Unreleased Miami boogie and deep soul from the vault fo Teddy Studstill. Mixed and mastered from the original session tapes recorded in the early eighties. Terrestrial Funk ties back to their first release with this Miami magic. Teddy Studstill, an unsung hero of South Florida who played guitar on Lang Cook's 'She's Hot With 2,000 Watts' unearths these timeless tunes he wrote four decades ago. Accompanied by Miami legends Luke Jasmin on the keys and vocalist Harris Mazyck. We're grateful Teddy has brought these tracks to light and now the world can finally indulge in their delight.

out september 2021
presales available at www.terrestrialfunk.com

[TF007] Teddy Studstill - I Wanna Be With You / There Comes A Time (previews)

Coral Morphologic is the brainchild of Jared McKay and Colin Foord. A mending of minds, the arts, science, and the sea. Their lab in Miami lies close to the Florida Reef just offshore; the third largest coral barrier reef system in the world. This album composed by Jared echoes the voice of the reef. A reflection of its cosmic connection to our moon. A departure from the earth into deep space. We often wonder what intelligent life exists outside of our own aquatic world. Look and listen to the synchronous celestial satellites and the endless love song they sing.

LP/Cassette/CD available at www.terrestrialfunk.com

[TF008] Coral Morphologic - Coral Morphologic 1 (preview)

Silk Road has birthed a lot of light hearted energy and enjoyment from everyone listening to it around the world. But the energy in the Armenian community has been so heavy over the past year with the perpetuation of cultural erasure. This is not only at the genocidal hands of Azerbaijan and Turkey but also within Armenia’s own government. Darone and I have both felt a lot of weight with the Silk Road release to use it as a platform to lift up the Armenian people’s voice. Through our conversation here, I hope to share with our audience Darone's thoughts on what will deepen understanding of the current state of Armenia in 2022 and how the events of 2020 set this dark shift in Armenian history.

FULL INTERVIEW HERE---> https://terrestrialfunk.com/blogs/news/darone-sassounian-rocky-hill-mix-interview

Darone Sassounian (Rocky Hill) ~ TFunk Mix Series 003

Jared McKay is half of the Miami based exploration initiative Coral Morphologic. For the past 15 years Jared and Colin Foord have studied the forms of marine invertebrates and reflected that through a symbiosis of science and the arts. They grow and film coral in their lab. Utilizing their cutting edge footage and manipulating time to open our perspective of marine biology. By speeding up these processes before our eyes, these sedentary creatures come to life, moving and engaging with their environment. While their lab work provides incredible insight, their work extends to the natural environment off Miami’s shores as well as the intersection of urban development and the sea. Seeing how coral adapts to the ever expanding artificial structures of the city provides a unique view of the future and how coral may pioneer as we continue to encroach on marine habitats. 

We recently released Jared’s album Coral Morphologic 1 which serves as a magical accompaniment to visions of an underwater world. The sound he’s developed as a musician truly reflects the sea. It’s almost as if he’s captured the language of coral.

FULL INTERVIEW HERE---> https://terrestrialfunk.com/blogs/news/j-d-mckay-coral-morphologic-mix-interview

Tracklist:

Ana Roxanne - It's A Rainy Day On The Cosmic Shore
Laurie Spiegel - Three Sonic Spaces 1
Eduard Artemiev - Music from the 'Stalker' Soundtrack
Brian Eno & Roger Eno - Drift
Aphex Twin - qu 1
Luz Oscura - Liberar
Robert Turman - Flux 3
Bernard Parmegiani - Mouvement 4
Lucette Bourdin - Ocean
Coral Morphologic - Endless Love (Choral Version)
Caterina Barbieri - Gravity That Binds

J.D. McKay (Coral Morphologic) ~ TFunk Mix Series 004

Hypnophobia is the bleep fueled beginning to a six release series from Dan Piu on Terrestrial Funk. Recorded from 1993 to 2021, the 27 tracks pose a reflection on the relativity of time. Exploring our connection between then and now, all that came before, and what is still to come. Each release will be accompanied by a foldout poster featuring oil paintings of city skylines at different points in time, all painted by Dan Piu himself. We start in present day London.

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[TF009] Dan Piu - Hypnophobia EP (previews)

It’s the new millennia. We find ourselves outside the Packard Plant in Detroit. Inside dancers coalesce on the work floor of another decaying American metropolis. Part two of Terrestrial Funk’s six part series with Dan Piu brings us to the year 2000.  Four more tracks from the three decade compendium with nods to contemporaries like the late great James Stinson. Astral ancestors on celestial highways.

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[TF010] Dan Piu - Astral Flights EP (previews)

Our first release is a reissue of the ultra rare Miami funk LP, Lang Cook's 'She's Hot With 2,000 Watt's'. We've been working closely with Lang on this release and aside from officially licensing the music, we've produced both a music video and full length interview with Lang Cook, the original guitarist Teddy Studstill, Miami soul legend Willie Clarke, and Andrew 'Le Spam' Yeomanson. The album is Lang's sole body of work, only preceded by a 7" single of one of the included tracks 'Chocolate Stuff'. The synth heavy record was certainly ahead of it's time. Miami's own TK Records turned down the release and when Lang's girlfriend at the time, Bo Griffin, played 'Chocolate Stuff' on WEDR, the station's manger busted in asking "What is this chocolate shit?!" A deeply passionate musician, Lang poured his heart and soul out through his own vocals, the Fender Rhodes, Roland SH-2000, bass, and guitar. On the majority of the tracks he played and overdubbed every instrument but the drums. This individual expression is clear throughout the album as Lang lends a unique style and approach to the recording process. The only track that really takes in another voice is 'Chocolate Stuff' which had it's disco ecstasy guided by the wise mind of guitarist Teddy Studstill. We're so grateful to have the opportunity to found our label on this fantastic music as it guides us to a slew of exciting releases ahead.

