Arad Yeini - Trumpet  || Ma'ayan Milo - Trombone || Gal Dahan - Saxophone || Ilan Smilan - Guitar || Lior Romano - Bass (Keytar) || Dan Mayo - Drums || Galla Borowski - Vocal

Recorded at  "DB Studios", Tel-Aviv, Israel
Mixed by Uri "Mixmonster" Wertheim
2011

Crazy Race (Roy Hargrove)

Keys: Don Pi 
Bass: Ronaldo Nascimento 
Perc.: Vanni Calasans
Guitar/ Voc: Martin Hillmann 

Hamburg 2014

Azymuth´s " Last Summer in Rio "  ( automart re-edit)

Paying respect to an all time fave artist...Alice Coltrane- Stopover Bombay..slightly on the broken tip!!

Alice Coltrane- Stopover Bombay (We Are The Horsemen Re-Edit)

After one year from the tribute to Yusef Lateef which has had a great feedback, the Beatfonics Crew is ready to release another tribute. 
This time the Crew is ready to challenge the great Lonnie Liston Smith and his unmistakable smooth jazz sound. 
After a long research through vinyls and records, The Beatfonics Crew give honor to Lonnie Liston Smith reinterpretating his sound with dope drums, fat bass lines and leads in a brand new key. Everything considering the essence, the trademark, the HipHop culture that connects the whole Crew. 
The beat's swing will bring you in a cosmic sound's world that just Smith's Fender Rhodes, piano and keyboards can communicate 
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Dopo un anno dall'omaggio a Yusef Lateef, che ha riscontrato un seguito positivo nella discografia della crew, i Beatfonics ci provano con un nuovo tribuito. 
Questa volta si mettono in gioco con Lonnie Liston Smith, che ha fatto dello smooth jazz la chiave di ogni singola produzione. 
Scelti i migliori samples, i Beatfonics rendono onore a Lonnie Liston Smith, reinterpretando il suo suono con batterie ecclettiche, giri di "fat bass" e leads in chiave moderna, senza tralasciare l’essenza, il marchio e la cultura HipHop che unisce i membri della Crew. 
Lo swing dei beats trasporta lentamente in un mondo fatto di suoni cosmici, che solo le note del Fender Rhodes, del piano e delle tastiere di L. L. Smith possono trasmettere.
credits
released 20 December 2014 

• FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/thebeatfonics 

• Cover design by Gianluca Renga: 
www.facebook.com/GRArtworks 

• VIDEO TEASER : www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9An205WCE 
by Sup Nasa : www.facebook.com/supnasamusic 

• Mastering by JP Balboa 


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"I love The Expansions their futuristic leanings inject new life into the form. Fresh material!" Ian Merchant (Black Acre)

“Exudes all the qualities I cherish most in music, warmth, integrity and a dedication to the groove… it’s a hard road to travel when you step in the footprints of giants, The Expansions are treading that path with ease and assurance.” Patrick Forge
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When The Expansions self released their first single in 2013, the laid-back jazz funk of Lavender, it quickly gained strong support from soul and rare-groove aficionados including Kenny Dope, Dom Servini, Patrick Forge and Andy Smith. A run of shows followed and before long, when someone was asking if there was a soul-jazz band around to play with, “The Expansions” was the answer. 

Although this popularity meant a hiatus in releasing music, the band have been constantly busy, playing around Europe with legendary British-Ghanaian soul singer, Andrew Ashong and the exceptional, upcoming talent Connie Constance. 

But always, The Expansions has remained a central focus and the true home of these four jazz and soul lovers, with occasional trips out to the country to form ideas and practice new music for the eventual album. 

Murmuration, recorded over three days at Big Noise in Southend, is constructed of single takes, with minimal overdubs, as the band attempt to capture the feeling and energy they create live. 

Debut single Breakthrough introduced the insanely catchy but deeply soulful blend of synths and groove, but here on the album that is explored to the fullest with longer breakdowns and more expansive, experimental solos. Pocket 5 displays the, possibly unexpected, influences of broken beat and almost combative rhythm playing – particularly in the complex guitar and keys breakdown where Koor and O’Keefe layer conflicting time signatures and battle to ride it out to the heavy drum return. 

