Awesome!! May I share this on Twitter at @BeautyStartsNU please? :)

At the vanguard of Melbourne's bustling underground music scene you’ll find Surprise Chef. A band very much on the rise, who with two exceptional albums under their belts, are picking up a rapidly swelling fanbase across the world. Working out of the College of Knowledge stable (their home / studio / record label namesake), the band’s take on instrumental cinematic soul and funk has connected with listeners across multiple scenes and genres. Their intoxicatingly laidback sound, which pairs expertly crafted hooks with a seriously funky, watertight rhythm section, has earned them a wide appeal and made their tracks ripe for interpretation.

When floating ideas for potential remixers, two names came to the fore, Masters At Work and Harvey Sutherland. MAW have a long history with Mr Bongo having remixed the Brit-funk classic ‘Dancing In Outer Space’ by Atmosfear for the label in 1997, and releasing the original track, ‘Brazilian Beat’ in 2000. With their studio collaboration now back in full swing, it was the perfect time to inject the MAW magic back into the label. They picked ‘Crayfish Caper’ from the band’s first album ‘All News Is Good News’ as their choice of track to remix. The ’Nuyorican Broken Remix' sees MAW stepping into their Nuyorican Soul guise. A Latin shuffle meets an afro-beat rhythm and some very chunky broken beats, which all underpins an infectious melody constructed around the original track’s bassline. They pair this with horns and synths that add a flourish and reveal new layers as the track develops. It’s a sound that is uniquely Nuyorican Soul and a welcome return for fans of this aspect of their phenomenal output. The 'Masters At Work Remix’ is straight up vintage MAW in House mode. It takes many of the same elements found in the 'Nuyorican Broken Remix' and points things in a House direction. It’s 4/4, but the beats have that Kenny Dope trademark swing. Tough, but oozing soul. Add to that heavy bass, vocal cuts, fierce horns and saxophone, layered synths, and that undeniable MAW bounce. 

Rounding off the package is the remix from Harvey Sutherland. Having made international waves since 2013 with his unique take on dance music, Harvey has long been on Mr Bongo’s remix radar, but until now we hadn’t managed to get that ambition over the line. This time around the stars aligned perfectly. Surprise Chef and Harvey Sutherland are both Melbourne residents and they had already been working on projects together. The band set things up and Harvey chose to remix ‘New Ferrari’ from their latest album, ‘Daylight Savings’. His take on the track sees things venturing into dubby-disco territory. A dreamy, cosmic, bass-heavy, sweeping synth-led workout, that retains yet reinterprets the catchy-as-hell hooks from the original track. A roller with serious muscle!

Masters At Work & Harvey Sutherland Remixes

PREMIERE : Surprise Chef - New Ferrari (Harvey Sutherland's Weird Flex)

...it's always summer somewhere...so grab a drink and enjoy life with some sunshine... ☼♫♥

dj cam quartet - rebirth of cool
tom jones - usual (ben jamin edit)
da funksta - somewhere
engelwood - congo bongo
axion 117 - natural
trog´low - summer squall
vinyl vibes - monticello
funk hunk - la je taime
agustin pereyra lucena - tres hores da manha (v4ys edit)
funk revelation - keep on keeping on (breixo edit)
the disclosure project - down time
paul brown - winelight
bill withers - lovely day (refel t. edit)
l´lmpe´ratice - vanille fraise
brian culbertson - get it on
matt hughes - slowtape
deodato - keep on movin´ (marco corona cuts)
voodoo whiskey - striptease
brenda - natureza viva (llf rework9
djavan - nereci (bernado pinheiro edit)
moods - push pull

# Slow . Lounge . Bar . Beats @ The Voodoo Bar # mixed by Funk2Mars

Sample List

Fat Pat
Bassline
Tops Drop

Drum Kit
Kick Drum - Natty Dread
Hit Hat/Cymbal - Suzy Wong - Jacob Miller

Snare - Lost Boyz - Music Makes Me High
Snare Roll - Tenement Yard - Jacob Miller

Arlester "Dyke" Christian - Dyke and the Blazers
Light Break
Broadway Combination

Jimi Hendrix
“Cut a Record, Remix it again, cut the master” Vox Samples
Interview Snippet

Jimi Hendrix
Trash Beat
Little Miss Lover

Jim Morrison - The Doors 
Filtered buildup
Waiting for the sun

Kurt Cobain - Nirvana
“Yay” Vox Scratch
Smells Like Teen Spirit

Jeremy Michael Ward - The Mars Volta
Guitar Arpeggiators
Sonnet et Lumiere

Jeremy Michael Ward - De Facto
Echo Synth
Finger Trap

Linda Jones - Linda Jones
Bells
A last minute miracle

Jacob Miller - Jacob Miller
Drum Rolls
Shaky Girl

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With only a few days left until we ourselves become deserted on an island, we thought we'd share with you our Bestival Desert Island Mix.

