JUNE EVANS: ‘IF YOU WANT MY LOVIN’ / ‘HARDLY NEED TO SAY’
IZIPHO SOUL are thrilled to announce their next release: Early 80s music from New Jersey of the highest order and a first time re-release on a 45.
IF YOU WANT MY LOVIN’ is a synth-soul boogie bomb that we’ve taken to another level. The ‘Sunshine Mix’ by Philip Ward - miraculously restructured - giving it the feel of a 12” but keeping it under 5 minutes, the instrumental break in the latter stages is simply stunning. 
The sublime flip ‘HARDLY NEED TO SAY’, hardly needs an introduction. 
Whilst the Rhodes and intricate guitars weave their way throughout the track, June’s vocals shine with passion and power.

HARDLY NEED TO SAY

Adelaide neo-soulster Rob Edwards gets the remix treatment from non-other than Kaidi Tatham, who adding his Midas touch turns “Lonely Lover” into a sublime stew of broken boogie, jazz and neo soul. 

Adelaide-based singer-songwriter Rob Edwards has been a staple of his local scene for a few years now, whilst touring further afield across Australia. Eagerly displaying his strong falsetto vocals with a taste for grooves. On “Lonely Lover” he sings about someone he can’t seem to have and his need to find “somebody other than you”.

Kaidi Tatham almost needs no introduction. Hailed by Giles Peterson as the UK’s most gifted contemporary keys player, the multi-faceted producer and multi-instrumentalist, is a key architect and often quietly credited craftsman of the West London / broken beat sound. 

His impact has been immense, whether as a solo artist, a member of Bugz In The Attic, or collaborating with the likes of Dego (4hero / 2000black), with IG Culture in Likwid Biskit and recently with Andrew Ashong. Tatham is currently on another high having released the widely acclaimed ‘An Insight To All Minds’ LP on First Word Records.

Kaidi’s “Lonely Lover” remix is released on April 30th on Inkswel and Erin Buku’s Inner Tribe Records.

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Exclusive Premiere: Rob Edwards "Lonely Lover" (Kaidi Tatham Remix) [Inner Tribe Records]

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Almost Famous

Nas x Boom Bap Type Beat - "See It"

The release last autumn of Reel People’s first full studio album in 10 years was, it’s fair to say, a moment. Retroflection stylishly recreated soul, disco and boogie classics behind the collective’s formation nearly 20 years ago and exposed its rarefied DNA like never before. Now band leader Oli Lazarus widens the collective, inviting the world’s finest producers and remixers to add their funky splices to the Retroflection blueprint. Retroflection Remixed, featuring Mousse T., Osunlade, DJ Spinna, John Morales, Atjazz, Terry Hunter, Sebb Junior, Scott Diaz, Da Brownie, Tall Black Guy, Matt Cooper’s OUTSIDE, BusCrates and Art Of Tones, is a majestic rebooting of the soulful flow that swept us away in 2018.
	
Art Of Tones get’s his sparkly mitts on Don’t Stop The Music, swaggering synth ‘n’ bass riffs further underlining Angie Stone’s classy strut through Yarbrough & People’s 1980 hit, whilst Buscrates – true to the name of his remix – pumps irresistible funk bounce into I’m In Love, a truly lowdown re-skinning of Reel People’s Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King tribute where Navasha Daya’s vocal sounds sassier than ever.

Osunlade eases us in with an elegant re-interpretation of Reel People’s Pleasure cover Joyous, deep throbs of electronica and rippling percussion carrying loops of the vocal and that iconic sax solo to stunning new heights – or depths. Similarly, Atjazz dims the lights and intensifies the mood for his take on Twilight. Where Reel People played impressively close to Maze’s original, Atjazz treads to shuffling jazz drums, double-bass and piano. The build of parts is spine-tingling stuff. Matt Cooper and his outstanding OUTSIDE project also take on the mantle of Joyous, and serve us a full fat disco jazz funk odyssey.

There are a number of uptempo treats too. Take Sebb Junior’s snappy piano-house routine for the Mica Paris-fronted I Want To Thank You – a sparkling turbo-charge to Alicia Myers’ early Eighties gospel-R&B vibe – or NYC mix legend John Morales’ ecstatic nine-minute mirrorball twirl of Geraldine Hunt-anthem Can’t Fake The Feeling complete with epic drum and vocal (Daya once again) breakdowns. Respected UK house DJ-producer Scott Diaz gives the Sharlene Hector-led cover of Side Effect’s Always There greater guitar-licked urgency but without compromise to the song’s soulful poise and power, and revered Chicago veteran Terry Hunter is a match made in heaven for Tony Momrelle, who soars through the former’s soulfully-charged remix of Buttercup (Carl Anderson’s mid-Eighties, Stevie Wonder-penned gem) with all of its funky drums, b-line twists and warm musical arrangements. German maestro Mousse T. hands us a nostalgic rework of Teena Marie’s I Need Your Lovin’  featuring the female powerhouses Vulu Malinga, LaDonna Harley-Peters and Sharlene Hector.

Elsewhere, South African talent Da Brownie dresses Reel People’s peppy, Omar-fronted update of Skipworth & Turner treasure Thinking About Your Love in sharp, finely-detailed deep dance threads, and Detroit star Tall Black Guy (TBG) sprinkles considerable amounts of summer samba magic over Momrelle’s other Retroflection outing Can We Pretend - a stunning re-awakening of the Bill Withers and Jose Feliciano collabo for the second time in mere months. There’s room yet for DJ Spinna to expand the reaches of Keep It Up (Anthony David’s luscious rendition of Milton Wright’s deep-soul bomb) with another of his transcendental space-funk remixes. Mind-blowing.

Retroflection Remixed

Reel People feat. Navasha Daya - I'm In Love (BusCrates Remix)

The Cannabinoids, The Beat Tape VOL.1
All music was produced during a live jam session in Dallas, Texas. 
Introducing: in no certain order:
Jah Born – HU-210
Erykah Badu – THC
DJ Big Texas – SR141716
RC Williams – JWH-133
Symbolyc One – NABILONE
Rob Free – LEVONANTRADOL
PicnicTyme – MARINOL
A1 – SATIVEX
Feat. HeadCrack on voice box 

Executive Producer: Erykah Badu
Management: Erykah Badu & Paul Levatino
Recorded at: Universal Rehearsal & KLEARLIGHT Studios
Mastered at: Dave Kutch @ The Mastering Palace
Road Management: Big Mike Knight
Legal Counsel: Ward White IV
Additional Production & Arrangement: Mike Chav
Art Direction & Design: EMEK Studios
Booking Agent: Cara Lewis @ Creative Artist Agency
Travel Agent: Jo Geltman @ ALTOUR

(P)(C) 2012Control FreaQ Records, Inc. All Rights Reserved. www.baduworld.com


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