTE" dropping Febuary on HW&W.

DAY 50

Keep Me In Mind feat. Kylie Auldist

Night Slasher II

01 Gwan Gwan

Rispah, the sophomore album by The Invisible and their first for Ninja Tune, is out now.

The album, "a love letter to grief” following the passing of singer Dave Okumu's mother, is imbued with an inevitable melancholy but defined by a sense of hope. Throughout, the band reveal their rich creativity and musicianship. Echoes run through these songs of African music (including beautifully-woven-in samples of the singers from Okumu's mother's funeral), psalm tones and devotional music, In A Silent Way-era Miles Davis, hints of minimal classical composers such as Steve Reich and the wilder more psychedelic end of hip hop and related electronic musics. 

Nothing is ever included for the sake of it, no attempt is made to patronise or sell the audience short. It's a record brimming with real emotion and restless intelligence, a record to get lost in. 

Rispah is out now in Europe (6/12 in North America) on CD and DL, buy at the Ninjashop (http://bit.ly/M7MTDh), Amazon (http://amzn.to/LD1ivp) and iTunes (http://bit.ly/KYowg2). A vinyl pressing of the album will be released 9 July.

Rispah

'The Stain'

In the summer of 2003 we joined forces with arguably one of the world's best Soul vocalists, Fat Freddy's Drop frontman Dallas Tamaira. Just before release the label folded and as a result the EP was never released... until now. Head over to The Nextmen website now to download this 4 track EP, absolutely free.

FREE DOWNLOAD: http://thenextmen.com/unreleased

Free Download

The Nextmen vs Joe Dukie - Blow Wind Blow

The Feeling

Learn To Fly (Com Truise Remix)

Check out the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBNqNle4ikU&feature=youtu.be

Arms of mine

Bass: Chris "Bear" Sharp @csharp210
Steel Pan: Tony Hartman -- Check out his band! www.facebook.com/thegreatbarrierreefs
Engineering, Mixing, Arrangement, Samples: Eli Colburn

This is a song involving recordings from two states (South Carolina for Bear's bass and Tennessee for Tony's steel pan) over the past three months in order to balance the mix between live recordings and programmed material.  We hope you enjoy!

Mothership Connection

CHROMATICS / CHERRY

Digitalism - Zdarlight - Chopstick & Johnjon remix

Stream / Download : http://dumbogetsmad.lnk.to/QuantumLeap
 
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Dumbo Gets Mad - Indian Food

'I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance' (Tycho Remix) is available as part of a bonus I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance remix EP when purchasing Ulrich Schnauss' A Long Way to Fall out now from Domino or iTunes in North America.

Ulrich Schnauss' A Long Way to Fall is out now on Domino in North America and Ulrich Schnauss' own Scripted Realities imprint in the rest of the world.

Listen to the album version of 'I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance' here: snd.sc/X09MBa

Purchase
Domino Mart: bit.ly/aLongWaytoFallDominoMart
iTunes: smarturl.it/alongwaytofallalbum

Ulrich Schnauss online
www.ulrich-schnauss.com/
www.facebook.com/ulrichschnauss/
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Ulrich Schnauss - I Take Comfort in Your Ignorance (Tycho Remix)

"Girlfriend" is an exclusive track for Synth City Compilation by Werkstatt Recordings
FREE DOWNLOAD by clicking on the "BUY" button or here:
synthesizer.bandcamp.com/album/102-v-a-synth-city

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