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The LIBERATORS - Power Struggle Out 25 Nov on LP | CD | Digi and super ltd 45

Pre-Order now the super ltd 45 + LP on Bandcamp. Instant collector's item (300 worldwide).
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"The new Liberators album is peppered with dark, sinister grooves worth of the fiercest dancefloor battles" Martín Perna, Antibalas NYC | New Album Out 25 November 2013 on LP | CD | Digi & 45. Pre-order NOW! on Bandcamp bit.ly/195fzLZ

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The Liberators - Power Struggle

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Afrobeat Funk Jazz

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El Ravel de los Microburgueses

Black Yaya is the new pop project from David Ivar, frontman and songwriter for Herman Dune. He has written a completely fresh batch of songs, in his own inimitable style but reworked by electronic producer  Yuksek, who is releasing Black Yaya under his label Partyfine. 

“Paint A Smile On Me” EP is out now !
iTunes t.co/1vvgvdlrTq

Video youtu.be/TJaZAPlynJA

Remixes SOON !

Black Yaya Fall tour

08/30 Larmer Tree Gardens,UK - END OF THE ROAD
09/01 Brighton,UK – The Hope
09/02 London,UK – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
09/03 Bristol,UK - Thunderbolt
09/04 Manchester,UK – Ruby Lounge
09/05 York,UK – The Basement
09/06 Newcastle,UK – Think Tank
09/07 Wakefield,UK – The hop
09/08 Leeds,UK – Brudenell Social Club
09/11 Lille,FR – La Péniche
09/12 Rennes,FR – Mondo Bizarro
09/15 Zurich,CH – El Lokal
09/16 Munich,GER – Ruby Garden Session
09/17 Köln,GER – Arty Farty
09/18 Hamburg,GER - Hasenschaukel
09/19 Berlin,GER - Monarch
09/20 Dresden,GER - Thalia
09/21 Freibourg,GER - Swamp
09/22 Saarbrücken,GER – Sparte 4
09/24 Paris,FR – La Gaîté Lyrique
09/25 Bordeaux,FR – Comptoir du Jazz
09/26 Barcelona,ES – Els Quatre Cocos
09/27 Madrid,ES – Charada
09/28 Ourense,ES – Torgal

http://www.facebook.com/davidivarblackyaya

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www.twitter.com/PartyfineMusic
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BLACK YAYA - PAINT SMILE ON ME

From the debut self-titled album by THE LIBERATORS:

RKX035 THE LIBERATORS - s/t available on CD/LP/Digital here:
http://www.recordkicks.com/releases/The-Liberators

"This is one killer of an album...I can’t recommend this highly enough!” - DJ Snowboy (Blues&Soul Magazine) 

THE LIBERATORS - Liberation feat. Afro Moses

THE LIBERATORS - Rags to Riches

THE LIBERATORS - Bulletproof

THE LIBERATORS - Multiculture

Cashmire Cat- Mirror Maru (Kito Remix) [Deej's Screw Edit]

Post Party Stress Disorder (Sundance Remix)

Taken from Kelis' new album 'Food', released on April 22, 2014 on Ninja Tune.

Order 'Food' at <a href="http://smarturl.it/kelisfoodit">iTunes</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/kelisfoodam">Amazon</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/kelisfood">Ninjashop</a>

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Food

Rumble

Pre-Order the 7" Vinyl - http://bit.ly/NUuSzv

In December 2013 Lettuce was finishing up what was by all accounts there most fruitful and successful year too date.  They were all gathered in their defacto hometown of  Brooklyn for a week long run at Brooklyn Bowl and their last show of the year at the Capitol Theater. 

Never ones to waste a moment, Lettuce took their time together in December in between shows to record two new original tracks, “Don’t Be Afraid To Try”, which features vocalist Alecia Chakour, and “Yakitori”.  “Don’t Be Afraid To Try” is sure to be a Lettuce staple for years to come, seamlessly blending the Lettuce sound with timeless R&B vocals.  Alecia is currently touring with the band and fitting in perfectly.  “Yakitori” is classic hard-tiiing instrumental Lettuce at its best.  This is the sound that fans have come to expect from the band and “Yakitori” shows that the direction of the bands sound is still pushing funk to new heights!

