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Cool Night

Adrian Symes on the saxophone once again! He absolutely destroyed the saxophone on this one. A massive massive thanks to the legend! The thankful that I have the opportunity to work closely with him. More to come!

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Thomas Jack - Symphony (Original Mix)

Hailing from Perth and firmly at the forefront of the Australian funk and soul scene are Randa And The Soul Kingdom led by Jordanian born and Australian raised soul sister Randa Khamis.

With producer Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos, Cookin On 3 Burners, Lanu, Black Feeling) at the controls of the debut self titled album, the result was bristling with edgy, gritty funk and soul. The buzz on Randa And The Soul Kingdom led to a full European tour with label mates Deep Street Soul, a live session for Mark Lamarr on BBC Radio 2. Randa was being lauded as a modern day equivalent to Marva Whitney, Ann Sexton and Vicki Anderson in their prime by Mojo Magazine, Blues & Soul and Randa's music even featuring in the US version of teen TV show Skins.

Instead of flying straight back to Australia after the tour, Randa spent 6 months residing in London collaborating with funk/soul artists to write her second album. Inspired and influenced by the music and musicians in London, the second album What You Need was born. Finally back in Melbourne, Australia she went straight into The Shed Studios where the songs were recorded and produced by Lance Ferguson and John Castle (Megan Washington) once again at the controls.

Whilst retaining the funk undercurrent, this new album What You Need also often incorporates elements of 60's and Northern soul, 70's disco and some more down tempo, reflective moments within what is a varied and mature collection of songs.

Kicking off with the happening groove of Power In Me, Randas’ vocals ride over a powerful, bold and brassy riff that crackles with positive energy that is pure dance floor gold. While Lovesick still tinged with a gritty funk feel also delves into the 1960's stomping soul arena and brings it to the forefront of a more modern accessible sound.

Another highlight is the disco driven The Things (also available on the 12 inch single/download FSR092) which allows Randa to work out her disco diva muscles to quite stunning effect! Squelchy synths ride over an insistent disco beat, whilst Lance Fergusons' scratchy guitar evokes the heady, hedonistic era of Chic, Studio 54 and Bianca Jagger riding a white horse across the dance floor!

Whilst Be Yourself evokes up tempo, mid 60's Motown with handclaps, tambourines and snappy, sharp drums, in contrast Cold paints a picture of a troubled romance, love lost and hearts breaking, the fodder for soul music since it first began.

With this follow up album, Randa & The Soul Kingdom cement their reputation as one of the most hard working and authentic purveyors of genuine 21st century soul.


The Things

Lily of the Valley

I Still Love the High

From the second album by Australian heavy-hitters DOJO CUTS:

RKX041 DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - "Take From Me" available April 16th

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - My Lovin' Is All About You

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Lift Me Up

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Mamacita

Easy To Come Home

I Can Give

El Entro

First single from the new DOJO CUTS album:

RKX041 DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - "Take From Me" out on CD/LP/Digital on April 16th and available in advance only here: 
http://recordkicks.com/site/releases/Take-From-Me

“Great Feeling, Great Grooves, and Lots and Lots Of Soul, all in the raw and ready for consumption!” – Neal Sugarman (Dap-Kings / Daptone). 

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Easy To Come Home

Bobby Darin - Dream Lover

Lyrics for:
'This is NOT a Marijuana Song' by Protoje, Produced by Niko Browne for LifeLine Music. 2012

And so it was said that the herb be provided for I&I 

They don't want you to know Marijuana
Ites up and be Free
Jah so Let it be

Herb smoke keep i sane, take my pain 
Stop migraine, so much i gain, so why blame?
I'm saying Jah might bring the right strain 
To my brain fi chop lightning like I-Wayne
Cause man deh ya pon the Lava Ground
And if u soft like a guava u can't come round
This part of Town, I tell unuh the thought alone
A could a Sparta it falter down
REVIVAL Hallelujah it start up now
Reprisal fi the luu Jah it watered down, Naa Pardon none

What deh in a  mi garden strong
This is NOT a Marijuana Song

This is not Marijuana music
Just a Message from the ones that use it
Don't abuse it cause a mind that's fertile
Brings forth something that's worthwhile 
Know your worth child
Cause no officer alive coulda look in a ma eyes 
And see what i prophesy 
My mind it forever occupies, thoughts of.........
Hold ma talk cause spies amongst us
If trouble did a trouble me, well that mi chalice woulda bubbly
drop in a one load then double it

