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The conga dance Natalia sound machine Miami edit

Howie B – Master Inch Mile Haunch

Taken from the Kasbah Rockers album: 
"Arabitronics Lounge Vol. 2"

Kasbah Rockers feat. Bill Laswell - "Skinjebir"

FUMAÇA PRETA’s hard hitting, free-wheeling debut LP brings together elements of tropicalia, psychedelic rock, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics, hair metal, voodoo and African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. Beaming down from another planet and sonically stretching across decades, ‘FUMAÇA PRETA’ will be released on Soundway Records on 15th September.

FUMAÇA PRETA (pronounced Foomassa Pretta – meaning Black Smoke) started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer and percussionist, invited some old friends to join him in the tiny analogue studio he built on the back of his house in Amsterdam.

After producing 2 critically acclaimed 45s, Fumaça Preta continued to work in the Barracão Sound Laboratory, swiftly producing their debut album. All musical boundaries collapsed during recording as the band drew upon their vast array of varied influences.

Live, FUMAÇA PRETA becomes a quintet that swerves in and out of endless musical avenues but never loses the rock solid heavy psychedelic groove that drives them.


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Fumaça Preta - Tire Sua Máscara

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'Double Divide' is the debut LP from Second Storey, released on Houndstooth on October 6th 2014.

Describing the music on Double Divide, Second Storey says: "The title of the album, 'Double Divide' refers to the different ideas I found myself exploring as the album progressed, relating to tension and release. The 'Double' being the double-intensity beat driven tracks and the 'Divide' being the antidote in the form of the ambient or more introspective moments." This duality is on display throughout the album, which hints at his wide-ranging influences, from the complex rhythmic structures and emotive melodic phrases of Aphex Twin and Autechre, the funk of Prince to Parliament, the crazed robotics of Drexciya and the raw techno sludge of Cristian Vogel and Neil Landstrumm, right through to dark drum and bass of artists like Ed Rush & Optical.

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Fantasma, the latest project of South African innovator and creative pioneer Spoek Mathambohave unveiled a new song from their forthcoming EP and announced details of their first ever UK headline show at the 100 Club in London on 18th November.

Premiered via Dummy Mag, 'Eye of The Sun' features South African artist Moonchild on vocals. The 'Eye of The Sun' EP will be released via Soundway records on 10th November.

You can pre-order Fantasma's forthcoming EP 'Eye of the Sun' here from the Soundway store: smarturl.it/EyeOfTheSun

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