chill

2013

Chris Coco - Freedom Street

Freedom Street is a real place in south London. Freedom Street is an imaginary state of grace in the city, a feeling of belonging, a sense of letting go on a spectacularly hot summer's day. It's about living in London now, it's coloured by the music of the past. It's about feeling good, in a kind of melancholy way. It's about being laid back, but ready for action. It's about new ways of seeing old things, about a sense of wonder for familiar surroundings.




Freedom Street album sampler

coco love

the chill

EFEEL 001 Forbidden Love

Eper - Strawberry

Jim Sturgess   'THE OTHER ME' LIVE (Heartless)

Chris Coco - Elton Dub

Captain Bliss makes his harmonica sound like a voice, only thing is nobody can understand the lyrics. This track was inspired by a visit to Splash Point, Seaford, Sussex. It's dedicated to the memory of Leonard Lee Jones.

Chris Coco - Splash Point

Word: vox: Andrew Docherty

Andrew Docherty is a Scottish singer songwriter who lives up west. We gave him a backing track inspired by early Factory Records dance acts like Quando Quango. He came back with a fully formed song, complete with horn section and distortion.

Word is a single taken from the album Freedom Street The single is out on July 16. The album follows on July 30.




http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/MELOR012LP/Chris_Coco_Freedom_Street.html

Chris Coco - Word

St James Grove is taken from the new Chris Coco album Freedom Street, out July 30 on MelodicaRecordings.

Chris Coco - St James Grove

End Of The World   vox: Jim Sturgess

End of the world is a happy sad song, the music is kind of sweet but the words are a little dark. It was originally inspired by sunny holidays, then Jim and I both read The Road and something a little cloudy happened.


Chris Coco - End Of The World

1) A Wedding Song 2) Haiti (Never Stop Fighting) 3) Zapata 4) My Life Keeps Changing...Again 5) I Call On Allah

Rasul (Album Sampler)

The 90s chillout classic given a 2012 re-do.

A Reminiscent Drive - Ambrosia (Chris Coco Remix)

Chris Coco - Starlight

Chris Coco - Summertime

Come In We're Melodica: Year one of Melodica Recordings remixed and repackaged for total consumer satisfaction!
Wow! Melodica Recordings is one. To celebrate this momentous event I have sent some of our favourite releases on the label to some of our favourite artists, on the label and elsewhere, for a retake, a look back, a flash forward, a new version of the original. It's helped to make the creative family feel that I was after at the start of this process to feel real, we're all swapping ideas and tunes now, helping each other to grow and surprising each other with great new sounds.
If you enjoy these tunes don't forget to track back to the original releases, all still there on the digital stores, waiting for you with open arms. Year two is going to be even more exciting, with fresh, young bands, crazy party events in tents and basements, plenty of proper quality albums on vinyl (with a free download too). But for now, sit back and relax or jump up and dance, but whatever way you do it please go ahead and enjoy this fine collection of most excellent music from some of the most wonderful people around.

1- Chris Coco vs Synkro - My Desire 
2- Deekie vs Joel Hood - Rush 
3- Skintologists vs Chris Coco - Out Of Time 
4- 3 Balearos vs Project Club - Summer Breezin' 
5- Chris Coco vs Skintologists - Love Your Afro 
6- Crackpot vs Antikue - Robopotamus 
7- City Reverb vs Henry Oakley - Roll On 
8- Deekie vs Ejeca - Rush 
9- City Reverb vs Lulu Rouge - City Of Lights 
10- Skintologists vs Architeq - Downstairs Dubbin' 
11- No Logo vs Max Essa - This City Never Sleeps 
12- Electric Zeus vs Max Essa - Believe 
13- Chris Coco vs Electric Zeus - Letter From Erika 
14 - Deekie vs Heion - Rush

Chris Coco - My Desire (Synkro Remix)

In the year 2002, Gusgus was touring the states with the new lineup and album Attention.  One of the tracks in the set was though a cover of old Human League track called "Things that dreams are made of".  Not shure if we have any live recordings of it but here is the lave backup version we did in case of equipment breakdown.

Things that dreams are made of (livebackup)

City Reverb - Edgelands

Art rock trio City Reverb return with an EP of electroacoustic, digitalanalogue  songs about living in the actual and metaphorical, emotional Edgelands. This is urban pastoral, the place where the retail park meets the canal meets the wasteland meets the landfill meets the new housing estate meets the countryside. It's about building up the courage to run away, then deciding to stay and fight it out. It's about being trapped in a car in a traffic jam that lasts for days. It's a plane in a holding pattern in the Bovingdon Stack. It's about the pain of staying up all night and the joy of seeing the sun rise over the Tesco Metro. It's about the way we live now.

