The unknown stars

Yasuaki Shimizu - Umi No Ue Kara

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Andalusia - Lapis X Rayne

Kappah - Intro (feat. J.O. Rogers) [Reddarmy]
Kev Brown - Work In Progress (Damu The Fudgemunk Remix) [Classic Joints]
Blu & Exile - Party of Two [Sound In Color]
DZA – Fireball [Finest Ego]
The Electric - Beautiful Ft Yarah Bravo (Memory9 Remix) [Organically Grown Sounds]
Bassnectar - Teleport Massive (Robot Koch Remix) [Amorphous]
Dorian Concept - Fort Teen [Nod Navigators
Exile – Love Line [Plug Research]
Flako – YeahYeahYeah [Project Mooncircle]
Mosca - Tilt Shift [Fat City]
Dam-Funk - Hood Pass Intact [Stones Throw]
Mux Mool – Half Moon Ganja [Moodgadget]
Kappah - It begins [Reddarmy]
Flako - Colors of Love [Project Mooncircle]
Dj Food – Spiral [Ninja Tune]
Hayzee – Transform [State]
Robot Koch – brujeria (feat. Graciela Maria) [Project Mooncircle]
sp:mc & LX One – Judgment [Tempa]
Robyn – Dancehall Queen [Konichiwa]

Well Founded Mixtape #02 by DNN

02 Bissau

HANNAH (More Slowed)

OG GREEN ENDIVE 82 BPM

Long Distance Feat Oliver Day Soul – Onra  (All City)
Sacre Cool - Young Montana (Alpha Pup Records)
Stop, Look... Listen to your heart - Circle Research (Circle Research)
Maintain - Computer Jay (Ramp Records)
Smoking The Edge – Dabrye (Ghostly International)
Uknowhowwedu – Bahamadia (Chrysalis)
Low Rent – Grizzler (	Harmonia)			
Sleepless ft. Antony For Cleopatera - Flume	 (Future Classic)
Invictus (Fuck Concrete UXO Remix) - Planet Soap (Car Crash Set)
Ogni Volta Che (feat Pino Mc) – Dj 2P	
Warning - Notorious B.I.G (Bad Boy Entertainment)
Tantrum – Longevity 	(Decon)
Watch Me Dance (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Toddla T (Big Dada)
Carnival Drop	 - Hexstatic Present Trailer Trax (lower Level)
Territory (Woz Remix)  – RackNRuin (Black Butter)
Set The Tone – Ossie (Hyperdub)
Mimetic  - Raffertie (Ninja Tune)
Dreamzz – Rustie (Warp Records)
		
		
			
		
		 		
				
		


Well Founded Mixtape #03 by DNN

Chassol – Birds, Pt. I

Japanese jazz fusion pioneer Ryo Kawasaki gets the reissue treatment on a new 'Selected Works' collection from @nunorthernsoul.

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/03/29/premiere-ryo-kawasaki-hawaiian-caravan/

Ryo Kawasaki - Hawaiian Caravan (STW Premiere)

Written & Produced by Tommasi

for The SOS Compilation on Stones Throw Records

River

pulp (demos)

gooseberry (ft. kevin moran)

The third album from Duval Timothy. Released on Carrying Colour 27 October 2017.

Recorded by Duval Timothy
London & Bath, UK
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Kyoto, Japan

Ball.WAV

Preorder vinyl (12/15/17) & digital formats (11/3/17): jitwam.lnk.to/cc17

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At Cosmic Compositions, we’ve long felt there was a similarity between the avant-garde/free jazz scene of the 50s/60s and the modern beat generation. Both movements aimed to deconstruct, expand and rewire the conventions of their genres of origin, and were never afraid to experiment or work outside the commercial framework of the time. With our Avant Garde Series, we connected the dots between the two, paying homage to Empire State Musicians like Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and Sun-Ra along the way. 

In more recent years, we’ve sensed kindred spirit between jazz-infected beat music, and the new generation of lo-fi funk, psychedelia, noise, and folk musicians operating around the globe. While we’ve been feeling our way towards this liminal zone with projects from the likes of Mr. Armish, Affsid Kidjhagiffy, Aporia, and our Way Out compilation, jitwam’s new album ज़ितम सिहँ might be the most beautiful expression of it we’ve released yet. 

Born in Assam, Gauhati, in Northeast India, but currently based in New York’s storied borough of Brooklyn, jitwam spent his formative years in New Zealand and Australia, before living in monasteries in Thailand, orphanages in South Africa, and washed out apartments in London. Of everywhere and nowhere, his music draws influence from a litany of iconoclasts including, but not limited to RD Burman, Moondog, The Velvet Underground, Yayoi Kusama, Jay Electronica, Jay Dilla, Moodymann, Leon Thomas, Madlib and Asha Bhosle. 

