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To coincide with The London International Ska Festival, I figured it was time to share something from the unreleased Pama Intl Meets Wrongtom LP. You'll be able to download this from Slutty Fringe next week but until then you can stream it here.

And don't forget there's still a few tickets available for the ska fest being held in clapham next weekend http://www.londoninternationalskafestival.co.uk/

Pama Intl Meets Wrongtom "Bullring Boogie"

UTRB - Pressure (UNKLE Reconstruction)

Another Groovy Tune From The Vault Of Yanivi's Vintage Collection On A Future Disco Bass Vibe 
So Fix Your Afro Put On Your Disco Shoes And Tune To That Bad Boy You Are In For A Treat!!!

Free Download

Yanivi Ft Love De Luxe - That Sound (Free Download)

This album is also available on both CD and vinyl, check your local dealer.

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My Baby Just Cares For Me (The Reflex Edit)

Heavyweight Gambit, Nol Holds Barred' is the 11th compilation coming out on the Paris DJs label, and the second one digging into Funk & Soul music for the Paris DJs Soundsystem crew. A lot of tracks landed in the label's mailbox (thanks to everyone who participated!), choices had to be made, and until the last minute it was tough decisions. After many delays in adjusments and fine-tuning of this selection, this new compilations finally out, right on for Halloween 2015! The artwork depicts a stoned and scary wrestler, doesn't it? As suggested by this new, fantastic piece of visual art from French illustrator Ben Hito, the selection gathers psychedelic funk, soul for freaks, foot stomping beats, heavyweight breaks, thrilling grooves, hip hop coolness, fuzzy sounds and more...

Some of the bands/artists were already featured on Paris DJs finest selections, from compilations to mixes, reviews or remixes. Our readers and listeners should indeed start to get excited just hearing the names Connie Price and the Keystones, Breakdown Brass, Q.A.S.B., The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, STEPAK-TAKRAW, Grant Phabao, RacecaR, The Echocentrics or J. Whitefield. All people with a heavy sense of classicism in their funky productions, with sound aesthetics close to ours, whom we're so proud to feature here. The ever-exanding family from the Paris DJs universe has answered our call once again, sending a whole bunch of new, often unreleased, killer tunes, and it feels GOOD.

The "discoveries" — at least for us — are also a delight, don' let us fool you. It was hard to pick a tune between the 3 San Fernando, CA funk unit Soul Scratch sent. Great things to come from them soon for sure! East Oakland-based Soul-Hop singer Baby Jaymes does sound quite close to Michael Jackson. His cover of 50 Cent released last year on a limited 45 is a scorcher and we hope to start collaborating with him as soon as possible. It would be very interesting to hear him sing on some reggae production from Grant Phabao…. Alex Puddu is a Copenhagen-based Italian producer we had on our radar for some time now. His Soultiger project is a treat, and from the album released earlier this year was extracted for a 45 release an original composition featuring the legendary Joe Bataan on vocals. It took us some convincing, but we couldn't pass on getting this track in here. The tune is very addictive, and Mr. Bataan's voice so unique, so purely soulful! There's also Italian soundtrackish funk from La Batteria, French P-Funk band Horndogz featuring Parliament/Funkadelic/Drugs singer Clip Payne, and we close this new chapter feets in the sand, with a relaxing piece of Samba Funk from Dambô & Pauliño Nunes in Recife, Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. This music is good for you.

Audiovisual concept by Djouls & Ben Hito
A&R : Djouls with the help of Loik Dury and Grant Phabao
Audio mastering by Grant Phabao
Artwork by Ben Hito

Full info on Paris DJs http://bit.ly/1KPx1CD
Buy on Bandcamp http://bit.ly/1GUkCSV

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01 Connie Price And The Keystones - El Niño

Buy Digital on Bandcamp
https://souldout7.bandcamp.com/track/sould-out-the-funk-district-love-2-dub-u

Editorial Wax #16

Up next on Editorial 16- is a sampler featuring some Editorial crew regulars delivering a couple dancefloor jams on :
Dr Packer's  "Love is U" and Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee's " Like U Do"
and  featuring  equal measures  of slo-mo joints , perfect for a lounge mood 
from Ponchartrain's  - " Luv 2 U"  and Sould Out & The Funk District's  - " Love 2 Dub You"

The Love & You EP   - hitting record shops in a few weeks!

is out now on digi! 
get a copy here: http://bit.ly/2c5LSQk

-Editorial Records

Buy 12"

Sould Out & The Funk District - Love 2 Dub You

Download WAV: https://mosemusica.bandcamp.com/track/anoushka-shankar-metamorphosis-mose-rework

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Anoushka Shankar - Metamorphosis (Mose Rework)

Originaly out on DiscoDat in 2013, but I decided to give it away. Follow the link: http://hypeddit.com/track/sc/rb5xub 

High quality wav-file available here: http://jmmstr.bandcamp.com/track/its-got-to-be-funky-jmmstr

It's Got To Be Funky - JMMSTR **free download click 'buy' link**

Composed, performed and produced by Alex Forster

I’m pleased to tell you that my album Komorebi - Music for the Forest has now been released on Bandcamp and Spotify 🌳🌞

During lockdown last year I released tracks from the album, accompanied by videos made from footage I’ve captured over the years in my local woodland. Here’s a little promo- vimeo.com/403394897

If you’re feeling it please consider buying it, even if you prefer streaming for practical reasons, as streaming provides artists with very little financial return for their work … or even better, use Bandcamp to gift it to a friend 🙌✨

Thank you again for your support and encouragement, it really makes a difference to the creative process and motivation.

