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Dernière mise à jour le 19 janvier 2023. 
Avec Joesef, Jean Root, Velvet Negroni, Aya Nakamura, Chris Bands, Eric Mercury, Kurt Elling, SZA, Aaron Frazer, Emily King, Maverick Sabre, Lucky Daye, Kelela, Tank And The Bangas, Graham Dee, NEIL FRANCES, Jose

Nouveautés Soul/Funk/R&B

DJ Krush - Monolith feat Ryoff Karma (Vocal)[Gamma Proforma]

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (TheH Chiptune Mix)

Scrimshire - Morning Affirmation

Jazz Is Dead 011

Come As You Are

Psychosynthesis

Tropical Love

Above the Clouds

Education & Recreation

Iconoclasts

Stream & download: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/swampland

Bokoya is a four-piece jazz/hip-hop band from Cologne who plays improvised beat music. Like a four-headed human drum machine, Bokoya improvise, shape, and develop beats in the electric field of repetition and variation. It's impossible to put a tag on Bokoya's music. BADBADNOTGOOD, Dilla, Krautrock, Ambient and dub might work as rough reference points for the music but don't do it justice. After a sling of releases on Wadada Records, Bokoya are now signed to Melting Pot Music where they will release their new album ‘Hausensession’ in October. The double single ‘Swampland / Cava’ is their second taster.

Personell:
Leon Raum – Drums, Keys.
Lukas Wilmsmeyer – Guitar, Bass, Drums.
Darius Heid – Keys, Synthesizer, Synth-Bass, Bass. 
Ferdinand Schwarz – Trumpet, Synthesizer, Casio SA-26.

Follow Bokoya
Spotify https://lnk.to/bokoya_spotify
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/artist/bokoya/1471953744
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bokoya_/

Follow Melting Pot Music
Spotify https://lnk.to/meltingpotmusic_spotify
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/label/1548390831
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/melting_pot_music
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/MPMTV
Bandcamp https://meltingpotmusic.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/mpmcgn

Produced by Bokoya.
Mixed & mastered by Roe Beardie.
Artwork by Robert Winter.

Cat No: MPM 319-2
Artist: Bokoya
Titel: Swampland / Cava

© ℗ 2022 Melting Pot Music

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

Bokoya - Cava

Dreamy new jazz from Clear Path Ensemble. Perfect for a hot, humid day.  "Drumatix" is taken from their forthcoming on Soundway Records, "Solar Eclipse". 

Led by percussionist Cory Champion, Clear Path Ensemble bottles the energy of New Zealand’s bubbling new jazz scene and distills it into moody morsels of differing styles. From electric jazz to ambient, experimental, house and funk – it’s a DIY, jam-session attitude towards composition, as the band members freely cherry-pick from a vast orchard of influences.

Solar Eclipse

Exclusive Premiere: Clear Path Ensemble "Drumatix" (Soundway Records)

Old Light

“WWDAWAWG” is the second single from ‘Two Ticks Loose Bits’ – an upcoming EP compiling our favorite unreleased tracks from Royce Wood Junior's ‘No Two Blue Ticks’ album sessions.

Stream the single & pre-order the EP: smarturl.it/rwjwwd

Produced & Mixed by Royce Wood Junior

Written by Royce Wood Junior, Dan See, & Charlie Platt

Ross Hutchison - vocals
RWJ - backing vocals, acoustic guitar, keys, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Dan See - drums
Charlie Platt - piano

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios

FSX-053-02 © 2022 Fresh Selects. Sounds like butter.

Two Ticks Loose Bits

Royce Wood Junior "What We Doing And Where Are We Going? (WWDAWAWG)"

Permanent Damage

Didn't Know How (to Love You)

The second single to come from the ‘The Globeflower Masters Vol.2’, and with a title such as 'Moogs Over Jupiter’ it’s not only literal, but also a jumping off point that enables Mark and Glenn's musical imagination to go wild. It takes the listener on a journey covering some distance – all the way to the moon! Not just any moon, but a moon orbiting the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter. 

Mark’s Mini Moog and Jupiter 8 synthesiser are the stars of the show here, providing the perfect combination of depth and frequency to soundtrack their space-scape. Add to that some heavily effect-laden guitar from Glenn and the slow-but purposeful drive of the drums and Milo Fell’s percussion and we’re travelling without moving. 

The imagery of space travel echoes throughout this laid-back excursion. If a Moog pioneer such as Jean-Jacques Perrey had jammed with a contemporary, headsy beat-maker, the results may have been similar to this floaty as helium, cinematic, spacefaring jaunt.

Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel - Moogs Over Jupiter

‘Glance’ is the second single to be taken from SOYUZ (COIO3) forthcoming album, ‘Force of the Wind’. It was the only song written between the sessions for the band’s previous album ‘II’ and ‘Force of the Wind’ that made it to the album in its original form. 

