Ninine Garcia - My Dream Of Love

Journeyman, DJ, radio presenter, beat raconteur – it’s been hard to keep up with all of iZem‘s movements lately. The innovative French producer has been hard at work on his debut LP Hafa, exploring the sounds of Latin America and North Africa in a vivid analogue-digital, genre-defying soundscape that is sure to leave your head spinning.

Ahead of @izemsounds debut LP 'Hafa' released next month, today we bring you a delectable cut off the album featuring the angelic tones of Brazilian singer Nina Miranda. 

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2015/04/09/premiere-izem-agua-viva-feat-nina-miranda/

Premiere: iZem - Agua Viva (Feat. Nina Miranda)

[Verse]
Glitter falls like shattered dreams
Red cups spill
Nobody screams
A smile's a mask
It hides the seams
Eyes meet
Then turn away
Words dissolve
Nothing to say
This night
It feels like yesterday

[Chorus]
We’re dancing in the dark corners
Hiding from the light
The warners
Laughing loud but thinking deep
Dancing in the dark corners
Where no one sees the tears we keep

[Verse 2]
Smoke wraps around the air like shame
The DJ plays but it’s all the same
Every beat just fuels the flame
Neon signs
They flicker low
Shadows stretch
They start to grow
The night’s a friend we barely know

[Prechorus]
Raise your glass
Pretend you care
But the weight is heavy
Hard to bear

[Chorus]
We’re dancing in the dark corners
Hiding from the light
The warners
Laughing loud but thinking deep
Dancing in the dark corners
Where no one sees the tears we keep

Dancing In The Corner

Electric Wire Hustle - Again (Scratch 22 Remix)

Melbourne nine-piece exploratory soul collective @thirtyseventy create an an aural bloom of Fender Rhodes, soft horns, fluttering melodies and counter-counter-harmonies. Out now via their Bandcamp.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/05/09/premiere-3070-collective-the-strut/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/3070collective-strut

Official Video

30/70 Collective - The Strut (STW Premiere)

Appears on "One Hundred"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-hundred/id588340204

MarksOnTheKeys (w Mark Speer)

Most honored to even have the chance to put my spin on this beautiful piece of love by two of my all-time favorites. Sincerely hope yall dig it. I played all the guitar work, drums sampled from Shawn Lee, and grateful for my man Reed Mathis, coming through in a rush and laying bass on it night before the deadline for submissions.
Blessyall!
// Sole.

UPDATE: The winners of the DJ Shadow remix contest have been announced! I'm not one of them, but it was great to hear the ones that shadow picked. So glad Archive's Waltz version was in the ranks, played that on my KCRW show on Wednesday. I'm not bummed one bit, everyone who Shadow picked killed it in their own way, and since I only set out to make what I consider to be a beautiful song... I feel successful in that. BLESSYALL for voting, and all the kind words. Now that it's over I can give it away for free. Enjoy.

DJ SHADOW ft. LITTLE DRAGON - Scale It Back (Jeremy Sole Remix)

The Crossing

Stream & Download: https://godtet.bandcamp.com/album/godtet

'Ensueño' is the second offering from GODTET; The debut LP and live band project from Sydney guitarist, Producer & Beat-maker Godriguez. Praised for his production on ‘The Great Mixtape’ for Sampa the Great, Godtet sees Godriguez stepping back into the live format of production with a full band.

The self-titled LP is due out October 27th via La Sape (SAPE001).

Andrew Bruce - Piano
Jan Bangma - Bass
Tully Ryan - Drums
Dominic Kirk - Percussion
Godriguez - Guitar

Produced by Godriguez and Jack Prest
Recorded live, no overdubs, in 2016 by Jack Prest, assisted by Antonia Gauci, at Studios 301, Alexandria, Sydney
Mixed and mastered by Jack Prest

GODTET - Ensueño

OFFICIAL URL - ​https://hopest.re/LookAround

DANIELLE PONDER &
KARATE BOOGALOO

“Look Around” ​out July 24, 2020 via ​Hopestreet Recordings​.

New York singer and activist ​Danielle Ponder pairs up with Melbourne cinematic soul outfit ​Karate Boogaloo to deliver ​“Look Around,” a haunting reflection on the times we live in. ​“Look Around” was written in the studio with the band in the first days of 2020 when Danielle was in Melbourne, and at the time was conceived as a cry for help in the literal firestorm that was engulfing Australia. As 2020 progressed, the words that came in that moment of inspiration seemed to reflect each of the multiplying calamities this year has presented. When the death of George Floyd ignited indignation across the USA and the world, the lyrics to Look Around could not have been more apropos.

In Danielle’s words: “fires were raging through Australia and smoke covered the sky. It felt like all of our human sins had gotten the best of us and we were paying a price. I didn’t know that when I arrived back home in the U.S, the world would only get darker. I feel like my past self wrote this song for my future self knowing what was to come.” ​This song would help Danielle through what has been one of the most painful times to be Black in America.

Coming from different continents and different backgrounds was no obstacle to Danielle Ponder and Karate Boogaloo forming an immediate musical connection in the studio. Karate Boogaloo is a formidable studio band with years of studious focus learning soul music and its history. The instant connection is obvious on ​“Look Around”, ​as the band and Danielle sound like they’d been playing together for years rather than hours. Black Lives Matter, while being a US based movement, has a strong resonance in Australia where Indigenous people are massively over-represented in prison populations and in fatal interactions with the police. Thus, sales in July and August are going to be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative in the USA and Warriors Of The Aboriginal Resistance in Australia.

Electric Wire Hustle - Again (Scratch 22 Remix)

Scratch22