Made with the lovely Pedestrian, we hope this selection of sunshine music will be the perfect accompaniment for when you're next stranded on a beach.

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Maribou State & Pedestrian - Desert Island Mixtape Pt.I

recorded live at the Nightmares On Wax gig at the Mojo Club Hamburg november 2014

Nightmares On Wax support mix by POLYPHONIC & FELOX at the Mojo Club Hamburg 2014

Aerials live, dials tuned, Transmission Towers broadcasting. On either side of the river Mersey, transcendental communications are traded back and forth. Two late-night revellers, one firing messages filled with music, the other returning them laced with lyrics. The result, a dopamine hit of oddball machine soul, melded with a highlife, Afrofuturist touch. Wonky and murky yet deeply emotional, Transmission One, is a debut album that also marks the first release on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label, encompassing expertly the off-kilter atmosphere the label sets to orbit. 

A synthesised landscape with a Northern charm, Transmission Towers marry the musical worlds of two artists that last collaborated over a decade ago. 10 years have passed, lives have been led, but a gravitational pull has placed Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante back in each other’s spheres on opposite sides of the city of Liverpool. Energised with a newfound desire to strip it all back to the sounds that influenced their formative years in the late ‘80s and ‘90s - astral travelling, intoxicated on Motor City techno, Black Dog IDM and mystical Sun Ra. 
 
Mark half Irish, half Greek Cypriot, Eleanor half Nigerian, half Ghanian, the music contained within is an alchemy of those roots and the pivotal acts that buried deep into their minds. A cosmic contrast, part machine-made, part distinctly human. Take the opener ‘UP’, an ESG-channelling, sci-fi punk beatdown or the polychromatic hyperspace anthem ‘Roller Skater 23’. 
 
Transportive throughout, you ride the solar waves, pace and emotion ebbing and flowing. Tracks like ‘Go Slow Heart’ and ‘Cosmic Trigger’ step to a slower beat but hit with a punch. The former, a slo-mo blast of celestial tenderness, the latter an otherworldly, chugged-out lunar excursion, micro-dosing on whacked-out Wah Wah and Eleanor’s ethereal vocals. Beaming love letters to space and back, ‘Sparse’ marries the organic with the artificial, pianos and percussion circling around synth pads and broadcasting bleeps.
 
Elsewhere, vibrations move faster. ‘Mega’ strikes, fusing sonic tribalism with psychedelic swirls, as ‘Everything’ sweeps you up in its extra-terrestrial new wave grip. Synth stabs and basslines fizzing from every angle.  
 
Demos of Transmission Towers music surfaced on Luke Una’s radar, making him stop in his tracks. Something magical was emerging, perfectly aligned with the E Soul guardian’s tastes. Guidance followed, quickly turning into conversations about Transmission One becoming the first release on Luke’s own label. 
 
Escapist and futurist yet grounded and relatable. Transmission One is synthesis meets sentiment with a deep, spine-tingling soul at its core.

Transmission Towers - Roller Skater 23

As we head to Shanghai for our first event in three years, we welcome emerging DJ ZHUO to the World Tour mix series.

Grab tickets to Shanghai: https://boilerroom.tv/session/shanghai-wt24

ZHUO | World Tour Mix: Shanghai

Phunky Smokin' Vibes

Kruder & dorfmeister - Thievery Corporation (karma) - Mixed By Bulut

The Experience (Mix Tape)

Nightmares on Wax - The EXP Tapes 86-97: Volume 2

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Brothers Gonna Work It Out

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283 - Fatboy Slim presents 'On The Floor At The Boutique' (1998)

lil’ rossco is a UK born, globally-bred and now London based DJ/producer who delivers his own unique brand of impressive beat-making.
The turntable tactician began his musical career when he first picked up a set of drumsticks at age nine, before progressing to jam sessions in Singapore’s “Little India” district at the age of thirteen.
A longtime Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill fan, lil’ rossco counts Led Zeppelin, Fat Boy Slim and Daft Punk as inspiration for his ever-evolving brand of mixes. Choosing not to be constricted by any one genre, Rossco serves up releases which effortlessly fuse anything from rock, grunge and jazz to electro, metal and blues.
Picking up support slots for Kid Koala, DJ Dexta and James De La Cruz (The Avalanches) the turntable king has also graced the decks at Toff in Town, St Kilda Festival, Good Vibrations and a host
of other pumping venues. Masterfully mixing and seamlessly slicing some of the most complicated sounds, Rossco’s productions can be found in the form of The 27 Club Tribute Album, Chop Suey 1 & 2, Nightmare On Wax Tribute, Windmills DJ Set and various other singles and B-Sides. 
The DJ/producer has a mind that thinks in big beats and catchy tunes and produces tracks based on variety, nostalgia and beautiful chaos. With sets that get crowds moving, punters are left humming along to a lil’ rossco track well after waiting for a cab home.

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