God I can't figure out who this track is by for the life of me, love it so much. Gives me hope to be happy today..

I'm going to have to make this my morning alarm, great mix

Be Happy Vinyl mix

This month I am premiering my documentary Future Sound of Mzansi (www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0ZzKybU1U). Future Sounds of Mzansi is a documentary directed by Spoek Mathambo and Lebogang Rasethaba which aims to explore, express and interrogate, South Africa's electronic music landscape.

This edition of the mix series is an ode to the Kwazulu Natal dominating style called Qgom. 

Enjoy the bangers. 

Tracklist
Illumination Boyz - 0748685273 0736197847
Nkokhi ft. Sphelele - Travelling Man (Medium Points Remix)
Rudeboyz - Akasemuhle
Jumping Back Slash - Always Unfinished But Never Outgunned
sbucardo da dj & 031 - king of toms
Snaxxzo - Drunk in love (Dakwe othandweni)
Madanon, Mreyza, ceeyaah 'n Pilado - IDimoniI 
DJ LetlakaRSA ft Masheleng - Xigago
Mqakxman & Voltage Boyz - I'Str8 Sam ft Manyabza
Jumping Back Slash - Blue Smoke
3 Way Boyz - Bitch Don' t Kill my Vibe
Madanoni 'n oBen 10 - Opopayi 
Roman Rodney - Triple Beat Remix
DJ Master P - Wooh Unganyakazi
Menchess  - Mitsubishi song(club mix)
Menchess - khumbula ukubhenga
DJ LAG ft Tempo - Crash
DJ Julz - Bass Push 
NakedBoys - Lost Alien
Jumping Back Slash - Plateaux


Future Sound of Mzansi 5: Qgom Revolution

Kaitlyn's solo debut Euclid (primarily written on a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer) was inspired by her love of mbira music, early electronic music pioneers like Laurie Spiegel, Oskar Sala, and Terry Riley, and euclidean geometry. Each of the first six songs on Euclid were initially structured using euclidean geometry, an idea which Smith explored while attending a class at the San Francisco Conservatory. As Smith explains, "We each chose a 3D shape and assigned our own guidelines to the different components that make up the shape. For example each point of the shape represents a different time signature, each line between the points represents a pitch, each shape within the closed lines represents a scale, etc. And then you play the shape." Despite their heady geometric origins, the songs have a playfulness and warmth that makes them inviting and memorable. In addition to the buoyant grooves of Smith's synthesizers, some of the songs feature wordless vocals, which energize the otherworldly songs, while grounding them with Smith's earthly presence.

She slows things down for the second half of the record, which features a collection of twelve short pieces, Labyrinths I-XII. Originally composed as new soundtracks to old silent films she found online, Smith says the tranquil Labyrinth pieces are "intended to feel like one is walking through a holographic labyrinth and encountering different experiences such as hang gliding, viewing microbes under a microscope, ice fishing in Alaska, and watching glaciers collapse." Despite their brevity, most of these songs feel like mini odysseys, effortlessly casting a cinematic hue on the the listener's world.

Throughout Euclid Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith consistently delivers sonic puzzles draped in a warm Pacific mist. At times these songs feel so alive — like the musical analog to roots growing deeper and stronger, leaves on branches bending towards the light, or the sun peeking over the horizon, briefly igniting the air with a primordial swirl of warm and cool colors.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Sundry

DOOM Verse

Diamond District - I Mean Business (Jonwayne Remix)

From the album Yes Lawd! http://stonesthrow.com/nxworries

VINYL

Nxworries - Anderson Paak & Knxwledge - Suede

from the upcoming album, Georgia Anne Muldrow "A Thoughtiverse Unmarred" https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-thoughtiverse-unmarred/id977866048

produced by Chris Keys
cover photo by Ernie Paniccioli

About the album:
Past is prologue. The sins of the father are visited on sons and daughters. The madness of the world only abates when you stop the cycle—when you seek something beyond the mono-cultural and the corporeal. 

Georgia Anne Muldrow is a seeker and truth-teller. The words on her first rap album—produced entirely by Chris Keys—balance a beautiful delivery with brutal honesty. These are the honest confessions of a mother who refuses to turn a blind eye to immediate and ancestral misdeeds. Her rhymes are conscious, but more importantly, they speak to our deeper conscience. 

