Coming 28th July.. Automous Africa Vol III

Autonomous Africa Volume 3

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This is the third Autonomous Africa EP, the idea being that one EP is released each year and all proceeds are donated to a charity in Africa. Last year's second volume, along with a fundraising night in Glasgow and another in London raised several thousand pounds for the Mtandika Mission in Tanzania (more info on that below). Midland grew up in Tanzania and his parents run the aforementioned charity so it feels fitting that AA continues to raise funds for that. Midland has once again contributed a stellar track as has AA stalwart Auntie Flo (who has now contributed to all three releases). This year they are joined by Glasgow funksters General Ludd and then Twitch rounds off the EP. All being well, this year will also see an AA compilation album of music from Africa.

EP tracks are

A1) Midland - Safi
A2) General Ludd - Burning Mack

AA1) Auntie Flo featuring Anbuley - Daabi
AA2) JD Twitch - Maya

All tracks mastered by Matt Colton.

Distribution by Above Board. Released 28th July 2014 on 12". Digital will follow.

A big, warm thank you to I AM in Glasgow and Trouble Vision in London for putting on AA fundraising nights and for their immense generosity. 
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Why Autonomous Africa?

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Many of the problems Africa faces are a result of outside interference by other countries, and as the 21st century progresses we will see the continued pillage of African resources to feed the global capitalist machine on an unprecedented scale. Corrupt and greedy regimes gladly sell their land and mineral wealth to finance their own extravagant lifestyles while the vast majority of ordinary people see little or no improvement in their own lives. An autonomous Africa run by the people for the people, where African land is predominantly used to feed African people and Africa's vast wealth of resources is used to benefit the people of Africa seems the only logical way forward. Autonomous Africa's goal is to highlight this message and here presents to you 4 tracks of African inspired grooves.

We fully realise a small run, independently released 12" is going to make very little difference to the world, but doing something has to be better than doing nothing. The idea of an autonomous Africa may be naive and unrealistic, but at some point the world we live in will have to change or future generations are going to be left with very little as we consume way more than our fair share. We have collectively buried our heads in the sand thinking we are powerless to engender change. Individually we have little power but collectively, the power is ours.

JD Twitch, June 2013.

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About The Mtandika Mission
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Mtandika is a large village in the dry Ruaha river valley, 400km west of Dar es Salaam. It is a very poor village.

One of the prime movers in the village is Sister Barberina Mhagala. Since she retired from being Headmistress of the Primary School in 2005, Sister Barberina has been developing a Trade School at Mtandika to provide skills training for girls who are either orphans or have no fees for secondary education. She started by building a classroom and dormitory for the Trade School girls who were given sewing lessons and learning to make garments to sell.

Because many of the children do not have homes locally, accommodation is critical. So Sister then built extra accommodation blocks, not only for some of the girls attending the Trade School but also for some 80 girls attending the local Lukosi Secondary School where there was no accommodation.

The girls are taught to be as self sufficient as possible and as well and grow their own food and rear animals in the school grounds.

Water supply is critical, as water is not only required for every day purposes at the school but for irrigating the shambas [allotments]. Water is currently pumped from the nearby perennial Lukosi river some 500 metres away using a petrol pump. Investigations into a cheaper alternative are being investigated.

Education is essential if Tanzania is to fully develop its full potential and anything is possible given the opportunity. As well as supporting Sister Barberina in her capital expenditure, some 10 of the children at the Trade School and 30 at local Secondary Schools who cannot afford the fees are sponsored by funds raised by the charity.

More information - www.actioninafrica.org/about-mtandika.php

Daabi (feat Anbuley)

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Something Happening Somewhere 
www.sohaso.com

artist: Various Artists
title: SOMEWHERE II
cat nr.: SOMEWHERE02
Distribution: Kompakt

Tracks 
01 Malbetrieb - Nim
02 SB - According To
03 Locked Groove - Namibia
04 Stefan Vincent - How It Could've Been
05 Quince - Europa
06 Kid Culture - Arp313
07 Paul Hughes - Unity (Chymera 2015 Remix) 

Digital available
Beatport: http://btprt.dj/1iiB6ti
Juno: http://bit.ly/1O5kvG4
Whatpeopleplay: http://bit.ly/1XSHR54
Boomkat: http://bit.ly/1K06p2G

Vinylsampler: www.kompakt.fm/releases/somewhere_12

SoHaSo’s saga continues with a sound selection of singlets. Singular recordings from separate artists, bound together through Nuno Dos Santos’ spellbinding powers of creation and combination. The results are SOMEWHERE I and II: two compilations released digitally this summer, with this final edition completing the diptych.

