All My Likes 2

Alucidnation's  EP:03 is released in support of his forthcoming album Aural Architecture, out on Interchill September 23rd.  Bruce chose 3 renowned London based remixers to add their spice and magic to a couple of tracks from the album - Greg Hunter, Another Fine Day and Irresistible Force.  Right now we're showcasing Greg's remix...  happy listening...

Greg Hunter has a huge track record, stretching back into the golden years of early Orb, where he assisted as an engineer on some of their best work.  His aptly titled and impeccably produced Retro-Spectral mix will be sure to light things up and spin people out 4/4 style with it's well paced deep techno groove filled with acid bubbles and micro details.
http://dubsahara.com/

www.alucidnation.co.uk

www.facebook.com/pages/alucidnation/287141682215


Alucidnation - Further Discoveries (Greg Hunter's  Retro Spectral  Mix)

"Ghetto Hell" Nuggets For The Needy vol 1

** Tristan Palma - HighSmile Special **

Another wicked new special dub from our vaults,
we feature Mr. Joker Smoker aka Tristan Palma
on our corner riddim. Introduced by the legendary
Likkle Harry himself. Enjoy!!


Tristan Palma - HighSmile Special

Low-Fi Classics is a love letter to that scratched, dusty old mix tape that you just couldn’t let go; a simple effective and touching home made soul album by two funky cats at the top of their game. A musical marriage made in heaven filled to the brim with strut, sweetness and singable hooks.

Be Warned: don’t expect a modern day super-squashed treble fest. Low-Fi Classics is an album that squarely turns it’s back on The Loudness War favouring a subtle, understated approach to sequenced music that calls back to the classic hip hop soul of the 90s without being a slave to the sound of other artists.

Producer, DJ and Multi-Instrumentalist Mr Bird brings influences as diverse as they are unique to the music for Low-Fi Classics, displaying a lightness of touch and a lingering background melancholy to his musical ear that establishes him as an artist with a true voice of his own.

Vocalist, Songwriter and all round Powerhouse Greg Blackman, fresh from his collaborative album with DJ Vadim, shows restraint and versatility on this project using many aspects of his unforgettable voice to create memorable, thickly layered soulful jams, flowing effortlessly over Bird’s diverse palette of rhythms.

Dropping 12 unique songs about people they've known, lessons they've learned and simple honest love of a good groove, Blackman & Bird have given their generation something really special in Low-Fi Classics: a timeless home made soul album that the audience will still be able to enjoy for many years to come. Quite simply: classic.

Biographies

Greg Blackman

Beloved UK Soulsmith, Phat Boy and Funkateer Greg Blackman is best known for his uniquely versatile voice, his passionate approach to his subject matter (wether that be life, love, social upheaval or just having fun) and his memorable hooks. He has been drafted in by the likes of DJ Vadim, Daz I Kue, Moquee, Herbgrinder, Featurecast, Renegades Of Jazz and Nightmares On Wax for his always in demand vocal swagger and has appeared on releases from BBE, Tokyo Dawn, Jalapeno and Bombstrikes.

His songs have been played on MTV and featured on the NME website, played on the Craig Charles Funk & Soul show on BBC 6 Music and reviewed in Blues & Soul Magazine. With more and more material from his extensive backlog being released and new material being cooked in his Soul Kitchen all the time, it's looking like 2014 will be The Year where Greg Blackman is placed among his contemporaries as one of the UK's finest Blue Eyed Soul Voices.

Mr Bird

Steve Bird AKA Mr Bird is originally from Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, but in 2009 decided to follow his heart, spread his wings and jumped ship and moved to sunny Lisbon in Portugal, still looking for that perfect beat...

Spending his formative years between playing guitar in bands, dancing in forests, recording vampire films onto a Tascam 4 tack cassette recorder and studying music technology and production, Steve has always been heavily into music. He released 2 albums on the Brighton based labels Frequent Sounds and Hertz Recordings, and on the strength of the 1st album was invited to record a session for John Peel at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in 2002.

Since moving to Lisbon and having the chance to get into music production full time, Steve has been remixing and collaborating with singers, producers and musicians worldwide and writing original music for TV, documentaries and theatre and DJ'ing at bars and clubs in Lisbon. Steve has always been into a wide variety of music, and this has been distilled over the years in to the Mr Bird sound, always an ear for a catchy melody with strong hooks, a mixed blend of soul, funk and hip hop beats.

