Today's episode brings back @stevesandwich to do a deep dive collaboration into the Afro-Colombian sound of the Caribbean Coast. I consider this one a sequel to this mix we made together a couple years ago for Late Feelings https://soundcloud.com/late-feelings/baile-y-sangre-de-mi-tierra-mix, 

Steve holds down the first 40, and the rest is from myself. With a focus on Cumbia, this one also goes into some Bullerengue, Palenque, Champeta & more. Tracklist forthcoming, in the meantime feel free to comment for IDs, enjoy!

Island Time Radio  Mix 37 With Steve Sandwich & Xela

Peak time set @ Beauty & the Beat, January 2022

Catch Nubiphone every 3rd Sunday of the month, from 14h to 16h [CET] on rinse.fr

Diggers Of The Lost Ark #1

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Diggers Of The Lost Ark #2 par Nubiphone - 20 Mars 2022

https://www.nts.live/shows/sun-cut/episodes/sun-cut-11th-april-2022

Suncut - 110422

Stones Throw alumni Maylee Todd shares a mix of two halves: an 'exploratory' improvised piece and a stirring composition by Terry Riley to help you 'slowly rise into your day'.

Interview: https://www.stampthewax.com/2022/05/04/reduced-by-maylee-todd/

Reduced By Maylee Todd

Pre-order available on our online shop:
https://invisiblecityeditions.com/products/accura-five-x-five-ice-019

Also available on Bandcamp:
https://invisible-city-editions.bandcamp.com/album/five-x-five

Invisible City continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary as a record label by reissuing the overlooked 1994 UK LP Accura - Five x Five!

The best records make you want to grab the steering wheel and feel the sunny coastal drive.  Frank Ed’s unique blend of genres on his LP “Five x Five” does exactly this by melting G-funk, smoothie Rnb and NYC Disco a la Larry Levan, a genre he coined “Street Jazz”. 

A Ghana expat inspired by the endearing levity of the sounds of Hi-life along the Gold Coast, Frank Ed fuses downtempo keys and throbbing basslines on the opener “The Vibe”. Taking turn on the sunny coast, “Groove Control” is a euphoric minimal disco gem teasing the padlocked grooves of Gwen Guthrie and the West End setting sun into a fiery Loleatta sample that sparks into a fiery vocal  “You got me burning up”. Dervish vibraphones, inspired by the Jazz-Funk renaissance, mesmerize the interlude “Ghetto Strings”. The punchy sampledelic psychedelia of conscious hip hop continue with the car sounds of “Jazz Maiden” opening with a screeching car halt, alongside MCs Cap D and Darkstorm rapping about a girl on the town, before being snapped and interjected by a female vocal chiming in“Excuse Me!” “Freestylin’” is a top down portamento G-funk glider, a nod to everything from the West Coast hip hop highway. “The Good Times'' -  a CD-hidden only cut - is the real jewel here, emblematic of Frank Eds distinctive style. Expect low slung, nasal rapping and sine wave G funk grooves paired with lyrics about baggy jeans and Kangol kits that land with the chorus: “ I walk the walk I pay the price of this hip hop rhyme.” The pacific highway drive continues with “Summer Jazz” a breezy cruiser with the line, “Just move your body and slow…Summer Jazz.” You can feel the sun and wind in your hair as the keys trill along the reverb vocals of “I Feeeel It.” 


This pressing Includes two other CD-only releases featuring the NHB remixes of “Feelin Jazzy” and “Summer Jazz.” An essential LP, lovingly remastered and adjacent to the African diaspora genre UK Street Soul and the fervent UK RnB explosion of the early 90s. Glimmering with the disco ball of The Paradise Garage and the simmering smoothness of bumpin’ West Coast hip hop. Official Limited Pressing made in collaboration with Frank Ed and Toronto local selector Matt Stein. Not to be missed!

Production: Accura Sound Productions. Co-ordination: Eddie Aidoo / Jim Udo-Affia. Original Design / Artwork: Jim Udo-Affia. Photography: Eddie Aidoo. Restoration & Mastering by Wouter Brandenburg. Lacquer cut at Dubplates & Mastering. Reissue Executive Producers: Gary Abugan & Matthew Stein. Layout: Laura Schütte.

