REEFER MADNESS

** Released August 2013 **

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"Following on from co-­compiling one of 2012’s best received compilations ‘Into The Light: A Journey into Greek Electronic Music’, new Amsterdam based record label ‘Music From Memory’ sets sail with a compilation of lo-­‐fi beach funk and lazy synth jams from the Rhode Island keyboardist and ocean loving Leon Lowman.

As well as a devoted painter and surfer of the East Coast, the synthesizer loving Lowman privately released two albums “Syntheseas” (1980) and it’s follow up cassette only “Sound Horizon” (1982). Something of a homage to his love of the local seashore and the women he was trying to woo there, the albums also express Leon's pure love of the synthesizer sound and reflect his unique melodic wanderings.

With Leon's albums meeting little commercial success at the time of there release, both albums have in recent years become highly sought after. Along with previously unreleased material from the time, “Liquid Diamonds‘ highlights Leon Lowman's unique blend of low fi synth funk and surf ambience."

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Leon Lowman - Morning Song

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No Escape (Original Notion Picture Soundtrack)
Score by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

(Track list and audio updated.)

27. Take Care Of You – Jim James 0:00
02. No Escape 0:30
03. Little Dreamer 1:00
04. Jack Wakes 1:30
05. Market Research 2:00
06. Coup Coup Roux 2:30
07. Jack Be Nimble 3:00
08. Where’s Lucy 3:30
09. Pool Cue 4:00
10. Rooftop Refuge 4:30


Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders - No Escape Soundtrack (Official Audio)

Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Macho, extract from the Modern Life, released in 2010 on the finish imprint Helmi Levyt.
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Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Macho

Yaw - Where Will You Be

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Boco - Running The Mardi Gras - BC003-45 - Side A

In Your Eyes (feat. Charlotte Day Wilson)

Most honored to even have the chance to put my spin on this beautiful piece of love by two of my all-time favorites. Sincerely hope yall dig it. I played all the guitar work, drums sampled from Shawn Lee, and grateful for my man Reed Mathis, coming through in a rush and laying bass on it night before the deadline for submissions.
Blessyall!
// Sole.

UPDATE: The winners of the DJ Shadow remix contest have been announced! I'm not one of them, but it was great to hear the ones that shadow picked. So glad Archive's Waltz version was in the ranks, played that on my KCRW show on Wednesday. I'm not bummed one bit, everyone who Shadow picked killed it in their own way, and since I only set out to make what I consider to be a beautiful song... I feel successful in that. BLESSYALL for voting, and all the kind words. Now that it's over I can give it away for free. Enjoy.

DJ SHADOW ft. LITTLE DRAGON - Scale It Back (Jeremy Sole Remix)

"JBS" is taken from Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2's forthcoming album "Star Stuff," out March 31st, 2017.

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Catch Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 on tour this April! w/ special guest Madeline Kenney
April 12th - Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern
April 13th - Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse
April 14th - Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall
April 15th - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
April 16th - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
April 18th - Somerville, MA - Once Ballroom
April 19th - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz 
April 20th - Toronto, ON - Great Hall
April 21st - Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
April 22nd - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
April 23rd - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club

Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 - JBS

From the album Blast Off Through the Wicker available July 14, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Bandcamp https://artfeynman.bandcamp.com/album/blast-off-through-the-wicker
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ART FEYNMAN
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Blast Off Through the Wicker documents Art Feynman looking for life in the lifeless, questioning what it means to be living.  There is a calm, disciplined pocket to be felt in everything Feynman does; krautrock slink, staccato bounce, and pentatonic bursts of Nigerian Highlife fuzz pour on the temporal canvas with unquestionable ease, never falling in the wrong place. Even more admirable is, that his “canvas” is a four-track tape recorder, and that Blast Off features no loops or drum machines despite its aesthetically faithful motorik and afrobeat underpinnings.  Nowhere is this fact more surprising than on album standout “Slow Down” which pulses along infectiously with a crunchy backbeat, and deftly arpeggiating bass lines that are so locked-in that it would be hard to fault an unknowing ear for assuming the whole thing is tediously programmed.

There are gentler sides to Blast Off that conjure the spacey tenderness of Arthur Russell inventively and respectfully, without adopting their muse’s palette wholesale. In this regard Blast Off is an endearing collection of songs that capture the ear with warm-yet-clear cassette aesthetics and spot-on musicianship, both of which form an angle that points lovingly to Feynman’s deep and varied influences. Make no mistake-- this one truly is alive.

Art Feynman - "Can't Stand It"

A true beauty amongst the beasts. Wonderful tune by this lovely band who also appeared with their other record "Cry Love". 
Sadly enough, the production peaks on the vocals at times, but hey, life's a bitch and then you die!

The Sweet & Innocent and The Memphis Mustangs "Express Your Love Theme" - Active Records - US, 197?

