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Q Funktion-How Ya Like Me Now?
January 2014

How Ya Like Me Now?

Artist: Ezéchiel Pailhès
Album: Mélopée
Release date: 24/06/2022 
Label: Circus Company
Formats: Digital

With his new single, "Mélopée", Ezéchiel Pailhès is unveiling his fourth solo album to be released next autumn. The French composer, pianist and vocalist pursues his exploration of the crossroads between poetry and songs, piano and synth, verses from the past and sounds of today.

Since 2013, Ezéchiel Pailhès has been crafting a unique French synth pop. On his first three albums, he switched between songs inspired by poetry, instrumental ballads and electronica with hummed choruses. 

“Mélopée”, the very first single on the album, was written shortly after Ezéchiel Pailhès rediscovered a bunch of musicals. “I wanted to compose a song that would mix lightheartedness and torment, just like in these movies”, he recalls. The lyrics draw their inspiration from two sonnets by Renée Vivien. They use naturalist metaphors whilst alluding, in this case, to pleasure, but also to the sorrows and cravings triggered by lust and physical love.

This single marks the release of his fourth album in the autumn of 2022, which brings together adaptations of poems written in the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries by French poetesses Louise Labé, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Renée Vivien, together with rich melodic compositions inspired by the rhythms, effects and wording of electronica and urban music.

Composed by Ezéchiel Pailhès
Written by Renée Vivien
Published by Circus Company Publishing 

Mixed by Stéphane ‘Alf’ Briat at Bleep Studio, Paris
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Mastering, Londres
Executive production by Mathias Duchemin

Mélopée

Ezéchiel Pailhès - Mélopée

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Tracklist:

1. Juggy Murray Jones - Chameleon
2. Golden Flamingo Orchestra feat. Margo Williams - The Guardian Angel Is Watching Us
3. Frankie Alexander - No Seat Dancin'
4. Mojoba - Say You Will
5. Kool and The Gang - Chocolate Buttermilk
6. The Duncan Sisters - It's You That I Need
7. Roe-O-Tation - Special Category
8. Billy Preston - Outa-Space
9. Teena Marie - Behind The Groove
10. Players Association - I Like It
11. The Fantastic Shakers - The Wrong Side Of Me
12. Harry Hann - Bump And Run
13. Flight - Flying High
14. Wilbert Longmire - Black Is The Colour
15. Bobby Lyle - The Genie
16. Johnny Rocco Band - Rocco
17. Smokey Wilson - Low Rider (Duece & A Quarter)
18. Mr. Percolator - Got A Thing For You Baby

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Sep.20.2022)

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Tracklist:

1. Swamp Dogg - Sam Stone
2. Tamam Shud - Sea That Swells (From Morning Of The Earth)
3. The Question Marks - Don't Drop It (That's My Love You've Got)
4. Sounds Of Soul - Gospel Train
5. Dusko Goykovich - Saga Se Karame
6. Raymond Guiot - Basse Duettino
7. Maceo Parker And The Kingsmen - Born To Wander
8. Dancer - Dear Wendy
9. Caldera - Sky Islands
10. Freddie Hubbard - Windjammer
11. Earmus Hall - Your Love Is My Desire
12. Barry Stoller - Disco King
13. Armando Trovajoli - Blazing Magnum
14. La Formule Du Baron - La Gigouille
15. Cesar - See Saw Affair
16. Alley Pat - Pat's Rubber Band
17. B.T. Express - Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)
18. Ray Bryant - Up Above The Rock
19. Marvin Gaye - T Plays it Cool

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Sep.27.2022)

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Tracklist:

1. Skye - Ain't No Need
2. The Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street
3. Free Spirit - Get On Up
4. Bobby Cash Redd - Skate-Party People
5. Infinity - Put Everything In Place
6. David Porter - Hang On Sloopy
7. Archie Bell and The Drells - Let's Groove
8. Claude Papesch - Trini Baby
9. Barbara Lynn - Mellow Feeling
10. Sarah Webster Fabio - Sweet Songs
11. Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You
12. The Family Tree - 150th Psalm
13. Sunstreet - Lovin
14. Jackie Moore - This Time Baby (A Tom Moulton Mix)
15. Bunny Mack - Let Me Love You
16. K.I.C. - You Don't Want My Love
17. Energy Crisis - Energy (Instrumental)

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Oct.04.2022)

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Tracklist:

