„Back in my teenage years, me and the crew used to travel to Barcelona to skate and party. Cerveza and Loco were pretty much the only Spanish words we knew, so we combined them and to this day, we use it as a synonym for beer… duh. Go out and have a Cerveza Loco!.“

RECORDED AT TRAUMSTATION, DORTMUND
ALL MUSIC ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY BLACK FRICTION

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - JENS ROTH

www.wadada-records.com

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Black Friction - Cerveza Loco

Isaac Aesili's  'Runaway' EP is a story of his journey from his South Pacific homeland in Aotearoa, New Zealand to his new South-East Asian base in Bangkok, Thailand. The title track "Runaway"  is a boogie blazing Juno 106 synth-driven modern funk jam that harks back to the sounds of Isaac's earlier Funkommunity and Sorceress productions. "Creatress" is a mystic hip hop instrumental ode to mother nature abundant in dense jazz harmony yet simultaneously spacious and tranquil. "Motion" is a bouncing deep house joint that evokes positive reassurance with a lush, rolling bassline that evolves into a soaring climax featuring Isaac's signature majestic trumpet. "Jazzmin" is the calm after the storm where a solitary Rhodes melody, an ambient andante beat, and haunting horns speak of overcoming turbulent times through returning to a place of peace.

Isaac Aesili is a Māori musician, DJ and music producer from New Zealand living in Bangkok. Internationally acclaimed solo artist and the producer and creative force behind Funkommunity, Sorceress and Karlmarx. Isaac’s original productions have been supported internationally by DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Benji B, and Lefto. His trumpet playing features on many collaborations including ‘Midnight in Peckham’ by Chaos in the CBD (Rhythm Section) and ‘Layer’ by Julien Dyne (Wonderful Noise/BBE). A world-renownedmusician on both trumpet and percussion, Isaac is a member of the Lord Echo band. His music fuses Soul, Funk, Jazz, Brazilian and Afro Latino styles with R&B, House and Electronic music. Isaac’s new EP ‘Runaway’ drops on 16th July 2021 on Bastard Jazz  Recordings.

Isaac Aesili - Jazzmin

Within Melbourne's burgeoning cinematic-soul scene, which includes breakout acts Surprise Chef and Karate Boogaloo, mysteriously sit The Pro-Teens. Helmed by prolific drummer and percussionist Hudson Whitlock, who also plays in both aforementioned bands, this breakaway studio project involves an interchangeable collective of incognito, Melbourne-based, esteemed instrumentalists playing under outlandish pseudonyms such as "'Dead Honest’ Dean Amazing" and "Libby Clique-Baite". Symbolically led by keyboardist "Snooch Dodd", new album ‘I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly’ is the latest musical concoction from Whitlock's eccentric brain, marrying the soul/funk roots of sample culture with the principles of boom-bap hip hop.

Incorporating the colourful comic book stylings of MF DOOM and Kool Keith, or the dark and exotic flavours of Gravediggaz and The Wu-Tang Clan, The Pro-Teens also take cues from their composing heroes Galt MacDermot, Richard Evans and Marc Moulin. The Pro-Teens bop, zip, whip and fling on this phantasmagorical journey - an unorthodox patchwork of cinematic soul, hip hop-guided funk breaks, vivid instrumental textures and film score-esque moods. 

The Pro-Teens work on the same analogue recording model adopted by the tight-knit College Of Knowledge label, self-recorded and produced with the rag-tag crew of musicians putting tracks down live to tape in crammed attic studios and sharehouse recording spaces.

The Pro-Teens - No One Understands Me (I'm OG)

Stream & download: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/nostalgiabeats

Slim on the beat! The sonic mastermind behind South London jazz rap supremos Summers Sons is blessing us with an instrumental version of his group's forthcoming album “Nostalgia”. Slim has edited all 10 songs for our listening pleasure. If you like your beats jazzy, soulful and minimal this one is for your. Slim proves himself as a true 21st century Soulquarians disciple who respects the architects but is not stuck in the past. Since we relased his first instrumentals in 2018, Slim has gained more than 27 million streams. “Say Less (Beat Edit)” is the first single from the instrumental album.

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Produced & mixed by Slim.
Mastered by Roe Beardie. 
Artwork by Robert Winter & Jeremias Diekmann.

Cat No: MPM 305-B1
Artist: Slim
Titel: Say Less (Beat Edit)

© ℗ 2021 Melting Pot Music

Slim - Say Less (Beat Edit)

This is the first in a new monthly series I'm hoping to do for 2022: "Knowledge Breaks." Each episode will be a short mix of breakbeats and samples from my collection, overlaid with excerpts from some of my favorite inspirational, radical people. 