Accura - Groove Control (ICE 019)

#74 / Spin Lord - Flight Over Western Europe

Private Agenda - Sea Life 
Jon Hopkins - Modern Driveway
Señora - Sunday Dawn
Pfundheller - Balee The Angel
Troels Hammer - White Elephant
Nev Cottee - Sun Does Rise
Coyote - Inside This (Leo Mas & Fabrice On Air Remix)
Singing Dust - Involution
Damien Jurado - So On, Nevada
Khruangbin - Rules(Scientist Dub)
North of the Island - Kit Kat (Andi Hanley Rework)
Francis Bebey - Fleur Tropicale

Music For Dreams Radio Show 9.7.22

DanD is back for another instalment of Play.Shuffle.Repeat. Expect two hours of nothing but new releases from the past month across the alternative electronica, hiphop, jazz, beat, neo-soul, house, downtempo and dnb scenes. Expect newly released music from the likes of Kokoroko, Leon Vynehall, Loyle Carner, Pinty, Yaya Bey, DOMi & JD BECK, Blue Lab Beats, Ego Ella May, SHERELLE, Barry Can't Swim, Joey Bada$$ and many more.

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PlayShuffleRepeat

Play.Shuffle.Repeat w/ DanD - July 2022

As part of the celebrations to launch Miche's 'With Love Volume 1' compilation; four of us (post-club night)crammed into the back of a Mini Cooper for a road trip from East London to Manchester for a 5-hour listening-bar session. A relaxed and carefree set, saw us selecting recent finds and old favourites across the soul, disco, gospel, AOR, Brazilian, and jazz-funk genres. 

NAM, is a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant set in the heart of Manchester. It boasts some of the best food we've had in a while and features an awesome Hi-Fi system with an Isonoe mixer situated in a cosy basement. 

Big thanks to Nam, Christos, and the team for letting us loose to share our music with their customers.

https://www.nammcr.com

NAM - Listening Bar Session with Miche & Mr Bongo

Ground-breaking percussive ambient recordings to induce altered states of consciousness through ecstatic dance. Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were a world unto themselves.

Despite featuring an extraordinary cast of musicians (with credits including Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Milton Nascimento and much more) and selling hundreds of thousands of albums, the music of Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors remains largely unheard beyond their sphere. Conceived as live, improvised soundtracks to Roth’s transcendental dance workshops, musical acclaim was never on the agenda.

Instead, for a passionate dancer and spiritual polyglot like Gabrielle Roth, movement was a means through which to channel a wide spectrum of teaching, from experimental psychology to psychedelic counter-culture. It was from this heady mix that she devised a movement meditation known as 5Rhythms, which came to define her life’s work.

As “guide and catalyst”, Roth would dance to inspire the percussion-led instrumentals that would in turn fuel her 5Rhythms workshops, stimulating a secular form of ecstatic dance with roots in Native American shamanic traditions, Afro-Brazilian Candomblé and Yoruba drumming.

Using anything from a Sioux pony drum to East African kihembe and Japanese Kabuki drums, Gabrielle’s lawyer-turned-drummer husband Robert Ansell set the foundational rhythms for The Mirrors’ recordings, each of which would then feature a rotating cast of friends and professional musicians.

“The secret of everything we’ve done is that we never told anybody what to play,” Robert shares. “Instead of our albums being a musical vision of one person like me or Gabrielle, they were the musical vision of a whole bunch of people.”

At times the recordings have a Middle Eastern flair, at others, West African and spiritual jazz modes come to the fore. Hints of kosmische musik, proto-house and electronic ambience are laced like LSD through the organic rhythmic structures. This was kaleidoscopic ambient music to stir the body and free the mind.

In practice, the task of synthesising these different elements fell to Scott Ansell, Robert’s son and a recording engineer whose credits now include Nile Rogers, Duran Duran, Grace Jones. With meticulous attention to detail he captured and translated the dynamic energy of each drum onto record. Their sessions became legendary, and with access to the best studios in the NYC, The Mirrors sparkled.

Despite being initially overlooked by the burgeoning ‘80s New Age market, which preferred pipes and gongs to The Mirrors’ heavy-grooving drums, Robert Ansell set up Raven Recording to self-release the music, creating a vast sonic archive of sixteen albums over almost forty years.

The breadth of Raven’s catalogue is such that curator Pol Valls had to cut an initial selection of sixty-six tracks down to the eleven featured here. What crystallises is a stunning, mind-altering collection which spans, in Pol’s words, “a variety of genres, styles, and vibes within their catalogue, whether it is emotional, esoteric, spiritual, melancholic, hypnotic, dark, or at times a combination of these elements together.”

Music for immersive and intimate environments, Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were born from the dance. In the hands of the right DJ, at the right time, in the right place, they might just return there.

Selected Works 1985 - 2005

Zone Unknown

The space between the beats defines our time

Zone Unknown

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