excellent stuff. any news on a full length LP yet?

we're proud to announce a super limited pressing of 150 7" with this song as the B side - available from Thursday - see hopest.re/daddy150

Buy 7" and download "In The Dirt" free from: hopestreetrecordings.com/spanishharlem 

Stop what you’re doing. Lovers of soul, funk, and all the other good grease need to get on this 45 real quick. HopeStreet Recordings brings you a collaboration between Australia’s hottest soul voice, Nai Palm, and Australia’s heaviest rhythm section, The PutBacks, on that classic, classic joint Spanish Harlem. The Worm, a typically heavy PutBacks instrumental on the flip rounds out two smokin’ sides of Burn City soul.  

Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector wrote Spanish Harlem for Ben E King in 1960, but it was Aretha Franklin took it to number one in 1970. In 2013, The PutBacks and Nai put it down one more time on 8 tracks of tape with the production team at HopeStreet Recordings and you sure can take that sucker home on wax, but you’d better be quick. After all – this release has been 50 years in the making. 

The B side on this record is for the B boys. The Worm baby. Lots of songs fade out, but how many fade in? Yeah. That’s real. This kind of lowdown funky break is what the PutBacks really love to put the back in. Ouch. Will someone sample this already so it can go for longer than three and a half minutes?

This record is raucous and rich in the rawness. The drums, bass, and percussion gallop through Spanish Harlem and swagger through The Worm. The guitar and organ howl and huff. Simple production lets the musicians do the talking, and boy, Nai Palm can shout. Sweet layered harmonies over a dirty minimal rhythm track. It’s a new thing, it’s an old thing, it’s a limited pressing and it’s yours at www.hopestreetrecordings.com. 

Also, we do know what year it is so yes, the vinyl does come with a download code for both sides plus a digital version of another PutBacks instrumental – In The Dirt. Value added. Special funky bonus. Get yours. 

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The Putbacks - In The Dirt

First track of the Michigan imprint 003 12"

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Zamali & EZK - Make 'Em Shake It Mi Morena

Taken from RKX020 - Baby Charles.

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Baby Charles - Treading Water

A – NO TROUBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN 
AA – STEVIE FLARE

Wah Wah 45s are proud to present the brand new single from one-man horn driven funk music machine, The Gene Dudley Group.

Following on from last year’s debut long-player, and a run of gigs and festivals with his band, including touring Europe as Stones Throw artists Myron & E’s new backing band, Gene Dudley returns with a taste of things to come and his first ever vocal offering on 7-inches of wax. Those vocals come courtesy of London singer and erstwhile DJ, the wonderfully monikered Anne Frankenstein, whose contribution to Gene’s canny cover of Richard “Groove” Holmes’ classic No Trouble On The Mountain is something of a floor filler and a rather fitting release in Wah Wah 45s’ fifteenth year, as Holmes’ original was one of the label’s first ever 7-inch releases!

On the flip comes the first real flavour of Gene’s forthcoming sophomore LP, due to drop (on vinyl too!) this November. Stevie Flare is a much more up-tempo and foot friendly affair than previously outings, and has something of a tropical feel courtesy of warm highlife style guitars as well as those trademark Gene Dudley horns.

Look out for the Gene Dudley Group live band playing at a venue near you this autumn, including a special session at London’s Jazz Café on October 24th for none other than BBC 6Music’s funk & soul ambassador, Craig Charles!


The Gene Dudley Group - No Trouble On The Mountain (Out Sep 22nd on vinyl/digi)

From Mister T. - Big Day LP / Cold Busted
Release Date : 26th May 2015
Featuring 4 vocalists : Lucy Lune Gillespie, Katie Rose Summerfield, JoGoldie and Kate Sousoula Suarez
Available on 12 Inch Vinyl / CD / Digital

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Mister T. - Feat Lucy Lune Gillespie - Everybody Is Going To Be There

oc·ta·gon
ˈäktəˌɡän,ˈäktəˌɡən/

A regular octagon is a closed figure with sides of the same length and internal angles of the same size. It has eight lines of reflective symmetry and rotational symmetry of order 8.  

This is no regular octagon.  This is Octagon Pt. 2 

A long, extended jam from the forthcoming Polyrhtyhmics LP, Octagon, a cinematic album that builds on the funk and afrobeat sounds of their previous work with psychedelic layers and fiery rhythms that will continue to get audiences out on the dance floor. 

LP available and ready for your turntable on Friday the 13th! (November, 13, 2015) 

www.kept-records.com


Polyrhythmics - Octagon Pt. 2

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band "8th Wonder" - Boiler Room Debuts

Available on vinyl & digitally | 2nd december 2016
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After releasing the first single Voodoo Jazz end of 2016 the journey of Dem Juju Poets keeps on with Barabara, the first single taken off their forthcoming album Liberated Thoughts out due early 2017 on Matasuna Records. 
David Hanke aka Renegades Of Jazz, brainchild behind Dem Juju Poets, keeps on with his distinctive Afro sound and delivers a great 45 in various styles. As the Renegades Of Jazz journey will take a step away from Afrofunk music, Dem Juju Poets will be now the main outfit for Hanke to release more Afro driven music in the future.
Barabara is a heavy piece of dancefloor Afrojazz goodness, decent horn sections, tough drums and rich percussions combined with vintage vocals. People's Republic is a organ and flute driven Afrosoul tune with a heavy brass riff, thriving percussions and flute solos galore.

