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Selected by British DJ and vinyl hunter Paul Hillery, new BBE Music compilation ‘We Are The Children Of The Sun’ showcases a shimmering collection of rare folk funk and AOR with a distinctly Balearic feel.

Former tour DJ for Polyphonic Spree and the man behind YouTube channel and mix series ‘Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours’, Paul Hillery’s lovingly handpicked musical assembly takes in strummed soft rock, blissful beach beats, the soft fizz of electronica, all carried to your ears by a gentle summer breeze.

The music on ‘We Are The Children Of The Sun’ ranges from hazy, long-forgotten early 70s tapes, right through to digital compositions recorded during lockdown in 2020.

“Tune in” says Paul, “and ruminate while consciousness is awoken with transmissions dropping out from the fringes of psyche tranquillity, holding hands with folk-funk that runs deep and hazy, as the bejewelled turquoise waters lap gently at the ocean’s shore.”

Diana Pequeno - Mistérios

The Singles Club

Premiere: Matt Wilde - Pivot

WAAN represents the musical marriage of seasoned saxophonist Bart Wirtz and keyboard wiz Emiel van Rijthoven. As a pair of self-confessed tech nerds hailing from The Netherlands, their bromance was a slow burning one, but nevertheless their eventual collaboration fulfilled a dream that they’d both held close since first working together back in 2010.

KinK is the first single to be taken from the duo’s forthcoming debut album Echo Echo. The piece sprung to life during one of Bart and Emiel’s final recording sessions for the album, whilst working with session musicians Kasper Kalf (double bass), Jimmi Hueting (drums) as well as Oscar de Jong and Lucas Meijers who contributed to percussion. The recording started with a simple line on a Maestro Effect, using a tape echo, and what you hear is a very natural and easy Dr John voodoo style groove that came from the first two takes. The pair then took what they had of this very instinctive performance to Emiel’s studio and added harmonics, synth sounds, samples and a very percussive distorted clavinet to the groove. The key to this evocative and wondrous piece of music was to create percussive sounds from harmonic instruments and conjure up something otherworldly.

With influences as disparate as Floating Points, BadBadNotGood and Eddie Harris, Echo Echo is far more complex than just being a dance music influenced jazz record. Co-producer Oscar de Jong, of Kraak & Smaak fame, encouraged the pair to play freely as part of a jazz group and then add the electronic elements. As a result the album owes as much to Duke Ellington and Lalo Schiffrin as it does NERD and The Eurythmics!

KinK

WAAN - KinK

The third single to be taken from the forthcoming album ‘The Globeflower Masters Vol.2’. Glenn and Mark have crafted a rich tapestry of cinematic funk and European Library music. Inspired by such luminaries as Roger Webb, Stefano Torossi, David Axelrod & Serge Gainsbourg.

The 'Calico Suite' finds Glenn and Mark shifting gears for what is their most uptempo track released to date. 

Looser and imbued with more swagger than previous productions, 'Calico Suite' enters into tight and slightly edgy 60s library funk territory before mutating into dreamy 70s Headhunters-esque jazz-funk. Balancing light and shade, the triumvirate of Glenn’s bass grooves, Mark’s rhythmic Clavinet and electric piano playing, and John Maiden's drums interact with perfection.

Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel - Calico Suite

As part of the celebrations to launch Miche's 'With Love Volume 1' compilation; four of us (post-club night)crammed into the back of a Mini Cooper for a road trip from East London to Manchester for a 5-hour listening-bar session. A relaxed and carefree set, saw us selecting recent finds and old favourites across the soul, disco, gospel, AOR, Brazilian, and jazz-funk genres. 

NAM, is a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant set in the heart of Manchester. It boasts some of the best food we've had in a while and features an awesome Hi-Fi system with an Isonoe mixer situated in a cosy basement. 

Big thanks to Nam, Christos, and the team for letting us loose to share our music with their customers.

https://www.nammcr.com

NAM - Listening Bar Session with Miche & Mr Bongo

Music is My Sanctuary's Lexis live from Estonia for the next two hours with an introspective mix. 

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Bassist, drummer and Agile Experiments bandleader Dave De Rose returns with a brand new project for 2023, called Rave At Your Fictional Borders. To introduce the new group, he has shared an exciting video edit capturing a live performance named “National Phantom”, due for release on March 9th.

This video captures a studio session from the Athens-based band’s second recording day, which went down at Electricity Sound Studio in Athens, Greece in January 2023.

