It's an indie pop/rock start to this week's list with the jangly guitar pop of Beach Fossils quickly followed by Sea Girls, B Boys and Roya before Ghostpoet's excellent "Immigrant Boogie" (sounding very Mark Lanegan) marks the transition point. Roll the Dice (quite noirish) gives way to the techno sounds of Steve Summers & Bookworms, before heading off to close the list with some World sounds in the shape of Nickodemus (try and clap the rhythm to that one!), the sparse drums and sax grooves of Binker & Moses, and finally closing out with the joyous Balkansambel and "Vrtiglavica" which means dizziness. Pick of the week is Ghostpoet, which just keeps better and better, although I do have a soft spot for Beach Fossils and the mesmerising sounds of Binker & Moses.

Jun 02 - Jun 08 2017

Vrtiglavica – (dizziness)
introductory music typical for Bulgarian wedding feasts – does, Vrtiglavica also
offers room on the dance floor only for the bravest ones with a calculator in their
hands since the rhytmic structure is very close to an equation with all unknowns.

BALKANSAMBEL - LAMASTIKA

Vrtiglavica

Binker and Moses leave the now behind and Journey to the Mountain of Forever.

Binker Golding and Moses Boyd will release Journey to the Mountain of Forever -  their second album for London record company Gearbox Records - on 2nd June 2017 in double vinyl LP and double CD formats.

When Binker and Moses’ debut album Dem Ones was released in the Summer of 2015 it kickstarted a remarkable year for the young saxophone and drums duo, who won a string of awards including the 2015 MOBO Awards: Best Jazz Act, Jazz FM Awards 2016: UK Jazz Act of the Year and Breakthrough Act of the Year and the 2016 Parliamentary Jazz Awards: Jazz Newcomer of the Year. Like the album itself, their festival and club performances received rave reviews and ever-growing audiences, culminating in a November 2016 UK tour with The Bad Plus. 

Journey to the Mountain of Forever is a story album about travelling from the known to the unknown. You can expect to meet with Shamans and Ultra Blacks and immerse yourself in strange rituals and echoes from the infinite.

Sessions for the new album took place on July 21st and 22nd 2016, resulting in 10 reels of tape filled with over five hours of music. Like it’s predecessor Dem Ones, the new album was recorded completely live from Mark Ronson’s Zelig studio by Grammy award winning engineer Ricky Damian. direct to a 1960’s Studer C37 1/4” tape machine at Gearbox’s studio next door with no edits or mixing. The vinyl lacquers were cut directly from this original stereo master on Gearbox’s 1967 Haeco Scully lathe with Westrex RA1700 series amps, using a Westrex 3DIIA cutting head and Telefunken U73B tube limiter, Maselec master control and equalisation and Audio Note monitoring equipment.

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Journey to the Mountain of Forever

Disc One: The Realm of Now 
Binker Golding - tenor and soprano saxophone
Moses Boyd - Drums

Disc Two: The Realms of the Infinite
Binker and Moses with: 
Evan Parker - tenor and soprano saxophone
Byron Wallen - trumpet
Tori Handsley - harp
Sarathy Korwar - tabla
Youssef Dates - drums

Produced by Darrel Sheinman for Gearbox Records
Recorded by Ricky Damian and Caspar Sutton-Jones
Mastered by Darrel Sheinman and Caspar Sutton-Jones at Gearbox Records

Binker and Moses
Journey To the Mountain of Forever
Cat No: GB1537
Barcode: 5065001717482
Formats: Double Vinyl LP Gatefold, Double CD

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Journey To The Mountain Of Forever

Valley Of The Ultra Blacks

BNK-007-2  Steve Summers & Bookworms

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Immigrant Boogie

When they come together as Roll the Dice, Swedish producers Peder Mannerfelt and Malcolm Pardon conjure a particularly stirring strain of cinematic sounds. Their latest full-length, 'Born to Ruin,' is due to arrive on May 26, but we premiered the foreboding majesty of LP cut "Cannonball" on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

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Born To Ruin

Roll the Dice "Cannonball" [First Floor Premiere]

Beach Fossils "Somersault" out June 2nd, 2017 on Bayonet Records.

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Somersault

Beach Fossils "Tangerine (feat. Rachel Goswell)" Official Single

Steadfast in the studio working on the new album for Autumn 2017, here's another hint at what's been going on in the world of Nickodemus' latest creations & collaborations.  "Mystic Molay" features Hassan Ben Jaafe, a Maâlem, or master Gnawa musician & his group Innov Gnawa. The song's lyrics reference & welcome the ancient Sufi mystic teacher Molay Abdelkader Jilani (Moroccan spelling) or Abd al-Qadir Gilani (Iraq/ Persian spelling). Recording the vocals & hajhuj (or gimbri), metal qarqaba (castanets) & the kouyos (chorus) & topping it all off with melodies on whirlitzer & violins, Nickodemus brings back that old school analog funk grooves known on his earlier albums collaborating with live musicians. In the spirit of club culture, Nickodemus solicited the remix talents of Aroop Roy who dropped a modern broken beat house version as well as Umoja's stripped down Cumbia meets Gnawa version for the dance-floor. Set to be released June 2 & the full album for October 2017.

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Mystic Molay - Nickodemus feat Hassan Ben Jaafer & Innov Gnawa

3rd single from B Boys debut LP "Dada" out June 16th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

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Dada

B Boys // Discipline (Official Single)

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!

Jun 02 - Jun 08 2017

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