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Sudanese MC / Singer Zen-Zin and German producer Pawcut are not your average rap group.  Zen-Zin lives and works in Khartum, the capital of Sudan, while Pawcut is producing his beats in a German town called Minden. Nevertheless the mix of Zen-Zin melodious flow and Pawcut's skifully layed beats make a perfect fit. “Hold On Ontario” is the third single from their forthcoming album “Next Flight Ontario”, which is the follow up to their debut album “Butterfly Effect” on Jakarta Records.

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Recorded in Karthoum, Sudan and Minden, Germany.
Vocals & lyrics by Zen-Zin. Produced & mixed by Pawcut & SterilOne.
Mastered by SterilOne at Staub Audio Engineering, Vienna. 
Artwork by Hr.Pixel.

Cat No: MPM 286-3
Artist: Zen-Zin & Pawcut	
Titel: Hold On Ontario

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Zen-Zin & Pawcut - Hold On Ontario

A personal album that explores relationships with others and ourselves. A huge focus on how we choose to navigate and grow from things that shift and change us. I choose to make sure I never lose my voice, sense of worth, and to always claim my "Wings". Sometimes we lose ourselves and that is okay. The lessons you learn help you get to the new version of yourself. You have to be the one that's ready to stand in your light and truth in any situation or relationship.

Produced by Dr.Dundiff
Written by Claire Reneé
Mixing and Mastering Engineer: Garfield Adams for Stemulated, Studios, Pasadena, CA.
Assistant Mixing and Mastering Engineer: Camille Stemmons for Stemulated Studios,
Pasadena, CA.
Executive produced by Dennis Howell and Claire Reneé
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Wings

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Single + instrumental out now: smarturl.it/sotjstevie

Richmond, Virginia soul outfit Sons Of The James (singer Rob Milton & producer/musician DJ Harrison) follow up their acclaimed 2020 debut LP 'Everlasting' with a new single. 

Here, the duo team up with fellow RVA multi-talent, Calvin Presents, to cover the Stevie Wonder classic, "Love's In Need Of Love Today." 

Released on May 13th to coincide with Stevie's 71st birthday, the message of the original still rings all too true – a full 45 years after its initial release on the seminal 'Songs In The Keys Of Life' double album.

"Love's In Need Of Love Today" 

Written by Stevie Wonder 
(Black Bull Music/Jobete Music Co. ASCAP) 
All rights reserved. 

Personnel: 
Rob Milton - vocals 
Calvin Presents - vocals, Rhodes, synthesizer 
DJ Harrison - drums, bass 

Produced by DJ Harrison & Calvin Presents 

Recorded & Mixed by DJ Harrison at Jellowstone – Richmond, VA 

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome 

FSX-055-01 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

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Sons Of The James & Calvin Presents "Love's In Need Of Love Today" [Stevie Wonder cover]

Single out now everywhere: smarturl.it/rwjntbt

London multi-talent Royce Wood Junior continues the rollout for 'No Two Blue Ticks', his first LP in over 5 years, with a new two-sided single. 

Long known for being early on producing rising British R&B talents like NAO, Jamie Woon, Kwabs, & JNR Williams (all of which appear on the new album) – here RWJ continues that proven track record by introducing 2 new talents: the goosebump-inducing blue-eyed soul shriek of Burhou frontman Ross Hutchison (also known as Shirazpapi) & the airy, angelic falsetto of Lucey Way.

Personnel: 
Lucey Way - vocals
RWJ - backing vocals, guitar, keys, synth, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Ross Hutchison - backing vocals
Dave Okumu - bass
Gareth Lochrane - flute
Jake Meadows - harp
Moose Curtis - percussion

Produced, Mixed & Engineered by Royce Wood Junior 

Written by James Wood

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios 
Tape Processing by Jimmy Day

Cover Painting by RWJ

Executive Producers: RWJ & Kenny / Fresh Selects

FSX-050-03 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

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@freshselects

Lyrics:

Won't let a thing rely on fact,
And now you're to blame for lies and attacks, yeah
And all that you mean
Only two ways – to crumble or crack
And nowt left to say when love just don't matter
On what will we cling?

Yeah yeah yeah…

I'm with you now
In the rocket's red glare
I'm with you now
For the twilight's last gleaming
I'm with you now
For this

And oh, the old days
Where dawn once cracked
And now this new phase,
Where life just don't matter, yeah
And how will we sing?

