YES CHLOE. One of my favourite tracks. Pas De Trai memories.

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The first in a series of remixes from Bad Colours critically acclaimed "PINK" album comes from up and coming NYC production duo musclecars. Tackling the Hip-House vibes of "Skin To Skin", musclecars pull back and flip the track's unexpected Brazilian outro into a Bossa Nova flavoured dancefloor chugger complete with plenty of funky organ, guitar, and an infectious bassline. A proper remix that's completely original and inspired.

Skin to Skin (Musclecars Remix)

Bad Colours - Skin to Skin (musclecars Remix)

Buy/Stream the EP here: https://orcd.co/brondesburypark

UK multi-instrumentalist Ziggy Funk returns to BBE Music with his third release on the label, the Brondesbury Park EP.

Ziggy Funk is no new name to BBE, having previously issued the EP ‘Red Light Syndrome’ in 2016 and full-length album ‘Boxer’s Fracture’ in 2017 on the label. Now he returns with Afro/Latin inspired two tracker, Brondesbury Park.

Driven by infectious horns and showcasing Ziggy’s love for percussion, title track ‘Brondesbury Park’ is an uptempo dance song with roots in Afrobeat, but with a nod to South American carnival culture and touches of jazz.

Second song ‘Ice Cream’ is more restrained in its approach, but still just as irresistible. The electric guitar takes the lead and hits with eerie overtones as well as elements of funk and blues, over a languid Afrobeat horn and drum workout.

The Brondesbury Park EP is filled with vibrant colours, some immediate and some only revealing themselves with repeated listening. Two tracks with different pulsating drives, both with pure groove at their foundations.

Brondesbury Park

Ziggy Funk - Brondesbury Park

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Drums, bass and saxophone unite to create a deadly groove on "Find Joy", the lead track from ‘Rising’, the forthcoming EP from multi-dimensional future-jazz outfit JK Group, on La Sape Records.

JK Group is the brainchild of award-winning saxophonist, Joshua Kelly (30/70 collective, PBS Young Elder of Jazz 2019). ‘Rising’ sees the band return to La Sape to follow up ‘What’s Real?’
 their universally applauded and long sold-out 2021 release.

Where ‘What’s Real?’ served as a platform for wild experimentation, ‘Rising’ returns to a more considered and familiar format for the band, offering up 4 cohesive tracks that are deep in conception and expression, at once original and fresh. Conceived after recording an as yet unreleased body of work written whilst undergoing chemotherapy, ‘Rising’ celebrates bandleader Josh’s survival and eventual recovery from the intense treatment he received for lymphoma in 2020.

The band stays true to their honed format of jazz traditions melding with influences from electronica and beyond. Like the first release, 'The Young Ones', 'Rising' sits comfortably in the crossover of raw, live jazz and electronic dance music, whilst also throwing an unexpected curveball to the listener expanding the palate of the bands sound to a pigment never before heard in their music. The EP takes you on an emotional journey throughout the four tracks, best listened to start-to-finish.

Rising

Exclusive Premiere: JK Group "Find Joy" (La Sape Records)

Izy release They Don’t Care (Yoruba Soul Extended Mix) a raw, deep house reimagining of their 2021 track by legendary producer and DJ Osunlade. Osunlade takes They Don’t Care on a sparse, minimal house journey, clearing the arrangement right out to give bassist and vocalist Warrigo Tyrrell’s vocals room to breathe and float over the pulse. 

One of the world's longest established deep house producers, Osunlade’s touch is minimal and masterful. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri but a lifetime nomad, Osunlade is the founder of Yoruba Records and has worked with and remixed for artists including Patti Labelle, Freddie Jackson, Roy Ayers, Nkemdi, Salif Keita, and Cesária Évora. Osunlade's music has a deep spiritual root in Yoruba traditions that are also reflected in the name of his record label, album covers, and approach to life. 

They Don’t Care (Yoruba Soul Extended Mix) is the first single from Irene - Remixes (Vol I), a collection of dancefloor focused re-workings of Izy’s 2021 album Irene. The remixes take Izy’s raw, soulful vocals and analog production and reconstitutes them in pulsing new arrangements. Vol I of remixes launches as Izy head back into the studio to work on album number two. 

They Don’t Care (Yoruba Soul Extended Mix) is available everywhere on September 29th on Hopestreet Recordings.

Izy, Osunlade - They Don't Care (Yoruba Soul Extended Mix)

Too Many Bags

Nyamekye Junction and Kaidi Tatham - Too Many Bags (Kaidi's Remix)

Written, Produced & Performed by Aphty Khea
Additional Bass by Giovani 'Joe Abraso' Cresseri
Mixed & Mastered by Nova Glam
Artwork by Manca Flajs


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Greek-British electronic producer, singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Aphty Khéa, innovatively blends warm, blissful, driving electronica with soulful melodies and captivating vocal harmonies. Supported on Radio 1 by Jamz Supernova on and Jaguar on BBC Introducing Dance, their latest EP 'Salt & Copper' received a warm welcome, with further features included on 6 Music with Lauren Laverne, DJ Mag, Mixmag, Beatport and KALTBLUT Magazine. 

Lyrically, Aphty bears tales of vulnerability with poetic messages, touching on subjects of queerness, gender identity, social anxiety, death, existentialism, sex, menstruation and radical self love. Using a mixture of chopped, pasted and edited samples, they surgically dissect every sound they make including synths, piano, percussion, whilst sampling every single vocal style that exists is their voice.  Moving between Berlin, London and Athens, Aphty Khéa builds a hard-hitting visual sound world, offering through their music videos a glimpse into their imagined sonic dreamland.

With a musical background that spans choir from the age of six, studying classical singing and piano at school, winning junior Eurovision in Greece, then swapping their home country for London at 18 to study contemporary singing and vocals at the ICMP Music Institute, and finally a BA degree in songwriting. Beyond composing, performing and producing their music Aphty, has participated in the radical left scenes of Greece, France and Germany standing in solidarity for dignified living in the LGBTQIA+,  anti-capitalist, antiracist, antifascist and antisexist scenes.

"She literally stopped me in my tracks" - Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music 

"She hushed the room to awed silence and even at one point appeared to play a Theremin with her head." - MOJO Magazine

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