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ALIEN ALIEN - "Sambaca" (Original Mix)

Nuevo rocksteady de The Crabs Corporation en combinación con Stefanie Ringes (ShiBa/Lions In Love)en la voz.
Disponible descarga gratuita. //// New rocksteady of The Crabs Corporation featuring Stefanie Ringes (ShiBa/Lions In Love) on vocals. Available free download.


The Crabs Corporation feat. Stefanie Ringes - Ritaline

Pre-order debut album FROM THE ROOTS UP on iTunes now:
http://bit.ly/L0DBc1

Get the iTunes Deluxe album with instant download of 'Insecure' here:
http://bit.ly/Jie5Tk

Grab your vinyl version here: 
https://www.decks.de/track/florence-florence013/cjg-2d

James Blake - Limit to your Love (Alex Dimou remix)

2 minute clips of the forthcoming Migration by Cage &amp; Aviary, released on Prins Thomas' Internasjonal label, 23.01.12.

Good Egg, Bad Apple (clip)

Remix by Beck
Keyboard &amp; Piano: Beck
Beat: Cole MGN
Additional engineering: Cassidy Turbin

How Come You Never Go There

How Come You Never Go There (Beck Remix)

Out now
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/girl-gone-wild-remixes/id520949085

Madonna - Girl Gone Wild (Lucky Date Remix)

Gomma's new band The KDMS did a little cover of Madonna's new single.. available for free WAV download!

Madonna - Give Me All Your Luvin (THE KDMS version)

Common Ground Blues Band -- How Blue can you get

Title: Painting On A Canvas
Album: In Time
Release Date: May 14th, 2012

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Amirali - Painting On A Canvas

'Lightning Bolt', the new single from Jake Bugg. Available to download from iTunes on 29.4.2012
Download "Trouble Town" free from Jake's Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/IKZO0E

http://www.jakebugg.com
http://www.facebook.com/jakebugguk
http://www.twitter.com/jakebugg

Jake Bugg

Lightning Bolt

DOWNLOAD: www.thedecoders.bandcamp.com

Produced by Itai Shapira and Todd M. Simon 

Kevin Sandbloom 
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals & Vocal Arrangements 

Itai Shapira 
Bass, Electric Guitar, Additional Vocal Arrangements 

Todd M. Simon 
French Horn, Flugelhorn 

Quincy McCrary 
Hammond B3 

Adam Berg 
Rhodes 

Blake Colie 
Drums 

Recorded by Itai Shapira at Manifest Music 
Horns recorded by Todd M. Simon at Nu-Fi Studios 
Mixed and Mastered by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 

Originally Written & Recorded by Earth Wind & Fire on the album That's The Way Of The World (1975) 

Shane Evans: Photography • Anthony Valadez: Cover Art Design

That's The Way Of The World feat. Kevin Sandbloom

DOWNLOAD HERE: http://thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/reasons-feat-love-logiq

Produced by The Decoders 

Love-Logiq 
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals & Vocal Arrangements 

Itai Shapira 
Bass, tambourine, Additional Vocal Arrangements 

Todd M. Simon 
Flugelhorn, trumpet

Quincy McCrary 
Hammond B3 

Blake Colie 
Drums 

Engineered by Itai Shapira at Manifest Music and Market Street
Mixed by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Mastered by Adam Berg at Manifest Music

Originally Written & Recorded by Earth Wind & Fire on the album That's The Way Of The World (1975) 

Andy Drew: Photography • Anthony Valadez: Cover Art Design

Reasons feat. Love-Logiq

Global Latin-soul pioneers Sunlightsquare reveal a surprise 12 inch vinyl single for summer time 2012!
Digging deep into his vinyl collection, BBC acclaimed producer Claudio Passavanti selects and reenacts (in his signature Afro-Cuban key) two of the most iconic rare-groove & avant-garde tracks from the 70's: Heart's Desire (Don Blackman) and Theme De Yoyo (Art Ensemble Of Chicago).

