Lazer guided, reality tunnel piercing music highlighting the unspoken truths of the black British experience. Cause & effect, words & music, orchestral soul jazz meets 21st century electronics, institutionalised discrimination vs the fight for racial & social justice. This record is important, don't look the other way.  https://thebrknrecord.bandcamp.com/album/the-architecture-of-oppression-part-1

Another exciting premiere today. Crimi share a fresh sound for our ears with "Chi Ci Talia?" a hot Mediterranean stew of funk, rock and more.

"Chi Ci Talia?" is the latest window into Luci e Guai’s forthcoming eight-song LP. Out on French imprint Arfono this April, an enticing blend of Algerian raï, hard New Orleans funk and Sicilian folk balladry that feels very psychedelic. 

The band’s background and pool of experience is fantastic. Formed in 2018, Crimi finds Julien, a musician with over 20 years experience, collaborating with a brand new trio of players. However it is the singer & sax player’s past ventures that combine to explain how he hit on this sound specifically his work with Mazalda, from Lyon, who evolved from jazzy pop oddballs into a drum-heavy live dance party with their own fifty-speaker travelling soundsystem, the ‘Turbo Clap Station’. 

In recent years, they branched out into raï – first meeting Algerian singer Cheb Lakhdar and backing him in a series of concerts, and later recording an album, El Ndjoum, with Sofiane Saidi, a star of raï’s new electro-wave who’s also featured with Parisian duo Acid Arab. (Mazalda and Sofiane proved their mettle by playing the Algerian city of Oran, raï’s spiritual home, in early 2020.)

Meanwhile, Julien also performed with La Squadra Zeus. Although from the Alpine town of Chambéry they dedicated themselves to the traditional folk styles of southern Italy, nearly 2,000 km away, with Julien playing Sicilian flute and Calabrian bagpipes in the trio. 

Julien learned so much about this music and its relationship to the region’s culture – including, ultimately, the realisation that he wasn’t cut out to play these trad arrangements in straight fashion. Be that as it may, the musician envisaged potential new soundclashes, and the first stirrings of what became Crimi were in his rewirings of three traditional Sicilian songs which appear on the forthcoming album ‘Luci E Guai’.

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Exclusive Premiere: Crimi "Chi Ci Talia?" (Forthcoming on Airfono)

MIMS is over the moon to premiere the brand new remaster of Lucas Santtana's "Ogodô Ano 2000", featuring the legendary Tropicalista, Tom Zé. A psychedelic dose of dubbed and acid-fried samba.

"Ogodô Ano 2000" was originally recorded by Zé himself and released in 1992. Santtana chose to re-record the song for his 'lost' album '3 Sessions in a Greenhouse' and asked his uncle, Tom Zé, to contribute.  15 years after that album's release, Mais Um is releasing the album on vinyl and digital formats for the first time, remastered by German dub shaman, Stefan Betke/Pole.

Lucas tells us, "Ogodô Ano 2000 was a song that my band and I used to play during the soundcheck of the tour to promote my second album, around 2003/4. During these soundchecks we were just having some fun, experimenting with applying dub techniques to samba - yet these sessions then became the foundation for my album '3 Sessions in a Greenhouse', released originally in 2006. Tom Zé is actually my uncle so it felt right to ask him to perform the vocal".

'3 Sessions In A Greenhouse' is a lost classic from the catalog of one of Brazil's most regarded and influential contemporary songwriters. Apart from Tom, it also features mangue beat pioneer, Gilmar Bola 8.

Lucas Santtana's 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse, produced by Recife's dubsetter himself, Buguinha Dub, fused psyched-out samba and baile funk with original Black Ark-style studio distortion and spiritual dub dread, laying the foundations for his seminal Sem Nostalgia LP five years later, and in the process, establishing Santtana as a pioneer of Brazil's current new wave.

Exclusive Premiere: Lucas Santtana feat Tom Zé "Ogodô Ano 2000" (Forthcoming on Mais Um)

During the 70s and 80s, Ivory Coast was the center of the West African music scene, both by the quality of its productions (labels, studio, musicians) and by the attraction it represented for musicians from various horizons (Mali, Guinea, Congo, Ghana, Bénin, Burkina Faso ...). We honor this cultural and musical abundance with some beautiful LP's digged in Abidjan.