The brand new ‘Rave At Your Fictional Borders’ grouping follows a long and impressive run of releases by Dave De Rose’s Agile Experiments. This new project takes inspiration from its predecessor's improvisational and avant-garde approach, but explores new territory by incorporating ambient, noise, and techno elements. This comes at a time when people are increasingly tired of outdated ideas like territorial control and elitist systems.

"National Phantom EP", a two-track release from the second day of recording, is dropping on March 9th, 2023. The EP includes live performance videos and a free digital download. For the vinyl collectors, there's a limited edition 10" lathe cut version, hand-pressed by LoFi Concept. Keep an eye out for more music from the project - the rest of the recordings will be released on their full-length LP in early 2024, along with additional EPs featuring different musicians.

Dave De Rose tells us, “I've been harvesting this project for over two years, some of that just in my head. Last year it finally started to come together while playing a lot with Marius Mathiszik and various combinations of fantastic sound artists in Athens. The project has a more narrow improvisation concept than Agile Experiments, we are blending the realms of dance-inducing repetition with avant-garde, ambient and techno, occasionally dabbling with an aggressive punk edge. It's been a refreshing experience to witness the project's output getting stronger and stronger over the year and just like with Agile Experiments, it's the musicians we've recruited bringing their own flavor to the band's sound that has made it become its own unique blend. Very excited to share these videos and the next 3 releases taking us all the way into 2024!!

“National Phantom (live performance)” features MIMS favorite Jan Van on drums, Saber Rider on keys, samplers, loops & fx, Marius Mathiszik on guitars, loops & fx, and Dave De Rose on bass & fx.
Recorded by Dimitris Staikopoulos at Electricity Sound Studio, mixed & mastered by Dave De Rose at KK38, and filmed & edited by Nefeli Papaioannou.

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Exclusive Premiere: Rave At Your Fictional Borders "National Phantom (live performance)"

Click here to check out Paul Hillery's 'We Are The Children Of The Sun' series on BBE - Available on Vinyl/CD/Digital https://bbemusic.com/artist/paul-hillery

Gather together beneath the sun as we journey through the rhythmic sands of time with a handpicked and commingled mix by Paul Hillery. Exclusive for BBE Music, it celebrates the release of their new compilation 'Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun'.  The mix is a deep dive into the 'We Are The Children Of The Sun' series and more. With a few specially selected tracks thrown in, it is a 2-hour trip through time and space. So dip your toes into crystal blue waters while the sound of trippy troubadours drift on a Balearic breeze. Tune in as we sail to joyful places and wide-open spaces while dropping out to a folk-funk pulse that connects us in shamanic shuffle. A reminder that we have more to connect than drive us apart. We are all made of stardust, for . . . 'Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun'  Paul Hillery, a heathen, conceivably, but not, we hope, an unenlightened one, is the man behind the acclaimed BBE series 'We Are The Children Of The Sun' and curator at 'Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours' with a knack for unearthing rare and previously lost gems. 

Tracklist :
1. In-Passing by Kimberle
2. Footprints by Carl & Joanne Barry
3. Wet Dreams by Floyd Hunchback Group
4. Summer Breeze by The Kureks
5. Come And Take Me By The Hand by Varela
6. Sunday Morning by Pixie Lauer
7. I Run Too by Peter Berkow & Friends
8. Flow by Gabriel Gladstar
9. Letters by Robin Woodland
10. Mojave by Hardin & Russell
11. Land of Wonder by Marla Fant
12. Do You Know by Douglas Penn
13. Be With Me by Pat Rahming
14. October Country by Michael McGinnis
15. Nowhere by Cy Timmons
16. Fields Of Green by Carm Mascarenhas
17. Coloured Butterfly by Inter-Groupie Psychotherapeutic Elastic Band
18. (There's) Always Something To Remind Me by Alejandro Bravo
19. Jasmim Parte 1 by Gabriel da Rosa
20. Woodstock by Robby Barnes
21. Guru by Shlomo Gronich, Shlomo Yidov & Shem Tov Levi
22. Just A Thought by Just Us
23. Vouloir by Jennifer Souza
24. Chocolate by Ana Frango Elétrico
25. Golden Hour by Aria Rostami
26. Cherry Blossom Oak by Christian Besa Wright
27. As The Day Grows Tired by Will & James Ragar
28. Nur Gitarre by Bescay + Jochen Schrumpf
29. The Shadows Dance by Graeme Gash
30. Over & Over by Andy Davis
31. More Than Hope by Wendy Grace
32. If Life Was A Ferris Wheel by Mark Capanni

Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun & More Mix by Paul Hillery

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Featuring new music coming out on BBE Music from Iman Houssein, Sampology and Sarathy Korwar, Jeff Higgins ran 2 hours of soulful selections.

