Dirty Hippie (edit)

Stix Records, a sub-label of Favorite Recordings, proudly presents Push Push, the new album by acclaimed producer Taggy Matcher aka Bruno "Patchworks" Hovart (Voilaaa, Mr President, The Dynamics, Uptown Funk Empire, Metropolitan Jazz Affair, Da Break, …). Available on October 29th 2021 as Vinyl LP & Digital. Preorder here: https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/push-push-2

A1. Push Push feat. LMK
A2. Little Things feat. Birdy Nixon
A3. Volvere Mañana feat. Alexandra Charry
A4. Two Dimes feat. Hawa
B1. Q Fashion feat. John Milk
B2. Get Enough feat. Birdy Nixon
B3. Suit And Tie feat. John Milk
B4.On & On feat. Elodie Rama

After the success of his previous LP Singasong, Taggy Matcher returns with 8 tracks exploring his wide range of Reggae & Dub influences, each time magnified by a fine crew of vocal guests as LMK, Birdy Nixon, Alexandra Charry, Hawa, John Milk & Elodie Rama. With a great sense of authenticity, they all bring their own touch to Taggy Matcher's compositions and covers. Always faithful to its inspirations, brilliantly produced, Push Push is your new invitation to follow the Lion to Zion.

The album starts with "Push Push", a title already released last year as a vinyl single 7", in collaboration with rising singer LMK, who you may know from her successful previous reworks on Taggy's last album ("No Love Allowed", "My Man"). Sharing the same love for the early 80's Digital Rub A Rub productions, lyrics are about street harassment of women… with a pinch of humor!
On "Little Things", Taggy invites old mate Birdy Nixon for a cover of an early rocksteady classic by Hemsley Morris. With the vintage bounce we love combined with modern sounds and productions, the song is all about tenderness and simplicity.
"Volvere Mañana", the song has this very cumbia hip move with the participation of gifted singer Alexandra Charry from Cali in Colombia, where they both composed the song. Then, Taggy invited Boris Pokora to play the "gaita" local flute to give the song its proper Colombian Caribbean coast flavor.
The album continues with "Two Dimes" featuring longtime collaborator Hawa (from Mr President to Mr Day and other numerous projects). This shaky disco reggae rockers is all about getting ready for the party… but with two dimes only!
"Q Fashion" is a song full of wittiness and self-mockery wrote during the first Covid-19 lockdown. Parisian Soul singer John Milk was stuck in Paris while Bruno was in Lyon. On this minimalistic digital reggae tune, they give the ingredients to perfect your next quarantine outfit.
Discoish reggae tune "Get Enough" featuring Birdy Nixon has a simple and successful recipe: just mix a big dose of Lovers with the same amount of Rockers and you've got this 100% soulful song.
On "Suit and Tie", Taggy and John Milk go Pop with this version of Justin Timberlake, which fits perfectly with John's tender and mellow style.
Finally, Elodie Rama with Taggy Matcher pay tribute to Erykah Badu and her legacy to the Soul music scene at the end of the nineties. The mood is jazzy, mellow and warm, with a tiny Lee Scratch Perry early 70's vaporous vibes.

Taggy Matcher - Push Push (STIX055LP) - Snippets

Founder of the mighty « Killers Without Fillers » blog, Jérémie Younes is a reggae music activist. Exclusively for The Asymetrics, the selector, collector, writer & journalist based in Paris, France delivered a crucial vinyl mixtape full of reggae scorchers & obscure tunes !

On top of that, we asked him a few random questions about his record collection, and guess what : he answered to all of them, so it turns out we also have a dope ITW for you to read...
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Interview + Tracklist

Selectors #1: Jérémie Younes - Rocky  Road

DJ Pohy with the original junglist flavors...for our worldwide ravers ! 
This month @deejaypohy selects 9 recent D&B hits to mash up The Asymetrics Charts...Turn It Up !

Tracklist : 

- Watch The Ride & Nia Archives : Mash Up The Dance (Kings Of The Rollers Remix) [RINSE]
- Cesco : Pity [1985]
- The Sauce : Outside The Box [The Sauce Recordings]
- Benny L : User Code [Tres-2B Music]
- Turno & Ben Snow : Orca [Souped Up]
- Total Science : Squash (Break Remix) [CIA]
- Subten ft Harry Shotta & Eloquin : Televised [Shogun Audio]
- PA & Twisted Individual : All Kinds Of Style [Grid]
- Dj Hazard : Embrace The Chaos [Hazardous Material]


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Asymetrics Charts - DJ Pohy (July 2022)

The new single from MORiLLO, Lo.Renzo, MonsterLuna and Lighthawk premieres on @timewheel.

MORiLLO x Lo.Renzo x MonsterLuna - Sarangi Sauna (Ft. Lighthawk) [Premiere]

ZamZam Sounds presents a truly monumental album, the third release on our 10”/12”/LP imprint Khaliphonic, in partnership once again with Llorona Records straight out of Colombia.