01 - Mamadou Doumbia "Congé" (Safie Deen SD 1012)1976
02 - Leon Keïta "Koma Koma" (Papa Disco DISCO 011)
03 - Bony Pascal et les Grands Cantadors de la Capitale "Abidjan Problèmes" (Omogidi OMG 006)1982
04 - Eba Aka Jerome et le Sanwi Star"Papa et Maman" (Sannwi Star ESS1126)1979
05 - Gnonas Pedro and his Dadjes International "Don't Beat The Time" (TYC 91-L) 1978
06 - Amadou Balake "N'dola Abibou" (Sacodis LS 11-79)1979
07 - Asi Kapela "Makita" (Disc-Orient D.O 0014)1981

Problème ne finit jamais

Analog Dakar Club - Alhara Radio Mix 19.03.21

‘On The Daily’ is the electrifying first single taken from The Brkn Record’s forthcoming debut album, ‘The Architecture of Oppression Part 1’. A ground-breaking concept album from Jake Ferguson of The Heliocentrics. It is a critical journey through the eyes of black Britons, blending powerful and sobering narratives with psychedelic and soulful symphonies.

‘On The Daily’ is a future anthem that has a timeless quality to it. With flawless production that is relevant and urgent today, but would also feel at home had it emerged from the Cadet Records stable at their 60s and 70s peak. It displays the strength and intimacy of a modern-day Odetta jamming with Charles Stepney. 

A child of Nigerian, West African parents, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, narrates and delivers the song with the strength and ethereal beautify of an avenging angel. Ugochi describes this song as an "attempt to express the degree of power, resilience and focus it takes to be black and in this world. So many forces trying to take our peace of heart and mind. Though the battle rages on, those on the frontline win when we keep our poise and expose the perpetrators of racism and white terrorism."

This song is a clarion call driving awareness to the fact that these things are happening to black people everyday, and you have to be strong to survive this - on the daily.

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The Brkn Record - On The Daily (Feat Ugochi Nwaogwugwu)

After huge support and love for their MGIC EP, this beautiful EP from Edseven & Tan Brown receives a heavy weight remix treatment from Jonny Faith (Tru Thoughts), Steve Spacek (Ninja Tune), Kid Sublime (BBE) and Peret Mako! Sultry vibes on this one!

Exclusive Premiere: edseven "Heart Wars" (feat. Tan Brown) (Steve Spacek Remix)

‘His Mother’s Eyes’ is a future anthem and the mesmerising third single taken from The Brkn Record’s forthcoming debut album, ‘The Architecture of Oppression Part 1’. A ground-breaking concept album from Jake Ferguson of The Heliocentrics. It is a critical journey through the eyes of Black Britons, blending powerful and sobering narratives with psychedelic and soulful symphonies.

Exquisitely sung by The Voice winner and political activist Jermain Jackman, ‘His Mother’s Eyes’ communicates the pain of loss, the trauma of systemic oppression, and the hope for an end to struggle. 

Jermain described the writing process “I thought about Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ and the opening line "Mother, Mother, there’s too many of you crying”. I asked myself, what was the context in which Marvin wrote that, and how does that relate to today? I felt that song meant so much now, it is still so important and factually correct. I decided to flip it on its head and use that as an inspiration. The first line of ‘His Mother’s Eyes’ is “how do you stop the tears from falling from his Mother’s eyes” - we are talking about George Floyd’s family, but also the families of those who have been killed because of racism, not just police brutality, but negligence, institutional racism, where Black women are five times more likely to lose their child or die themselves during childbirth. It was direct inspiration from Marvin, where at the point he wrote the song he was trying to understand what was going on so we can come together. ‘His Mother’s Eyes’ is a journey from that song to this one that says now we know what is going on how do we stop it? At what point do we stop and listen, and how do we now build to a better future? It felt like a part two where I was writing to ‘What’s Going On’.” 

