Pre-order the limited 3LP vinyl version + handmade silk-screen artwork + dwnld code here ➥ http://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/project-mooncircle-uprising-331860 | http://www.rushhour.nl/distribution_detailed.php?item=72581 | http://www.crosstalkintl.com/node/41892 | http://ughh.com/various-artists-uprising/PMC121LP/

Digital pre-order ➦ http://projectmooncircle.bandcamp.com/album/uprising | https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/project-mooncircle-uprising/id724784822

This year’s label-compilation thematically revolves all about the rise up from the generic. It is about young talented artists who are still struggling on their way up and are out there to make a name for themselves.

A wild stallion fights it’s way up from the dirt and tries to receive recognition by separating itself from the herd. Breaking through the anonymity of the group to the freedom of running through endless land- and soundscapes into horizons of new sonic worlds.

The compilation includes IIIII (Five Eyes) @fiveeyes, @KRTS, @Sieren, @my-head, @FiJi, @Long-Arm, @Kidkanevil, @DaisukeTanabe, @HanamiUK, @Julien-Mier, @Deft, @submerse, opti @hello-opti, @Den5hion, @TomDay, @Monsoonsiren, @Tendts, @Thriftworks, DH the Mythicalifornian, @PYUR, @Rain_Dog, @Daixie, FauDeam, Jean du Voyage @jean3d, Djéla, Pierre Harmegnies, @Robot-Koch, Robert Valsinger @robert-valsinger-bashie, Blossom, Neema, @Tomika, How Green, @Drogtech, @Bruises, Night Logic, Deep Shoq, Stèv, Cass., Anna Marjamäki, @Vitrion, and @mocksun-1.

Mastering by Sven Friederichs. A&R – Malte Tarnow & Gordon Gieseking. Design by Aline Donckier de Donceel. Original painting by Gordon Gieseking. Handmade silk-screen print artwork.

10. submerse - Glazed (V/A: Uprising - Project: Mooncircle, 2013)

House Keys 3

Mind Easing (feat. Squidgenini)

What originally started in a London pub between Charlie Tate & Matt ‘DJ Shuff’ Harris in 1994 has come full circle 30 years later! King Kooba return with their new Drum & Bass EP, Rapido featuring the lead single, ‘Smoking Room,’ a massive stretched out tune featuring Kooba signature bass lines and jazzy licks creating a heavy groove. Also includes the standout tune ‘Redefine,’ alongside ‘Votiac’ and ‘3113’. Stay tuned for the second EP of the new triptych from King Kooba focusing on their house music adventures coming soon.

Rapido

Redefine

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King Kooba - Redefine

Pre-order the new album: https://yazz-ahmed.lnk.to/aparadise
Stream/download the single: https://yazz-ahmed.lnk.to/paradisesingle/

British-Bahraini trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed today announces her much-anticipated fourth studio album, A Paradise In The Hold, set for release on 28 February via her new label Night Time Stories. Alongside this announcement, she is releasing the record’s title track, a powerful 10-minute piece inspired by the voyages of Bahraini pearl divers braving the seas to bring home their precious cargo. It blends traditional Bahraini influences with dynamic textures, eerily manipulated field recordings, polyrhythmic clapping and layered instrumentation that crescendos into a euphoric celebration of collective strength. 

On her new single, Yazz offers: “Composition began during experimentation with recordings from a research trip to hear the Pearl Divers of Muharraq in 2014. I processed short fragments of ceremonial sounds and morphed them into an undulating beat emulating the rise and fall, the breathing of the ocean, the creaking of the boat’s timbers.The piece has evolved during live performances into something of an epic, with solos from myself, George Crowley on bass clarinet and Naadia Sheriff on Fender Rhodes. It continues with a darbuka solo by Corrina Silvester, played over an extended vamp with polyrhythmic clapping from the ensemble, before the uplifting coda. I wanted to paint a picture of the joyful celebrations of the collective efforts of the sailors to bring their riches home.”

A Paradise In The Hold is an album of yearning. It’s about Yazz’s dual heritage, drawing on traditional music and folklore as well as her own personal experience as a British-Bahraini woman. A sweeping epic where tradition meets innovation, she melds ancient rhythms with contemporary musicianship. The record is a tribute to the sorrowful songs of Bahrain’s pearl divers, the strength of Arab women, and the celebratory rhythms of women's traditional drumming circles, while also telling the story of Yazz’s own decade-long voyage of self-discovery. 

On the album, Yazz says: “A thread in my work has been searching for, establishing, and now finally embracing and celebrating my cultural identity. I want to change the narrative about Arab women. So often, they are misrepresented as oppressed, but in Bahrain, there are many creative women forging new paths. I hope this album shines a light on that vibrancy and strength.” 

The album also marks Yazz’s first foray into writing lyrics, in both English and Arabic, bringing a new dimension to her expansive sound. The project features an impressive roster of collaborators, including vocalists Natacha Atlas, Brigitte Beraha, and percussionist Corrina Silvester. An Ivor Novello Award-winning composer and one of the most innovative trumpet players of her generation, with A Paradise In The Hold, Yazz Ahmed delivers a groundbreaking fusion of tradition and innovation, creating a contemporary jazz project that is set to make a lasting impact on the genre.

Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise In The Hold

This remix is my tribute to Benjamin Earl King a great Soul and R&B singer who recently died on April 30th 2015. This song appears on the B-side of the Stand By Me 7" released in 1961. 

The first time i heard this song i fell in love with it's lush dreamy flow. I imagine he's singing about making contact with aliens. We might never know.

On The Horizon  (Woodhead Remix) [DL!]

stream 'missing you': https://lavender.lnk.to/missingyou
pre-order the new album, we're having a barn dance: https://lavender.lnk.to/barndance/

lavender share new single 'missing you', from their upcoming debut album, we're having a barn dance, set for release May 23rd on Night Time Stories. lavender are Oskar Rice and Adam Jackson; friends since school, one a DJ/producer, one in an indie band, their burgeoning friendship saw them bonding over Elliot Smith as much as J Dilla. Their debut EP garnered praise and appreciation, with lead single peppermint currently on 22 million Spotify streams. Recent singles have won a plethora of support from DIY, Clash, Wonderland, The Line Of Best Fit, DMY, BBC 6Music and more. On album release day, lavender will perform a special release-day show at Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London.

On 'missing you', lavender say - "The track is built around a sample from The Independents ‘Baby, I’ve Been Missing You’, which Oskar came across while stuck in London traffic listening to (our favourite radio station) Supreme FM (number 1 in North London!!). It’s probably the most direct sample on the album and repurposes the refrain from the original to express something we were both drawn to at the time for different reasons"

we're having a barn dance is the story of one tumultuous year of living, loving (and the falling out thereof). The songwriting is a diary of an eventful 12 months. “We had a big chat about what this all means to us,” explains Oskar, “And we boiled it down to this: it’s about love, but not necessarily romantic love. It’s about all of those competing emotions and how, if you love one thing, it might detract from loving something else.”
 
we’re having a barn dance is both literally and metaphorically their one year safari of discovery, starting in a farmhouse in France through to a studio behind Lidl in Limehouse. “I think the album for me feels like a journey,” explains Adam. “I was definitely fixated on this multifaceted concept of ‘home’ throughout the writing process. It seems to start with a departure and sets in motion an attempt to try and locate, then return to, an ever-evolving sense of home. Which is interesting as I was couch-surfing for the bulk of the time we were writing the album, living across so many different homes. Oskar and I gave each other permission to use the shared project as a personal outlet. And making it was entwined with a process of self-reckoning and was helpful in a way that I hadn’t experienced from music before.”

“We were pretty perfectionist,” says Oskar. “Took a while tweaking everything and making it right. And it really documents, I think, that year in a really nice way.”
 
we're having a barn dance is an album that is manifestly ambitious both in its production sound and as songwriters clearly finding greater confidence in their future pathway.   

lavender - missing you

i'M MoRoCCaN !

To download this track for free, please visit Impose Magazine
http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/eskmo-side-project-welder-debut-mp3


"Be My Light" is the 2nd track being given away from Welder's forthcoming
album "Florescence". (Out Sept 26 on Ancestor)
http://weldersounds.com


Brendan Angelides, aka Welder, is a California based artist more widely known in the music community as Eskmo. With releases under the latter guise on the labels of Ninja Tune, Warp and Planet Mu, he has gained notable transatlantic recognition from the likes of BBC Music ("mind-melting invention..."), URB ("Simply destroys the soundsystem..") and FACT ("Fascinating example of the intersection of organic and electronic.") amongst many others.
Ancestor Media is the label he created as an outlet for his own personal creative endeavors as Eskmo and Welder. Past Ancestor releases include his collaboration with Amon Tobin entitled simply "Eskamon", and the well-received Eskmo EP "Hypercolor." 


Welder: "Be My Light"

Enthusiasms (Couldn't Ask For Anything More)

No Divas 08
Tribal Dance Lazerguns EP by @Dominik_Hisslinger & @Oberwasser
Download (mp3/wav/flac)
>>> Bandcamp: https://nodivas.bandcamp.com/album/dominik-hisslinger-oberwasser-tribal-dance-lazerguns-ep

Tribal Dance Lazerguns EP

Dominik Hisslinger - Tribal Dance (Original Mix) No Divas 08

Released 7th of August 2017 on the Millennium Jazz Music compilation "The Big Payback Vol.3: Credit Check"
TBP#3 is brought to you in conjunction with The Word Is Bond :: www.thewordisbond.com :: A blog that's been supporting various artists and labels for quite some time. Check them out for all sorts of goodies.
Arranged, produced and played by Andre Lamb, violin and final mix by Amine Bouzaher @simplmachines 
MJM115: TBPB#3 - Credit Check 
Mastered and compiled by Alastair "Skinnista" Ash 
Co-mastered and managed by Gadget 
Artwork by Bones The Beat Head

SloMo Feat. Simple Machines "The Big Payback vol.3: Credit Check" Millennium Jazz Music

Berlin based label and creative collective operating in the left-field sphere of electronic music since 2002.

10. submerse - Glazed (V/A: Uprising - Project: Mooncircle, 2013)

PROJECT MOONCIRCLE