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Introducing episode #2 of our new podcast series! Shining a light on the amazing artists we are surrounded by and collaborate with. We are joined by Allysha Joy to talk about our latest collaboration on "Speak In Truth” off our FLUX EP and chat about many things including vulnerability, community, self-producing, the different shades of being an artist in the industry and much more! Hope you enjoy!

• CLOSE COUNTERS MIX •
KAIDI TATHAM - Could It Be
Blasthead - In Water DiscoShamis ft. Yobe - Believe (LSCM REMIX)
Close Counters - SPEAK IN TRUTH (ft. Allysha Joy)

INTERVIEW WITH ALLYSHA JOY

• ALLYSHA JOY MIX •
Allysha Joy - Light It Again (Alex Phonzi Remix)
Bella Boo - Tuesday (Shy One Remix)
Kaidi Tatham - Rain
Gabriels - Love and Hate in a Different Time
Clever Austin - Ark (ft. Taylor crawford)
ATJAZZ - Touch The Sun
Eighties Ladies - Tell Him
Animated by Nevil Bernard - Disco Baby 
(Floating Points & Red Greg Edit)
Mark de Clive-delowe - State of the Mental 
(ft. bembe seque)
Afronaught vs Misa Megra Vocal - Oba awon oba
Ell Murphy & DJ Crisps - Arms Around

Close Counters Collective Radio Ep. 2 with Allysha Joy

𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗷𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴/𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆. 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼-𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗝 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄, 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮, 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝘇 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰.

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Motor Jazz Radio - 2021-08-20 | Soho Radio

After operating since the start of 2020, Inner Tribe has gone from power to power with great releases from the likes of Elf Tranzporter, Clever Austin, Stan Smith, Inkswel, Kid Sublime, Ezroh, Rela, Colonel Red and countless others. Soul music forged by the creative direction of prolific producer and DJ Inkswel. The label has received accolades and support from the likes of Bandcamp Weekly, Okayplayer, Indie Shuffle, Pilerats and Fusicology as well as radio love from Lefto, Worldwide FM and Triple J. 

Featuring in no particular order Beyond June, Elf Tranzporter, Joobie, mfp, Stan Smith, Baba Israel, Green Twins, Active Ingredients, Applejac, Ohmega Watts, Lailah Reich, Erin Buku, Jonny Faith, Edseven, Juzzone, Mista Monk, Dr.Drumah, Craig Smith, Kid Sublime, Tableek, Walla C, JonQuil, Soulparlor, Colonel Red, Jason Hogans aka Brownstudy, Sofatalk, Oliver Night and Seany Bsta. The compilation paints an ethereal backdrop of an imaginary city focussed on Love, Hope and our inner Dreams.

Exclusive Premiere: Erin Buku & Jonny Faith - Tomorrow

‘Caminhos’ is a tribute to the late samba composer Catoni, featuring the masters lush vocal & guitar samples (with the permission of his family). The hard swinging hip hop track bridges gaps between classic Brazilian samba & bossa nova sounds with hard hitting Dilla-esque grooves, raw funk and boom bap, taking us on a trip to the shores of Rio de Janeiro. “The type of track you could loop forever”.

https://www.musicamacondo.com/2021/09/premiere-abase-caminhos/

Premiere: Àbáse - Caminhos (for Catoni)

We’re thrilled to welcome back Montreal’s OJPB (aka Bowly) to Lazy Days following his brilliant 2018 Lucy’s Stomp EP. OJPB’s music has a very singular poetic voice, equally influenced by Detroit, Chicago and early UK Grime/2-Step Garage as well as taking inspiration from french cinéma and littérature. As a DJ, OJPB became a firm favorite on the Montreal local scene with his unique eclectic style ranging from Techno, House, Disco and Breaks. Recently, he played at 24 Hours of Vinyl, Pik Nic Electronik for the 15 Years of Lazy Days and has a forthcoming Mutek set in a few weeks.

