Where You been is classic K&S electronic soul. Deep and sublimely funky. Bass heavy and with a poignant vocal hook, the track is a clear signpost for where Kraak & Smaak are at on Chrome Waves.

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Pete Josef is not just a singer, songwriter and multi- instrumentalist from the South-West of England. His social conscience and inherent need to create, build, share and protect as well as educate himself about issues regarding the environment, society, politics, race and gender have seen all of these permeate into his musical output in recent years. This has never been more overtly the case than with his brand new single, Utopia.

The song is ultimately about “greenwashing” - the method by which businesses exaggerate their environmental credentials for financial gain, and how this trickles down to consumers. Pete for one is frustrated by how companies, for decades, have made a calculated refusal to engage with the facts about climate change. This is reflected in the song’s lyrical content - “They doping ya, so be wise, be alive. Don’t look up, ya house is on fire.” Lyrics inspired by the film Don’t Look Up and a famous speech by environmental activist Greta Thunberg. The ironic lyricism continues in that it’s “Gonna be the summer, the summer of our lives” reflecting on how people bask in high temperatures without under- standing why these changes are happening, and the danger it poses to our future.

Pete is very aware that he himself could be accused of “greenwashing”, but at the very least hopes that he can be a small part of a growing movement to force change. Artists like Lil Simz, SAULT and Michael Kiwanuka are very much leading the way with that and Pete feels that he has little choice but to add his voice, but at the same time is conscious that his “consciousness” may never be enough.

Musically, the track has a retro and somewhat South American feel. The introduction features Pete playing a vintage 1960s Harmony Bobkat guitar, before he’s joined on suitably haunting vocals by Marie Lister. The song builds around Miguel Andrews’ steady drums as percussion and horns bring more weight to the proceedings. Imagine a politically conscious Curtis Mayfield backed by Khruangbin and you get the idea.
Utopia is taken from Pete Josef’s forthcoming third album, to be released in 2024, recorded in his self-built and self-sustainable studio cabin in his garden. The exchange between studio and live has become a unifying force since the resurrection of his live quartet in 2022. This year will bring choice live shows, featuring the mercurial Eli Jitsuto from Bristol based outfit Snazzback on guitar and longtime collaborators Jihad Darwish on bass and Miguel Andrews on drums.

Pete Josef - Utopia

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Born to love you

"Electric Soul" - A funk, soul, and R&B anthem. Feel the groove and dance the night away.

Lyrics:
Lost in the rhythm, feel the beat surround me (yeah)
Heart pulsing to the groove, let the music find me
The night is young, let's elevate, no boundaries
In place where soul and funk create the memories
(Time) bridges generations, sound evolves (yeah)
Woven through the years, an echo that resolves

Electric soul symphony
Unity in melody
Feel that groove, feel that light
Dance together through the night

Voices lifting high, harmony is rising oh
With every note, the past and present synthesizing
Trumpets blare, strings throwback, synths are mesmerizing
In this groove, our spirits find revitalizing
Let the essence move you, hearts synchronized (yes)
In electric flow, our souls epitomized

Electric soul symphony
Unity in melody
Feel that groove, feel that light
Dance together through the night

Every beat unites our heartbeat (uhn)
Timeless groove, we rise, never retreat
Bound by rhythm, every soul's elite
Feel the pulse, let love repeat (yeah)

Electric soul symphony
Unity in melody
Feel that groove, feel that light
Dance together through the night

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While utilizing AI generation for initial concepts (pictures, album art, lyrics, musical foundation), this song is the result of extensive and documented human creative direction, editing, and production. Manual and complex AI-prompting shaped the raw material. Lyrics underwent significant manual editing for narrative, flow, and emotional impact. The core musical composition was refined through human arrangement choices. The production involved intensive manual mixing and mastering: multi-stem editing, stem correction, octaving, precise cuts, gain staging, dynamic balancing, low-frequency mono processing, pocketing and boosting energy points, bass excitation, sculpting bass harmonics, detailed sound design, effect application, side-chaining, compression, multiband dynamics, tempo fine-tuning, equalization for clarity and reduction of muddiness, loudness optimization, panoramic placement, frequency analysis, targeted high/low-frequency cuts, and LUFSi correction.