What deh in a me garden strong
This is NOT a Marijuana Song

Listen up, the truth is to be told
Open your eyes there is beauty to behold
What is the new if u consider the old
Why gain the world and no consider your soul 
What is the cloud if u understand the lining
Who is the king if u consider the LIneage
You know its H.I.M so no continue deny him
Is it freestyle if i consider the Line 
Then configure the timing adjust to fit the rhyme scheme
With no trouble to my mind really?
Seal It

I say wah deh in a me garden strong
This is not a Marijuana Song

ITUNES

This Is Not A Marijuana Song

Ruby Velle And The Soulphonics - Medicine Spoon

Legend is a word so overused in the music business that it has lost it's much of original meaning. But Freestyle Records feels wholly justified in describing our latest signing as precisely that.

Martha Highs' impeccable soul credentials are beyond question, and for the uninitiated, here is a potted history of the ladies incredible musical history!

A member of The Jewels, who, in 1964 became part of The James Brown Revue, touring all over America on a relentless schedule of one-nighters, alongside Vicky Anderson and other stalwarts of that incredible live phenomenon that was beautifully captured on tape and released by Smash Records on the 1967 release Presenting the James Brown Show.

After a year and a half, and two 45s produced by James Brown, The Jewels disbanded but Martha continued to be a part of the live James Brown show for the next 30 years! She's fondly remembered by fans as the jet-black sister with glowing blond hair!

She also recorded a solo album, for Salsoul Records in 1979, also produced by Soul Brother Number 1, which added a touch of soulful disco to her enviable array of singing talents.

In 1995 Martha was invited to tour with ex JB sax master Maceo Parker, joining another former James Brown band member "Sweet Charles" Sherrell in an incredible, feisty line up that is touring to this day.

After featuring on Freestyle mainstays Speedometers' 2011 album 'The Shakedown', and touring with the band, leader Leigh Gracie and Martha formulated the idea for her to record an album on which she would re-interpret some classics, and give a new angle to some more contemporary funk & soul compositions.

'Soul Overdue' is an incredibly apt title for a project that has been over 40 years in the making, and it shows that Martha's' voice remains undiminished, her youthful vocal clarity and style quite simply dazzles as she shows a host of young pretenders the way it should be done!

And as a tantalizing teaser for what is to come, we here at Freestyle are immensely proud to release a 45 single sampler to whet your appetite for the forthcoming album.

Unable to choose between the raucous funk fuelled version of 'No More Heartaches' and the tender, gentle and touching rendition of Etta James' 'I'd Rather Go Blind', we opted to put these very different, but equally fantastic tracks on a Double A side single - it's a double whammy no genuine soul and funk fan could possibly resist!

No More Heartaches - Martha High & Speedometer

Melao de caña

From the new DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND full-length and 45 produced by Lack Of Afro (Freestyle):

RKX032 THE DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND - "What Goes Around Comes Around" available on CD/LP/Digital here:
http://www.recordkicks.com/releases/What-Goes-Around-Comes-Around

RK45037 THE DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND - "Back Off" / "B-O-O-G-A-L-O-O" available on 45/Digital Download here:
http://www.recordkicks.com/releases/Back-Off-B-O-O-G-A-L-O-O

Back Off

full recording available here: http://funkit.virose.net/?p=3163

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Honky Tonk Popcorn, Got To Be The Way It Is > "I'm Feelin' It"
April 13, 2003 
Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 4/13/03 Cleveland, OH - Honky Tonk Popcorn, Got To Be The Way It Is

Pickpocket

A short story based on the events of May 23rd, 2010, when the Jamaican government deployed its military into Tivoli Gardens in the capital city of Kingston.
Premier Nov 5th.

