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BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Freedom Fables

Morning Light (feat. Ria Moran)

TRUCD223 Wildcookie - Serious Drug, Cookie Dough

Wildcookie - Serious Drug

Rust (feat. Tom Misch)

Ruby

7th Heaven

Per Elisa

Scratch Practice Beat<CLASSIC

Beware Of Those - Movie Soundtrack

Hit 'Em Where It Hurts

Don't Waste My Time

Influence, Vol. 2: The Man I Am

There I've Said It Again

Why We Cry Why We Die

adan diaz
girl at the skatepark
out 25 september 2020 on GODMODE

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about the release:

"girl at the skatepark" is chicago-born 16-year-old adan diaz's third single release of 2020 for godmode – a woozy last-ditch love letter to the one who got away.

songs by adan diaz and nick sylvester
produced by nick sylvester

mixed by nick sylvester at godmode studios, la ca
assistant mixing by robert szmurlo
mastered by sarah register
executive produced by talya elitzer

guitar and lead vocals performed by adan diaz
moog and background vocals performed by nick sylvester

adan diaz - girl at the skatepark who smiled at me after i fell [GODMODE]

skate depot

Scarfo Da Plug
Spokesman
out now on Godmode

more info:

Scarfo Da Plug makes his debut on Godmode.
Song by Scarfo Da Plug and Jester Beats

Produced by Jester Beats
Mixed Nick Sylvester and Robert Szmurlo
Mastered by Robert Szmurlo at Godmode Studios

lyrics:
We on that one Way No Exit , 
So much Traffic had To Break Lease ,
My old lady Tenants be hating me 
I whip up and Easy bake oven my pastries 
Set up shop at wherever the Vacancy 
Drop my ticket again bet not play with me 
I stayed down when my phone wasn’t ringing 
Said my prayers then moved up to 10 a week

Big Facts 
I should be the sponsor for the glad bag 
I should be the spokesperson for the Trap 
Package up the Work in the Glad Bag 
College white girl countin up the racks 
We ain’t saying Nothing on a IPhone 
Nigga Talking Crazy ima Call him back 
I Can Whip it up with my Eyes Closed 
I Should Be The Spokesperson For the Trap 


I Was in the Field on A Sunday 
Front line Juggin tryna Run it Back
 
Bring it Here I will cook Right in front of you 
Not no rapper that’s tryna fit a act 

Real Dopeboy I’m the Epitome 
If you work For the Law you My Enemy 

I’m the Humboldt Hugh Hefner with Weed 
I Supply Any order I Get it Infinity 

I Ain’t letting no money get by me 
I’ll work with your budget I like that you trying 

I snuggle them birds in them boxes 
I tape em up safe I like watching them fly 

And I’m Still in them trenches everyday I ain’t to boujee for a nickel and dime 

Stall a Nigga for a Half a Hour I ain’t never met a play on time 

Talking Trap Music I’m the ambassador 
All them numbers they Talking ain’t adding up 

I Can Tell he don’t count  it up fast enough 
Really came out the mud this ain’t come from luck 

I stuck to the code made a name I got a pension out this shit 

No I ain’t Push Pawns in vain 
I made a few Hundred out the 6 

We on that oneWay No Exit , 
So much Traffic had To Break Lease ,
My old lady Tenants be hating me 
I whip up and Easy bake oven my pastries 
Set up shop at wherever the Vacancy 
Drop my ticket again bet not play with me 
I stayed down when my phone wasn’t ringing 
Said my prayers then moved up to 10 a week

Big Facts 
I should be the sponsor for the glad bag 
I should be the spokesperson for the Trap 
Package up the Work in the Glad Bag 
College white girl countin up the racks 
We ain’t saying Nothing on a IPhone 
Nigga Talking Crazy ima Call him back 
I Can Whip it up with my Eyes Closed 
I Should Be The Spokesperson For the Trap

Scarfo Da Plug - Spokesman

Uncomfortable

Strong

Strong

SAULT

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