“Back in America” is an introspective song about growing up in a country where we are constantly told that we are the best. That life is perfect here; that we understand everything better than everyone else. Only later to discover, after traveling and discovering the rest of the world, that it was all an illusion. There are still a lot of things that we are far from being the best at. American society is full of contradictions between our Puritanism and the corruption, violence, and poverty that reigns. It also talks about feeling like a stranger in your own country and in your own culture. “Back in America” is a long walk that examines the cracks and taboos which blight western society in general: racism, poverty, religion, and violence done in the name of Capitalism and God"

THE BUTTSHAKERS - Back In America

Badass digger https://soundcloud.com/armand_de_preseau drops an exclusive vinyl selection for the Asymetrics !
Rare grooves from Benin, Congo, Ghana, Lebanon, Madagascar, Togo and many more... for your listening pleasure 🔥

Don't miss Armand's interview with the Asymetrics: https://theasymetrics.com/blog/label-story-4-armand-de-preseau-nanga-boko-nubiphone/

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INTERVIEW

Asymetrics Present: Armand De Preseau - Traveling Grooves

Todd Simon & The Angel City All Star Brass Band - Sidama De Cali

Part 2/4 of XOGN's Funk 45s galore !

Brussels friend XOGN's summer residency with Radio Bruzz (every other sunday until August)sees its first episodes devoted to a batch of 45s gems he just dug up at a flea market !

He was kind enough to share with the Asymetrics for the replay on Soundcloud... enjoy the grooves and stay tuned for part 3 !

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Asymetrics Present: XOGN - Flea Market Gems (Part 2)

Last part of XOGN's exceptional series !

The Brussels-based legendary DJ rocked a summer residency with Radio Bruzz, for which he recorded this series devoted to golden oldies 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 play back the first 3 parts ! 

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Asymetrics Present: XOGN - Flea Market Gems (Part 4)

Various Artists - Footprints EP
Format: 12" vinyl sampler
Release date: March 17, 2014
All tracks taken from the forthcoming full-length album Footprints to be released on April 28 on CD & digital.
www.jazzandmilk.com

Jazz & Milk is back with a brand new compilation series featuring previously unreleased tracks by international label artists, friends & family! The 6 track "Footprints EP" offers a small foretaste of the forthcoming full-length compilation to be released in April 2014.

Footprints starts off with the heavy Afro-Funk vibes of the Bad Jazz Troupe, remixed by Jazz & Milk label-founder Dusty. Sam Irl from Vienna takes us on a journey of raw emotion. On "Time" he fed his MPC with filthy vinyl samples, jazzy rhodes chords, deep basslines and smooth synth-arppegios - all glued together on top of a driving House beat. "Sidama de Cali" is a 50/50 blend of Ethiopian and Colombian music by Todd Simon & The Angel City of All Star Brass Band featuring strictly horns and percussion - including Quantic on the guacharaca (colombian version of the guiro) and a 'who is who' of LA's music scene.

The B-side begins rather bass-heavy. On Dusty's "Cosmic Path" gliding synths and vibrant percussion float over a foundation of deep bass and slightly off-kilter beats. Russian talent Lay-Far delivers a soulful broken beat tune - "A Good Old Holiday Groove" draws obvious influence from mid 70's jazz. The EP concludes with the legendary Munich-based formation Karl Hector & The Malcouns. "Who's Foolin' Who?" was written by JJ Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers) and reflects his affinity for sounds from across the African diaspora.

Playlist:

Mark Walton Fretless - Cocaine
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin & Juice (Ross Go Remix)
Mel Brown - Chicken Fat
Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push (Ross Go Re-Funk)
Hyalyte - Move On Up (2021)
Grandmaster Flsh & Furious Five - The Message (Ross Go Remix)
Double A - Can You Hear Me Now (The Source Is Yours Edit)
Crash Party - Wild Shoop
DJ Tron - Hip Hop Hooray
Q-Tip - Breathe And Stop (Lebrosk's Jazzy Lounge Edit)
The Pharcyde - My Man
DJ Tron - Joint
DalPlatinum - Slick Footin'
Frans Beelaard - Groove & Move

Evva - In The Mix (March 2023)

Yoeko Kurahashi - The Sinking Town | Slowed + Daycore

First look at the recordings of Trinidadian tenor saxophonist Edmund "Johnny" Gomez 

Release date: Feb 29, 2016  Limited to 500 copies.
Limited. All Rights Reserved

Purchase here

Johnny Gomez And His Orchestra - Caribbean Hurricane

75 Dollar Bill
Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
Order: https://goo.gl/lgr7Iq

tak:til
a glitterbeat label
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The NYC based duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic, pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues, Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York.

“New York’s 75 Dollar Bill are an astonishingly potent next stage in an ongoing cultural exchange…magnificent; like a gnawa ritual that’s been convened by Junior Kimbrough.” – Uncut (75 Best Albums of 2016, #32)

“The instrumental duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown have been blowing minds on the East Coast live circuit with little more than an electric guitar and a wooden crate rhythm section.” – The Wire (Releases of the Year, #16)

"Gloriously mind-frying, ritualistic splatter of Zen blues and Arabic and African music-influenced riff-rock repetition that shows Brown and Chen expanding their lineup with sax, violin, bass and second guitar. The sound may be bigger with a sweeter shine yet it remains unmistakably 75 Dollar Bill: epically shambolic, thrifty and jazzy guitarscapes dripping of ecstatic hypnotism." 
– The Observer (The Best Experimental Albums of 2016 - So Far)

"It’s hard not to slip into ridiculous hyperbole when it comes to 75 Dollar Bill. Best band in New York City? Best band in the USA? Best band in the universe?...they’ve definitely nailed down a thrillingly original sound. -- Aquarium Drunkard

Wood Metal Plastic Pattern Rhythm Rock 

Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock

75 Dollar Bill - Beni Said

Johnny Harrys - Stepping Stones (Sans Groove Retouch)

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Asymetrics Present: XOGN - Flea Market Gems (Part 4)

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