Makes met think of an urban underground version of D’Angelo’s and the Black Vanguard’s best and most experimental stuff.

NWRT 2

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Shigeto - Olivia

Shear Draft

The In the Moment Remix Tape reworks the already-chopped, altered, and looped spontaneous compositions of Makaya McCraven's 2xLP In the Moment. Crossing the boundaries of improvisation, composition and sampling, nine producer/beat makers from around the globe reworked the tracks into new beats and creations of repurposed audio. Makaya then remixed their remixes into two continuous mixtape sides, blending them with beats of his own, resampling the samplers of his original sliced and sampled spontaneous compositions.
credits
releases 22 September 2015 

Produced by Makaya McCraven 
w/Beat Makers Amin Payne, Krush Love, Maker, Malik Abdul Rahmaan, Moongriffin, Peppin, Quiet Dawn, Radius and Swarvy.
Mastered by David Allen 
Curated by Scott McNiece and Alejandro Ayala 
Cover Art by Jordan Martins 
Design by Craig Hansen



Interstellar

Pariah

Supa/Fly is a 2 track EP of funkadelic electronic jams featuring St4rfox on trumpet, and Gaddy on keyboard woven together by meticulous production from 5AM. Through whimsical, evocative riffs and soaring, evolving soundscapes, the trio has captured the essence of flight through sound. It's rare to hear recognizable samples in 5AM's music, but when an uplifting message from Steve Miller found it's way onto an equally uplifting beat, Fly was born, and a new side of 5AM's sound was revealed. We hope you enjoy the flight!

Collaborators:
https://soundcloud.com/st4rfox
https://soundcloud.com/gaddymusic

Artwork by 5AM
https://www.facebook.com/5ammedia/
https://soundcloud.com/5am-beats

Mastering by Base2
https://www.facebook.com/base2sound/

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/a909b9'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Supa/Fly

Free Download

5AM - Supa ft. St4rfox & Gaddy

@5am-beats

https://therustmusic.bandcamp.com/album/oxidized-vol-2-2

Oxidized Vol. 2 out 12/12
Mastered by MALAKAI

Oxidized Vol. 2

Nodes

5AM - Nodes

Written by J.Hoard, Anna Wise & Dane Orr
Mixed by Dane Orr & Zeke Mishanec
Mastered by Daddy Kev

Root

Two new contributors to Outtallectuals, 5AM and Eviali flex as the funkblasters, teaming up to bring us 'Still', their contribution to the Warpball compilation. The song features 5AM on production and keyboard duties, while Eviali gives us a healthy dose of his soulful guitar licks.

@5am-beats
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@eviali
https://www.facebook.com/evialimusic/

'Warpball' is a 20-track quantum/space-themed collection of tracks to be featured as the soundtrack of a game of the same name by game developers, Unruly Attraction.

Warpball: http://warpballgame.com/

Artwork by Moomran:
www.instagram.com/moomraan/

Warpball

Still ft. Eviali

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[OUTTA039] 5AM - Still (ft. Eviali)

Jazz at The University of Utah

Gol e Gandon

When The Expansions self released their first single in 2013, the laid-back jazz funk of Lavender, it quickly gained strong support from soul and rare-groove aficionados including Kenny Dope, Dom Servini, Patrick Forge and Andy Smith. A run of shows followed and before long, when someone was asking if there was a soul-jazz band around to play with, “The Expansions” was the answer. 

Although this popularity meant a hiatus in releasing music, the band have been constantly busy, playing around Europe with legendary British-Ghanaian soul singer, Andrew Ashong and the exceptional, upcoming talent Connie Constance. 

There has also been a breakout project from drummer Jonny Drop - the album Sub Plot gained massive support and love from BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne. While keys-man Dave Koor has been busy playing shows with Gilles Peterson favourite Hector Plimmer, Shaun Escoffery, and Ego Ella May, improvising with Yussef Dayes (Yussef Kamaal) and Nubya Garcia, releasing music as Deoke and collaborating with label-mate Scrimshire on their Modified Man exploration. 

But always, The Expansions has remained a central focus and the true home of these four jazz and soul lovers, with occasional trips out to the country to form ideas and practice new music for the eventual album. 

Murmuration, recorded over three days at Big Noise in Southend, is constructed of single takes, with minimal overdubs, as the band attempt to capture the feeling and energy they create live. 

Debut single Breakthrough introduced the insanely catchy but deeply soulful blend of synths and groove, but here on the album that is explored to the fullest with longer breakdowns and more expansive, experimental solos. Pocket 5 displays the, possibly unexpected, influences of broken beat and almost combative rhythm playing – particularly in the complex guitar and keys breakdown where Koor and O’Keefe layer conflicting time signatures and battle to ride it out to the heavy drum return. 

Cannonball brings warm mellowness that delicately evolves through beats, touching on bossas alongside their fundamental hip-hop sensibilities. But even here there is a raucous zenith before the band sublimely recede into the silence of the a-side ending. 

Colossal album highlight Ivory Mountain is truly an epic. Evoking moments of 4Hero, there is a lightness of groove in the first half of this soulful exploration. But at the halfway point, all restraint is let go as a live string section joins the four quarters of the band for three glorious minutes of soulful disco. Evoking sounds of Quincy Jones, George Benson and Johnny Hammond, all the way through to a beautifully cacophonous finale. 

Dragonfly undoubtedly reflects on the work of Herbie Hancock and is the most direct throwback to the band’s earlier work, which is a welcome marker of how far they have come. A quintessential jazz funker. 

The album closes with the thoughtful and introverted shuffle of Miles Away. In the final eight minutes of Murmuration, The Expansions allow space and time to take precedence, with once-more-restrained peaks and developments. It becomes clear though, that the band cannot resist one last explosive finale, as they rise with screeching synths, strings and dubs for a perfect race to the finish line. 

You can hear the influences of Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington, even parallels with South London peers Yussef Kamaal and Ruby Rushton. But The Expansions have tirelessly worked to create a sound of their own and are very proud, along with label Albert’s Favourites, to finally share it.

Murmuration

Breakthrough

Title Track off of my band The Cell Theory's 2008 album "Memory is Energy". Nigel Sifantus on Drums, Jason Fraticelli on Bass and me on keys and Synths. 

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