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First single from Fresh Big Mouf's debut album Taco Boom Box, to be released Spring 2016.  

Bite Your Brains

"Precious Possession" by Anna Wise
BUY on iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/13a0e8
BANDCAMP: https://annathewise.bandcamp.com
Subscribe to Anna's YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/1KqjjNm

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1Kqj4BZ
SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/1o6AQjJ

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All inquiries: mgmt@annathewise.com

"Precious Possession" by Anna Wise
Music and Lyrics by Anna Wise
Produced by M. Constant 
Additional Production by Anna Wise and Dane Orr
Mixed by Dane Orr
Mastered by Daddy Kev

Nova Tunes 3.4

Precious Possession

Faye "Faye" EP out May 13, 2016 on Tiny Engines

Tape - http://tnyn.gs/fayeisaband
Bandcamp - http://tnyn.gs/faye-camp
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/faye-itunes
Amazon - http://smarturl.it/faye-amazon
Google - http://smarturl.it/faye-google

Spotify - https://play.spotify.com/album/1wNq2Wxlfj4n2QhEDV7MeT

Chow Chow

www.facebook.com/warholaband

Written and performed by Oliver Symons 
Produced by Oliver Symons 

Mixing and additional production by Jasper Maekelberg 
Mastered by Dick Beetham at 360 mastering 

Photography by Nicolas Karakatsanis 
Contact: alexander@dbnr.be  

Lady

NONE OF YOUR LOVE

Debut EP by Solano + Profettes

A1 Don't you Cry for Giving Up FISR61600003
A2 Sakura FISR61600004
B1 Spanish Class FISR61600005
B2 Like This FISR61600002

Release date: 15.4.2016  		
Album code: SOL-049
Formats: 12" vinyl EP / digital stream + download

‘Solano + Profettes' is a five-piece group from three Finnish cities: Helsinki, Tampere and Seinäjoki. Solano is a minuscule part of a Finnish town, said to be "the Milano of Seinäjoki". The core of the group actually grew up there and Samuli Kukkola, Janiv Oskár, Jokke Olavi have their roots in italo and techno. The guys added a couple of sequin covered all-stars /songbirds, namely Minna Sihvonen and Ringa Manner, who, if put together have been involved in some 20 Finnish bands over the years, and so the music evolved into synth pop. 'Like this' is the first track to be released from an upcoming self-titled EP later in the spring 2016. The EP (Release date 15.4. by Solina Records) showcases characterful songwriting, with a strong sense of vocal harmonies. Monotonic beat loops, echoing layers of synthesizers and four talented singers make the music dark but susceptible pop with a light and airy avantgarde grip. 

"50% Scott Walker & ABBA, 50% Enya & Giorgio Moroder" 

Label Contact: Tom Riski
tom@solinarecords.com 				
www: solinarecords.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SolinaRecords/

Booking: Antti Hietala
Alt Agency & Management http://altagency.fi/
antti@altagency.fi
+358 44 560 8969

Distribution - Finland and Scandinavia
Playground Music
www.playgroundmusic.com
tomppa@playgroundmusic.com

Distribution – UK
Shellshock Distribution
jane@shellshock.co.uk
www.shellshock.co.uk
Distribution – rest of the world: 
Cargo Records Germany
info@cargo-records.de
http://www.cargo-records.de/



Solano + Profettes: Sakura

Falling

Sudanese­-American hip­hop artist Oddisee's new EP, “Al­Wasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings.

05 Oddisee - Lifting Shadows

This for Moco

@Pigeonsandplanes premiere: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2016/03/innanet-james-summer/

Summer @the-kount remix
@fetedela squad
Artwork by @ElynKazarian

Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yef5_3lb0-s
Lyric video by @pitchfork https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk0b3073nr8

Download the album, "Quebec Place" out now!

