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Written and produced by Sam R. 
Co-produced and mixed by Ariel loh 
Mastered by Alberto De Icaza 
Live drums by Chris Corsico 
Cello by Mindia 
Artwork by Sam R.

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Mantra is the new single from Surf Coast multi instrumentalist Immy Owusu and his first with Melbourne label Hopestreet Recordings. Mantra is a dreamy slice of Immy’s ‘Afrodelik’ approach to music, a sound that spans psychedelic rock, funk and West African roots.

Immanuel Kwabena Dreesens-Owusu grew up in two worlds: the sea bleached lifestyle of Torquay and the Surf Coast with its rock n roll soundtrack, and the musical heritage of his Ghanaian / Dutch family. Immy’s father Kojo is one of Australia’s best regarded West African musicians and his grandfather Koo Nimo is a legend of Ghanaian Highlife and Palm Wine music active since the 1960s. From them Immy learned Ashanti music and its instruments, added a fuzz pedal and began to experiment. 

Immy spent much of the pandemic living in his caravan in the bush near Bells Beach where he wrote Mantra, letting the Australian landscape and the African rhythms percolate to create a dreamy track with unstoppable momentum. Raw and rhythmic bass and drums at the forefront, Mantra opens with a roughly picked guitar hook. Echo vocals come from all around, spooky but not ominous, telling us to face our fears and give them up to a higher power. ‘When you worry, when you’re feeling down. All your darkness, give it all to me. This is my mantra’. The track builds with layered synthesizers and pads drawing you into an unfamiliar world. 

Of Mantra, Immy says ‘My family always said as a kid that when I was worried about something that I could give these negative feelings up to the Angels, The Great Mother, Jesus, God or the Universe, depending on which family member I was asking.’

Immy Owusu - Mantra

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TV Jingle

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false love, downhill from now on

Get Lost

A different type of feelings on this one.

Marshall Anderson - New Day

A tribute to Chromeo's Ce Soir On Danse mix (https://soundcloud.com/chromeo/ce-soir-on-danse-2006).

Mixed using the open-source software Mixxx (https://www.mixxx.org/)

Tracklist:
- Gladys Knight & The Pips - Save The Overtime For Me
- Gladys Knight & The Pips - Save The Overtime For Me (Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Body Workout version)
- Feel - Got To Have Your Lovin'
- First Love - Give Me Your Love (12' Version)
- Ago - For You
- Darlene Davis - I Can Feel Your Love Slippin' Away (Frankie Rodriquez Cutting Away Club Mix)
- Chemise - She Can't Love You
- Narada Michael Walden - Tonight I'm Alright
- T-Connection - Danger Zone
- Reanna Coleman - You're In My Pocket
- Risan - Eastern Palace
- Maurice Massiah - We can go to your house
- Jamaica Girls - Need Somebody New
- Larry Graham - Sooner or Later
- The O'Jays - Put Our Heads Together [Single Version]
- T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do (Kon's Keep It Moving Mix)
- Nona Hendryx - B-Boys [12' Version]
- Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real
- L'Impératrice - Voodoo?

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