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morning songs

reggae roots dub mixe  groove

Broadcasting live from Detroit every Thursday 18:00 - 20:00 GMT on www.ugsradio.com (audio) and twitch.tv/detroitcontainerradio (video). Take a vacation to the now...

Artwork by @ginoisland

Peter Croce's Rocksteady Disco Radio Show on UGS/DCR

** Released August 2013 **

Available on LP here directly: 

http://musicfrommemory.bigcartel.com/product/leon-lowman-liquid-diamonds-lp

For digital downloads: 

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-diamonds

"Following on from co-­compiling one of 2012’s best received compilations ‘Into The Light: A Journey into Greek Electronic Music’, new Amsterdam based record label ‘Music From Memory’ sets sail with a compilation of lo-­‐fi beach funk and lazy synth jams from the Rhode Island keyboardist and ocean loving Leon Lowman.

As well as a devoted painter and surfer of the East Coast, the synthesizer loving Lowman privately released two albums “Syntheseas” (1980) and it’s follow up cassette only “Sound Horizon” (1982). Something of a homage to his love of the local seashore and the women he was trying to woo there, the albums also express Leon's pure love of the synthesizer sound and reflect his unique melodic wanderings.

With Leon's albums meeting little commercial success at the time of there release, both albums have in recent years become highly sought after. Along with previously unreleased material from the time, “Liquid Diamonds‘ highlights Leon Lowman's unique blend of low fi synth funk and surf ambience."

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Leon Lowman - Morning Song

le nouveau EP de Guts regroupant le dancefloor Killer “Brand new revolution”, le hit single du dernier album de GUTS, deux reprises de classic Soul : le somptueux “Didn’t I” de Darondo et “You don’t have to worry” et un inédit “You make me cry”, un titre deep & melancolic. (Release date : 19 oct. 2012)

New EP Guts combining the dancefloor Killer “Brand new revolution”, the hit single from the latest album of GUTS, twice Soul classic, the sumptuous “Did not I” and Darondo “You do not have to worry” and an unreleased “You make me cry,” a title melancolic & deep. ,(Release date : 19 oct. 2012)

Artwork : Mambo

Dj's feedback

Le Mellotron: "Brand New Revolution is really a killer track. Love it"

Soulist "New material From The Ibiza Producer. The didn't I Re edit is really nice !! Will plyalist it on our future basics Radio show"

Mathieu Schreyer: "wicked ! me likey !"

Nouvelle Vague : "Entre Afro-beat et Soul, Guts ballade un son "made in Ibiza" délicat et un brin mélancolique... Cet EP est moins baléarique et léger que Paradise For All mais on y retrouve une french touch inspirée et profonde..."

Out Of Spectrum: "Definetly one of the best releases of 2012! Brand New Revolution still hittin' the dancefloor and is as catchy as catchy can be. Didn't I is kickin' too. Like them Guts guys!"

Brand New Revolution - EP

Brand New Revolution

GUTS "Brand New Revolution"

William Onyeabor - Fantastic Man

this is for the muthafuckas who thought I fell off...I don't tumble in this concrete jungle

Here I.M.

Fold – Something Gives
Released September 12, 2016
CD & digital download

If you like this track and you're on Spotify please give us a follow:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3lOmv1v5gfdtBwvRufzjtr

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Having included this track among his favourites of 2016 on the last day of the year Huey Morgan also provided the UK national radio debut on BBC 6 Music followed by a hat trick of spins from Gideon Coe. Kara Manning broadcasted the US radio premiere courtesy of WFUV, New York.

Something Gives is a timely vehicle for the keen eloquence of James Baldwin whose voice, along with that of the wonderful Alice Walker, is the basis of the track.

We've been feeling urgently compelled to respond somehow to the heavy sociopolitical escalations of late on both sides of the pond. This release is our way of bridging the distances & expressing universal solidarity as human beings. Musically the tune bears similarities to A Tribe Called Quest's jazzy hip hop vibes and Arthur Verocai's Brazilian way of joy and despair all at once.

All music written, arranged, performed, engineered, produced & mixed by Seth Mowshowitz apart from tenor saxophone arranged and performed by Emma Johnson.
http://www.johnsonmusic.co.uk/

Mastered by Erik Aldrey
http://www.erikaldrey.com/

LYRICS
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[James Baldwin]

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

These people have deluded themselves for so long they really don't think I'm human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say, and this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.

It doesn't matter any longer what you do to me: you can put me in jail, you can kill me. By the time I was 17 you'd done everything that you could do to me. The problem now is: how you gonna save yourselves?

How you gonna save yourselves?

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

There are days, one of them, when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How precisely are you going to reconcile yourself to your situation here, and how you're going to communicate that you are here?

The country has arrived at a place where it can no longer contain revolt. Human beings are not by nature non-violent, you know? You can only survive so many beatings, so much humiliation, so much despair, so many broken promises before something gives.

Before something gives.

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart…

[Alice Walker]
We are being killed by people who don't feel – if we get down to that, that is the problem.

[James Baldwin]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart…

[Alice Walker]
If you don't feel it you kill it because you think it doesn't feel either…

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

[Alice Walker]
So away with that, we don't want that.

[James Baldwin]
I'm aware that something terrible has happened, which is very hard to describe.

Something Gives

Buy on iTunes

Vinyl - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/last-night-in-sant-celoni-incl-in-flagranti-remix

With summer finally making its presence felt, Payfone makes its Leng Records debut with a simmering, sunset-ready sizzler that oozes drowsy heat from start to finish. It’s a slow-burn dancefloor beauty all right, but we expect nothing less from Anglo Italian Phil Passera and his growing band of musical collaborators.

