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I LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND 🌍  AM I YOUR BEST FRIEND? 🌏

@bryteofficial x @gafaccimusic

Order here: https://ransomnoterecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-like-your-girlfriend

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Bryte x Gafacci - I Like Your Girlfriend [Ransom Note Records #9]

The latest TS playlist is a real feast for the ears. Ten tasty tunes for you to enjoy including music from Kaitlyn Auerila Smith, Moo Latte, Matthew im, DJ Deep, Akinyemi, Sage, Sibusile Xaba and more. As always we hope you discover some exciting new music. Check out the playlist and make sure to follow us here and on our website, Mixcloud, and Tumblr for more music. Press play and enjoy!

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Today's Edition

Out 15/02/2017 : https://www.discogs.com/release/9524309

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Les Yeux Orange - Pacifico

Los Amigos Invisibles are successful music exports from Venezuela creators of the disco love-funk ensemble "gozadera" ; an irresistible fusion of Latin rhythms with fiery funk and house music. Signed for their first international breakthrough by David Byrne and produced by the likes of Dimitri from Paris and Masters at Work, they have built a successful career full of world tours and various Grammy nominations. Fellow Venezuelan disco specialists from Apersonal Music teams up with the band to press this vinyl-only special release packed with two original cuts from Los Amigos Invisibles plus the unreleased instrumental disco versions mixed by british producer Ray Mang.

http://apersonalmusic.com/
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/los-amigos-stay-rio-porque-no-fue/630747-01/

PREMIERE : Los Amigos Invisibles - Stay (Ray Mang's Disco Instrumental)

The 4th edition to the Limited Series drops on "Banoffee Pies Records". More mixed taste loving for your record bag. Italo feelings on "Safari" from FYI Chris’ own Watson leading the charge on 80’s mode along with a "Venice" creeper from our friend Hysteric premiered here. Plenty of aquarium breaks from DJ Ok and Rasputin and more bongos in between from Ny*Ak and Ian Blevins on "K Dance". Friends of the love making experience making an appearance. Music for prancing. Love and Dancing. Banoffee Pies x HEAT.
Buy it there : https://banoffeepiesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/limited-series-04-12-va-pre-order

Limited Series 04

PREMIERE :  Hysteric - Venice By Night

"Wonder Stories" head man Aimes readies his first 12” of the year with Grandiose Visions, a 13 min exploratory space disco jam with enough ooomph for the dance floor and enough weirdness for the headphones. On remix duties we have Italian legend DJ Rocca here who slows things down to a drugged out chugger, while SF disco champion the Beat Broker cranks it up to a proper house groover. Cop it here : https://www.pbvinyl.com/products/aimes-grandiose-visions

Grandiose Visions

PREMIERE : Aimes - Grandiose Visions (DJ Rocca Remix)

Venezuelan extraordinaire producer Trujillo is back with a new set of sun-injected future nostalgia cuts on Apersonal Music. Street soul and Trip-Hop atmospheres deliciously blended together transports you back to a remote paradisiac beach in the heart of the Venezuelan caribbean coast. Both tracks feature the seductive voice of Colombian Paulo Olarte and a very exclusive appearance from tropical disco maestro Daniel Grau in "Hola Como Estas" on the piano. To complete the journey the flip side runs through the exquisite balearic tool mix of "Everytime I Think Of U" by Norwegian producer Telephones, feeling hypnotic and sophisticated. El Caribe te lo da!

>> Trujillo
https://soundcloud.com/trujillo
https://www.facebook.com/trujill0
http://www.djtrujillo.com/

>> Apersonal Music
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https://www.facebook.com/apersonalmusic
https://apersonalmusic.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE : Trujillo - Everytime I Think Of You (Kiss Me Again Remix) [Apersonal Music]

Summer’s here! Ransom Note Records continue their search for the finest dance music from Planet Earth with a carnival-ready curveball of a new release; the sleazy, playful Ghanaian Afro-Ghetto-Techno-Pop that is Bryte’s word-of-mouth classic 'I Like Your Girlfriend'.

Originally surfacing on a couple of YouTube dance videos, the shitty quality video rip of Bryte’s bizarro lyrics leaping over Gafacci’s impeccable grime-meets-afrohouse beat has been a much-loved secret weapon in the sets of DJs that know for a minute now - Bok Bok, Mixpak and Gang Fatale have all supported heavily.

Coming from Accra’s booming Azonto dance scene, where tracks are knocked out in makeshift home-built studios then swapped through social media apps on smartphones, a proper release of 'I Like Your Girlfriend' has long remained a holy grail. Now, after months of searching, several Western Union transfers, hundreds of WhatsApp messages and no lack of determination, Ransom Note have finally managed to legitimately sign the track, and are all set to give a modern classic the 12” release it deserves - making history with what is quite possibly the first Azonto track to be released on vinyl.

I Like Your Girlfriend

PREMIERE: Bryte x Gafacci - I Like Your Girlfriend

Premiere: Bryte x Gafacci - I Like Your Girlfriend (Oyinboy Remix)

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2017/08/hi-saberha%CC%88gen-yung-boy/

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Download: Hi & Saberhägen - Yung Boy

From the album The Kid out October 6, 2017 on Western Vinyl

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Norman Records https://www.normanrecords.com/records/166212
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In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "To Follow and Lead"

Those of you paying attention (or even those of you with your fingers in your ears - we've been shouting about it for months now!) will have heard our ninth release on Ransom Note Records - the magnificent summertime afrobeats smash hit 'I Like Your Girlfriend' by Bryte and Gafacci. This Ghanaian word-of-mouth classic has been knocking about as a poor quality video rip for a while now, but we're ensuring it finally gets the 12" release it deserves.

When we started thinking about remix duties, we knew we had to get our brother Bawrut to step up to the plate for this one, and of course he didn't disappoint. His triumphant, tropical acid rework is centred on a funky bassline which slithers around Bryte's catchy vocals. Everything we love all in one place.

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PREMIERE: Bryte x Gafacci - I Like Your Girlfriend (Bawrut Remix)

Moo Latte - Sketchbook Series (New music on every Wednesday, Friday, Sunday).

Episode 26 - Adam
Powered by: Noisey Poland (Vice)

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Sketchbook Series

26. Adam

I know it's been a while so here is something new I did with @yourgirllacy and the lil homie @dylantheinfamous

gone (feat. yourgirllacy & dylantheinfamous)

Premiere: Bryte x Gafacci - 'I Like Your Girlfriend (Ahadadream Remix)'

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