Feat: Tasita D'Mour, Vanessa Freeman, Ernesto Simpson, Quentin Collins, Brandon Allen, Trevor Mires, Giovanni Imparato

"Sumptuous"
Blues & Soul Magazine

"F*****g good!!! Big up"
Gilles Peterson, BBC

"All I can say is WOW!! I love it.
WOW!! WOW!! WOW!! I'm speechless."
Don Blackman

"The feel of this summer!"
Jazzie B, Soul II Soul

"2 great covers of classic tunes, full of life & sunshine!"
Mr Scruff, Ninjatune

"An outstanding piece of music"
Grant Nelson, GN's Houscall

"Maan they r wicked versions!"
Mike Chadwick - Jazz FM

"Really like them both!!!"
Kevin Beadle - Solar Radio

"It really brightened up a grey morning!"
Peter Young - Jazz FM

Heart's Desire + Theme De Yoyo 12" Vinyl teaser

Iemanjá Carioca 
(DJ MAM: Letra) BR4PS1200018
(DJ MAM e Aleh: Música)

DJ MAM: Talkbox
DJ MAM, Aleh e Oghene Kologbo: Vozes 
DJ MAM e Alexandre Garnizé: Percussão e arranjo de Percussão
Alex Moreira: Teclados e Guitarra
Alex Moreira, Aleh e Oghene Kologbo: Arranjo 
Thomas Harres: Bateria
Pedro Dantas: Contrabaixo
Carlos Dafé: Teclados
Oghene Kologbo: Guitarra
Marlon Sette: Trombone e arranjo de metais

Filha de Tamoios com a África dos Yorubás
A nossa Iemanjá

Negra, índia, em casa portuguesa, 
A nossa Iemanjá d’Akari oka

Céu aberto, da Floresta da Tijuca, ela vem 
Cosme Velho, lá de cima, você pode ver também

Laranjeiras, o Machado de Xangô vai apontar
Pro Catete ou Flamengo, Glória a esse orixá.

O RIO encontra seu Lar
No ventre de Olokum

Beira do Aterro, no mar
Vive  mamãe Iemanjá

Ogunté, Iamassê, Euá

Olossá, Ya Assabá,

Iemowô, Assessu, Yemojá


Iemanjá Carioca - DJ MAM e Aleh ft Kologbo, Carlos Dafé e Abayomy Afrobeat

B-Spicer - NightFever (mixed with love)

Night &amp; Day, the newest single by Tribal Seeds. Available on iTunes, Google Play &amp; Spotify

DOWNLOAD:
iTunes: http://bit.ly/PYVUTX
Google Play: http://bit.ly/Rqqszc
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/QP3hdc

Night & Day

Django Django - Skies Over Cairo (Bullion Version)

DOWNLOAD HERE: www.thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/walk-on-by-feat-noelle-scaggs

We are pleased to announce the arrival of the first single from Vol. 2, featuring one of our favorite singers from Los Angeles,  Noelle Scaggs ( of the band FItz & The Tantrums).  

This isn't our first collaboration with Noelle... 

Our very own Todd M. Simon inked a new Rock Steady arrangement of James Brown's "Think (About It)" for The Lions back in 2007, which featured Noelle on vocals.  Noelle has also graced many other collaborations on her own, including Quantic (aka Will Holland) and Dilated Peoples, as well as being the featured lead female vocalist in the L.A. funk and soul outift The Rebirth .

This version of "Walk On By" is an extrapolation of the original Dionne Warwick version, mutated with the stylings of Isaac Hayes rendition and finally given a "decoded" Lovers Rock backbeat.  This was quite the undertaking, and Noelle did a great job invoking the classic women of soul from the 60's era to give this version a refreshing-yet old school feel.

Burt Bacharach and Hal David (R.I.P) were a great composer team, penning many a classic hit including "I Say A Little Prayer For You" which is also slated for a Decoders vol. 2 release later this year.  We hope that we did justice to their vision with our version of "Walk On By".

The strings were recorded by San Diego native, Thomas Lea.  Thomas is the latest addition to the Decoders production team, and you can hear his lush string arrangements on upcoming releases from Rhye & Quadron.

The official release date for the single is tuesday, October 16th.  It will be made available on itunes, amazon and bandcamp for download.

We hope you enjoy it and please share if you feel it!

The Decoders


Also, in case you haven't seen it, please check out our new EPK, which is an introduction to the project and gives a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes in the studio!  View it here on our new website (www.thedecodersmusic.com), where you can also purchase exclusive T-Shirts via our Insteegram store!