Continuing the theme of inner reflection caught in music, SOMEWHERE II tells us story after story. Stories of longing, of guilt, of bitter melancholy, yet on the other hand: hope, affection and even ‘Unity’, as Paul Hughes’ addition remixed by Chymera is aptly named. Stories of laying in fields, hoping to catch falling stars, or diving deep and seeing how far you can go, somewhere, something is happening. From Stefan Vincent’s almost meditative How It Could Have Been, to Kid Culture’s nearly euphoric Arp313. From Malbetrieb’s tearjerking Nim to Locked Groove’s gloomy Namibia.

With even more tracks wedged in between, the SOMEWHERE series feels like a sound based confessional. Telling unheard stories, exposing unseen surfaces and unheard sounds. A compilation to cherish, of which this is the second part. SOMEWHERE I was released digitally earlier this summer, with both parts being made available on CD in very limited quantities.

An intriguing combination of names known and unknown, it’s once again testament that there’s so much happening, somewhere, all the time.

BEATPORT

SB - According To (SOMEWHERE02)

from LR076 Matthewdavid's Mindflight - "Ashram" 
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You are in a cave in an Indonesian ashram. Surrounded by statues of Ganesh, the fragrant smells of incense and flowers put your senses at ease as you sublimate. The sound of trickling fountains reverberates throughout your mind, breaking your defenses down into a state of pure, blissful relaxation. This is the ideal environment to introduce the freshly minted "Leaving Records for the New Age" series. Fittingly, these sounds come straight from label founder and forward-thinking steward of modern New Age music, Matthewdavid. He is your pilot for the duration of his Ashram, transporting you from one serene scene to the next on his Mindflight Express. In this collection of three long-form compositions, heavy water sounds and flute mix with field recordings from Bali, sweeping synthesizers, and the angelic vocals of Nora Keyes (“Dancing Ganesh”). Though Ashram documents a special time and place in the producer's life, it may only whet listeners' appetites for its double-LP followup, the contemporary New Age masterwork Trust the Guide and Glide. 


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Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Orange Ganesh

A powerful remix of two parts beginning with driving African drums that slowly drift into absolute serenity. 

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EXCUSIVE: 10 Foot Ballerina - Sogoni Kalimba (Traumer Long Vision)

HVN034 - Dorisburg 'Irrbloss'
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Irrbloss

Dorisburg - Irrbloss

FULL TRACK: http://bit.ly/1VvnHh5

'I Don't Need It' is the single from the upcoming self-titled debut album from Weval and is available to buy here:

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I Don't Need It (Snippet)

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#4 Janus Plant Series | Leslie Winer - Flove

Feather <> Creep EP on Bandcamp OUT NOW: https://noizzfactor.bandcamp.com/album/feather-creep-ep
follow Noizz Factor on fb: www.facebook.com/NoizzFactor
Written & produced by Noizz Factor
Artwork by Brian Crux
Mastered by Milton Hughes

Creep (Original Mix)

Full article & tracklist here: https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/troy-gunner-music-to-shiver-to

Enter the sound of Troy Gunner, the Bristol based beatmaker and DJ who has been causing a stir for some time now. His sound is ventures through the zones of deep and dark bass music, with elements of techno running through that give his almost broken sound a solid sense of pace. Now we welcome his shivering sound to i-D with a selection of both chilling and chilled out tunes . Press play. 


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Troy Gunner: Music To... Shiver To

'Waves' is the first single to be lifted from Max Cooper's second album 'Emergence'

Pre-order 'Emergence': https://MaxCooper.lnk.to/Emergence

'Emergence' is an epic, operatic, ambitious amalgamation between audio-visual show, scientific research project, art installation and IDM record, the debut release on Max Cooper’s Mesh label and his second full-length release.

The record was conceived as a soundtrack to a new series of 11 pieces of video art, each exploring a different facet of the concept of ‘emergence’. The full A/V live show will premiere at Mutek, Japan on November 2nd 2016. Together the work is a marriage between the cosmic awe of a Carl Sagan film and the musical wonderment of Sigur Ros, made for meditating on the mystery of our emotional connection to fundamental natural form.


Emergence

12"/Download/LP Stream

Waves [Mesh001]

PAMMIX019 (2016) MALLGRAB “INNA VISION” JUNGLE MIX

'Trust' is the second single to be lifted from Max Cooper's second album 'Emergence'

Pre-order 'Emergence': MaxCooper.lnk.to/Emergence

'Emergence' is an epic, operatic, ambitious amalgamation between audio-visual show, scientific research project, art installation and IDM record, the debut release on Max Cooper’s Mesh label and his second full-length release.

