Funk & soul

Tracks I'm Chillin' To - June 2020

...and the lockdown rumbles on, in a vague, disjointed way, across the UK. Lots of good stuff in this week's list, but I've gone with the jangly upbeat guitar sound of Honey Lung's "Big" as the pick of the week.

May 08 - May 14 2020

indi

June 2020 Drive

Weird Psience

LASTMODE'S Ones To Watch 2021

afrique

🆔 2020.02 | indie dance. synthpop. disco. | Indie Discotheque

Curtis Gabriel - True

A major artist of the electro-house scene, pioneer of the French touch, Bob Sinclar is back! ...in a style that is pure Bob Sinclar: a perfect blend of genres and epochs, for a result that is definitive clubbing.

Taken from his album „Paris by Night (A Parisian Musical Experience)“, released on WePLAY earlier this year, we’re excited to present finally the new single release „Sea Lion Woman“! With Gregory Cabyan, Nico de Andrea and Tiago Maioli on remix duties this well known Nina Simone theme finds the way back to the dancefloors in 2014!

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Bob Sinclar - Sea Lion Woman (Original Club Mix)

Tim Berg - Alcoholic

DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson - Tout Le Monde Pense

Tracklist & download available here: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/afrobuddha

Afrobuddha Boiler Room London DJ Set

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Lo-Fi Odysseys Boiler Room London DJ Set

Stone Cold Rhymin'

Know How

Gimme Shelter

Foundations Of Funk: A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969

Funky Drummer

Curated by @JaysonWynters & @LoFiOdysseys

Jayson Wynters + Power Mix

Tainted Love: The Original Single

Tainted Love (Single Version)

Cameroon, 1978: it’s like any good western movie. A man drifts through the plains at the furthest edge of the country in search of two former gunslingers, hoping to coax them out of retirement for one last showdown. Except this time, the weapons are guitars and the gunslingers are Jean Gabari and Messi Martin – the calm sheriff and his hot-headed deputy – who had led the band Los Camaroes to superstardom at the beginning of the decade.

Los Camaroes emerged at the end of the 1960s from the town of Maroua in the northern, predominantly Islamic area of Cameroon. After changes in name, in lineup and in management, they worked their way south to the capital to make a name for themselves; in the span of only a few years they changed Cameroon’s music scene forever, leaving a trail of sold-out nightclubs and monster radio hits in their wake. Then, at the height of their popularity, they broke up. 

The band had been led from the beginning by Jean Gabari, whose level-headedness and even-handedness inspired the respect and devotion of his musicians. But it was Gabari’s alchemical collaborations with guitarist Messi Martin that drove the band to its greatest heights. Martin had developed an innovation that would earn him fame throughout Cameroon as the “king of Bikutsi”, as Johnny Cosmos explains: 

“The primary instrument in Bikutsi is the balafon, and Messi came up with a trick that consisted of chewing small pieces of paper until they reached the right consistency and then stuck them between the strings of the guitar. This trick, which made a guitar sound like a balafon, catapulted him to stardom and turned him into the founder of Modern Bikutsi.” (Check the song “Bezimbi” to hear Messi Martin´s wizardry on a Bikutsi tune)

Martin’s extraordinary talents were matched by a character of great unpredictability. He had been lured away from the band before by the promise of success and, in 1975, when Los Camaroes were at the peak of their power, he left them once again. Gabari tried to keep the band going, but his own longstanding battles with ill health eventually forced him to return to his hometown. With Gabari and Martin gone, the rest of the musicians drifted away in search of other gigs. By 1978, Los Camaroes were no more than a rapidly fading memory.

But then came the resurrection.

From out of nowhere, a businessman named Atangana Joseph appeared in northern Cameroon. His goal: to track down the original members of Los Camaroes and get them back together for their one final shot at immortality. The musicians reconvened at the legendary Mango Bar in the capital city of Yaoundé, the very place where, years earlier, they had established their reputation as one of Cameroon’s most fearsome live bands.

