the special ride

Fluid 34

Artist: Jonson, Jonson & Jonson
Title: Keep Falling For It
Label/Cat No: Ramrock Blue/ RRB023
Release Date: September 9th, 2024

Jo Wallace stumbled across the previously independently released, blue eyed soul masterpiece, ‘Keep Falling For It’ during a late night trawl of the internet at the end of 2023. She was instantly smitten and the ensuing correspondence with the band, Jonson, Jonson and Jonson, ensured that the release of this heartbreakingly, beautiful composition would go out on Ramrock Blue. This first release comes courtesy of Joe Cang deciding that one of the band’s soulful, thematic instrumentals was worthy of his highly evocative vocals delivering his tender but wise lyric about the world’s insatiable appetite for the media’s alternative truths, thus creating ‘Keep Falling For It’. I defy you not to be reduced to a mass of emotionally uplifted molecules by the time you’ve finished listening to ‘Keep Falling For It’

Jonson, Jonson and Jonson comprise of three humans - one studio - no stress. Why ‘Jonson Jonson and Jonson’ you ask? ‘Cang, Schogger and Thornalley’ sounded like reputable accountants so their names were swapped for the partially trusted and familial throwaway ‘Jonson Jonson and Jonson’. Formed randomly during an afternoon studio session, these three, well seasoned songwriter/ producers began by improvising on a vibe and immediately recorded it live as a trio with Danny Schogger on piano, Joe Cang on bass and vocals and Phil Thornalley playing the drums, and the track came together quickly, with much laughter and little planning. 

Individually, Danny Schogger has written and produced hits for Celine Dion and performed with George Michael. Joe Cang co-wrote the No. 1 ‘Shine’ for reggae supergroup, Aswad, worked with the iconic Hall & Oates as well as releasing music as a solo artist signed with the legendary Clive Davis. Phil has produced ‘The Cure’, written songs for Natalie Imbruglia and performed in Bryan Adams’ band. 
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I Choose U (feat. RINI)

Written by: Khamari
Produced by: Khamari
Sample: Darondo - Didn't I

Hot breakfast in the morning
Coffee by your bedside
French toast and bacon
'Cause that was your favorite
Trying to make my wrongs right

We'd talk for hours
Rooftop wasting daylight
I'd sing "Knocks Me Off My Feet"
Be your jukebox
And you'd ask my advice

Didn't I treat you right now?
Didn't I
Didn't I do the best I could?
Didn't I
Didn't I give you everything?
Didn't I
I tried my best just to be around
Didn't I

Moments fleeting
We’re just train cars passing
The way you slipped through my fingers
Cold ice glaciers, never lasting

This heartbreak hotel I checked into
Still hoping to hear your knocking soon
It was only with you I was see-through
Down to the soft tissue

Didn't I treat you right now?
Didn't I
Didn't I do the best I could?
Didn't I
Didn't I give you everything?
Didn't I
I tried my best just to be around
Didn't I

Right My Wrongs

For the lovers-Day Dreaming and I'm thinking of you! Taking you on love journey of soulful, afro house and amapiano.

Day Dreaming Mix

Forever

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done it again

Test Your Patience

"Khaan" third track from "Halat Parvaz" album
Music Producers: Arsam, Saint Andre
Mix&Master: Ashkan Kagan

Label: Belaad

Khaan [Prod. Kagan, Arsam, Saint Andre]

This one is very special to us. We linked three of our cherished musical family together; the wonderous band SOYUZ, legendary cult artist Asha Puthli and Swedish maestro Sven Wunder, for an exclusive production made especially for the Mr Bongo Record Club 7 compilation. We were so blown away with the results, we wanted to share it as a stand-alone single too. 

They say don't meet your heroes, but this is not the case with Asha Puthli. You couldn't meet a more inspirational, gutsy and funny spirit, who is rich in stories, experience and knowledge. At the age of 79, Asha has embarked on her first-ever world tour, returning to the stage after over 40 years.

The track that would go on to become this collaborative piece, started out in Minsk just a month before the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine and SOYUZ’s emigration to Poland. Spending time in the studio playing around with different instruments and recording ideas, SOYUZ’s Alex Chumak wrote the initially piano-driven track, influenced by Azerbaijani pianist and composer Vagif Mustafazadeh, with hints of Holger Czukay weaved within.

As longtime fans of Asha’s music, SOYUZ were incredibly excited about the prospect of a collaboration. Asha loved the demo, so the band recorded a proper studio session, sending it to her in Miami where she returned it with her mystical vocals, that as Alex explains “were like a revelation – strange and beautiful at the same time!”.

To put the icing on the cake, Alex met one of our heroes, producer and composer Sven Wunder from Stockholm, whilst playing Sessa’s live band. After playing him the Asha track, Sven wrote a glorious string arrangement that was recorded with the Stockholm Studio Orchestra and conducted by Erik Arvinder. 

