Sleepin Giant - Purple | Original Cultures OCEP003 / OCEP008DD
Release date: April 21, 2014 (digital), May 26, 2014 (vinyl)
Format: Vinyl, Digital
Distribution: Kudos (worldwide) + originalcultures.bandcamp.com

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originalcultures.bandcamp.com/album/purple

Buy the single: 
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itunes.apple.com/gb/album/lets-get-serious-single/id833564885
boomkat.com/downloads/954054-sleepin-giant-let-s-get-serious
+ all digital stores worldwide.

Video for Glitch -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsU_TIP0Zg

Support from Kutmah, BBE, LV, Jehst, KCRW Los Angeles, KSDS San Diego, Radio Helsinki, Groovement, Black Athena, Tru Thoughts, 22Tracks and more.

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Sleepin Giant is an Amsterdam-based producer who has been bidding his time for over a decade, refining his craft, honing his voice. Purple is his first official release, following a debut appearance on Brussels’ On Point label in 2012 for the Sweet Rendez-Vous remixes.

Purple has been two years in the making, a journey that began with the track Glitch written with NYC-based poet Aja Monet. It was on the strength of this demo that Original Cultures convinced Sleepin Giant to put together a whole EP of his own soul music. Another two vocalists were added to the mix: Bristol’s Romaine Smith, a young singer full of promise who has worked primarily with Typesun, and Amsterdam’s Ruben Hein, signed to Blue Note and one of Holland’s most striking voices.

The music on Purple is soul, plain and simple. It draws from the same spiritual place as the likes of D’Angelo, The Roots, Erikah Badu or Jay Dee - from inside, from the soul. It’s music to fall in love to, music to make love to, music to dream to. On each of the five songs the vocalists recount stories we can all relate to, stories of love, of things past, of things coming. The musical backdrop is stripped down to its bare essentials with an irresistible interplay between drums and bass alongside warm, sultry melodies that compliment the singing.

Purple is to be released on digital and 12” vinyl, featuring cover art inspired by the legendary Ohio Players albums, in mid April. It will be preceeded in late March by a digital single featuring Let’s Get Serious and an alternate version of Hey Girl. In early May remixes from Typesun, Lewis James and EAN will be released digitally along four dancefloor tracks created during the process.

Let's Get Serious w/ Ruben Hein

Track 05 off "After Ours: A Love Story"

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Mixed by @RavyMonaee <3 

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04 Quick Fix (Prod. by King-I-Divine)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sns-single/id931634393

Taken from the "Earshot EP" - out on Darker than Wax - Singapore - 2014

Mixed & Mastered by Jean Vanesse (Greenhouse studio) 
Artwork by the Funk Bast*rd 



Generation

Kendrick Scott - I have a dream (Philippe Edison Remix)

One of Many - Beekool The sacrifice Beat

BEATSOFREEN - DIMENSIONS EP 

CAT NO : DTW 33
26th June - Beatport | iTunes | Spotify | RDIO
3rd July - Worldwide release

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Bandcamp : http://darkerthanwax.bandcamp.com
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For fans of Flying Lotus, fLako, Mo Kolours and the like.

Born and raised in The Netherlands, producer Beatsofreen has gained major attention by releasing his first well-received beattape “Future Memories” back in 2011 at the age of 17. 
After a successful collaboration (Global Soul EP) with Medaforacle (USA), he was signed to the Darker Than Wax family, celebrating his new EP “Coloured Dreams” (2013), a little tribute to the late & great J Dilla. With his alterego Stan Forebee , Beatsofreen also creates more jazz-orientated beats, and most recently landed himself a feature on Okayplayer for his remix of Flying Lotus' 'Siren song'.

The process that led to ‘Dimensions EP’ engaged different sides of him as a well-rounded artist – growing as his music developed from straight Dilla-minded beats to more electronic songs.

He approached this first as a musician, and then a producer – working with less samples and recording live acoustic instruments – something which has always been part of work for film and radio but was never included in personal production own music, until this project.

While creating this EP had the intention of an electronic influence, it is balanced off by an earthy jazz element – he began to delve more into the acoustic-folk sound and songwriting.

The Dimensions EP is about bringing these different elements together. It stands for seeing things from new perspectives, for experiencing life's diversity. Everything is possible: it's all around you; inside, on the outside. You just have to find the dimensions, take the walls down, and bloom.

Special thanks goes out to Joanna Borromeo, who lends her wonderful vocals to 'Bloom'.

Artwork by the Funk Bast*rd
Text by RAH
All productions by Beats O Freen
Vocals on 'Bloom' by Joanna Borromeo
Additional remix of 'SAM' by Jasper Staal

SEEK:
https://soundcloud.com/beatsofreen
https://soundcloud.com/Stan-Forebee
https://soundcloud.com/joannaborromeo
https://soundcloud.com/jasperstaal

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Beats O Freen -  SAM | Jasper Staal rework (Dimensions Ep)

NxWorries(Anderson.Paak & Knxwledge)- Link Up (Live)

Marie Dahlstrøm / Feelings
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北欧デンマークからジャズ・ソウルシーンの次代を担うビッグアーティストが登場した。くっきりとして伸びやかな歌声と、聴衆を魅了する、他とは一線を画すボーカルアレンジの才能を持つアーティストMarie Dahlstrøm。すっと心に光が差し込むような優しさの中にソウルを感じる歌声を持つ彼女は、21世紀の Amel Larrieuxとも形容される。しかし、よりムーディーで思わず惹きこまれるような”影”の美しさも併せ持つ彼女の才能はこれまでのアーティスト達の枠には当てはまらない奥深さを感じさせる。
そんな底知れぬ実力を持つ彼女の口から紡ぎだされた6つの楽曲が収録される『 Feelings 』は、彼女の才能が存分に発揮された力作。ピアノの旋律と彼女の感情を絞りだすような歌声が印象的な“What Did You Say”、要所に入る管楽器の音が切なさを感じさせる“Feelings II”に、アシッドジャズをベースにネオソウルのような質感がにじみ出る“I Want A Man,” まで、一度その世界感に触れると”もっと聞きたい！”と思わせてくれる作品だ。彼女のくっきりと鮮明なボーカルがメロディーと絡み合い、モダンさとクラシックソウルのバランスを上手く保ちつつ、秀逸なジャズサウンドにまとめあげている。これから世界へ向けて走り出す彼女の放つ光と影の芸術が将来、月並みな才能に溢れた世界のソウルシーンに新たな息吹を吹き込むことは間違いない。

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Marie Dahlstrøm - Feelings II

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE: http://thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/reasons-feat-jimetta-rose

The debut single off of the forthcoming LP Adventures From Paradise : A Tribute To Minnie Riperton (vol. 3), Reasons is the Decoders latest offering, tackled beautifully by local LA native songstress Jimetta Rose and featuring a stellar cast of session players from Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

The Decoders chose to take this classic Minnie track, and transform it into a celebratory, Jorge Ben inspired Afro-Brazilian samba. Featuring Brazilian trombonist Fabio Santana de Souza, and percussion by Te'Amir Sweeney and Steve Haney, this arrangement is yet another tribute to Minnie Riperton's depth of songwriting and musical prowess. 

Stay tuned for more upcoming releases from vol 3! The full length album is due in late Summer/early Fall.

Reasons feat. Jimetta Rose

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FREE DOWNLOAD: J-Hoon feat. Phatkhat - Favorite Line (OPOLOPO remix)

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