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Pachamamic high

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Italian producer Populous makes his long awaited return to Wonderwheel with the first volume of his 2 part “Moonbaton” series - a collection of darker, instrumental reggaeton & moombahton cuts inspired by the zodiac, magic, and mystery of the universe. Things kick off with "Flauta Magica," focusing around the clave and a brooding synth line and a dembow style beat interweaving itself with the flute & a little bit of acid vibes for good measure. Next up is "Sapo," a distant, foreboding track with a monster of a beat & bassline complimenting a childlike fairy tale melody on top.

Moonbaton Vol. 1

Sapo

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Populous - Sapo

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Sendero del Monte is the second single from Mateo Kingman's debut album Respira, out August 12 on AYA Records. The single features Kingman's soulful vocals and signature South American hip hop sound, as well as two remixes from Uji and Dandara.

Uji
https://soundcloud.com/ujitimebeing

Dandara
https://soundcloud.com/dandaramusic

Artwork: Pame Pinto

Mateo Kingman - Sendero del Monte (Dandara Remix)

Confluencias II - Montaña

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Spaniol - Praah com Poesia

Kike Pinto - Mi Corazon (El Búho Edit)

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Populous is Andrea Mangia, a producer hailing from Lecce, a small city on the heel of Italy's boot. In 2003, he made his first jaunt into the music world with the album Quipo (via Morr Music). In 2005 he released Queue For Love, influenced by his reggae/hip-hop-infused surroundings (Lecce is known as Italy's Jamaica, as reggae and dancehall are extremely popular there) and in 2008 he released Drawn in Basic. Both albums were widely received by international critics, earning him a spot on the global music map. He became known for the way he seamlessly blends digital sounds with the analog warmth of soul/hip-hop/whatever else he's influenced by at the time.

Azulejos, his forthcoming release, has a South American tinge to it (and is even partly in Spanish). He moved to Lisbon, Portugal to start work on the album bringing with him only a laptop, a small MIDI keyboard, and a microphone. "Lisbon became both my studio and my muse," he says. He wandered the city collecting field recordings— from trams to people singing on street corners. He sifted through flea markets for records to use for sampling (exclusively Portuguese and South American). Populous describes Lisbon as a city 'halfway between South American soul and European modernity, African in some aspects, and dramatically melancholic." He channeled these poignant fusions into Azulejos, named for the typical tiled facades in Portugal— simultaneously bright and decaying. The album features collaborations with Nina Miranda of Smoke City and Ela Minus, among others. It's a love letter to Lisbon, and a dreamy quilt of sounds he both grew up with and heard for the first time during his influential stay in Portugal.

Azulejos

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Populous - Alala

Mateo Kingman - Sendero Del Monte (Kaleema remix) FREE DOWNLOAD

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MAUGLI’s debut hits off with two fresh tracks for our free download series.
The first song „Away“ starts dark with choppy guitar licks, chants and arpeggios, repeating, twirling and pulling you in, drawing you deep into its rhythmic african  world.

A warm percussive piece, underlined by deep bass and shaky synths, warping and weaving in and out.
Schweben’s „Away“,a sample of Merlui Miranda’s „Pamé Daworo“, Ogoya Nengo and The Dodo Women’s Group’s „Kadana“ have been worked into the track.


„I bought a Shotgun“ the infamous Screamin’ Jay Hawkins used by 
sample trio „Den Sorte Skole“, returns to stage.
Based on the pounding guitar pattern of Damon’s Song „Did You Ever“
Maugli kickstarts his second track with a bass and a beat that gets your teeth churning and shakes you to the bone.
With delightful twists and turns the track becomes a catchy 
headbanger that is hard to resist.


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Analogue Mastering by Christian Kuzio / Rostock 


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MAUGLI - Did You Ever (Edit)

Six years after Leda Valladares’ death, and almost two years after publishing our project, Fertil Discos (Argentina) and Folcore (Barcelona) present the third single of our coming album El Camino de Leda, revisiting the music she recorded and saved from being lost forever. 12 songs, recorded by electronic producers and guest singers, will bring her work and legacy back into life. 

In this case, producer Barda who mixes with the singer Celeste Gomez Machado, making a "slowhouse" version of the classic Las Hojas Tienen Mudanza.