Since making their debut with the brilliant “International Smark” back in 2013, Payfone has delivered a swathe of superb singles which cannily combine elements of boogie, disco, NYC proto-house, acid house and Balearica in uniquely alluring ways. Passera has a reputation for using no samples in his creations, instead favouring live instrumentation, classic electronic hardware and ear-catching vocals.
 
Since we last heard from Payfone, Passera has moved his studio from his East London warehouse to a wooden shack in Sant Celoni, a sleepy Catalonian town near Barcelona nestled in the foothills of the Montseny and Montnegre mountain ranges. The inspiration of his new surroundings is clear on this warm, groovy and undeniably picturesque composition.

“Last Night In San Celoni” is a  love letter from two girls meeting and falling in love amidst the tumbling streets and dramatic views of this little-known town just a few miles up the Mediterranean coast from Barcelona.

Featuring the innocent, under stated singing of Los Angeles’ based Jaz James and the seductive Spanish speech of Beunos Aries-based Lumdilla Rodriguez, the duo narrates a romantic, bilingual love story that will melt your heart. Incidentally, it could well be the first (partly) English-language song dedicated to Sant Celoni, but don’t quote us on that.
 
Musically, Payfone is in fine form on “Last Night in San Celoni” where Phil Passera offers up a warm and humid chunk of soft-touch dancefloor bliss underpinned by a combination of vintage analogue drum machine, 1980s style slap bass, rich electric piano motifs, and casually brilliant jazz guitar flourishes provided by regular Payfone guitarist Royce Wood Junior.
 
This result of years of collaborative work  (this song began as a keyboard riff written in a New York studio in the heatwave of 2014), the track’s sumptuous groove seems to gently tug at the senses like the lapping waves on a Baleric Mediterranean beach at Sunset.

The original mix comes accompanied by a more up-beat interpretation by Swiss stalwarts In Flagranti. Opting to fatten the groove whilst dubbing out many of the assembled musical elements, the experienced duo brilliantly wraps lo-fi synthesizer lead lines and 1980s package holiday pop flourishes around a chugging, low-slung groove that will have even the laziest dancers skipping towards the dancefloor.

LENG SHOP

Payfone - Last Night In Sant Celoni (Radio Edit)

New year mix mixed by jah steppah on Amp freqq V2 and Akai midi mixer. Happy 2020 !!!!

New Year Dub Mix by Jah Steppah

2020 was something. The music was a balm.

Broadcasting live from Detroit every Thursday 18:00 - 20:00 GMT on www.ugsradio.com (audio) and twitch.tv/detroitcontainerradio (video). Take a vacation to the now...

Artwork by @ginoisland

Peter Croce's Rocksteady Disco Radio Show on UGS/DCR 075 2020/12/24 - Best of 2020 Pt. 2

For this 28th day of December, DJ Estèphe, one of the godfathers of Geneva house that has been scouring bars, clubs and restaurants for several decades, gave us the pleasure of a varied set that will accompany you anywhere and everywhere !! Klap!!!

www.mixcloud.com/ESTEPHE/

Kino Advent 2020 Mix28 - Estèphe

The last Music For Dreams Radio Show on Ibiza Sonica 2020 features Bongo Entr., Copenema, Willie Graff, Dj Pippi, Reinhard Vanbergen, Rheinzand, Be Svendsen, islandman, Kenneth Bager, Dj Divo, OliO, Sault, Troels Hammer, Be.Lanuit, Orte, Dj Food, The Swan And The Lake & Santino Surfers. 

Listen to Music For Dreams Radio on TuneIn, Sonos, musicfordreams.dk or get the Music For Dreams Radio app in your App store : apple.co/2bli4ko ☏

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KENNETH BAGER - MUSIC FOR DREAMS RADIO SHOW - IBIZA SONICA 28. DEC 2020

The Heavyweight Sound of The Gladiators
lovingly mixed together by Big G at the Soul Rebel Studio - Zion

The Heavyweight Sound of The Gladiators

DJ PIPPI @ MALESH D'DORF - 1981 .MP3

Dubplates galore + my first guest slot from the one and only @achabacha! Tune in for the bluntness.

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Artwork by @ginoisland

Rocksteady Disco Radio Show w/ Peter Croce & Acha Bacha on UGS/DCR 079 2021/1/21

This was a fun one.

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Artwork by @ginoisland

Peter Croce's Rocksteady Disco Radio Show on UGS/DCR 080 2021/1/28

I MISS DANCE FLOORS

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Artwork by @ginoisland

Peter Croce's Rocksteady Disco Radio Show on UGS/DCR 081 2021/2/4

Celebrating Bob Marley, Vince Montana, and Whitney Houston's birthdays. House for your house. Catch a step and lift those spirits.

Broadcasting live from Detroit every Thursday 18:00 - 20:00 GMT on www.ugsradio.com (audio) and twitch.tv/detroitcontainerradio (video). Take a vacation to the now...

Artwork by @ginoisland

Peter Croce's Rocksteady Disco Radio Show on UGS/DCR 082 2021/2/11

MARS LANDING DAY, DUBPLATES TO CELEBRATE

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Artwork by @ginoisland

Peter Croce's Rocksteady Disco Radio Show on UGS/DCR 083 2021/2/18

Take a vacation to the now.

est. 2014 in Detroit by Peter Croce and Moonlighter