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Wouter van Veldhoven - (un)Finished Contraptions 1 (Peter Broderick Rework)

BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Matthew Tavares - Heroes

Stream & download: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/diagnosis

‘Diagnosis’ is the first single by upcoming South-African producer L E F from his forthcoming EP ‘Antidote’ on Melting Pot Music. Born and raised in Johannesburg, L E F is bringing a new vibe to the beat scene. “‘Antidote’ is a sort of 80’s inspired EP that attempts to guide the listener on a journey of healing/recovery through the speedy but sweet playthrough produced”, L E F explains.

Artwork by Parisian illustrator MC Blue Matter. 

Follow L E F
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Produced and mixed by L E F.
Mastered by Roe Beardie.
Artwork by MC Blue Matter.

Cat No: MPM 329-1
Artist: L E F
Title: Diagnosis

© ℗ 2022 Melting Pot Music

L E F - Diagnosis

Break up the dance music onslaught of festival season (we're guilty of it too) with the best new thing we've heard this summer. 

Warm, sun-soaked, nostalgic and oh so melodic psych/soft rock from Perth.

Watch the nostalgic video and read more about Eleventeen Eston at <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2014/07/16/eleventeen-eston-two-stroke-vertical-climb-soundcloud-premiere/" target="_blank"><strong>Stamp The Wax</a>


Eleventeen Eston - Two Stroke Vertical Climb (STW Premiere)

LOVE is WAR, Volume 6

ViBRATiON

Sax In The Ocean (Feat. Alex 🎷, 1/2 Volvax 🎹)

mi vida (Slowed)

sunny

www.leavingrecords.com
The author is VHVL: electronic composer Veronica Lauren from Harlem, New York. Culled from the resonant void, the album evn is an all-instrumental 26min listen of emotive melody and passion-beats stirred with details of nuanced noise. A follow-up release is planned for 2017 on Leaving Records. 

CASSETTE & DIGITAL

VHVL - 0008

5:00 am...a few percussions and a microphone...this is how my collaboration with @wuachumamusic 'Nuit d'Afrique' was born. 

More of a short story than a song, I'm happy to finally share the full 12 minutes version with you.

Kindisch Presents: Kindisch Steps VI

Available here

Kora, Adriēn (Wuachuma) - Nuit D'Afrique (Original Mix)

Das Album (auch ohne die outtakes sehr zerfickend) gibt es hier :
https://www.sichtexot.com/Shop/Releases/Tufu-Eloquent-Wenn-Der-Vorhang-Fehlt.html

Tufu & Eloquent - Wenn der Vorhang fehlt Outtakes

LR131 Sam Gendel - Pass If Music
https://samgendel.bandcamp.com/album/pass-if-music

L.A's Sam Gendel made every sound on this live recording w. his alto saxophone. 
This music is inspired by and from the motion picture The Labyrinth & The Long Road, directed by Daniel Oh.

VIDEO (excerpted from the motion picture The Labyrinth & The Long Road, directed by Daniel Oh)
https://youtu.be/XuyCAUNlmSM

LIMITED TAPES

Sam Gendel - Final Chamber

In june the tapefabrik dudes invited me to play a beatset at Häkken in Hamburg. Somehow someone pressed the recordbutton for a random timeperiod...i grabbed the mic afterwards.
The pretty face shown belongs to my cousin and partner in crime who was on beatselction.
Anyway: here is that 18 minute extract.
Hint: I leaked some vocals of the upcoming Knowsum album - tihi love is the air.

Häkken in June

Aretha Franklin - Daydreaming 
SV Interlude - Tenderlonious 
Fall in Love - BADBADNOTGOOD
Green and Gold - Takuya Kuroda
Certainly - Erykah Badu
The Root - D'Angelo
Slow Down- Dame 
Izzy Izzy Ahh - Missy Elliott 
The Rhyme - Keith Murrary (J Dilla Edit) 
Foolish - Ashanti 
The Blast - Talib Kweli 
Chocolate Mountain - Suff Daddy
Strange Behvaiour - Roots Manuva 
Breeze - Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media
Wil - Joss Moog
Lansana's Priestess - Donald Byrd
Natural Vaudou - Vaudou Game
I walk Alone - Marijata
Coffin For Head of State - Fela Kuti
Este - Guy One feat. Florence Adooni
Kay Len Fecce - Wey Len Nobel
Afro Beat Blues - Hugh Masekela feat. Ojah 
Gbona - Burna Boy
Vur Vai - Kwesta
Palafala - TKZee feat. SBU
Modjadi (remix) - Chicco 
Ungawa Kum - Thebe 
I Want You - Common feat. Will.i.am
Heart's Desire - Don Blackman
Testin Me - Peven Everett
Don't Let It Go To Your Head - Brand Nubian
Over & Over - Kano
Allthis - Kaiowin
Addiction - Kanye West
340ml - Zuks 
One In A Million - Aaliyah
I'll Stay - The RH Factor

Donwella - Dec 2019

New beat from 1st. Order, the upcoming compilation of https://soundcloud.com/flawless-delivery
Entire release will be on January 1st.
•Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1swrlSvNkTXKOTwmvXKcWQ

•YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH72WyxBugI&t=7s
•Instagram: www.instagram.com/juanriosbeats/
•Facebook: www.facebook.com/JuanRIOSbeats
•Twitter: twitter.com/JuanRIOSbeats

Häkken in June

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