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Reggae 2025 ( roots, dub, steppas, dancehall ,...)

Koudlam delivers four tracks built for post-Fukushima stadiums. 
In the opinion of the composer it‘s “an unpretentious pop exercise in place to relax before the next album.” The composer is modest, and no doubt by then his “Alcoholic’s Hymns” will have made ​​the world drunk.

released 01 June 2011 
PAN014

Sunny Day

03 Koudlam - Sunny Day

From the album "Unknown Sequence"
darkside187.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-sequence-lp
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Dusted Download

Darkside - Intro (Darkside Main Theme)

Soma

Leve (feat. Tuyo)

When Mafia & Fluxy meet Nick Manasseh…
For the occasion Reemah from the island of St. Croix is back on vocal duties for the label - the result: a beautiful tune called ‘What Goes Around’ in a versatile lyrical style. On the flipside then - a ’Trumpet Situation’ - an uplifting instrumental cut featuring Berlin’s own Vale on the instrument. Both on an oldschool-style drum and bass driven riddim recorded in Brixton by the legendary Mafia & Fluxy rhythm section, spiced with some percussion by brother K’boko. The whole project was given to the dubmaster Nick Manasseh for mixing and the right treatment in his The Yard Studio and then mastered from 1/2inch tape at Star Delta in the UK. Now served with dubs and a fitting artwork by Chloé Bernal - ready to be played loud.

Mafia & Fluxy ft. Reemah / Vale - What Goes Around [LIONSCHOICE011]

A1 - Reemah - What Goes Around
A2 - Mafia & Fluxy meet Manasseh - What Goes Dub

B1 - Vale - Trumpet Situation
B2 - Mafia & Fluxy meet Manasseh - Dub Situation

LION’S DEN
rhythm section by Leroy ‘Mafia’ Heywood & David ‘Fluxy’ Heywood, recorded at Iguana Studio Brixton
percussion by Fabiano ‘K’boko’ Lima, recorded at Lion’s Den Studio Berlin
mix & dubs by Nick Manasseh at The Yard London
trumpet by Vale Schwarzbeck
vocals & lyrics by Reemah
artwork by Chloé Bernal
mastered by Star Delta Mastering
All rights reserved. © + ℗ 2024 Lion’s Den

Reemah x Mafia & Fluxy meet Manasseh - What Goes Around + What Goes Dub

One Way Love

The next 12inch in the Lion’s Choice series showcases two productions by Val Tribulation from Grenoble, France. One features Haroon Ayyaz on ‘Words Of Wisdom’ - an uplifting 90s style instrumental paired with a praise song to and partly from the holy scriptures including a heavily meditative mandolin cut by the versatile instrumentalist Mandlion from Italy. The other one features ‘Marble Works’-partner in crime Alpha B on ’What’s Left For Me’ - a heavily saxophone (played by Prince François Far I) infused riddim, combined with thought-provoking lyrics questioning the state of todays world and its future. Two powerful vocals and one instrumental cut on two deep riddims, both served with a dub version.

Val Tribulation ft. Haroon Ayyaz / Mandlion / Alpha B - Words Of Wisdom / What’s Left For Me [LIONSCHOICE012]

A1 - Haroon Ayyaz - Words Of Wisdom
A2 - Val Tribulation - Scriptures Dub
A3 - Mandlion - Words Of Mandolin

B1 - Alpha B - What’s Left For Me
B2 - Val Tribulation - What’s Left Is Dub

LION’S DEN
music & mix by Val Tribulation
vocals & lyrics by Haroon Ayyaz (A) / Alpha B (B)
mandolin by Mandlion (A)
saxophone by J. François (B)
artwork by Martin Engelbogen
mastered by Star Delta Mastering
All rights reserved. © + ℗ 2024 Lion’s Den

A3 - Mandlion - Words Of Mandolin

A1 - Haroon Ayyaz - Words Of Wisdom

Shall Not Be Moved

Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul - "Je Pleure Tout Le Temps" (Burnt Friedman Remix)

This track is off the free EP 'Trick Ladders' which can be got from here



Ya Pari

Extract from "VA Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun"
Akuphone CD/LP/DL (AKU1016)
akuphone.com/catalog/1ks5VIGPKYSk#content

Recorded at office MIKADO, 2018
Engineered by Tamotsu Ide
Mikado Koko: Laptop, Korg Gadget, Sampling, Effects
Composed by Mikado Koko
Samples: Fukagawa Bushi by Fumikichi Fujimoto (1929)

Seitō gathers Japanese female artists from various electronic and experimental music fields. Like the « Tokyo Flashback » series issued by P.S.F. in the early 1990s, this collection recorded between 2017 and 2019 exposes the richness of the contemporary Japanese underground music scene. The title refers to a cult feminist magazine printed in Japan in the 1910s. All tracks issued for the first time.

Mikado Koko - Fukagawa Bushi

DHAIMA - IN JAH CHILDREN - REMIX - DUBPLATE - JAHRAGGASTUDIO 2019

Suddenly

Filtered Grand Piano

M.RUX: Vermonische Melodien
LP / digital
Pingipung 069
MAR 6 2020
https://soundcloud.com/pingipung

Press contact: Andrea Wienck andrea@pingipung.de

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences from Exotica records of the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies (“Magische Time”), mumbling chopped up syllables (“Seelnatrax”) or reciting a Shakespeare quote (“Bakelit”) - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s. They seem almost mystical to me. Like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out, how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments in the "Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke“ until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. "I also take a deep bow to ‘Lacky’ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his „In the Hold“ (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he had become famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems. Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.

Vinyl / Download

Seelnatrax

There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about 'All News Is Good News’ - the debut album from Melbourne's instrumental soul group Surprise Chef. It sounds like something dreamt up by lo-fi cousins of David Axelrod and Janko Nilovic, with dramatic Library-music-esque cinematic arrangements echoing both light and dark, delving into moments of dissonance and positivity. There is a meticulous education of 1970’s soul on display that touches on the legacies of the great composer / producers, yet at the same time, this is a truly contemporary record that could have only been made now. 

The first limited pressing of 'All News Is Good News’ was released on the band's own 'College Of Knowledge' imprint in November 2019. It slipped rapidly into the collective consciousness of underground music lovers around the world, with all copies selling out within a week and becoming a firm favourite at Mr Bongo HQ in the process. We felt Surprise Chef had made something very special, a future-classic, and that needed to be heard well beyond those lucky enough to have bagged those limited first copies.

Formed at the end of 2017, Surprise Chef have grown within the fertile, creative, and supportive Melbourne music scene. Whilst the band is comprised of four core members, the album features friends and family as guest instrumentalists on flute, saxophone, vibraphone, congas, and assorted percussion; all adeptly recorded by engineer Henry Jenkins from the band Karate Boogaloo. The warm-raw-authenticity of the album was captured in the recordings live to tape over a handful of sessions in the band’s home studio in Melbourne’s inner-northern suburb of Coburg. As band member Lachlan Stuckey explains “All of the music we record is tracked live to tape, simply because so many of the records we love most were made that way".

The results are a captivating journey of instrumental cinematic-soul that will connect with the hardened Axelrod, Truth & Soul, El Michels Affair, and Daptone's fans, as well as the open-minded first-time listener. We are very excited to share this first slice of Surprise Chef’s world, with plenty more magic from these guys coming around the corner very soon.

One Way Love

Leon Dinero

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