Grooves..

'Mt Glorious' EP 
listen to full EP here: https://AWAL.lnk.to/sampologyep 
buy vinyl here: https://sampology.bandcamp.com/
℗&© Middle Name Records 2018

Mt Glorious EP

eccentric

Beatmakers Club Vol. 3

Taken from our album VOICES, out now: http://smarturl.it/PhantogramVoicesiT

Voices

Fall In Love

JFK - Radar (His Majesty Andre Dusk Remix)

Back on Crosstown Rebels after the barnstorming ‘Heartbreaker’ EP at the end of last year, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke once again shows he’s a dancer at heart and a truly versatile beat maker. Kicking off with another killer A­side ‘Candy Flip’, Kele builds an infectious track as he works a dirty low bassline with his own deep gravelly vocals. ‘The New Feel’’ follows on with dark bass stabs making way for a bouncing groove, haunting chords, and filtered vox with an anthemic feel. FCL’s remix treatment gives a classic, uplifting dimension to ‘Candy Flip’ while final original ‘Come To Me’ is a master class in raw, bass heavy grooves with a modern touch and fresh vocals from Jenny Bastet.

From the propulsive rhythm sections of Bloc Party’s Platinum­selling debut album ‘Silent Alarm’ to guest vocals for artists like The Chemical Brothers, dance music has always been the underlying influence for Kele Okereke. Having spent ten years making records in studios working with some of the greatest producers in the world, Kele is now launching his solo assault on house music and leaving a distinctive mark in the process on new home label Crosstown Rebels.

With the ‘Heartbreaker EP’ gaining critical acclaim across the board and ‘Candy Flip’ about to win over yet more dancefloors, Kele’s new sound is no flash in the pan. There are more EPs in the pipeline for Crosstown so watch this space. o+o FCL is the Belgian powerhouse production duo comprised of Red D, owner of We Play House, and young DJ/producer extraordinaire San Soda. Both individually and together they have had a major impact on dance music in the last few years, notably with their ubiquitous version of E.S.P’s ‘It’s You’ ­ a sell­out vinyl on We Play House reaching cult status and later seeing a digital release on Defected due to popular demand.

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Follow Kele Okereke:

www.iamkele.com/blog
www.facebook.com/keleokereke
www.dj.beatport.com/keleokereke
www.soundcloud.com/keleokereke
www.residentadvisor.net/keleokereke


Come To Me Feat. Jenny Bastet

Since the year 2000, the London based The Invaderz have featured on many of drum & bass’ pioneering labels. The trio’s production work has already graced Metalheadz, CIA, Innerground, Horizons and Commercial Suicide with their recent ‘The Ascent’ contribution to Metalheadz’s Platinum Breakz 4 fast earning praise. The guys are reportely currently hard at work on a full length album which will be released later this year on Klute’s Commercial Suicide label and with an appearance at the label’s upcoming Room Three takeover on Friday 30th May, we asked The Invaderz to put together a mixtape in an attempt to get to know them the most direct way possible: through their music and their selections... 

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Advance tickets: http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/listing/901

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No tracklist given.

The Invaderz - FABRICLIVE x Commercial Suicide Mix

Taken from 'Mt Glorious' EP 
listen to full EP here: https://AWAL.lnk.to/sampologyep 
buy vinyl here: https://sampology.bandcamp.com/
℗&© Middle Name Records 2018

Mt Glorious

From the Ep Quilt Jams- digital release on June 29th.

cassettes available on bandcamp: https://elsahewitt.bandcamp.com/album/quilt-jams

Quilt Jams

Friendly

the saboteur's mirror 
produced by BUSDRIVER

new double-album "Electricity is on our Side" by BUSDRIVER
get the album now: busdriver.lnk.to/ElectricityIsOnOurSide

Drawing from memory and community roots, the 10th album from rap innovator BUSDRIVER plays out like an ode to modern folk art via the act’s characteristically warped take on the world’s leading pop music: hiphop. Homespun and bursting with intention, “electricity is on our side” argues that the quintessential underground hiphop album is in fact the high art of the day.// A fluid understanding of electronic musics, jazz, hiphop and creative writing are once again minced into a unique configuration(underground social music) to achieve the aesthetic ends and off-kilter messaging exacted by the legendary BUSDRIVER.

The Sabateur's Mirror is underground hiphop at its most provocative.

electricity is on our side

BUSDRIVER - the Saboteur's Mirror(get "Electricity is on our Side" now)

Teal Sunrise

SMILE

Rising Up ft Georgia Ann Muldrow & Dudley Perkins

Von Pea & The Other Guys reunite after the release of their acclaimed EP “To:You” (2014) and their full length LP “The Fiasco” (2017).  The “Tanya Morgan” emcee and DMV production duo return with a 5 song EP entitled “I’m Good Luv, Enjoy” laced with the soulful samples, hard hitting drums, and clever rhymes the trio have been known to provide. The EP features fellow Lessondary Crew members Donwill and Rob Cave.

I'm Good Luv, Enjoy

The Twist

Von Pea & The Other Guys - The Twist Feat: Donwill

Natti and Deacon The Villain (both of CunninLynguists) have joined forces with Sheisty Khrist to form The Off Daze. 

