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novembre 2018 - Playlist

softfunk

SoundCloud 8 may 2019

2018 Tracks

Psychic Mirrors - The Witching Hour (original mix)

Pre-order at iTunes here: http://georiot.co/williamonyeaborwhat
Follow Mr. Onyebaor on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamOnyeabor

"WHAT?! - William Onyeabor Remixed" will be dropping on vinyl only for Record Store Day, April 19. Made in collaboration with Moog, it features a series of fantastic Onyeabor covers and remixes by Hot Chip, JD Twitch (Optimo), Daphni, Joakim, Justin Strauss, The Vaccines, Scientist and many more.

Side A
Hot Chip - Atomic Bomb (cover)
The Vaccines - Do You Want A Man (Remix: John Hill, Rich Costey. Re-work of Heaven and Hell)

Side B 
Justin Strauss & Bryan Mette - Body and Soul (Whatever/Whatever remix)
Joakim ft. Akwetey (Dragons of Zynth) - Good Name (cover)

Side C
JD Twitch (Optimo) - Why Go To War? (cover)
Daphni - Ye Ye (Re- work of When The Going Is Smooth & Good; Courtesy of Merge Records & Daphni aka Caribou [Dan Snaith]) 
Javelin - Heave and Hell (remix)

Side D 
David Terranova - Body and Soul (remix)
Policy - Something You Will never Forget (remix)
Scientist - Body and Soul (remix)

iTunes Pre-Order

William Onyeabor vs. Hot Chip - Atomic Bomb

Gang Starr - The Anthem

From my 2nd EP. Made this one when I was 19.


Excuse the poor mixing. 

One for Jack (my dad)

Aseop Rock - Gun For The Whole Family - Popcorn Remix

Jesse Futerman - See Me Ride

Tess Roby "Ballad 5" 12 Inch Single
http://italiansdoitbetter.bigcartel.com/

Introducing Tess Roby, a 23 year old musician and photographer born in Toronto and now living in Montreal. "Ballad 5" is a song of love and loss in the humid Montreal summer - the sound of Parc Avenue in the blue light of dawn. Her music echoes the cascading pulse of Steve Reich, the drone of Stereolab, and the melancholic drift of Durutti Column, and her voice lands somewhere between Broadcast's Trish Keenan and Nico. On record she is accompanied by her brother Eliot Roby on guitar. 

No Feeling Like 
Watching The Sky Turn A Brighter Blue
With You
Reflections Of A Busy Street
Too Late To Fall Asleep
Caught In The Eye Of The Beholder
Found Someone To Call Another & Return To Them
They’ll Teach You How To Love
You’ve Fallen Down Again
Every Second Chance You Had To Make It Up You Lost
Time We Spent Together
Looking Over The Road
What A Moment It Was
Now I Hate Everything About You
(Only The Way You Were)

BALLAD 5 12 INCH

Ballad 5

Get Vinyl Here

Tess Roby - Ballad 5

Rudimentary Thinking

DOWNLOAD FOR FREE: http://bit.ly/broalitbmh

Brother Ali offers up a free 7 song EP for your listening pleasure. The Bite Marked Heart features Phonte (Little Brother, Foreign Exchange) Stokley Williams (Mint Condition), Singer/songwriter Nikki Jean and Aby Wolf. Beats provided by Jake One and Ant. Ali is currently putting the finishing touches on his 6th studio album Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. 

Produced by Jake One.

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http://twitter.com/brotherali

Download Now!

Brother Ali - Electric Energy

From the self-titled debut available March 9, 2018 on Western Vinyl

Order The Skull Eclipses:
Bandcamp https://theskulleclipses.bandcamp.com/album/the-skull-eclipses
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-skull-eclipses/1332828337
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv144

Known respectively for their independent work as Botany and Lushlife, Spencer Stephenson and Raj Haldar selected their collaborative mantle, The Skull Eclipses, when the album became more than just a one-plus-one combination of their individual sounds. 

Broadly, The Skull Eclipses is a post-hip hop album that harmonizes tropes of mid 90’s electronic genres-- ambient, downtempo, jungle, & trip-hop-- under a hauntological umbrella. It is the first offering from a project that’s as much indebted to Broadcast & The Focus Group as it is to Pete Rock & CL Smooth, but obligated to neither. Up close however, the album is a peer into the shadows by two figures uncontent with blending into the tapestry of modern music, wholly committed to creating experiences over mere content, which is pouring in from all corners of a frustrated and distracted world.

