2015

one of the first 10 tracks i´ve ever made

TO NA BI

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Click to listen to (or download) this remix based on Gladys Knight & The Pips - Taste Of Bitter Love

Taste Of Bitter Love (House Disco Funk 2013 Remix)

OneOffs #3

Jesse Futerman - Life Is A Gamble (1F003, Side B2) (Snippet)

Clinton Fearon's song extract from his latest album "Goodness"
(c) and (p) 2014 Boogie Brown Productions

Track available on Itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blame-game/id899312403?i=899312406
Full album too https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/goodness/id899312403

More about Clinton Fearon:
www.ClintonFearon.com
www.facebook.com/ClintonFearonMusic
https://twitter.com/clintonfearon 

Goodness

Blame Game

JOHN MILK "Treat Me Right" new UNDERDOG RECORDS SIGNATURE release march 2015
www.underdogrecords.fr

JOHN MILK - "Treat Me Right"

Psychedelic yet meditative Glenn Astro edit of 'Flight Formation' by Brighton/London two-piece Soccer96, featuring bassist Swann Hunter.

Catch Glenn astro at the STW Bristol Xmas party alongside @K15. Last remaining tickets at: https://www.facebook.com/events/308593292659647/?fref=ts

For more info check: http://www.stampthewax.com/2014/11/25/premiere-soccer96-flight-formation-glenn-astro-dj-friendly-edit/

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Soccer96 - Flight Formation feat. Swann Hunter (Glenn Astro DJ Friendly Edit) (STW Premiere)

First mp3 single from Chastity Belt's 2015 album Time To Go Home, out 3/23/15 on Hardly Art records.

Purchase Time To Go Home:
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iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-to-go-home/id951967954
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00R8P1036

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Time to Go Home

Chastity Belt - "Time to Go Home"

Gregory Isaacs - Babylon Too Rough

Keep On

from the upcoming album Oddisee "The Good Fight" (5/5)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-good-fight/id969829649

In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist Oddisee has created 'The Good Fight', a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Due May 5th on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him. Stream the first single, "That's Love".

Album Description:
Oddisee makes music that rattles in your bone marrow. It’s imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness. It’s virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
 
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallowtrend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist has created “The Good Fight,” a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Released on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him.
 
For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s about not selling out and shilling for a paycheck, while still being aware that this is a business requiring compromise and collaboration.
 
It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s not necessarily the syllables, but rather what they evoke. A song like “That’s Love” is more than a declaration; it’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. Ambition and greed war with our sense of propriety. “Contradiction’s Maze” offers a list of paradoxes we all face (“I want to tell the truth when it hurts/but when it comes to me, I want the blow softened.”)
 
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats.  The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
 
“The Good Fight” acknowledges the stacked odds, but refuses to submit.
 
It’s both universal and personal. The child of a Sudanese immigrant highlights the rigors of his own upbringing: his pregnant mother working the register until she was about to burst, his pops’ shuttered diner that couldn’t survive Reaganomics—the one that Oddisee drives past every time he returns home, just to remind him how quickly the world can turn bad.
 
It’s these minor details that add into something major. It’s testament to the indelible nature of art: when you can turn what you love into something that lasts.


Oddisee - That's Love

Chris Joss - Tune Down

O cantor e compositor Marcelo Mira, de Brasília, juntamente com o cantor e compositor Fred Nery, do Espirito Santo, são “band leaders” de duas bandas que eu sou fã. Uma é o Alma Djem, do Marcelo e a outra é a banda Macucos, do Fred. 

Em uma visita de amizade aqui na minha casa, na Praia Brava em Itajaí-SC, resolvemos entrar no estúdio para tocar e cantar, os três juntos, as músicas das três bandas. O resultado foi surpreendente! Alma Djem, Macucos e Armandinho em versões inéditas, modificadas, malucas e despretensiosas, que geraram o nascimento de um movimento chamado Praia Trio. 

Artistas com afinidade verdadeira e real se encontram para gravar suas músicas de forma livre, sem o refinamento característico de uma mixagem top, sem muita preocupação com vozes afinadas e com uma única certeza. De que a “vibe” e a interpretação estão em primeiro lugar. Afinal de contas, a emoção e o coração não têm metrônomos, não tem clique.

Aqui está o Praia Trio, 1. Disponibilizado totalmente “FREE” para todos vocês. 

Um grande abraço. 
Armandinho, Marcelo Mira e Fred Nery. 
Esperamos que curtam!

Além do Mar

Shiny Gun is from Fraser A. Gorman's debut album Slow Gum, out through Milk! Records/Caroline (Australia) and Marathon Artists (UK) June 2015.

Shiny Gun

https://uncannyvalleyrec.bandcamp.com/album/uv027-citizen-funk-chicago-pizza
Bandcamp: Vinyl 15.5.2015 & Digital 18.5.2015
All other stores: Vinyl 29.5.2015 & Digital 1.6.2015

Citizen Funk are Scherbe und his longtime friend Peter Clamat (who is also running Big Bait Records). Each year, they meet in the French region Alsace to jam along on their machines, moving back and forth between House, Hip Hop, Funk and Jazz.
Every track here breathes good vibes and a laid back attitude just in time for summer.

01 Citizen Funk - Guru Guru Taoma (preview)

Artist: Alexandre Francisco Diaphra
Title: Diaphra’s Blackbook Of The Beats

Format: CD, Digital and limited vinyl edition.
Deluxe “Moleskine” notebook edition including CD & DVD with all videos.