Yeah yeah yeah…

I'm with you now
In the rocket's red glare
I'm with you now
For the twilight's last gleaming
I'm with you now
For this

I'm with you now
In the rocket's red glare
I'm with you now
For the twilight's last gleaming
I'm with you now
For this

No Two Blue Ticks

Royce Wood Junior "With You Now For This" (feat. Lucey Way)

Single out now everywhere: smarturl.it/rwjntbt

London multi-talent Royce Wood Junior continues the rollout for 'No Two Blue Ticks', his first LP in over 5 years, with a new two-sided single. 

Long known for being early on producing rising British R&B talents like NAO, Jamie Woon, Kwabs, & JNR Williams (all of which appear on the new album) – here RWJ continues that proven track record by introducing 2 new talents: the goosebump-inducing blue-eyed soul shriek of Burhou frontman Ross Hutchison (also known as Shirazpapi) & the airy, angelic falsetto of Lucey Way.

Personnel: 
Ross Hutchison - vocals
Royce Wood Junior - vocals, guitar, piano, keys, synth, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Lucey Way - backing vocals
Dan Gulino - bass
Dan See - drums
Moose Curtis - percussion

Produced & Mixed by Royce Wood Junior 

Written by James Wood, Dan See, & Cassia "Cosha" O'Reilly

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios 
Tape Processing by Jimmy Day

Cover Painting by RWJ

Executive Producers: RWJ & Kenny / Fresh Selects

FSX-050-03 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

Follow:
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Lyrics:

All around the metropole, a deathly breeze
Flung around the doughnut hole’s peripheries
All the dumb roses replaced by weeds
And art is just some brand ‘round here

Even if we automate the rivers clean
Everything in Helvetic, clinic beauty
Life’s been dyed to grey from green
The Earth don’t understand what we’re doing here

Yeah – and our only stance is to film the blistering
Our little rock in the gutter
It was our design, we’ve got to charge our batteries
And we held it down and watched it bleed, yeah

Oh, to be a human babe – a godless blink
Sucking on the Milky Way’s umbrella drinks
Only glum tumblers, where once was skin

And I don’t own no flowers
I don’t got no power
I don’t possess nothing here
I’ll no longer cower
I don’t need ‘Jim Wood Towers’
When I’m just powder scattered here

Yeah – and our only stance can be to let them listen in
Stored in the cloud, every mutter
It was our design, the world’s a person factory,
It’ll hold you down

Royce Wood Junior "Umbrella Drinks" (feat. Ross Hutchison)

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London multi-talent Royce Wood Junior wraps up the rollout for his 'No Two Blue Ticks’ LP, with one last set of tracks before the album releases on July 8th – this time highlighting the album’s two closing numbers.  

Produced by Royce Wood Junior 

Written by James Wood, Dan See, & Kwabena "Kwabs" Adjepong 

Personnel: 
RWJ - vocals, guitar, piano, bass, keys, synth, programming 
Lucey Way - vocals 
Dan See - drums, percussion 
Moose Curtis - additional percussion 
Gareth Lochrane - flute 

Engineered & Mixed by RWJ & Jimmy Day 

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios 
Tape Processing by Jimmy Day

FSX-050-04 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

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@freshselects

Lyrics:

I don't mean it all that much 
It's just a way to vent some shit I got 
Must get noticed, must be dark 
Feedback looping on my bleeding heart 
Any issue, any cause 
I've got wisdom to impart 
Each position, every arc 
Got this biling down to an art 

Guessing this is all they got 
All cos the world's so numbing 
Bless ‘em, this is all they got 
All just to feel something 

Everything's fucked because 
We've all but forgotten love 
Everyone's up in arms 
Cos hate feels like eiderdown 
Everything's fucked because 
We all just forgot to love 
Everyone's up in arms 
Cos hate feels like eiderdown 

Yeah, all that venom from the start 
It's everyone else that's in the wrong, because 
No one here to see my charm 
No one respects the nothing I've become 
All that crimson, those thumbs up 
Notify me at whatever cost 
Any number at the top, 
Won't you please anonymously spit back, it's all I've got 

Guessing this is all they got 
All cos the world's so numbing 
Bless ‘em, this is all they got 
All just to feel something 

Everything's fucked because 
We've all but forgotten love 
Everyone's up in arms 
Cos hate feels like eiderdown 
Everything's fucked because 
We all just forgot to love 
Everyone's up in arms 
Cos hate feels like eiderdown

Royce Wood Junior "Eiderdown"

