Relaxing 2014

Summer 2014

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Possible Signs

Selections #75

Disconnect and Decompress

Composition: Drew Moten
Bass/Vocals/Lyrics: Drew Moten

Concert

The Beat ft. MF DOOM

Preview track from the new album "Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth".
Release in Fall 2013.

Pulsing: Tired Lungs

Taken from Redline Graffiti's upcoming EP "The Drill" https://soundcloud.com/redlinegraffiti/sets/the-drill-ep.
released April 4th, 2014

Available on:
iTunes: https://itun.es/i6654Ck
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/PZu2Tu
Amazon: http://ow.ly/vGol8
Bandcamp: http://ow.ly/vppQ4

Written, Sung & Composed by Drew Moten
Produced & Arranged by Drew Moten & Donald Martin
Mixed by Donald Martin
Recording Engineer - Ken Barnum at Recording Arts|Fairfax, VA
Piano - Drew Moten
Drums - Dantè Pope
Guitar - Ajene Harley
Drum Programming, Samples, Bass Synth - Donald Martin
Junior June - Malvin Moten

Verse 1
Variants of 'A', were all she
Ever was a 'G' about, but
She dug that I was never so good there
And she let me call her square
Even though

Chorus:
You can say hello
Say something else
(my name is Junior June) (x2)

Verse 2
You'd better learn to work was all he
Ever worried me about but
He thought that I was never so good there
Dues; he paid two times his share
Even though

Chorus

Bridge:
What do you fear in earnest?
Am I not strong enough? Do you love me still?
And better I know, I know, that I have it 
Still it is hard sometimes

You deserve yourself
Some peace some peace
You deserve to see your pride shared
You deserve the world oh (2x) Junior June

Junior June

Purchase "Spectre" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spectre-single/id825607441

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

Design and layout by Scott Hansen
Photography by Reuben Wu

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

WEB - http://www.tychomusic.com 
TWITTER - http://www.twitter.com/iso50 
FB - http://www.facebook.com/tychomusic 
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/iso50 
INSTAGRAM - @iso50 


Spectre

Soulection ~ The Sound of Tomorrow&#13;
http://facebook.com/soulection | http://twitter.com/soulection&#13;
Discover: https://soundcloud.com/mikos-da-gawd | DL Full EP: https://soundcloud.com/soulection/sets/mikos-da-gawd-soulection-white | #WhiteLabelFriday&#13;
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Six white labels in and we're excited to present San Francisco native, Mikos Da Gawd, on this installation. DJ &amp; producer, Mikos pulls inspiration from early 2000's neosoul and energy from his live sets.&#13;
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The name Mikos Da Gawd is a mixture of humor and power as Da Gawd takes control over your ears with the emotionally driven and sometimes nostalgic samples in his productions.&#13;
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His White Label is a funky, bouncy, dynamic musical ride laced with familiar soundbytes as well as collaborations with Mr. Carmack and Tele Fresco.&#13;
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Make sure to catch up on our whole White label Series here:soundcloud.com/soulection/sets/soulection-white-label-series&#13;
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Executive Produced: Joe Kay&#13;
Artwork: Andre Power!&#13;
Words: Jacqueline Mari&#13;
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www.soulection.com

Download EP

Mikos Da Gawd - What Would I Do

Will be released as a part of my forthcoming Album.
This is a collaboration we did during a 3 day Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp in San Francisco. Everything in this track was created and recorded in 1.5 days in the hotel room where RBMA had set up a few gears for us. Shouts to Red Bull Music Academy!!

Find out more about the artists:
JusMoni: soundcloud.com/jusmoni
starRo: soundcloud.com/starro
Mr.Carnack: soundcloud.com/mr_carmack
Teeko: soundcloud.com/teekomusic
Mikos Da Gawd: soundcloud.com/mikos-da-gawd


Catch Me (ft. JusMoni) -  starRo X Mr. Carmack X Teeko X Mikos Da Gawd

This is the 3rd and final track on the first Chazlo Bains EP, "Pardon me, Please"

Grey Area

Taken from The Drill
released April 4th, 2014

Available on:
iTunes: https://itun.es/i6654Ck
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/PZu2Tu
Amazon: http://ow.ly/vGol8
Bandcamp: http://ow.ly/vppQ4

Credits:
Composed, Produced & Sung By Drew Moten 
Drums - Dante Pope 
Alto Saxephone - Malik H. Carter of The Primary Element 
Guitar - Ajene Harley 
Drum Programming, Synth Bass, Rhodes - Donald Martin 
Mixed By Donald Martin 

Recorded at Recording Arts|Fairfax, VA

Verse: 
Staying late at Mayfair 
You know Jackie is still up 
And waiting for you? 