Lead single from their upcoming album "Couple's Skate". Taken from the 7-Song Maxi-Single of the same now available @ http://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com.

Produced by Deacon The Villain
Video shot and edited by Deacon The Villain
Song mixed by Steve White at The Dojo Recording Studio (Lexington KY)
Song mastered by Brian 'Change' Penney

Couple's Skate

Twisted Love Song (LP Version)

Nostrum Grocers

Nostrum Grocers - where'ing those flowers

Producer, DJ, Middle Name Records, Balamii Monthly Show
 
Sam Poggioli, aka Sampology, is a DJ, producer, recording engineer, visual artist and former Worldwide FM host from Brisbane/Meanjin. Over the last fifteen years, Sam has been a key player in the rise of Australia’s burgeoning hip-hop, deep house, future jazz and broken beat scenes. Since 2017, he’s released records through Soul Has No Tempo, his own Middle Name Records label, and crafted uptempo remixes for Quantic, Kerbside Collection, Winston Surfshirt and Myele Manzanza.

In the early days of his career, Sam made his mark by performing acclaimed audiovisual DJ sets at festivals and nightclubs throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Asia, Europe and North America. In more recent years, however, he’s balanced his considered skills in the DJ booth with his personal evolution as a composer, producer and recording engineer. Revelling in lush, atmospheric soundscapes which draw from the grandiose splendour of the natural landscape that surrounds his hometown, Sam’s music embraces ornate melodic beauty, blending with syncopated rhythms, low-end theory and lush vocals.

Before he took his audiovisual DJ sets to the world, Sam sharpened his musical knowledge and skills while working at the iconic Butter Beats record store and spinning a mixture of hip-hop, breaks and drum and bass at nightclubs across Brisbane. The road he walked to that point began in his mid-teens after he was exposed to New York’s Native Tongues collective and The Avalanches from Melbourne/Naarm. 

Fascinated by the sampledelic production techniques that helped take hip-hop to new levels in the 90s, Sam learned the basics of computer music production from his cousins, who were already performing nationally in a live electronica group. However, for the first act of his career, DJing was where Sam really shined. Soon enough, he was gracing stages alongside underground US and UK hip-hop stars like Blackalicious and Roots Manuva.

After proving himself nationally and overseas, Sam felt compelled to reconnect with Brisbane’s musical community and focus on his own growth as a producer and composer. This time around, as opposed to DJs and beatmakers, he was hanging out with a generation of trained instrumentalists and singers like Laneous and Noah Slee, who were reshaping the sounds of neo-soul, RnB, broken beat and jazz in the city. After learning more about recording equipment, he began collaborating with them on the material that made up his debut EP, Natural Selections (Soul Has No Tempo, 2016).

Sam also began to spend more time in the grandiose natural landscape that surrounds Brisbane and found himself reflecting on the formative musical experiences of his childhood, like being exposed to string music ensembles by his father and aunt, who’ve both spent decades as members of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Sam also thought back to his early teens when he sang in a cathedral choir. As he began to carve out his own composition and production sound, choral music, harmony, and string textures became a crucial counterpoint to the rhythmic sensibilities he’d learned from DJing hip-hop and dance music to audiences across the globe.

By 2018, Sam was recording local choirs and string sections and had built a strong community of like-minded musicians around himself. That year, he established his own independent label and recording studio, Middle Name Records. He inaugurated it with the release of his soulful deep house EP Mt Glorious featuring Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Jordan Rakei, and Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol 1, a collection of broken beat, disco and house tracks he’d recorded with friends as Middle Name Dance Band.

In 2019, the tastemaker Gilles Peterson invited Sam to host a monthly online radio show on Worldwide FM, giving him a platform to share his ever-expanding musical taste with a global audience. Through his shows, emerging soul, jazz, RnB, hip-hop, and club music from Australia and New Zealand stood shoulder to shoulder with the freshest new cuts and reissues from the global underground.

Two years later, Sam released his debut album, Regrowth, through Middle Name Records. Featuring collaborations with Laneous, Allysha Joy (30/70 Collective), Silent Jay, Seven Davis Jr (US) and James Chatburn, the album showed off his hard-won growth as a composer and producer with inimitable style. Through a heady mixture of live instrumentation, synthesisers, machine beats and soaring voices, Regrowth charted a course through hip-hop, dance, ambient and jazz-funk, earning him comparisons to Bonobo, Jamie XX, Kaytranada and Jon Hopkins along the way.

After the release of Regrowth, Sam realised he’d spent the first half of his career chasing the cutting-edge underground sounds of North America and Europe. When he looked around him, he saw that in the wake of Melbourne/Naarm jazz-funk band Hiatus Kaiyote’s international success, the world was looking at Australia. Since then, he’s been working to document the sound of Brisbane’s underground through Middle Name Records. Sam hopes that in the future, the label’s discography may inspire a new generation of music lovers. Maybe in a decade, someone going through the bins in a record store in London or Manchester will become fascinated by the 2020s Brisbane sound.