Blokk 5tar (feat. suwxp & Gkap)

Bandcamp link is https://warmdays.bandcamp.com/track/the-real-nitty-gritty-qbs-magic-ritual-mix

Sun-Doe is the new project from myself and South African jazz musician Yonela Mnana.

This is a demo of one of the works from the forthcoming full length album.

After a year and a half of working regularly, in the studio, and on stage, producing together, recording, remixing, gigging all year, at the end of it all we made this record.

Sun-Doe, is  an African woman spirit, a Hermes-like messenger, who operates in the virtual realm in order to deliver her messages from across realms, encouraging us to invent the future. We just play the music. Sun-Doe raises different themes on different days. On this recording Sun-Doe tells us FREE PALESTINE. Stop the killing. Stop the war.

Yonela Mnana plays Rhodes
QB plays vibraphone, bass, and drums.
Produced by QB Smith
Everything else by Sun-Doe as channelled through Black Lives Matter, BDS  Movement, Louis Farrakhan Sr, Democracy Now, and Jon Snow.

Sun-Doe (QB & Yonela) The Real Nitty Gritty DEMO

Mid-October Mix

Allfromafrika

A deep trance-inducing jazz classic, recorded by Sonny Rollins, Lonnie Liston Smith, and in the Mtume vocal version that featured both Dee Dee Bridgwater and Jean Carn together. Remade and brought up to date, incorporating elements of all three.

Produced by QB Smith.
All instrumentation performed by QB Smith.
Vocals performed by Keorapetse Kolwane.
Mixed by Clinton McCreery at Bambu Studio London.

https://warmdays.bandcamp.com/track/sais-egypt

Sais (Egypt)

Sais (Egypt) (SNIPPET)

MARVIN’S ROOM TRACK LIST
BY HOUSECATZ

1. California – Saba feat Phoelix & Ryne Lenae
2. Come Over – Mitch Geist
3. Chill – Dela (Instrumental)
4. Soul Believer – Shin-Ski
5. Miss U – Kiefer
6. Quest For love – Potatohead People
7. Keep Moving – Tom Mitch
8. Spread Love Too Thin – Joomanji feat Lindsay Olsen
9. Thinking Bout You – Robert Glasper Experiment (KAYTRANADA REMIX)
10. Awake To You – R+R=NOW
11. Wild Flowers – Kan Sano
12. Back To Me – Moonchild
13. Mo’s – Rednose Distrikt
14. Love Will Find You – [re-jazz] (FlashBack Remix)
15. Body Electric – Bennetrhodes.

2018

Dj HouseCatz presents Marvin's Room Mix October 2018

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The release last autumn of Reel People’s first full studio album in 10 years was, it’s fair to say, a moment. Retroflection stylishly recreated soul, disco and boogie classics behind the collective’s formation nearly 20 years ago and exposed its rarefied DNA like never before. Now band leader Oli Lazarus widens the collective, inviting the world’s finest producers and remixers to add their funky splices to the Retroflection blueprint. Retroflection Remixed, featuring Mousse T., Osunlade, DJ Spinna, John Morales, Atjazz, Terry Hunter, Sebb Junior, Scott Diaz, Da Brownie, Tall Black Guy, Matt Cooper’s OUTSIDE, BusCrates and Art Of Tones, is a majestic rebooting of the soulful flow that swept us away in 2018.
	
Art Of Tones get’s his sparkly mitts on Don’t Stop The Music, swaggering synth ‘n’ bass riffs further underlining Angie Stone’s classy strut through Yarbrough & People’s 1980 hit, whilst Buscrates – true to the name of his remix – pumps irresistible funk bounce into I’m In Love, a truly lowdown re-skinning of Reel People’s Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King tribute where Navasha Daya’s vocal sounds sassier than ever.

Osunlade eases us in with an elegant re-interpretation of Reel People’s Pleasure cover Joyous, deep throbs of electronica and rippling percussion carrying loops of the vocal and that iconic sax solo to stunning new heights – or depths. Similarly, Atjazz dims the lights and intensifies the mood for his take on Twilight. Where Reel People played impressively close to Maze’s original, Atjazz treads to shuffling jazz drums, double-bass and piano. The build of parts is spine-tingling stuff. Matt Cooper and his outstanding OUTSIDE project also take on the mantle of Joyous, and serve us a full fat disco jazz funk odyssey.

There are a number of uptempo treats too. Take Sebb Junior’s snappy piano-house routine for the Mica Paris-fronted I Want To Thank You – a sparkling turbo-charge to Alicia Myers’ early Eighties gospel-R&B vibe – or NYC mix legend John Morales’ ecstatic nine-minute mirrorball twirl of Geraldine Hunt-anthem Can’t Fake The Feeling complete with epic drum and vocal (Daya once again) breakdowns. Respected UK house DJ-producer Scott Diaz gives the Sharlene Hector-led cover of Side Effect’s Always There greater guitar-licked urgency but without compromise to the song’s soulful poise and power, and revered Chicago veteran Terry Hunter is a match made in heaven for Tony Momrelle, who soars through the former’s soulfully-charged remix of Buttercup (Carl Anderson’s mid-Eighties, Stevie Wonder-penned gem) with all of its funky drums, b-line twists and warm musical arrangements. German maestro Mousse T. hands us a nostalgic rework of Teena Marie’s I Need Your Lovin’  featuring the female powerhouses Vulu Malinga, LaDonna Harley-Peters and Sharlene Hector.

