listening again, 3 months on and it still sounds awesome!

“This was the last song I composed on the record, and is probably my favorite track as I achieved the tight deadline I gave myself to complete it and portray the last chapter of the year. Emotionally it sums up how the end of 2020 was for most of Europe – duped, plunging back into covid lockdowns, festivities cancelled – the pandemic had seemed to have won the end of the year – Checkmate!” – JAB 

More info here:
https://www.musicamacondo.com/2021/03/premiere-jab-game-set-checkmate/

Premiere: JAB - Game, Set, (Checkmate)

BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Sample from Dreamflower by Tarika blue, Production, Keyboard & Guitar by Melchior Sultana

Tarika Blue - Dreamflower - (Melchior Sultana Edit)

Love these guys so did this unofficial remix of The Lung!!

Hiatus Kaiyote "The Lung" (Paul White Unofficial Remix)

LR118 - Kiefer - Kickinit Alone
Vinyl: http://bit.ly/2mmuYCc
Digital Album Download: http://bit.ly/2mmuYCc

Californian keyboardist & beatmaker Kiefer (birthname Kiefer Shackelford) has dropped his debut LP on LR, "Kickinit Alone".

Kiefer's Instagram is inspiring and may very well restore your faith in humanity, as will his Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/kiefdaddy
https://www.instagram.com/kiefdaddysupreme/

VINYL & DIGITAL ALBUM

Kiefer - U R What U Repeatedly Do

Production @Nu Guinea
Mixed by @jan-b-300086776 
Mastered by @BenjaminTierney
Photo by @LeaGotfredsen
Artwork by @Krashkid

Lyrics:  https://genius.com/Wayne-snow-nothing-wrong-lyrics

Little brother don't you worry
Things will be fine
There's nothing wrong
In our struggle we feel weary stranded alone
There's nothing wrong

We've come so far
From bread to ashes
Thoses days are over
 Nothing wrong

We can be free
I know from within
It will be real
Nothing wrong

Nothing Wrong

@abasemusic delivers groove and sateen sweetness on this eight-minute stunner via @cosmiccompositions.

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/11/30/premiere-abase-align-feat-wayne-snow/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/abase-snow

Listen on Youtube

Àbáse - Align feat Wayne Snow (STW Premiere)

Those following beat culture in the last years might have heard about Swiss producer @melodiesinfonie already. From his tracks on the early Soulection compilations, releases on Melting Pot Music and Sichtexot to countless live sets in Europe and even South Africa. We are very happy to now announce his first release on Jakarta Records. In comparison to previous output the most apparent difference is the extend to which Melodiesinfone incorporated live elements to his productions, achieving a more eclectic and organic sound. Get a first taste with the upcoming single „Longo Do Rio“ before the full length album „A Journey To You“ will drop 26th of April.

A Journey To You

PREORDER

melodiesinfonie - AO Longo Do Rio (taken from A Journey To You LP; April 26th)

From http://beyondluck.bandcamp.com/album/travelin-music-vol-1

Take you on a trip Ft. Myrna Zapatero

buy/stream:  https://ffm.to/sensitive

Written, arranged, performed & mixed by @HughKlein
Mastered by Nicholas Di Lorenzo
Recorded privately in Pantin, France. Additional recordings in Melbourne, Australia.
Label - @LekkerCollective

Sensitive

FLUX

SOMETHING IN MY DRINK (feat. JAYDEAN)

Australia

 'Sensitive' out now.
Stream / buy: ffm.to/sensitive
@Lekkercollective

Album 'No Plans, No Rules' coming soon xx

@hughkleinn

Sensitive

Hugh Klein

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