Bokeh 2020

June 2020

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The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac

The Chain (2002 Remaster)

PIXIES live 1989 Garaje Valencia - Isla de Encanta

Free Download

Unholy Moment

The Invisible Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

We've Got That In Common

Welcome Becca Mancari to Captured Tracks!

Hunter

Becca Mancari // Hunter (Official Single)

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Bastard Jazz is proud to present the sophmore solo album by one of the gems of the New Zealand underground soul scene, Isaac Aesili. Woven through electronic soul, with threads of jazz, funk, R&B and house music, Isaac's ‘Hidden Truths’ is the stylistic unification of all his previous projects (Karl Marx, Funkommunity, Sorceress) into a dazzling and diverse body of work. Three years in the making, its depth is clear from the first listen, and is peppered with some of New Zealand’s finest soul and jazz musical talent, including two stunning female feature vocalists from New Zealand; Ladi6 and Rachel Fraser.

The album opens with an ominous instrumental ‘Mirror’ setting a dark a tone for the album the start, shimmering with shades of Dilla swing snapping over metallic chords and a graceful trumpet solo that enters midway through. Wild feat. Ladi6’ is a heavy downbeat future soul joint with stratospheric synths layered over driving beats that build alongside the elegant vocal weavings of New Zealand's first lady of soul, Ladi6, while ‘Player’ sees Isaac’s unique vocals tell a tale of dangerous seduction within a synth funk-driven dancehall cum house music that feels like the Gap Band on a tropical vacation. ‘Jungles’ is a deep, native and ocean-like soundscape that begins with syncopated synths and beats that collide dramatically into a frantic, sweeping synth outro, followed up by‘Realms’ , an intricately crafted song that has sonic elements from techno-house that are other-worldly accompanied by live drums that flip after the breakdown into a swinging conclusion of the album's first half.

‘Run Every Way’ is an epic percussion-driven electronic blues that begins with a vocal chorus from Isaac that could just as easily be interpreted lyrically as a warning about climate change as it could an expression of the inner-self, while "Refugee" is also a heavily percussion orientated joint that fuses romantic classical strings with otherworldly synth stabs and Isaac’s haunting vocals moving climactically into a tender coda conclusion. "Rain Gods" feat. Rachel Fraser is a heavenly pathway into Rachel’s luxurious vocals with clever lyrics merging the soaring synths and looped bassline into a short yet memorable chorus‘and ‘Steps’ is classic Isaac Aesili production including deep Rhodes chord changes, a knocking beat with layers of percussion, synths and horns providing a warm emotive accompaniment to Isaac’s vocals. ‘Last Minute’ is a simple yet sophisticated jewel of space and time that concludes the vocal tracks of the album in a proper soulful style, and ‘Maureen’ rounds out the album as an expressive instrumental outrolude that features Isaac’s trumpet.

Isaac Aesili is an Internationally acclaimed solo artist and the producer and creative force behind Funkommunity, Sorceress and Karlmarx. Isaac’s original productions have been supported internationally by DJs such as Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 6 Music), Benji B (BBC 1), and Lefto (Belgium, Worldwide FM). His trumpet playing features on many collaborations including ‘Layer’ by Julien Dyne (Wonderful Noise/BBE) and ‘Midnight in Peckham’ by Chaos in the CBD (Rhythm Section). A world-renowned musician on both trumpet and percussion, Isaac is a member of the Lord Echo band. His music fuses Soul, Funk, Jazz, Afro and Latin styles with R&B, Hip Hop and Electronic music. Isaac’s much anticipated sophomore solo album “Hidden Truths” is out on Bastard Jazz (NYC) in 2020.

Hidden Truths

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Isaac Aesili - Jungles

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The Mosaic of Transformation

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Steady Heart

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/sepehr-magma-dark-entries/
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RMjmGcIJPk4
* Pre-order: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lp/sepehr-shaytoon/

Dark Entries welcome back San Francisco based DJ and producer Sepehr Alimagham for his debut album ‘Shaytoon’. He cites early influences like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and post-hardcore bands for kick-starting his affinity for off-kilter, underground music. In 2017 Sepehr began performing live PA sets and released his first EP on Black Catalogue. He’s since released music on Squirrels On Film, Acid Camp, Legwork, EON, and the ‘Body Mechanics’ EP for us in 2018.

