Bad With Names

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Hello

Intro For Strings

Slope

Lara

Telephones - Hot Destinations For A Cooler You

@GillesPeterson Worldwide Premiere (Free Download)

French producer and Worldwide family favourite @nikitchmusic injects some trap/footwork energy into the bassier original. 

Mansions (Single) is out now with remixes from Krust and Ossie. Mansions is taken from Anushka's debut album 'Broken Circuit', out now on @brownswood.

Catch Anushka live in London at The Shacklewell Arms, September 30th. Tickets below:
 https://www.musicglue.com/brownswood-music/

Mansions (Nikitch Remix) (Gilles Peterson Premieres)

DC Promo Tracks #1577: "No War" by Macchianera is part of the release "Incognito Trax 006" on Flexi Cuts @flexicuts_wax  

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DC Promo Tracks: Macchianera "No War"

Determination + 5 hours, 18 minutes and 4 seconds=VIBES
Keep on your grind my friends, but also remember stop and take a break, there is so much more to life than the grind-set mentality. Life will pass you by in an instant if you aren't paying attention.

The Daily Grind

It's me again (October remix)

Floating Points - For Marmish

Ninja Cuts - Funkjazztical Tricknology

The Real Killer

Please check out the comp linked below.  All proceeds will help reunite families separated while undertaking a dangerous journey in the pursuit of a more peaceful life. 


https://terryplanet.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-kids-a-benefit-for-raices

Evaporainin

In 1972, Orchestre Abass released two incredible singles on Polydor. These records - featuring Samarin Banza, Haka Dunia and other afrofunk masterpieces - were powerful enough to knock any music head out, but it wasn’t until the discovery of some unreleased material by the band that the seeds for this project were planted. 

It all happened in 2008 in Ghana. I was going through some tapes that had previously been the property of PolyGram one of the major record companies based in west Africa. In the late 80s political instability and curfews had paralysed the music industry forcing Polygram to close their Ghanaian subsidiaries leaving all of their recordings behind. These recordings had been packed in boxes and left vegetating in an Accra warehouse for three decades until I came along. To my surprise all of the tapes looked unharmed and I was particularly relieved to hear that the Orchestre Abass tape was in an excellent state of condition. I began fiddling around with the idea of releasing an album of the band and that plan got an additional boost with le “coup de grace” which had landed in the form of an ultra rare tune called Honam discovered in Sotoboua, a small northern Togolese town in the middle of nowhere. That find completed this selection.

I had previously discovered some similar music in Northern Benin and in Nigeria and I started picturing an area that spread all the way from Northern Ghana to Northern Cameroon, an area I dubbed ‘The Islamic funk belt’ due to the fact that Super Borgou de Parakou, Napo De Mi Amor, Uppers International and Hamad Kalkaba just to name a few - all from that ‘belt’ - were groups made up of musicians with an Islamic background. This can be felt and heard in the music and particularly in the singing since many of the musicians had attended koranic schools and the languages used in the songs often had Arabic elements fused in - Orchestra Abass was one of them. 

With their heavy, organ-led sound combining with the deftest of musical touches, these records were the work of a rhythmic powerhouse and we are honoured to be in a position to present the recordings of Togo´s funkiest Band.

Unfortunately Malam Issa Abass, the founder, guitarist and organ player of the band, was killed in 1993 by a grenade thrown into his bedroom and to help me reconstruct the biography of the band I tracked down Thon Komla, one of the band´s songwriters and Abderaman Issa, the guitar player of the band. 

All the music was licensed directly from the various composers of these songs. The vinyl is pressed on 180 High Quality Virgin Vinyl and the gatefold contains previously unseen pictures and a detailed biography of the might band.

Orchestre Abass Master

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Haka Dunia - Orchestre Abass

New mixtape with dusty grooves strictly from 7inch vinyl.  Dig also the previous tapes:

Vol. 4: https://soundcloud.com/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-dusty-wax-4
Vol. 3: https://soundcloud.com/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-dusty-wax-vol-3
Vol. 2: https://soundcloud.com/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-dusty-wax-vol-2
Vol. 1: https://soundcloud.com/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-dusty-wax-1

SoulBrigada pres. Dusty Wax Vol. 5

Limitation can be a creative force in a world where anything is possible, and for a young Liam Shortall, that pool of influence & opportunity was as diverse as any. Born in Glasgow and surrounded by music from a young age, he gravitated initially towards instrumental music, picking up the trombone, learning his jazz chops, and listening to the big band, blues, and ska sounds of his family home. A tendency to self-deprecation is a way that Glasgow has impressed itself on Shortall, albeit one which at times tipped over into self-criticism. Nowhere is that struggle & vulnerability more present than on his debut album Bad With Names. As much as Bad With Names showcases some of Glasgow’s finest, it's also the most complete statement of the corto.alto sound to date, a riptide demonstration of his multi-instrumental abilities ( trombone, guitar, bass, synths, programming, tuba, percussion), punchy improvisation and subtle electronic production that has stitched it all back together again.

Lara

corto.alto

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