Producer Nicolas Mongué and engineer Emmanuel Guyssot were called in from Douala to record what was being billed as a comeback album. There was talk of going into a studio, but Los Camaroes had always thrived on the energy of the nightclub scene; they decided instead to record it live to two-track in the Mango Bar.

The album, Resurrection Los Vol. 1, was completed in only a few days. There would be no Volume 2. The music that emerged during the Mango Bar sessions was the culmination of a fifteen year musical bond between Gabari and Martin, and what was supposed to be a comeback album ended up being a last testament — Gabari would die only a few years later and Martin, without his foil, would never find the same level of musical success. Even at the time, these two titans of Cameroon’s music scene seemed to realise it would be the last time they would ever work together. The resurrection of Los Camaroes was short-lived … but it produced a masterpiece.

Resurrection lOS

Resurrection Los - Los Camaroes

Foggy Tapes - Cogito Ergo Fog

Release Date: August, 30 2019
Labels : Howlin Banana Records, Lunadélia Records, Le Cèpe Records, Le Dude en Pierre du Square du Temple

Here Comes The Fog

beach house - space song (slowed + reverb)

Run Come Save Me

Dreamy Days

"Lead Me Astray" taken from James Alexander Bright's album 'Headroom' which is out on !K7 on the 3rd April 2020. 

Pre-order album here: https://k7.lnk.to/Headroom

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Lead Me Astray

James Alexander Bright - Lead Me Astray

Skin on Skin

Pretty Drama - Give Me Your Love (if Found Remix)

The second single off our "For Australia with Love" Compilation out this Friday

@alis_on

A.L.I.S.O.N - Always In My Dreams

Exclusive Mordisco 'Sacromonte'

Celebrating its 4th anniversary Mexican label Duro releases the second installment of their various artist series called 'Muy Duro' and kickstarts 2020 with five label befriended artists, namely Mordisco, Jepe, Darlyn Vlys, Fausto and Carisma, that synonominously represent Duro's international philosophy when it comes to music and giving it a home. With 116bpm Spanish duo Mordisco delivers a dark disco-ish wave, 'Sacromonte', slowing the generel pace of the V/A a bit down but still capturing the right amount of Latin vibe or their Latin roots with a lead-synth that's causing 'Sacromonte' to become one of these groovey, disco creepers one enjoys hearing in a sweaty club or under the open sky.

'Muy Duro Vol. 2' will be released on Duro on January 24th, 2020.

Buy the EP
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V/A - Muy Duro Vol. 2

Sacromonte

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EXCLUSIVE: Mordisco - Sacromonte [Duro]

FOR THOSE WHO ARE YET TO BE BORN

Harmony Avenue

J Terrapin

Can't Get Out

(Lyrics)
i was having lunch with you in a vinyl booth when i was 22
when i was 24 people told me what to do, i don’t need it anymore
you call me your one time villain
you call but it pains just a little

i’m a bird in a branch, write a song and i will sing it
just a fly on the wall, around but never needed 
your fingers brushing through my wings
could have been an easy thing

you call me your one time villain
you call but you withhold a little
you withhold a little

Music by Coco
Produced by Coco
c. Coco / FCA 2020

One Time Villain

“I'm Not Getting Excited” is taken from The Beths' forthcoming record, "Jump Rope Gazers," out July 10th, 2020 on Carpark Records.

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p + c 2020 Carpark Records

Jump Rope Gazers

The Beths - I'm Not Getting Excited

The latest single from Candid, Pulling Away.

Pulling Away

Hunter

1894

Post Modern Motorcade Music

A Reason to Celebrate

Taken from 'Spa Commissions 2', a new mini-album and sequel to 2017's Spa Commissions. It comes out on Local Action on May 7.

Spa Commissions 2 will also be released in a deluxe double-cassette package, including the original Spa Commissions. You can buy it here: https://yamaneko.bandcamp.com/album/spa-commissions-2

Shaped Like Kaleidoscopes

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FOR THOSE WHO ARE YET TO BE BORN

lightning orchestra