1. Paul Martin - Le troublant témoignage de Paul Martin
2. Sandro Brugnolini - Reaction
3. Piet Van Meren - Soul Punch
4. Peloma Bokiu - Kapoios Pethenei
5. John Sangster - A Day In The Life
6. Bob French's Storyville Jazz Band - Y'er Comes the Funky Man
7. Bobby Rydell - Honey Buns
8. Zeke and The Soul Setters - Take It And Get It
9. Debbie Hines - Get off Your Butt
10. Lashawn Collins - Girl Choose The Boy
11. Sidney Joe Qualls - How Can You Say Goodbye
12. O.V. Wright - A Nickel And a Nail
13. Tony Ansell - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
14. Skylight - Lets Get Outta Here
15. Jack McDuff - Magnetic Feel
16. The Rosewood Trio - West 15th Street Strut
17. Penn Central - Sometimes
18. Weldon Irvine - Won't You Open Up Your Senses
19. Hugh Brodie - Corn Bread and Beans
20. Freddie Hubbard - Windjammer

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Oct.11.2022)

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Tracklist:

1. Yuji Ohno and Galaxy - Kirameku Inner Space
2. Eddie Henderson - Beyond Forever
3. Ronnie Laws - Every Generation
4. Carmen McRae - Can't Hide Love
5. Barbara Brown - Pity A Fool
6. Next Movement - Everywhere You Go
7. Tickled Pink - Never Can Say Goodbye
8. Diana Ross - Love Hangover
9. Dennis Coffey Band - Love Encounter
10. The Nite-Liters - Afro Strut
11. Bobby Bland - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
12. Rasputin Stash - The Devil Made Me Do It
13. Geoff Love & His Orchestra - Three Days Of The Condor
14. Debbie Hines - Get off Your Butt
15. Piranha Sounds - La Turbie Piranhienne
16. Count Copernicus and The Cosmic Fire - Painted Ego
17. Chairmen Of The Board - Skin I'm In
18. Andrew Brown - You Made Me Suffer
19. Robbie Hill's Family Affair - All In The Family

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Oct.25.2022)

Cliche 56: Red Axes - Ballad of The Ice LP (April 28th, 2014 - vinyl + CD + digital)

Check the video for Papa Sooma: http://youtu.be/svXZCOQobhc

mp3: http://www.official.fm/playlists/tTHL
itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ballad-of-the-ice/id847325595
vinyl: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/red-axes-ballad-of-the-ice/528596-01/
CD: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/red-axes-ballad-of-the-ice/528598-01/

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Red Axes is Niv Arzi and Dori Sadovnik, two young men who have always lived in Tel-Aviv and have been making music together since the noughties. Ballad of the Ice is their debut album. Their artistic travels have taken them from the rock scene to the dancefloors, and to creating an album. More than a summary, this LP is an invitation to discover a singular musical identity: a ballad of the ice, a song as light as love and cold as a tunnel, springy as a dance step and deep as nostalgia.

Originally, the two young men were part of the band Red Cotton. Their musical obsessions were very distinct and have never really left them since: post-punk, new-wave, synth-pop, gothic rock, italo-disco and all the other styles with double-barrelled names that flourished in the underground of the western world at the turn of the 70s and 80s. They were barely born then, and Israel was hardly a promised land for these musical trends. Nonetheless, today the people who love these styles, at the forefront of which Cosmo Vitelli, founder of the label I’m a Cliché who signed them, recognise Red Axes’ talent for creating tracks that are not only impeccably referenced but also terribly current, in their production and in their intentions.

In 2009, house and techno made a noisy entrance into their lives. They were DJs by then and Tel Aviv was all hedonism and crazy parties. Red Cotton was over and Red Axes began. In 2012, I’m a Cliché introduced them into a community of people who enjoyed what the musical press could refer to as ‘cold-rave’. Four EPs were released on the French label that discovered sharp acts such as Yuksek, Azari & III and Simian Mobile Disco. Add to these a bunch of edits that went spinning on everyone’s turntables, remixes and originals that attracted labels such as Kill the JD, Throne of Blood, Correspondant, Clouded Vision, Relish and others – these built Red Axes’ reputation as the makers of solid dancefloor tools. Meanwhile, being resident DJs of the Bootleg in Tel Aviv gave them the ability to play versatile, broaden their scope, improve their way of thinking the music. It also allowed them to rub shoulders with some of their favourite DJs, from Ivan Smagghe and Jennifer Cardini to the Cómeme crew. These established DJs quickly became major supporters.

