Produced by Soul Square
From The Album "40 Pounds Of Soul"
Purchase Album Here: www.melodiq.com

Melodiq - One More Chance

As broadcast on Saturday the 2nd of June on J-Wave (Tokyo)

A couple of week ago, while attending the <a href="http://ldbk.eu/irf">International radio festival in Zurich</a>, I had the chance to meet Mari and Akira producers of the <a href="http://www.j-wave.co.jp/original/modaista/">Modaista</a> show on <a href="http://www.j-wave.co.jp/">J-Wave FM</a> (Tokyo) for a short interview. 

They also asked me to recommend them one track and I really wanted to introduce the sound of 74 Miles Away to their audience so I picked "<a href="http://soundcloud.com/laidback/74-miles-away-seven-four">Seven Four</a>" out of the <a href="http://ldbk.eu/compilation">LDBK compilation</a>.

The show also features three other IRF participants:
http://www.bln.fm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normski
http://livingroom.fm 

Thank you Mari and Akira for including us in their brilliant show.

Make sure to visit: 
http://www.j-wave.co.jp/original/soundscities
http://www.internationalradiofestival.com

Cheers,

Julius

Laid Back and 74 Miles Away on Modaista (J-Wave 83.1 FM - Tokyo)

from the upcoming album "Hella Personal Film Festival" (3/25)

vocals by Open Mike Eagle
produced by Paul White

About the upcoming album:
Open Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. 

On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. 

Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off.  It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. 

Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity.  The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable.  

These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. 

Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.”  These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. 

No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. 

These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.  


Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Check To Check

Intelligent Sound & Beat Tape Co-op presents:
Future Relics Volume 2
https://intelligentsound.bandcamp.com/album/future-relics-vol-2
Funkonami:
https://funkonami.bandcamp.com

Funkonami - Murder At Moseu Str.

Buy in all formats at the BCR Webstore:
bigcrownrecords.com/store/el-michel…ffair-tearz-45/

With the full length, Return To The 37th Chamber dropping April 14th, El Michels Affair releases another flawless two sider to hold us over.

Preorder "Enter The 37th Chamber" in all formats here:
http://radi.al/EMA37thChamberDigital

Side A’s cover of Tearz is as much an homage to the Wendy Rene sample as it is to the Wu-Tang Clan track.

The song starts as a glazed over cover of "After Laughter" with Shannon Wise of The Shacks singing Wendy Rene's timeless mantra. Halfway through, the mood dramatically shifts and the drums and organ that drive the original RZA sample, take over. A dubbed out Lee Fields taps in like only he can, and the song spirals into outer space.

Side B finds EMA dipping into the deeper side of the Wu catalog with Raekwon’s Verbal Intercourse. Mixing the grimy, gritty production aesthetic of the original with elements of dubbed out reggae, El Michels Affair once again pushes the definition of a “cover” and truly makes it a tune of their own.

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Visit us at:
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Buy at BCR

El Michels Affair - Verbal Intercourse - BC008-45 - Side B

From Home, To Work, and Back.. (Prod. by Tall Black Guy)

" I Got Life"!!!!  Off my newest album “The Sun” releasing early next year. It’s a take on one of my favorite Nina Simone songs. This has been a real hard year for me personally so I made this song as a reminder to be thankful for my blessings in the midst of what can sometimes seem like unsurmountable chaos and sadness…More on this song and album later but enjoy, and if so inclined please share! Peace peace - Raashan

Raashan Ahmad - I Got Life

Legendary Detroit MC Guilty Simpson & New Zealand producer Leonard Charles team up as „The Leonard Simpson Duo“ delivering a one of a kind 60’s/70’s inspired psychedelic & acid influenced album called „LSD“.

Nobody

The Leonard Simpson Duo - Nobody

Mr Twin Sister – Blush (Intro / VECT Edit)
Ness Heads - Glowing
Jenevieve - Baby Powder
Biig Piig - Lydia
Tamera - Don't phone
Nicole Bus - With you
Complexricky - Waterfalls
Wolftyla - All tinted
Synthia & Lady Wray - Tonight you might
Mr Twin Sister - Meet The Frownies
Rihanna - Spliff
Kiana Ledé & Ari Lennox - Chocolate
Ebz the artist - Surrounded
Deetranada - I Don't LIike Doing The Race In Gucci
Princess Nokia - Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T)
Coi Leray - Huddy
Lil Halima - Glue
Kirby - Don't leave your girls
Mahalia & Ella Mai - What you did
Lianne la Havas - Bittersweet
Mahalia - Plastic plants
Greentea Peng - Mr sun (miss da sun)
Ama lou - Northside
Snoh Aalegra - Whoa Remix
Pip Millett - Love the things you do
YMA & Gab Ferreira - Summer Lover
Sampa the great - Leading us home
Ebz the artist - On my way
Biig Piig - Perdida
Kali Uchis & Kaytranada - Water to wine
Jessie Reyez - Intruders
Cleo Sol - Butterfly

French Manucure 1 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 2 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-2-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 3 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-3-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 4 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-4-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 5 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-5

Bundle Limited Edition / CD - T Shirt available : frmanucure.bandcamp.com/releases



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French Manucure 6 

French Manucure 6 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

The Pharcyde - Passin Me By' (Soul Supreme Remix)

A little bit of sampling fun fo your pleasure!
Tribes 'Once Again' acapella with samples from T-bone Walker's  'Awful Mood'
Enjoy!

This is PROMO ONLY. NOT FOR SALE ANYWHERE!

Tribe Walk (A Tribe Called Quest vs T-Bone Walker) Jonny Drop Rehash

LDBK (pronounced Laid Back) was first established in 2002 in Brussels as a FM radio show

Continuously adapting and experimenting with changing technologies and culture, by 2009 LDBK had become an integrated platform using various online channels to promote and share music with a growing network.

Laid Back and 74 Miles Away on Modaista (J-Wave 83.1 FM - Tokyo)

LDBK

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