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FROM TIME TF CHOP 4 JESSE AKA BUHBYE DRAIK

The Dawn

Written & produced by LAFAWNDAH & GARAGEMBANDA
Co-produced by Jean-Claude Bichara
Mastered at Angstrom Studio by Frederic Alstadt
Additional mastering at Flesh Studio by Alexandre Geindre
Photography (cover) by Ruddy Candillon http://www.ruddycandillon.net  
Graphic design by Jeremy Piningre

BUTTER (prod. by lafawndah&garagembanda)

Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch out now on Hyperdub

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Fatima Al Qadiri - Szechuan - (Taken From The Album Asiatisch)

:Brownstudy, real name: Jason Hogans, comes with an adventurous style and musicality that has caught the attention of DJs and tastemakers worldwide. 

Hogans’ first impacted through Detroit’s electronic music scene, impressively debuting on Carl Craig's Planet E in ’98 with an EP called Peter And The Rooster. But his most enticing identity came after his experimentations with folk, cut & paste, minimal, punk, ambient, glitch, soul, reggae/dub, jazz, hip hop and prog-whatever. Debut album Tell Me More About Bubbles in 2005 under the new moniker :Brownstudy came out on Guy McCreery's Third Ear label. Jason returns to Third Ear for this next LP, Life Well Lived, with 11 tracks that further showcase his polyrhythmic and experimental electronica. 

:Brownstudy (don't ignore the :colon) covers all styles in trying to convey what he wants to say. "I've been doing music in some way since elementary school” says Hogans. “Violin, trumpet, piano/keys, electronics, percussion, vocals, etc. Some formal training (classical theory, jazz theory, jazz improv, sight singing/ear training, creative writing), but ultimately relying on my ear & heart.”

The record features some truly nonsecular sounds, steeped in impressive analog blends. His masterful and quirky thesis in beat programming particularly notarises instrumental tracks such as ‘Wax Suckas (Decline)’, ‘Dead Doldrums’ and ‘Red Dreaded Stepchild’, in a way that the most seasoned beatmakers  like Cut Chemist, Mr Scruff and Luke Vibert can beguile. With an extra smattering of Herbie Hancock-esque progression, charm and soul, it all adds up to an impossibly endearing album. An album with a social conscience at its heart, but never veering into soapbox lecturing.

Never one to avoid an issue or confront a taboo Hogans has carved an album that puts him at the forefront of rappers with real lyrical ambition. Yes, his beats and grooves are original, and his sounds are unusual, but ultimately it’s his words and his delivery that marks :Brownstudy out. He spouts potently intelligent and honourable lyrics in tracks like the title ‘Life Well Lived’, and ‘Towards Improvement’ where the lyrics are further maintained by a bed of indolent vocal loops. For more impact, a sprinkling menace is called upon in his words, but staying true to his playful character it works to display his facetious and cheeky streak perfectly. Tracks like ‘Bitchslappin’ Motherfuckas To Hell’ and ‘Glorious Future’ are where the record really harks to the warmly mischievous traits of hip-hop, just like A Tribe Called Quest, Run DMC and De La Soul. But nobody tells it how it is and how it should be quite like :Brownstudy. 

"I'm spanking protocol" he says. “I still act like an 18-year-old and pass it off as eccentricity,” coos Jason. “I’m proud of that. Life’s too short to posture like you’re dignified. Nobody’s anything but carbon, water and a set of circumstances.”

Eloquent and self deprecating, shot through with insight and humour. Charismatic and critical. And self critical. There isn’t much to dislike about :Brownstudy and Jason Hogans, and he is clearly onto something in the pursuit to lead a Life Well Lived.


Life Well Lived

1 Third Ear Recordings BROWNSTUDY In A Better Way

PRODUCED BY ADR&LAFAWNDAH
VOCALS BY LAFAWNDAH&ADR
LYRICS BY GARAGEMBANDA
track recorded at Redbull NY for Peter Coffin's project MUSIC FOR PLANTS

BEE (prod. adr& lafawndah)

the music for the video i done about self driving vehicles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vF-ZVbq2r8


The Car That Drives Itself

Greet007

Baba Saali - a song off Hamsa Lila's forthcoming album Aurora, with special guest ska/reggae guitar legend Ernest Ranglin. This Gnawa-influenced song features the punchy, bass-like sounds of the Sintir - Moroccan camel skinned bass - combined with Ranglin's potent, pinpointed guitar work woven amidst Hamsa Lila's signature call-and-response vocals.

Baba Saali is the first song to be released from "Aurora", due out in August 2015.

Hamsa Lila. #Ernest Ranglin, #Avila Street Records, #Gnawa, #Dirtwire, #Yossi FIne


Baba Saali featuring Ernest Ranglin

Tiny Fingers -  The Fall

This is my new track called Oceans, don't hesitate to share it, you are the best ! <3

Free DL

Oceans

Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself (Richard Norris remix)

Track from Senary Cycles double pack, out now on https://soundcloud.com/soundman-chronicles 

Lunar Tide Cycle

ERLY 2011  // BOKBOK MADE THE MUSIC FOOLS - BOK BOK IS THE MUSIC  - THE REST IS A DEVOTIONAL FOCUS ON THE POWERS OF SODA (S.O.D.A.) USING OUR SIREN'S VOICE AND BREAKING GLASS AND HORNS

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