BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Available HERE: https://ge-ology365.bandcamp.com/

BLUES ALLEY by GE-OLOGY featuring YUKIMI NAGANO (LITTLE DRAGON)

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Joomanji - Spread Too Thin (feat. Lindsay Olsen & Nick Bianchini)

'Groove Curse' EP out now on 12" vinyl & digital -
Stream / Download: soulhasnotempo.lnk.to/SHNT001

Released 15th August 2014 via Soul Has No Tempo.

Soul Has No Tempo present Groove Curse, Jordan Rakei's long-awaited follow up to highly-acclaimed debut EP Franklin’s Room, his modern take on reggae-infused soul music. Groove Curse takes an evolved turn, with a sound Rakei describes as “raw, vocal-driven, groove”. With the first single off the EP, Street Light featuring Berklee College of Music Alumni, Gwen Bunn (vocalist and producer of Schoolboy Q’s Collard Greens feat. Kendrick Lamar), the release celebrates the skills of upcoming young musicians who are writing, self-producing and taking full advantage of their vocal and multi-instrumentalist talents.

Jordan Rakei - A Tribe Called Government [SHNT001]

Dose Album Credits 

1. Brother Dragonfly 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Cam Allen - Flute 
Steph Brown - Piano 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Marika Hodgson - Bass Guitar 
Julien Dyne - Drums, brushes 
Tom Broome - Cymbals 
Isaac Aesili - Programming, Synths, Synth Bass, Horns 

2. Freeloadubt 
(Daniel Ryland, Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Daniel Ryland and Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Daniel Ryland - Programming, Keys, Bass Guitar 
Tom Broome - Hats & Ride 
Julien Dyne - Drums 
Cam Allen - Flute 
Isaac Aesili - Sub Bass, Horns, Programming 

3. Teacups 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Marika Hodgson - Bass Guitar 
Isaac Aesili - Programming, Synths, Synth Bass, Horns 

4. Te Kano 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Johnathan Crayford - Rhodes 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Marika Hodgson - Bass Guitar 
Tom Broome - 808 toms 
Isaac Aesili - Programming, Synths 

5. Treat the feel 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Julien Dyne - Drums 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Isaac Aesili - Programming, Synths, Synth Bass, Horns 

6. Cherished 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Steph Brown - Piano 
Cherished 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Isaac Aesili - Wurlitzer, Synths 

7. Dose 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Cam Allen - Flute 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Marika Hodgson - Bass Guitar 
Isaac Aesili - Programming, Synths, Synth Bass, Horns 

8. Desire 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Steph Brown - Rhodes 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Marika Hodgson - Bass Guitar 
Cam Allen - Flute 
Julien Dyne - Drums 
Isaac Aesili - Programming, Synths, Synth Bass, Horns, Percussion 

9. Shifting 
(Rachel Fraser & Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Rachel Fraser and Isaac Aesili 
Rachel Fraser - Vocals 
Johnathan Crayford - Rhodes, Synth Solo 
Marika Hodgson - Bass Guitar 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Tom Broome - Hats, Cymbals 
Julien Dyne - Drums 
Isaac Aesili - Sub Bass, Horns, Programming 

10. Do it 
(Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Daniel Ryland - Guitar 
Marika Hodgson - Bass Guitar 
Isaac Aesili - Programming, Synths, Synth Bass 

11. Stutter Step 
(Isaac Aesili) 
Produced by Isaac Aesili 
Cam Allen - Flute 
Steph Brown - Rhodes 
Isaac Aesili - Synths, Synth Bass, Keys, Programming 

Vocals recorded @ Red Bull Studio Auckland by Ben Lawson 
Guitar recorded @ Organik Musik Workz by Ben Horton 
Steph Brown Rhodes and Piano recorded @ The Lab by Olly Harmer 

Production by Isaac Aesili @ Ariki International 
Mixed @ Red Bull Studio Auckland by Ben Lawson and Isaac Aesili 
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

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04 Yaw - Where Would You Be

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FSX-024:  Charlotte Dos Santos - Cleo
coming out June 21st on Fresh Selects: http://freshselects.bandcamp.com/album/cleo

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/vGwRO3evKr0

Written & performed by Charlotte Dos Santos
Produced by Fredfades
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert for Almachrome

Follow:
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@fredfades
@freshselects

Cleo

Charlotte Dos Santos "Watching You"

"Lost in the Sauce" is the second single from King Garbage's debut LP, Make It Sweat, out 9/22 on Styles Upon Styles. Kicking off the album with a bittersweet vibe, laid-back yet celebratory with a hangdog's sense of perseverance, the track is a lover's inebriated lament for one last jam before heading home and starting it all over again.

King Garbage’s Make It Sweat LP will be available on September 22, 2017 from Styles Upon Styles.

Learn More: bit.ly/SUS025-KG

King Garbage – Lost In The Sauce (SUS025)

Taken from Jitwam.'s sophomore album, out May 3 via Tartelet Records.

Info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/jitwam-returns-with-honeycomb-album

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Premiere: Jitwam. - temptations

Quick intro edit I made of @lionbabe's really dope single, opening with the sample used on the beat. 

Eunice Collins is forever!

Treat Me Like Fire (Eunice & Mawkus' Hotel Edit)

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