Jogador (Single)

Jogador

Puto (Single)

Puto

Who better to remix Lisbon’s Milton Gulli than another resident of the coastal Portuguese capital city? Reinforcing the bouncy funk of Milton’s chorus-laden commentary on racism in football - Jogador - is eclectic British producer and DJ Mr Bird, who over the many albums, 12s and remixes he has released over the years, shares Milton’s mastery of many beat-heavy genres. Rearranging the structure of the original, Mr Bird focuses on the huge chorus, pumping up the beats and energy, adding drum breaks, percussion and cheeky breakdowns to create an irresistible sunshine beach party banger. The release also comes with the gorgeously produced original. This has definitely got summer in its sights!

Jogador (Mr Bird Remix)

GhostChant takes the string-laden epic of the gorgeous opening song from Milton Gulli’s debut album ‘Quotidiano’ and drives it slowly into the desert, the heat palpably shimmering off the burning sand. Wavey yet heavy, like a shoegaze band remixed by the L.A. Beats scene, Joe Cornwell has reimagined ‘Lobo’ as a haze, Milton’s guitars swirling as the rock solid beats and bass just about keep you grounded. Hot music for a slow day.

Milton Gulli - Lobo (Ghostchant Remix)

Congolese-born and resident of the world, O. De Lanzac brings us her distinctive super deep Afro-House rework brimming with atmosphere, unhurried groove, and gentle tension. The hypnotic congas and deep 4/4 kick are the bedrock for the warm soulful keyboard chords and Milton’s delicious melody lines and harmonies, intangible waves of heavenly synths, and subtle percussion add to its mesmeric spirit.

O. De Lanzac has delivered a masterclass in restrained dancefloor action that will appeal to discerning DJs across the spectrum be it Afro / Latin / Brazilian or Deep House.

Jogador (O. De Lanzac Remix)

The lush early 80s Lovers Rock / Roots Reggae vibe of Milton’s  original song from his ‘Quotidiano’  LP gets a superb, modern dub remix from Greece’s premiere Dub producer Professor Skank. 

 With a musical CV that includes working with  reggae heavyweights such as Max Romeo, Earl Sixteen and having been mentored by Mad Professor from a young age, Professor Skank knows exactly how to bring the dub pressure. His time in Mad Professor’s legendary Ariwa studios is clear to hear; keeping Milton’s voice and melody but little else, the bulging digital bass fills the speakers, with newly added militant horns, keys and drums driving the track with righteous energy, the magic spells of the echo box taking the intimate  tropical feel of the original into serious soundsystem territory. Portugal, Greece and Jamaica collide with perfect results!

This Is Only Sweet

This Is Only Sweet (Professor Skank Remix)

Nottingham’s UK Bass explorer Origin One (Tru Thoughts, NICE UP!) has delivered a magnificent liquid drum and bass remix of Milton Gulli’s string-laden anthem ‘Lobo’ from his debut album on Tangential - ‘Quotidiano’. 

An electronic exploration of space in time, it's a spacious roller of a track, inspired by early Bukem, High Contrast and Calibre but sounding as fresh as tomorrow. The conscious, yet dancefloor floor led remix retains the orchestral majesty and atmosphere, while injecting the song with an irresistible energy with its rolling drum and bass breaks. 

As Origin One explains - “I Instantly fell in love with the track and the remix pretty much wrote itself, the composition of the original just clicked in like lego with my own production style.”

Lobo (Origin One Remix)

One of two superb dub versions of tracks from Milton Gulli’s brilliant ‘Quotidiano’ album by the keyboard player and producer Guillaume "Gee" Metenier. Founder of the acclaimed Parisian label Gee Recordings, he’s worked across the globe with legends such as Sly & Robbie and reggae royalty Courtney John, and it shows!

His unique take on reggae and dub mixes psychedelic soul-jazz, funk and early reggae but for his dub of ‘Cacimbo’ he has gone deep to create something that could both shake a dance or soundtrack a slow drive along the coast. Switching the riddim from its original dancehall pulse to a skipping laidback drum groove and a cavernous bass line, Milton’s honeyed voice and guitar are captured and released in waves of ocean-deep echo box tape delays whilst the beds of keys keep it dreamy.

Richly produced and full of elegantly filtered warmth, this is how to do a dub version!

Cacimbo

Cacimbo (Soul Sugar Dub)

Now this is a very different take on the dub version. 

