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BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Those Days

Those Days (feat. Leah Yeger)

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Produced, Written &  Arranged By BADBADNOTGOOD

Alex Sowinski - Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone, Love
Chester Hansen - Bass, Synthesizer, Love
Matty Tavares - Keyboard, Synthesizer, Guitar, Love

Engineered By Matty
Photo By Rose Flutur & Connor Olthuis
Mastered By Joao Carvalho

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Bcee & Bladerunner's "Crash" included in our "Straight Up Drum & Bass! Vol. 7" compilation.

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Bcee & Bladerunner - Crash (Original Mix)

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From 'The Way Out ' compilation which showcases a range of psychedelic, punk & surf rock from around the globe .

Lapis - Alex

The Science - Perdono *download*

"JBS" is taken from Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2's forthcoming album "Star Stuff," out March 31st, 2017.

Pre-orders available here:
company shop - smarturl.it/starstuff_company
itunes - smarturl.it/starstuff_itunes

Catch Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 on tour this April! w/ special guest Madeline Kenney
April 12th - Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern
April 13th - Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse
April 14th - Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall
April 15th - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
April 16th - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
April 18th - Somerville, MA - Once Ballroom
April 19th - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz 
April 20th - Toronto, ON - Great Hall
April 21st - Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
April 22nd - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
April 23rd - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club

Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 - JBS

Tusks - Toronto
Released 10.03.2017
Written & produced by Tusks
Produced & Mixed by Brett Cox
Mastered by Mandy Parnell

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Toronto

I'm pleased to present my latest EP, The Twelve, is available now.

Digital ➞ insp.ec/TheTwelveEP
Vinyl ➞ insp.ec/TheTwelveVinyl

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Twelve: A number that conjures myriad connotations. For most of us it’s the essential measurement of black gold, the source of mystery that can only be extracted through a fine stylus. For others, it’s a way of measuring half days and dozens, zodiac signs or apostles. For Sorrow, it’s his latest EP.

Five stark, soul-arresting narratives deep, once again the Bristol beatsmith compounds his distinctive icy, introspective signature with rich detail, emotion and cavernous shadowy dynamics. His first full solo release of 2017, and his first EP on Inspected in over two years, ‘The Twelve’ follows a run of critical excursions, cameos and collaborations on the likes of Fent Plates and White Peach and continues to build on his unique status within the electronic game.

From the opening house subversions and foggy, mystical humanised textures of ‘Want U Back’ right through to the final smouldering beat abstractions and soft groans of the breath-taking title track finale, the entire EP is a trip into Sorrow’s innermost soul. In between we’re hit by the two-step trickery of ‘Reverie’, the heavy haze of ‘Frumoasa’ and the unabashed slo-mo gully of ‘Sheol’, each chapter telling its own Sorrowful tale, alluring you and spurring you to further corners of your thoughts… conjuring myriad connotations, like all good sources of mystery should.

The Twelve

Reverie

new single from Melanie Charles https://soundcloud.com/melaniecharlesisdflower

"The Girl with the Green Shoes" out on September 22nd

prod. @mejiwahn

mastering by Bae Bro

Girl With The Green Shoes

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Be On My Side • Melanie Charles

Next LONDON show: 
31st January 2018 -  Corsica Studios *SOLD-OUT*

New LONDON show announced:

18th April - Ghostnotes

Tickets:
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Subdued
Oscar Jerome - Guitar & Vocals
Jack Polley - Bass
Onome Edgeworth - Congas
Eddie Hick - Drums
Theo Erskine - Saxophone
Joe Armon-Jones - Keyboards, Synth & Backing vocals
Poppy Ajudha - Backing vocals
Wu-Lu - Backing vocals

Written and arranged by Oscar Jerome
Produced by Wu-Lu
Mixed by Tom Carmichael
Mastered by Dick Beetham

Subdued

Off the back of their Meredith Music Festival 2019 lineup announcement, Melbourne wonky soul four-piece Karate Boogaloo have shared the second piece from their upcoming ‘KB’s Mixtape No. 2’.

This time KB gives us their flip on Mtume’s disco/R&B slow-jam “Juicy Fruit”. It’s a mid-tempo bounce, mellow and light to the touch with sprinkles of oozy synth and slide-guitar throughout.

Composed around a Linn LM-1 drum machine and recorded in under two hours, Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit” has had a lasting impact on the R&B and hip-hop scene with over 100 listed sample uses of the track. Most famously used in Notorious B.I.G’s 1994 hit “Juicy”, Keyshia Cole’s “Let It Go”,  Warren G’s “This D.J” & in Grand Theft Auto’s radio shows.

Following on from the cult success of ‘KB’s Mixtape No. 1’ - songs that were sampled into your favourite hits -, ‘Mixtape No. 2’ expands this theme with songs from the 80s that were sampled into your favourite hits! Out September 27 via Hopestreet Recordings.

Making up the rhythm section of long-time Melbourne soul favourites The Cactus Channel, KB consistently sit in their own lane – the combination of raw musicianship and sheer time on the clock in the studio and on stage gives them a glowing connection rarely seen. Making records, they follow their own rules; recording and mixing on tape with no plugins and no edits, releasing exclusively in mono. It’s not about anachronism, it’s about the KB manifesto: a chosen set of limitations forcing a specific outcome, an outcome best appreciated through their “KB’s Mixtape” series of LPs.

Lapis - Alex

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