Really beautiful stuff. I love that you're exploring more and more and incorporating the findings in your music! Keep it up!

2022 Q2

We are extremely excited to share an absolute banger of a tune by sUb_modU - A dancefloor primed edit of his synth-heavy take on Fela Kuti’s classic “Expensive Shit”.  Out this week on all digital formats and on a limited 45 on September 17, via Brighton, UK institution Tru Thoughts, ahead of his forthcoming debut album. 

‘All Around / Expensive Shit (Centre Edit)’ is the new double single from Berlin-based electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist sUb_modU, aka the brainchild of Italian Romeo Sandri. Following up from lead tracks ‘Impressions / I Am Thousands’, all songs form part of the jazz musician’s debut album ‘Descent To The Centre’, a record that is an autobiographical and existentialist account of oneself, blending the electric/psychedelic spectrum of jazz with house, avant-garde and ambient leanings. 

 “All Around” uses Herbie Hancock-esque glitchy synths to create a transcendental state where one can “look all around, observing nature and all lives” Romeo explains. Tastemaker favourite and Fela Kuti cover (Fela-electronics!) “Expensive Shit” is given a new edit featuring colourful synths and rhythmic movements, with the 45 Centre Edit (exclusive to the 7”) being a more condensed version for the dancefloor. sUb_modU has amassed an impressive list of tastemaker support through his unique reinterpations from the likes of Gilles Peterson (BBC 6Music), Ross Allen (NTS) and Virgil Abloh (Off White). 

‘Descent To The Centre’ is the result of a natural process, a concept of allowing musical passions to flow organically in the midst of Romeo’s daily experiences. In the words of the artist “it’s about the direction towards the centre, finding the nature within me, at my inner core. As astronomers say “we are all made from stardust” – we are all interconnected to the universe, this makes me feel inconsequential while simultaneously part of something immense.”

Born and raised in Aosta, a small tourist town in the Alps, this beautiful hometown of outstanding nature and mountain ranges acted as a catalyst for Romeo’s musical ambitions, creating a wanderlust to go beyond these borders. Studying classical music as a child and citing listening to Symphony no.6 by Tchaikovsky as a pivotal movement in his musical development, for Romeo music is simply “food for the soul”.
 
sUb_modU is influenced by an array of music such as 60s/70s electric/psychedelic jazz, productions from the electronic kraut period (Tangerine Dream), Detroit & Chicago House, avant-garde & free jazz, soul, black music, hip-hop, ambient music, Sam Gendel, Jeff Parker, Gill Scott Heron reimagined by Makaya McCraven, the list goes on…  
 
sUb_modU has previously released on BBE and Agogo Records, collaborated with Matteo Cigna in a Roman Amphitheatre, toured around Europe with various projects and performed at Jazz Re:found, Chamoisic, Apolide and Nylon festival. ‘Descent To The Centre’ sees sUb_modU push the boat out to glorious new extremes, an ambitious project from the avant-garde newcomer that is rooted in jazz standards.

All Around / Expensive Shit (Centre Edit) 

Exclusive Premiere: sUb_modU "Expensive Shit (Centre Edit)" (Forthcoming on Tru Thoughts)

Mauv shares new single Manual on London/L.A. based label all my thoughts. Despite the infancy of the project, the London via the midlands artist has made waves of late, with recent single Change Will Come Anyway - a duet with Pixx - generating a buzz which saw the song on heavy rotation at BBC 6Music and eventually added to their playlist. 

New single Manual is an intense and explorative experience, showcasing Mauv's talents both as a lyricist and producer. Known in the South London scene - while still very much a newcomer - Mauv is something of an outlier, as his previous singles, including the hugely catchy Pillow Talk demonstrate. 

On the release Mauv says "I’d been in London for a year when I began this, and through the sudden intensity of city life I had a lot of pent up emotions and experiences that I wanted to put into this music"

Expect to hear more music from Mauv very soon. 
He will also perform at The Old Blue Last in London on November 18th.

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mauv - Manual

Brisbane’s Sampology has delivered a deadly uptempo mix, drawing the dots between record bag favourites and his new ‘Regrowth’ album, on his own Middle Name Records. 

The album marked an important milestone, as the musician and producer replaced record sampling with recording most of his samples from scratch, including string quartets, woodwind, full 20-piece choirs, vibraphones, double bass, various pianos and synths. Featured guests include Allysha Joy, Silentjay, and Seven Davis Jr.  

@sampology: “I put this mix together in my home studio where most of my music is recorded. It’s also where all my records live against the back wall. The turntables are usually set up on top of the piano, unless the lid is open and it’s mic-ed up for recording.  I felt quite keen to share a strictly up-tempo club mix, given some of my recent mixes as well as my Worldwide FM show have been quite varied in tempo. I love being able to include moments in a club set like the Jimetta Rose & Voices of Creation song which is a very acoustic joyful choir, weaved in with acid house. Or the recent birdsong-infused Olof Dreijer reissue on Melodies International. Putting mixes together, and DJing in generally is probably the biggest influence on how I make my own music. I’ve also included two songs from my new album ‘Regrowth’.”

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MIMS Guest Mix: SAMPOLOGY (Middle Name Records, Brisbane/Meanjim)

On Oct 6th 2021, about 2 years after my last set in London, I played from open to close (11pm to 5am) at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Here's a recording of the whole night with a bit of the crowd noise. 

