Music From Memory

Following their anticipated second album ‘Made Of Static’, electro-soul duo Stubborn Heart return with the first release of their remix series ‘Out Of Our Hands’. The three track collection features Plaid, FUMU and Tolouse Low Trax. The latter of which is premiered exclusively by MIMS today.

Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax hones in on the beats of ‘Everything Matters’ to craft an infectious but distant club anthem. Elsewhere on the EP, Warp signees Plaid expand haunting single ‘Talking Gold’ with eerie atmospherics, brazen horn sections and a shuffling, ominous beat and Manchester producer FUMU turns ‘Proves To Be’ into a grinding, industrial cut seeped in a grimy and threatening aura.
 
Stubborn Heart’s poetic lyricism and icy, left-field R&B is refreshed with these reimaginings, taken to occasionally radical directions and deconstructing the very idea of what pop music can do. 
 
On ‘Made Of Static’, the successor to their lauded 2012 self-titled debut, Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald once again struck a fine balance between ominous synth-soundscapes and introspective songwriting. Fitzgerald lead the production and manned the machines to create a rawer sound. Santucci provided the heart and with it his aching, obsessive lyrics and a desire for something grittier in its presentation.
 
Santucci has amassed an impressive list of writing and vocal credits in his time, with the likes of XL and Warp signee Leila Arab, Plaid, Riton and Soulwax amongst them. Fitzgerald has also been hard at work at his home studio programming various styles of music for artists and producers from around the world. As Stubborn Heart, they come armed with some serious experience and a wealth of influences. There’s an honest simplicity in the way they create, with lyrics written in an immediate, direct fashion with the aim to catch a feeling rather than emulate one.
 
On their first album Stubborn Heart garnered praise from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and the UK broadsheets. It was named album of 2012 at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards and Rough Trade placed it in their top 20 best albums the same year. However, it’s now that we’re presented with an album they feel better represents their dynamic – an album born from the duos combined creative static – as such, ‘Made Of Static’ and its accompanying remixes are the first fruit of their reunion, aiming to step on from where they left off, and with the promise of much more to follow.
 
Tracklisting:
 
Talking Gold (Plaid Remix)
Proves To Be (FUMU Remix)
Everything Matters (Tolouse Low Trax Dub)
 
Art credit:
Trevor Jackson
 
Photo credit:
Niall Green

Exclusive Premiere: Stubborn Heart "Everything Matters" (Tolouse Low Trax Dub)

Prins Emanuel & Golden Ivy - Hidden Love

New Age Mtm Isaiah

Mapai - Dont Wait Too Long (M.I.R.Os Edit)

To be released on Record Store Day, April 18

William Onyeabor's "Let's Fall in Love" (Secret Fingers Remix)

Bobby McFerrin - Thinkin' About Your Body (Joe Edit)

An introspective, dramatic rework from the Tartelet producer,  for a forthcoming collaboration between French duo Fulgeance and Soulist. 

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@firstwordrecords
@fulgeance
@dj-soulist

Souleance - New York (Uffe Remix)(STW Premiere)

Bongo Lumbo from 'Thesda's Spaced Out LP(1979). Only 100 copies of this rare jazz/funk LP were originally produced. The album is a cosmic journey blending jazz funk soul and disco flavours resulting in one of the most highly sort after LPs for record collectors. Reissued on vinyl and CD for the first time by Left Ear Records www.leftearrecords.com

'Thesda - Bongo Lumbo

Soon available on growing bin records: Krakatau' Tharsis Montes EP. The Melbourne based quartet is diving deep into black holes and solar flares to create their own style of sun-kissed funk and moonlit jazz. Enjoy your ride!

Krakatau - Apogean Tide (11.17) shortened

Denis Mpunga & Paul K - Criola (03:29)

B2 - Millions Of Sensations (4:07)

B1 - Dub Oven (4:27)

A - Skin 'N' Bones (5:18)

@joemorris waves goodbye to azure sunsets with a dreamy house groove on @km-editions sister label, @pleasure-unit.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/10/03/premiere-joe-morris-jacaranda-skies/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/jacaranda-skies

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Joe Morris - Jacaranda Skies (STW Premiere)

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/ruben-vaun-smith-soundway-records/
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ATmpe_yjRoA
* Pre-order: https://reubenvaunsmith.bandcamp.com/releases

The latest signee on famed London-based label, Soundway Records, Reuben Vaun Smith arrives on the scene with a sound that is fully-formed and poised, which is impressive considering he never originally intended on becoming a musician. Reuben’s dreams of becoming a professional soccer player were quashed by a severe knee injury at age 18, but he soon found a new career path after his grandfather gifted him a MIDI keyboard. Reuben taught himself music production while cooped up in the backyard shed of his Yorkshire home, and the fruits of his endeavours can be heard on this lush, nostalgic debut EP arriving August 21st, Warm Nights.Reuben’s unselfconscious, freeform approach to music-making, which is marked by live-recording improvisational 1-2 hour jam sessions, is the defining feature of the EP. That, and the tropical, Balearic-house inspired grooves which ensconce the listener in a perpetual state of sunset-tinged bliss. The third track on the EP, “Trip on New Shores”, embodies the EP at its most effortlessly cool and tranquil. As the beat slowly fades in, with steady retro drums, squelchy bass, and spacey synth arpeggios, it quickly picks up steam, evolving into a loose, playful, 80’s-nodding tropical house number that evokes going for an evening stroll on a tropical island. As the languorous vocal sample briefly repeats the title refrain while maracas emerge in the background, the song takes on an even more hypnotic, enticing flavour.Despite maintaining such a languid, carefree vibe, the track never grows stale, constantly evolving and finding new, intricate rhythms and eclectic instrumental arrangements. This speaks to Reuben’s restless and expansive energy as a musician. What Reuben maybe lacks in fancy recording equipment or extensive musical training, he more than makes up for in his creativity, and the generous, warm, inviting soundscapes he so naturally and beautifully conjures.

Warm Nights

PREMIERE: Ruben Vaun Smith - Trip On New Shores

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