Taken from the album 'Digging the KPM Vaults', a collaboration between Sony EMI's KPM label and WhoSampled.com comprising tracks created using samples from the legendary KPM 1000 series library records. The track contains samples of compositions by John Cameron, Barry Morgan, Berry Lipman and Herbie Flowers. Vocals performed by Lumi HD. 

Available on Spotify, Apple Music etc.

Digging the KPM Vaults

Chris Read feat Lumi HD - The Rarest (Digging the KPM Vaults)

Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950 Saginaw, MI) is a singer, songwriter, producer, musician, humanitarian and social activist. Although his name at birth was Stevland Judkins, he later changed his name to Stevland Morris. His mother's biography states that his surname was legally changed to Morris, "an old family name," in 1961 when he signed with Motown. Wonder has recorded more than 30 Top 10 hits, won two dozen Grammys, also one for lifetime achievement, and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame.
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Stevie Wonder -Visions

Reach Out

Vocalist Akua Allrich presents her cover of "Can't Stand the Rain," by Ann Peebles, featuring the amazing Nicholas Payton on trumpet and keyboards. They're joined by Kris Funn on bass and Corey Fonville on drums. This is the first single to be released from Allrich's forthcoming album, to be released later in 2015.

Akua Allrich, feat. Nicholas Payton - "Can't Stand the Rain"

The power of Afrobeat, sizzling funk, righteous hip hop, rootsy grooves and 20 of the hottest musicians from Melbourne's booming music scene, all come together on the sublime debut by The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra.

Hot on the heels of their impeccable vinyl-only release Two Sides of the Truth/Do Anything Go Anywhere, The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra have made an album to command the attention of world music fans, hip hop aficionados, jazz cats, funk and soul freaks and indie hipsters alike.

There are strong echoes of the Afrobeat movement from the 1960s-70s, as well as the influences of the African diaspora in Australia over the past decade, yet this is boundary free, totally modern music that sounds as fresh in the clubs as on the streets of Melbourne where it was born.

Do Anything Go Anywhere delivers seven irresistibly loose-limbed, exotic jams which resonate with ferocious grooves, positive messages, conscious hip hop and gutsy soul. Lyrical odes to the power of resistance and the spirit of the African and Australian people hit home with smoking hot sing song vocals, heavy duty horns, gritty guitar grooves, jazzy solos, all snaking out on top of the infectious polyrhythms of the percussion section.

In 2009, the core members of The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra travelled to Africa to immerse themselves in the roots of Afrobeat and record the basis of Do Anything Go Anywhere. They jammed with family members of Fela Kuti at Lagos, Nigeria's Afrika Shrine nightclub (the home of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat revolution in the 1970s), collaborated with local Nigerian hip hop stars Modenine and Terry Tha Rapman, and journeyed to South Africa to record with rising hip hop star Tumi. 

Back in Australia, the ever-rotating roster of the Orchestra poured into the studio to lay down the grooves and unique voices of Do Anything Go Anywhere. The Orchestra lineup includes African expats, local hip hop and funk merchants and the cream of the Melbourne jazz scene. The explosive result is Do Anything Go Anywhere, one of the most electrifying, inspiring and unique records you'll hear all year.


The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra - Boom Boom

Buy the album via iTunes: http://geni.us/ChrisReadAllNight
London based DJ and producer Chris Read has been a fixture here at BBE now for over five years, a period during which he has put his hand to no fewer than four BBE compilations, including his spectacular round-up of the label’s finest moments, BBE 15: Real Music For Real People and the critically acclaimed Latin Concrete (‘album of the week’ in UK broadsheet The Independent).
During that period Chris has applied his touch to numerous BBE mixtapes and remixes, collaborating with BBE artists DJ Spinna and YesKing among many others. 
The gloriously eclectic ‘All Night’ rounds up the best of his BBE remixes, placing them alongside productions and remixes for a stellar catalogue of guest vocalists and labels.
Two Grammy award winners feature, Bilal and Algebra Blessett, Bilal having previously collaborated with heavyweights J-Dilla, Dr. Dre and Rob-ert Glasper, while Atlanta-native Blessett has impressed as one of the most innovative performers in R&B. Also on hand are DC hip-hop man of the moment  Oddisee, Tokyo Dawn-signing Pugs Atomz, Wah Wah 45s’  Bev Lee Harling, Mozambiquan hip-hop renaissance men Simba & Milton Gulli, long time collaborator and Tru-Thoughts vocalist Lizzy Parks and the mighty horns of the Renegade Brass Band.
Of the 14 tracks featured, nine are exclusive to this compilation or previ-ously unreleased. Notably, this album is the first to showcase material from Maylight, a BBC New Music Award winning seven-piece fusing soul, jazz and electronics, Chris having produced the band’s debut LP Al-mighty (due for release on BBE later in 2015). 
Other high points include a taster of material from Chris’s forthcoming full length collab with Chicago born Pugs Atomz and brand new instrumental material including ‘Stop Playing (With My Soul)’, a track constructed entirely from samples mined from the catalogue of library-music giant Boosey & Hawkes.


