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Some time ago I worked for a Berlin based NGO called MICT while running Jakarta Records. During this time I helped organize a recording session in Tunisia with 9 female singers and musicians from Tunisia, Libya & Egypt together with Oddisee and Olof Dreijer of The Knife. "Nouh Al Hamam" by egyptian singer Maryam Saleh is the first leak of the project. You can pre-order the vinyl here. Below you can find the infos for this project....

http://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/sawtuha

A little less then three years ago the political situation in many countries of the Arab world changed dramatically. Uprisings started in rural areas of Tunisia and from there spread to various countries in the region. Millions gathered in the streets united by their demand for more democracy, rights and participation in the political process. In most cases the reaction of the governing dictators were relentless and severe towards every form of protests. Violence in the streets of Cairo, Tunis and Bengasi escalated and resulted in the overthrow of the governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Lybia.
A year later a group of female singers and musicians from Tunisia (Nawel Ben Kraiem, Badiaa Bouhrizi, Medusa, Houwaida), Libya (Nada) and Egypt (Donia Massoud, Maryam Saleh, Youssra El Hawary) met in Mohsen Matri Studio in Tunis to sing- against corruption, despotism, patronization and narrow-mindedness. The song with Syrian artist Rasha Rizk was recorded some months later in her political asylum in Cairo. Sudanese/American producer Oddisee and Olof Dreijer of the Swedish pop duo The Knife joined the session, participating in the creation of the musical backdrop as well as the often multi-instrumentalist female singers. For the vinyl edition producers such as Brenk, Blackjoy and Blundetto contributed remix versions of the project.

At the time and still today especially musicians and especially women were and are trapped in a spiral of repression, discrimination and violence. "Sawtuha" (Arabic for "her voice"), the album that is the product of the 2-week session, is a vital encouraging testament of rebellion against the repression of democratic rights, gender inequality, and lack of inclusion. The music is an organic mixture of traditional Arabic music, regional influences and various forms of contemporary Western musical genres. A mixture that may sound contradicting at first but makes total sense once you listen to the music.

The studio session was organized by the Berlin based NGO MICT (Media In Cooperation And Transition) and was funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

www.facebook.com/MaryamSaleh.Official
www.jakartarecords.de
www.mict-international.org

Maryam Saleh - Nouh Al Hamam (Produced by Oddisee)

I've been fishing for intuition in women/ 
I'm hoping that I'm efficient in searching for something different/
Me and the man Chan are on a mission, listen/
All these other women wanna live their life instantly/

Someone tell me why they take our shit for granted/
I been nurturing this seed that we done planted/
Looking like It's time that we swallow defeat/
We've been skipping off a track and the rhythm were giving's offbeat/

Damnn, we done wasted our potential/ 
But the timing wasn't right and thats essential/

I've been dreaming of a finer love, less of lust/
Looks can be deceiving thats some company to breach of trust/


Uhh, When you feelin' like you need more/
Make a move if your serious cause love is war/

Aint about a single life, need a bachelorette/
but i would rather be single than living with regret/
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Slow Down feat. ChanThePharoah (prod. Soulink)

from the upcoming album Oddisee "The Good Fight" (5/5)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-good-fight/id969829649

In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist Oddisee has created 'The Good Fight', a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Due May 5th on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him. Stream the first single, "That's Love".

Album Description:
Oddisee makes music that rattles in your bone marrow. It’s imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness. It’s virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
 
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallowtrend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist has created “The Good Fight,” a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Released on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him.
 
For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s about not selling out and shilling for a paycheck, while still being aware that this is a business requiring compromise and collaboration.
 
It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s not necessarily the syllables, but rather what they evoke. A song like “That’s Love” is more than a declaration; it’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. Ambition and greed war with our sense of propriety. “Contradiction’s Maze” offers a list of paradoxes we all face (“I want to tell the truth when it hurts/but when it comes to me, I want the blow softened.”)
 
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats.  The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
 
“The Good Fight” acknowledges the stacked odds, but refuses to submit.
 
It’s both universal and personal. The child of a Sudanese immigrant highlights the rigors of his own upbringing: his pregnant mother working the register until she was about to burst, his pops’ shuttered diner that couldn’t survive Reaganomics—the one that Oddisee drives past every time he returns home, just to remind him how quickly the world can turn bad.
 
It’s these minor details that add into something major. It’s testament to the indelible nature of art: when you can turn what you love into something that lasts.


Oddisee - That's Love

New DL link: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/4h9z05an4ocmchr/MJB_-_Family_Affair_(Flavours_Remix).mp3
Watch me perform this track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2yhivcEPaU
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Mary J Blige - Family Affair (Flavours Remix)

This album is a continuation of the hip-hop/funk hybrid sample based music that I've been making for the past few years. Hope you all can find your own "Bright Moment" in these tracks. Big ups to The Kount, Birocratic & Tom Ribbons in being an instrumental part in helping to create this album with me. And to everyone else who continues to support what I do, thank you so so so much. I owe you a bodega sandwich sometime.

Artwork by Milan Ozegovic

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Airplane Mode

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Flamingosis - Marcos Valle

Here's a remix I made for my good friend Rhoda.  Make sure you follow him, his music is really neat!!

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Rhoda - For You (Flamingosis Remix)

from the album BODY WASH (9/16/16)
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Mndsgn - Ya Own Way

Written & composed by Arigato Massaï
Interpreted by Tessa B 

Release : August 2016, 17th
℗ 2016 Diez Music - Under Exclusive Licence to Parlophone / Warner Music France, a Warner Music Group Company.

