Test Mastering Nose

Thirteen years after winning Starter talent scouting contest (Radio Wave), Yogi Rulez continues magic recording studio games balancing between downtempo and electronic jazz based on a fusion of double bass, rhodes piano and vibraphone mixed with fresh chillout grooves.

Everything bad is good for something. The lockdown caused by the COVID-19 epidemic created time and space to complete the sound work on the EP record, which I have been working on since 2019. Let me introduce you new musical genre called "lockdowntempo".

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released October 28, 2020

Composed, mixed and mastered by Yogi Rulez.
Artwork photo by Chewbi Douwawa (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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FREE DOWNLOAD LINK - https://mimmmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mimm-exploration-compilation

Artwork by Swell (Mimm Collective)

Mimm Exploration Compilation

After a refurbishment, lick of paint and a re-opening it’s time for Mimm to have a stretch, limber up and round up where they are musically. Their first compilation for over two years shows the journey deeper into the world of electronic soul music, slowed down tempos and doped-out beatsmiths which they have taken.

Mimm have drawn from their talented international collective with fresh dubplates from the likes of in-house producers Congi, Philippe Edison, Metske, Saulya, Warren Xclnce, Mos Isley, Pete Beardsworth, H725, Bruises and Melo Zed. As well as having a few select cuts from internationally acclaimed producers who have graced their events over the past years from Lone (R&S), Om Unit (Cosmic Bridge), Quest (Deep Medi), Flako, Submerse (Project Mooncircle) and Kaelin Ellis (Florida).

It’s an eclectic and brave offering with a general sound that leans heavily on ambient and psychedelic hip hop and house, drenched in warm analogue colours, nostalgic samples and soulful melodies, all the while with a keen awareness of more subtle classical compositions. Throughout there’s a distinct flavour of smoked whiskey-bar jazz riffs grounded in a gritty UK, bass-heavy setting and as musical round-ups go, for Mimm, this is definitely a coming of age compilation.

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Melo Zed – When In Rome (FREE DOWNLOAD)

in 2010 whilst living in NYC dego worked with Bedstuy's Spec Boogie. Here is one of those collaborations featuring Nicky Guiland, Che Grand and Mr Tatham. 

Solid Gold - Spec Boogie

Jazz-indebted, soulful broken-beat workings from the @22amusic affiliate, Dennis Ayler, new on his own Dennis Ayler Music imprint, featuring @tenderlonious.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/01/24/premiere-denis-ayler-feat-tenderlonious-nobody-but-u/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/nobody-but-u

Nobody But U

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Dennis Ayler feat. Tenderlonious - Nobody But U (STW Premiere)

Dear Summer, I decided to do another beat-a-day project.

These are the results of the last week (+ two days). Can't believe how fast this month passed. 

Follow me on Instagram for daily beats instagram.com/dkhgh/

Hear last year's beats here: soundcloud.com/dukehugh/sets/beataday-2016-1
Hear 2015's beats here: soundcloud.com/dukehugh/sets/beataday

Beataday 2017 Week 4

Snippets from Dego & Kaidi's LP 'A So We Gwarn'

available in 2LP, CD, Cassette, & Digital formats @ soundsignature.net

Me Soon Come

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Premiere: Ty - Somehow Somewhere Someway (Kaidi Tatham Remix)

Native Londoner Dego returns to his own 2000 Black imprint with his third full-length album ‘Too Much’ - due for release early September 2019. The eagerly-awaited album features thirteen of Dego’s forward-thinking and genre-defying musical experimentations that touch on elements of soul, funk, jazz, R&B and boogie, and feature an impressive selection of guest singers, songwriters and musicians.

Our pick for the premiere is the silky smooth and blissfully soulful opening track ‘Strong Move For Truth’ which features longtime 2000 Black collaborator Nadine Charles on vocals. Check it!

Check the full feature on Off The Record: bit.ly/degopremiere
Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/dego-toomuch

Phonica Premiere: Dego - A Strong Move For Truth Ft. Nadine Charles [2000 BLACK]

jazzbois 。 is the self titled EP from one of Hungary's most exciting jazz outfits to emerge in recent years. 

Comprising of core members Bencze Molnar & Tamas Czirjak, 'Jazzbois' is 5 tracks deep rooted in the realms of jazz & broken beat but also drawing heavy inspiration from hip-hop,disco,funk,beats and beyond. . .

Pre-Order the LP through our Bandcamp / HHV Records
or digitally on all other platforms here > > > https://jazzbois.lnk.to/jb

Jazzbois

jazzbois - bois

Killer dancefloor business from Tru Thoughts that should appeal to fans of house, broken beat and Brazilan jazz funk legends Azymuth.

