Faint Frequency Records are releasing their second release - a drum and bass and broken beat single named "Veil". The EP comes with 2 remixes from Alexis Braine (Badbeats) and Phil Badiz (pheel) exploring a varying spectrum of liquid drum and bass and ambient, soulful dubstep respectively.

Veil EP released on all major digital vendors on August 19th, 2013.
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Big In Malta - Veil  pheelz dub rising (clip)

on 19th September 2013 under a full moon @ spring solstice, i recorded a live mixtape that today (25th October 2013) i tried to upload on SC. 
a blanket ban by RCA (this time) that prevents anyone who doesn't pay licensing to mix their songs prevents you from hearing it, not because artists want more $$$$, but because decisions are made by lawyers rather than artists within the music industry and these individuals have zero notion of how dj culture works nor how it much influences purchasing. 
i suspect that the artists mostly applaud djs using their trax and publicizing the fact, but the specter of copyright law aims to kill those who respect artists enough to upload set lists.  
i would luv to thank AheadPR, Tokyo Dawn, Shoes Bags & Boys, Secret Music, VIP Ultima & numerous supportive individual artists who gave me promos to make this mixtape . . . i would also luv to thank Clannad,  d’Zihan & Kamien, Sierra Hurtt, Jaidene Veda, Sy Smith, Monsieur Greg & Sarah Winton, Nicola Hitchcock, Rise Ashen, Positive Flow, Colonel Red, Zuper,  Fogsheep, Nomumbah, True Zero, Bebel Gilberto, Ursel, Rogiers, Elle Stilnovo, Anthony ‘Luka’ Kasirivu, Ariane Blank, Yush, Blue Six, Aya, GB, Basil, Bojan Milenkovic, Lakosta, Omenetti, Jonatan Backelie, Souled & Norberque for making beautiful music that I luv to spin...

The death of a mixtape due to copyright law

click-listen-post if the mood takes you 
…
thanx


Yush - Sand Castles - pheelz earthbeat

Wide Open Mind Project - Speed feat. Samuel Correa [Floripa Summertime mxx]
a re-work officially blessed by the author and principal composer of WOMP, Paulo, but not picked up by the label
trumpet solo: Samuel Correa

Speed [Floripa Summertime mxx]

Wind Open Mind Project - Speed [miles of cool groove]
some dj friends preferred the cooler version of "Speed" before mixing in Samuel's trumpet edits... so here it is


Speed [miles of cool groove]

16bit wav, mastered -  Veil EP, release on Faint Frequency  Records in August, 2013, and though this track wasn't added to final version, it has official blessing as a promo download.
.:.
Other formats @ http://pheel09.bandcamp.com/track/big-in-malta-veil-pheelz-dawn-rising

Big In Malta - Veil [pheelz dawn rising]

out soon on Faint Frequency, on promo release @ AheadPR
https://soundcloud.com/faintfrequencyrecords/sets/veil-ffrs-second-release

Big In Malta - Veil [pheelz dub rising] clip

"all night" soulful groove : : serious thanx to Omar & Jesse 4 the great vibes : : for Lawrence & Angelo

Positive Flow - Do What I Do feat Omar [pheelz midnight groove]