The EP opens with Théodore Le Fou, a dreamy cinematic Deep House number that also features an obligatory remix by Fred Everything. Phonétik digs deeper into his UK influences with tight drum programming, cut up sampled vocals and those lovely strings. Ottomatik closes the EP in style with a broken beat rhythm, strings and rhodes melodies.

We hope you enjoy this EP as much as we do.

Release date: 09/17/2021

*Played by Jimpster on his latest Sofa Session

Exclusive Premiere: OJPB "Théodore Le Fou"

Risa T - Lucky

One-to-watch, Liam de Bruin steps back up to the Heard and Felt plate with the irresistible live house grooves of "Lavender".

Since the release of modern disco jazz funk number "Friday Evening" on Heard and Felt we've impatiently waited for more from this exciting musician and producer. Finally, under the guiding hand and ear of Heard and Felt label boss Ennio Styles (3RRR FM/Worldwide FM), Liam is readying an EP that set to explore his love of house music and live instrumentation, from disco, boogie and jazz funk angles."Lavender" is a deeper number than "Friday Evening'", embracing more synth tones and a slinky, sexy, late night feel. And just when you’re feeling settled in the spacey groove, you find it's been growing in all directions, twisting into a low-key disco jazz bounce.

Considering Liam's feel for live house, jazz funk, boogie, and so on, it's no surprise he has been embraced so quickly by fellow Melbourne artists that have inspired him, like Close Counters, Horatio Luna, Teymori and Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange. Also recommended for fans of fellow MIMS-favourites, like Malik Alston, Julien Dyne, Byron the Aquarius, Floating Points, Kyle Hall, Theo Parrish and Duke Hugh.

"Lavender" is released on October 15 on Heard and Felt.

Lavender

Exclusive Premiere: Liam de Bruin "Lavender" (Forthcoming on Heard and Felt)

A modern day love story might go as follows: Lukas and Jonathan, two brothers running Berlin-based label Kommerz Records, started connecting with their favorite new jazz combo Triorität via IG without any business in mind, just to find out that they grew up in the same place – often overlooked, but damn cute city of Darmstadt. 
So why not just meet up during winter holidays in their parent’s garden (social distancing was still a thing in winter 2020) to sit around a fireplace and drink wine from daddy’s stack? A perfect start for a new friendship.

Noa Erni’s extraordinary debut “The Mental Traveller” hadn’t been released at that time, but the trinity of Triorität was immediately caught by Noa’s unpretentious chord play and the idea was born to create some live interpretations of his compositions. The Swiss-born producer and wine merchant (meet him at Friedenauer Weinhandlung) produced his obscure jazz and hip-hop atmospheres as a one man band hidden away in his home studio in Berlin. Childhood friends Triorität, on the contrary, developed their “dancefloor jazz” on stage and in the rehearsal room, finessing their very own melange of 70s fusion, disco as well as modern electronics and hip-hop. With their 2020 masterpiece “ALG0” they perfectly captured the stage powerplay on a 12” record, awarded with a co-sign by Gilles Peterson.

Fast forward into 2021: Ouvo Records, the imprint run by Triorität and DJ Ion, and Kommerz Records are best label buddies and their collaboration “The Mental Traveller - Triorität Session” came to life. Three songs of Noa Erni revisited by Triorität’s Alexander Hoffmann (drums), Gerrit Ebeling (keys) and Grégoire Pignède (bass) in their very own jazz fusion madness. Recorded in summer 2021 at Il Civetto studios in Berlin-Lichtenberg by Christ Hentz a.k.a. Hentzup and mastered by Mark Pfurtscheller, the full EP will be available on all digital platforms November 19th alongside a live video of the session.

