A soulful electronic soundscape; of falling jazz chord progressions and broken interchanging time signatures, from Pie Eye Collective on Albert's Favourites.

Read more & buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/04/22/premiere-pie-eye-collective-gratitude/
Listen on YouTube: http://bit.ly/GratitudePieEye

Gratitude

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Pie Eye Collective - Gratitude (STW Premiere)

𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗷𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴/𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆. 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼-𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗝 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄, 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮, 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰.

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Motor Jazz Radio - 2021-09-03 | Soho Radio

G Funky beat ( special 50th of HipHop)

Sylvania SEQ01

Rupert Cox - Search Party

Rupert Cox - The Nowhere Dance

There’s A; Is a tunnel of time and space angling and landing into an expression of resolve over a heavy distortion driven climax with a pep talk. It’s the wild card of the debut album. 

The heavy rework by Wonky Logic takes it into a more dancefloor oriented direction, while retaining the oddness of the vocal delivery and as expected some general wonkiness. 

Wonky Logic is prolific and has played a huge part in the London jazz scene, including being a founder of Steam Down. His current writing and producing projects include Sons Of Kemet, alongside Nache aka Edward Hick, The General Elation Soundsystem alongside Brother Portrait and Nadeem Din-Gabisi. He is currently writing and performing with Nala Sinephro (Warp Records) with synth bass, afrofuturist band ONIPA and has recently played on Emma Jean Thackray's project Um-Yang alongside Soweto Kinch.

Andrea’s own story dots between periods spent living in Norway, the Philippines and England - experiencing joy and beauty battling corruption and violence in Manila, DJing in Oslo, losing her sizable record collection in a warehouse fire before making friends and family in the jazz scene in London. Every story needs a scene, a landscape, an environment; all things Andrea visualises when writing songs.


Andrea is far from new to the scene, having performed with Steamdown, Emma Jean Thackray, Hector Plimmer, Scrimshire, William Florelle and many more as a valuable and inspiring creative force within the South London music scene. 

Andrea also created the album’s artwork and music videos: musicality and painting evolved from her initial creative languages of drawing and dance. All aspects are dialects of her common language: singing what can’t be painted and painting what can’t be sung.

Andrea says “It has been a long time coming in cultivating a first body of work and I have a lot to say and ways I want to say it. I made this music with my most cherished people, I painted every cover, and I imagined and performed these films. As an introduction it is so important that everyone gets to meet me, deeply, bare, and as quirky as I really am. I feel at peace putting this album out, because I know it is my truth”.

There's A (Wonky Logic Remix)

And Is Phi - There's A (Wonky Logic Remix)

Laid back soul sounds as the inimitable Andrew Ashong joins forces with Albert's Favourites label founder Jonny Drop. 

Sultry vocals compliment the yearning sound of horns (courtesy of former Funk Lovin' Criminal, Brian "Fast" Leiser) and mellow, warm bass movement. A magical combination dropping hints of what's to come on the full length LP in April.

The Puzzle Dust MP3s

The Puzzle Dust

Jonny Drop • Andrew Ashong - The Puzzle Dust

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bit.do/KU-058-Digi

"In The Pocket" - is a library record containing 16 drum breaks, compositions w/ stems & misc percussion by @JonnyDrop of The Expansions. Watch the video of how we recorded it bit.do/KU-058-Video

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Jonny Drop  - In The Pocket

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/ronin-arkestra-cosmic-collisions-alberts-favourites
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fVnKzinOX9A


Led by producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive Lowe, Tokyo’s Rōnin Arkestra brings together some of the most supreme and innovative players in Japan’s Jazz and electronic scene, featuring members of Kyoto Jazz Sextet, WONK, Cro-Magnon, Root Soul, Sleepwalker, Sauce81 and Kyoto Jazz Massive. Formed in 2017, the collective’s debut album ‘Sonkei’, released 27th September via Albert’s Favourites, fuses ’60s deep and spiritual jazz with experimental electronica. The album follows the release of their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘First Meeting’, released earlier this year.

The super-group takes their name from Rōnin, the masterless samurai of a time gone by. Deadly master swordsmen who, without lords to serve, roamed Japan offering their skills wherever needed. As the need for their swordsmanship declined, they became master artisans making textiles, crafting poetry, painting and writing books.It’s a fascinating evolution that has a parallel to each member in the Rōnin Arkestra collective - master musicians from different bands and clans coming together to create a vagabond band of like-minded musicians - weaving the stories of their lives into a collective sound. 

Mark de Clive-Lowe is a half-Japanese, half-New Zealander musician, composer and producer raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He came to international prominence during his decade living in London between 1998 and 2008, a became a regular collaborator with a community of producers including Bugz in the Attic, 4Hero and Restless Soul. A veteran of the UK's broken beat movement, he has been involved with over 200 releases, collaborating with artists including Lauryn Hill, Jody Watley, Shirley Horn, UK soul singer Omar, percussionist Sammy Figueroa and bass player Pino Palladino.Rōnin Arkestra have received global radio support including Mary Anne Hobbs and Huey Morgan on BBC Radio 6 Music, Gilles Peterson and Worldwide FM.

