Week 15

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Tracks I made through the year to reminisce some the fun moments I had, hope these sounds can be part of your moments too.

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▶ discover: @darkerthanwax
▶ Read Part 1: http://bit.ly/MTMpt1
▶ Read Part 2: http://bit.ly/MTM1pt2
▶ Download the mix: http://bit.ly/18AbSAI

As SoundCloud, Spotify and other online-based music platforms pave the way for how we consume audio in the digital age, artists are finding themselves with more power and control than ever before. New collectives and record labels are being created at a record rate, and yet despite that many of the people behind them go unknown, with the artists that represent them being a listener’s biggest connection.

With this in mind I’m starting a new series called Meet the Movement, in which I speak to creatives from various record labels, collectives and so on. The aim is both to educate about the history behind some of the movements we’ve come to love in recent years and also to inspire people to do it themselves, as most of these movements started from just an idea, with a lot support and love driving them to where they are today.

Starting off the series is Dean Chew, also known as the Funk Bast*rd, co-founder of Singaporean-based Darker Than Wax, one of the most diverse labels to be birthed in recent history. Often mistaken as being a “beat label”, its origins are actually in more uptempo sounds, and releases have crossed a number of genres, including footwork, jazz, house, hip-hop, bass, boogie, trap, garage, ambient, R&B and future.

Ahead of his upcoming Brazil and New York tour with Go Yama and NeguimBeats, I spoke to the musician about his origins, DTWs beginnings and its roster.

Check back next week for the mix I made to play in the background of this interview, featuring exclusively Darker Than Wax artists and affiliates.


Read Part. 1

Meet The Movement #001:  Dean Chew of Darker Than Wax [Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7IrfhUtymc

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Little Bando (VIDEO IN DESCRIPTION)

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Sound captured & recorded on Sat, Mar. 21, 2015 @ ±8AM with an iPhone5S @ Cosmonostroffice.

Vivre La Tendre Guerre En Attendant La Mort Qui Me Revient (Live)

Taken from Soul Clap Presents: Tempo Dreams Vol. 3
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After two critically acclaimed volumes of their producer-driven compilation series Tempo Dreams, Brooklyn’s Bastard Jazz Recordings is back with Volume 3 of the beat-centric, forward looking concept. For this edition, the label has tapped Soul Clap, the Boston bred international ambassadors of all things funky.  Piloting their cosmic mothership all over the globe, Soul Clap have built a cult following worldwide both through their solo endevaors and via their Crew Love brand formed with Brooklyn’s Wolf+Lamb. Staying with the Tempo Dreams theme of showcasing new styles,  emerging artists and the best of their beatmaking  peers, Soul Clap has compiled a showcase of entirely unreleased modern funk, electro soul, and leftfield house music on this compilation, sure to make their spiritual guide Dr. Funkenstein aka George Clinton proud. 

As in with previous volumes, the featured artists all come from different places, spaces and times but are tied together by the musical connection running concurrent on the record. Soul Clap’s unmistakable vibe is powerfully  represented through their own original track “So Sedated”, a heavy chugging synth ode to the transformational powers of the dancefloor, featuring understated vocals by Dayonne Rollins.  Crew Love & Dirtybird artist Tanner Ross teams up with Jules Born for “No 1 Else But You”, a late night off-kilter piece of nasty funk, while fellow teammate Navid Izadhi brings a Cali swagger with the smoothed out G-Funk vibes of “Cadillack”.  The left coast is further represented by Pasadena’s XL Middleton whose “AntiSlumper” kicks off the album with a throwback boogie excursion, while the George Clinton-approved production team FSQ delivers the irresistible down & dirty “Break The Funk”. Amsterdam artist Tom Trago comes in tough with the electro porn of “Hard Cash” while NYC is represented fully with disco hero Tom Noble’s “Tanked”,  Analog Player’s Society’s wavey “Enter City”, and Greg Paulus’s late night soul vibes on “Everything (Love Down)”. 

Soul Clap Presents: Tempo Dreams Volume 3 arrives March 30 on 2xLP, CD and digital worldwide via Bastard Jazz Recordings, prefaced with a limited edition 7-inch double single in stores February 24th.


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Official Audio for SUGAR COATED Ft. LYRIC LE'SON

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LYRICS

Trapped in my mind
Walking the line 
And it don't feel right 
Ooo baby your sugar coated cadence 
Drives me crazy (crazy baby)

All I'm asking for is 
Just a little 
Sugar coated lovin' 
But without the mess 
All I'm asking for is 
Just a little 
Sugar coated (sugar coated)
Lovin' baby (lovin' baby)

All I'm asking for is 
Some sugar coated lovin' babe
Drive me crazy 

Oh babe my body my body 
Keeps me addicted and craving your sound 
Ooo oh my ooo body 
Keeps me addicted 
Craving all your sugar coated

Trapped in my mind
Walking the line 
And it don't feel right 
Ooo baby your sugar coated cadence 
Drives me crazy (crazy baby)

I feel it all the time 
This feeling's on my mind 
Sugar coated candy hearted 
Baby won't you take me off it
I feel it all the time 
This feeling's on my mind 
Sugar coated candy hearted 
Baby won't you take me off it

SUGAR COATED

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