Composed by Noa Erni
Arranged and performed by Triorität

Triorität are:
Alexander Hoffmann (Drums)
Gerrit Ebeling (Keys)
Grégoire Pignède (Bass)

Recorded and mixed by Chris Hentz aka Hentzup at Il Civetto Studio
Mastered by Mark Pfurtscheller at Chin Chat Studio

Artwork by Benedikt Luft, Dominik Keller and Luca Christakopoulos aka mesobroke

Brought to you by Kommerz Records and Ouvo Records

Noa Erni - Train Ride (Triorität Session)

Taken from the EP 'Do You Even Care Anymore?', out now on Brainfeeder: https://wajatta.lnk.to/dyecaSo

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Do You Even Care Anymore?

So You Know

Here is my favorites of 2021 ✨
Incredible year, many releases, not always easy to follow the albums on the long term... but what a year rich in creativity. Genres are mixed to create new ones or to free themselves from them.

Artwork : Adrien Guessaïmi • https://www.instagram.com/aguessaimi/

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01. Jamire Williams - Hands Up (International Anthem)
02. El Michels Affair & Liam Bailey - Faded (Big Crown Records)
03. Nala Sinephro - Space 4 (Warp Records)
04. Space Afrika - Honest Labour feat. HforSpirit (Dais Records)
05. Léonie Pernet - Dandelion (Infiné)
06. Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy - Play Along (Carrying Colour)
07. Ben Lamar-Gay - Oh Great Be the Lake (International Anthem)
08. Mach-Hommy - Rami (feat. Westside Gunn)(Griselda Records)
09. Brainstory - Long Day (Reprise)(Big Crown Records)
10. Turnstile - Fly again (Roadrunner Records)
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Guessaï** 2021

Intrepid Kiwi music-maker Mara TK cooks up a soulful, free-spirited two-track EP, Taniwhunk, with deeply magnetic results. Here is as authentic a listen as you are likely to get all year, experimental, challenging, enriching music without polished edge or tiresome brand-building edifice. Taniwhunk is 21st century Maori music - music with something to say...everything to say.
 
The Maori, New Zealand’s orginal inhabitants, have experienced centuries of upheaval following subsequent European settlement and their need for loud, insightful voice in today’s turbulent, over-developed world is greater than ever. Beautifully stark EP opener Run is a powerful Maori challenge to selfish, ruthless authority, its gentle exhale of percussion and guitar providing sheer lift to TK’s pure soul vocals on fighting fear, deception and cultural poverty. Acclaimed Detroit DJ-producer Moodymann adds electronic bite to a remix, meanwhile, punching jagged, metallic rhythms through a stirring haze of b-line organ, digital hum and sharp keys. The Maori are speaking with digital clarity.
 
Second Taniwhunk cut, Anyone Here?, ups the tempo and extends TK’s important dialogue with the listener. Here forceful drum and piano loops build into spirals of synth, shuffling cymbals and more sweet yet sweeping vocals, TK serving us personal, heartfelt thoughts on the displacement of community and its identity and, in turn, the corporate misuse of land which has killed off a truly sustainable, age –long way of life. A remix by London DJ-producer Simbad moves firmly into raw house territory - deep analogue bass spliced with phased ‘n’ filtered synths and seriously cuttin’ drums to mesmeric effect – but story remains key; how could it not?
 
Mara TK, one third of acclaimed, genre re-defining soul trio Electric Wire Hustle, hails from Canterbury, an area of New Zealand’s South Island holding huge historical significance for the Maori. Reconfigured over several centuries by Western capitalism, and ravaged in recent years by literally thousands of earthquakes, Canterbury promises little today for its original settlers. Where natural diasaster hasn’t struck, industry-scale dairy farming pollutes local rivers preventing the sustainable fishing upon which TK’s family, and people, once based their peaceful lives.
 
TK, then, is a self-confessed ‘Maori In Space’; a new age tribesman striking back with the technological tools at his disposal in these bewildering, highly advanced times, and some considerable talent, to express the Maori’s mana in high definition and with panoramic reach. Taniwhunk balances statement and style perfectly; art imitating and enhancing life….

Mara TK - Taniwhunk EP - Run (Moodymann Remix)

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