How's your little man? I heard 
your man's the little man on the drums 

I was the best me I've ever been 
When you saw me cry for parachutes 

Chorus 3x: 
And it rolls right off; we roll we roll fruit skins, 
They sling hopes on our shoulders 
They aim to live through them.

*Verse*

Mayfair

Crooked Colours - In Your Bones 
Available through Sweat It Out Music.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/in-your-bones-ep-single/id867294906

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/CrookedColours
Twitter | https://twitter.com/crooked_colours
Instagram | @crookedcolours
Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/crookedcolours
Soundcloud | https://soundcloud.com/crookedcolours

In Your Bones

Astral Black Presents - Frass FM

1. Sivey - Multiples
2. Jon Phonics - Yoga Selfie
3. Slugabed - Inner City Life 2k14
4. Alphabets Heaven - Bamboo
5. Strict Face - Cardinals
6. Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody (DJ Milktray Edit) 
7. Inkke - Power Venom
8. Esgar - Whos
9. Opal Block - Galapagos
10. K15 - Know Your Intentions
11. Jaisu - Cold feat. It'sNate
12. Budgie - Astreality

Sivey - Multiples

JAHKOY ~ Downtown II (Produced By wavsbyleo & JAHKOY)

COLLAB W/ Night lovell
(RIP KLNV)

https://soundcloud.com/night_lovell
https://twitter.com/nightlovell

https://soundcloud.com/iamtriads
https://twitter.com/iamtriads

Bandcamp

Ｍ Ｉ Ｓ Ｔ ft. Night lovell

Today's Free Music Monday is from the soulful electronic pop duo Anushka. Alongside the release of their debut album 'Broken Circuit', out today on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings, they have very kindly given us this exclusive extra track. Enjoy! 

‘Broken Circuit’ is out now on iTunes: 
smarturl.it/anushkabrokencircuit

@anushkauk
https://www.facebook.com/AnushkaUK
http://www.anushkaofficial.com
https://twitter.com/AnushkaUK


FMM: Anushka - One More Time

Bio
@ohyeahpaulchin is a multidisciplinary artist & designer based in Toronto, ON. He works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer in the real world, and as a producer and DJ on the internet. Having grown from making breakbeats in his bedroom for a now-defunct rap career to producing more refined, yet less distinct, flavours of electronic music, Paul has self-released two solo EPs and one split EP with Cosmonostro teammate @elicolburn. His Cosmonostro debut, <a href="http://smarturl.it/cosmonostro-fossil">Fossil</a>, was a runaway success on the 2013 Advent Calendar, and he's finally returned with the full-length effort he's been crafting for months.

Paul Chin - The Forest
Release Date : 07/07/2014

Tracklist
01 See The Forest ft. Johanna Wienhølts
02 Phantom Limbs
03 Sparrow Eye
04 Triumph Howl

About
Building on themes and a sound initially explored in Paul Chin's previous EP, <a href="http://smarturl.it/love-letters">Love Letters</a>, The Forest explores the story of the individual and the world surrounding. Inspired by the writings of Donald Miller, the EP traces Chin's dreams for harmonious balance between care for the individual tree, and the greater forest which it is a part of. Chin also enlists frequent collaborator @johanna-wienh-lts as a companion storyteller in his latest electronic fable, composing his most thoughtful piece to date.

"I am a tree in a story about a forest" — Donald Miller, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years

Credits
Produced by Paul Chin (SOCAN)
Artwork by Paul Chin & @phoebe-wai-yan-lau

Social
<a href="http://twitter.com/ohyeahpaulchin">Twitter</a>
<a href="http://facebook.com/ohyeahpaulchin">Facebook</a>
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/ohyeahpaulchin">SoundCloud</a>

The Forest

Buy on iTunes

Phantom Limbs

I accidentally deleted this from my SC a while ago

Its an oldie but goodie.. Hope you enjoy

MF DOOM on the production <3

Melancholy

The first of several upcoming REMIXES of tracks from the soundtrack to the award winning film SONG FROM THE FOREST, www.songfromtheforest.com
telling the story of Louis Sarno of New Jersey who has lived for thirty years in the Central African Republic
recording the music of Bayaka Pygmies.  Coming this Fall to a theater near you….