The original album recording of ‘Marrabenta (Pés Pretos)’ was a percussion, acoustic guitar and string-drenched soul-jazz groover that sounded like a mid 70s Charles Stepney production but Milton’s old sparring partner João Gomes from Portuguese afrobeat and afrofunk collective Cacique97 (and contemporary funaná band Fogo Fogo), has completely transformed the song into a textural soundscape, the propulsion of the original song rinsed out into a heavenly ambient wash of delayed vocal snippets and tape echoes. 

The guitars remain as do fleeting memories of the flutes and strings, unveiling a sleepy, romantic response to the album’s prototype. 

This is the purest of soulful chillout music.

Marrabenta (João Gomes Dub)

Dr. Drumah AKA the brilliant drummer and hip hop beatmaker Jorge Dubman from Salvador, Brazil is best known as a member of the instrumental band IFÁ, but his love of the Jamaican masters shines through on this perfectly realised dub version of Milton’s Lovers Rock original. He says that he had reggae as a school and records as teachers and the student was paying attention! 

As authentic sounding as anything on Wackies or Channel One, the bass throbs with subsonic energy while the honeyed vocals, guitars and keys wash over us in waves of manipulated delays and echobox spirituality. 

The simplest of keyboard prods keep the pace while he drops the drums in and out in that classic sound desk muting technique beloved of maestros such as Prince Jammy, Augustus Pablo or Scientist. 

Absolute class.

This Is Only Sweet (Dr Drumah Dub)

The man behind Paris label Gee Recordings, Guillaume Metenier AKA Soul Sugar brings us another masterful dub version of a track from Milton Gulli’s ‘Quotidiano’ LP and it sounds like it came from a classic Compass Point Studios session. 

As soulful as the best 70s and 80s roots songs, he mixes up vintage and contemporary reggae styles with ease. We have sumptuous gospel-reggae keys from Guillaume (we can definitely hear that he studied under jazz organ legend Dr Lonnie Smith!) and a tasty one drop riddim before throwing down a simple dancehall breakdown, releasing Mozambican poet Tchaka Waka Bantu and Milton’s own rapped warning about the power of social media. 

Never losing the song or hiding Milton’s gorgeous vocal melodies (lyrics sung in his native Portuguese of course), this version highlights a meeting of two genuinely top class talents.

Algoritmo (Soul Sugar Dub)

Dub explorer and longtime collaborator Natty Fred takes his friend Milton Gulli’s stunning original and reforms the song into a percussion heavy meditation. Replacing the drums with his own Nyabinghi style percussion, Natty homes into the song’s heartbeat pulse allowing the separate layers of keys, orchestral strings and electric guitar solo to soar over the melodic dub bassline and his own beautifully complimentary staccato strings. A triumph of a remix that is deeply spiritual, sympathetic to the original and yet exposes a new vision of the song.

Lobo (Dub Version by Natty Fred)

From Mozambican descent he was born and raised in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal and has lived in Saudi Arabia, Madeira Island and Mozambique.

Milton Gulli is an artist deeply immersed in the lusophone sounds, and Lisbon’s contemporary african music scene.

His first project Philharmonic Weed started in 1997, releasing the EP “Capital Som” (2003) and the album “Primeiro Mundo” (2007), graciously mixing reggae, funk, soul and african music with conscious lyrics and a very activist attitude.

In 2005 he was invited to be the lead singer for veteran portuguese funk soul band Cool Hipnoise, recording the band´s last album with the same name (2006) and the radio hit “Brother Joe”.

In the same year he and musician/producer Gonçalo Oliveira founded the still active 12 piece afrobeat orchestra Cacique´97. This collective released two albums “Cacique´97” (2009) and “We Used To Be Africans” (2016).

He was also seen exploring dub, reggae and hip hop with The Grasspoppers artistic crew. In Lisbon he has been invited to play with Prince Wadada, Kimi Djabaté, Mercado Negro, Marcelo D2 and was featured in many albums from artists like Rocky Marsiano, IZEM, Cabrita, Sam The Kid, Sagas, XEG and others.

9 years ago he moved to Mozambique and soon started working with the rapper Simba on the acclaimed british label BBE´s release “The Heroes – A Tribute To A Tribe, a Mozambican tribute to a A Tribe Called Quest and, at the same time helping to produce Azagaia´s “Cubaliwa” for Milton´s newly established independent label Kongoloti Records. In Maputo, Milton has produced albums from Deltino Guerreiro, Ras Skunk, Spirits Indigenous and coproduced Granmah´s debut album and also played with Azagaia, Simba, DRP, TP50 and many others. He has composed the soundtrack for the mozambican film Resgate/Redemption, available on Netflix.

His music has always been for the people and about the people. Empowerment of the underprivileged, equality, justice, education for all and a world without borders.

Milton Gulli

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