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It's been 10 years since the birth of Music Is My Sanctuary, and what a 10 years it’s been! Started in 2007 by Alexis Charpentier aka DJ Lexis in Montreal, Canada, Music Is My Sanctuary has been dedicated to discovering and presenting music often overlooked by mainstream music channels through articles, interviews, radio shows, DJ mixes, and events. 

The "10th Anniversary Compilation: Never Stop Digging" is an eclectic collection featuring 17 unreleased tracks from artists who all share the same vision and passion, and who represent the mentality and styles that Music Is My Sanctuary works to push forward. 

Side A focuses on some more floor-oriented grooves from artists who are known for both producing and DJing. Side B (kicked off by the ever-mysterious Clutchy Hopkins) is dedicated to the Hip Hop and Funk heads featuring artists who have all put their own unique spin on genres that have come before. Consider this a Future Classics affair! 

This project is a collaboration with 101 Apparel, who are providing the "Never Stop Digging" T-shirts which can be purchased from 101 Apparel directly. Both the T-shirt and cassette were designed by Montreal's Nik Brovkin. The official Music Is My Sanctuary 10th Anniversary celebration was held at Montreal’s Centre Phi, promoted and broadcasted live by Boiler Room. A big thank you goes out to the artists who provided tracks for this compilation, and to all artists who keep creating such fantastic music for us to share and enjoy. Without you there would be no us, and for this we can’t thank you enough!

10th Anniversary Compilation: Never Stop Digging

Purchase Compilation

Clutchy Hopkins "12 Est. on 132nd"

Exclusive 7" release by Symphonical Records 

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Lucid Paradise - Tonight

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Post-Maloya EP

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Download: Labelle - After The End

Jitwam in the mix for Global Roots.

Full show at https://worldwidefm.net/show/global-roots-selassie-tbc-with-ishmael-ensemble-and-jitwam/

Jitwam Guestmix: Global Roots

xoaxoa.bandcamp.com/album/way-west
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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)

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Tracklist:
- Roy Ayers - Liquid Love (feat. Sylvia Cox)
- Rapsody feat. D'Angelo, GZA - Ibtihaj
- Moonchild - Money
- Greybox - Empire Ants (Greybox Edit)
- Koralie - Gettin' Mine
- Godfather Don - Status
- Skyzoo & Pete Rock - It's All Good 
- Elzhi - Where It All Begins
- Tismé - DisperTisme  
- Persian Empire - She Got Confused
- L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Dead Battery
- Snoh Aalegra - Situationship
- Joe Armon Jones - Yellow Dandelion Ft. Georgia Anne Muldrow
- Taylor McFerrin - Memory Digital (feat. Anna Wise)
- FENYAN - Hustlin' Joint
- Mwenso & the Shakes - No Regrets
- Omar - Be Thankful (feat. Erykah Badu)
- Donnie Moustaki & Neptune Daddy - Cosmic J
- Fleet dreams - EKG (Club Mix)
- Black Milk - Blame
- JAYHEB - DJAVAN demo
- The Salsoul Orchestra - Ooh I Love It (Love Break) (Moplen Remix)
- Teotima - But I Can't (K15 Remix)
- Black Moses - Brilliant Nigga Channel Tres
- Shigeto - MCW
- Melodiesinfonie - Enjoy Your Life
- Djeff - Different (feat. Kholi) [Honeycomb Vocal Mix]
- Nickodemus - Will You Still Be Here? (Sammy Bananas Remix) (feat. THE REAL LIVE SHOW & Pimps of Joytime)
- Waajeed - Too Black
- D'Angelo - Left & Right (Ishfaq Rework)
- Nubyan Twist - Tell It to Me Slowly feat. Nick Richards
- Conducta - Vitamin C
- Mayflo - Double Couche
- Goldie - Truth feat. Jose James (Mo Serious Edit)
-Taylor McFerrin - As You Are (feat. Elena Pinderhughes)

Santo & Mabish #57

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

Slow motion music for a world set on hold.

Coronambient // Gun School 11.4.20

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)

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