Steve has started a third label called Fat Bird Sounds in the summer of 2012 and recently had his third album ‘Bird bird bird’ released on the new Dublin based Vital Force label.

What the press have said about Mr Bird: 
"Mr Bird makes music that makes the world feel like a better place, to me it’s mood changing music, its the best of the old school tightly wrapped but loosely tied into a glorious 21st century package." Johhno Casson
"Essential eclecticism" (Knowledge Magazine) 
"Warm Jazz riffs and funky sensations" (QDM Sleazenation)
"Super-fly funky breakbeat instrumental, with growling P-funk bass mantled by hazy, hypnotic samplescapes" (DJ Mag) 
"Blends live drums with squelchy bass and supplies ‘nuff jazz attitude in the process." **** (The Crack Magazine)
"Well crafted mix of eclectic hip-hop jazziness" (Wax Magazine)

Web
mr-bird.com
@mrbird
@greg-blackman


Since You've Been Gone

Mr Bird Featuring Greg Blackman - Since You've Been Gone (The Paragons Of Goodness Remix)

Produced by Afshin & @alexfinkin for the My Grooves party @djoonclub
www.fb.com/mygrooves

one of my favorite Disco Track full of energy 
but we tried to make it even more powerful 
share it if you like it and your feedback as always greatly appreciated ; )

Free download

Lenny Williams - When I'm Dancing (My Grooves Edit - Afshin & Alex Finkin)

Buy This Now

Watchin Out

REMIX BY Sascha Dive

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VIDEO TEASER: youtu.be/ljfCrtuIDsQ

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youAND:THEMACHINES "BEHIND" LP RESHAPED / ORNAMENTS 029

Vinyl (3 x 12”) | Tape
Number of tracks: 16 (15 Vinyl)

Cat: ORN029	
UPC: Vinyl: 827170537569
Release: May 05th, 2014

Special Remarks:

- limited to 333 hand-painted artwork edition (vinyl)
- limited to 150 hand-painted artwork edition (tape)
- each cover has a unique painting and a stamped number

Remixer:

BASIC SOUL UNIT (Ostgut Ton / Philpot / TORONTO)
BOO WILLIAMS (Relief Records / Rush Hour / CHICAGO)
CARLOS NILMMNS (Seventh Sign / Ornaments / PARIS)
FREUND DER FAMILIE (Freund der Familie / Telrae / BERLIN)
JAMIE 3:26 (Lumberjacks in Hell / Rebirth / CHICAGO)
LEGOWELT (Clone / Bunker / DEN HAAG)
MARKO FÜRSTENBERG & LUKE HESS aka DUEL (Deeplabs / Ornaments / LEIPZIG & DETROIT)
MATTHEW HERBERT (Accidental / K7 / LONDON)
RISING SUN (Workshop / Fauxpas / BERLIN)
SASCHA DIVE (Deepvibes / Cocoon / FRANKFURT)
STEVE BUG (Pokerflat / Ovum / BERLIN)
THE ANALOG ROLAND ORCHESTRA (Rotary Cocktail Rec. / Ornaments / BERLIN)
XDB (Metrolux / Sushitech / GOETTINGEN)
YOUANDEWAN (Secretsundaze / Simple / LONDON)
youANDme (Daniel) (Rekids / Cocoon / BERLIN)

Vocal Collaborations:

ROBERT OWENS (Coldplay / Fingers Inc. / CHICAGO)
BROTHERS' VIBE (Secretsundaze / Mixx Records / NEW YORK)
DELHIA DE FRANCE (Pentatones / Freude am Tanzen / LEIPZIG)
BAJKA (Compost / Ibadan / BERLIN)
KETER DARKER (4Lux / Arma Rec. / CHICAGO)

Tracklist:

