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Dat García in the house

The musician and producer Dat Garcia, is set to release her third record, Las Fuerzas Almadas on April 1st 2022 via ZZK Records.

Recorded in her studio and hotel rooms on tour, these eleven tracks created with charangos, ronrocos, synthesizers and plenty of vocal effects, reflect the beauty of all that is transformed, from monstrosity understood as honesty, desire, authenticity, the heterogeneous versus the hegemonical. “That place of false comfort of local customs compared to the outer edges where the unique things that truly gratify us live.” It’s a cultural alert that brings new meaning to strength and power, reinterpreting them as the life energy of the movement and transformation.

A constant creator, feeling her way in the dark—she’s also designed costumes, scenographies and scripts for shows—Dat finds meaning in her works as she progresses, “trusting that my process will lead me to a new, unfamiliar place.”

So it is that Las Fuerzas Almadas—a name that came to her in a dream—comes across as a natural but developed consequence of her previous records: the debut Ermitaño Interior (2013) in which she created a work of introspection that led her to discover her “face as a healthy, happy-go-lucky person who covered up everything that was actually destroying me”; and its successor, Maleducada (2017), recorded in hospital during chemotherapy treatment, the result of understanding disease as a symptom of a scarce or zero emotional education: “Awakening a ‘me’ that was very obedient to being told what to do, always trying to please others at the expense of my own existence.”

Las Fuerzas Almadas is another step in the life game of discovering (yourself): “I don’t believe myself when I force myself to be someone else, I’m a slave to my mind. I’ve learned to be again,” she sings on “Todos Tienen Un Plan”. Dat crosses over atmospheres and genres to create catchy, danceable music with some dark edges. She observes reality like a radiant animal that went away to get to know itself and now knows how all its organs and muscles work, the hormones it produces, the neurons that are activated. “You can’t sneeze with your eyes open but I can recognize a perverse cover-up,” she says in “Ser Humano.” She communicates with cats better than with the “billions of people dancing in the dark,” but all the same she wants to take part in the transformation of the world: “Eradicating violent beliefs is this movement’s mission,” in “El Día Fuera del Tiempo.” A love song for the earth, a call to combat psychological apathy, the inertia of digital communication and reconstruct magical bonds with the everyday.

“I have a four-year-old daughter. While she’s growing up, I’m taking myself apart. One day she replied to me: ‘I don’t do that because I’m calm.’ We diagnosed her as a ‘calm girl,’ she believes it and acts accordingly. That’s how humanity lives. They declare in some way what we must be: poor, rich, mothers, doctors, losers. This syndrome of prefabricated beings affects us intimately. When do we discover and allow ourselves to be who we are? I want to be that monster that lets the chaos in. The chaos makes me peculiar and random and I allow it. I allow myself to be who I am and change as many times as it takes. If we artists are the historians and the faith healers of our time, this album sets out to take back words lost in mental battles and recover the power over us: the forces that have come with the souls in their hands.”

Dat García’s Las Fuerzas Almadas will be released April 1st 2022

Las Fuerzas Almadas

Dat Garcia -  Las Fuerzas Almadas

Bonus Extras from the "Ghetto Latin & Broken Ballroom" Album

x big thanks for keeping us top of the breaks charts since release x

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Skeewiff - Blue Crystal (Instrumental) ***FREE DL***

Pump Up The Sound feat. Bani Fyah (Professor Skank Remix)

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Pump Up The Sound Feat. Bani Fyah (Professor Skank Remix)

Mysterious top selector and producer Gazonade is back with a dazzling soulful vinyl selection, exclusive for the Asymetrics !

Don't miss the video version of the mix on our channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtkQcUcNkgA

& tracklist here: https://theasymetrics.com/blog/gazonade-chained-and-bound-to-your-love/

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Tracklist / Video

Asymetrics Present: Gazonade - Chained & Bound To Your Love

Brighton-based record collector Matty S delivers a  terrific vinyl mixtape full of uplifting and warming sounds from Africa via Brazil !

www.soundcloud.com/mattys

https://theasymetrics.com/blog/matty-s-africa-via-brazil/

*Tracklist:

    Bola Sete - Bettina (1971)
    Rosinha De Valença - Summertime (1971)
    Tim Maia - Imunização Racional (Que Beleza) (1974)
    Ana Mazzotti - Feel Like Making Love (1974)
    Bebeto - Neguinhio Poeta (1980)
    Astrud Gilberto - Black Magic (A Gira) (1987)
    Obina Shok - Sika (1986)
    Slim Young (Siaw Akyemfo) - Otan Hunu (1984)
    Siassia & Tokobina– Mama Africa (Year Unknown)
    Sam Fan Thomas - Poma (1985)
    Mac Gregor -  Nan Ye Li Kan (Year Unknown)
    Ghetto Blaster - Life Goes On (1985)

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Asymetrics Present: Matty S - Africa via Brazil

"La Musica No Se Muere" : forgotten Afro-Latin treasures from Guinea Conakry's Syliphone.

https://theasymetrics.com/blog/mikael-el-rojo-la-musica-no-se-muere/

Guinea Conakry has a rich musical history, especially after the country’s independence in 1958 which allowed decades of beautiful music to flourish across the country.

