 the Comfort Zone

Welcome to the Comfort Zone. This is a monthly happening hosted by musician/dj team miss Golightly & the Duke of Tunes.

Here you will find the warm texture of vintage vinyl, live bossa nova, easy-listening, space rock and psycho funk.

Tune in & get hip to the sounds that hover in or just slightly out of your comfort zome.

Miss Golightly & The Duke Of Tunes 3

Miss Golightly & The Duke Of Tunes 1

Taken from the album 'Friendly Bacteria', released 19  May 2014 on Ninja Tune. Featuring @matthewhalsall on trumpet/fx & @taz-modi on rhodes & stringy synths. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe at Soundmasters. Heavy!

Check the 'Render Me' video> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEZz8xMH6fQ

Ninjashop - http://smarturl.it/friendlybacteria
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/friendlybacteriait
Amazon - http://smarturl.it/friendlybacteriaam

Album launch party at the Roundhouse in London on 31 May, plus gigs in Manchester, Southampton, Norwich, Hay on Wye, Blackpool & tons of festivals.. Full list of gigs here: http://mrscruff.com/gigs/

Buy on Ninja Tune

We Are Coming

Order the 7" and get instant download: https://bastardjazz.bandcamp.com/album/montreux-sunrise-trans-alpine-express
Official remix: https://soundcloud.com/bastardjazz/04-montreux-sunrise-tee?in=bastardjazz/sets/bastard-jazz-presents-hear-no-evil-vol-3

After the dynamo sophomore release that was 2013's "Curiosities", New Zealand's Lord Echo returns to Brooklyn's Bastard Jazz label, this time producing Kiwi trio The Elder Statesman comprised of twin brothers and Wellington fixtures Christopher (piano) and Daniel (double bass) Yeabsley with Lord Echo himself on percussion and drums.

On the "A" side, Montreux Sunrise is mellow meander through a laidback early 70s souljazz vibes, while "Trans Alpine Express" picks things up on the B side with a deep, spiritual piano groove, upfront doublebass, and Echo's percussion perfectly in the pocket.

A timeless gem of a 7" from Bastard Jazz, releasing their own namesake for once!


Buy 7"

The Elder Statesman - Montreux Sunrise

The Dandelion Cassette is a limited edition companion to the forthcoming album 'Another Suburban Romance and other Adventures 1975 - 2015' out April this year on the Buried Treasure Label. The cassette is collaged together from outtakes,
alternate versions,found sounds and tape experiments.Strictly freaks only.

Taster 1 from forthcoming Dandelion Cassette.

An hour long beat-tape bursting with irregular meters, wonky rhythms, bizarre voiceovers, mellotrons, moogs and musical madness.
Dandy dilettantes Sinjin and Julius preview tracks from the forthcoming "A Thousand Strands 1975-2015" album along with outtakes, mashups and reblended versions.
Pre-order the debut album here ;
http://buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-strands-1975-2015
The Dandelion Set Stolid Seal Mix March 2016

00 Dandelion Set - Stolid intro (unreleased)
01 Hatfield & the North - Big John Wayne Socks Psychology on the Jaw (Virgin)
02 Raymond Guiot & Guy Pedersen - Rock Session (Ext) (Tele Music)
03 MF Doom - Dragon’s Blood (Shaman Works)
04 Chaquito - It’s Magic (edit) (Phillips)
05 Fuschia - Nothing Song (Ext) (Pegasus)
06 Biggabush - Cyclogyro (Lion Head)
07 Roger Roger - Frankenstein (Ext) (Crea Sound)_
08 Pink Floyd - Sysyphus (Ext) (Harvest)
09 62 Miles From Space - In This Bed (Edit) (62)
10 Javelin - Susie’s Cues (Luaka Bop)
11 Julian Rhind-Tutt/Julian Barrett/Broadcast - Stone Tape (Ext) (BBC Radio 4)
12 King Crimson - Epitaph (Ext) (Island)/Richard Burton - Under Milk Wood (Ext) (Argo)
13 Dandelion Set - Apocalypse Friday (Ext) (unreleased)
14 Dandelion Set feat. Alan Moore/The Who - Judy/Can't Explain (Buried Treasure/Track)
15 McDonald & Giles  - Tomorrow's People (Ext) (Island)
16 DJ Adlib - U&I (Melting Pot)
17 D. Set - Son of Gardense (unreleased)
18 Stanley Clarke - Concerto for Jazz Rock Orchestra Part 1 (Atlantic)/Voiceover from Ex Machina
19 BiggaBush feat. reni - Spex (Instrumental) (unreleased)
20 Rod Freeman & the Blue Men - I Hear A New World (Ext) (RPM)
21 Nino Ferrer - Mao et Moa (Ext) (Riviera)
22 Fid Mella - Bo (Melting Pot)
23 Mike Tibbert - Sky Blue (Rush Hour)/Voiceover from Inherent Vice
24 D. Set - DDL Rev (unreleased)/Voiceover from the Abominable Dr. Phibes
25 yU - Fine (Mello Music)
26 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Birds in my Tree (Ext) (Uni Records)
27 Extr from Doctor Who Episode 1 (BBC TV)
28 Andy Votel - Little Bo Peep Part 3 (unknown)
29 Projection - Abstraction (Partners In Crime)
30 Daedalus - Impending Doom (Ninja Tune)
31 Anubian Lights - Walking Eagle (Eenie Meenie)
32 D. Set - Comic Flux History (Buried Treasure)
33 Lothar & the Hand People - Space Hymn (Ext) (Capitol)
34 Jack Arel & Pierre DuTour - Top Rally (Chappell)
35 Bruno Spoerri - The Race (ext) (Finders Keepers)
36 Zappa/Mothers - Uncle Meat (Main Title Theme) (Ext). (Bizarre)
37 D. Set - Bloom (Buried Treasure)
38 Inna Pivars - Snowing 
39 Johnny Pearson - Product Efficiency re-edit (KPM)
40 Janko Nilovic - Shaking Pop (Editions Montparnasse 2000)
41 Stringtronics - Safari Park (re-edit) (Peer International Library) 
42 Keith Mansfield - Crash Course (Waiwan re-edit) (Strut)




Stolid Seal Mix (album pre-release taster)

bringing a wonderful original on another level....

for promo only.

free download

MARVIN GAYE I want you (7 Samurai remix)

Fez fuzz

Action Catalyst

Underground Place (Extract)

As musicians, DJ's, producers and before all else, fanatical music lovers, we have many strings to our bow. From performing live to DJ-ing, writing and recording our own material, mixing our own and other peoples' stuff, hunting through the record crates in Charity shops, doing street gigs, and always keeping an ear cocked for a new slant on a rare groove, music pretty much occupies most of our lives.
James Beige is the man we've named as figurehead of the original recordings produced in our own home studio that morph many styles and sounds into one. Latin, soul, bossa-nova, trip hop, samba, afro, breakbeat, cha-cha, exotica and gypsy all find a voice in the technicolor World of James Beige. As the latest album 'Crossanova' suggests... we're crossing over into any- and everything. No sound too far-out or too far-in.

Fez fuzz

james beige

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