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2 steg från paradise.
AIR TIME
#9

Producerad av Hawk

Lithuanian Airlines

track 1 from vol.4: feat ken ross
download the tape here:  http://bit.ly/vol4featkenross

feat. ken ross

Absent Mindedness 
music and lyrics by Akenya.

featuring...

Akenya (lead vocals)
Tara Kannangara (trumpet)
Brad Linde (tenor sax)
Guy Mintus (piano)
Kavita Shah (background vocals)
Immanuel Shuford (tuba)
Alexa Tarantino (alto sax)
Carole Turcotte (flute)
Joe Vilardi (guitar)
Lindsay Woolgar (bass)
Ian Wright (drums)


Recorded at the
2013 Banff Centre Workshop for Jazz and 
Creative Music 
located in
Banff, AB, CAN.


Ensemble Coached by 
Esperanza Spalding. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUgOhjGLlIA

-Lyrics-

-Intro-

Chorus: If I could just remember the words I said
I would be alright
If I could just remember the words I said tonight
Then my intentions never would be misread
We wouldn’t have to fight
If I could just remember the words, my love…

Verse 1: But abstract eruptions 
of emotions manifest and congest
my inner vision when I try to recollect.
And my breath is getting heavy, 
I bereave the hidden phrases that just
can’t seem to make their way into the forefront
of my blunt mind. I’m running out of time.
I’ve gotta find my way back
to a linguistic type of tongue that’s in tact.
And in fact, if I’m not on track, 
My rhythmic dialect will disturb
our overture of love and words…

(Chorus)

Bridge: But they always leave me. Why?
Say that you believe me!

Verse 2: It’s like every single time I begin, it’s the end.
No more sentencing. I’m slowly losing touch with what’s within.
My meaning is slipping, I mean there’s no definition,
I’m falling into submission, I black out and fade in.
Now I’m closer to knowing the words I was going for 
then out of nowhere I’m stumbling and muttering
nonsense. Can’t seem to clear my subconscious 
mind, I sound obnoxious, the worst part about it is
you and I falling apart in the dark pit that stirs
all of my forgotten words…

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

-Outro-

Absent Mindedness

We're proud to announce a new artist to the Mixpak roster: London via St Louis producer, Mr One Hundred. Despite the new name, Mr One Hundred is a veteran of the dance music scene who started out underage raving in St Louis, set up a label with its heart in Detroit and hit the performance art circuit in Chicago before moving to London, UK. It was there, living next door to a Trini BBQ shop and attending Carnival, that his interest and love of soca music grew. A genre with an intensity not far from his techno upbringing, Soca began to work its way into his sets & productions.

His first digital release, “Palm Tree Destruction” is a journey through this history and his influences, resulting in a record that is as unusual and exciting as his musical past. Describing the EP as “power soca music from the future,” the 5 tracks feature his own original productions with, we're proud to say, officially endorsed samples from the three biggest names in soca: Machel Montano, Fay Ann Lyons and Bunji Garlin. Reaching to the upper limits of techno's bpms and nestling nicely into the uptempo tradition of power soca, “Palm Tree Destruction” is hyper-energetic club music like no other.

Each track invokes the spirit of carnival through techno tinted glasses as Mr One Hundred adeptly melds the highly compatible rhythmic and percussive foundations of both. "Axis Jab Jab" crescendoes into a trance, while "Head Gone's" ferocious syncopated drumline powers into Machel's powerful vocal that encourages you to lose yourself in the music. Layered with synths, cowbells and drums that draw from the hip hop - grime spectrum, the instrumental "HOW Riddim" is an uplifting rave track, while "Hundred Wind It" takes its vocal cues from instructional soca and is perhaps the only soca song to ever feature a 303 acid breakdown. With a title apt for the whole record, "Soca Workout" begins life like a sparse juke joint, building until the steel pans join the party and Fay Ann's vocal marks its entry into the Trini tradition.

With this first EP, Mr One Hundred has beautifully crafted five dance tracks that make the techno-soca synthesis as natural as a flag-wave in Port of Spain. Energy flash!

Mr One Hundred - Soca Workout (Feat. Fay Ann Lyons)

rough draft sample of an upcoming project produced by @AirTechSani. #SleeplessInChicago

"Sleepless In Chicago" (prod. by Sani)

from the Tia Maria Produções 'Tá Tipo Já Não Vamos Morrer' 12'' (P006, August 2014)

Vinyl & Digital: http://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/t-tipo-j-n-o-vamos-morrer

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Seattle's @kidsmpl returns with Focus Ribbon, taken from his upcoming EP 'Response/Ascend' on Kastle's @smbls imprint.

Read more on Dummy: http://www.dummymag.com/new-music/premiere-kid-smpl-focus-ribbon

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While no one has confirmed who it was playing those alleged new Burial tunes at Unsound last week (although it seems Kode9 was the culprit), it very well could have been post-rock-turned-electronica crew Aucan providing the salt mine soundtrack, at least if the first song off their new album, Stelle Fisse, is a good example of what the trio has been up to since last summer's far more aggressive EP1, which featured noisecore baron Otto Von Schirach.

That barrel of sonic piss and vinegar came courtesy of Ultra Records, a surprising sell for one of the most commercial imprints in dance music. The new tune, "Friends," on the other hand, is out on Florestano's newly minted London imprint, Kowloon, which makes us wonder if the tapes got switched in the mail. This version of Aucan soothingly scrubs your soul with a siren's call of a vocal cutting through a fog of heavy gaseous synths and murmuring breaks that readily recall the most uplifting melancholic moments of that far more mysterious London producer. The mood is still dark enough for Halloween, but that doesn't mean it has to be frightening.

Aucan - Friends

Sommardreamin' (Röd puls)


Beat av Rico Love. Tack Simon.



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