A Quick One...

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Ode 2 Aude

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April 2020 Beats

Smoky Healing

Reggae Allsorts

ANDREW WEATHERALL - music is not for everyone

It's the GT Reposted 2020 Reposted Mix, Vol. 1

Vol. 1 of the GT Reposted Mix 2020

sax Rocksteady

Kodec - Listen To Me ( Agioletto vs. Paul Jockey Extended )

Collage EP

Black And Smoky Healing

Saturnalia

The Body

The Very Best of John Coltrane

My Favorite Things

The Original Sin

The 'No' Tune

Unreleased tracks and version excursions 1981 – 1986. 

Inspired by Eno’s “vision of a psychedelic Africa”, English dub producer Adrian Sherwood and master Jamaican percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah collaborated on a series of studio experiments under the African Head Charge moniker, resulting in groundbreaking albums such as Environmental Studies and Off The Beaten Track. The otherworldly sounds they conjure up have touchstones in Count Ossie’s mystic revelations, Can’s ethnological forgery series and the post-punk underground, but ultimately inhabit a genre of their own creation. 

These radically different versions of early AHC classics and been lovingly restored and sequenced from the original master tapes by On-U archivist Patrick Dokter. Cut at dubplates & mastering in Berlin. Includes printed inner with sleevenotes by Steve Barker (On The Wire), plus download card for full album.

Tracks also available on CD as part of the 5-disc boxset Environmental Holes & Drastic Tracks (ONUCD134)

African Head Charge - Conspired

Monkeys Choice

It Comes & It Goes

Roaring Lion:  "Carnival Long Ago"

Akbaba İkilisi - Darildim Darildim

Beware Dub

Beware

Conquering Lion (Dub Plate Mix)

On-U Sound dub psychedelia, chopped-up with some tripped-out samples for the Kermit And The Super Weird System slot at the Breaking Convention after party.

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African Head Charge - Dervish Dub [SWSystem Psychedelic Edit]

DRAFT 9/30

One thing you won’t be able to avoid on Bambara’s Stray is death. It’s everywhere and inescapable, abstract and personified  – perhaps the key to the whole record. Death, however, won’t be the first thing that strikes you about the group’s fourth – and greatest – album to date. That instead will be its pulverising soundscape; by turns, vast, atmospheric, cool, broiling and at times – on stand out tracks like “Sing Me To The Street” and “Serafina” – simply overwhelming.
 
Bambara – twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh, singer/guitarist and drummer respectively, and bassist William Brookshire – have been evolving their midnight-black noise into something more subtle and expansive ever since the release of their 2013 debut Dreamviolence. That process greatly accelerated on 2018’s Shadow On Everything, their first on New York’s Wharf Cat Records and  a huge stride forward for the band both lyrically and sonically. 
 
The album was rapturously received by the press, listeners and their peers. NPR called it a “mesmerising...western, gothic opus,” Bandcamp called the "horror-house rampage" "one of the year's most gripping listens," and Alexis Marshall of Daughters named it his “favorite record of 2018.”  Shadow also garnered much acclaim on the other side of the Atlantic. Influential British 6Music DJ Steve Lamacq, dubbed them the best band of 2019’s SXSW, and Joe Talbot of the UK band IDLES said, "The best thing I heard last year was easily Bambara and their album Shadow On Everything."  The question was though, how to follow it?
 
To start, the band did what they always do: they locked themselves in their windowless Brooklyn basement to write. Decisions were made early on to try and experiment with new instrumentation and song structures, even if the resulting compositions would force the band to adapt their storied live set, known for its tenacity and technical prowess. Throughout the songwriting process, the band pulled from their deep well of creative references, drawing on the likes of Leonard Cohen, Ennio Morricone, Sade, classic French noir L’Ascenseur Pour L’Echafraud, as well as Southern Gothic stalwarts Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.
 
