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Oxford-based musician Michael Diamond’s new EP, Silk Road EP, serves as a  distillation of this young producer’s divergent interests in genres as varied as Jazz, Ambient, World Music, and Electronic. The cross-pollination of influences and ideas feels especially fitting considering its release via German label Sa’lin Records, a label which advocates for a holistic artistic experience for each of its releases, rooted in the intersection between visual art, poetry, and music.
	
B-side opener, “Glistening Currents”, unfolds according to its own internal dream logic–– each element fusing together in remarkably idiosyncratic, yet unusually precise and awe-inspiring ways. Keeping in line with his jazz background, the track has several phases, the first being a kind of dark, echo-laden breakbeat rhythm, before evolving into a dubby, synth-washed Jazz-House odyssey with jittery, overlapping percussion. The percussion, working in counterpoint to the spacey keys and ambient flourishes, keeps the track alive and constantly evolving. 
	
Diamond displays a remarkable knack for keeping things fresh while never stepping too far afield, wherein the disparate elements would ultimately grow stale or feel disjointed. Diamond intends for listeners to read Áine Kim Kennedy’s accompanying album-sleeve poetry while they listen. With its cryptic imagery and allusions to things like both artist’s Asian identity and history, the answers provided may not be exactly clear. Together, they hint at the impossibility of ever truly arriving at some grand conclusion about the nature of whatever we seek to understand. The track feels like that statement in musical form–– a destination always just out of reach, ultimately rendered insignificant by the magnitude and mysticism of the journey itself.

PREMIERE: Michael Diamond – Glistening Currents

Two members of the Daytimers crew, @yourboykiran and @chandedj team up for 'Pani Puri Pirates'; a pumping ballroom cut that fuses staccato drums with chopped and screwed vocals and a melody sampled from Rufus & Chaka Khan's 'Ain't Nobody'.

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Part of DT002, our collaborative release with UK-based collective @daytimers_uk in aid of Covid-19 relief in India.

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yourboykiran x Chandé - Pani Puri Pirates [3:28]

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Jazz FM W/ Rohan Rakhit

Purbayan Chatterjee - Shanmukhapriya (The Mystic)
Marco Woolf - Francine
Arthur Verocai - Bis Ft. Azymuth
Lionmilk Quartet - Penelope
Najib Al Housh - Ya Aen-Daly
Magdy El Hussainy - Music De Carneval
Let Your Hair Down - BF  Holiday
Adam Znaidi - Holy Moon
Àbáse - Guetto (Sou Favela)
Ray Barretto - Espiritu Libre

Rohan Rakhit (Daytimers) Mix

Sheila Chandra - ABoneCroneDrone 3
Auntie Flo - Mother Theresa
Wayne Shorter - Footprints
Asha Puthli - Let Me In Your Life
Jorge Ben - Oba, Lá Vem Ela (feat. Trio Mocotó)
Sonia - Easier to Love
Nohelani Cypriano - Lihue
Brylho - Se Você For A Salvador
Alisha Chinai & Vijay Benedict - Zindagi Meri Dance Dance
Jaubi - Zari
Jody Watley - More
Afronaught - Shapin’ Fluid
Local Artist - Dancer
Nu Guinea - Exotica Dance Club
Akash - Rangeela Funky
Jaubi - Time: Donut Of The Heart (J Dilla Cover)

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Musica Macondo on Jazz FM with Tim Garcia Ft. Rohan Rakhit (Daytimers)

Highlander w/ Goldtooth - Subtle Radio - 16/10/2021

An organ plays in an abandoned church. A car blasting 90s era jungle drives past. Someone lobs a bottle of Irn Bru at you from 150m away and lands it right on your dome.

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Dijon - Talk Down (Works Of Intent 'Static' Remix)

Works of Intent, Chandé and Guppy Slim presented The Nasal Hour, counting down the top 10 hottest dance tracks of 2011. Expect special cameo appearances, sponsor placements and much more.

The Nasal Hour w/ Works of Intent, Chandé & Guppy Slim - January 2022

Darama has been carving out his signature sound in the form of break orientated re-works of classics, with support from the likes of Emerald and BBC Asian Network!

With 'It's Too Late', he maintains his dancefloor centric ferociousness through off-beat breaks and rib shattering bass.

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Cover of Arctic Monkeys - Arabella:
Of all of my eclectic influences, rock has sparsely been one of them so this might seem like a bit of an unusual choice of song for me to cover. This song was part of an iconic era in many of our teenagehoods, getting our first taste of strongbow-dark-fruits-flavoured-freedom at Reading festival. I wanted to cover it after listening to the lyrics and realising how tender and romantic they are, in comparison to the aggressive instrumentation. My original plan was to make the instrumental match the lyrics in terms of tone and sweetness, and I think I vaguely managed that… for about 30 seconds. 

After embracing the direction the cover was taking itself, I had a lot of fun playing around with more aggressive vocal processing, as well as choral sections of layered harmonies - until I ended up with almost 40 vocal tracks in the final mix (one of which is my cat - see if you can find it ;) ). Anyways I feel like I pushed myself with this track, playing with some faster rhythms and different effects and I almost lost my mind trying to sort through everything I’d thrown at it, but I’m pretty happy with the result and I hope you guys like it too!

ARANELLA (Arctic Monkeys Cover)

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