It’s a song inspired by measured life in the low-rise and village-like Minsk, which is the band's composer Aleksey Chumak’s hometown. It references Lo Borges' debut album and the work of Burnier e Cartier. Breezy as a summer east wind, gentle Fender Rhodes swirl, guitars sway whilst Alex's gentle ethereal vocals surf the bassline. Over too soon and akin to waking up and trying to remember a dream, the images of the song tickle away leaving you wanting more.

SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) - Glance (Мгновение)

Sounding simultaneously from the past, the present, and the future, the debut album 'MLDE' by Marxist Love Disco Ensemble seeks to eradicate both the trite from disco and the sobriety from political music. Half poetic, half tongue-in-cheek, this stunning compact eight-track album is influenced by Eastern European and Mediterranean 70s disco records. In the words of band member Paolo, ''it was written in response to hearing 'I love America' by Patrick Juvet. The song prompted the question: why does disco, a genre originally created by oppressed minorities, eventually become synonymous with Western capitalist excess?" MLDE seeks to break this connection.

Merging disco, post-disco 80s pop, and boogie into the fold, 'MLDE' was recorded using only analogue instruments, giving it warmth and space. Recorded on cassette, ½ inch tape, this gives moments of lo-fi abstraction between the beats of an aggressive, tight drum kit. Instruments used for this recording range from saxophone, trumpet, harpsichord, guitar, and rare analogue synthesisers. The bass sound is shaped by early 80s boogie records, whilst the influence of artists such as Hamlet Minassian can be heard in some of MLDE's more driving-disco outings, such as 'Hues of Red'. In the tradition of Soviet vocal group records, which the band has studied, some songs are sung by a vocal quartet in homage to this tradition. 

Tracks such as '1905' and 'Brumaire' have a greater pop aesthetic, with Paolo's vocal style on these more pop-driven songs evoking early 80s bands such as Orange Juice and Chas Jankel. 

The format and message of pop and disco are commonly viewed just to entertain and move bodies around a dancefloor; however, lyrically, the subjects range from dialectical and historical materialism, class struggle, Marxist theory and praxis, as well as the concept of Marxist disco music. 

Adding the icing to the cake, mastering don Joker aka Liam McLean dusted the album with his magic, giving the songs space where the room is needed, as well as the kick and punch demanded by the modern dancefloor.

Marxist Love Disco Ensemble - Manifesto

Bird Beats #002

Hopin' (It's You)

The third single to be taken from the forthcoming album ‘The Globeflower Masters Vol.2’. Glenn and Mark have crafted a rich tapestry of cinematic funk and European Library music. Inspired by such luminaries as Roger Webb, Stefano Torossi, David Axelrod & Serge Gainsbourg.

The 'Calico Suite' finds Glenn and Mark shifting gears for what is their most uptempo track released to date. 

Looser and imbued with more swagger than previous productions, 'Calico Suite' enters into tight and slightly edgy 60s library funk territory before mutating into dreamy 70s Headhunters-esque jazz-funk. Balancing light and shade, the triumvirate of Glenn’s bass grooves, Mark’s rhythmic Clavinet and electric piano playing, and John Maiden's drums interact with perfection.

Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel - Calico Suite

My Life (feat. Joe Killington)

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Fear Fear

Fear Fear (Charla Green Remix)

Give In To Me

King's Disease III

Get Light

Sambara

Georgia

I Shall Not Be Moved

I Shall Not Be Moved (Live At Wattstax / 1972)

Baby

Atlantis

Straussmania

(LR141) John Carroll Kirby - Meditations in Music
http://johncarrollkirby.bandcamp.com

*1hr of Autumnal Ambient
*all-instrumental DX7 & Mini Moog Model D
*ltd 150 cassettes
*custom gold foil embossed OCard

CUSTOM CASSETTE

John Carroll Kirby - Meditations in Music - II

Ben LaMar Gay is a cornetist, vocalist, composer, and producer from the Southside of Chicago who moves sound, color and space through folkloric filters, to produce strikingly original electro-acoustic pieces. Whether sounding like ambient jazz, sensually theoretical funk or pastoral verse laid out over beats, Ben's music never loses its humanity or its aspiration towards the sublime. He’s musically influenced by a collection of experiences in the Americas (North, Central and South); and his expansive, avant-garde idea of “Americana” is under the spell of a planet brought closer by technology. Ben's 2018 album release, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (a top five “Best Albums of 2018” selection by The WIRE) is actually a collection of music compiled from seven albums he made over the last seven years but never made the effort to release - and which are all now being reissued by International Anthem Recording Co. This evening Ben will perform alongside Will Faber (guitar), Matthew Davis (tuba), Tommaso Moretti (drums).

500 Chains

Ben LaMar Gay - "Lamps"

Toshinori Kondo (Electric Trumpet , Track)
Hideo Yamaki (Roland V-Drums)
DJ Sahib (Scratch)

Black Shadow

Record label. Record shop. Film label. Since 1989.