"Like this a lot! Can't wait till the vinyl gets released!" DJ Maestro, V2 (Amsterdam | Netherlands)
"Wooooow, great release! Dope tracks. Love both tunes. Will play it for sure." Jayl Funk, Honkey Phonk Records (Nuremberg | Germany)
"This little vinyl will definitely cause a big earthquake on every dance floor, I love it!" Voodoocuts, Resense rec. (Berlin | Germany)
Modern Afrobeatin' boogie with some retrodelic twists. Paul Murphy, Afro Art (London | UK)
"Another nice release on Matasuna! Great work!" Mr. Bird, BBE Records (Lisbon | Portugal)
"Nice one! Another great release, Well done!" Palov, Carnibal Records (Athens | Greece)
"Yeah, absolutely great!" Quiny Jointz, Timewrap Music (Freiburg | Germany)
"Nice tunes man, thanks!" Stickybuds, Ghetto Funk (Kelowna | Canada)
"Love it! A-side is huge, B-side is brilliant groove, so clean and warm, those horns with the breaks twisted, fuck!" Dedy Dread, Lisboa Records (Lisbon | Portugal)
"Wow it's a really really really good project. I will play in my radio show for sure!" Massimiliano Troiani, Radio M2O (Rome | Italy)
"Great 7inch! Barbara for shure is a Dope Killer Track! Big Up from Frankfurt." Holger Menzel, RadioX (Frankfurt | Germany)
"Absolut great release. Full marks for both tracks. Will present in my next show." Doc Best, Radio Z (Nuremberg | Germany)
"The next Matasuna release is dope, full support!" Zamali, Katakana Edits (Belgium)
"Dope tunes. Will drop on my radio show and dance floors." Phil Horneman, Wicked Jazz (Amsterdam | Netherlands)
"Love the organ and flute on People’s Republic. Can’t wait for the album" Tony Heynen, Global Riddims (Brussels | Belgium)
"Thank you for the wonderful music" Bandura, Resense Records (Basel | Switzerland)
"Nice work as always! Will repost on MonkeyBoxing." Stone Monkey. Monkeyboxing.com (Bristol | UK)
"Nice one ! Cheers" Andrea Benini, Mop Mop (Berlin | Germany)
"Good one!" Mr. Goju, Migrations Radio Show (Podgorica | Montenegro)
"Damn nice! Thank you. I will def put it in my next mix!" Radio Hobo (Berlin | Germany)
"Excelent music, i wish the best!" Teza Cappuccino, Katakana Edits (Athens | Greece)

Barabara

Dem Juju Poets - Barabara (MSR002)

10th anniversary vinyl reissue available here: https://www.bbemusic.com/downloads/dirty-old-hip-hop/
Originally released in March 2006 and virtually impossible to procure on vinyl ever since, BBE are excited to announce a special ten year anniversary edition of the classic Visioneers album Dirty Old Hip Hop. Brainchild of 4hero and Reinforced Records founder Marc Mac, the Visioneers project first appeared on a series of limited edition 7” vinyl releases. Marc began re-imagining his favourite hip hop beats from the golden era, retaining the feel of those extended, looping grooves whilst also re-introducing the excitement and musicianship of the records from which they were sampled: ‘Dirty Old Hip Hop’ was born. Drawing on the musical talents of Somatik and drummer Luke Parkhouse, both regulars on the 4hero sessions, this largely instrumental album also featured stunning performances from rappers Capitol A and Voice. An artist who was introduced to jazz music by his favourite hip hop beat-makers, ‘Dirty Old Hip Hop’ serves as a loving tribute to both art-forms, weaving the two together until even the most ardent purist will find it hard to define any space between. Dirty Old Hip Hop was shortlisted for Gilles Peterson‘s coveted Worldwide album of the Year award in 2006.

“Visioneers is not a band, it’s a studio project. I want to pay respect to hip hop producers like Jazzy Jeff, Jay Dee and Pete Rock for introducing me to Jazz and I needed to produce the tracks like hip hop records that sound phat in a club and not like dinner Jazz; it’s about reclaiming Jazz.” – Marc Mac, 2006

Marc Mac presents Visioneers -  Ike's Mood I

Hackney Colliery Band - No Diggity

This is the limited 1st label press before it got the Kenny Dope treatment and was released on Kay-Dee. Later appeared on the album "The Future Is Here" under the real artist name THE MIGHTY MOCAMBOS.

Mighty Mo & the Winchester Seven - The Next Message (original Peace Street 45 version)

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Hopestreet Recordings is an artist-run record label based in Brunswick since 2009. From the humblest of DIY beginnings, this community of musicians, producers and writers has carved out a global niche for their old-school inspired crusty analogue creations. Hopestreet represents the diversity, quality of musicianship and originality of Melbourne’s inner Northern music community, and keeps developing their distinct sound, production approach year to year, and audiences all over are responding.

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