Electric Soul (AI-aided)

This remix that I made blends “Serendipity” by Kenichiro with elements of “Winter Sweet" by Soft Lipa into a new Jazz/HipHop/Rap atmospheric track. Created and mixed by me, "88REMIX".
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After the succes of “Just To Make Me”, Vhyce is back on Smile.
“Into The Sun” takes this 3-track EP to a whole nother level.
With its slow and extatic build-up, it takes off to an open plain of altered
consciousness in a galaxy far away where the concept of time does not apply.
Those who manage to listen only once will win a free washer-dryer combo.

“Against The Window” heralds the message loud and clear: summer’s here.
It’s sweet honeyglazed soul accompanied by necksnapping percussion
to raise the sunroof. Just like a whipped cream topped chocolate meringue,
it’ll sink straight into all the young womens’ hips.

To top things off nicely, there’s closing track “Lazylight” that cement the divine message and makes smiles appear in agreement: summer is here, and Vhyce is curating it with sounds to suit any and all purposes.

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With summer finally making its presence felt, Payfone makes its Leng Records debut with a simmering, sunset-ready sizzler that oozes drowsy heat from start to finish. It’s a slow-burn dancefloor beauty all right, but we expect nothing less from Anglo Italian Phil Passera and his growing band of musical collaborators.

Since making their debut with the brilliant “International Smark” back in 2013, Payfone has delivered a swathe of superb singles which cannily combine elements of boogie, disco, NYC proto-house, acid house and Balearica in uniquely alluring ways. Passera has a reputation for using no samples in his creations, instead favouring live instrumentation, classic electronic hardware and ear-catching vocals.
 
Since we last heard from Payfone, Passera has moved his studio from his East London warehouse to a wooden shack in Sant Celoni, a sleepy Catalonian town near Barcelona nestled in the foothills of the Montseny and Montnegre mountain ranges. The inspiration of his new surroundings is clear on this warm, groovy and undeniably picturesque composition.

“Last Night In San Celoni” is a  love letter from two girls meeting and falling in love amidst the tumbling streets and dramatic views of this little-known town just a few miles up the Mediterranean coast from Barcelona.

Featuring the innocent, under stated singing of Los Angeles’ based Jaz James and the seductive Spanish speech of Beunos Aries-based Lumdilla Rodriguez, the duo narrates a romantic, bilingual love story that will melt your heart. Incidentally, it could well be the first (partly) English-language song dedicated to Sant Celoni, but don’t quote us on that.
 
Musically, Payfone is in fine form on “Last Night in San Celoni” where Phil Passera offers up a warm and humid chunk of soft-touch dancefloor bliss underpinned by a combination of vintage analogue drum machine, 1980s style slap bass, rich electric piano motifs, and casually brilliant jazz guitar flourishes provided by regular Payfone guitarist Royce Wood Junior.
 
This result of years of collaborative work  (this song began as a keyboard riff written in a New York studio in the heatwave of 2014), the track’s sumptuous groove seems to gently tug at the senses like the lapping waves on a Baleric Mediterranean beach at Sunset.

The original mix comes accompanied by a more up-beat interpretation by Swiss stalwarts In Flagranti. Opting to fatten the groove whilst dubbing out many of the assembled musical elements, the experienced duo brilliantly wraps lo-fi synthesizer lead lines and 1980s package holiday pop flourishes around a chugging, low-slung groove that will have even the laziest dancers skipping towards the dancefloor.

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Sonar Kollektiv is an independent label from Berlin, founded by Jazzanova in 1997. Known for its eclectic blend of jazz, soul, electronica, and beyond, the label has released 600+ genre-defying tracks from artists like Âme, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Benny Sings, Modha, Feiertag, Pete Josef, Jono McCleery, The KBCS, RAH & The Ruffcats, Magro, WAAN, and TTeo. From and for music lovers.

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