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Sweet Nothings w/ Jeff Higgins - June 2023

01.Soapbox Soliloquy/Speakers Corner Quartet

02.Father Sky/Jerk

03.SUN WILL RISE(DETROIT VERSION EXTENDED)/PIRAHNAHEAD & DIVINITI

04.Let Me (Demo Mix)/A Vision Of Panorama ft.Sykes
05.
Star Child Going Home/MJ Lallo

06.This Feeling (Mochi Men, Young Pulse & ATN remix)/Kyoto Jazz Massive

07.Substream/Echoes Of A New Dawn Orchestra

08.We Got The Power (Emma-Jean Thackray Remix)/Joel Holmesy

09.Phantazia/Noel Pointer

10.Uthinina/Sipho Gumede
11.
Never Gonna Give You Up (Jura Soundsystem Special Version)/Shiva

RADIO.D59B / NAKAMA #36 w/ Shuya Okino

Sonar Kollektiv was founded in 1997 by Jazzanova. Designed as a platform for own releases it soon attracted numerous new discoveries and like-minded musicians to lead their trumps right here. Still it was never the intention of Sonar Kollektiv to pursue one specific sound or provide an already existing scene. Each and every release on the label (450 and counting) was at all times meant to illustrate the musical taste of the collective, its flavourful development and recollection of past sounds. The various compilations and label showcases played a big part of it. From the renowed „Secret Love“ compilation (No. 6 will be released these days), the „Computer Incarnations For World Peace“ edition, the  „...Boadcasting“ and „....Mixing“-series to the „Romanian Jazz“ label showcase Sonar Kollektiv continuously cares about broadening its own and the horizon of any type of music lovers. How broad this horizon can be expanded showed the release of Âme’s „Rej“ in 2005. Shorthandly minimal techno was redifined and at the same time the sublabel Innervisions (runned by Dixon) was leveraged to worldwide fame. Other milestones in the eventful history of Sonar Kolletiv were the discovery of the New Zealand reggae soul combo Fat Freddy’s Drop (2005), the debuts by Micatone (2003), Benny Sings (2005), Clara Hill (2003) and Eva Be (2004), the first releases by Dimlite (2003), Tricksi (2006), Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson (2007), as well as Georg Levin (2005) and his collaborative project with Dixon, Wahoo (2004). Also for some of today’s legends of more sophisticated electronic music, like Ulrich Schnauss, Ben Klock and Marcin Kozlowski (now a member of Whitest Boy Alive) Sonar Kollektiv offered a stepping stone to their international careers. And in 2003 a certain Eric Wahlforss released his first record here, just before founding Soundcloud.

When at the end of 2009 the rate of fire ceased some thought the label is running on empty or lost touch to contemporary sounds. But the releases of this year so far should prove doubters wrong. The remix album „Jazzanova Upside Down“ (released in January) gathers the who’s who of the currenty most happening and game-changing DJs and producers (Henrik Schwarz, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Filippo Moscatello, Manuel Tur, Mark E, and more) to catapult Jazzanova classics into the future. By signing Phil Gerus from Moscow, the new project Hot Coins out of the UK, EnaWadan from South Africa and the pan-Geman duo Paskal & Urban Absolutes four of the most promising new acts slantingly offside the dancefloor have been added to the already impressive roster. And once again all true pop aficionados with an addiction for soul and a genuine craft in songwriting are pierced to the heart with the brand new albums by FETSUM („The Colors Of Hope“) and Micatone („Wish I Was Here“).

But what is the formula of success of the Berlin based label? A dance music imprint that – with a few exceptions – actually doesn’t release club music? Is it even after all exactly this? Delievering music for prior to, succeeding and one day after a club night?

There’s no other German record label that can boast such an adventurous range of styles: reggae, folk, electronica, jazz, funk, calypso, house, techno and now also chillwave, dubstep, dream pop, and so on. At Sonar Kollektiv there’s somehow room for everything. Still, all of the 250 and counting releases have one common denominator: It’s music made out of passion - without any financial aim or attemps of ingratiation. From and for music lovers.

WAAN - KinK

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