Once the building blocks were set in place, they met with producer Drew Vandenberg, who mixed Shadow On Everything, in Athens, GA to record the foundation of Stray. After recruiting friends Adam Markiewicz (The Dreebs) on violin, Sean Smith (Klavenauts) on trumpet and a crucial blend of backing vocals by Drew Citron (Public Practice) and Anina Ivry-Block (Palberta) Bambara convened in a remote cabin in rural Georgia, where Reid laid down his vocals.
 
The finished product represents both the band's most experimental and accessible work to date. The addition of Citron and Ivory-Block’s vocals create a hauntingly beautiful contrast to Bateh’s drunken baritone on tracks like “Sing Me to the Street”, “Death Croons” and “Stay Cruel," while the Dick Dale inspired guitar riffs on “Serafina” and "Heat Lightning" and the call-and-response choruses throughout the album showcase Bambara’s ability to write songs that immediately demand repeat listens.
 
While the music itself is evocative and propulsive, a fever dream all of its own, the lyrical content pushes the record even further into its own darkly thrilling realm. If the songs on Shadow On Everything were like chapters in a novel, then this time they’re short stories. Short stories connected by death and its effect on the characters in contact with it. “Death is what you make it” runs a lyric in “Sweat,” a line which may very well be the glue that binds the pages of these stories together.

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Bambara - Heat Lightning (from the 'Stray' album out 2/14)

"Top Ticket" is the debut single from P.E., a new group featuring members the defunct post-punk project Pill and electronic/art-rock combo Eaters. Born of onstage improvisation, P.E. is an experiment in free-form collaboration and playful abrasiveness, generating industrial pop with a human touch and a sick sense of humor.  Featuring an absurdist dance remix by Liars, "Top Ticket" is just the first taste of the unnatural fruit P.E. have cultivated in the boroughs of NYC.

Lyrics
 
Chevron stripes;
Five minutes on the highway.
Ohhh she’ll mark her territory,
but I’m undercover with a flash-light.
 
Hot tip - the girls like to tease her.
Hot tip - let me win or I just might cry.
 
I want the Top - Ticket;
Nothing average, nothing contrived.
None of that consumer grade shit!
 
Top pick, No - Game - Winner,
you wanna groove with me?
I’ll need strict compliance.
 
High speed. High performing.
Midnight cruising. Conventional bondage.
 
Beat it down with the double play.
Beat it down with the double playyy!
I  want the  Top - Ticket.

P.E. - Top Ticket (From the 'Person' LP out 3/6)

"Soft Dance" is the second single from the 'Person' album out on 3/6!

About the 'Person' LP by P.E.

Person is the debut from NYC's P.E., a band born of the city's art-punk underground and dedicated to freaky experimentation. Comprising Veronica Torres, Jonathan Campolo, and Benjamin Jaffe (all of the beloved and freshly defunct Pill) alongside Jonathan Schenke and Robert Jones of the electronic/art-rock favorite Eaters, P.E. features some of NYC's most notable experimental voices. Early shows were entirely improvisational, allowing the group to develop a collaborative chemistry that led to an equally free-form recording process. 

The resulting LP displays the group’s collective experience writing memorable songs, matched with a dedication to tearing them apart at the seams. Recorded at Schenke's Studio Windows, Person holds the spark of P.E.'s early improvisations in its clattering industrial percussion, zigzagging synths and sax, and colorful dystopian poetry. The group's natural language results in a sonic lexicon reflecting the unnatural surroundings of their adopted home in NYC—chaotic yet alluring, gnarly, and fun. Sold and packaged with a tender tone, this is music for fully-formed persons aware of their ideological discrepancies. Turn on the human music of the 21st century.

“Soft Dance” Lyrics

A soft dance
-Night drive alone with you-
Laughing our heads off.

Touch my face and I'll sing you a song,
though your heart may be broken.

We dance to forget out heads,
We dance to lose our heads.

We are just passing through...
We are just passing through.