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/quebec-place/id1142002536?uo=4&at=1001l3Iq&ct=888915261569&app=itunes
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Innanet_James_Quebec_Place?id=Bdol72nnb73lvj3laxgei3t5fi4&PAffiliateID=1101l3z7&PCamRefID=888915261569
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=Quebec%20Place

Download

Summer Prod. The Kount

Blow

Feel Trip: Like Honey on Fries at Popeye's
Lyrics +

Verse 1:

Theres a first time for everything Baby
say you brought protection please Baby
cause free love aint free you know Baby
and i aint trine have no babies\
but you're all that i been thinking bout lately
when i turned from a girl to lady
on your mommas bed sexin all crazy
 it wasn't a mistake
so don't erase me no no no
it wasn't a mistake so don't erase me
 no no no no no

Pre:
Your Biology
My anatomy 
come and learn about
our bodies geography

Hook:
Lets take a feel trip
Under the bleachers
I wanna feel you
pull me in deeper

repeat 1x

Post Hook:

I wanna feel you
I wanna feel you
I wanna feel you
I wanna feel you

Verse 2:

Such a sight to see
to watch you take it
its like I'm sitting front row 
at your graduation
and like a teacher i'll be patient
but just how long you gone keep me waiting
dirty mind
a beautiful imagination
i find it hard keep my concentration 
i find it hard to keep my concentration
it wasn't a mistake
so don't erase me no no no
it wasn't a mistake so don't erase me
 no no no no no

Pre hook
Hook
Post

Bridge

You don't gotta worry about that exam
we made our own lesson plan
trust me baby 
you gone pass your sexual education class

repeat 1

I'll teach ya
about the birds and the bees baby
about the flowers and the trees baby
yea uh huh yessuh!

Hook: 
Post:

Produced by Dillon Pace 
Additional Production By NomBe & Rush Davis
Written by Dominique Rushon Davis & Dylan Crouch

Mixed and Mastered by Noah McBeth

Purchase on iTunes 

Feel Trip (Produced by Dillon Pace)

'Fading Lines' is the second single & title track from Amber Arcades forthcoming album.

For album pre-orders & track listing: http://www.heavenlyrecordings.com/records/2016/03/hvnlp126-amber-arcades-fading-lines/



Fading Lines

Taken from the upcoming album Amparo.
Amparo is released May 27 via Labrador in Europe, Cascine in North America and Rallye in Japan.

www.labrador.se // info@labrador.se
www.cascine.us // andi@cascine.us

Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.


Maria Usbeck - Uno De Tus Ojos

Watch the official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqC9UnEhpo

Order Limited Edition Pink 7" Vinyl via B3SCI Records: www.b3scirecords.com/product/nvdes-…the-other-side

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6JiKWQTg9OjQSMxryN8l5U
Buy on iTunes: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-other-side-single/id1094679883


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Spotify

The Other Side

free download at www.tamumassif.co.uk 

photo by Sam Gregg.

Holding Back.

Written and produced by Charlotte Day Wilson
Additional production by Howie Beck
Mixed by Howie Beck
Mastered by Joao Carvalho

http://twitter.com/cdaydreamz
http://facebook.com/DAYWILSONMUSIC/
http://instagram.com/cdaywilson

Work

premiered via @pigeonsandplanes:
http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2016/04/premiere-listen-to-l-a-duo-r00ms-seductive-new-single-bittersweet-company/

BITTERSWEET COMPANY
written and produced by Rooms
mixed and mastered by Jeff Ellis

roomsrecords.com

Did I lose you from talking a little too much
But if I choose to be silent
It’s never enough
How does it feel to be smooth
Why do you have to be smooth
Cause I can’t figure it out

Bittersweet company
I cannot ignore the way
You do you, I do me
Maybe it’s taboo
Bittersweet company
You’ve got a hold on me
And I know now I should have seen that coming

So refined so desired and suggesting
You’re persuasive I’m tired watching you win
How does it feel to be smooth
Why do you have to be smooth
I still can’t figure it out

Bittersweet company
I cannot ignore the way
You do you, I do me
Maybe it’s taboo
Bittersweet company
You’ve got a hold on me
And I know now I should have seen that coming

Bittersweet Company

Old Kanye, New Simbi. Enjoy.

Socials:
www.littlesimz.co
@littlesimz
www.facebook.com/littlesimz
twitter.com/LittleSimz
youtube.com/littlesimzvevo
littlesimz.bandcamp.com

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