The first song on Royce Wood Junior's sophomore full-length 'No Two Blue Ticks' – out now on Fresh Selects: http://smarturl.it/rwjntbt

Produced & Mixed by Royce Wood Junior

Written by James Wood, Dan See, Charlie Platt & Veera Lummi

RWJ - vocals, guitars, synth, programming
Jamie Woon -  backing vocals
Lucey Way -  backing vocals
Ross Hutchison - backing vocals
Charlie Platt - piano
Dan See - drums
Moose Curtis - percussion
Modulus Quartet - strings

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

String Arrangement by Veera Lummi
Strings Engineered by Rick David

Follow:
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@freshselects

Lyrics:

I'm out cold like hope, stoned and limed
My man had 4 jacks and I the drink and moonlight
I'm out cold like old satellites
I shoulda called it but I'll know for the next time

I'm out cold from ode-stolen lines
I had a fall back but shot through like a TEC-9
I'm out and cold but I'm still motivated for the next life
Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe – let me slide?

Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me slide?
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me slide?

I'm out cold like ghosts on The Rye
I tried to duck out but got caught by a stiff right
Ohhh now it's just that back 9
I'm out cold again, the failure of a lifetime

I'm out a cold and every moment's slipping by
Still hoping truth still betters style
I'm out cold now, having fallen from some withering height..

Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe 
Would ya, babe – let me slide?

Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me slide?
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Would you really let me
Could you really let me slide?

Royce Wood Junior "Slide"

An album highlight from Royce Wood Junior's sophomore full-length 'No Two Blue Ticks' – out now on Fresh Selects: smarturl.it/rwjntbt

Produced by Royce Wood Junior

Written by James Wood, Jamie Woon, Dan See & Charlie Platt

RWJ - vocals, piano, guitar, synth, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Charlie Platt - synth bass, piano
Dan See - drums, percussion
Moose Curtis - additional percussion

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

Mixed by RWJ & Jimmy Day

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios
Tape Processing by Jimmy Day

Follow:
@roycewoodjunior
@freshselects

Lyrics:

Oh, there's a person you admire
The one that someone else turned out to be
The version that you're holding from your baby
Caught on your tongue 
Were the words that could make it all holy
Favourited ya
Was a little bit alone

Drowning out – the fact that it's already
Drowning out – yeah, the fact that it's already
Drowning out – fact that it's already drowned
Makes you drown, makes you drown, makes you drown

Oh, there's that vision in the fire
The one that kicked the murder out of me
The one that hung the firmament so greyly 
Caught in your soul
Were the grapes of a load lightening
Double tapped ya
Felt a little less alone
Drowning out – the fact that it's already
Drowning out – yeah, the fact that it's already
Drowning out – fact that it's already drowned
Makes you drown, makes you drown

Drowning out – the fact that it's already
Drowning out – yeah, the fact that it's already
Drowning out – fact that it's already drowned
Makes you drown, makes you drown

Royce Wood Junior "Too Early To Say"

London native K, Le Maestro´s single “OUT LATE” feat. “Amaria” (USA) is a sonic celebration that marries/blends modern R&B with old-school funk references. The instrumental is rooted in heavy drum beats, layered arpeggiated synths and a prominent bass line which makes space for Amaria´s crystal clear vocals to create a sensual, intimate setting. “OUT LATE” is the first single of K, Le Maestro´s highly anticipated debut album “WHIP MUSIC”, dropping September 17th via Jakarta Records.

Amaria: "Out Late reminisces a journey of the freedom and joys of cruising the city with a person you love. With nowhere to even go, the lyrics takes you through the feelings of having no set plans and just enjoying a spontaneous, care-free night out."

KLM: "Out Late is one of them joints you bump in the whip while you driving around with nowhere to go. Just cruisin with a shorty or a person you really like. Enjoying the vibes."

Exclusive Premiere: K, Le Maestro "OUT LATE" (feat. Amaria)

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Are We Ever Gonna Work It Out

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A golden love letter to the 1970s — smooth strings, honeyed harmonies, and glittering soul. Electric Heart: The Duets brings male and female voices together in timeless chemistry, echoing the velvet lounges and slow spins of the disco ball age. Lush orchestration, sultry grooves, and cinematic warmth. Every track shimmers with vintage romance, powered by hope, driven by soul.


10, Walking Away - 70's Shimmer & Shine

maybe SOON o n Brownswood, maybe not...i feel like I get back to my first like in 
music...soulfull and jazzy. Enjoy and please give feedbacks, this track will maybe never see the wax or 
even digital heaven !...

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