Sampler MIX from GANGSTER MUSIC VOL 2

INTRO - Uncle Junior

Cause I was Living - Black Milk

Bush to Berkeley - Lil B

Astro Boy - Ozoyo

Questions - Rejjie Snow

Much Given - Ohbliv

Crown of the Serpent - King Kashmere

On for Ras G - Gaslamp Killer

Get Straight to it - Woodie Smalls

Steve Erwin - Big Baby Scumbag

Champion - Mike G

Porto - Wun Two

Allies - Dam Funk

Lovin - Shungu

Dork - Hook

Low End - Med and Premethius

Wrongabtme - Knxwledge

SWIM - Kyeoshin

My friend told me to - Liv.E

Don’t Play it Safe - Zeroh

Vanity Searchin - Open Mike Eagle

Brought to you by ALL CITY RECORDS // RAPPCATS // GANGSTER DOODLES

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GANGSTER MUSIC VOLUME 2 SAMPLER SPECTACULAR

Sonic Sounds with JWords @ The Lot Radio 01 - 23 - 2023

Having spent their formative years in São Paulo Brazil, as a teenager, Lau Ro found themself uprooted from their home. Moving with their family to Europe in search of a better quality of life, their story was like that of many immigrants in the same position. Lau Ro’s parents found work in factories and cleaning jobs, for the first few years in the North of Italy and then in Brighton on England’s Southern coast. “We never managed to visit back home, so my connection to Brazil became largely made up of childhood memories and my fascination with all the 60s and 70s music I could find from there.”

In Brighton, the young non-binary singer and composer would immerse themself amongst the city's vanguard of free-thinking artists and musicians. Lau Ro formed Wax Machine whose prefigurative, psychedelic community provided a glimmer of countercultural hope amid a backdrop of national political decline. From 2020-23, Wax Machine birthed three cult-favourite albums in as many years; indebted in part to their British psychedelic forebears from progressive folk, rock and jazz yore. But the kernel of Lau’s Brazilian sound was already beginning to blossom across Wax Machine’s releases. Now, taking root deeper still, Lau Ro steps forward with their debut album: Cabana.

Named after the small wood cabin at the bottom of their garden where the album was recorded, Cabana is a deeply personal record of memory, self-discovery and imagination. Melancholy and hope combine across ten tracks of dreamy bossa, ambient folk, fuzzy tropicalia and majestic MPB. The music is swathed in masterful string arrangements and trippy electronics in equal part, while Lau Ro’s delicate, yet quietly confident voice takes acerbic aim (in both English and Portuguese) at polluted city life, while dreaming of a utopia, rich with nature and wildlife.

Like the musical equivalent of semantic drift, Lau Ro’s displacement led to the creation of another Brazil. A mythic place in Lau’s soul, as they put it, “where the sunshine and joy of my childhood remained untapped.” Lau continues: “It’s music that might sound as if it came out of a parallel universe Brazil, rather than its modern day landscape. I am nowadays rediscovering Brazil, going back as often as I can and trying to stay connected to these different parts of the world and myself.”

Cabana releases on vinyl LP, CD and digitally on 31st May 2024 via Far Out Recordings.

Lau Ro - Onde Eu Vou

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GG Vybe Takeover - Jenni Yo - 20 Apr 2024

New Delhi and San Francisco based GHUNGHRU presents sounds influenced by Indian classical music and other traditional sounds of India, modular synthesizers, drones, lyricism, and texture.

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Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ghunghru/episodes/ghunghru-22nd-may-2024

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Mr Bongo proudly presents the debut album from Tasmania-born, Melbourne-based, Finn Rees. Gliding across a swirling palette of saturated hues, Dawn Is A Melody feels vintage yet vibrant, new but familiar at the same time. A spiritual, deep and textured jazz record, tipping its hat to greats from the past, capturing memories and reformulating them into new ideas with the help of some of Melbourne’s finest talent.

Expert keys player for the likes of 30/70 and Elle Shimada, alongside one-half of Close Counters, this debut LP was Finn’s conscious departure from the realm of groove-based jazz. Instead, Dawn Is A Melody places the piano and arrangements centre stage, giving Finn and his fellow Melbourne crew freedom to explore the spaces in between, new emotions and alternate soundscapes.

In Finn’s own words: “My intention with Dawn Is A Melody was to create a world; a microcosm of colour. Something rich and beautiful that allowed the melodies and compositions to reach their full potential. It was driven by hope, curiosity and the search for beauty and reassurance in this ever-changing world. The emotion behind the music is really about the journey of life, growing up and changing, as well as my relationship with Tasmania’s natural landscapes where I grew up, a part of the world that is incredibly unique and beautiful.”

The album arcs between opening, middle and end. Beginning with the optimism of ‘Looking Up’ and ‘Lagoon’, the former a celestial, string and harp marbled slice of positivity, the latter a spiritual journey of exuberance and hope, Finn’s fingers dancing across the ‘70s Yamaha grand piano. From there the songs blossom outwards with the cinematic soulful journey of ‘It’s Behind Me Now’ and Brazilian-inspired ‘Expansion’, as the divine ‘Crossing’ signals a transition to a new realm. The energy is transformed from the rich cosmic textures to a more intimate and personal feeling with ‘Ablaze’, ‘Between Spaces’ and ‘As It Passes’ which blissfully fades down to simply piano and strings to close out the record.

Recorded at Rolling Stock in Collingwood, Melbourne, Henry Jenkins was drafted in as recording and mix engineer, his minimal vintage mic setups giving a live aesthetic and warmth to the arrangements. Lucky Pereira and Blakely McLean Davies form the rock-solid rhythm section, with a hand-picked line-up of other Melbourne talent on display, including Cheryl Durongpitikul on tenor sax, Siwei Wong on harp, Audrey Powne on trumpet and Allysha Joy on vocals to name only a few.

Plotting a course from Alice Coltrane, through Herbie Hancock, to Arthur Verocai, this is a debut nourished by the past but firmly made in the present. A record unable to be age-stamped, casting ambiguity as to when, what era and by whom it has been crafted. Like a vintage lens capturing a current scene, Dawn Is A Melody is warm and familiar yet focused on the here now.

Finn Rees - End Of The Line

This is the first guest mix from No Chit Chat Radio guest DJ Ayanna Heaven.

Ayanna Heaven Dazzled STX Mix May 5th, 2024

Take a trip deep into Shadeda's new record pick-ups via a carefully woven hour of everything from salsa to soul to deep house.

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Through The Motions w/ Shadeda - June 2024

Stepping in for Last Nubian this month, Berengei ran 60 minutes of headsy soulful house and broken beat cuts. Deep selections inside from the likes of Domu and Bah Samba.

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Beringei  - June 2024

Catch up with Dare as he ran a blissed out hour of highlife and afrobeat, exploring Nigerian artists and their influences this month.

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Dare Balogun - June 2024

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