1 Wings
2 Morning (Chris Coco Balearic Version)
3 Lonely Road
4 Give Away

All tracks written, performed and produced by City Reverb
Mixed by Chris Coco at Freedom Street, London
p & c 2013 christophermellorltd.



More about City Reverb:

Micky Buccheri, Nick Cornu and Chris Coco met during the sessions for Lost City Folk, an album which expanded Chris' original dance oriented tracks into mini symphonies about London life in the 21st Century.  
The group aesthetic relies on an economy of sounds. It's a "less is more" approach that strips each song to its bare bones to reveal the honest beauty of its structure. Happysad melodies shimmer above crisp machine rhythm. Plaintive synth lines waft through the mix like London fog. The dub bass is insistent while finger-picked acoustic guitars sew the elements together. The resultant sound is minimal but not stark; the songs often hint at a rustic, almost innocent wonder in the modern world.


City Reverb - Morning (Chris Coco Balearic Version)

During the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America, revolution was in the air – youth subculture was breaking its bonds, minds were expanding and music was turning inside out. This Rough Guide features a lovingly re-mastered selection of classic cuts by Joe Cuba and Johnny Rivera alongside contemporary psychedelic pioneers Brownout and Ocote Soul Sounds.

For more information: http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1291/

The Rough Guide To Latin Psychedelia

The 1960s and 1970s were eras of activist rebellion and trippy experimentation encapsulated by the sound of reverberating guitars and whirling shimmering percussion. The psychedelic influence in the Latin world ran deep and musicians across the region put their own spin on the sound.

Joe Cuba opens the album with ‘Psychedelic Baby’, a song combining topical humour with an infectious groove. Next up Bronx-born Puerto Rican vocalist and timbale player Johnny Rivera is heard on ‘Cloud Nine’, taken from his 1976 album Up, Up and Away. ‘Todos’ is contributed by Los Nombres, a band once described as ‘one part War, two parts Santana, a dash of Motown, immersed in a rich Puerto Rican stock’.

Other vintage cuts include a track from self-proclaimed ‘Indian rock’ band, Conjunto El Opio. Hailing from Peru their song ‘Piratas En El Titicaca’ is a slab of fuzz-funk and features a sax playing a traditional Andean huyano huancaíno melody. Wild Wind formed in the mid-1970s and combine acid funk-rock with more traditional Cuban music like the bolero and son montuno. Afrosound was a nod by Fuentes studio executives to the psychedelic guitar-based sounds coming out of Peru at the time. ‘Baila Mi Rumbita’ is a cover of Barcelona’s gypsy rumba sensation Los Amaya, done in the lysergically enhanced Afrosound style.

Psychedelia is still a creative force on many contemporary bands like Ocote Soul Sounds, a project begun by members of the trailblazing Afrobeat revival orchestra Antibalas and Chicano salsa/indie rockers Grupo Fantasma. ‘En El Temblor’ describes an earthquake and appeals to Afro-Cuban orisha deities for salvation. Another modern outfit, Brownout encapsulate the revolutionary hippie-era in a modern Mexican-American context.

Los Destellos, the foremost Peruvian tropical band of the 1960s-1970s provide a full-length bonus album. 

Los Destellos: Onsta La Yerbita (taken from the album The Rough Guide To Latin Psychedelia)

Get the album here: http://glitterbeat.com/glitterbeat_store/

Recorded at Studio Mali in Bamako, in the autumn of 2012, Samba is joined by
his regular band members Djimé Sissoko (n’goni ) and Madou Sanogo (congas,
djembe) and guests such as the legendary, master of the soku (a one-stringed
violin) Zoumana Tereta and the fast-rising Malian neo-traditional singer Aminata
Wassidje Traore. Additionally, Hugo Race (The Bad Seeds, Dirtmusic, Fatalists)
contributes an array of subtle atmospherics on guitar and keyboards.

Samba Toure - Be Ki Don

Lawn Order

Jim Sturgess Eleanor Rigby

DJ, producer, broadcaster, journalist, musician.
contact : chris@chriscoco.com

Chris Coco - End Of The World

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