CREDITS:

Produced by The Decoders

Noelle Scaggs 
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals & Vocal Arrangements

Itai Shapira 
Bass, Guitars, Dub FX, Keys, Timpani, Additional Vocal Arrangements

Todd M. Simon 
Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Dub FX, Horn Arrangements

Adam Berg
Rhodes, B3, Additional Vocal Arrangements

Tracy Wannomae
Tenor, Alto Sax, Flute

Thomas Lea
Violin, Viola

Blake Colie 
Drums

Engineered by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Additional engineering by David Burris at Manifest Music
Mixed by Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Mastered by Adam Berg at Manifest Music

Originally Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David.  Originally recorded by Dionne Warwick (1964)

Farah Sosa: Photography • Anthony Valadez: Cover Art Design



BIOGRAPHY:

The Decoders are Los Angeles-based production team Itai Shapira (producer/engineer & studio/live musician) Todd M. Simon (trumpeter/arranger for Mayer Hawthorne, TV On The Radio, The Lions, Quantic, etc.) and Adam Berg (Grammy nominated producer/engineer), with heavy contributions from Quincy McCrary on keys (Mayer Hawthorne) and Blake Colie on drums (The Lions of Stones Throw Records) . They just released their first installment of modern-Jamaican Lovers Rock-inspired versions of soul classics they dug up from the vaults of the Music Sales publishing catalogue.

In this first batch, Shapira and Simon have deciphered some Earth, Wind and Fire, Minnie Riperton and even one from Ruby and the Romantics! The project is overseen by the songwriter and producer behind many of Minnie Riperton’s hits - Richard Rudolph.

The Decoders have enlisted the help of vocalists Sy Smith (Macy Gray, Foreign Exchange) original “Baby This Love I Have" songwriter and legendary producer Leon Ware (Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Maxwell), Coco Owino (of Quadron), Kevin Sandbloom and Boston Fielder (of Muthawit).  Miguel Atwood Ferguson (Suite For Ma Dukes, Brainfeeder) also makes a guest appearance on the new single "Les Fleurs"

Volume 2 features guest vocalists Noelle Scaggs (of Fitz & The Tantrums), Raul Midon, Alex Isley and many more... 


Walk On By featuring Noelle Scaggs

Der Dritte Raum - Swing Bop [Acid Pauli Remix] (for another 100 downloads)

Wax Poetics is proud to stream the Decoders' cover of the Rotary Connection joint, "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun," which was produced by the great Charles Stepney. The track features our homies Loren Oden and Brooke De Rosa.

Purchase the track on <a href="http://thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-black-gold-of-the-sun">Bandcamp.</a>


* * *

Riding on the heels of their first single off of Vol. 2 (Walk On By) with its orchestral soul arrangements, the second single from Vol. 2, Rotary Connection's "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun," is an ode to the beautifully epic orchestral arrangements of producer Charles Stepney.

But this time, the Decoders have decided to venture into the Brazilian repertoire, incorporating Samba and Jazz elements into the group's psychedelic soul arrangement.

This version features <a href="http://soundcloud.com/wax-poetics/sets/venice-dawn-something-about/">Adrian Younge's Venice Dawn</a> vocalists Loren Oden and Brooke De Rosa on vocals, as well as Jungle Fire's Steve Haney on percussion and Brazilian musician Quetzal Guerrero on percussion and berimbau.

The artwork for the single is an original painting by Los Angeles–based artist Michelle Robinson. Michelle's work has been praised by Cee-Lo Green, among others. For more info, check out her <a href="http://www.michellizm.com/">website</a>.

CREDITS:

Produced by the Decoders

Loren Oden 
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals

Brooke De Rosa 
Background Vocals

Itai Shapira 
Bass, Guitars, Synth, Vocal Arrangements

Todd M. Simon 
Trumpet, Horn Arrangements

Adam Berg 
Piano

Tracy Wannomae 
Saxophone

Thomas Lea 
Violin, Viola

Steve Haney 
Percussion

Quetzal Guerrero 
Berimbau

Blake Colie 
Drums

Engineered by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Additional engineering by David Burris at Manifest Music 
Mixed by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Mastered by Adam Berg at Manifest Music

Originally written and recorded by Rotary Connection (1971)

Michelle Robinson: Original Artwork • Anthony Valadez: Cover Art Design

The Decoders "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun"

From the album Victim of Love. Out now on Dunham/Daptone Records.  

