Name: Thirteen by Hundred Strong
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: First track from new High Noon artist Deep Patterns. A melancholy but uplifting soulful feat The Epoch House Choir..

Artist: Digital Liquid ft Joseph Malik & Beldina Odenyo
Title: Footsteps
Rel date: September 3rd, 2021
Label: Ramrock Red Records
Cat. No: RRR022

Contributing to the already funk filled Ramrock summer of good vibes and championed by BBC6 Music’s Craig Charles, Digital Liquid unleashes ‘Footsteps’, his darkly brooding collaboration with vocal behemoth, Joseph Malik and newcomer, Beldina Odenyo. With its combination of middle Eastern flavoured string melodies and the incessant disco earworm bassline, ‘Footsteps’ will be on heavy rotation for months to come. Meanwhile, the North Street West production crew unleashing their inner Larry Levans, adding additional glitterball elements and a cheeky nod to Niles Rodgers for their Vocal Remix, ‘Footsteps’ - a BIG tune worthy of big support.

Digital Liquid is the solo project of Daniel Walls, an Edinburgh based multi-faceted musician, songwriter, producer and member of the Easter Road Northern Soul Band. He believes in mixing live instruments with electronic elements and cross pollinating the genres of funk, disco, House and techno to make, as Daniel says, ‘music to dance to’. In addition to making his own music, Daniel plays drums for Joseph Malik’s live shows as well as drumming + additional instrumentation on Joseph’s releases, ‘I Quit My 9 to 5’, ‘Strange New Places’ and ‘Reason to Be’. As if that isn’t enough, Daniel’s been keeping busy with Gavin Fort from ‘Movers International’ on a new EP, playing drums on Steven Christie’s (The Proclaimers) forthcoming ‘Till Sunday’ EP on Ramrock Records and working on more musical outings coming soon on the F*CLR House label. 

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01. Digital Liquid - Footsteps Ft. Joseph Malik + Beldina Odenyo (Original Version)

Your Bristol Life is back for a second series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.
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A Short History Of Purple Penguin by Peter Hall
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You have all heard about the Bristol Sound, and the Bristol street art scene is well documented, but have you heard of the small record shop that was at the heart of it all? Peter Hall presents this short history of Purple Penguin. A tale of community, creativity and underground culture.

This is a story about a distinct community that grew from a widely unknown establishment that was situated on Colston Street in the mid 90s. It was a hub for all things underground hip hop, funk, soul and beats, and was the only place in Bristol you could get hold of certain US imported music, video tapes of scratch DJs, graffiti magazines, clothes, spray cans etc. It soon became a mecca for anyone interested in hip hop culture, sample digging, beat making, and would later develop into a foundation for creativity.

In this podcast we hear from the people that worked at Purple Penguin, and discover how it influenced their lives, as well as the lives of countless others, who ventured through its doors.
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Featured artwork by Jon Trace

A Short History Of Purple Penguin by Peter Hall - Your Bristol Life Episode 8

First track from new High Noon artist Deep Patterns. A melancholy but uplifting soulful feat The Epoch House Choir..

Thirteen

Mixed for my buddy @SoulOnIce at Level Cuts Bristol a selection of deep neo-soul bumps, slopey hip hop & jazzed out  rn'b rhythms I used to play back in the heady days of the early Noughties... 

Deep Cuts N Smooth Fades

Dream On Delay

Dream On Delay (Neon Heights Remix)

I made this beat using the iPhone iMPC Pro APP and then transferred onto logic with a few more played instruments and a basic mix. ...Hope you enjoy.

ItsAMargoBeat: RUN

slow'n'soulfull subwoofer music with fuzzy vocals from the great marvin gaye
    
    the U_YeaH files

lets get it on - marvin gaye - wehkahs soulbasta rmx

Houseplants.

Sweet & Sour.

Kali Phoenix Lp , "Voices", released Summer2016. Limited vinyl and digital.
All tracks co-written with Kali Phoenix and produced by Hundred Strong.

Bandcamp put "Voices" in their top 100 lp's of 2016 and said-

On Voices, Kali Phoenix stretches between past and present, presenting a distinctive blend of neo-soul that explores everything from budding romance to self-liberation and personal growth. She gives a clear nod to ’90s-era R&B (En Vogue, Erykah Badu) and ’70s-era soul (The Supremes, Stevie Wonder) without taking too much from either.


Voices is a collaboration with the Bristol producer Hundred Strong, who floats Phoenix’s voice over a smoky, down-tempo instrumental on the coy “What’s Your Poison,” and lifts it up over a dawdling bass line and rippling synths on the bright-eyed “Bolt From The Blue.” “Willow” cribs its first lyric, “Something wicked this way comes,” from Macbeth, and the song that follows makes good on that promise, with Phoenix singing of devils, angels, and full moons over dark, thumping percussion.

Hundred Strong’s production provides richly-detailed set dressing, but it’s Phoenix who is the star. On “So Sweetly,” she leans in to free-form vocal runs, stretching her melody deliriously over heavy kick-drum and handclaps. On “No Mistakin’,” which is draped in sitar, she sings of becoming one with a new lover: “Ignite what you find in me, burning me, take it all.” And on “Good Man,” she trips her voice up to a high register, extolling her lover’s virtues over a slow-rolling organ and bassline.

Throughout, Phoenix exudes confidence and poise. Voices, with its dusky production, may borrow from the past, but Phoenix’s eyes are firmly set on the future.

—Nick Williams

Thirteen

Hundred Strong

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