But Red Axes didn’t get lost in a loop of never-ending clubbing. The extent of their research is evident on the album. Apart from beautiful vocals by Abrão, a member of various Brazilian punk bands of the 80s, Arzi and Sadovnik handled all the instruments and machines. The influence of the types of music they love – which aren’t limited to the ones we just referred to – is inevitably present, but translates in unexpected ways. There’s a lot of maturity in these songs, memories, hashed-out feelings. This music could emanate from much older men; it brings on a certain saudade. But it’s never heavy and doesn’t rely on dusty clichés: Red Axes are very current and love to have fun above all else. They tread on ice with a certain elegance, ice that mustn’t crack or melt.

After ‘Head Like Glass’, a pure cold-wave intro, Red Axes take us on a repetitive stroll of light percussion with ‘Kicks Out of You’. Then comes the rock track ‘Watkins’, followed by a brass dub ‘Only a Clown Can Catch an Axe’. The poignant ‘Papa Sooma’ feels like it’s coming out of an old cassette player, and ‘Road to the Hills’ is all intimate house feelings. ‘Neon’ will make you clap your hands on the stage of an urban western, while ‘Candy’ is a toe-tapping Mancunian devil. ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, a Bauhaus cover, adds a layer of groove in the bat cave, and finally, ‘Dreams Like a Tale’ closes the album in a psychedelic mist.

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official video

Red Axes ft Abrão- Papa Sooma (OUT NOW - from debut album Ballad of the Ice)

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Once known as a techno city, Berlin has quietly become the capital for jazz bands in recent years. While the queues in front of the techno clubs become shorter and shorter, the city is slowly converting into a melting pot for all sorts of musicians and artists with amazing instrumentalists, producers and bands from all over the world moving to the German capital to create a new scene. As a result, Berlin has come out with some of the craziest, non-conformist types of music. Toy Tonics sister label Kryptox has started to establish itself as a key platform for this new scene.

One of the protagonists of this scene is Joel Holmes, the former band leader of Carl Craig's synthesizer ensemble and keyboarder of (Grammy-nominated) cult band Roy Hargrove. Joel Holmes’ new album ‘Into The Abyss’ is a perfect capturing of the current moment in Berlin. The album features other main players of its new scene such as Ziggy Zeitgeist from Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, as well as tapping into international talent such as acclaimed flutist Tenderlonious from London.

Few people bridge the gap between jazz and electronic music as successfully as Holmes. Over the past years, he’s been working with some of jazz’s most relevant artists, incl. Roy Hargrove, Curtis Fuller, Javon Jackson, Nnenna Freelon, Curtis Lundy and Jimmy Cobb. Once tapped into electronic music too, he made records with legends such as Carl Craig. Working with techno artists made him curious about the new dance scene, resulting in his moved to Berlin, where he quickly started making music with the likes of Cody Currie and Kapote.

Joel describes the album in his own words as follows: "The next album "Into the Abyss" is the first time I recorded music through the lens of different landscapes and on 2 different continents reflecting the times of today’s music that is mirroring what is happening in our communities and worlds today. From dark colors to light, music is so diverse, and I tried to reflect this in my album. This is also the first time I have had this many special guests on an album. So I’m excited about this."

Album released: 05.05.23

Joel Holmes - We Got The Power (feat. Desney Bailey)

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1. 79.5 - Magazine
2. Aphose - Good Love
3. Oblique Occasions - アペロール
4. Shramm - 12
5. Monday Michiru - Rise Above
6. Lonnie Liston Smith, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge - Kaleidoscope
7. Domenico Lancellotti - Quem samba (feat. Marcia)
8. Gerald Bailey - Dasani Falls
9. Izo Fitzroy - Hope Divine
10. Adi Oasis - Serena
11. The Everettes - Forever True
12. Josiah Soren and The Colorblind Pilots - Really Really Love You (feat. Jesse Williams)
13. Dirty Snacks Ensemble - Undertow
14. Dos Angeles - I Just Came To Save Your Life
15. 79.5 - As I Wait 4 Your Love
16. Lord Echo - Woah! There's No Limit (Alternate Version)
17. Marcel Louis Joseph - Prière Au Soleil

RHYTHMS Radio Show (May.12.2023)

We lost two brave musical souls in the recent weeks. 