The Skull Eclipses...

The Skull Eclipses - "Pillars (ft. Baba Maraire & Felicia Douglass)"

Parisian producer @quietdawn's hazy percussion and warbled synths shape a transcendent jazz groove. Out on @firstwordrecords.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/02/16/premiere-quiet-dawn-being/

Human Being • The Short Story Of The Reed

Quiet Dawn - Being (STW Premiere)

Brand new year, brand new imprint. CoOp Presents is an all-new record label, founded by IG Culture and Alex Phountzi, set to focus on the depth and wealth of talent that exists within the London Bruk movement and beyond, a project which they consider to be a continuation in the same spirit of the legendary CoOp movement. Their second release features tracks from EVM128, Cengiz, James Rudie, Entek, Miraa May, and Danvers (@ddanvers) who comes in with 'My Nina' - a deep vibesy breakbeat opener that chops away, flipping its groove several times through the track.

Preorder: http://bit.ly/2EXZXRV

Selectors Assemble Volume Two

Preorder

Exclusive Premiere: Danvers "My Nina" (CoOp Presents: Selectors Assemble)

REVIEW > http://inverted-audio.com/review/khotin-aloe-drink

Fresh off a remix on Public Release's (@eug) latest EP, Vancouver-based producer @khotin turns up on the San Franciscan label again with his new solo effort, 'Aloe Drink'. Like its title suggests, the present batch metes out four organically-grown chill house groovers, both mildly bracing and revitalising as can be.

Khotin - Aloe Drink (Force Of Nature Remix)

Artist: DāM-FunK
Title: Architecture II
Cat.: SAFT18 
Label: saft
Format: Vinyl 12’’ 
Release date: August 2018 
Style: Deep House, Modern Funk 

DāM-FunK has left his LA home for another DJ tour across the European continent. What better way to celebrate this than to release a follow record to the infamous Architecture release from 2016.

Architecture II is an up-tempo, dreamlike journey through the sonic palette of the Los Angeles based producer. The 12’’ contains four tracks that are carefully crafted to co-exist on the same record.

‘’In The City’’ is a drum oriented breeder with a constantly evolving bass line, that supports the cheerful and breezy melodies.

SAFT is honoured to present the follow up to Architecture. DāM-FunK is currently on his ‘’Timeless Tour’’ for which the schedule can be found below:

03.08 - London, UK - Jazz Cafe 
05.08 - Amsterdam, NL - Dekmantel Festival 
09.08 - Copenhagen, DK - Strom Festival 
10.08 - Berlin, DE – Gretchen 
14.08 –Bristol, UK – Thekla 
15.08 – Manchester, UK – Soup Kitchen 
16.08 – Leeds, UK –Heads House
17.08 - Trondheim, NO – Pstereo 18.08 - Kiewit, BE, Pukkelpop

SAFT18 - DāM-FunK - Architecture II

From the debut album 'Jun Kamoda' by @illreme 
Bandcamp: https://junkamoda.bandcamp.com/album/jun-kamoda


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Jun Kamoda

Jun Kamoda - Nightmare Club

Composed, produced by Renoizer

Mastered : Renoizer
Artwork : Clément Lesaffre

Cat: enl019

BOOKING / MGMT : contact@enlace-records.com

released October 3, 2018

Depth

Renoizer - Go Deeper

big love to @nicciwho . we made this track over the weekend and thought it was a slapper.
OUT EVERYWHERE NOW!
https://twitter.com/chromonicci

Drip (ft.chromonicci)

New compo track with my man @bluewednesday // light as a feather ❧ 
Stream it https://open.spotify.com/album/0if5a1or7LpvBQrOTcZMys  
@ninetofiverecords brand new website https://www.ninetofiverecords.com/
https://www.stereofox.com/odyssee-feather-w-blue-wednesday/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=Z301Van49Ic
Art by. Dan Dowker 
https://www.behance.net/Dan_Dowker

Feather w/ Blue Wednesday

"Freelance" is taken from Toro y Moi's album, 'Outer Peace,' out now on Carpark Records.

