A couple of months ago, we picked out our <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2013/08/05/top-five-fela-kuti-reworks/" target="_blank">Top Five Fela Kuti Reworks</a> to mark the 16th anniversary of his death. The overwhelming response was confirmation of the feeling that had compelled us to write the feature; that Fela's musical legacy still resonates strongly today. Another testament of this is Red, Hot & Fela, a new compilation marking the 75th anniversary of Fela's birth, containing 13 interpretations by ?uestlove, tUnE-yArDs, Spoek Mathambo, Nneka, Tony Allen and Chance The Rapper. Our standout, however, was an interpretation of 'Sorrow, Tears & Blood' by a selection of names who were initially a little less familiar: Grammy award-winning string ensemble Kronos Quartet and TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe.

Read our thoughts at <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2013/10/09/kronos-quartet-sorrow-tears-blood/" target="_blank">Stamp The Wax</a>.

Kronos Quartet & Stuart Bogie - Sorrow, Tears & Blood (STW Premiere)

Kruder & Dorfmeister - High Noon

Torn Sail - Birds

Up, Bustle And Out - Rio De Almeria

Beautiful Zimbabwean song with mbira on new label Nyami Nyami, specialized in Southern African music.
Limited 12inch including a Shabazz Palaces remix on B side. Available from sofarecords.fr

Chiwoniso : Zvichapera

As sampled by Nas and Damian Marley on the new single ‘As We Enter’

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Kenya Special : Volume Two is available to pre order on Soundway Records now. 

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Lulus Band - I Can Feel It

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Alogte Oho And His Sounds Of Joy - Mam Yinne Wa

Willie Wright - Right On For The Darkness

16 rare tropical groove tracks compiled by Mambo & Guts 
Available on CD , Double LP Gatefold ( included download Postal card with exclusive mix by DJ Damage@Jazz Liberatorz ) 
Collector T Shirt Edition ....
Cover Art by Mambo 
Ref : Heavenly Sweetness HS090 
Contact : puravidamusic@gmail.com

To pre-order now Beach Diggin' and download immediately an exclusive 50' mix of the compilation by DJ DAMAGE of Jazz Liberatorz, please click here : http://bit.ly/1bnvbbn

Beach Diggin' promo Tour ( DJ Set + Live percussion ) :
14/06 : Toulouse@Connexion 
21/06 : Bernières Sur Mer@Au Père Tranquille ( Normandie )
22/06 : Lyon @ La Marquise
26/06 : Paris@New Morning 
29/06 : Vanosc@La Bringue de la Fressange ( Ardèche )
05/07 : Paris@Pan Piper

Guts, a producer exiled in Ibiza, and Mambo, a Los-Angeles-based painter, have been lounging on the shore with the sound of the waves lapping in the background as they sift through the vinyl for their Beach Diggin’ collection. Far, far from the mouldy-smelling, lightless cellars where record hunters usually hang out. Diggin’ disks as others dig beaches, because getting your hands on a good vinyl, its grooves virtually unexplored, is like stumbling on a dazzling expanse of virgin sand.
Guts and Mambo have little time for the idea that Brazilians have to play bossa nova, Cubans must salsa and a Jamaican has to be into reggae. They sniff around the blind spots away from the beaches packed with noisy tourists and come up with Italians who beat out Afro rhythms, West Indians who lay down earth-shaking dub beats, and Trinidadians who unleash funk laced with lots of brass. Not to mention Peruvians, Frenchies and even Spaniards who can recreate the atmosphere of a humid, totally torrid sixties Rio party.
On the seafront, Guts and Mambo have put together a 16-track playlist that is hip without being elitist, guided by the highest standards and unwavering principles of sun, escapism, the good life and nothing below 25°C.
Seventeen tracks are stamped on the pages of the record’s passport - boss nova, soul, jazz, latin, afro-funk and tropical -, souvenirs of travels through North and Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean islands.
Intoxicating tunes, radiant rhythms, velveteen vocals: Beach Diggin’ is for sipping through a straw, wiggling your hips and shaking your pelvis to, and it’s made to bring bodies into friction.

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Beach Diggin' Snippet by GUTS (out on June 23rd)

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