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„The chorus melody of this song developed while Julius and I were in the studio together. When he played the melody for the first time to me it felt like an enlightenment. Julius’ sound and soloing is so wonderful and clear, mixed with his calm personality he sometimes seems like a lighthouse to me. Standing there, sending out his rays of sound to help people find their way.“

ALL MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND MIXED BY OPEK
SAX: JULIUS VAN RHEE

MASTER - LEON MACHE
ARTWORK - PARISSA CHARGI & DIE OTTOS
PHOTO - OPEK

„Opek prefers the cozy retirement life over the hectic leasing lifestyle. The beatproducer, drummer and rapper was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. Not on coal and not on gold, but somewhere where there was a computer and a big brother who explained to him around 2004 how ‘Fruity Loops’ works and what a snare is. And then there was hip hop, this thing that can suddenly fill every spare minute.

After years of drunken freestyles in the park and nights of producing on Windows 98 computers, he moved on (via excursions into guitar music) to jazz. This wondrous music brought Opek to the Netherlands in 2011, where he devoted himself to the art of jazz drumming for 4 years. After that he landed in Dortmund with empty pockets. Eventhough he was filled with doubt, he kept firing up the machines, even the MPC had a bigger purpose than a doorstop or ashtray holder.

Expeditions then took Opek to almost every smoky backstage in Germany and Switzerland, especially as a drummer and producer in the trio ‘Schlakks, Opek & Razzmatazz’. He now shares an office space with ‘Cerm MC’ aka. ‘Cmern’. This is how the joint project ‘Cmern & Opsay’ came into being, where even a serious word about bumpy beats is allowed to fall.

The greyness of the city is and remains the inspiration and drive for Opek to create even more cozy sounds. And so he continues to create hits that could be played in a museum in 400 years, provided that the USB sticks will last.“

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Smile (From You)

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South London Jazz Rap group Summers Sons excite with an updated and matured sound on their new album Nostalgia. Brothers Turt (rap) and Slim (production) have created a masterful coming-of-age rap album from a 90s baby perspective. Nostalgia is a classic in the making. Over the course of ten songs, Summers Sons reflect on their past, present and future as sons, brothers, husbands, fathers and friends. Accompanied by longtime friend and musical partner C.Tappin, Alt R&B sensation KeepVibesNear and MC/community activist Eerf Evil.

Since signing with Melting Pot Music in 2018, Summers Sons have released two albums plus various EPs, a beat tape and a collabo project with Twit One as Syrup. They are part of The Silhouettes Project (alongside Enny, Kofi Stone, Bel Cobain, Manic MC, Lex Amor and more) and kicked off their own label Lightworks earlier this year. 

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All tracks produced & mixed by Slim. 
All lyrics written & performed by Turt. 
Additional vocals on “Give Thanks”, “Three Sixty” & “Say Less” C.Tappin. 
Additional vocals on “This N That” by Eerf Evil. 
Additional vocals on “Nostalgia Pt. 2” by KeepVibesNear.
Keys on “Give Thanks”, “Nostalgia Pt. 2” & “Songbird” by C.Tappin. 
Horns on “Give Thanks” & “Nostalgia Pt.II” by Miles Bonny. 
Mastered by Roe Beardie. 
Artwork by Robert Winter & Jeremias Diekman.

Cat No: MPM 305
Artist: Summers Sons
Titel: Nostalgia

© ℗ 2021 Melting Pot Music

Summers Sons - Nostalgia Pt. 2 (feat. KeepVibesNear)

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New single “Minotauro” by Pachakuti & young.vishnu! The duo has established itself as one of the most promising teams on the beat & jazz scene.  Based in Berlin and Hildesheim (with family roots in Colombia & the Netherlands), they are crossing lo-fi beats, jazz, latin and new age music with seemingly effortless ease. 

Pachakuti plays sax, flute, piano, clarinet and harmonium while young.vishnu is handling the production and adding bass, drums & percussion. Signed to Melting Pot Music, the duo has released the full-lenght album „Semilla“ and the 4-track-EP „Cuentos Cortos“ since summer 2020. 

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Produced by Pachakuti and young.vishnu 
Bass, Clarinet, Keys, Organ & Saxophone by Pachakuti 
Drums by young.vishnu 
Percussion by Eric Owusu
Mixed & mastered by Roe Beardie 
Artwork by Jonathan Conda


Cat No: MPM 310-4
Artist: Pachakuti & young.vishnu 
Titel: Minotauro

© ℗ 2021 Melting Pot Music

Pachakuti & young.vishnu - Minotauro

Stream 'Je deviens Nous' here: https://bfan.link/je-deviens-nous

French multi-instrumentalist @diboujone announces the arrival of a new album 'Colorful' with a first single more than seducing: 'Je Deviens Nous' with MokaBoka, DkDizzy and Vendou. Composed during a period of loneliness due to the pandemic, "the song appeals to that fallen love and the hope that it will become us again," he says. Steamy guitars and synths surrounded by orchestral layers and a lo-fi beat allow listeners to feel all their emotions.