Drenched in nostalgia from his upbringing, ‘Shaytoon’ pays homage to 1970s Iranian albums that were on rotation throughout his youth. Eight tracks of twisted acid, left-of center electro, sludgy psychedelia, and things-you-can-maybe-call-techno are a few of the sonic elements found within. Regular listeners will find Sepehr’s signature perspiratory dance-floor vibe, but some songs also showcase a low-slung, cerebral approach. Sepehr's unique sonic palette carves an interesting space in the dance music world by harnessing the spirit of his cultural ancestors. All songs have been mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The artwork pays tribute to ‘70s Iranian pop and funk albums with bold Farsi calligraphy and portraits by Sahra Jajarmikhayat. In relation to the music, the album cover creates a dichotomy much like Throbbing Gristle's ’20 Funk Jazz Greats’. Berakhs (Dance).

Shaytoon

PREMIERE: Sepehr - Magma

Vulture (Hubie Davison Remix)

Flora e Fauna

Pesci

Out now: http://lnk.to/chickenlipsPH98

A key fixture in the record bags of DJs throughout the past few decades, best known for their unforgettably odd house anthem ‘He Not In’, it’s been some years since Andy Meecham and Dean Meredith last collaborated as Chicken Lips. As such, it’s with no little delight that Phantasy welcomes them back into the fold with one of their most mind-bending tracks yet, accompanied by a remix from a fellow stalwart of the underground, DJ Sotofett.

Instant and assured, ‘Goldenlips’ unrolls like licorice over ten blissful minutes, mining an undercurrent of post-acid house euphoria into a dreamy analogue jam-turned-trip, a soft and rhythmic vision of dancefloor euphoria that demonstrates a mastermind session of tension and release from two individuals with decades of experience in tipping dancefloors upside-down.

On the flip, DJ Sotofett continues to deliver the unexpected with a more truncated but no less compelling ‘Golden Funk’ mix. Suddenly rolling back the musical clock to the sun-drenched West Coast of the mid-nineties, the result is an oozing, bottom-heavy rework so delicious, it might even have united Puffy and Snoop.

Goldenlips

Goldenlips (DJ Sotofett's Golden Funk Mix)

Miss Jay - CLUB TOOLS
Track 4/5
160 BPM

@amnesia-scanner @clublyzza

Club Tools

160 BPM - Amnesia Scanner ft. LYZZA - AS Going (Miss Jay Remix)

Out now on 12" and digital: bit.ly/37sEcpc

Sludge machine music slapped through the infinite mixing desk by SRS - the combined mind of Sunun and Robin Stewart. At any point Data Fossil’s giddy industrial riddims could collapse under their own weight. There are Sunun inputs and there are Robin Stewart inputs - but everything is offered up to their machines gladly for an output of nu-human-beat. Voices drift through the mix in hushed Italian and Robin’s gruff roboticized drawl, floating dub chords left hanging for cavernous subs and rattled bones, distant harps and arps, a sudden blast of trills. ‘Spit Fossil’ itself is a clipped noise-pop wonder - the aural equivalent of a lights-on Avon dancefloor with only the weirdest left standing.

Hear More / Buy Now

SRS - Spit Fossil Dub

Aiming to enhance a future that connects us across the boundaries of class and race. Fight fascism & racism - in every space and on every level! Ravers for a culture in solidarity and resistance. All proceeds of the U.R.A.F. Tape (and Digital) sales will be donated to these no profit associations: Seebrücke, the Auschwitz Memorial and to the fundraiser of Aboubakar Soumahoro.

Seebrücke. A movement who created (among other things) save habours in over 62 european municipalities in which citys welcome refuges who have been recued from distress at sea. seebruecke.org/leavenoonebehind/aktionen/

A fundraiser by Aboubakar Soumahoro who aims to support the black farmhands working in the agricultural fields of the Italian South and provide them with food, basic necessities and medical supplies.
www.gofundme.com/f/portiamo-il-cibo-in-tavola-ma-abbiamo-fame

The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum which is a place of great importance to remember the atrocities and consequences of fascism.
auschwitz.org

U.R.A.F. — a compilation of music with a strong political thought.
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releases June 19, 2020

A8 Falling Apart - Sex With God

@ehuamusic — the @femmeculture and @nervoushorizon signee — lays down an exclusive blend of her own unreleased productions. Sonic bliss.