The record was conceived as a soundtrack to a new series of 11 pieces of video art, each exploring a different facet of the concept of ‘emergence’. The full A/V live show will premiere at Mutek, Japan on November 2nd 2016. Together the work is a marriage between the cosmic awe of a Carl Sagan film and the musical wonderment of Sigur Ros, made for meditating on the mystery of our emotional connection to fundamental natural form.

Trust

Trust feat. Kathrin deBoer & Tom Hodge

Auntie Flo’s Highlife imprint drops the second remix EP of tracks from the Glasgow producer’s 2015 album ‘Theory Of Flo’ today (Friday 28th October), in collaboration with the Huntleys + Palmers label. We’ve got the exclusive play of Auntie Flo’s own rework of ‘Su La’ from it above.

Having been shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year award last year, Highlife and Huntleys + Palmers follow up ‘Theory of Flo’ with some stellar remixes from friends and associates of the labels, including Mark E and Africaine 808.

Auntie Flo, real name Brian d’Souza, works the album opener into a cut primed for the dancefloor, complete with a huge breakdown and chopped vocals samples of Shingai taken from the original.

Listen to the exclusive premiere of Auntie Flo’s ‘Sun La (feat. Shingai) In Love version’ below.

PREMIERE: Auntie Flo ‘Su La feat. Shingai (In Love version)’

STW Advent Calendar Day 2 - all proceeds go to The Steve Reid Foundation.

Dark Sky return to the Advent for a second year, with a heads down moment of dance floor reflection, with light synth work and deep, steady beat.

Download & donate: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/12/02/day-2-dark-sky-voim/

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Dark Sky - Voim

STW Advent Calendar Day 7 - all proceeds go to The Steve Reid Foundation.

Not just brand new music, but a brand new collaboration is unveiled between Mark E and Breach aka Ben Westbeech. Deep, ambient undertones, brooding and tough.

Download & donate: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/12/07/mark-e-breach-first-thing/

Mark E & Breach - First thing

STW Advent Calendar Day 9 - all proceeds go to The Steve Reid Foundation.

Smart and subtle programming from Takuya Matsumoto. The synths shimmer over the crunchy drum pattern, and a graceful female vocal adds a faintly melancholic human touch. It may not be an archetypal floorfiller, its exquisite melody means it can be poignantly received at both the start and end of the night.

Download & donate: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/12/09/day-9-takuya-matsumoto-black-to-blue/

STW Advent Calendar 2016 - in aid of The Steve Reid Foundation

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Takuya Matsumoto - Black To Blue

This is the first single from HVOB‘s album SILK,
a collaboration between HVOB and Winston Marshall.

SILK: https://HVOB.lnk.to/Silk
Limited Vinyl: shop.hvob-music.com

© Tragen Records
Label by HVOB

SILK

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HVOB & Winston Marshall – The Blame Game

UK talent John Monkman is the next to make his mark on Crosstown Rebel sub-label Rebellion, with the rapturous two tracker ​EPOCH.

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"EPOCH began its journey after a recent show in Goa, India. I wanted the track to almost tare itself apart, forever pushing forward carving out new sonic landscapes. XAILO is comprised of layer upon layer of syncopated xylophone, bells and string section held together with a haunting Icelandic vocal I recorded in London." - John Monkman

John Monkman shot firmly into the limelight in 2015 with his collaboration with Pete Tong, plus a remix of Solomon Grey’s Twilight, which topped the Beatport charts reaching #1. He has since gone on to do more collaborations with Pete Tong and released on some the world’s biggest and most cutting-edge labels including Kompakt, Crosstown Rebels and Get Physical, which have all received high critical acclaim and support across the board. 2016 also saw him launch his own label Beesemyer Music. 2017 will be a standout year for Monkman, with music already signed to Rebellion, Crosstown Rebels, Noir and the fourth collaboration with Pete Tong in the pipeline. Expect to see big things from this London-based artist.

Label: Rebellion | Released 17th ​February |​ Distribution: Above Board | Cat no: RBL041
01 EPOCH
02 XAILO

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XAILO [Crosstown Rebels/Rebellion]

TOASTY - METAL EP out now.

A. Metal
B1. Rebar
B2. Bump

Full Colour - 12" Vinyl - Available here: www.circadian-rythms.com

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