01. A1 - "Entrance Room" (Freund der Familie Remix) 
02. A2 - "The Veil" feat. Keter Darker (Duel Reshape by Marko Fürstenberg & Luke Hess)
03. B1 - "Perception" feat. Brothers' Vibe (XDB Remix) 
04. B2 - "Sansula" (Basic Soul Unit Remix) 
05. B3 - "Diamond" (Youandewan Dub)
06. C1 - "Drift" feat. Bajka (Steve Bug's Raw And Reduced Edit)
07. C2 - "Desire" (Rising Sun Elaborate 1&2)
08. C3 - "Desire" (The Analog Roland Orchestra Remix)
09. D1 - "Drift" feat. Bajka (Boo Williams Remix) 
10. D2 - "Sway" (Jamie 3:26 Whumped Out Dub)
11. E1 - "Uncover" feat. Delhia De France (Matthew Herbert's Black Sheet Dub)
12. E2 - "Inner Connected" feat. Robert Owens (Sascha Dive's Soultrain Vocal Dub)
13. (Tape) - "Inner Connected" (Freund der Familie Remix)
14. F1 - "Domain Specific" (Legowelt Remix)
15. F2 - "Beyond" (youANDme Remix)
16. F3 - "Beyond" (Carlos Nilmmns Interpretation)

Info (short):

It’s been over half a year since youAND:THEMACHINES album “BEHIND” first saw the light of night. Now its time to presents a nice remix package with some of the favourite artists of Martin.

Info (long):

"A year after the release of his ‘Behind’ LP youAND:THEMACHINES presents ‘Behind’ LP Reshaped - an opulent collection of selected edits, interpretations and remixes courtesy of a prestigious roster of distinguished producers including Matthew Herbert, Steve Bug, XDB, Boo Williams, Sascha Dive, Legowelt, Marko Fürstenberg & Luke Hess and Basic Soul Unit amongst many more.
youAND:THEMACHINES is the solo moniker of Martin Müller - one half of the Berlin based luminaries youANDme who have enjoyed success through official works for the likes of Moodymann, Seth Troxler and Radio Slave and through releases on labels such as Ornaments, Cocoon and Rekids.
It was back in June 2013 that Martin’s ‘Behind’ first saw the light of night; an enthralling insight into his mind and his equipment built using Roland drum machines, the Moog Voyager and the Roland Alpha Juno amongst many other analogue pieces.
Released through long-term affiliates - Ornaments, Martin’s debut LP was received with tremendous appreciation as a laudable achievement in brooding and physical machine music by the likes of Laurent Garnier, Steve Bug, Scuba and Âme to name a few.
‘Behind Reshaped’ mines deep beneath the original’s surface and is a varied compound of textures, tones and atmospheres. From Steve Bug’s glacial ‘Raw and Reduced’ edit of ‘Drift’ to The Analog Roland Orchestra’s allaying take on ‘Desire’ and from XDB’s armoured and clap-heavy remix of Perception to Freund der Familie’s lucidly textural version of ‘Entrance Room’ the listener is ferried through a broad spectrum of feeling whilst a spectral and rueful current remains consistent.
True to the label’s practice - Ornaments’ 29th installment will come bolstered with labour-of-love extras including 333 hand-painted artwork editions (3 x 12”) with each cover bearing a unique painting and stamped number and a special limited tape edition again, with hand-painted artwork and a bonus tape track." 
Words: Christian Newman

BEATPORT

youAND:THEMACHINES - "Inner Connected" feat. Robert Owens (Sascha Dive's Vocal Dub) / ORNAMENTS 029

Some rare 80s heat from Athens of the North. Late Jul / Aug

BUY HERE NOW

Popsicles - These Are The Good Times

Congo Ashanti Roy & Pura Vida - I&I Praise Far I [Lost Ark Music 2014]

A live Dub for John Peel by Featured M artist Mad Professor

Mad Professor - John Peel Dub (Peel Session)

Fryer (Jazzman Records / Soul Spectrum ) presents a super LTD audiophile 12”  "Direct Analogue Cut" of Ishola Mohammad - Open Up Your Heart. 

Ishola Muhammads ‘Open Up Your Heart’  was discovered in 2010 when the 1st known copy that popped up on ebay was bought by keen eyed Northern Soul collector Steve Clancy, who then sold it to Ian Wright for a four figure sum. Ian then included it on a online mix late last year at around the same time Dave Ripoles was negotiating to buy the last remaining copy owned by Ishola himself. Since then only 1 further copy has shown up and has changed hands privately for over £3,000.

This records was a true labour of love with lots of help from friends and music lovers, Well know NYC radio Presenter Mat Winegarden (Downtown Soulville) Picked up the Original Tape Master in New York from Lenis Guess and sent it over to Scotland where an initial digital backup master was made, after which the original master flew with Fryer  to the mighty Timmion Cutting Lab in Helsinki, Finland.  There we spent a day fine tuning a direct from master tape cut right to the Neumann VMS70 lathe without any unnecessary signal-path. After much tinkering a super wide grooved loud cut onto 12 that has to be heard to be appreciated loud, deep and low. This is the way 12" were made to sound their best in the late 70s/ early 80s and why they have not been matched since. This release is ltd to 500 and will not be repressed. 