Chris Read & Pugs Atomz (feat. Isis Rose & Awdazcate) - Black Nite

Astral Progressions is a superb blend of jazz,ballads,  hip hop, funk, meditation, and of course, progressions.

Astral Progressions

Spirits Of The Ancestors

Dialogue begins 10.16.17
Pre-order Dialogue: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dialogue/id1281554226

CHILDREN OF THE CITY | (A. Abernathy, A. Davis, N. Simone)
AARON ABERNATHY - ALL VOCALS , PROGRAMMED DRUMS, & KEYBOARDS;
MALIK HUNTER - BASS

Verse 1
With their foggy intuition 
They’re forced to make big decisions
That lead to massive collisions
All because they’re not conditioned
 
On how to play this game
And for years it’s remained the same
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
You know that it’s a shame
That they treat Black human beings this way
So I fall on my knees and pray

Hook
Cause I know
Lost souls trying to find their way
Before the Lord brings the judgment day
And these political crooks and Pharisees 
With dirty looks are slain 

And I hope we’re all trying to find a way
To shuffle all the cards we’ve been dealt to play
I hope the Lord hears my prayer today
And remembers the children of the city

Verse 2
Lord don’t let me backslide 
On the east side of Cleveland we ride
To thugs & Harmony 
Me and Scott Mescudi, used to listen to tribe
Pushing my Daddy’s ride
Son of Larry’s alive
And he’s breathing 
Yeah I’m still here I’m still Cleveland
A messenger for my people
You know the people
The victims of systemic evil 
And it’s been going on for centuries 
That white supremacy 
That no equality 
That store clerk in the store that follows me
Along with police brutality 
And we’re fed up 
And all lives matter is a setup 

Just like our schools with dated books 
Produce crooks that played hooky 
And now they’re out to get your daughter’s goodies 
We all know the system failed them 
Wouldn’t excel them 
They’d rather break them down and jail cell them 

Hook
Cause I know
Lost souls trying to find their way
Before the Lord brings the judgment day
And these political crooks and Pharisees 
With dirty looks are slain 

And I hope we’re all trying to find a way
To shuffle all the cards we’ve been dealt to play
I hope the Lord hears my prayer today
And remembers the children of the city


Ending Refrain
Black king you better wear your crown 
Black queen please know I worship the ground
That you walk on
Don’t let the man bring you down 
Black People said we gotta be proud 
Lord have mercy
To be young, gifted, and Black
They can’t stop that, Lord knows  
With God on our side
They can’t stop us 
Yeah
Hook
Cause I know
Lost souls trying to find their way
Before the Lord brings the judgment day
And these political crooks and Pharisees 
With dirty looks are slain 

And I hope we’re all trying to find a way
To shuffle all the cards we’ve been dealt to play
I hope the Lord hears my prayer today
And remembers the children of the city

Children of the City

Love In Beats (Deluxe Edition)

Gave My Heart (DJ Jazzy Jeff Remix) [feat. Leon Ware]

Back with another Wu Banger! This one has been in the works since 2015, and since then it's been at least 5 different versions with completely different sounds. This final take is centered on a massive drum break and the original "Daytona" sample, and includes a few homages to artists who've sampled "Nautilus" over the years. #mercuryraps

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Ghostface Killah - Daytona (Altered Tapes Remix Instrumental)

Glory to the Most High God.. Jesus is Lord! Returning to the source is Serenity, Universe Within!

Stevie Wonder -Visions

Brother Rićhard (StarSeed)