In Hour 2 it's Nicolas Morant aka Nikitch a classically trained musician who has worked with Andreya Triana, Tambour Battant, Dj Cam, Grems, and Submotion Orchestra. His latest EP "All The Best" was released in November on Cascade Records and supported by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Laurent Garner and LeFtO. He had this to say about his mix;
"This mix & selection includes tracks of what I’m digging most in music : harmony-driven, soulful and energy. You can catch « raw-pop » from Machinedrum, jazz-colored tune by the man Jameszoo in it, as much as wonky off-beat by Sixtus Preiss or even some of my own productions. Hope you’ll like it, Bless."

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Lone - Hiraeth
Jimmy Edgar - 4Fourth Dimension
DJ Rum - Untitled 9
Nikitch - Arps
Seven Davis Jr - Try Me (I’ll Funk You) (mono/poly remix)
Airhead - Shekure
FilosofischteStilte -Home Grown
Falcons - Aquafina feat. GoldLink & Chaz French
nikitch - It’s All About Drums
Cakedog - Cake Pon De Flo 
machinedrum - color communicator
dj rashad - feelin (feat spinn & taso)
Jameszoo - 'Flu feat. Arthur Verocai'
nick hook - +3 feat. DJ Rashad, DJ Paypal & Nasty Nigel
mr carmack - watermelon1
clap! clap! - kaluma
roots manuva - like a drum
radiohead - 15 Steps
Nikitch - Until Next Time
Sixtus Preiss - lololo
Kelpe - Margins
S81- It’s About Time
??? - metro
The free design - light my fire

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Solid Steel Radio Show 23/12/2016 Hour 2 - Nikitch

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Lucid Paradise - Tonight

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Post-Maloya EP

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Exclusive (and relatively bizarre) one from Issue – the rapping, producing, and tea-drinking son of Bay Area rap legend E-40 - produced by http://soundcloud.com/bigwar. Check our interview with him here: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/issue-interview

Issue - Aura (List Of To-Do's) [Produced by Big War]

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XOA ‘Way West’ (FEP028)
Release Date: 14th June 2019
Label: Five Easy Pieces
Format: Vinyl // Digital

XOA, led by London based producer and musician Nick Tyson, is set to release debut album ‘Way West’ on 14th June via Five Easy Pieces.

XOA means to look outwards; to draw inspiration from many sources. ‘Way West’ is alive with this: steeped in the rich analogue sonics of the past, the warmth of machines and influence from the sounds of London’s fervent music scene. Featuring a blend of contemporary electronic production and live instrumentation, 70s Afrobeat inspired drums and cosmic melodies are thrust into the present day with strong cues from house and techno.

Three vocalists contribute across the album, with Tyson choosing to work with singers he has a personal admiration and friendship with. Hollie Cook, known to many for her ethereal pop tinged reggae, delivers a sumptuous contribution on ‘Heartland’, adding a beautiful emotional dimension to the horn led track. Lulu Jones’ vocals are treated more as a sample for the garage tinged ‘Call On Me’ and Ruby Wood, of Submotion Orchestra, has worked with Tyson over a number of projects and their shared love of 90s soul comes to the fore on the laid back grooves and sun kissed ‘Only One Thing’.

“When collaborating, especially with vocalists on melodic and lyrical ideas, it’s important to have that personal connection and respect for each other’s craft. That’s why I never ask vocalists to prepare anything in advance for the tracks, I like to get in the room and just see what happens in the moment, to trust each other’s ideas, and for it to be a natural, organic and spontaneous process”.

Collaboration has always been at the heart of the project for Tyson. He plays the bulk of the instruments on the album but invites Marijus Aleksa on drums to provide live energy, extra synth work from Parisian Kenzo Zurzolo, and a notable Rhodes solo from Johnny Tomlinson (a member of Bonobo’s live band) on ‘Osu’.

After well received releases on Soundway Records, Cin Cin (with Wayward) and Banana Hill (with Contours); ‘Way West’ shows another step up for Tyson as a writer and producer.

“It feels like this project is coming alive for me, the music I envisaged in my mind a few years ago is being realised, and I’m proud of how it sounds”.

‘Way West’ is set to be released on 14th June 2019 via London based label Five Easy Pieces (Mo Kolours, Reginald Omas Mamode IV, Natureboy Flako, Royalty, Call Super) on vinyl LP and digital formats.

Tracklist:
01. VS20
02. Heartland Feat. Hollie Cook
03. Way West
04. Damascene
05. Call On Me Feat. Lulu James
06. Les Musiciens
07. Only One Thing Feat. Ruby Wood
08. Osu
09. Dance Of The Mantas
10. Out + Out

XOA — Call On Me (ft Lulu James)

Finest Ego | Monthly Mix #011 – 2012: Dday One “Feel My Drums”

mix for Finest Ego (Berlin based collective dedicated to FUTURE BASS MUSIC)  (http://finestego.com)


Dday One:
“Thanks to the listeners and supporters….I hope you feel the drums!
Please support the artists featured in the mix and SHARE!

Make sure to check out more beats and stay up to date by signing up at Ddayone.com (http://ymlp.com/xgehmwuygmguj) hope to see you soon.

