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Fresh Selects continues our series of remixes from Mirror Gazer's 2020 album 'Ordeal Erasure' – this time going worldwide with two intercontinental remixes of the New Wave-inspired album stand-out, "Use Me." 

Fred Simon of Milan, Italy gives a Modern Funk boost to the track with an undeniable, face-twisting synth leading the way.

Remix Produced & Mixed by Fred Simon
Vocals & Lyrics by Mirror Gazer

Mastered by Patrick Brown at Different Fur Studios 

Artwork & Design by Tawfiq Mardini 
Lettering & Inspiration by Brian Blomerth 

A&R: Kenny / Fresh Selects 

FSX-051-01 © 2021 Fresh Selects.

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Mirror Gazer "Use Me (Fred Simon Remix)"

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

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"Sweet Things" from LIVING TIME : The Moxtape Vol 2 
SWEET THINGS 
WRITTEN by Dominic " MOCKY" Salole 
PRODUCED BY MOCKY 
MOCKY : Vocals /  Drums / BAss / Guitar / PIANO  / percussion /  Recorder 
Magenta Harley : vocals 
Recording engineer Mike Boden 
Mixed by Renaud LEtang 
Recorded at Perfect sound studios Hollywood 

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Sweet Things

The Odd Tape

On the Table

Written and arranged by Oscar Jerome 
Produced by Jay Thomas Heigl, Oscar Jerome, Maxwell Owin 
Mixed and mastered by Jay Thomas Heigl 

Personnel: 
Oscar Jerome - Vocals & Guitar 
Jack Polley - Bass 
Moses Boyd - Drums 
Theo Erskine - Tenor Saxophone 
Joe Armon-Jones - Keyboard

Give Back What You Stole From Me

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Produced by - Speakman Sound

Cause and Effect

Cause And Effect

Produced by Maxwell Owin & Oscar Jerome
Bass Guitar by Jack Polley
Mixed by Beni Giles



**LIVE DATES 2019**

Headline Tour:
20th Feb   - EartH, LONDON  
21st Feb     - Le Pop-up du Label, PARIS
22nd Feb   - Bitterzoet, AMSTERDAM 
24th Feb    - Depot, LEUVEN
26th Feb    - Ruby Sessions, DUBLIN (solo)

11-17th March - SXSW Austin, Texas

Tickets: 
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'Origin (Deluxe Edition)', released 13 March 2020 on Ninja Tune: https://jordanrakei.lnk.to/origin-deluxeSo

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London based quintet @knkjs are releasing their debut album, Hidden Lines, this June via Running Circles. Ethereal and arresting, listen to the lead track Black Idiom Pt.2 which explores the themes of memory and experience.

Kinkajous - Black Idiom Pt.2 (TS Premiere)

Mike Casey, Blori - Breathe In

Co-produced in quarantine with a buddy from my Valencia Spain days, this is a whole new style for me!

Breathe In

saxophone-based artist & composer
GRAMMYs "NEXT" Class of 2023

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