Lifting the track even further, subtle percussion by Anders Scherp and Anders af Klintberg delicately dusts the grooves. It was a pure goosebumps moment when we first opened the finished track at Mr Bongo HQ and got to hear the song in its entirety. At just over two minutes it's short, but oh-so-sweet, beautifully encapsulating Asha's character and personality - playful, wise and serene, whilst also perfectly capturing SOYUZ’s cinematic, song-writing prowess and Sven Wunder’s distinctive style.

SOYUZ (СОЮ3) Featuring Asha Puthli & Sven Wunder - Spring Has Sprung

LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Riding a wave of critical praise and positive feedback for his most recent Emperor Machine album, the fabulous Island Boogie, Andrew Meecham returns with a typically wild and dancefloor-focused set of dubs, ‘versions’ and remixes.

According to Meecham, Island Boogie is his most personal set to date – a full-length excursion that not only delivers perfectly formed expressions of his dub-tinged, off-kilter synth-boogie sound, but also tracks that draw deeply on his earliest influences and long-held musical expressions.

It’s fitting, then, that this remix EP begins with his own sparse, stripped-back ‘version’ rework of ‘S-S-S-Single Bed’, a fine cover of the mid-80s Fox single featuring the vocals of Michelle Bee. Meecham’s dub-wise revision is a skeletal and driving affair, with snippets of echoing guitar, colourful synths and Bee’s distinctive vocalisations rising above a weighty dub disco bassline and rock-solid percussion.

It's followed by two revisions of album favourite ‘Wanna Pop With You’ from A Love From Outer Space main man Sean Johnston under his now familiar Hardway Brothers alias. Combining his own love of raw, analogue-sounding electronics and trippy dancefloor psychedelia with select elements of Meecham’s original – percussion, synth sounds, crisp guitar licks and elements of Séverine Mouletin’s lead vocals, Johnston’s main ‘remix’ is a weighty, mid-tempo treat. Arguably even better is his accompanying dub, which is more groove-and-effects focused and makes more of Meecham’s superb original bassline. It’s heavy, spaced-out and undeniably intoxicating.

To round off the package, long-time friend of the label (and sometime contributor) Rose Robinson dons her Tigerbalm pseudonym and gets to work on ‘La Cassette’. Brilliantly cutting up Séverine Mouletin’s vocals, she delivers a driving slab of spaced-out, synth-heavy dub disco that adds more weight and energy to Meecham’s original. It’s a fittingly on-point way to close out a superb selection of club-ready revisions.

LENG SHOP

The Emperor Machine - S-S-S Single Bed (Version)

02. Keep Falling for It (Instrumental)

01. Keep Falling for It (Vocal)

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Say You Wont (Say You Will)

Seasons of Your Day

Common Burn

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Better Off (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

Modul 47

Taken from the album, Spell #6, released on 2nd November via Tough Love (Europe) and Burger (R.O.W.). The European pressing is available on limited edition green vinyl (500 copies). Pre-order here - http://smarturl.it/PartTimeSpell6 

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Nearing a decade old and with a discography reaching deep into double figures across several different labels (Mexican Summer, Burger, Plastic Response Records) David Loca’s work under the Part Time moniker really shouldn’t require any introduction. Nonetheless, the release of what is officially his sixth album, fittingly titled Spell #6, does signal something of a re-birth and provides a compelling entry point for anyone new to Loca’s prolific output.

Whereas previous albums were notable for a charming lo-fi production, Spell #6 takes Part Time uptown. "I describe this album as 'my studio album', because it was entirely re-recorded at my drummer Walter Byer's studio, unlike most of my past releases being bedroom experimental pop recordings." Loca produced the record himself, impressively appropriating a classic 80s pop sound that recalls some of the more grand productions of that era - think Stephen Street’s expressive production on ‘Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me’, Crowded House and The Church’s widescreen interpolation of Paisley Underground jangle, and there's even traces Gerard McMann’s grandiose ‘Cry Little Sister’. In that sense, the record stands as an outlier in Loca’s catalogue, and in doing so sheds the sometimes limiting trappings of bedroom recording

Though it is Loca’s project, Spell #6 sees him joined by a consistent supporting cast of fellow writers and performers who add a poise and deftness to his vision, most notably Ariel Pink, who makes a guest appearance on lead single, ‘I Can Treat You Better’. 

A lead single for its obvious earworm qualities, it also functions as an ideal snapshot of  the lyrical themes that run through the entire record: romantic gestures and unrequited love, bad decisions on hot nights/hot decisions on bad nights, and unpinning it all, LA. For this is evidently a West Coast record, like a 2018 take on To Live and Die in LA: expansive, grand, and not a little crazy (in love) from the heat.

Part Time - I Can Treat You Better (feat. Ariel Pink)

SASAMI

Turned Out I Was Everyone

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01. Keep Falling for It (Vocal)

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