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Africa 45, number 3; a Mulatu Astatke double A side.

Mulatu is an Ethiopian born instrumentalist, composer and arranger extraordinaire. Schooled in the UK and then the USA, Mulatu fuses jazz, latin and traditional Ethiopian styles to create a unique sound, most commonly referred to as Ethio-jazz.

Over the past decade years he has gained much exposure via the Ethiopiques series, a collaboration project with the Heliocentrics, and through the inclusion of ‘Yegelle Tezeta’ - featured here - in the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's film, ‘Broken Flowers’, starring Bill Murray.

A: Yegele Tezeta

Low slung, mysterious organ led groover, with building, layered horns a sampled by Nas & Damian Marley on ‘As We Enter’ released in 2010.

Originally appeared on the legendary ‘Ethiopian Modern Instrumentals Hits’ compilation album from Ethiopia in 1974, of which six out of ten tracks were by Mulatu. It was also released on an Amha 7”, that is very tough to find.

AA: Yekatit

Originally appeared on the also legendary ‘Ethio Jazz’ album by Mulatu that changes hands for $1000's, released in Ethiopia. Typically Ethiopian horn line, about as classic as it gets.

Mulatu Astatke - Yekatit

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Lianne La Havas - Don't Wake Me Up (Live in LA)

Love$ick

Love$ick (feat. A$AP Rocky)

'Settle Down Boy' is the first single off Melbourne singer-songwriter Paul Reid's highly anticipated second EP Nowhere Towns.

Nowhere Towns will be released on Boundary Records February 2nd 2017.

You can pre-order the EP here:
www.boundaryrecords.com/shop

Paul Reid - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar.
John Beddgood - Violin & Mandolin
Andrew Whitmore - Electric Guitar
Chris Frangou - Bass
Matt Head - Drums

Produced by Chris Frangou & Paul Reid.

Nowhere Towns

Settle Down Boy

Paul Reid - Settle Down Boy *SINGLE*

This land is your land, This land is my land

Though it has often been co-opted as a benignly patriotic campfire sing-a-long, "This Land Is Your Land" was actually written by Woody Guthrie in 1944 as a subversive protest song in biting response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." At my sister Samra's urging, we recorded our version in 2004, during the George W. Bush presidency, in an effort to re-establish it as a song about social justice.

Ironically, when Woodie Guthrie resided in Coney Island in 1950, his landlord was none other than Donald Trump's father, the infamously racist real estate mogul Fred Trump, about whom Guthrie composed his poem "Old Man Trump," including the lines:

     I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
     He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
     When he drawed that color line
     Here at his Beach Haven family project 

Using a dark re-harmonization of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as an intro, the Dap-Kings re-arranged "This Land" as a rough blues-y march, setting the tone for Sharon to tear into the lyrics of the song with the fiery gusto of a revolutionary. However, it was the inclusion of Guthrie's rarely-heard original verses that really enabled Sharon to reclaim the song as an urgent and unambiguous demand for equality and human dignity in a nation rife with social injustice and patriotic hypocrisy.

Today, as we inaugurate a rapacious billionaire to the highest office in the land, those original verses resonate with us as loudly as the day they were written:

     There was a big high wall there
     That tried to stop me
     The sign was painted
     Said 'Private Property'
     But on the backside
     It didn't say nothing
     This land was made for you and me

     One bright sunny morning
     In the shadow of the steeple 
     By the relief office 
     I saw my people 
     As they stood hungry
     I stood there wondering 
     If God Blessed America for me

We are grateful to Woodie Guthrie and to Sharon Jones, two friends of the people and bitter foes of the Trumps, who have given us an essential soundtrack to our struggle. When times get dark, let us not crumble in fear and bigotry. Let us honor the unbreakable spirit of those tireless fighters who have fallen before us. Let us rise to the fight, and let us help each other never to forget this noble truth:

    This land was made for you and me.

-Gabe Roth

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "This Land Is Your Land"

This is the live recording from my set at Piknic Electronik in Melbourne on January 22nd, 2017. It was great to perform at such a great event in my hometown. 

Fellow local DJ Pjenne played a great set before me of disco, balearic house & afro tunes,  so it was nice to come on following those vibes. My set was from 3.30pm till just after 5 when Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda took the stage and tore it up!

I wanted to play a mixture of stuff showing the roots of house via disco & jazz-funk and it was amazing to get such a great reaction from the up-for-it crowd.

Big thanks to Stable Music, Hardware & everyone involved at Piknic Electronik for having me down!

Mike Gurrieri Live @ Piknic Electronik Melbourne - January 22, 2017

Pawa

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Lala Belu

Hailu Mergia — Gum Gum from Lala Belu

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Credits to @thereflex for the catchy instrumental

Free DL

Cardi B x MJ - Bodak Yellow x P.Y.T. (Melledit) [played on Boiler Room]

Another track of Beatbox Dub Poetics-

This was a call for Change- not really happy with the changes that are happening but its in our hands.

07 Feel The Change

Boundary Records is an independent record label founded and run on the boundary between Thornbury and Preston, two suburbs in the north of Melbourne, Australia.

 

With an unwavering dedication and love for music, our goal is to give a voice to outstanding and unique grass-roots artists regardless of genre from around Australia and the world.

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