PREMIERE: Ronin Arkestra - Cosmic Collisions

Jonny Drop - Heartwork Ep 1 Track-list



1. Stro Elliot - Marvin’s Mood

2. Jonny Drop - Shark Break

3.  William Devaughn - Be Thankful For What You got

4. Ugly duckling - Einstein’s Takin’ Off

5. Quiroga - Ciao Fischio

6. Bill Withers - I Don’t Know

7. The Apples - In the Air

8. Liphe - Natur

9. Jonny Drop - Cue Ball

10. The Supremes - It’s Time To Breakdown 

11. Yesterdays New Quintet - Stevie

12. Letherette - Frsh & Clean

13. Jonny Drop - 32 Degrees

14. Ned Doheny - Labor Of Love (Hot ’n’ Spicy Re-edit)

15. Martin L. Dumas - Attitude, Belief & Determination

16. Bill Laswell - Cuban Beat

17. Verckys - Naomi Paralise

18. Count Lasha - Perseverance

19. Don Leisure - Just Remember

20. Roy Ayers - Funk In the hole

21. Gwen McCrae - Rockin’ Chair

22. Linda Williams - Elevate Our Minds

23. Tito Lopez Combo - Get The Funk

24. Celia Cruz - Ritmo, Tambo Y Flores

25. Flowering Inferno - Homeward Bound

26. A Band Called Flash - The Gift

27. Eddie Russ - Zaius

28. The Expansions - Mariposa

29. Remulak - Summers Passed

30. Moonchild - Sweet  Love

31. RJD2 - Two More Dead

32. Breakdown Brass - Next Episode

33. Hector Plimmer - Wall St

34. Gagle - Vanta Black 

35. Werkha - In sunny

36. Lorraine Johnson- The More I Get

37. Breno Sauer Quarteto - Take It Easy My Brother Charlie

38. Calypso Twist - Reuben McCoy

RADIO.D59B / HEARTWORK #1 w/ Jonny Drop

The first full length release on Albert’s Favourites was the Jonny Drop’s beat-tape debut, Sub Plot. A hugely popular journey through the DJs record collection, sampling and cutting in his unique style.
The single Mindfield/This Is The One won love and support from DJ royalty like Mr Thing and Nightmares On Wax, to Lauren Laverne and Huey Morgan on BBC Radio 6 Music and was the perfect kick start to the label founded by Jonny, Adam Scrimshire and Dave Koor.

Since then, Jonny released his debut album The Only Sound, featuring performances from Pendletons/Myron & E main man Eric Boss, London jazz hero Tamar “Collocutor” Osborn and First Word records artist Sarah Williams White. He also gifted the world some heavy jazz funk as drummer for The Expansions and delivered DJ mixes and live sets in abundance and a drum library record for the King Underground imprint. All the while turning out eye catching artwork for label artists Rōnin Arkestra, Scrimshire and more.

During isolation, Jonny has continued to uplift people with an essential series of live streams from his record room, while producing a, currently, quite secret collaborative double LP. But in his need to do something more immediate, it really felt like the right time for a new entry in the Sub Plot series.

Here we have 25 tracks of dusty, crunchy vinyl cut-ups and subversions, mining the darker corners of his extensive collection. Spanning from disco and boogie to R&B and vintage, cinematic atmospherics. All of it scattered through with interviews, monologue and archival reportage that cleverly gives an insight into the artists state of mind after eight weeks of restricted creativity (especially having no access to his drums).

In his own words:

“Since my last album ‘The Only Sound’, I’ve been working to finish a very exciting full length collaborative album with a very special vocalist. When lockdown happened I thought to myself, it’s about time I got something new out to you in the interim. Here it is… Subplot II – a beat tape created in the first month of the Covid-19 pandemic. To be filed somewhere inbetween original beats and an elaborate dj mix, this next volume in the subplot series provides a brief visit to some of the more odd corners of my record collection, sprinkled with audio interviews from some legends in the game.”

18. After 10

https://jonnydrop.bandcamp.com/album/the-only-sound

Though an experienced beat maker, until now Drop is best known in funk and soul circles as one quarter of The Expansions and for elevating rhythm sections as live drummer for Andrew Ashong, The Gene Dudley Group (Wah Wah 45s) and more.

He has a record collection most would be jealous of. Diverse but firmly rooted in soul, as anyone at his vinyl-only DJ residencies in the capital will testify.

“A really talented musician, absolutely loving that” Lauren Laverne on This Is The One, BBC Radio 6 Music 

All This Trouble - Beat Of The Week - The Huey Show BBC Radio 6 Music 

“The Only Sound represents the finest in musicianship, composition and modern electronic skills and shows that this beat-maker is about a whole lot more and has the chops to prove it.” Beatselector Magazine 
“The Only Sound updates what has gone before in consistently interesting ways.” God Is In The TV 

“Exquisitely recorded downtempo hip hop-ready beats, but it’s as much knee-deep in jazz” The Arts Desk 

“Fans of Ninja Tunes, Mo Wax, St Germain and DJ shadow need to check this out, tight production throughout, a beat selection that’s simply infectious, guest vocals and crate dug samples blended to perfection, it’s a lush musical journey for those hot summers days or a warm chilled out evenings.” Backseat Mafia 

A special Christmas treat from Jonny Drop and Albert's Favourites, to round off a big 2018 for both parties. Among The Stars is brand new, unreleased material from the same sessions that brought together The Only Sound. 

Downtempo, atmospheric goodness to wrap you up nice and warm. Bass tones meet swirling electronics underpinned by a classic, Sub Plot style vocal sample and Jonny's trademark beats. 

“I can talk about how great this album is all day, but in all truth what everyone needs to do is to listen to it and transport yourself in Jonny Drop’s colourful world.” In Search Of Media

18. After 10

Jonny Drop

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