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Diboujone - Je deviens Nous (ft. MokaBoka, DkDizzy, Vendou)

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German Jazz/Beat duo Pachakuti & young.vishnu are taking their joint project to new heights. Organically developing instrumental Hip-Hop into full-fledged orchestral Jazz and Groove, they create an excitingly eclectic blend of world music traditions. ‘Arjuna’s Fate’ (feat. Yami Maho) is the third single off their upcoming album ‘Dédalo’, to be released on April 29th digitally and on double-vinyl.

Pachakuti is a musician and producer with family roots in Colombia. He plays keys, tenor saxophone and clarinet. While living and working in Berlin, he draws inspiration from the natural world, investigative travels, and ancestral traditions of Latin America and beyond. His expressive and rhythmical playing and his instantaneous compositions are directed at the human core, arousing subtle experiences. While not being conformed to one style, it always invokes a sense of liveliness and depth to be delved in.

young.vishnu is a producer and DJ. He has studied philosophy and music in Hildesheim, Germany, which heavily influenced his views on meaning and mythology in music. In his DJ sets he selects and plays classic and contemporary Funk, Soul and Afrobeat. His practice as a DJ informs his work behind the boards directly, adding also more organic grooves and broader spectrum of musical styles to his in Hip-Hop based production.

If you had to put one single tag on their forthcoming album ‘Dédalo’, the best choice would be Jazz. That being said, Pachakuti and young.vishnu’s sound worlds might be better described in their own words: „We just make music and try to incorporate what we love about it“. They are musical freethinkers with shared interests in eastern philosophy and botany who interweave Hip-Hop, Latin and Funk with musical storytelling and world mythology.

Mixed and mastered by Roe Beardie at The Brewery Studios, Berlin. The artwork itself merges the visionary art of Mexican painter Sergio Chávez Hollar and the work of Carsten Pölking of the Nima Compositions Archive.

Pachakuti & young.vishnu signed with Melting Pot Music in 2020 and released their debut album ‘Semilla’ in the same year. Followed by a string of singles and EPs. 

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Produced by Pachakuti & young.vishnu. 
Keys, Kena (Flute), Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet & Bass by Pachakuti.
Bass, Trumpet & Sampling by young.vishnu.
Co-Production, Drums and Percussion by Yami Maho.
Percussion by Eric Owusu. 
Guitar by Jens Aurich.
Tuba by Juri Peters.
Mixed and mastered by Roe Beardie at Brewery Studios, Berlin. 
Artwork by Sergio Chávez Hollar and Carsten Pölking.

Cat No: MPM 302-4
Artist: Pachakuti & young.vishnu 
Titel: Arjuna’s Fate (feat. Yami Maho)

© ℗ 2022 Melting Pot Music

Pachakuti & young.vishnu - Arjuna's Fate (feat. Yami Maho)

Proud to present a Groovy mix from Onda Tapes founder & DJ Known as Snow from Greece. 

Art by one & onlee Kylab
From Lille with <3

Beatbliotek Radio presents Known as Snow

Stream, download & vinyl LP: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/closedistance

New album by pioneering German beatmaker FloFilz. On ‘Close Distance’, the LoFi-turned-HiFi producer blends Hip-Hop inspired beats with Contemporary Jazz, Alt R&B and a little Rap. Featuring Alfa Mist, Blue Lab Beats, Jerome Thomas, KeepVibesNear, Summers Sons & C.Tappin, Dal & Hunter Rose. ‘Close Distance’ is his fourth album for Melting Pot Music. 

Close Distance literally means “near in space or time” (or “nah dran”, as we say in German). The 16 songs on ‘Close Distance’ came to life over the past two years. Many sketches were birthed at FloFilz's old home studio in Aachen. Some songs were made from scratch in London, where Flo did sessions with UK Jazz supremos Alfa Mist and Blue Lab Beats at their studios. One was recorded in a kitchen in Streatham, where rap duo Summers Sons and pianist C.Tappin reside.

More sessions were already in planning when lockdown kicked in and travelling was no longer an option. Around the same time, Flo was about to move from Aachen to Berlin which he eventually did in November 2020. Once installed, he started sharing beats and files out of his makeshift studio in Moabit. Beat folders were sent to London where two of our favourite new Alt R&B vocalists – Jerome Thomas and KeepVibesNear – live. Another one went to Dartmoor where the Jazz/Hip-Hop trio Dal added their magic touch while Hunter Rose processed her sultry vocals in Cape Town - 12 flying hours away from Berlin.

The album artwork has been created by Indonesian illustrator Fatchurofi, who caught FloFilz's attention through his work for everybody’s favourite band Khruangbin. Taking influences from Japanese Ukiyo-e art, Fatchurofi is adding a zen-like clarity (and tranquility) that resonates very well with the album.

It is no exaggeration to say that FloFilz has not only created another inspiring album with Close Distance but one that demonstrates how music can close the distance which we all have experienced (and still do) in a beautiful way.


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All tracks produced and mixed by FloFilz at home, Berlin and Aachen.
Mastered by Roe Beardie at Brewery Studios, Berlin. 
Illustration by Muhammad Fatchurofi. 
Lettering & graphic design by Parissa Charghi. 

Cat No: MPM 293
Artist: FloFilz
Titel: Close Distance

© ℗ 2022 Melting Pot Music

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

FloFilz - Orbit ° Sundog

Drum Allegory

Solemn

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Melting Pot Music is a record label from Cologne, Germany. We like beats, rap, jazz, & soul music.

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