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BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Freedom Fables

Morning Light (feat. Ria Moran)

from you (prod. velvet)

This Love

04 Yaw - Where Would You Be

FSX-024:  Charlotte Dos Santos - Cleo
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Written & performed by Charlotte Dos Santos
Produced by Fredfades
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert for Almachrome

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Charlotte Dos Santos "Watching You"

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Yussef Dayes x Alfa Mist (feat. Mansur Brown) - Love Is The Message

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Show Me What You Got (feat. Jordan Rakei)

Joomanji - Where Are You ? (Love for JL)- Lindsay Olsen - Copasetic

Yo-Ville! Time to clap your hands and leap up and down, as another Allergies Podcast makes it’s way from us to you. 
On the jam-packed show this month we have afro raps, disco edits, and a fine slice of gospel house - All designed to make you feel as good as gold, and twice as bold. 
Plus, we open up the “House Party” doors and invite our extremely special guest, Skratch Bastid, over to hang out and chat it up - Before letting him loose on the turntables for a next-level DJ set. 
Trust us. You’re not gonna wanna miss this one. Let’s go!

Episode #42 (with guest Skratch Bastid)

This time around we got the Funkin Basstards digging into the Funkin’ Rhapsody for this 60 minute Power hours mix. 

Should get you head nodding to get you in the spirit for the holiday season. 

Tracklist:
01.(INTRO)
02.Dynamo Productions - Think
03.Lack of Afro - Pista 9
04.Black Grass - Bang(Turn it out)
05.Thievery Corportion - Unified Tribes Feat. Mr. Lif
06. BadboE &Tom Showtime - We Funk Tings
07. Sola Rosa - I've Tried Ways Feat. Serocee
08.Flow'etic ft. Akil The MC - Funk'd Up
09. Ancient Astronauts - Classic (with The Pharcyde)
10. Chali_2na_Krafty_Kuts_-_Guard_The_Fort_(feat_Lyrics_Born___Gift_Of_The_Gab)
11. Chinese Man - Get Up
12. The Herbaliser - Just Won't Stop
13. Mako & The Hawk (feat. Chima Anya) - Strut Your Stuff
14. Kill Emill - Appreciation to the mic w_ Billa Qause,J.Melik & Elephant Phinix 15.K-Lab - Good Juju feat. Melodownz
16. The Funk Hunters & Chali 2na -Word To Spread feat. Tom Thum
(Funkin'Basstards Remix)
17.The Allergies - Remedy (feat. Dr Syntax)
18. Ugly Duckling - Elevation
19. Breakestra - Family Rap
20. FK5 - Insight (Nextmen Remix) 
21. EVeryman - People in the Front(Funkin' Basstards remix) 
22. Protassov feat, The Jungle Brothers -Cruise Control
23. Nickodemus Sun Children (feat. The Real Live Show)
24. Dj Format - vicious battle raps Feat Abdominal 
25. Kenny Beeper,MC Shureshock,Snuze - Freefall (Pecoe Remix) 
26. Boca 45 - We're Right Here feat. The Good People
27.The Architect - Design Of The Future feat Dizzy Dustin (Ugly Duckling)

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BBP Power Hour Episode #61 - Mixed by Funkin Basstards (Nov 2020)

Tracklisting :
1. R3V3S - Everybody (Original Mix) [Moiss Music Black]
2. Makito - One More Time  [Large Music]
3. Ivan Jack - Jelly Bean [NUDISCO]
4. Saison - We Are The Machines  [No Fuss Records]
5. DJ Linus - Quel Spectacle  [Piston Recordings]
6. Ces - Cassette [No Fuss Records]
7. Saison - Something Made Me (Werkshy Instrumental) [No Fuss Records]
8. Kim Kemi - Dark Rum & Umbrellas [Variation Records]
9. Gorge - Erotic Soul (2020 Rework) [8Bit]
10. Husky, Mr. V - We Rave Tonight (Extended) [Bobbin Head Music]
11. Tevo Howard feat. Tracey Thorn - Without Me (Marcus Worgull dub - Dixon Edit)

Les 4 saisons du Bastidon - Autumn Mix - Radio Meuh

recorded live on twitch.tv/selecta720: november 23 2020.
playlist to follow.

Selecta LIVE 5-Hour All-Jazz Twitch Session-November 23 2020

CHANCE TO SAY MY PIECE Feat MARCUS GILMORE

International Booking: James.Wright@unitedtalent.com 
US Booking: karl@windishagency.com

Management: 
Vincent Bennett
vincent@secondsonproductions.com

CHANCE TO SAY MY PIECE Feat MARCUS GILMORE

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