Across the album he utilises knowledge acquired through years spent digging through dusty crates, and talents honed as a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist. A series of stumbling, jazz/soul-rooted beat sculptures, each buried beneath a haze of fuzzy psychedelia, broken microphone blues, and articulated through a freestyled process he describes as “first thought, best thought”, ज़ितम सिहँ solidifies jitwam's spot as a major emerging talent. 

Recalling the fourth world dreamscapes explored by oddball songwriters like Connan Mockasin, Clarence Clarity, Jai Paul, Silicon, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, it represents a time of transition and remembrance for jitwam, while still fulfilling the core qualities he looks for in song. In his words, “Music is a refuge. A shelter from the storm. A place you can go to close your eyes.” 

Since he first shared his music with IZWID Records boss Kutmah at a Brainfeeder afterparty in London, jitwam has released through Leaving Records, Cosmic Compositions, and The Jazz Diaries (the label he co-runs with Casey Van Reyk and Nigel Mphisa). He’s also written with Inkswel (BBE) and Paul White (R&S), featured on Moodymann’s K7! DJ Kicks compilation and been championed by Gilles Peterson, Alexander Nut, Andrew Jervis (Bandcamp), and Funkineven. Mixed and mastered by Matthew David at Stones Throw studios in Los Angeles, ज़ितम सिहँ will be available on vinyl and digital formats through Cosmic Compositions / hhv.de.

Text : Martyn Pepperell

ज़ितम सिहँ

Vinyl/Download/Stream

jitwam. - I Ain't Scared Of No Devil Feat. Dj Godfrey Ho

First Rain

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@duvaltimothy
"DUKOBANTI" 2012

10 - Ghostnotes (Feat Bernard Purdie) DUKOBANTI

"PLEASURE, JOY and HAPPINESS," AVAILABLE FROM DAY END RECORDS (DE-002).

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VINYL: https://dayendrecords.bandcamp.com/

eddiechacon.com

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Eddie Chacon experienced proper, peak-nineties acclaim in the soul duo Charles and Eddie: they scored a global No. 1 in 1992 with “Would I Lie To You,” appeared three times on Top of the Pops, and featured on soundtracks from True Romance to Super Mario Bros.. Their crooning style was clearly pop-ready, but undeniably reverent: the pair first met when Eddie noticed Charles carrying a vinyl copy of Marvin Gaye’s "Trouble Man” on a New York subway train.

By that time, Chacon had already been navigating music in interesting ways, all the way back to his teen garage rock band with the late Cliff Burton (Metallica) and Mike Bordin (Faith No More). In the late ’80s, he released a full-length on Uncle Luke from 2 Live Crew’s label and signed to Columbia as a solo act. He was a working artist, always popping up in unexpected places: through the course of his career, Chacon would write, sing, or produce ten Top 40 hits around the globe.

In the words of Mac DeMarco: “Eddie Chacon is planet earth’s number one musician. Yesterday, today, and forever.”

Years ago, Chacon retired from music for a second calling as a fashion photographer and creative director. In an interview at the time, he said, “I was fortunate to have a 35-year music career and felt that there wasn’t that much more for me to say or achieve.” Very thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Private experiments, far from the major-label center he once frequented, began to feel urgent and new. “There’s nothing more exciting for me than getting to start from the beginning again,” he says today.

“Pleasure, Joy and Happiness” will be available July of 2020 on the boutique Los Angeles-based label Day End Records. This is a thoughtfully considered album of quiet, confident R&B: it doesn’t jump out at you, but rather gets in you. Produced by John Carroll Kirby, the like-minded artist and collaborator with Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, it features restrained percussion from Kanye West’s Sunday Service drummer Lamar Carter. Celestial soul as a break from chaos, these are quietly challenging songs as timeless as they are contemporary.

“What a rare and cool challenge it was for me to help Eddie re-emerge after a long hiatus,” says John Carroll Kirby. “I was excited to produce a record for him that captured the chill, laid-back wisdom and easy vocal mastery he has that you don’t see that much these days.”

Lead single “My Mind Is Out of Its Mind” finds a deep groove to try and contain spiraling heartbreak, while the sweet and wobbly “Trouble” balances the delightful near whisper of the title track “Pleasure, Joy and Happiness.” But even the project’s lightest moments feel sincere and mature. Altogether: a truly unifying release, coming from a man who’s earned the right to share such a regal, romantic sound.

“I used to think to myself,” Chacon says, “if I ever make a record again, I’d want it to be a record you’d have to be my age to make.”

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