Cannonball brings warm mellowness that delicately evolves through beats, touching on bossas alongside their fundamental hip-hop sensibilities. But even here there is a raucous zenith before the band sublimely recede into the silence of the a-side ending. 

Colossal album highlight Ivory Mountain is truly an epic. Evoking moments of 4Hero, there is a lightness of groove in the first half of this soulful exploration. But at the halfway point, all restraint is let go as a live string section joins the four quarters of the band for three glorious minutes of soulful disco. Evoking sounds of Quincy Jones, George Benson and Johnny Hammond, all the way through to a beautifully cacophonous finale. 

Dragonfly undoubtedly reflects on the work of Herbie Hancock and is the most direct throwback to the band’s earlier work, which is a welcome marker of how far they have come. A quintessential jazz funker. 

The album closes with the thoughtful and introverted shuffle of Miles Away. In the final eight minutes of Murmuration, The Expansions allow space and time to take precedence, with once-more-restrained peaks and developments. It becomes clear though, that the band cannot resist one last explosive finale, as they rise with screeching synths, strings and dubs for a perfect race to the finish line. 

You can hear the influences of Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington, even parallels with South London peers Yussef Kamaal and Ruby Rushton. But The Expansions have tirelessly worked to create a sound of their own and are very proud, along with label Albert’s Favourites, to finally share it.

Cannonball (Murmuration Preview)

The Expansions - Cannonball (Radio Edit)

What would happen if you lock up a bunch of producers and musicians from different backgrounds into a studio complex for several days and give them complete creative freedom to record whatever they like? 

This is the question that music label INI Movement asked themselves. They decided to set up an experiment in their own studio complex in Haarlem. They invited a varied group of artists consisting of several members of brass band Gallowstreet, Rilan & The Bombardiers, Umoja & Pitch Controller Mitch. 

Guests that stopped by include Freshy Jazz and members of The Mauskovic Dance Band. The above mentioned contributors have helped each other with their personal projects but have never recorded in such a 'supergroup jam session type setting' where there was no directive style to the project. It could be seen as a collaboration in the style of supergroups like Soulquarians, Native Tongue or Odd Future. 

The result is a blend of different genres where the styles, tastes & speciality of each contributor meet. This is displayed in the tracks 'Berimbao' and 'Crappy Samba' where Umoja, best known for their tropical tracks and edits, is backed up with live recorded brass sections by members of Gallowstreet. Or Pitch Controller Mitch 
(formerly known as DJ for the group Pete Philly & Perquisite) not only contributing as producer, but also experimenting with his own vocals on 'Give It To Ya' & ‘A Star Is Born’. Also Rilan (lead singer of Rilan & The Bombardiers) can be heard on several songs including ‘Put Yo Feet Up Off The Wall’ where he complements the Disco & Funk drenched track with his raw vocal appearance. 

The young and talented multi-instrumentalist Lucas van Ee (Saxophonist in the group Gallowstreet) showcases himself as an established producer in many of the productions. 

The Collaboration 
Just like the collaboration between producers & musicians, collaborations have also taken place in the creation of the artwork (Photography by INDVDU edited in collages by visual artist Harm van Ee) and the creation of three music videos to be released along the way (one of which displays choreography by international dance phenomenon Roche Apinsa). The name Birdhouse is drawn from the nickname of INI's studio complex where this all went down. We dub this album 'Birdhouse Sessions Vol. 1' as an ode to this beautiful place that allows us to share our passion and experience complete creative freedom. One Love.

Recorded at Birdhouse Studios 
Mixed by Job André de la Porte & Lucas van Ee 
Artwork: Harm van Ee 
Photography: INDVDU

Birdhouse Sessions Vol.1

Birdhouse - Sunrise

All Back To: Nightmares on Wax

Caught in the Middle

Notorious B.I.G. x Sugar Free x Humpty Dance. Channeled the 90s on this like it was a lost remix or b-side. Created as part of the R.I.P. RAP monthly event in Chicago, IL presented by Ground Lift Media & Ms. Chicago.

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Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy (& Juicier) TREW edit


Taken from RKX043 VA - RECORD KICKS 10th CD | Digital. 21 tracks compilation with all RK hits, new singles and many exclusive brand new tracks.

www.recordkicks.com/index.php?/news…cord-Kicks-10th
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