Elsewhere, South African talent Da Brownie dresses Reel People’s peppy, Omar-fronted update of Skipworth & Turner treasure Thinking About Your Love in sharp, finely-detailed deep dance threads, and Detroit star Tall Black Guy (TBG) sprinkles considerable amounts of summer samba magic over Momrelle’s other Retroflection outing Can We Pretend - a stunning re-awakening of the Bill Withers and Jose Feliciano collabo for the second time in mere months. There’s room yet for DJ Spinna to expand the reaches of Keep It Up (Anthony David’s luscious rendition of Milton Wright’s deep-soul bomb) with another of his transcendental space-funk remixes. Mind-blowing.

Retroflection Remixed

Pre-Order

Reel People feat. Navasha Daya - I'm In Love (BusCrates Remix)

Matt Cappy - Look At Us Now
Javier Nero ft Brian Lynch - Crystal Lake
Midori Jaeger - Upon Your Ear
Angela Munoz - In My Mind
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed-Muhammed, Marcos Valle - Viajando Por Ai
Derrick Hodge - Not Right Now
Mark De Clive Lowe - Joyful Resistance
Taber Gable - Unspoken Realities
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed-Muhammed, Roy Ayers - African Sounds
Keyon Harrold - In Conversation
Robert Glasper feat. Keyon Harrold - Juniors Jam
Keyon Harrold - In Conversation
Warriors Of The Dystotheque - No Borders feat. Howie B
Javier Nero ft Lauren Desberg - I Tried So Hard Pt. 1
Romarna Campbell - Inherently Political
Keyon Harrold - In Conversation
Yebba ft Keyon Harrold - Distance
Keyon Harrold - In Conversation
Reuben James - Burn ft Keyon Harrold
Keyon Harrold - In Conversation
Keyon Harrold - Upside Down Hero
Keyon Harrold - In Conversation
James Beckwith - Topimpa
Menoosha, Donielle Graves, Kella, LyricL - Hair Cypher
Mark De Clive Lowe - Ryūgū-jō (live at Grand Performance)

Foldedspace On Jazz FM 28/6/2020 w/ Keyon Harrold in conversation

Hey Gorgy how have you been? I know it’s been a while since we last spoke, I truly hope you good and healthy in these Challenging times. 

Anyways I have decided to make a mix named postal Code, this first mix is 1520 the postal code of where I am from, my hood name is Daveyton. I will be making more Postal Codes celebrating other hoods, so feel free to send me your postal codes. I truly hope you going to enjoy this Postal Code: 1520

1. Azekel - Pyramids & Starships
2. Nas - Dance
3. Ludacris - Growing Pains ( Ft. Fate Wilson & Keon Bryce )
4. Amy Winehouse - Detachment
5. Goldlink - Justine’s Interlude
6. Quadron - Better Off ( Ft. Kendrick Lamar )
7. Peyton - My Flame
8. Anthony Hamilton - Georgie Parker
9. DJ Jazzy Jeff - My People
10. Solange - Borderline ( Ft. Q-Tip )
11. The Internet - Look What U Started
12. Masta Ace - The I.N.C Ride
13. 2 Pac - So Many Tears
14. Mr J Medeiros - Change ( Ft. Strange Fruit Project & Rez Of The Procession)
15. Talib Kweli - Stand To The Side ( Ft. Vinia Mojica & Novel )
16. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Slice It
17. Nate Dogg - Music & Me
18. Kurupt - We Can Freak It
19. Jay Z - Smile ( Ft. Gloria Carter)

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/p2xj4mgpdb7f9nh

Postal Code: 1520 

1520 ( Mixed By Themba Lunacy)

Kid Fonque X Jonny Miller - Somewhere Ft Jaidene Veda (Lenin Supermoon Mix) #staytruecompetition

Composer/lyricist/producer/DJ/label smallcheese.... (educator)

Blah blah yada yada. I make music. I spend my stolen hours playing jazz on an Ableton Push. I teach music and production. I've DJ'd a lot!!!! Produced a fair few records.  I like Dilla, Coltrane, Stevie, and a lot of house, broken and electronic music that reflects that space. As I'm getting older and in this time of intense violence I'm moving towards more spacious meditative sounds, jams like Astral Travelling, or Journey Into Satchidananda. I like philosophy and scifi and sunshine and women and poetry. Native of North London,, spent the last 18 months holding it down in DK (Soweto), standing out like a sore white thumb. Now back in cold grey blighty for a minute. It's been a blessed half a life so far.

Sun-Doe (QB & Yonela) The Real Nitty Gritty DEMO

QBSmith