Ishola Muhammad - Open Up Your Heart -  Mastered

Fryer presents a super LTD audiophile "Direct Analogue Cut" of Ishola Mohammad - Open Up Your Heart. In a true labour of love Mat Winegarden Picked up the Original Tape Master in New York from Lenis Guess and sent it over to Scotland where an initial digital backup master was made, after which the original master flew with me to the might Timmion Cutting Lab in Helsinki, Finland. There we spent a day fine tuning a direct from master tape cut right to the Neumann VMS70 lathe without any unnecessary signal-path. We managed a super wide grooved loud cut onto 12 that has to be heard to be apreacited. This is the way 12" were made to sound their best in the late 70s/ early 80s and why they have not been matched since. This release will be super limited and only available in a few select stores.

Ishola Muhammad - Stay Together

The legendary producer, Dj and recordlabelowner Atjazz (Mantis Recordings) gives us two killer-remixes of Andre Zimma´s broken beat, afro-inspired track M.U.S.I.C. Atjazz, with his magic touch, turns this track into strictly NYC pressure. Played and charted by people like Gilles Peterson, Onsulade (which directly requested the track for his compilation Passage on BBE), Karizma and Opolopo to name a few...

Remixes

Andre Zimma - "M.U.S.I.C" (ATJAZZ REMIX)

got inspired last night after the election... a lil something funky for the president

download: http://www.mixtaperiot.com/download/ChocolateCityRMX.zip

Chocolate City (Chuck Wild's Bronco Drama Mix)

King Shiloh Feat King Kong - Dem A Fake

A NITETIME ( MYSELF & BEN WOODS AKA BOSQ ) REMIX DONE FOR MY HOMIE SHUYA OKINO'S COMPILATION "TOKYO CROSSOVER NIGHT" FT. N'DEA DAVENPORT. 

ALSO FEATURING  KEYBOARDIST/MUSICIAN " YUKI KANESAKA " 

DEEP INTO SUNSHINE KON'S NITETIME RMX FT. N'DEA DAVENPORT.

Doctors Darling Riddim - Corruption ft Junior Kelly 

Unity & Arkital Dubplate Special

BIGUP MORE FIRE MANAGEMENT!!


Mixed by Dialect & Kosine 
@ Originate Recordings studio, Brighton

Doctors Darling Riddim - Walk Away (Corruption Dubplate) feat Junior Kelly

Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up • Wonderlove's Re-edit

Soundboard recording of Thanks For The Information, performed live in Mar 13.

Born To Sing, No Plan B the new studio album from Van Morrison
available here:
Amazon: smarturl.it/yqj48v
iTunes: smarturl.it/z7qrgd

Gig details, merchandise & more vanmorrison.com

facebook.com/vanmorrisonofficial
twitter.com/vanmorrison
youtube.com/vanmorrisonofficial
pinterest.com/vanmorrison

Thanks For The Information, Live

"Roots Of Soul remix EP" release date 14 Dicember 2012

1 Night With You (Yoruba House Mixes)
Addittional production by Osunlade for Yoruba People's Music
Recorded and Mixed @ Oya's House, Imerovigli

2 Night With You (Yoruba Soul MIxes)
Addittional production by Osunlade for Yoruba People's Music
Recorded and Mixed @ Oya's House, Imerovigli

3 Roots Of Soul (Atjazz Remixes)
Remix and additional production by Martin Iveson for Atjazz

4 Sunshine (Ezel Remixes)
Remix produced by Ezel Feliz 
All instruments performed by Ezel 
Recorded at The House of Spirits Studio, Barcelona , Spain 2012

5 With Me Come Fly (Dodi Palese Remixes)
remix produced by Dodi Palese
recorded at South Vibes Studio, Salento, Italy
mixed by Max Gardini @ Groove Factory Studio, Bologna, Italy 2012

6 Sinphony From The Universe (Mop Mop Remixes) 
Additional production by Andrea Benini at Mop Mop Studio Berlin.
Keyboards by Alex Trebo.


All My Likes 2

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