Perhaps a full tracklist at some point... some unreleased stuff in here. 

Even though it had been a while, we had all night so no use in rushing things! I came across a lot of lovely music this year, but it mostly lived in my rekordbox or in a radio mix. I actually record a lot of my sets but it always feels like they're in a constant state of iteration, making it hard to pick just one "version" to release. Over the years I feel like this has led me to only very sparingly drop live-recorded sets. A "party" doesn't often lend itself to the archivable realm, maybe the memories are best suited to the ephemeral. 

Anyway, eternal gratitude crystals to those who came and those who danced, and to those listening now.

-av

Avalon Emerson Live in London (6 hour dj set) Oct 2021

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Neptunian Influence, Fifty | Featuring @paletterecordings

Neptunian Influence's 50th and 5 year anniversary mix is celebrated with internationally renowned DJ and producer, Los Angeles hometown hero and one half of @Wajatta, John Tejada! We are incredibly honored to feature Tejada, who has a new album entitled 'Sleepwalker' out now on his Palette Recordings label. For our 50th mix, the masterful electronic musician delivers a supreme feast of influential electro and hip hop. 

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| Tracklist |
1. Newcleus - Automan - Sunnyview
2. Chris “The Glove” Taylor - Ichiban Scratch - Electrobeat
3. Project Future - Ray-Gun-Omics - Capitol
4. GLOBE & Whiz Kid - Play That Beat Mr. DJ - Tommy Boy
5. Timezone - The Wildstyle - Celluloid
6. Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three - Request Line (dub) - Reality
7. Dynamic Breakers - Dynamic (Total Control) dub - Sunnyview
8. Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force - Renegades Of Funk - Tommy Boy
9. Arthur Baker - Breaker’s Revenge - Atlantic
10. Aleem - Release Yourself (dub) - Nia
11. Pretty Tony - Get Some - Music Specialists
12. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Scorpio - Sugar Hill
13. Knights Of The Turntables - Techno Scratch - JDC
14. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee - Message II (Survival) inst - Sugar Hill
15. Hashim - We’re Rockin’ The Planet - Cutting
16. Globe & Pow Wow - Celebrate (Everybody) - Tommy Boy
17. Newcleus - Computer Age (inst) - Sunnyview
18. Chris “The Glove” Taylor & David Storrs - Reckless (Club Mix) - Polydor
19. C.O.D. - In The Bottle (inst) - Bellaphon
20. The Future - Nuclear Holocaust - Mirage
21. Reggie Griffin & Technofunk - Mirda Rock - Sweet Mountain
22. Imperial Brothers - We Dub To Scratch - Cutting
23. Run DMC - Uptempo - Profile
24. Nairobi and the Awesome Foursome - Funky Soul Makossa (free beats) - Warlock
25. The Mechanic - Sweat - Techno Hop
26. Cli-N-Tel - 2030 - Techno Hop
27. Jive Rhythm Trax - 122 bpm - Jive
28. 10 Speed - Tour De France (dub) - Quality
29. The Megatrons - Rock The Planet - Sunnyview
30. Channel One - Technicolor - Metroplex

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NI50 | John Tejada

Introducing WEMA: an international collaboration between Photay (US), Msafiri Zawose (Tanzania) and Penya (UK). Join Photay for a sneak peak of the forthcoming LP and a deep dive into the band's influences + origin story.

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https://soundcloud.com/cici-cavanagh is back on OpenLab with this month's episode of Curiosities, a brand new hour of music featuring tracks y Vitalic, Roman Flügel, Iñigo Vontier, and some of Cici's own unreleased tracks.

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his week’s mix comes from Balamii resident, Coop Audio affiliate and Free Range founder Donwella. Informed by her time living in South Africa and London, Donwella’s eclectic sonic palette has been blowing us away each and every month on her regular self-titled show on Balamii.

As well as broadcasting, Donwella selects as part of the Coop Audio collective, a non-profit soundsystem group based between London and Bristol, and also runs Free Range, a monthly party in London featuring some of the best selectors the UK has to offer.

This week, we're starting the week off just right...this mix does it all:

“Ascending and descending through a spectrum genres, from hip-hop, to neosoul, funk, house, broken beat, garage – with jazz as the thread that flows through it all! Topping and tailing with some beautiful South African Jazz, starting at the 70s and ending at the present day.”

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Macondo Mix 013: Donwella

The First Word Records show was live for two hours with host Kaidi Tatham. Listen back for jazz, neo soul and broken beat flavours. 

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First Word Records w/ Bopperson - July 2022

This month on Sweet Nothings, some exclusive and forthcoming bits on BBE. Pépé Bradock remix of J Dilla's Big Booty Express, Louie Vega and Josh Milan remix of Brian Jackson's 'Little Orphan Boy''. Plus a teaser of a new compilation by Lefto coming out on BBE.

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Sweet Nothings w/ Jeff - July 2022

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https://soundcloud.com/ryanhemsworth is back on the airwaves at with a brand new episode of Gaze Into Dreams ✨ This month's show features some of Ryan's favourite new tracks from Tristan Arp, The Fear Ratio, Tomu DJ, Tomasz Bednarczyk and many more!

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