[TF001] Lang Cook - She's Hot With 2,000 Watts (full album)

Terrestrial Funk's second release takes us across the Atlantic Ocean from Miami, Florida to the shores of Accra, Ghana. We welcome Ghanian legends Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor with a reissue of their 1984 self-titled album.  As spiritual as it is danceable, the LP has been hidden in obscurity compared to the duos other records, yet houses some of their deepest cuts. Pat's voice and Ebo's guitar have earned them widely successful solo careers that continue to give. Here their instruments meet as the heart and soul of Ghana.

[TF002] Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor (previews)

Terrestrial Funk's third release brings us back to our home state of Florida. Traveling time to the year 1979 we find ourselves on the Gulf Coast in a city called Sarasota. Sal Garcia leads Omni, the resident band at the Columbia,  a Spanish restaurant operating in the city since the turn of the century. Sal and his band look to record a single ironically called Disco Sucks but the restaurant isn't willing to fund a record with the word 'sucks' in it, so the band changes the track title to 'Disco Socks'. The song is a disco odyssey with driving drums, ethereal flutes, playful lyrics, and a synth solo for the gods. On the b side there's a little latin number called 'Sarasota (Que Bueno Esta)'. An ode to their city, the song praises Sarasota for its beautiful women and precious beaches. Sal is still living his dream playing at piano bars in the city. He was kind enough to work with us on this release and we're grateful to share more Florida music with the world.

[TF003] Omni - From The Bottom Of My Heart (Disco Socks) / Sarasota (Que Bueno Esta)

Dan Piu kicks off the Terrestrial Funk Mix Series in tandem with an interview for the launch of our new blog on www.terrestrialfunk.com.

FULL INTERVIEW HERE---> https://terrestrialfunk.com/blogs/news/dan-piu-interview

Dan Piu ~ TFunk Mix Series 001

Switzerland’s capital Bern is home to Varia Instruments, the company behind our favorite dj mixer, the RDM20. Simon Schär is one of the two brains behind Varia Instruments and is also part of the duo Frank Spirit. He recorded this second instillation of the Terrestrial Funk Mix Series on the RDM40 rotary mixer prototype in tandem with an interview for our new blog on www.terrestrialfunk.com.

FULL INTERVIEW HERE---> https://terrestrialfunk.com/blogs/news/frank-spirit-varia-instruments-mix-interview

Frank Spirit (Varia Instruments) ~ TFunk Mix Series 002

DMX Krew has made millions of booties move to the beat since the early nineties. His string of albums on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex spanning 1996-2005 helped define uk electro and breaks on dancefloors around the world. For almost thirty years he’s tirelessly pumped out a myriad of incredible electronic programming through many labels including his own. Terrestrial Funk humbly welcomes Ed DMX’s new album ‘Ghost Bubbles’ as the fourth release on our catalog following a string of boogie, highlife, and disco records. From Miami, Florida, to Accra, Ghana to the Gulf Of Mexico, and now to the Celtic Sea’s channels off Britain’s west coast. Ghost Bubbles is a thirteen track journey perpetuating DMX Krew’s synthesized sound waves around the globe. Terrestrial Funk, Universal Love.

[TF004] DMX Krew - Ghost Bubbles (previews)

Rave is king. Oozing out of 1995 into the year 2020, Terrestrial Funk awakens Airpeople’s 7 Deadlies to a dystopian future in need. Otherworldly electro on the A and a highly hypnotic techno tune on the B. Cerebral breakdowns and absolute relentlessness. This hi nrg 12” pushes the tfunk catalog further into the unknown after a string of rarity reissues from old Miami, Ghana, Sarasota, and a grand new DMX Krew album.

[TF005] Airpeople - 7 Deadlies (previews)

Terrestrial Funk’s sixth release explores over a decade of Armenian disco, funk, and soul. Compiled by Darone Sassounian who spent three years tracking down the records and artists; fulfilling a calling to lift his people’s voice, a people that have always faced the threat of erasure. The music was made a generation after the Armenian Genocide, a testament to perseverance. The seven tracks featured are incredibly inventive and unique in their interpretations of these Western seventies sounds. This compilation comes at an urgent time as 2020 set the stage for Azerbaijan and Turkey to perpetuate genocidal rhetoric as they invaded Armenian borders and bombed civilian cities eventually resulting in the loss of lives and land stewarded for millennia. All while the western world paid little notice. It is with great gratitude and purpose that Terrestrial Funk rebirths this music and uplifts the voice of the Armenian Diaspora.

Out February 2021
Discounted presales available at www.terrestrialfunk.com

[TF006] Silk Road: Journey of the Armenian Diaspora 1971-1982 (previews)

Terrestrial Funk aims to birth and perpetuate timeless music through the ages. Our catalog connects a global audience through expressive, emotive, and invigorating sounds. Music is the most powerful tool man has harnessed--through it, we all can speak a universal language. It is this deep human emotion that is conveyed in our releases. A yearning for true freedom.

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