Available Now: https://found.ee/toroymoi-outerpeace
Tour Dates: https://found.ee/toroymoi-tour
Merch + Bundles: https://found.ee/toroymoi-store

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LYRICS
Oh walk on the water -- for me 
Just for me baby o.k. 
Oh, there’s always gon’ be pressure o.k. 

“Pressure” 

Nothing’s ever worse than work unnoticed 
Freelance now, yeah I guess you earned it 
Life is only wishing we could load it 
Level up you got to make a bonus 

Mystic staring at his phone for oneness 
Silver or black mirror, what’s the difference? 
Imitation always gets a bad rep man 
Witches Brew had me on on the first sip, man 

Smells like Autumn, smells like leaves 
You don’t know that you’re rust and not belong 
So much 
And then you get left alone 

Cloud hidden and my whereabouts unknown 
Cazedero got me wearing all camo 
Decked in Patagonia head to toe 
Down for whatever, I think I let go 

No more shoes and socks, I only rock sandals 
I can’t tell if I’m hip or getting old 
I can’t hear you, maybe you could change your tone 
People tend to listen when they see your soul 

Oh walk on water -- for me 
Just for me baby 

Sometimes I think we are from the same place 
Now I don’t 
What just happened?

Freelance

@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)

GENRE: BROKEN BEAT/DEEP HOUSE/SOUL
FORMAT: 12” VINYL
RELEASE DATE: 18th JANUARY 2019

Hot off the back of a well-received debut 12” - ‘Probabilidades’ EP - published on Phuture Shock Musik some 10 months ago, Damián Botigué aka Karmasound  returns to deliver his follow-up release on the Bristol label, by name of ‘Can See Thru You’. 

For this second outing, the Barcelona-based producer steps into a collaborative mode and calls up on the smoky vocal talents of upcoming singer-songwriter Jedreck, to present a jazzy, late-night bruk affair with a range of influences that includes Neo soul, Latin jazz, Detroit house and broken beat, all doused in soulful warmth. In addition to the lead track, the release also features two inspired remixes by Bristol’s very own soulful house don Sean McCabe, plus a bonus original track on the B-side to top off the disc. 

Opening up the A-Side is the vocal-led broken house jam ‘Can See Thru You’, where featured vocalist Jedreck croons his way over a jazz-infused composition laced with melancholy synthpads, wriggly P-funk synths and skippy, Afro-Latin rhythms that progresses into a low-swung, four-to-the floor bounce sounding straight out of Detroit. Next follows Sean McCabe’s Broken Mind Mix of ‘Can See Thru You’, who reimagines the track into a lively bruk roller geared more towards the dancefloor and injects an infectious feel-good vibe through the supplement of groovy keys and a frenzy of lustrous synths around the vocals, whilst driven by a funky drum pattern and lilting, boogie-indebted bass. Side B of the single is home to the second of Sean McCabe’s remixes of the A-side cut, where he harks back to the 90’s with an epic US garage dub, that trims down Jedreck’s vox and invites new musical elements to the forefront such as uplifting strings, funky synth hooks and a display of dexterous organ solos as the track evolves; altogether anchored by solid TR909 beats and a mighty synthbass groove redolent of Kerri Chandler. Rounding off proceedings is the nocturnal broken grooves of ‘Another Way’ which combines sensuous Rhodes chords and percussive, rolling drums with warm analogue bass and tasty synth licks that evokes the future boogie jazz-funk deeds of genre masters Dego + Kaidi Tatham; coupled with a yearnful vocal refrain sung by Karmasound and sultry backing vocals from frequent collaborator Sara Bee.

Karmasound - Can See Thru You (Sean McCabe Broken Mind Remix)

Written and performed by Scatty Stormborn and Sadistik. Produced by Maker.  Mixed by Juan Verett.

Between Me & You ft. Sadistik (Produced by Maker)

Atmosphere-hold mine ft. blueprint, aesop rock, eyedea and illogic

Despite the issues, issuing music since 2012:
saft - pulp - born - crue - island issues - endangered musique - onis - less time
Aimlessly captained by Patrick Luca.

SAFT18 - DāM-FunK - Architecture II

Island Issues