The prophetic soul artist offers a singular voice, yet belongs to a storied lineage. Listening to this record, you can hear the echoes of past oracles: Billie Holiday, Alice Coltrane, Erykah Badu, and Lauryn Hill. But the wisdom and narrative reflect Muldrow’s most personal revelations. 

From the album’s inception, we find her analyzing the patterns of her life in the constellations, rambling down dusty trails, pledging to jot down these crystalline thoughts in her mind as a north star for the misguided youth. She holds her head high, not in the vein of superiority, but as someone who “used to roam wild on a one-way street.”

The evils of the world are given no quarter. She indicts corporate thugs and warmongers, the shamelessly materialistic and musicians who refuse to offer a modicum of substance. Her motivation isn’t to brow beat, but to challenge you to do better—it’s the type of record that can trigger resolutions on any day of the year. It’s a document of racial solidarity and pride, but one that offers an olive branch to anyone down for the cause. 

The beats are dusty and suffused with warmth so overwhelming it practically radiates Vitamin D. The gritty drums and hypnotic loops are minimal enough to let Muldrow’s mineral-rich voice fill in the gaps. There’s a timelessness in it’s questioning of age-old human problems, yet it tailors the inquiries towards the issues we currently grapple with on a diurnal basis. 

Muldrow uses music as a vessel to inspire hope and propel people towards a better future. Beyond identifying worldly inequities, this record details one woman’s quest to improve things for herself, her children, and everyone else. It’s about finding universal truths, while staying true to one’s essence—transcending the hate and slowly starting to heal. 



Georgia Anne Muldrow - "Ankles"

Watch Music Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBCbmzZDi_Q

Juju Girl is the first single from Blitz The Ambassador's upcoming Album DIASPORADICAL. 

Produced by Blitz The Ambassador
Trumpet Josiah Woodson
Bass: Alexis Hountondji
Guitar: Christian Mendoza
Additional Guitar: Brice Loubet
DJ Cuts: DJ Taim
Background Vocals: Rasul A-Salaam
Programming & Additional Percussion: S. Bazawule

Recorded & Mixed by Chris Optiks Jones, NYC
Additional Recording by Gaultier Frossard, Paris
DJ Cuts recorded at Haus der Wunder by Malte Kraus, Köln

JuJu Girl

Mercury Rev - The Queen Of Swans

Stream & download Jonti's new single 'Scrood feat. Steve Lacy': http://futr.cl/scrood

Scrood (feat. Steve Lacy) - Single

Stream & download

Jonti - Scrood (feat. Steve Lacy)

Solid Steel (24th November) In Hour 1 we welcome Jonti who released his album 'Tokorats' earlier this month on Stones Throw. His last album 'Sine & Moon' came out 5 years ago and since then his life has included collaborating with Mark Ronson, BADBADNOTGOOD, King Krule and Earl Sweatshirt; recording with The Internet’s Steve Lacy; rehearsing next door to Madlib in the Stones Throw studio; hanging out with Sean Lennon, and embarking on a 40-date world tour with Gotye. As well as co-writing three songs for The Avalanches’ long-awaited album Wildflower, Jonti recreated their pivotal debut album Since I Left You, reverse engineering 3,500 samples and playing with a 17-piece band at a sold-out performance at the Sydney Opera House. After watching the show, The Avalanches returned the favour and invited Jonti to join them in their touring band. 'Tokorats' is out now and features Odd Future / MellowHype’s Hodgy and Big Dada artist Sampa The Great. He told us;
"This is a mix of my favourite records I collected over the last few years, songs friends would show me, songs that influenced my new record Tokorats, and also some unreleased jams from Mohi and Setwun."

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Hour 1 - Jonti https://twitter.com/Jonti_Danimals

Mohi - BEAT$ (unreleased)
Hubert Laws - Family
Munk Wit Da Funk - I Been Here Im Stayin’
Jorge Ben - Minina Mulher da Pele Reta
Jonti - Alien
Bernard Wright - Who Do You Love
Mary Lattimore - Ferris wheel, January 
Al Etto - Hold On To Love
Cheri - Come With Me (To My Island)
Jonti - Sleeping And Falling
Sheila E. - A Love Bizarre 
Sandra Sa - Joga Fora
Mohi - Party At Max’s (unreleased)
Setwun - Inner West Wind Up (unreleased) 
Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie 
Bob Marley - Selassie Is The Chapel

Be Happy Vinyl mix

Jonti

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