El Camino de Leda

Las Hojas Tiene Mudanza

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Barda feat. Celeste Gomez Machado - Las Hojas Tienen Mudanza (El Camino de Leda)

track by soundcloud.com/biomigrant <3
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In December 2018, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns 70. Designed to prevent the repetition of the horrific human rights violations that had been committed during World War II, this landmark document has been ratified by the majority of countries. Up to now it seems that the UDHR has fallen on hard times; that's certainly not perfect, and somehow it is important to point out that emphasises individualism over community. Don't deceive yourself, UDHR remains as significant today as it was in 1948. However, reflection becomes easier when we realize that the saddest chapters of human history are ultimately derived from the ideology of domination. 

Given its unique rational nature, only the individual is able to use reason to perform an act. Going further, we should understand why our interests often prevail to the detriment of the interests of other species. In fact, if we exam closely, we're always reclaiming the world as our own. Sometimes it made us drift from a tender-hearted logic. 

Hovering over these aspects, the compilation MUX in its fourth edition put us through the wringer! Have you ever noticed or had the feeling that social solidarity is more and more undermined? The drama of the modern human which causes individuals to become commodities of exchange such as capital goods. It resumes every morning, but always with the decentralized, crooked, fragmenting self. In contrast, even though we still do not have a fair and peaceful world, we have to believe that there will be regeneration. There's a smell of good years coming, our hopes are placed in some future ahead. We want to believe. 

Beyond this duality, under two parts - [a] & [b] - MUX vol.4 put together a wide spectrum of artists that prepared tracks with a semblance of freedom, faith, dignity. Undoubtedly, an "ethereal, humanoid and dancing" facet guides this sonic miscellany, where judgements of value aren’t fit and nothing feels the same as it did. It call us to take our emptiness away, to eradicate the dark selfishness that still inhabits our hearts. 

In the endeavor of progress we are beings in constant evolution, without the knowledge of ourselves there is no inner transformation. <3

Credits\

released December 10, 2018 

Artwork\ jnth <3 
www.facebook.com/allanjnth 
www.instagram.com/jnth/ 

Master\ André Torres @ RD Studio, Brasília - DF <3 
www.facebook.com/andreh.torres.br 
bash.br@gmail.com

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Biomigrant  feat. Juan Diego Illescas — Dualidade

Available on Digital / Vinyl 
14.12.2018

Download // Buy: https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/camino-de-flores
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/54RG3zzcA9TCMyrBmIicdu

On Camino de Flores, his second full-length album, El Búho reimagines electronic music through the lense of the natural world and its rich soundscapes. 

Drawing on the inspiration of traditional rhythms and sounds, notably from Latin America, Camino de Flores is an album that transports you to another place. Following the success of his first LP, titled Balance, El Búho is back and takes us on a journey from high mountains to cascading waterfalls, from a dusky rainforest to a crackling fire beneath a clear, star-filled sky. The album charts a pathway between traditional rhythms, the sound of the natural world, IDM electronica and a deep, enveloping dancefloor sound. 

With rhythms, instruments and effects built from field recordings or “found sound”, on Camino de Flores it is often hard to distinguish between synths and drum machines, from birds, water, rain or crunching leaves.

El Búho - Aguas Claras

Con mucha emoción les presento 'Gato Andino', single que adelanta lo que será mi segundo álbum para el 2019. Ha sido casi un año de trabajo y ya falta poco para revelar los nuevos sonidos que se han cosechado.

I am excited to show you 'Gato Andino' (Andean Cat), which is the single which previews my second album coming out at 2019. It has been almost a year working on it and I can't wait to reveal the new sounds that has been harvested.

@festivalnomade

Gato Andino [Single]

Gato Andino

"Bienaventuranza" Remixes is out worldwide on digital & white vinyl May 17th.
Purchase --> https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/bienaventuranza-remix-ep

In 2018, the Argentinean electro-cumbia legend Chancha Via Circuito (Pedro Canale) released Bienaventuranza, an album that capped off a decade-long trajectory that reshaped the musical panorama as we know it. The album maintained the swift-yet-wild balance between analog and digital, the new and the traditional, while crossing new sonic thresholds by way of fresh collaborations and new instrumentation. Released via Wonderwheel Recordings, Bienaventuranza received critical acclaim around the globe - from NPR to the Guardian.

