Maxi Maccari - No al paramisismo (Original mix)

DJ Cam & sommelier Frédéric Beneix present Wine4Melomanes, an eclectic and unique compilation album concept, matching fine wines with rare pieces of music produced in the same year.

Connecting the complexity, sensuality, liveliness of a drink with the harmony, arrangements, voice, orchestration, rhythm and melody of a song, Wine4Melomanes tours France, Germany, Holland, the USA and even Slovakia in search of only the finest musical flavours.

Ranging from jazz, to pop-rock, to blue-eyed soul from the early 70s right through to 2016, Wine4Melomanes is defined by its sense of musical opulence, with warm rich tones and understated quality evident throughout. Frédéric Beneix’s expert wine pairing suggestions can be found in the album liner notes, or at wine4melomanes.com

DJ and producer Frédéric Beneix has released original music and edits on several internationally respected imprints, and he also serves as sommelier editor for Sommeliers International Magazine. DJ Cam is known for his pioneering abstract hip-hop musical compositions, his virtuoso use of technology and his fascination for acoustic jazz gaining him international acclaim.

Embryo - Knast Funk

Out All Day

Slowaxx is the solo project and live band created by Riccardo Chiarucci, a music producer, arranger and composer based in Tuscany (Italy). Here we present his first album "Shapes Interfusion’’, offering a unique blend of jazz, electronic music and hip-hop, recorded with a collective of musicians and the rapper Young A.M.A.

The creative process of the album involves a mix of home-studio production and live recorded sessions. Starting from ideas and demos from Riccardo, all tracks are the result of collaborative jams with musicians bringing their own styles and perception to the table. These sessions created a dialogue of personal vibrations, blending together to emerge as a collective sound.

Emoyeni

Libyan Reggae at its peak grooves courtesy of Benghazi-born Ahmed Ben Ali. After working with Ahmed on the 12” hit “Subhana” (Habibi012), Habibi Funk is back with a full-length release focusing on Ahmed’s releases from the mid 2000’s. The tracks on the LP represent a blisteringly deep collection of heavy reggae rhythms and synthesized grooves from a singular creative force, inspired as much from Jamaican sonics as from Libyan folkloric styles, as Ahmed says, “it’s the Libyan style, not some bullshit.” 

Our first and major contact with Libyan music began five-or-so years ago, when we were invited to visit an abandoned tape factory in Tunisia. We have talked about this influential visit more at length for the Free Music release (Habibi021), if you’re interested. Anyhow, the place was astonishing. It had a room full of unused - but already printed - inlay cards for tapes and three large rooms spreading over two floors of unsold stock. A rough guess would be more than 100,000 copies already dubbed with music, many of which were produced for the Libyan market. On top of this the owner, Hechmi, also told us of another 200,000 blank tapes held in a separate unit. Much of the music we found there was clearly influenced by Jamaican music, and we soon realized how popular Reggae music had been in Libya since the 1970’s. 

Reggae in Libya has dominated the charts since its arrival in the 1970’s and flourished with some of the pioneers of Libyan reggae such as Ibrahim Hesnawi, Najib Alhoush and The White Birds Band. Composers like Ahmed Fakroun and Nasser Mizdawi also played around with the genre, although they did not dedicate their sound to it. When we started researching into more contemporary recordings, we quickly came upon Ahmed Ben Ali. Ben Ali is a Libyan singer and producer, whose YouTube channel at the time contained four songs (we later learned they had been uploaded more than ten years prior). Despite the fact that these songs seem to be pretty popular, the channel became inactive a few months after its launch. In the comment section you could read appreciative feedback, not only from Libyans but also people from all over the world who seem to share a common passion for Ben Ali’s sound. 

Generally speaking, there is not really a blueprint on how to find the musicians with whom we would like to re-release music. In this case, we did consider visiting Libya, but in the end, it turned out not to be possible for a number of reasons. We focused our efforts on online research, and eventually we were able to connect with Ahmed by phone. 

Contextualizing his own style, Ben Ali points out that, “The Libyan folkloric rhythm is very similar to the reggae rhythm. So, if Libyan people listen to reggae, it’s easy for them to relate because it sounds familiar. This is the main reason why reggae became so popular here. [...] We played the reggae Libyan style, it’s not the same as in Jamaica. We added our oriental notes to it and if you mix both it becomes something great.” With a bit of laughter, he adds that “...to me it’s still original reggae, it’s the Libyan style, not some bullshit.” 

The album was licensed from Ahmed Ben Ali. We pay 50% of the profits of this release. Only project related costs are deductible from the gross income, research and travel costs come out of our own share. Publishing rights were not included in our agreement.

Habibi Funk 022: Ahmed Ben Ali - Subhana

Antonio Variacoes - Cancao De Engate
By Niskens (Accoustique Song)

Antonio Variacoes - Cancao De Engate, By Niskens (Accoustique Song)

Mali Denhou

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Boubacar Traoré - Mali Denhou

Compuesta por Carlos Carty con participación en los arreglos de Miguel Figueroa (Chino Figueroa)

SUN DANCE [Música Andina Instrumental, Feat Chino Figueroa]

Sofatalk goes full broken beat style with "No Frills". His mini LP "South Side" is out now, go grab it!

South Side

No Frills

Sofatalk - No Frills

This is from a while back, but for some reason I forgot to upload here... Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hLjKYUhMQc

L'Amore

No es miedo a las alturas, es miedo a k no sea lo suficientemente alto como para saltar..............

Gus Gus - David

Hola!! Me llamo Maxi. Nací en Rosario, Argentina en 1988, pero me crié a 70 kilómetros de ahí, en la localidad de Cañada de Gómez. Soy dj, periodista de música, al principio de todo, de la niñez a la adolescencia fui baterista, también tuve una pequeña empresa de sonido, varios programas de radios. Junto a mi gran amigo Palinio Serafin, creamos fiestas como Shock Yunke, Yunke Inland, Rave the House, durante 10 años y la alegría que será para siempre, también tuve un sitio web de noticias sobre la escena electrónica que se llamó Rosario Clubbing y, además, fui editor de sonoramaradio.com. Conocí varias provincias de mi país poniendo música. Viajé muchos kilómetros para hacer bailar a mucha gente. Compartí cabina con djs internacionales como Guy Mantzur de Israel o Tom Hades de Bélgica. También con grandes djs de Argentina como el dúo Spitfire integrado por Luis Nieva y Miguel Silver. Todas fiestas que para mí van a ser inolvidables. Puedes encontrar producciones mías en You Tube, Spotify, I Tunes, Beatport, Juno, Soundcloud. 