Originally released in 1980, the scant 500 copies of the Supreme Jubilees' wonderful lone LP It'll All Be Over seemed destined for the bargain bins. A gospel-soul group with deep R&B grooves, the band came together in the 1970s, bridging two musical families from California's Central Valley. On one side were the Sanders, led by keyboardist and self-proclaimed "Donny Hathaway freak" Leonard, who was joined by his brothers Tim, Philip, and Melvin. On the other side were Joe and David Kingsby, who enlisted David's son David, Jr. to play guitar. An unaffiliated family friend named Larry Price rounded out the group. Although they had operated as a live band on the regional church circuit for several years, they had yet to release an album. The Fresno studio the band chose for their initial sessions turned out to be ill-suited to their needs. Largely a country & western studio, the engineer balked at their requests for more bass in the mix and eventually kicked them out mid-session. Undeterred, the Jubilees took their half-finished album over to Sierra Recording Studio in Visalia where they polished off the remaining five songs. The resulting nine-song debut was a comforting mix of smooth soul, warm R&B, and a dash of disco that showcased the band's enchanting vocal mix. The sublime title cut is worth the price of admission alone for its gently despairing Old Testament darkness. As the opening cut, it sets an odd, almost meditative tone as the group foretells the end times with a sort of comforting sensuality. There are certainly some uptempo gospel rave-ups like "I'm on the Lord's Side" and the ebullient album-closer "Stop Today," but the Jubilees are at their most effective with the more somber, thoughtful cuts like "Do You Believe" and "We'll Understand." It's understandable that music with so sensitive a touch didn't catch on at the dawn of the '80s. After embarking on a couple of difficult and hapless tours, the Jubilees essentially called it quits and this lovely album faded into obscurity for over three decades before being reissued by Seattle specialty label Light in the Attic Records. While it may remain a diamond in the rough, it's a comfort to know that such an honest and heartfelt piece of art is now widely available to all.

The Supreme Jubilees - Do You Believe.

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The Cactus Channel’s new single “Leech” takes the orchestrated soul futurism that has become their signature sound and adds silvery vocal dimensions, as the band’s own Lewis Coleman steps up to the mic. The song’s emotionally potent lyrics evoke the wrestling that arises internally with the feelings that linger after a breakup. As Lewis elucidates, “Leech” is about “those feelings that don’t go away, and pop up at unexpected times. When something shifts inside, but even your best friends wouldn’t know; your mood is instantly altered, even if you can walk back into the room and nobody notices it externally.” The band has recently shared the video for their first single “Storefront” and announced a huge national tour and an October residency at Melbourne’s The Night Cat.

Stay A While

Leech

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The Cactus Channel - Leech

Every Moment I Live To Come

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Rickety blues guitars and softly spoken vocals are pinned down by a rolling, organic groove in this single release by Kerala Dust.
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Composition, Songwriting, Recording & Arrangement by Kerala Dust
Guitar by Henry Watts
Mixing by Kerala Dust, Aaron Ahrends & Jakob Ahrends
Mastering by Hans at Deinklang, Hamburg 
Cover Design: Peyote Agency, Berlin
Cover Photo: Johanne Morrison

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Kerala Dust - Closer

Psychedelic Island brew courtesy of Tropical Hi-Fi.
Homage to the late great JJ Cale & The South Pacific.

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Photograph : 35mm [1990's] by Tropical Hi-Fi

Pacific C◯ast  [Mix by Tropical Hi-Fi]

Written by Tracy McNeil ©2019
'Not Like a Brother' is the second single from the forthcoming album You Be The Lightning - OUT OCT 2019

Performed by Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife
Co-Produced by Dan Parsons & Tracy McNeil
Recorded & Engineered by Fraser Montgomery & Nick Edin at The Aviary Recording Studios
Additional Recordings by Jake Rush at Madeline Studios
Mixed by Alex O'Gorman 
Mastered by Ross Cockle at Sing Sing
Image by Luke Stringer

You Be The Lightning

Not Like a Brother

Salt & Pepper

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release date: jul 24, 2019

treasure island (from the forthcoming LP “Pirata” July 24th)

Watch ‘Finishing Touch' ft Laville (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/3BbobhRJpQY

 'Aquamarine' album:
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‘Aquamarine’ is a projection and culmination of all Ash has absorbed. A cosmic explosion of sound and colour, rhythm, shape and patterns. The arrival of an unassuming dreamer now projecting his unique flavour of expression. ‘Aquamarine’ is the take-off of this audial spaceship, a sound discovered in the grooves of thousands of records, united in one.

An avid collector of jazz, blues, soul, funk, reggae, and all things in-between; Ash has DJed far and wide...from the infamous Royal Mail squat party to the canals of Venice, spinning vinyl in Brixton with The Specials to scattering dub across San Francisco and LA. Ash’s production output is similarly exploratory: his journeys have taken him far and wide, from tunnels under the river Thames to recording local percussionists in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.

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Ash Walker - Finishing Touch (feat. Laville)

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Trombonist, bandleader, songwriter, arranger and producer James Reese never issued an album with his Progressions band, only a series of 45s – some under his own name, some under that of his collaboraors – out of Spartanburg, South Carolina on his Najma label, from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s. He was as ambitious as he was talented, and his ouevre ranges from brutal, deep soul to sophisticated instrumental ballads to jazz-inflected funk. Now-Again’s Egon first discovered Reese’s music on a 24 lock-in in Concord, North Carolina’s legendary record and antique clock repository, Ye Olde Clock Shoppe, in 1999. After he tracked down Reese, he officially reissued two of Reese’s songs on his seminal Stones Throw anthology The Funky 16 Corners. He later issued more of Reese’s music on the Now-Again anthology Loving On The Flipside.

Sourced from rare 45s and multi-track master tapes, Wait For Me: The Complete Works 1967-1972 presents both issued and recently-rediscovered songs in the full-length format, in a cohesive set that shows the brilliance still arising from the American soul and funk sub-strata. Long time Now-Again associate Kenny Dope presents a remix of the song “Throwing Stones,” and Now-Again mastering engineer Jason Bitner presents alternate mixes of various cuts on a bonus second LP, available only to subscribers. Those mixes are also included as part of the 2 CD set that accompanies the vinyl album. Both LP and CD version contain an extensive booklet detailing the trajectory of Reese and his band. Download card for WAV files included with the LP.

REEFER MADNESS

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