The lead-single from France via Brussels, Nicolas Morant (Nikitch) and Eduoard Gilbert (Kuna Maze), collaborative album 'Debuts' (out 3rd July). "Hey, This Must Be Deep" meshes broken beat with Brazillian funk and is a homage to the words spoken by Gil Scott-Heron at his legendary one-man shows.

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Débuts’ (out 3rd July) is France-via-Brussels duo, Nikitch & Kuna Maze’s aka Nicolas Morant & Edouard Gilbert’s first full-length album. Building on their collaborative EP “Mush”, ‘Débuts’ continues to explore the melting point between jazz and club culture, interspersed with the signature sounds of broken beat, Chicago footwork, UK garage, Detroit house, and underpinned by their road-tested new live format. 

‘Débuts’ is fronted by lead-single “Hey, This Must Be Deep” (out 23rd April), a track that evolves from a string-synth soundscape intro into a bruk swung-groove, with a firm nod towards Brazilian jazz/funk. The title of the single is a homage to the words spoken by jazz-poet Gil Scott-Heron at one of his legendary one-man shows.

The collaboration project between musician Nicolas Morant aka Nikitch and Brussels-based producer Edouard Gilbert aka Kuna Maze began when the duo met at the Chambery Jazz Conservatory in France. Before attending university to study jazz, both artists had trained in classical music while growing up in the Lyon countryside. 

‘Débuts’ see’s the band push their musical and creative development even further, a result of touring extensively around Europe with a live drummer, from high-brow jazz festivals to sweaty basement clubs. “We would be lying if we said our gig experience didn’t influence us on this record” Edouard explains. “We discovered new aspects to songs such as “Bruk” and managed to push forward the energy side of the music from the rawness of the live shows. This energy empowered to produce and compose new material in the same vein”.

Featuring standout tracks from their EP “Mush”, such as the vibrant jazz-funk explosion “ZBRA”, broken beat revivalist anthem “Bruk”, downtempo and spoken words snippets of “JPS”, the frantic footwork and juke influences in “The Leak”, and soul-saturated “CBD”, it’s perhaps the newer material where the band begins to move beyond some of the aesthetical frontiers that they had in their creative path. 

“We sung on “Francis’ Theme” which is something we would have completely not dared to do before” explains Edouard. The risk pays off. Tracks such as “46 Rue Du Fort” and “Monopoli Driver” tie the feelings of shared experiences at geographical locations to the music itself. A frantic taxi driver in the Italian village of Monopoli is cemented into the footwork frenzy of “Monopoli Driver’, “46 Rue Du Fort” is address of the rehearsal space in Brussels, and “Francis’ Theme” is simply a soundtrack dedicated to Edouard and Nicolas, the Francis’ boys – a nickname given to the duo by their drummer. 

Musically influenced by the likes of Theo Parrish’s Signature Sound imprint, Moodymann, Idris Muhamad and International Anthem’s signee Resavoir, the duo take inspiration in the creative process of producers such as Max Graef and Glenn Astro. Nikitch & Kuna Maze channel their instrumental skills to create compositions using their common chemistry; blurring the lines between improvisation, production and the art of DJing. All these aspects become the creative DNA for the duo and become a catalyst in the music itself. “It is the approach to the craft” Nicolas says.

Support & Praise: Gilles Peterson, Tom Ravenscroft, Nemone, Lauren Laverne (BBC 6Music), CoOp, Lefto, Laurent Garnier, Toshio Matsuura (Worldwide FM), Tim Garcia, Tony Minvielle (Jazz FM), Nightmares on Wax, FACT Mag, XLR8R, Mixmag France, Le Mellotron, Trax, Music is My Sanctuary, Solid Steel, Majestic Casual +

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Exclusive Premiere:  Nikitch & Kuna Maze "Hey, This Must Be Deep" (forthcoming on Tru Thoughts)

Sound Signature: A symbol or icon defined by things heard. No sound is wrong. No sound is too elusive to escape arrangement, one's signature.

Sound Signature: An event, emotion, or feeling described by sound, but not limited to it. Expression given a direction. A focus through arrangement, our personal language at any given moment. No one can duplicate your signature, your mark, your life.

The difference between imitation and emulation is specific experience. No one else has walked your path, lived your vision.

There is no right or wrong way, only different ways as there are different people. We will learn reverence from each other through expressing our symbols, our hieroglyphs. This is my attempt to share mine.

Theo Parrish
Detroit 1997

Me Soon Come

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