You can continue to follow my music on 
alexforster.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/alexforstermusic
facebook.com/alexforstermusic
https://vimeo.com/alexforster
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7o7xemaenBnC6yCTBE7s4x?si=yTia3vO0RTmF1Z8OSgg0dA

Be well, 
Alex

Komorebi - Music for the Forest

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New extended mix from the original multitrack stems
Mixed & Mastered by JMMSTR 
123 bpm

* Bandcamp:  https://editsfromthevaults.bandcamp.com/track/again

Do It Again - Steely Dan (JMMSTR's Extended Disco Mix)**free download click buy**

Frank Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight (Disco Syndicate Version)

Back in 2012 I put together a comp of reggae and dub made by punks called Spiky Dread and put it out as the 1st release on my label Rongorongo. An exhausting project but loads of fun and I met some interesting characters and made a few new friends along the way. One of which was the infamous impresario and champion of outsider-culture David Ferguson.

Amongst his many wild endeavours over the years, David ran the San Francisco based punk label CD presents which is how I encountered him whilst on the hunt to license a track from an LP he released in 1984 by SF ska-punk pioneers The Offs. Various aborted attempts to track him down finally led me to an eBay shop selling off CD Presents master tapes and memorabilia and finally contact was made and I secured "Cool Down" by The Offs as the opening track on Spiky Dread.

We wound up chatting a fair bit over the coming months. David was making plans for new releases on his label having recently remastered (at Skywalker Ranch!) and repressed The Offs album, thanks to new found interest based mainly on Basquiat's cover art; this was Basquiat's only ever album cover commission which came about after a failed audition to drum for the band (who had moved to NYC and were now firmly rooted in the downtown New York noise scene). "Best 500 bucks I ever spent" David chuckled down the phone during our first conversation.

We got chatting about Rongorongo releasing more of The Offs material, and David gave me the go ahead to press "First Record" on CD for the first time along with a handful of my own dub versions, plus the tracks The Offs released on the Max's Kansas City label a couple of years prior thanks to Peter Crowley who was very excited about some new found interest in the group.

As with so many of my endeavours, it never happened. Spiky Dread wore me out, I was in the thick of promo with my own album with Deemas J. I was flat broke and trying to battle on whilst dealing with severe depression and anxiety. Regardless, I've dabbled with the idea on and off for the past 5 years. I've dubbed a few of the tracks (not an easy task with no multi tracks but I'm pretty good at dubbing, even if I do say so myself), and I even considered making it a nice compilation featuring tracks from their earlier punkier 7" releases from the late 70s.

Then, a little while ago, having not spoken to David for a year or so, I sadly discovered he'd passed away. This lovely man who'd shared insights into the murky depths of the music business, who'd divulged stories about getting stoned in a motel with Peter Tosh, and pissing off his neighbour Jim Jones who ran The People's Temple Of The Disciples Of Christ and often complained about the noise David and his bands were making, this guy who I'd been chatting with for a couple of years and was hoping to meet in the flesh one day, gone.

And that left me both very sad and a little stumped. I have no idea where I stand on releasing rights, I don't know anyone that knew David. At least 2 of the main members of The Offs are dead now too; lead singer Don Vinil overdosed before "First Album" was even released.

Two dub versions and an extended disco edit of their wonderful "You Fascinate Me" now sit on my hard drive doing nothing. I hope one day I'll get around to releasing them officially. Until then, have a listen to "I Dub The Handle" and lets raise our glasses to both David Ferguson and The Offs.

The Offs Meet Wrongtom - I Dub The Handle

Brownout - Fight The Power

* 2018 Rework & new Mastering from my edit made in 2015 * 

* FREE DOWNLOAD --> https://hypeddit.com/track/gxaeam *

* HIGH QUALITY WAV-FILE --> https://jmmstr.bandcamp.com/track/dub-be-good-beats-internal-jmmstrs-2018-rework *

Dub Be Good - Beats Internal (JMMSTR's 2018 Rework)**Free Download**

One more beautiful collaboration @SUATKAN STUDIO:
Dubbydubich - production, synths, arrange, mixing.
Eugenia Dia - vocal.
Boris Factorovich - darbuka.
Stanislav Fomich - esraj.
Pavel Apukhtin - didjeridoo.
Sergey Gorbachev - electric bass.
All rights reserved.
Suatkan Studio 2018.

Crimean Connection - Rode Bozhe Zhito

Meets...

Pushing On (Wrongtom Skanking On)

** Free Download ---> https://hypeddit.com/track/psujiy **

** High quality full length wav-file ---> https://klubbk.bandcamp.com/track/do-that-thing  **

** Youtube --->  https://youtu.be/6IE1SZzSBI8 **

Do The Right Thing - Redhead Kingpin & The FBI (JMMSTR NuDisco Remix)**Free Download**

** Grab the high quality wav-file on Bandcamp ---> 
https://klubbk.bandcamp.com/track/ring

** YouTube --->  https://youtu.be/Ilkn5h9kC2Q

110 bpm

Ring Ring Ring - De La soul (JMMSTR Remix)**Bandcamp exclusive**

The demo version of my rework of Soul Decay intended for Duppy Writer. It didn't get finished in time and I wound up using the intro as a an album skit instead.

Ed Zed features on theramin and guitar duties.

Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom "Dub Decay (full length demo version)"

A summery Balearic flavoured reworking of a Bowie favourite. 

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