The Syliphone record label has allowed many talented orchestras to record their music, constituting now an invaluable cultural heritage.

Guinean Music is fantastic and clearly unique : a blend of traditional, West-African and Afro-Cuban music. 

Beyond their typically deep, funky and groovy music, Guinean orchestras have also played Latin music, covering Cuban songs the Guinean way. 

The result is breathtaking....

https://www.mixcloud.com/mikael_rouge_el_rojo/
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Asymetrics Present: Mikael El Rojo - La Musica No Se Muere

Part 3/4 of XOGN's Funk 45s galore !

Brussels friend XOGN's summer residency with Radio Bruzz (every other sunday until August)is a series devoted to golden oldies he just dug up at a flea market in one batch !

He was kind enough to share with the Asymetrics for the replay on Soundcloud... enjoy the grooves and stay tuned for the final part soon !

www.bruzz.be/radio/dj-xogn

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Asymetrics Present: XOGN - Flea Market Gems (Part 3)

Scorching hot summer vibes with Mr Valentin Walker !

DJ, Producer and Painter, Valentin operates a sound Caravan throughout France, and regularly showcases his art throughout the World under the moniker "Allias".

https://soundcloud.com/valentinwalker

https://valentinwalker.bandcamp.com/

https://www.valentinwalker.com/

https://www.allias-arts.com/

Asymetrics Present: Valentin Walker - Earth Groove

Rare find from Andre Langenfeld. Recorded live in Berlin on his Radioshow "Hip Hop Soundgarden" 25.03.2003 as promotion for my, back then, upcoming album "1973 * Recon". It features most of the original sources that i've used producing the album. Vinyl only of course!

1973 * Recon - Original Breaks Live Radio Minimix 2003

In this week’s Putumayo World Music Hour, Rosalie Howarth and Dan Storper are keeping it close to home by exploring world music here in North America, including Indigenous music and music from settlers of other cultures. 

Episode 24.50
Airdates: December 9th - December 15th, 2024

Featuring:
1. Sleepy Maggie - “Ashley MacIsaac with Mary Jane Lamond” (From the album “How Are You Today?” on Ancient Music)
2. Tupelo Honey - “Wayne Toups & Zydecajun” (From the album “Blast from the Bayou” on Polygram)
3. Melting Pot - “King Chango” (From the albums “Melting Pot” on Luaka Bop and “Mo’ Vida” on Putumayo)
4. If I Was Your Man - “Joan Osborne” (From the album “Righteous Love” on Interscope)
5. Queen Bee - “Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate” (From the album  “Kulajan” on Hannibal)
6. Stay In or Stay Out - Pass the Dutchie - “Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin’” (From the album “Zydeco” on Putumayo)
7. Wasuze Otya - “Samite” (From the album “Silina Musango” on Xenophile)
8. Sarita - “Subdudes” (From the album “Live, At Least” on World Cafe)
9. Fill it to the Brim - “Aine Minogue” (From the album “Circle of the Sun” on RCA)
10. Cumbia Raza - “Los Lobos” (From the album “This Time” on Hollywood)
11. Native American - “Little Steven/Bruce Springsteen” (From the album “Freedom No Compromise” on Capital)


North America

After a long break it's time for a new edition of the 'Afreaka' mixtape-series! With the fourth volume we celebrate the start of the new vinyl only record label called 'Matasuna Records'.
On the debut release 'Afreaka' (MSR001) you'll hear four stunning reworks from Voodoocuts (Berlin) and SoulBrigada (Zurich). Afrofunk & -disco at it's best! More info: https://soundcloud.com/matasunarecords

Listen & dl the previous Afreaka mixtapes:

• Vol. 1: https://hearthis.at/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-afreaka
• Vol. 2: https://hearthis.at/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-afreaka-vol-2
• Vol. 3: https://hearthis.at/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-afreaka-vol-3

Matasuna Records

SoulBrigada pres. Afreaka Vol. 4

Mix & Master: Hammond Classics
Artwork: Aris Zouras

Los Cuentos

Laterna

Drunken Foreigner Band plays an idiosyncratic electrified version of the Akha and Lam Lao musics of Thailand and Laos. As their name indicates in its provocatively self-deprecating way, the band could be viewed as yet another bunch of exotica-obsessed white males blindly pillaging a little known indigenous musical treasure. But far from being the work of post-colonial bandits, the band's passionate tribute is based on mostly vocal music learned from cassette tapes gathered by keyboardist Dave Kadden on trips to Southeast Asia. Comprising members of Sunwatchers, Invisible Circle and other experimental Brooklyn outfits, their debut LP will be available January 12th, 2018 on Electric Cowbell Records.

Farang Mao

70 Blocks

The Allergies - Sun Clap: Taken from Riddim Fruit's Cloudwatching Vol.2 album.

"The Riddim Fruit crew have come together again and thrown down another timeless compilation of upbeat downtempo tracks guaranteed to make y'all gaze into the skies and feel the vibes."

This track by The Allergies opened the comp, which features beats by Frenic, Cut La Viz, Roast Beatz and others...

Cop this one here, and the whole album on the Riddim Fruit Bandcamp site.


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Asymetrics Present: Gazonade - Chained & Bound To Your Love

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