On May 17, the world gets a follow-up to Bienaventuranza - a 4-track EP of remixes by some extremely special contributors who shock these tracks into a new existence with their interpretations. First up is a remix of "Alegría" by none other than Nicola Cruz, the acclaimed Ecuadorian artist and producer who the New York Times called one of this year's Artists To Watch. A longtime collaborator of Chancha's, his spin on the track adds a hypnotic energy to it, as if peeling back an entire layer of the song. Next up is one of the album's more melodic tracks - "Ilaló" featuring Mateo Kingman, remixed by Spanish artist Baiuca, who's quickly gained popularity in Spain for his unique fusions of electronic with traditional Galician music. He puts an up-tempo house-tinged spin on the track, injecting it with a heavy, danceable pulse that compliments its already-winding melody. What follows is "Los Pastores" - the album's marching opening track. Remixed by Rafael Aragon, the French DJ/producer known to fear no sound, the track takes on an entirely new feeling. With jungle-like hues and intense percussive overlays and drones, Aragon readies the track for the dreamiest dancefloor you've ever known. Capping off the EP is a remix of "Barú" by El Búho (aka Robin Perkins), the artist and producer from Northern England known for his subtle integration of nature sounds into serene and captivating electronic compositions. He's allured global audiences for years with songs that inadvertently tempt listeners into a dreamlike state; his last LP, Balance (also out on Wonderwheel), was one of NPR's top albums of its year. He's taken one of the darker, more minimalistic songs on the album and infused it with a rich array of bird songs, winds, and sitars as if to make it the daytime reflection of itself.

With the contributions of 4 renowned producers from around the world, the Bienaventuranza Remix EP is a profound and fresh perspective on Chancha's original album. It'll help you hear the songs differently, all while inadvertently promising you'll listen to them a little more closely. 

Bienaventuranza Remix EP is out on May 17 via Wonderwheel Recordings.

Bienaventuranza Remixes

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Chancha Via Circuito - Barú (El Búho Remix)

Devenir Maleza was one of those projects that just arrived in our overflowing inboxes one day out of the blue. We opened the link and discovered four finely crafted, beautifully produced and captivating tracks of transformative, percussive music. 

It rare to find music that marries so well recorded percussion, live instrumentation and vocals with deep electronic productions without one dominating on the other. With Devenir Maleza Prisma and Martin Broder, a duo based between Berlin and Buenos Aires, managed to find that sweet spot that we love so much here at Shika Shika: deep, electronic but natural, acoustic and introspective. Or as the duo describes it: “a crackling, soothing, hypnotic lullaby.” 

Devenir Maleza’s was inspired by the concept of “becoming” and of transformation in many aspects. Through their long-distance collaboration the duo’s starting point was to imagine music becoming la maleza or “the undergrowth”, as if it the synths, vocals and instruments were sinking into the humid earth or drawn from the whistling wind or emerging from a rustling forest. 

The duo is joined on the EP by the talented singer and pianist Maria Barone as well as techno-producer / percussionist Merlin Genschel.
credits
released July 25, 2019 

Producido por Prisma & Martin Boder 
Voces: Maria Barone 
Percusion: Merlin Grenschel 

Turbina de amor es originalmente de Rafael "flaco" Ferriaolo 

Mastering: Rob Small
Artwork: JUMU (instagram.com/jumumonster)<3
ShSh 031

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01. Prisma & Martin Boder - Devenir Maleza

Munay is one of the 9 tracks from the upcoming album, Seis Noches de Mascaras.

This is the second self compilation from the last 2 years of work on studio and remote places, playing this tracks during my last tours around Europe, Africa and Central America.

The LP will be released 28th August and you can grab you copy on:
https://vruno.bandcamp.com/


Written, produced and mixed by VRUNO

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28.08.2019

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Munay

This is the second album by Akara, just mastered now. We are so excited to share it with you!

Music composed and produced by Joshua Penman.

Featuring:

Femke Weidema - vocals, accordeon
Joshua Penman - keyboards, vocals, harmonium, tibetan cymbals

Mark Robertson - violin
Maia Jasper - violin
Matthew Szemela - violin
Samuel Wexler - violin
Andrew Duckles - viola
Charith Premawardhana - viola
Vanessa Freebairn-Smith - cello
Samsun von Loon - cello
Mark Kroll - keyboards
Alison Bjorkedal - harp
Noam Aharon - Indian mandolin
Karmen Suter - flute, piccolo, alto flute
Paul Klintworth - French horn

Sky Dancer (album)

The tracks from our first album after the singles, Projection and The Emperor and the Oracle... also available at www.akaraproject.com

Invoking the Unnameable

Dissolving the Veil

Gelfling

The Far Shore

Shika Shika is a global collective without owners for music without borders. 

We are inspired by nature, by tradition, by the past and by the future. Our direction is fresh, different, genre hopping organic-electronic-digital-folk.