Peace**”
Dday One

P.S: Mood Algorithms out now via the Content (L)abel! (http://shop.thecontentlabel.com/album/mood-algorithms)

Tracklist:

01. *Intro words from – “Zakir Hussain on drums”*
02. Dday One – Between Poles (from Wavelengths EP) [Content (L)abel]
03. Dday One – Constant Information (from **Mood Algorithms**) [Content (L)abel]
04. Dj Racy Aj – Kinetics
05. Dday One – Terminal 86
06. Vicious Circle & Jubei – Cloak and Dagger
07. Dday One – Seeds Of Revolution (Long Arm Remix) [Content (L)abel]
08. DJ Mitsu the Beats – Wait So Long (LAJPNLA VOL.1)
09. Jurassic 5 – Rubber Tires
10. People Under The Stairs – The Time Bandit
11. Omid – Gol Azeez (LAJPN VOL 2.)
12. Dj Shadow – Lets Get It
13. 40Winks – Malicious Choir [Project: Mooncircle]
14. John Tejada – The Change Of a Season
15. Instra_Mental – Love Arp
16. Eric Sermon – Battle
17. Enduser – Indecision
18. The Q4 – Look Again (Dday One Remix) [Project: Mooncircle]
19. Son Of A Bricklayer – Oscillations [Content (L)abel]
20. Dday One – Mixing Paint (David Vangel Remix) [Content (L)abel]
21. Dday One – All Is Bliss (from **Mood Algorithms**) [Content (L)abel]
22. Beats Of San Francisco – Introspection Section

Dday One “Feel My Drums” - Finest Ego | Monthly Mix #011

Edition number three with guest-dj @tuincybright from Cologne (Selectricity & Umami Party) filled with a hour of of afro-funk & afro-house sounds. First 30min by Cmone, second 30min by Eugene.

Danse Tropicale Vol. 03 w/ Cmone & Eugene Rockwell

Cosmic Vibrations Ft. Dwight Trible - Olbap
Tenderlonious - Birds Of Paradise
Yusef Lateef - Blues For The Orient
Yazmin Lacey - I'll Never Stop Loving You
Krokonaut - Jena
Nubya Garcia - Before Us: In Demerara & Caura
Creole Brothers - Mama Odé
Luke Smith Ft. David Mrakpor - New Dawn
Byard Lancaster - Drummers From Ibadan
Nuyorican Soul - Shoshana
Nubya Garcia - La cumbia me está llamando
Meridian Brothers - Cumbia del Pichamán
Eberebijara - Samba Negra
Edmony Krater - Natibel 
King Knut - XI
Reueben Vaun Smith - Trip On New Shores
Cotone Mediterraneo - Randomized Coffee
Othasoul - How Deep
Kamaal Williams - Pigalle
Charles Tolliver - Blue Soul
Juju - Nia

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Musica Macondo on Jazz FM with Tim Garcia - 29.08.20

MIMS is excited to premiere “Colorists”, one of our favourite songs from the fourth installment of  the Felbm project, on Soundway Records. A beautiful bossa nova blended with ambient music and soothing guitars. The whole tape is one to dream away too but “Colorists” makes us want to dance too, or at least tap our feet uncontrollably.

Following on from 2018’s Tape 1 & Tape 2, the Dutch producer and musician Eelco Topper recording as Felbm, has already released Tape 3 as a digital EP, to be released together with Tape 4 on one vinyl LP on October 16.

Tape 3 & Tape 4 is an intimate, emotional, lilting and melodic solo project with a restorative, therapeutic nature. They were composed and recorded by Topper with just those aspects in mind as a personal remedy for the ailments of modern life. With a breezy and soothing quality these fourteen lo-fi, instrumental, jazz-infused sketches written on guitar, with cascading keyboards, vibraphone and drum machine, seem perfect for the second half of 2020, a year in which we could all surely use some curative and uncomplicated music. With echoes of the dreamier end of 1980s English indie-pop, minimal ambient music and Brazilian bossa-nova, Topper’s musical storybook includes touches of The Durutti Column, echoes of Ethiopian Tezeta, hints of Antônio Carlos Jobim and Baden Powell, whilst all set firmly in the summer fields of Germany and the Netherlands.

“In the summer of 2019 I took only a guitar and a “pocket piano” to a holiday retreat in rural mid-Germany that I visit regularly, and wrote most of the basic ideas for Tape 4. The opening track ‘Brunnengasse’ features the wind chimes from the garden there. When I hear them I’m back at that peaceful place immediately. Dealing with chronic fatigue syndrome for the past few years, I took on a habit of hiking in nature frequently, which in turn led to a budding love of birdwatching. The track ‘Beaufort’ contains a field recording taken in an area where I like to go hiking and spotting birds. Most notably you can hear the song of a woodlark, a bird far easier heard than seen.”

Style-wise these tracks are still navigating the space between quiet, open, meditative tunes and more solid instrumental songs, thereby reflecting his constant search for an optimal balance between stillness and movement.

Tape 4

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Exclusive Premiere: Felbm "Colorists" (Forthcoming on Soundway Records)

Ahead of the release of the debut @scarletpines EP, the band has blessed us with a guest mix that delves deep into new jazz with tracks from Kamaal Williams, Alfa Mist, Mansur Brown, Amir Bresler, KOKOROKO and more. You also get to hear all three cuts that grace Scarlet Pines upcoming EP.

Twistedsoul Guest Mix: Scarlet Pines

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