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Boomkat weekly digest March 2025 - 2

The Space Lady - Synthesize Me

"Keith Tenniswood’s mix is something else entirely. 

This is lover’s rock, or lover’s trance, perhaps, as Tenniswood – one half of Two Lone Swordsmen alongside Andrew Weatherall – adds a hypnotic glockenspiel refrain that has all of the brain-razzing appeal of Terry Riley’s all-night flights and cuts it with a hazy, narcotic Kraut groove and a stoned House atmosphere to generate the kind of timeless euphoria that you might wanna live inside forever."

David Keenan. 

The Healing (Keith Tenniswood Remix)

Baby Bay John Lewis

02 Bladed Stance - Marcos Balter

Afrika Awake

Thunder

Exotic Illusions

Cat's Cradle

Feel It

Antenna

So Hot

Livin' Upside Down

From DISC33 Volcanic Tongue
A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century Underground Music 
https://disciples.ffm.to/volcanictongue

An eclectic compilation album celebrating twenty ‘tips of the tongue’ from David Keenan, released to coincide with a book of his collected music writing.

As well as being the title of a book. Volcanic Tongue was a record shop that existed in Glasgow from 2005 to 2015, run by David Keenan and Heather Leigh, it championed contemporary DIY music from around the world, often released in tiny runs on homemade CD-Rs, and also sought to shine a light on forgotten artists from the past, who had often released their music as a ‘private press’ LP. The shop was also known for it’s weekly mailing list, with Keenan enthusiastically rapping about new arrivals, especially the record of the week, given the sobriquet ‘tip of the tongue’. This collection has been put together from releases that were a ‘tip of the tongue’, containing music that runs the gamut from outsider synth to psych-folk to damaged rock’n’roll, with tracks recorded between 1968 and 2013, a celebration of a vibrant and eclectic underground avant-garde.

One afternoon in 1968, five teenagers went into a recording studio above a drugstore in Barrington, Illinois and laid down Out Of The Bachs, one of the great ‘lost’ records made in the entire decade. Compared to their many garage band peers across the United States, The Bachs stood out by coming up with eleven jaw-dropping original compositions, accidentally captured (the studio was more used to recording local string quartets and choirs) with an otherworldly ambience which makes the tracks sound like nothing else before or since. Endlessly bootlegged, worshipped by the true heads, The Bachs are forever.

The Bachs - Tables Of Grass Fields - from Volcanic Tongue compilation

Wrong (You Dropped a Bomb)

Wrong (You Dropped a Bomb) (Nicky Siano Remix)

Kalita is excited to present the third volume in their groundbreaking ‘Borga Revolution!’ compilation series, exploring the revolutionary phenomenon of ‘Burger Highlife.’ This unique style fused West African melodies with synthesizers, disco, and boogie, a sound that took Ghanaian airwaves by storm in the 1980s and beyond. With previous volumes receiving strong support by tastemakers such as Gilles Peterson, Antal, Tom Ravenscroft, and Hunee, Volume 3 takes a deeper dive than ever before into the world of Ghanaian digital dance music.

This volume features rare, sought-after tracks from artists including Obibini Takyi, Osei Banahene, and Okyerema Asante, as well as Burger Highlife trailblazers George Darko and Lee Dodou. Borga Revolution! Volume 3 offers a curated mix of standout anthems and rediscovered gems, many of which are otherwise nearly impossible to find, making this collection a must-have for fans and collectors alike.

The 1970s and 80s saw Ghanaian musicians begin to incorporate Western sounds like funk and disco into their music, reflecting the changing global musical landscape. However, the country's political instability and economic hardships, marked by military regimes and curfews, forced many artists to leave Ghana in search of better opportunities abroad. In Europe and the U.S., these musicians fused their traditional highlife roots with emerging digital sounds, using cutting-edge technology like the DX7 synthesizer and drum machines to create the genre now known as Burger Highlife.

With ‘Borga Revolution!’ Kalita offers a vivid exposition of this musical transformation, using rare interviews, archival photos, and detailed liner notes to bring to life the pioneering spirit of both well-known icons and unsung innovators of Burger Highlife, one of West Africa’s most exciting musical movements. 


Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Dance Music In The Digital Age, 1984-​1999 (Volume 3)

Dzoohee

King Solomon (Nii Mantse) - Dzoohee

Obaa Sima

Obaa Sima (2025 Remaster)

Bossa Nova Brasil

Água de Beber (feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim)

Les 50 plus belles chansons de Serge Gainsbourg

Couleur café

Los Nombres

Loving You

Move With Love

Sleep A Million Years

Download (Mega): https://mega.nz/#!g9x1yDZR!b82EbtzlMp-XlUGh5-oiNAtkx3cYpURWEN9kEQJbf1o

Would you like to make vocals for this song? or collab with me?
Send me your ideas to this email: ( dj.axl.borges@gmail.com )

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Heartbeat - Single

Heartbeat (Original Mix)

A wonderfully immersive suite of five stunning new tracks, ‘Shifts’ expands upon Swedish-Iranian pianist / composer Shida Shahabi’s debut album and confirms her as a genuine new force in contemporary piano music.

Without radically departing from the ‘Homes’ blueprint, this time around her pallette is expanded, with the opening three tracks seeing the prominent addition of cello, intertwining with piano to provide a powerfully emotive sweep and drone. These parts were provided by Linnea Olsson, who Shida calls "an old musician friend of mine and without a doubt the best cellist I know in Sweden.”

Recorded by Shida and Elias Krantz, the record was mixed by Hampus Norén and mastered at Calyx by Francesco Donadello (Jóhann Jóhannsson, Modeselektor & Thom Yorke, A winged Victory for the Sullen, Dustin O'Halloran, Lubomyr Melnyk, Hauchka, etc).

Shifts

All In Circles

The Bachs - Tables Of Grass Fields - from Volcanic Tongue compilation

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