honesty - “or once there was this dj who had it all figured (or so he thought)…”
.:.
last november, a regular at my lounge sessions asked if i would work a choice of theirs into a mix, to which i ‘coolly’ replied, “sure, if it flows well, a good dj can mix pretty much anything”; an open invitation to chaos. 
the following session, Leticia (who is probably blushing from her new-found fame) brought me a cdr and said, “here it is, see what you can do with that”, 
“it’s not pop, or some kind of heavy rock, grunge, right?”, (surprised, people rarely follow thru) 
“no”, she said “listen.” 
so with the sun rising through my window, there i was, listening to Claude Debussy, trying to figure out how to spin classic piano with modern electronica, future soul and broken beat. 
life throws us curves, what the experience teaches you is what makes them valid; how you get beyond your habitual poses and make an emotional and/or spiritual connection. 
i realized i virtually only loop beatz, not melodies; i dig ambient, but i never play it, or contemporary jazz for that matter… so even though my sound is pretty unusual, for Brazil anyways, i had pretty much stopped challenging myself. 
so here’s to the challenges that make life the amazing journey it’s meant to be.
.:.
v. big thanx to AheadPR, Tokyo Dawn and a number of individual artists for promos, e um beijo especial, L.
e-nuff chat, crank up the volume and chill… 
.:.
0:00:00 - King Britt - Feathers Fall Heavy (artist promo)
0:02:26 - Gypsykind - Room 126  featuring Amelia (Tokyo Dawn)
0:04:45 - Moodorama - Never Mind (artist promo)
0:08:45 - Positive Flow - The Quest parts 1 & 2  featuring Tesia Rolle (Tokyo Dawn)
0:13:12 - The Rurals - Hermosa Blues  featuring Irantzu (AheadPR)
0:17:35 - Wendy & Lisa - Sweet Suite (King Britt remix) (artist promo)
                 insert: Mysterysa outra (AheadPR)
0:22:55 - Mathon - Via Mala (Pe Lang’s How To Open A Mountain remix) (AheadPR)
0:23:58 - Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune  interpreted by Alexis Weissenberg (gift)
0:28:31 - Trancemicsoul & Jaidene Veda - My Skin, Nice Day (Kafele remix) (AheadPR)
0:32:44 - Lisa Shaw - Matter Of Time
0:35:25 -  Whitney Houston & ButInTheWeekend - It’s Not Right (artist promo)
0:39:58 - Wehkah & Lisa Preston - Love Attack (Monsieur Greg remix) (artist promo)
                 insert: Love Attack (Bagel’s Shake Your Soul mix) (artist promo)
0:43:53 - Calvin Waddy Jr - Control Points (artist promo)
0:45:59 - Jaidene Veda - Stay, Ode To London (Veda Nu Jazz Vocal) (AheadPR)
0:49:41 - Big In Malta - Of Quiet Birds Circling In Flight (AheadPR)
0:53:09 - Ramon Tejada - Sand Can’t Tell Time
                 insert: Hosanna Sophia Littlebird - piano interlude (AheadPR)
0:54:31 - SoulAvenue - Like Love 
0:59:29 - Cocoared - Rise  featuring Dioana Gayle (artist promo)
1:02:32 - Julie Dexter - The Plan
1:06:03 - Portformat - Bitter Sweet  featuring Eagle Nebula & Trezure Empire (Tokyo Dawn)
1:09:15 - Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen - Visions Dub (AheadPR)
                 sample: Armchair General - Radio Silence (artist promo)
1:11:38 - Larissa Kapp - You
1:15:36 - Trentemoller - The Forest
1:17:39 - Sanytch - Instead Of Rain (artist promo)
1:22:00 - Rumi Solveig - So Far Away (Apple Q Mix)
1:25:27 - Qmusse - Balada Triste

honesty [backroom sessions]

rework of recently relased cut by ursel nordkreuz

Ursel Nordkreuz - Immernoch [pheel rework]

d(-_-)b . pheel plays future soul (electronica, nu jazz, brazilian, downtempo), at publicity events and private parties & heavy funky house, jazzy house & deep tech at larger events. 
I also co-produce an intimate, midweek lounge event, “Adults Only”. 

Bio: Londoner born & bred, I studied piano and percussion (orchestra) at school. While at Uni (Architecture), inspired by jazz-funk fusion (esp. Miles Davis/ Mongo Santamaria), I also studied congas, bongos, and later, djembé. 
The 1990s in the UK was buzzing with new rhythmic trends in electronica, so I made tracks with organic & electronic percussion (IDM, broken beats, deep house). On hols in 2004, in Sao Paulo, my eclectic tastes led to cameos at sunset parties, mixing jazz/ broken beat/ nu jazz (Miles, Pat Metheny, Steve Reich, Jazzanova, Bruno E, Blue Six, Positive Flow, etc.). 
Since 2008, I’ve played clubs in south/southwest Brazil: Confraria das Artes, opening party at the A-list “Caras”, Café de la Musique (Florianopolis). In Sao Paulo state, I was invited to Reloaded 1 & 2, a show case for djs spinning eclectic sets, and have played at numerous clubs in and around the capital. Music: I’ve released several bootlegs of nu jazz & broken beats artists, and officially, I remixed “Letting Go” by Sierra Hurtt (independent), some funky house for Imaani Brown’s label (Brown Skin), and Faint Frequency Records invited me to remix on the Veil, Chiqago, and Mendoza Eps (2013-15).

pheel

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