Lettuce is offering these two singles for FREE through their soundcloud and on limited edition 7 in vinyl.  You can pre-order the vinyl HERE.  The tracks are also up on iTunes now.

It was a special year for the Lettuce collective in which they played huge dates at Bonnaroo, Summer Camp, the Fillmores in Denver and San Francisco and made it to a ton of cities for the first time, always met by eager fans new and old.  Lettuce Spring tour starts tonight at the Roxy in LA and rolls on through April 6.  The band then will celebrate Jazzfest at their Annual Royal Family Ball before a monster schedule of high profile festival appearances.


Lettuce - Don't Be Afraid To Try (feat. Alecia Chakour)

First single from the album APIAFO out on september 27th on  Hot Casa records.   Available on a 7'' vinyl worldwide in may 2014.

written and composed by Peter Solo, played by the band Vaudou Game.
www.facebook.com/vaudougame

All songs from the album are based on authentic vaudou chants and songs' scales from Togo and Benin

management and booking : Antoine Rajon 
antoinerajon@mac.com   
with the help of www.metiola.com



'Pas Contente' Feat Roger Damawuzan

A song from the album APIAFO out on september 27th on the Hot Casa label.   
Based on an authentic vaudou chant scale from Togo / Benin 

written and composed by Peter Solo, played by the band Vaudou Game
www.facebook.com/vaudougame

management and booking : Antoine Rajon 
antoinerajon@mac.com 
with the help of www.metiola.com



Dangerous Bees

Listen to The Roots "Understand" featuring Dice Raw & Greg Porn off their new album "...and then you shoot your cousin" on Def Jam Recordings. Available May 19th!

The Roots - "Understand" Ft. Dice Raw & Greg Porn

09 The Liberators Water Somewhere Feat Roxie Ray

01 The Liberators Cairo Uprising

Inspiration (by Steve Molitz of Particle):

The title (and chorus) of the song, "Get Your Ass To Mars," is a Schwarzenegger line from one of my favorite Paul Verhoeven films, 'Total Recall.' I still have all my old cassette and VHS tapes from the '80s and '90s and one rainy day I watched a triple feature at my house: 'Total Recall,' 'The Untouchables,' and 'Enter The Dragon.' As I was watching, I pulled my some of my favorite quotes and samples right off the tapes in case I ever needed them. Around the same time, I was working on the beats and melodies for this song, and I had the idea that the high-intensity film quotes would fit perfectly with the explosive energy of this music. I dropped the quotes into the session, and got my ass to Mars!

"…get ready for a surpriiiiiiise!!"

*BOOM*

Contact:

Management: Brian Ross @ Elliptic Artist Mgmt: bross@ellipticmgmt.com

Written by: Molitz, Pujalet

"Get Your Ass To Mars" - by Particle

Lanzamiento oficial del 1er sencillo de Sonido Desconocido II. http://t.co/3pOjXc47

Sonido Desconocido 2 - Cumbia de la Cuesta del Ñero - GFlux Remix (Feat. Boogat)

"Mirror Maru" taken from "Mirror Maru EP", out now on Pelican Fly Records ( @pelicanfly )

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/mirror-maru-ep/id567455124

Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/album/491uNHKV3kcoNlHsR10YPb

Beatport:
http://www.beatport.com/release/mirror-maru-ep/981279

Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Maru-EP/dp/B009PRVIKA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1351073053&sr=8-2&keywords=cashmere+cat

and pretty much everywhere else<3

Mirror Maru

ROBERT WALTER'S 20TH CONGRESS
Get Thy Bearings

Available June 25 on LP, CD & Digital from The Royal Potato Family

Robert Walter performs all his own stunts. For 20 years, the San Diego native has been pulling drawbars and pushing the limits of the Hammond B3 organ. As a founding member of the Greyboy Allstars, he helped usher in the funk-jazz renaissance of the early ’90s and has continued to keep one hand comping chords in the instrument’s funky past while the other explores ever-new melodic terrain. On June 25, he returns with his long-running project, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, to release, Get Thy Bearings, via The Royal Potato Family.  