A soft dance
-I’d rather contemplate abstract thoughts with you - 
And I'm also good with color. 

A soft dance
We dance to lose our heads,
We dance to forget our heads

Ohhh and don't forget to have a good time!
Laughing our heads off!
Tripping our heads off!

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P.E. - Soft Dance (From the 'Person' album out 3/6)

An unreleased version of a classic track from the Songs Of Praise album uncovered by our tape archivist Patrick Dokter, it can be heard on the forthcoming Churchical Chant Of The Iyabinghi LP and the Drumming Is A Language CD boxset. Both will be in record shops worldwide on 6th March 2020 or you can pre-order here: https://on-u-sound.ffm.to/ahcdrum

African Head Charge - Dub Some More

'Rubber Necks' is taken from Handle's debut album, 'In Threes', released on 6th March 2020 through Upset The Rhythm and Maternal Voice.

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In Threes

Rubber Necks

Handle - 'Rubber Necks'

From the album Unmask Whoever available March 27, 2020 on Western Vinyl

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Unmask Whoever

Activity - "Calls Your Name"

Megumi  Mesaku Album  - Saxy Rocksteady Sample Tracks.
Produced by Mafia & Fluxy.
Available on CD and Vinyl. 
(C) 2020.

Saxy Rocksteady

Saxy Rocksteady by Megumi  Mesaku  Sample Tracks

INDUSTRY GAMES

'Chemical' is taken from Es' debut album 'Less Of Everything' out April 3rd through Upset The Rhythm!

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Less Of Everything

Es - 'Chemical'

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Taken from the album 'New Me, Same Us', released 27 March on Ninja Tune: http://littledragon.lnk.to/new-meSo

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Are You Feeling Sad?

Are You Feeling Sad? (feat. Kali Uchis)

God Help the Ones You Love

Ringo Deathstarr - God Help the Ones You Love

Activity - "Earth Angel"

If you ever wondered what’d happen if two best friends who share a collective mission to not take life too seriously spent just as much time soaking up the muddy blues of Mississippi as they did the kosmisch experimentations of West Germany (the pair also play in Krautrock collective Datashock) then Pretty Lightning are your answer. Unsurprising, then, that as often as their sound is indeed full to the brim with crunch, swagger and feedback, they’re also just capable as easing off on that oft-abused accelerator and dealing in something more far hypnotic and drone-like.

The reverberating slow-burner, ‘Greyhound’, is exactly one such moment. Just like the video that comes with it, it’s the sonic equivalent of hitching a long motorcycle road you never want to end–only, as in said visuals, the landscape you’re cruising through happens to be somewhere weird, cartoonish and, true to form, psychedelic-as-hell. The band says of the single: “Greyhound is pure escapism - one fantasy of it, anyway. It’s probably our most pop-pleasing song so far too, even if that’s not the direction we’re generally heading into. If you think that sometimes it´s ok to treat yourself to a fantasy, why not take the imagination of an eternal ride and stick it in a 4 minute ‘pop-song’”

Pretty Lightning - Greyhound

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Release Date: 19th February 2020

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Moon Boots’ acclaimed LP ‘Bimini Road’ revealed the Brooklyn-based artist in peak form. A showcase of his soulful house music stylings, the 2019 album gained praise from DJ Mag & Mixmag, and was named in KCRW’s ‘Top 10 Albums of 2019’. Following Alex Metric’s rework of highlight single ‘Whisper In the Wind’, ‘Tied Up’ now receives the remix treatment from Grammy-nominated producers Kenny Dope and Mat Zo.

Making his Anjunadeep debut, four-time Grammy nominee Kenny Dope demonstrates the influence of his funk roots with grooving bass riffs and jazz-influenced instrumentation in his rework. A world-class producer, Kenny’s offering clearly demonstrates why he’s often called upon to remix legendary artists such as Madonna, Todd Terry and Daft Punk.