I made an edit to honor both of them (linking them to the last generation, a group of brave people who are protesting creatively for a change in climate politics)

Astrud & Tina - Last Generation

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1. Bobby Womack - How Could You Break My Heart
2. Boule Noire - Bebe Lady
3. Sister Sledge - Easier To Love
4. Debora - Lo Que No Haria Por Amor (What You Won't Do For Love)
5. Rumple-Stilts-Skin - I Need You
6. The Harold Wheeler Consort - Black Cream
7. Willie Hutch - I Can Sho' Give Your Love
8. Johnny Bristol - I Wouldn't Change A Thing
9. Leroy Hutson - Where Did Love Go
10. Sunrize - I Need You More Than Words Can Say
11. Curtis Mayfield - She Don't Let Nobody (But Me)
12. Benny Golson - I'm Always Dancin' To The Music
13. Stephanie Mills - Starlight
14. Vivian Reed - What's Mine Is Yours
15. Errol Ross - Take It Easy On Yourself
16. Patterson Twins - I Need Your Love
17. Ruby Winters - If This Is Our Last Time
18. Samona Cooke - You To Me Are Everything
19. Jerry Carr - Keep On Coming Back

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Jul.11.2023)

Clyde Stubblefield played drums for James Brown for 6 years but his legacy has lasted a lot longer than that. His rhythms have been extensively sampled and particularly his 'Funky Drummer' break helped lay the foundations of Hip Hop, and later jungle and a whole world of electronic music.

RIP Clyde Stubblefield April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017

Tracklist

James Brown - Ain't It Funky Now (Parts 1 and 2)
James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud
James Brown - Cold Sweat Part 2
James Brown - Funky Drummer
Big Daddy Kane - Mortal Combat
Bad Meets Evil - Living Proof
Kool Moe Dee - I'm Blowin' Up
Diggin - It's a Demo (feat. Kool G Rap, Polo)
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Eric B. & Rakim - Lyrics Of Fury
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Sweet Tee and Jazzy Joyce - It's My Beat
Pharcyde - Officer
Roxanne Shanté - Have A Nice Day [Remix]
Stop The Violence Movement - Self Destruction
The 2 Live Crew - Coolin' (Fresh Kid Ice's Side)
Mellow Man Ace - River Cubano
Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
Common - Blows To The Temple
Digable Planets - Where I'm From (LP Version)
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Go With The Flow
Ice Cube - Jackin' For Beats
King Bee - Back By Dope Demand
Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide
Luke Vibert - Homewerk
Clyde Stubblefield Solo at the Boston Garden (Live)
James Brown - There Was A Time
James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose
Mos Def,  Black Thought,  Eminem  - BET Cypher 2009

Clyde Stubblefield Tribute Mix

BAUEWYK presents the first single from ‘The Good Book Vol 2’ by The Alchemist & Budgie


Lifestyle brand and music label BAUEWYK follows up its first collaborative project with producers The Alchemist and Budgie with the 2nd edition of their 2013 project ‘The Good Book’. ‘The Good Book Volume 2’ picks up where the first edition left off with The Alchemist and Budgie sampling purely from religious source material weaving together a bed of production that serves as a perfect backdrop to featured artists Mobb Deep, Royce 5' 9, Westside Gunn & Conway, Action Bronson, Meyhem Lauren, Your Old Droog, Evidence, Remy Banks & more. 

The double CD / 45 track set is housed in a collector’s edition faux book and will be limited to 2000 pieces. Available for pre-order now.  

First single is The Alchemist produced ‘Brother Jedidiah’ featuring Action Bronson & Big Body Bes 

preorder the 45 here: https://chemistryset.myshopify.com/products/the-alchemist-feat-action-bronson-big-body-bes-brother-jedidiah-b-w-instrumental


The Alchemist & Budgie 
'The Good Book 2'

Release Date: July 21st 

Double CD Containing 45 tracks

Featuring:

Mobb Deep, Royce 5' 9, Westside Gunn & Conway, Mach Hommy, Meyhem Lauren, Durag Dynasty, Big Twins, Action Bronson, Big Body Bes, Your Old Droog, Evidence, Olivier The 2nd, Jeremiah Jae, Buddy, Emmavie, Chris O'Bannon, Joyce Wright, Jay Worthy, Traffic, Dreebo, Sulaiman, Nyku, Remy Banks, Chuck Inglish, Nasty Nigel & Joyce Wrice.

Action Bronson & Big Body Bes- "Brother Jedidiah"

"Memento" is an exclusive track i made for Compost Head Honcho Michael Reinboth's "Future Sounds Of Jazz 13" compilation. 
Deep vibes, enjoy !

Out Now!
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/future-sounds-of-jazz-volume-13/1931853
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/at/album/future-sounds-of-jazz-vol-13/id1195562165

Memento

Travelling Day - Édith Bad

Joakim - Heartbeats

DJ, Producer, Funky Promoter, Radio Show Host on Mother Russia's territory and beyond.

Funk and Beyond parties and RHYTHMS Radio  Shows celebrating 17th anniversary in 2024.

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Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Jul.11.2023)

Anatoly Ice