Given the number of good albums that have either been released or are due for release soon, this week offered fairly slim pickings. A lively start to this week, though, with Remember Sports and High Sunn, followed by a soulful triple--Gizelle Smith has a great voice--before we hit the high tempo dance but with 10LEC6 and Flash 89. Boniface then starts to brings things down, before some really nice guitar noodling (think Vini Reilly, for example) from Martin Heyne gives way to the almost trip hop of Helene Deland (a bit Mazzy Star and a bit Massive Attack). The Helena Deland track is a grower, but Gizelle Smith is track of the week for me.

Feb 16 - Feb 22 2018

Ernie Hawks' debut album "Scorpio Man" is nearly here, and about to be released during the first quarter of 2018. The way will be paved with a fresh 7" single that lifts the gritty jazz funk of "Scorpio Walk" from the album on the A side and pairs it up with the mystic groover "Message of Love", a non-LP track only available on this release.

As the track to start up the upcoming album, "Scorpio Walk" rushes on like a manic villain from an art house spy film. A groove made of a murmuring fuzz bass and a surf guitar is suddenly released into heavenly choruses, where the man of the hour lifts the ambiance with a series of lyrical flute solos.

"Message of Love" sounds like an homage to the gently pulsing library music funk from the mid 1970's. Ernie's flute lead is accompanied by bubbling Fender Rhodes, which carries the track forwards like a shy cousin of Michel Sardaby's "Welcome New Warmth". Seductive male vocal wailing haunts in the background, while the track proceeds without haste in its realm of lost budget X-rated movie soundtracks.

The Scorpio Walk

Pre-order Gizelle Smith’s forthcoming album ‘Ruthless Day’ (released 30.3.18) : Vinyl/CD/Digital: https://GizelleSmith.lnk.to/RuthlessDay

This classy track from Manchester’s own Gizelle Smith blends the sounds and arrangements style of classic soul soundtracks of the 70’s with an undeniably modern production aesthetic. Helping her out on vocal duties is fellow soul man and Stones Throw alumni – Eric Boss (Myron & E) as they share a beautiful duet meditating on how everyone wants to be heroic but it’s also a long way to fall if it doesn’t come off… 

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Ruthless Day

Hero (feat. Eric Boss)

Remember Sports' new album, 'Slow Buzz' out May 18, 2018.
Pre-order vinyl, CD, digital: http://smarturl.it/slowbuzz

Slow Buzz

Up From Below

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Remember Sports - Up From Below

Bone Bame

10LEC6 "Bone Bame" Waajeed's Bone Dub

Vibes from: Blonde, Groove Armada, Michael Calfan, Kinnerman, Motez, Maximono, Mat.Joe, Josh Butler, Raffa FL, Shift K3Y + more. 

“Watch out for Flash 89 in 2018” (PNAU)

From psyche rock to electro, Australia's geographical remoteness has proved no disadvantage to the non-stop stream of world-conquering artists emanating from it over the last couple of years. Take Adelaide, a city perhaps not immediately as well known as the iconic waterfront architecture of Sydney or the arts scene of Melbourne, yet still the birthplace of stars from singer/songwriters Sia and Tkay Maidza (who appeared on Martin Solveig’s huge hit ‘Do It Right’) to DJs like Motez and Sonny Fodera.

Already following in this jet-stream all the way to BBC Radio 1 is 28-year-old Flash 89, aka Dutch Australian Paul Kranenburg. Having caught the attention of Danny Howard for his bumping house remix of 'Go Bang’ by ARIA Award winning countrymen PNAU, its techy grooves slip seamlessly into the new school house sound spearheaded by artists such as Eats Everything and Patrick Topping.

Then again, music is in his blood. Flash 89’s grandmother worked for EMI as a plugger and used to send him old records to sample, shaping a taste for electronic music that started over a decade ago when names such as Switch, Plump DJs and Fake Blood dominated Australia's festival scene and kick-started Flash 89’s foray into production. His pulse now beats to the four four of house, but the bass-driven element of drum and bass and similar sounds still has an influence on his energising sound.

Spending the last six years DJing around the country and honing his skills, in the last nine months Flash 89 has been fully committed to the studio, paving the way for his emergence onto the international scene. With a a diverse cast from Mat.Joe to Luigi Madonna already supporting his 'Go Bang' remix, debut single 'Generate' provides the next electrifying spark point. A bleeping, swinging beast, it recalls the classic Chicago sound of Green Velvet. So cameras ready... prepare for Flash 89, the next fresh talent shining out of Australia's ever expanding dance scene.


Generate Release: 
23/02/2018 

Socials
https://soundcloud.com/flash89_official
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https://twitter.com/flash89music

Generate

Phantom Limbs by Boniface is out now via Transgressive / paradYse - http://bonifaceofficial.com/phantom-limbs/

You go missing like Phantom Limbs 
You chasing down the sunset, setting in the western hills
Say you’re righting your wrong, run and slam the car door
Tell me what is there to do now?
Sleeping light and praying for your wrists now
You’re just handwriting on the fridge now
Say I won’t get sentimental but lose myself and maybe I’m wrong

Sun comes every night
I lose myself and maybe I’m wrong
We dance like someone died
Then lose ourselves and maybe you’re gone

You need to get prescriptions filled
You stay in your apartment, I call but you don’t say shit
Tell me that you need me, shaking and you don’t sleep
Tell me what I’m supposed to do now
You get high I wait until you come down
I watched you fall into yourself now
Now I wait till you fall back out

(Chorus)

And don’t come running to the city when I fall
Cause I’m nothing if there’s nothing here at all
Come running to the city when I fall
‘Cause I’m nothing.

(Chorus)

mastered 

Phantom Limbs

Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

Feb 16 - Feb 22 2018

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