It was a  recent move from New Orleans to LA that jump-started Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, the outlet for the keyboardist’s funkiest material since its inception in 1999. Get Thy Bearings pushes Walter’s organ, piano, Rhodes and synthesizer to the front of a group rounded out by guitarist/bassist Elgin Park, drummer Aaron Redfield, sax players Karl Denson and Cochemea Gastelum, and percussionist Chuck Prada—an allstar lineup in its own right. Recorded in just a few takes at Elgonix Labs—the same studio where Walter has lent his skills to Get Thy Bearings producer Michael Andrews' film scores and productions—the album is full of raw boogaloo energy and cinematic color.

“As I’m getting older, I’m owning the style a little more,” says Walter, who spent the early part of his career immersed in the jazz, funk and soul records of the ’60s and ’70s, trying to emulate his heroes, like Big John Patton. By the end of the ’90s, Walter briefly parted ways with the hard-touring Greyboy Allstars to hone his compositional skills with the 20th Congress. Money Shot and Giving Up the Ghost pushed Walter deeper into syncopated grooves and vintage arrangements, with help from bandmates Stanton Moore, Joe Russo, George Sluppick, Mike Fratantuno and Will Bernard, and led to collaborations with jazz-funk pioneers like Harvey Mason, Chuck Rainey, Johnny Vidacovich and George Porter Jr. In 2004, Walter even relocated to New Orleans in order to be closer to this music’s spiritual and cultural foundation. This period yielded two solo records, Super Heavy Organ and Cure All, as well as a handful supporting Stanton Moore. 

Since moving to LA, Walter has been on a creative hot streak. Get Thy Bearings comes on the heels of the Greyboy Allstars return to the road with Inland Emperor, their first album since 2007’s What Happened to Television? “I’ll have dry spells for a few months then go on a binge of writing, working every day,” he says "Some looser ideas ended up on the Greyboy Allstars album because I expected collaboration from the other members of the band.  The stuff that was more developed from the start went on mine." 

Working in film has brought conceptual depth to his writing, drawing on elements of narrative and character development without being so prescriptive as to spoil the groove. “They’re just templates to improvise on,” Walter says of the nine tracks, ranging from the Sly Stone-style soul vamp of “Little Business” to the heavy gospel of “Crux”. “Dog Party” might as well be the theme song to a cartoon of the same name, while “Don’t Chin the Dog” shifts from delicate shuffle to horn-drenched boogaloo. Things get eerie on “Up From the Skies,” a Jimi Hendrix cover rendered nearly unrecognizable in washes of electric Miles. Similarly, the album’s title track is a shrewd reworking of the 1968 Donovan tune Walter first discovered on compilation of sample-friendly breakbeats, full of fuzz guitar and a mercurial organ solo. 

“All these things just crept into the record,” he says. “It’s my own voice, not so immitative anymore.” This same type of immediacy carried over into the way the band tracked the record, all at once in the same room. “A lot of modern music is overconsidered, but if you fix every little edge there’s no mystery. We didn’t monkey around too much, just indulged in our musicalness.” It’s the same comittment that has made Walter such a live force. Between the 20th Congress and the Greyboy Allstars, there will be no shortage of opportunities to catch Walter onstage this spring. 

"Hunk" :: Robert Walter's 20th Congress

Buy "Rio" on iTunes availble now! http://smarturl.it/TLRio

produced by Theophilus London & Thomas Brenneck

01 The Liberators Cairo Uprising

The Liberators - Afrofunk