This track by Bayaka People (FaltyDL remix feat. Shanghai Den and Jim Jarmusch) , stay tuned for more.

https://www.facebook.com/songfromtheforest

www.songfromtheforest.com

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bayakapygmies


Bayaka People (FaltyDL Remix Feat. Shanghai Den And Jim Jarmusch)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/07/you-dont-make-proper-sounds

Download

2ndSun - You Don't Make Proper Sounds

 depurð EP

Þreyttur

homage to the soul & neo-soul legends. Hope you guys enjoy.
yeah it's ya boi on the vocals. 

artwork by https://soundcloud.com/abstractyouth

Heart this on hypem here: http://hypem.com/track/25ga2/Chris+McClenney*+-+Live+it+Up+(demo)

My 2014 Discography:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o1858yjlo00b857/McClenney_2014.zip

Free Download

Live it Up (demo)

Untitled.... Prod By @InfamousReptar_

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"British ambient band Marconi Union has drummed up the world's most relaxing song: Weightless is 8 mins 10 sec. of aural bliss" - Time Magazine, Best Inventions of the Year. 

"An excellent compilation from the always interesting Just Music" - The Sunday Times

"The Ambient Zone is an album that feels like the world is peeling away, layer by layer, into multi-colored panoramas, just for you" - Echoes (CD of The Month)

The Ambient Zone is a beautiful journey into ambient and electronica inspired by universal themes of calmness, purity, relaxation and enrichment where Weightless is coupled with some exclusive first releases and other blissfully ambient tracks from Just Music artists and alumni.

Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

"The Ambient Zone is an album that just screams (albeit quietly) of pure class" - Fluid Nation.

Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 1

Buy the album

Marconi Union - Weightless

Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly

Taken from the record "Bummer Pop" 

https://velvetbluemusic.com 


JAMES & EVANDER - How It Feels

Taken from the unreleased album "Weightless" (Ambient Transmissions Vol.2)

Weightless Part 5

Weightless (Part 5)

MAGIC BRONSON is an Electronic/Alternative duo from Los Angeles made up of producers Michael Nicastro, and Matthew Lieberman.

Released May 28th 2013

Recorded At: L.A.P.C (Van Nuys, CA), Revolution-Sound (Reseda, CA), Blackler Mastering (Brooklyn, NY)

Engineered by: Michael Nicastro, Matthew Lieberman and Tim Hilliard

Additional Engineers: Kevin Blackler (Rider Rider)

Produced by: Michael Nicastro, Matthew Lieberman, Tim Hilliard 

Additional Producers: Chris Mcfarland (Rider Rider)

Mixed by: Tim Hilliard at Revolution-Sound

Mastered by: Matthew Nelson at Foreword Productions

All Lyrics By: Michael Nicastro and Matthew Lieberman

Magic Bronson is: 
Michael Nicastro - Vocals/ Synth / Percussion / Production
Matthew Lieberman - Bass / Synth / Production

Additional Muscians:

Rider Rider 
Pedal Steel Guitar: Justin Gaynor
Electric Guitar: Brandon Loulias
Percussion: John Nellon
Synth: Chris Mcfarland

Nor'Easter
Synth: Tim Hilliard
Female Vocals: Renee Cohen

What I Did
Electric Guitar: Michael Carlito and Tim Hilliard

Not Watching
Electric Guitar: Michael Carlito and Tim Hilliard
Percussion: Dusty Schaller 

Werewolf
Electric Guitar: Tim Hilliard

Cover Artwork By: Corey Ward

Thanks to our parents, family, friends and everyone who's supported us. Special thanks to Woodlake Records, Ryan Nolan aka Raw Coco, Tim Hilliard, Dusty Schaller, Brandon Loulias, Chris Mcfarland, Kevin Blackler, Alexandra Loulias, Paul Johnson, Ally Pekins, Justin Gaynor, John Nellon, Arrow Bar and the rest of our NYC friends, 805 The Shakedown, Eliquate, Thomas Dawson, Brian Crabtree, Michael Carlito, Paige-Sierra, Corey Ward, High Drags, Jeff Liebstein and the whole L.A.P.C family.