Available to download via Bandcamp: https://martianbassrecords.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-compilation

This compilation is for all our supporters and our new fans who have followed us for these few months, 2014 has been a good for year us and we hope to continue putting out more great music in the new year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Thank you to all the artists who contributed: @crtmusic @numinax @nopuls @death-drums @iammobbius @deeb @justin-de-guzman @subskrilla

Artwork by CDX Visual Media 
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deeB - Back From The Woods

Beyond Stolen Notes

Tracklist:
1 - Hiraku (開く)
2 - Hills Are Floating
3 - New Lands Discovery
4 - Lain Is Dreaming (feat. Earthquake Island)
5 - Urbinian
6 - Kodama No Matsuri (木魂の祭)
7 - While You’re Fading (Cello by Springintgut)
8 - Bamboo Delays (feat. Godblesscomputers)
9 - Haneda (羽田)
10 - Origami Flower
11 - Flying Tissue (Stolen edit)

All tracks produced, performed and recorded by Stefano Fagnani, except for:
- track 04, produced, performed and recorded by Stefano Fagnani and Emiliano Ruggiero;
- track 07, original cello take performed and recorded by Andi Otto;
- track 08, produced, performed and recorded by Stefano Fagnani and Lorenzo Nada.
Mixed and mastered by Stefano Genta.

Artwork by Emiliano Ruggiero.
Graphic design by Andrea Buzzi and Enrico Facca.

Released on Loci Records (digital - www.locirecords.com) and Megaphone (vinyl - www.megaphone.it)

"Hills Are Floating" available for free download at Loci Records Bandcamp page: locirecords.bandcamp.com/track/hills-are-floating

Buy here:
digital - https://locirecords.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-stolen-notes
vinyl - https://megaphonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-stolen-notes

Buy here

Urbinian (Indie Shuffle exclusive premiere)

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Stip (Pre-Release)

Joey Fehrenbach - The Beginning

Little People is the moniker of UK based downtempo electronic musician Laurent Clerc… He returns with his second full length album - We Are But Hunks Of Wood - a whole 6 years after his first album (Mickey Mouse Operation) was released on Illicit recordings. Whilst his debut - an accomplished ode to late 90's instrumental hip hop - has unexpectedly gone on to be in the top 30 selling album downloads on iTunes in the electronic genre in the US for the last 2 years, he is still all but unknown to most tastemakers and influential blogs shaping today's electronic music scene. Having followed an unconventional route to success - thanks to in no small part to Pandora radio generating him huge amounts of exposure - he seemingly exists outside the normal channels used to promote artists. We sense this is all about to change…

'We are But Hunks of Wood' is a sonic leap forward for LIttle People (that's the least you can expect after a 6 year hiatus between albums!) which should help establish himself as key proponent of the downtempo electronic music scene. Part beats, bleeps and real live instrumentation, this new record maybe falls in a place where Bonobo and Anders Trentemoller would hypothetically meet. Having initially come from the world of instrumental hip hop where tracks are often more akin to just sketches or interesting ideas, Laurent Clerc's pieces are fully fledged songs whose arrangements create a sense of mood and movement, effortlessly going from nuanced electronic patterns to soaring string arrangements over the course of the journey. This is no beat tape.

There are many reasons why it has taken him so long to release his follow up record - like nearly turning his back on making music and becoming the father of a set of twins… But the main reason was that he felt he had to reinvent his work methodology and write and record his tracks from the ground up. He saw sampling as tantamount to taking another man's 2 bars of inspiration and passing it off as your own. The story of the samplist making the jump to creating his own material is not new… but it isn't always a successful one. Laurent took enough time to make sure that leap was taken with aplomb.

We Are but Hunks of Wood

Wonderland

“Maisha” is the Swahili word for life.

This album to me expresses the feeling of embracing life in all its forms, with its different perspectives, moods, sounds, energies. In contrast to previous work, which was somewhat more reflective, this album was made with a lot of creative energy and drive. When starting each track I felt like I was overflowing with ideas that I had to try out and get down as soon as possible. Sometimes the inspiration would come from listening to various new albums on Bandcamp from around the world: jazz, African folk, hip-hop, Neo-soul, funk, afrobeat. Other times the inspiration would come simply from biking around Los Angeles and taking in sights and sounds from different parts of the city.

I think there can easily be pressure when making to album for it to feel as though each album has to embody a sophisticated concept or make some specific statement. Albums expressing abstract concepts or political or social statements are important for the musical culture, to be sure; but music is also an expression of where the artist is at spiritually, emotionally, and creatively at a certain point in time. This is what Maisha means for me. It represents the joys, excitements, and bursts of creative feeling, as well as the tranquility and nostalgia that I felt at times while making it. With this work, as with my previous work, I am ever seeking to defy genre. Of course, it’s clear that downtempo and trip-hop music form the backbone of what I am doing, but I am also trying to challenge those labels all the time by exploring different rhythms, scales, arrangements, and instruments.

I hope this album helps you find inspiration to express yourself or explore in whatever ways are possible or speak to you in your life, as it did for me.

Thanks for listening.

x

Tristan de Liège

Personnel:
Conor Malloy: Drums 
Parker Law: Drums
Yvette Holzwarth: Violin
Isaac Takeuchi: Cello
Moana Avvenenti: Vocals
Carly Barnette: Vocals
Selina Carrera: Vocals
Steven Robinson: Trombone
Henry Solomon: Flute, Saxophone
Tristan de Liège - Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Percussion

All tracks written and produced by Tristan de Liège, except:
Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) written by Tristan de Liège and Carly Barnette, and
Mbali (feat. Selina Carrera) written by Tristan de Liège and Selina Carrera.

Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) (Radio Edit)

Remix from Asta Hiroki of my new single taken from the forthcoming album 'Maisha' out soon on First Light. 

Buy it here: https://tristandeliege.bandcamp.com/album/mbali-feat-selina-carrera

Mbali (feat. Selina Carrera)[Asta Hiroki Remix]

Usawa (feat. Onyi) - Single

Usawa (feat. ONYI LOVE)

Downtempo artist based in Los Angeles

Description of my sound: 

Nostalgic textures with orchestral melodies or organic samples backed by evolving downtempo beats.

One half of Thoma.


Contact: tristandeliege@gmail.com
Instragram: @tristandeliege