When I was thinking of who to feature first, my partner Bina made the great suggestion of starting with the incredible bell hooks, who sadly passed last month. bell hooks wrote about love, Black liberation, feminism, and so much more. Her book "All About Love" was and is very important to me. I highly recommend everyone seek out her work, especially those involved in the educational or academic fields.  Many of the interviews that I excerpted on this tape were from a series hosted by the New School, and I hope everyone checks out the full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewschool/search?query=bell%20hooks

There is no way to do justice to legendary people like bell hooks in such a short little mix. These are just a few excerpts I found compelling. The goal of this mixtape series is after a year, have a nice little compilation of voices, beats, breaks and knowledge. I hope everyone digs it, and searches out more from all of those featured. Please share!

Knowledge Breaks

bell hooks

Knowledge Breaks: bell hooks

El Tallo es el primer track del nuevo Album-EP de Koyko, ORIGEN, disponible ya en koyko.bandcamp.com/

Compuesto, grabado y producido por KOYKO, Vitoria 2022
Teclados y percusión: Coco G Diez
Artwork: ghostartistsociety

ORIGEN

El Tallo

Stream & download: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/heyokaSC

German Jazz/Beat duo Pachakuti & young.vishnu are taking their joint project to new heights. Organically developing instrumental Hip-Hop into full-fledged orchestral Jazz and Groove, they create an excitingly eclectic blend of world music traditions. ‘Heyoka’ is the second single off their upcoming project.

Pachakuti is a musician and producer with family roots in Colombia. He plays keys, tenor saxophone and clarinet. While living and working in Berlin, he draws inspiration from the natural world, investigative travels, and ancestral traditions of Latin America and beyond. His expressive and rhythmical playing and his instantaneous compositions are directed at the human core, arousing subtle experiences. While not being conformed to one style, it always invokes a sense of liveliness and depth to be delved in.
young.vishnu is a producer and DJ. He has studied philosophy and music in Hildesheim, Germany, which heavily influenced his views on meaning and mythology in music. In his DJ sets he selects and plays classic and contemporary Funk, Soul and Afrobeat. His practice as a DJ informs his work behind the boards directly, adding also more organic grooves and broader spectrum of musical styles to his in Hip-Hop based production.
If you had to put one single tag on their music, the best choice would be Jazz. That being said, Pachakuti and young.vishnu’s sound worlds might be better described in their own words: „We just make music and try to incorporate what we love about it“. They are musical freethinkers with shared interests in eastern philosophy and botany who interweave Hip-Hop, Latin and Funk with musical storytelling and world mythology.
Mixed and mastered by Roe Beardie at The Brewery Studios, Berlin. The album artwork emerged through a collaboration between Mexican painter Sergio Chávez Hollar and Carsten Pölking of Nima Compositions Archive.

Pachakuti & young.vishnu signed with Melting Pot Music in 2020 and released their debut album ‘Semilla’ in the same year. Followed by a string of singles and EPs. 

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Produced by Pachakuti & young.vishnu. 
Piano, Keys, Synthesizer, Clarinet, Bass & Percussion by Pachakuti.
Bass by young.vishnu.
Drums by Leon Raum.
Percussion by Eric Owusu. 
Mixed and mastered by Roe Beardie at Brewery Studios, Berlin. 
Artwork by Sergio Chávez Hollar and Carsten Pölking.

Cat No: MPM 302-2
Artists: Pachakuti & young.vishnu
Title: Heyoka

© ℗ 2022 Melting Pot Music

Pachakuti & young.vishnu - Heyoka

'Almost Five' is the first single from Bucharest's 7th SENSE.

Read more @ https://twistedsoulmusic.org/2022/03/02/new-sounds-7th-sense-ft-liam-shortall/

Almost Five

7th SENSE ft. Liam Shortall - Almost Five (TS Premiere)

Germany-based producer Renegades Of Jazz flipped 'All Around' by Italian synth-wizard sUb_modU into a jazz-fueled broken beat groover. Out on Tru Thoughts tomorrow!

Release: March 31st
Full article: www.steppinintotomorrow.com

Gravity / Renegades Of Jazz & V.B. Kühl Remixes

★ PREMIERE ★ sUb_modU - 'All Around (Renegades Of Jazz Remix)'

hail to the church of forgotten latinjazz gems

excusez-moi, michelle

Off my PULP records EP 'Freaked in Private' released October 2017. Only a few more records available!!

vinyl:
saft.bandcamp.com/album/freaked-in-private-pulp08
digi:
matmatix.bandcamp.com/album/freaked-in-private

CITY CHILLER

When I'm not at the dayjob, I'm probably at a record store. Pullin from the Stacks podcast most Wednesdays, available here, Apple Pods (please subscribe!) and elsewhere.

Knowledge Breaks: bell hooks

DJ Ian Head