Buy it here: http://bit.ly/1E03bOb

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Charles Bradley - Strictly Reserved For You

Our new single 'Gold' out in January on Justus/Relentless Records

Gold

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King Cobra - The Budos Band

Madonna - Justify My Love (Hustlers XX 2013 Mix)

Download:  https://gigameshmusic.com/music/dont-stop-2

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Gigamesh - Don't Stop ft. Jana Nyberg (Version 2.0) [DL link in description]

Planta e Raiz - Bora Viver Dub

The Budos Band - Unbroken, Unshaven

Soul Shakers - Get Up, Stand Up/ No More Trouble /War

Soul Shakers - Rebel Music

The Budos Band - Black Venom

"All Gold, All Girls" (Remix) by Cassie featuring Trina x Lola Monroe

Cassie - "All Gold, All Girls" (Remix) (Main)

"Satan and Saint Paul" by John Fullbright

"What I've Seen" by Allen Stone

"Fortune Teller" by Calexico

From the debut album, Get an Understanding.  
Buy it here: http://bit.ly/1DWJPaV

The Como Mamas - Old Landmark

Frank Ocean - "Super Rich Kids" (feat. Earl Sweatshirt)

Soul Shakers - Could you be loved

www.gettingcloser.co.uk/

"My Way" (featuring Joe Dukie of Fat Freddies Drop) is the second official single from the debut album 'Getting Closer' by CLOSE, a new production alias from producer, DJ and label owner Will Saul.

"For me Joe Dukie has one of the best voices on the planet so it was a bit of dream come true to get to work with him. I worked with Fink in his studio in Brighton where we recorded his band (drummer and bass player) - the instrumental is all live and one take. We then sent this over to Dallas (Joe Dukie) and he sent back his vocals. Midland and Dusky are part of my core crew at Aus and really hitting their stride at the moment so natural choices for remixers for this single" CLOSE

The "My Way" single (which also includes remixes from Dusky, Midland & Tanner Ross) will be out June 24th. 

The Getting Closer album comes out June 11th on !K7 Records.

More from CLOSE:
<a href="http://www.gettingcloser.co.uk/">Home Page</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/closegettingcloser?fref=ts">Facebook</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Close_Music">Twitter</a>

More from Will Saul:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WillSaulMusic">Facebook</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/WillSaul">Twitter</a>

More from !K7:
<a href="http://www.k7.com">Home Page</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/k7records">Twitter</a>

My Way feat. Joe Dukie

My Way

revolution

In only a couple of years, Los Angeles production trio (Todd M. Simon, Itai Shapira and Adam Berg) have cemented their reputation in the studio and on stage as the premiere production team and live band for artists like Rhye, Kelis, and Hollie Cook.

They have also garnered the attention of great worldwide tastemakers such as KCRW music director Jason Bentley, the legendary Gilles Peterson of the BBC, Jaime Cullum, Okayplayer, Saint Heron, Wax Poetics, Bandcamp and many more.

Rarely emerging from behind closed studio doors, The Decoders love combining their specialized brand of "decoded" classics from the 60's and 70's soul movement with an excitingly new blend of genres ranging from Lovers Rock to Dub, Brazilian Music to Psychadelic Soul.

Coco O. (of Quadron), Noelle Scaggs (of Fitz & the Tantrums), Leon Ware, Raul Midon and many others have lended their vocal talents to this special project with more to surely come for each new volume.

In a live setting, The Decoders are 10 to 20 piece ensemble featuring LA's top musicians and session players.  Thus far, they have released 2 volumes and a dub remix EP, including a few tunes from their upcoming LP, Adventures From Paradise: A Tribute To Minnie Riperton (vol 3), which will be completed in the summer of 2014 and features special guest vocalists and musicians including Bilal, Van Hunt, Mara Hruby, Andreya Triana, Alice Russell, Jimetta Rose, Niki Randa, and many more.


"This is not music, its chemistry. Get into the science." -Okayplayer.com

For more info, check out their website at www.thedecodersmusic.com or go to www.thedecoders.bandcamp.com to listen and purchase their music.
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