Sampology

Reassemble ft James Chatburn

vinyl & merch https://sampology.bandcamp.com/album/regrowth
Middle Name Records
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Sampology.com

Running Around

https://sampology.bandcamp.com/album/regrowth-rearranged

4. Running Around (Ron Trent Remix)

Rain (Middle Name Records)

We Are Love (Middle Name Records)

Real

Friday the 6th Sept 2024 we release our 10 year anniversary compilation 
We have chosen 32 of our best selling and favourite tracks over the last 10 years including a few new tracks ..see what Juno says >>>>
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Review
Since launching a decade ago, Slightly Transformed has become one of the most productive and - quality wise - most consistent nu-disco imprints around, with a catalogue packed with ear-catching original productions and on-point re-edits. Naturally the label's founders wanted to do something to mark their first decade, so decided on an expansive retrospective highlighting dancefloor hits, personal favourites and slept-on treats.
There's plenty to set the pulse racing throughout the 32 action-packed tracks on show, from the tactile, head-nodding '80s soul transformation that is Basement Love and Tuuwa's 'Promise', and the glossy electrofunk-goes-slow-house flex of Vigi's 'Acid Lies', to the infectious, bass-heavy disco-funk vibes of Chuggin Edits' 'Ain't No Love, Ain't No Starshine' and the piano-powered Latin house loveliness of Delfonic's 'Hangin' Tough'. And so it goes on, with highlights continuing to pop up at a furious rate. For proof, check the down-low swamp funk of Oldchap's 'What's The Use', the funky and chunky house pressure of Kid & Loop's 'You and Me', and the Tiger & Woods-in-dub headiness of 'Say Goodnight' by Ash Reynolds.

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Basement Love & Tuuwa - Promise

Lovetempo is the brainchild of Mattie Safer, known for his work as the singer and bassist of Poolside and The Rapture. Since its inception, Safer has fused saudade sentimentality and jazz-funk excursions with modern dancefloor sensibilities. Through body, soul, and basslines, lovetempo explores the triumphs and travails of the heart. This year he released two captivating singles, “But I Do” out on Razor-N-tape, followed by “Maybe In Another Life.” Both tracks got smashed on BBC6 Music, KCRW, and Jazz FM, with high praise from Gilles Peterson on both his shows.

Here lovetempo returns with ‘Live Or Die By Love’ that serves as both a manifesto and a mantra for his core message: that love endures as a constant guiding force through love’s challenges. It consists of three original cuts, the 90s house-influenced title track and two smooth disco cuts ‘We Can Make It Happen’ and ‘Part-Time Love Affair’. The lead track receives a remix from the legendary Eric Kupper, celebrated for his collaborations with Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, and Arthur Baker, as well as his own solo remixes and productions.

Live Or Die By Love

We Can Make It Happen

12" Vinyl

Slowed + Reverb renditions of End of Transmission 

Disco on the Deck (Slowed + Reverb)

12"
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Monsieur KAPOTE comes back with another deep funk house EP on Toy Tonics. Slap Bass, Wurlitzer Jazz Pianos, Old school house drum machines, nasty talks. This new three- tracker continues the vibe of his last single „The Nose“ (that went no.1 on Traxsource and Juno and is still getting hammered by DJs from all kind of scenes). 
This is slow grooving dance music. Nothing is stressy here. Jazz funk inspired mid-tempo house with live played bass, keyboards and lot of warm harmonies. Played with a high musical level. Pure quality. In fact Kapote used to play keyboards and bass in Jazz bands before getting absorbed by dance music culture. He is a big fan of late 60ies Hard Bob Jazz as well as 1970ies Jazz Funk and Disco. You can feel these vibes in all of his tracks. 
Besides producing his own music Kapote also is running Toy Tonics records with his buddies Manuel Kim and Munk.

Kapote - L.O.V.E.

From the forthcoming 'De Gama - Funktastic EP' [SMS004]

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De Gama - 1972 [Funktastic EP]

Buy here: https://churchofficial.bandcamp.com/album/it-rains-here

Manchester-based producer Yadava makes his long-awaited debut on the acclaimed underground imprint Church with his album 'It Rains Here', which features a soulful, jazzy and tribal cut titled 'Rebecca's Jam'.

After gracing a Banoffee Pies compilation with a collaboration with Contours and releasing a solo outing on AdHoc Records, Yadava's been stirring up buzz with his eclectic sound profile. Now with a full-length album that compliments the diverse Church catalogue, he's showing there's much to his artistry that has yet to be explored. Keep an eye on Yadava.

The 'It Rains Here' LP is set for release in June.

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06 Montreux

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.

Reassemble ft James Chatburn

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