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Don't let go Feat TessaB (Album Version)

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CRUSH YOUR SYSTEM (Rawkus 50 version)

"BETTER MAN" (f/ Median & VonPea) - produced by illmind

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Benjac, founder of Flow Theory, hosts our fourth mix. As a collective Flow Theory continue to release incredible content and put on great events; so we’re extremely excited to have Benjac in for Panel to put out a mix of some of his favourite tunes.

These mixes hope to exhibit the multitude of talent featured by Panel and our friends, so be sure to check out @flow_theory & @ben-jac for more.   Fancy mixing for us? ○ bit.ly/Mix4Panel

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➤ Tracklist:

00:00 | Fall In Love - Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson | http://bit.ly/PMix055

01:08 | Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest (J. Cole Remix) | http://bit.ly/PMix056

02:24 | No Wonder - The Mouse Outfit feat. Sparkz (Tall Black Guy Remix) | http://bit.ly/PMix057

03:26 | Girls - Harris Cole | http://bit.ly/PMix058

05:10 | The Dawn - Mecca: 83 x Harry Griffiths | http://bit.ly/PMix059

06:53 | Loungin' - Kerem Akdag | http://bit.ly/PMix060

07:54 | Soul Drive - Natty Reeves | http://bit.ly/PMix061

09:40 | Even After All - Finley Quaye | http://bit.ly/PMix062

11:24 | Meandering - Xander Lewis | http://bit.ly/PMix063

13:04 | Lilth's Psalm - Sa-Roc | http://bit.ly/PMix064

14:38 | 99p - Harry Griffiths | http://bit.ly/PMix065

16:24 | Your Love - Akay x Miyagi | http://bit.ly/PMix066

17:53 | Nasty - Skepta (JD. Reid x Tev'n Remix) | http://bit.ly/PMix067

20:22 | OnMyMind - C Y G N | http://bit.ly/PMix068

21:45 | Talullah - Jamiroquai (ONY Edit) | http://bit.ly/PMix069

24:45 | New Day - Lakey Inspired | http://bit.ly/PMix070

26:00 | You're The One - Miyagi | http://bit.ly/PMix071

27:40 | Has It Come To This - The Streets (JD. Reid Remix) | http://bit.ly/PMix072

30:38 | SouledOut - IAMNOBODI | http://bit.ly/PMix073

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Bigger The Problem ft. (Felly)

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Lowtism - Take Me Back

Berlin-based duo https://soundcloud.com/lowtism’s friendship started early enough that they were able to experience a series of firsts together. First hangovers, first girlfriends, and the genesis of their musical partnership - their first computer with a cracked copy of Fruity Loops. Starting out with the goal of mimicking the work of their favourite artists on Soundcloud, what they consider a homogenization of musical styles left a bad taste in their mouth. This prompted them to seek inspiration from genres such as 2-step, UK garage, classic rock, blues, jazz, and Japanese funk.

'Take Me Back' is an ode to a life-changing trip to Japan taken by Jaye, one half of Lowtism. Jet engines and connecting flight announcements during the track’s build up set a smooth tone for what is ultimately a funky and celebratory homage to a host of sensations and experiences that only travel can offer. Synth riffs layered over 80s J-pop horns and peppered with live guitar licks take the senses along for the ride.

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Artwork by the https://soundcloud.com/funk-bast-rd
Words by Sedroc Jonez

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new tune with https://soundcloud.com/ehiorobo . go follow that boi

Lyrics:

(x2)
I know you want to glide
I don't wanna walk away-way ‘til we fess up
Walkin', straight with our chest up
I know we'll be just fine
We was flying before your feelings flapped away
I'm hoping we can catch up


(x2)
You’re my favorite girl
Used to think less thorough
They can wait they turn
We built this great, great world


Verse-
Ok, we fight and then we post a lot
Used to work at dairy queen
Come home and then you'd toke a lot
Them clouds stay billowing 
No need for all that photoshop 
Stay cool
Stay cool
I know you used to wear those moccasins
Hands up in your pocket got no pocket lint
Your psyche feeling
Flier than a ostriche
No ceilings for those macaroons, not even if they coconut
Que loco has this thing become
Go head, 
Start the movie like we 'sposed to
Your man, watch me heatin' up some tofu
Been a couple minutes since I seen you 'round the whole foods
Cause I don't shop at whole foods
But I could take your whole loot
Mobile phone, flora and soul too
If only then I could console you
No stick-up
Considerably well read yet not beyond no standard pickup
Caught you acting anything but fickle
And now you know I


(x2)
I know you want to glide
I don't wanna walk away-way ‘til we fess up
Walkin', straight with our chest up
I know we'll be just fine
We was flying before your feelings flapped away
I'm hoping we can catch up


(x2)
You’re my favorite girl
Used to think less thorough
They can wait they turn
We built this great, great world


I know you want to glide
I don't wanna walk away-way ‘til we fess up
Walkin', straight with our chest up
I know we'll be just fine

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Flamingosis x Ehiorobo - Glide (Favorite Girl)

This is the first collaborative project from the growing Flow Theory family, this is our sonic personality, the deepest expression of our collective soul. We create music to make you feel something...

Discover: @Kinkai, @Solar-Sound-System, @MooLatte

Album Download: www.flowtheory.bandcamp.com/album/ft002-flow-theory

Artwork by: Jake Clarke
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