Jackman’s crystalline voice is matched to an emotionally rich backing reminiscent of Charles Stepney’s timeless Cadet productions. It allows Jermain’s vocal to soar, culminating in an emotionally powerful song that will surely be heralded as an anthem of its time.

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The Brkn Record - His Mother’s Eyes (feat Jermain Jackman)

’Assimilation’ is the fourth, and final, single taken from The Brkn Record’s forthcoming debut album, ‘The Architecture of Oppression Part 1’. A groundbreaking concept album from Jake Ferguson of The Heliocentrics. It is a critical journey through the eyes of Black Britons, blending powerful and sobering narratives with psychedelic and soulful symphonies.

It is a track that has an overwhelming potency and power. A visceral tour de force that stops you in your tracks. The music has a Wagnerian manner to it, culminating in a dramatic and emotional intensity, masterfully matched by the evocative lyrics and their delivery. Over a pulsing, ominous beat, spoken word artist, singer and performance poet Dylema breaks down the psychological and social violations entrenched by the pressure placed on Black and Brown people to ‘assimilate’ to so-called English culture. 

Born and raised in Nigeria, Dylema moved to England in 2000 and it is this lived experience that is expressed in the song’s lyrics, "When I came to this country, I had such a strong accent that it was really difficult to blend in. Before I opened my mouth, you had the Black thing, and when I opened my mouth you had the African thing. People were taken aback by that, and so I found myself assimilating and remembering my experience of that assimilation. I felt in order to survive in England I would have to learn how to speak like an English person. Even though I have this accent right now, it is completely fake. It never left me to have an African accent, so amongst my friends and people close to me, I slip back without even noticing. The level of skill I had to have to assimilate into England required so much of me. Even if you’re not born and raised in Africa, there are so many things that Black British people have to do to assimilate without even noticing it. I still feel like I haven’t completely assimilated and I’m ok with that now. That is what inspired me to write Assimilation. I felt someone needed to put a voice to what we actually do to ourselves to be respected or accepted in Britain.”

The Brkn Record - Assimilation (feat. Dylema)

https://www.musicamacondo.com/2021/11/premiere-dagua-negra-yoga-gota-boca-ardente/

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Premiere: D'agua Negra - Yoga Gota Boca Ardente

This week’s mix comes from Jake Miller, 1/5 of the new Reggae crew ‘Youth Downbeat Sound’. Jake has spent the last few years working in the legendary London record shop Flashback Records and is a serious collector of all things Reggae. He has a monthly show on Kindred Radio exploring all different kinds of vinyl crackle and will be launching a new hand built sound system with his crew in May. This week he has dug deep into his dusty 7’s box and brought us a 100% Studio One singles mix. “Here’s a selection of Studio 1 classics, all on 45 for your listening pleasure!”. Full tracklist below.



Don Drummond - Don Cosmic 
Joe Higgs - Dinah 
Gaylads - Message To My Girl 
Earl 16 - I Am Going To Cool It 
The Bassies - I Don’t Mind 
Slim Smith - Lonely Lover 
The Actions - Giddap
The Lyrics - Music Like Dirt 
Soul Vendors - Swing Easy 
Dudley Sibley - Having A Party 
The Heptones - Haven’t You Got Any Fight Left 
The Heptones - Sweet Talking 
Delroy Wilson - Don’t Know Why 
The Soul Vendors - A Darker Shade Of Black 
Sugar Minott - Jah A Love You 
Cornell Campbell - Pretty Looks Isn’t All 
Carlton And The Shoes - Love Is All
The Heptones - Ting A Ling (Dubplate Mix) 
Im And David - Love Land 
Sound Dimension - Lovers Serenade 
Sound Dimension - Rasta Light 
Burning Spear - What A Happy Day 
The Gladiators - Peace

Macondo Mix 008: Jake Miller

lets get rid of the shitty things
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Boogie Arkestra :  Harveys Hint

Ein Mash Up RMX...

welcher die LIEBE aus zwei Perspektiven betrachtet , die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten , und schlussendlich gnadenlos wahr ist..
Viel Spass !

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The Brkn Record - Assimilation (feat. Dylema)

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