A personally curated playlist by Matthew Halsall for your deep listening experience. Lush earthy sounds and soulful spiritual jazz for relaxation, meditation and astral travelling.

Meditations - Matthew Halsall

Freedom Jazz Dance

Katon (feat. Kahil El'Zabar)

Miryam Solomon -  To Say All With Very Little

Within Melbourne's burgeoning cinematic-soul scene, which includes breakout acts Surprise Chef and Karate Boogaloo, mysteriously sit The Pro-Teens. Helmed by prolific drummer and percussionist Hudson Whitlock, who also plays in both aforementioned bands, this breakaway studio project involves an interchangeable collective of incognito, Melbourne-based, esteemed instrumentalists playing under outlandish pseudonyms such as "'Dead Honest’ Dean Amazing" and "Libby Clique-Baite". Symbolically led by keyboardist "Snooch Dodd", new album ‘I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly’ is the latest musical concoction from Whitlock's eccentric brain, marrying the soul/funk roots of sample culture with the principles of boom-bap hip hop.

Incorporating the colourful comic book stylings of MF DOOM and Kool Keith, or the dark and exotic flavours of Gravediggaz and The Wu-Tang Clan, The Pro-Teens also take cues from their composing heroes Galt MacDermot, Richard Evans and Marc Moulin. The Pro-Teens bop, zip, whip and fling on this phantasmagorical journey - an unorthodox patchwork of cinematic soul, hip hop-guided funk breaks, vivid instrumental textures and film score-esque moods. 

The Pro-Teens work on the same analogue recording model adopted by the tight-knit College Of Knowledge label, self-recorded and produced with the rag-tag crew of musicians putting tracks down live to tape in crammed attic studios and sharehouse recording spaces.

The Pro-Teens - Snooch Is Too Busy for This Shit

Nafs at Peace

Straight Path (feat. Latarnik & Tenderlonious)

Pharoah

Harvest Time

Bøn

Superkilen

Tvillinger

Sierra Tracks

Old Friend; The Sea

Expanding To One

New Pyramid

Prelude: Expansion

This is "We're Here" a backing track for the song from my musical, "Miracle in the Park"

We're Here , from the musical, Miracle in the Park

New Pyramid

Phi-Psonics

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