Ey, ey
Watch ya dread
Hey hey

Kingston, be wise
Kingston, free up your mind
Kingston, just be wise
Kingston, free up the I, yeah

When the city a go click-clack-blow, you bet
Government fingers and tic-tac-toes in it
And while they working on the X's and O's
I'm living I-N-I like I'm Mister Kamoze
No surprise when they sending foes to me
Opposite of when plain clothes approaching me
Follow they rules is what they propose to me
Selling they souls for what is owed, you see
Nothing is owed, nothing is promised 
Never know the government woulda run up inna them garrison
Without no sorry, without excuse
Soldier man inna them lorry, everybody get abused, and
Everybody have them views now
The media is owned so know where you get your news from
And the blood deh pon them shoes now
When them walking it trace
Look them hard in them face
And say

Kingston, be wise
Kingston, free up your mind
Kingston, just be wise, for me
Kingston, free up the violence

Now all the damage can't quantify
Roy Rayon couldn't sanctify 
Say a nuff a dem them send fi die
So the city a intensify
Say the ghetto them a gentrify
Well I, nobody nuh identify
Nuff bodies unidentified and just a lie deh
Then where the gun deh? Dead pon Saturday 
Buried Sunday like Solomon Grundy
Like a no Sons of Solomon them have down deh
Leonard Howell, Pinnacle and them land deh
Subdivision, them deal it underhand deh
So learn it 'cause them come back with dem plan deh
So tell me how far do you wanna go now, hey
'Cause them will ratta-tatta-tatta when u pow-pow-pow


Kingston Be Wise

First single by Australian heavy-hitters DOJO CUTS, taken from:

RKX026 DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - self-titled available on CD/LP/Digital here:
http://www.recordkicks.com/releases/Dojo-Cuts

RK45026 DOJO CUT feat. Roxie Ray - "The 1-2-3s" / "See And Don't See" on 45/Digital here:
http://www.recordkicks.com/releases/The-1-2-3s-See-and-don-t-see

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - The 1-2-3s

From the debut self-titled album by Australian heavy-hitters DOJO CUTS:

RKX026 DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - self-titled available on CD/LP/Digital here:
http://www.recordkicks.com/releases/Dojo-Cuts

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Say What You Mean

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Mama Told Me

Cover of Stevie Wonder's classic track by Dojo Cuts, taken from:

RKX026 DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - self-titled available on CD/LP/Digital here:
http://www.recordkicks.com/releases/Dojo-Cuts

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - Uptight

DOJO CUTS feat. ROXIE RAY - You Make Lovin' Real Easy

Available as digital download and limited edition Record Kicks 10th split 45.

Second single from Hannah Williams & The Tastemakers' debut album "A hill of feathers" CD | LP | digi. HWT pay homage to Barbara Lynn with a cover up of her northern soul hit "I'm a good woman". On the flip the previously unreleased deep soul beauty "I've been waiting so long"

Record Kicks: http://www.recordkicks.com/index.php?/releases/I-m-A-Good-Woman-single
Bandcamp: http://recordkicks.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-good-woman
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/im-a-good-woman-single/id589597282
YouTube: http://youtu.be/Nwd_Ol5W648

Hannah Williams & the Tastemakers - I'm A Good Woman

Track 13 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

Every morning I rise
Peace to my mind when I hail Ras Tafari
Knowing His eyes are on I
Jah be my guide, I reside with the Most High
Even inna drought I nuh cry
These are the times when I hail Ras Tafari
Knowing that Jah will provide for I

I said He giveth and He taketh away
Understanding nothing is belonging to me
Earth will provide you with the necessity
Me say simplicity is what we use in these days
And Ras Tafari prophesied there would be wars
Many possessions would be lost
What you live is what you leave with, so
Hold it close, it’s the only thing that's yours

[CHORUS]

Because we know Jah we cannot walk away
Heart of the Lion is telling us not to stay far
‘Cause when it all passes away
To abide in Your presence is the only thing I pray for
‘Cause it is beautiful to know
Storms all around and You safely guide the way home
Yes, You lightening my load
Keep me right here on the straight road

[CHORUS]


Haile love I, you never forget
Haile bless I, don’t you ever forget
Haile love I, don't you ever forget
Haile bless I, don’t you ever forget

[CHORUS]

Haile is the power and the knowledge and the key
One, two, three, the Holy Trinity, yeah


Hail Ras Tafari

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Chronixx feat. Sizzla, Kabaka Pyramid & Protoje - Selassie Souljahz [2013]

From Holy Ghost!'s forthcoming album, Dynamics, out Sept 10 on DFA Records

Pre-order on iTunes: http://bit.ly/dynamicsitunes

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