Track list: https://ins-rt.net/mix-exhibitions/exhibition/ehua

Tracklist

Exhibition Mix: Ehua

Taken from Linha D'Água, out now on LP and digital:
https://bokehversions.bandcamp.com/album/linha-d-gua

A lucid dream meeting of synth waves, aquatic jazz spirits and drum-triggered electronics. ‘Linha D'Água’ translates as ‘water lines’, fitting for an album that traces boundaries between water and air through an echo chamber of dizzying oceanic layers and free flowing ideas.

Mauricio Takara and Carla Boregas are two towering figures of the Brazilian underground/experimental scene, where they provide the rhythm section for demented genre-bending trio Rakta. While that band is all ritual percussion and red-blooded passion, as a duo they’re a blue-water flowing counterpoint. From the drums, Takara fires melodies and, with the synthesizer, Carla sculpts the sound. The result is caught somewhere between abstract improvisation and propulsive rhythm. Each song’s an organic layering of manipulated synthesizers and acoustic sounds; teasing new rhythms from the drum kit via MIDI (and a near-telekinetic bond between Carla and Mauricio).

M. Takara & Carla Boregas - Rosa de Areia

Hear all of Bunout Boss EP on Bandcamp: bit.ly/33MFQAr

Duppy Gun and Bokeh presents the huge debut statement from Okeme Robinson aka Gaza G Sudden, the second staple artiste in Duppy’s global dancehall project. Rolling with Duppy since 2013’s ‘Girls Dem Need Me’ debuted him into the world, G Sudden’s youth fire comes of age after lighting up the Portmore scene at Reggae Yard, Stop the Crime on Violence tour and Chopdawg Sundays.

Production comes from Richmond, BC (Canada via Manila) crew Seekersinternational who clashed with Duppy on 2019’s I Jahbar and Friends

G Sudden - Skin Get Bun

Smurphy deconstructs rave tropes with a speed-freak mutation of dancehall and footwork.

'Spheres of Consciousness' is out October 29th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3kl0pez

@sssmurphy
@bokeh-versions

Esferas de Conciencia

Premiere: Smurphy - Instinct [Bokeh Versions]

CDMX Queen Smurphy releases her new Bokeh Versions EP "Spheres of Consciousness," flexing 5 ardkore x juke inspired helium neck-snappers transporting you to a higher states.The Spheres of Consciousness EP represents a rising up, an embracing of life. 
We’re lucky to be hearing from the NAAFI / Leaving Records affiliated, CDMX-based producer at all. She’d all but shelved music to focus on her health; suffering loss of mobility and chronic pain from a spinal birth defect (Spina Bifida Occulta). Until Smurphy came across breatharian literature about ‘living without food’.
There’s a deep link with rave’s central DNA - the dancefloor promise of reaching that higher state - and her ongoing health conditions. These five dancefloor destroyers are wordlessly encoded with the breatharian theory. Life goes though different levels of existence like a videogame, from the lowest level as hard minerals (‘Existence’), plant and fungi life resonates as ‘Growth’, animal life resonates as ‘Instinct’, human life runs on ‘Intellect’, the boss level is ‘Intuition’ - the highest non-material sphere. 
Clearly Smurphy is back, healthier than ever, and in control with collaborative dancehall productions with Duppy Gun artists coming in 2021, with more music and collabs to be announced.
Out October 30th. Follow the Buy link to purchase.

[PREMIERE] Smurphy- Intellect (Bokeh Versions)

Duppy Riddim excursion of all 4 mixes o Montegod Riddim (Smurphy Prod.)

Hear them all here:
https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/montegod-riddim

Mexico, Portmore, Jamaica, LA, Bristol: The Montegod Riddim pack is here! Featuring I Jahbar & RDL and the talent of two of Duppy Gun’s newest recruits: Prapastar and Any Voice. Nurtured by I Jahbar at his Chopdawg Sundays cookout / MC schooling, they bring in a new era of Duppy Gun talent rising from the ranks.

I Jahbar & RDL / Prapastar / Any Voice / Smurphy - Montegod Riddim Mix

Outopia Thru Sound // BKV Industrial + BKV Cadavre + Bokeh Thought Programme // Avon Terror Corps // I serve Duppy Gun // Pheasantry Life ⚔