After last year’s Dub De Gaita 12” pairing Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto with producer Adrian Sherwood, ZamZam and Llorona knew we wanted to continue the partnership by releasing more material from the same incredible sessions that produced the three tracks on the single.  The Dub De Gaita Vols II and III double LP is the result, a towering achievement in cumbia, dub, and international musical cross-pollination. 

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto are Colombian cumbia roots icons, legendary in their homeland as guardians of ancient regional musical and cultural traditions. Here they are joined by another legend, On-U Sound founder and dub producer Adrian Sherwood. Alongside Llorona Records ́s Diego Gómez, Sherwood and the band have created an absolutely unique sound that seamlessly blends timeless cumbia rhythms and sonorities with powerfully restrained dub mixing and low end power.

It is no exaggeration or hyperbole to call this mystical music, a heart-centered psychogeographical journey from the Caribbean Coast of Colombia through Jamaica and UK dubscapes. The heartbeat rhythms this team explores so deftly unite musical cultures in such a natural way that the sound they produce feels almost inevitable. Vocal exhortations, massed flutes, organic bass and keys, extraordinary volleys of percussion, echo trails, reggae skanks, and truly masterful arrangements and dubbing make this a simply crucial release. Miles beyond most attempts at intercultural musical fusion, we guarantee you will be mesmerized by the beauty and power of Dub De Gaita. There is simply nothing else like it.

Produced by Adrian Sherwood and Diego Gómez, mixed by Adrian Sherwood at On-U Sound. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe at Sound Masters UK. Special guests include On-U Sound crew George Oban and Skip McDonald, and the Ital Horns.

Strictly limited to 1000 copies for the world (500 copies to Colombia) – No repress – No digital

Release Window: end of July, 2015

OFFICIAL TRAILER:
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SHOCK MAGAZINE VIDEO:
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Los Gaiteros De San Jacinto - Dub De Gaita Vol II & III - 16 song 2LP - selected vinyl samples

When I Was A Dub

’Divide & Rule’ Out Now -
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Taken from ’Outside The Echo Chamber’ released 19th May via Ahead Of Our Time.

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Divide and Rule feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Junior Reid and Elan

Coldcut x On-U Sound - 'Divide and Rule' (Mungo’s Hi Fi Remix)

Dis & Dat

Premiere: Soothsayers - Dis & Dat (Steve Cobby Remix)

Something real (Dy-na-mi-te rmx)

Leaf Mold

Just Be (feat Youthstar & Lindsay)

The chief perpetrator of the International Observer experience is keyboardist, songwriter and producer Tom Bailey.

Following the extraordinary success of his post-punk synth-pop group The Thompson Twins, production and writing work for the likes of Deborah Harry, and the ambient techno of his Babble project, Tom Bailey was lured to the exotic climes of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

New Zealand culture has a long history of appreciation for reggae and dub, along with more recent blends like hip hop. this, along with NZ's balmy climes, created the perfect inspiration for Tom's exploration of the dub artform he had deeply loved since the seething post-punk infatuation of the music in the late 70s. Together with sparring partner Rakai, Tom initiated International Observer, a sound system that has quietly infiltrated various Auckland events over the past five years, creating a legendary reputation for marathon five-hour sets of exquisitely-crafted slo-mo dubscapes.

Early in 2002, having amassed enough material for a boxed set, Tom set about pruning the oevre down to an ideal International Observer primer, called 'Seen'. While he attempted to keep the wraps on this absurdly tasty release, it was somewhat inevitable that previews were sneaked out of seclusion, resulting in extensive radio play worldwide and eager members of the press corps frothing at the mouth for IO morsels. It's been called the lushest, deepest, most caringly crafted dub-a-tronic exploration ever released, a cunning experiment in melodic instrumental dub that, without losing its edge, makes for the most gorgeously seductive meditative listening experience. It was released in NZ by Beautiful Music, and the rest of the world by Different Drummer.

This release was followed in 2005 by "All Played Out", a selection of live and sound system favourites that for one reason or another did not make it onto "Seen". Released only in New Zealand and Australia on the cult Auckland label, Round Trip Mars, helmed by the inimitable Stinky Jim, it followed its predecessor into the hands, boxes and players of discerning dubheads.

Some of the tracks from “All Played Out” finally made it out worldwide in 2007 on the “Heard” album through Dubmission Records. Critically acclaimed by the press, it also featured newer tracks and classics such as “The International”.

His third album, “Felt”, came out in September 2009.

Since then his attention has been diverted to his other projects: the Holiwater Band, the Bailey-Salgado Project and his revived pop career as ‘The Thompson Twins’s Tom Bailey’.

Thankfully dub has lured him back into the studio once more, and fresh cuts are promised for 2017.

Leaf Mold

International Observer

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