A familiar name in the Anjunafamily, label legend Mat Zo has garnered support from electronic heavyweights such as Swedish House Mafia, Axwell, and Tiësto throughout his career with his distinctive progressive sound. Mat turns in a hard-hitting twist on the original, layering Moon Boots’ disco melodies with percussive breakbeats and granular sound design.


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Moon Boots feat. Steven Klavier - Tied Up (Kenny Dope Remix)

DC Promo Tracks #545: "Caucciù" (Damecuta Version) by Pellegrino & Zodyaco is part of the release "Caucciù" on Early Sounds Recordings  @earlysoundsrecordings

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Ecstasy

Etran

Hot and Flustered

Cold Meat - Bad Mood

Written & produced by KUBA. Remix & additional production by Alexander Kastner & Adrian Hoffmann. Mixed by Manuel Tur at Islenyo Studios.

Pablo (Paskal & Urban Absolutes Remix)

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Luis Radio, Souldynamic & Margaret Grace return with a third and final helping of ‘Dishwater Blues’, offering up five more elegant, soulful House cuts.

The EP opens with ‘Heaven’, a delightfully poised deep groove with powerfully spiritual lyrics from Margaret Grace, jazzy chords and tight, bouncy drums. ‘Supernatureal’ delivers more of a straight up House feel with gospel-influenced organs and life-affirming lyrics, plus a prodigious piano solo. ‘Set Fire To The Rain’ shows off a moodier side of Grace’s songwriting, with atmospheric strings and dramatic chords. ‘Moving On’ lays down a hypnotic groove with rhythmic stabs, over which the vocals simply soar. Finally, bonus track ‘Live, Love Dance’ lays out a pretty good blueprint for a happy existence, with an old-school club feel summoned up by classic 808 drums, rolling bass and chopped-up vocals.

More about the artists:
Describing herself as “just an ordinary girl with a big mouth”, Margaret Grace started her recording career in 2007 alongside local crew The Basement Boys, where her meaningful lyrics, effortless control and passionate delivery immediately stood out from the crowd. Margaret Grace and (Basement Boys’) Teddy Douglas have since collaborated on ‘God Created Woman’, ‘Circle of Life’, ‘Free My Mind’, ‘My Love is Not Blind’, ‘Try Me’ and a cover of Nina Simone’s ‘See Line Woman’ to worldwide acclaim. Margaret also covered Leela James’ ‘My Joy’ for producer Quentin Harris.

First releasing on BBE with 2011’s ‘Organismo’, Luis Radio has been a fixture in Rome’s house music scene since the early 80s. An assistant to Tony Humphries early in his career, Luis has gone to DJ at the world’s finest clubs and festivals, as well as collaborating with the likes of Barbara Tucker and Spen.
Italian duo Souldynamic have been lighting up dance-floors the world over for more than a decade, working with some of the most important voices in house music history, including Josh Milan, Margaret Grace, Peven Everett, Ultra Nate, Monique Bingham, Angela Johnson, Melba Moore and Robert Owens.

Luis Radio & Souldynamic Present Margaret Grace - Heaven

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Afro Sambroso (Rampa Version) SNIPPET

WAKING UP DOWN

We made this song between a day at my place in LA and and a day at Chaz’s spot in Oakland. This was our first time working together, I’ve been a Toro Y Moi fan for a while. His song Talamak is a longtime favorite. I listened to that one a lot when I first started Flume as a project.
-Harley

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Lyrics:
The difference in between
all the faces you read
When the grass ain't green
When you fix everything

I don't know about you but I got to get it out and I don't know how soon
But if we die, I want to bring the whole thing

Chorus oooohs

Who cares about a game
when it's all been replaced
Each level feels the same
It really goes either way

I don't know about you but I got to get it out and I don't know how soon
But if we die, I want to bring the whole thing

Chorus oooohs

Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold on
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto

African Head Charge - Dub Some More

On-U Sound Records