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Strap yourself in, because the opening to Chemtrails may blow your socks off. A spiky start to the week, before getting into a more pop/indie groove for a couple of tracks. The Invisible Minds track has been getting deserved regular plays by Steve Lamacq, unlike all the others in theis week's list! We then move through reggae (Bob & Gene) into soul/funk with the awesome James Hunter, Isabelle Brown (who certainly has the voice to become a real star) and Visioneers, before closing out with a couple of more dance oriented numbers. Pick of the week? Isabelle Brown is a real talent, I'm a huge fan of James Hunter. and I love the Chemtrails track, but it's Invisible Minds "Yo Mae Leh" that edges it this week. It's a guaranteed earworm.

Dec 01 - Dec 07 2017

Where You been is classic K&S electronic soul. Deep and sublimely funky. Bass heavy and with a poignant vocal hook, the track is a clear signpost for where Kraak & Smaak are at on Chrome Waves.

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Anonymous new artists Invisible Minds reveal their first ever song drop ‘Yo Mae Leh’ a kaleidoscopic, shimmering dream of a track, and the start of their communication to the outside world. Taking you on a Tropicalia Safari exploration, ‘Yo Mae Leh' hunts inner bliss through the foliage of melodic micro instruments. Cascading and flowing into a harmony waterfall, set to quench the soul suffering from a sonic drought. ‘Yo Meh Leh’ could be a chant or a mantra... and we’ll find out in good time.

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Producer Victor “Ticklah” Axelrod is back with another supple Reggae delight. After the success of The Inversions' last collaboration with Bob & Gene, Axelrod once again takes a seat in the Producer’s chair, this time with a tune a little deeper in the catalogue. Originally tweezed from the beautiful MO DO tape boondoggle, back in ‘05 - ‘06, this single has been a long-time favorite of the Daptone family.

One night in 1971, frustrated by their lack of the success, Bobby Nunn and Gene Coplin sat in the basement of 50 Orange Street and put together a record expressing said frustration. Equipped with only a guitar, bass, and piano - no drums (though you don’t even notice) - the two crafted an immaculate slice of Soul, aptly titled “It’s Not What You Know (It’s Who You Know)”. Fast forward 46 years, and now accompanied by the rocksteady rhythms of The Inversions - the vocal stylings and poignant lyrics are reborn, sounding as fresh today as it did when it was crafted down in that magical basement. The VERSION flip is a delay laden masterpiece produced and arranged by Axelrod. A must for fans of Dub and Reggae alike. A truly gorgeous record!

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Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

Make Up Your Own Stories is the debut album by Invisible Minds, and a title that couldn’t be more apt. Its creator, after all, is an acclaimed electronic adventurer writing an exciting new chapter of his own. When a sun-drenched swirl of child-like vocals, drum breaks and bright guitar jangles called ‘Yo Mae Leh’ hit the internet in late 2017, rocketing to half a million Spotify streams, no one knew it was the work of Tim Green, the UK dance innovator who’s pulsing rhythms and abyss-like synth murmurs have been making house and techno scene venue walls quake since 2008. Shining a light on a more melodic side to his musical personality, that track – and the others that sit alongside it on his effervescent debut album as Invisible Minds – are “honest and innocent and kinda searching for a feeling” as Green himself puts it. This album’s a story that’s been 12 years in the making – and it’s a story that proves well worth the wait.

Tims father – a keyboardist, who kept Tim’s family home flooded with the sound of artists like Pink Floyd and Joni Mitchell while he was growing up – often joked with Tim about making some “real music” as his house and techno flourished following breakout singles ‘Revox’ and ‘Mr Dry’. As the 34-year-old burrowed further into refined, clubby sounds under his own name, remixing the likes of Friendly Fires and Seth Troxler before being crowned Best Breakthrough Producer at the 2010 DJ Mag Awards, he wrote different kinds of anthems on the side: optimistic splashes of life-affirming electronica full of live instrumentation and infectious energy that, while not quite Pink Floyd, he laughs “should hopefully win my dad’s approval.”

From the guitar loop hypnotism of ‘Autum’ and breathy, balmy summer haze of ‘The Cut Girl’ (one of three tracks featuring newcomer vocalist Howard Hobbs) to the MPC hip-hop of ‘905 Users!’, it’s a record inspired by everyone from Peter Gabriel to Icelandic icon Bjork. Compiling all these songs written across such a long timespan, then working to turn them into a cohesive album, was a strange, surreal experience for Green: like looking back on old diary entries from across his entire adult life. “It’s funny – you go back to a particular track and can’t help but be transported back to where you were in your life when you wrote it,” he says. “There’s a lot of nostalgia in there.”

Nostalgic-sounding some songs may be, but Make Up Your Own Stories is future-focused in its production wizardry. Bit-crunched synth melodies grind up against deep bass squelches on epic closer ‘Take Them All’, the last track written for the album, while ‘Jump Jet’ feels every bit as soaring and propulsive as its title would suggest. “Just when you thought you could come out of the shadows, there comes that poison drizzle in your ear hole,” a ghostly vocal intones over its Radiohead-ish bed of guitar, atmospherics and experimental percussion. Making use of the original Moog Model D and Voyager synths plus world instruments picked up on his travels as an internationally celebrated electronic master – “there’s a Chinese toy piano, a mbira from Tanzania and a kora from somewhere in Africa, but I can’t remember where…” – its sound never stops evolving across its enveloping 11-track runtime.

It’s a new chapter that represents an ellipsis, rather than a full stop, on his work as Tim Green. “I’m not abandoning that side of what I do,” he says, having released his debut album under that guise earlier this year, in what’s turning into a whirlwind 2018 for the prolific producer. “I love how evocative the words Invisible Minds are, and was really attracted to the mystery of that phrase, which is how I landed on the name. It’s something I’d love to pursue and carry on. Hopefully it won’t take another 12 years to do the next one.” As Invisible Minds, on Make Up Your Own Stories, Tim Green’s story takes a glorious tangent. 

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