Label: Mental Groove Records / Bazzerk
File under: Ghetto Gumbe / Beatmaker / Psychedelic
Release Date: 6th July 2015 
Cat#:
827170 6026 6 3 MG110LP
827170 1488 2 6 MG110CD

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“I may have no possessions, but here lies everything one needs”

This is Alexandre Francisco Diaphra’s motto as governor of his own life.

A multifaceted artist from Guinea-Bissau, based in Lisbon: rapper, poet, edutainer & beatmaker, creating music based on improvisation in which he blends his psychedelic, black music, afro ancestral influences and love for the non-quantized beats in the same way as with experimental jazz, mixed contemporary and urban styles. Last year Diaphra wons the 3rd place at the 1st International Poetry Slam in Rio de Janeiro (Flupp).

In 2012 Diaphra featured & toured Europe as MC/performer for Angolan/Portuguese project Batida’s eponymous debut album (Soundway),“a record that could change the african electronic music on the 21st century" (Songlines) - their live show was also "one of the best 10 acts from Womex" (NPR Radio).

Diaphra’s Blackbook Of The Beats is following the idea of building instrumental bases on the outside environment wherever Diaphra feels inspired. A backpack, some vinyl records, a portable turntable and a sampler for self deconstruction / recreation from which resulted this (mainly) instrumental album and which is documented in form of musical videos in the dvd.

The particulary of this project resides in the non-quantized beats over which the enlightening poetry is spoken, rapped and chanted in portuguese, where trial and error take part of the compositions which are enhanced with the use of instruments played by invited musicians and sometimes by Diaphra himself.

Add to this various carefully handcrafted editions – including a silkscreened reproduction of the real Diaphra’s Black Book Of The Beats – and you get the kind of artifact we love to bump into.

‘Diaphra’s Blackbook Of The Beats” is released in digital, CD, limited vinyl and Deluxe “Moleskine” notebook edition including both CD & DVD with all videos.

"BAZZERK" is the multiform label project run by Jess & Crabbe.

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TRACKLISTING

O Prefácio
Nota de Autor
O Rosto – Maskharah
A Epígrafe – Cria, Criador, Criação e Criatura
Menino No Rio
Todo o Fado é Vadio
Transfer
Über
O Bode Cuspia – The Escape Of King Goat
Primeira Pedra

FOR FANS OF:

- Stone Throw records 
- Analog experimental sample based music 
- Psychedelic rock 
- Afro Ancestral

LINKS:

Press Pictures of Diaphra: www.mentalgroove.ch/MG110/MG110_pix.zip
Album cover: www.mentalgroove.ch/MG110/MG110_albumcover.jpg
Video stream goo.gl/mSP03p
Live at PT Buestation youtu.be/_Uc-0dhn1G4
Live at Musicbox youtu.be/tjMdShMlIsA

CONTACT INFOS:
Mental Groove: Olivier olivier@mentalgroove.ch 
Bazzerk: bazzerkdance@gmail.com
AF Diaphra:: af.diaphra@gmail.com
Booking: bookings@birulex.com
AF Diaphra homepage: www.birulex.com

Buy VINYL & CD

Alexandre Francisco Diaphra - O Bode Cuspia - The Escape Of King Goat

Led by drummer / multi-instrumentalist Max Weissenfeldt (The Whitefield Brothers, The Poets of Rhythm, The Polyversal Souls) and Peruvian guitarist Alex Mendoza, this new studio ensemble takes it’s cues from Max’s experience under several different band variations that have explored Late-60’s Funk & Soul, West African Rhythms, Ethiopian Grooves and now, for the first time on record, Afro-Peruvian Cumbia. Alex Mendoza’s quintessentially Peruvian style psychedelic guitar licks lay a sabor never heard before onto Max's typically raw and funky percussion style. It’s another notch in an increasingly diversified portfolio for Max.


Alex Mendoza y sus Poetas Del Ritmo - ¡Cumbéalo!

Bradley Zero's swashbuckling efforts with Rhythm Section continue to induce pleasure across the office and beyond. His regular soirees at Canavans Pool Hall are typified by the type of loose, one-love community ethos that many club nights would starve for; red neon lit, set time-less and buoyed by an all-encompassing music policy. Naysayers need only check Edd Fisher this Saturday in Peckham. On top of that, the RS discography stockpile is quickly blossoming into a well-nurtured settling for talent; undeterred by genre or location, and instead driven by an unwavering feel good factor. There's already been woozy, drifting deep house from Melbourne's Prequel and the velvety hook up with Vancouver's Mood Hut rep Local Artist to digest. Just six releases in, and the air miles have definitely been totting up.

As the title suggests, RS007 resides a bit closer to home than previous entries. Good Morning Peckham is Henry Wu's (@wuesli) ode to his local area, built around his now recognised style of off-kilter, slacker house. "Dubplate Special" is a special lecture in groove; a marriage between succulent bass sways and radiant Rhodes piano that's oh so ripe for summer.

It's out on Monday July 27th and available to pre order here: http://bit.ly/RS007Bandcamp

Follow Henry Wu: 

www.twitter.com/akiwudon 

www.soundcloud.com/wuesli

www.facebook.com/wuesliwu

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Henry Wu “Dubplate Special” - Boiler Room Debuts

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2015

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