DJ Marcia Carr brought me here. Where can I buy this EP. Love at first listen. x

Italian duo Night Passengers aka Nicola Loporchio and Emanuele Del Carmine serve up their first collaborative album this summer. Find A Way comes on Born just a year or so after the project was spontaneously formed during lockdown, and is a seamless nine-track instrumental fusion of soul, jazz, funk, breaks and 80s grooves.

Nicola Loporchio is also known as Nico Lahs and Cosmic Garden and is a producer with more than a decade's experience. In that time he has landed on countless influential labels with a range of EPs and EPs that take in everything from downtempo to deep house, hip hop to funk. During the lockdowns of 2020, he hooked up with fellow Italian musician Emanuele Del Carmine who has served up some fresh disco sounds in the last couple of years. They began jamming together in early 2021 and soon found they shared common ideas when it came to good time grooves. Now, that plays out across a proper full-length that is perfect for close home listening and laid back Sundays, but always with one eye on a cosy and intimate dancefloor.

This most cohesive of works opens with the joyous keys of 'Moonlight Sonata' which sets an immediately romantic mood. 'Illusion' is then a golden bit of jazz-funk with warm, glowing chords and dusty broken beats that make you want to shuffle. 'Wandering' is another piece of
fine musicianship with perfect interplay between the live drums, jazzy keys and cosmic leads. The title track then slows things down. It's deep, spacious and atmospheric with suggestive bass, pillowy chords and distant melodies twinkling like stars in a night sky.

'Escape On A Sunny Sunday' has a lush retro-future feel, with freeform keys racing about the scales as the cosmic leads and tight drums tie the whole track together. During 'Moments Of Insanity,' the album launches further into the cosmos on waves of radiant melody and splashy cymbals. 'Past Memories' taps into 80s nostalgia with more blurry-edged chords and natty synth sequences riding on louche drums. The heady 'On A Cloud' is a go-slow piece that invites you into a seductive jazz-funk dreamworld and lastly, Brazilian Zopelar remixes 'Illusion' into a tumbling bit of boogie-tinged house funk.

Find A Way is a vibrant work from seasoned musicians whose virtuoso playing brings every track to life in a heartwarming fashion.

BORN03 - Night Passengers - Find A Way (+ Zopelar Remix)

Steppin’ out with their first VA release since the label’s inception in 1995, Worldship Music follows up the release of underground sensation Roberta’s The Brooklyn Ave Sessions with Herald Traccs Vol. 1. The record is a (mostly) LA based affair, starting with Jam’s Theme, a clever flip of a classic from veteran producer and former Underground Resistance member Santiago Salazar. Next up is En Echo, a deep and dubby affair from Echo Park’s Kelvin K, a seminal figure in SF’s early 00’s house scene. Label owners Teflon Dons open the B side with a tough, deep garage cut that would have likely set the UK garage scene on fire. Unfinished since '98, the Dons thankfully revisited this lost classic for some finishing touches. Rounding out the release is the mysterious Westcoast Goddess, whose First Tear emotes a melancholy beauty reminiscent of Hanna’s early work. Heading strong into their 26th year, underground house music is here to stay with Worldship. Look out for volume 2, the hunger continues…

A1. Santiago Salazar - Jam's Theme

Summer can officially begin! Music is My Sanctuary is proud to present the sunny glider "Réalité" taken from the forthcoming EP from Stella, Détends-Toi.

It marks the first release for the label Cosmic Romance, run by Ed Longo and Gilberto Mascarenhas. A record heavily influenced boogie, the sound of mid-80s French underground, and Zouk, it's an essential 12" for summer 2022.

Détends-toi

Exclusive Premiere: Stella "Réalité" (Forthcoming on Cosmic Romance)

12" single from Alton Miller feat. KB
from the forthcoming LP on Sound Signature "Now Is The Time"

downloads available Friday 8/12
records comin soon

Love Don't Pass Me By feat. KB

Before we call it the end of the week we have an exclusive premiere to share from one of our favourite producers, Sofatalk, with his new cut "Strut" for Boogie Cafe, featuring Veezo & The Mechanical Man.

SofaTalk is known for his wide ranging tastes that spans house, funk, neo-soul, jazz, broken beat and downtempo. He's the founder of Cognitiva Records and has a monthly residency on the ever-growing Universal Rhythms. His sounds can be found on Banoffee Pies Records, Yam, Ini Movement, Tusk Wax, Broken District, Omena, and Anma.

'Million Toes EP' is a collection of loungey deep house and intricate broken beat, laced with live instrumentation, the result being this wonderfully jazzy EP. It is comprised of four electronic jazz-funk infused house tracks.

"Strut" is a smooth percussive house jam, with soft and gentle jazz chords, dreamy layers and atmospherics that really kicks the EP off nicely with much of the same to follow.

Boogie Cafe

Exclusive Premiere: SofaTalk Ft. Veezo & The Mechanical Man "Strut"  (Boogie Cafe)

A1. Angel-A - Power remix
A2. Rick Wilhite and Kyle Hall - Catapillar
B1. Orlando Voorn - Vibe
B2. Salar Ansari - I Want You Here
C1. Delano Smith - Mortal Mentality
C2. Malik Alston - Tour Detroit
D1. Moodymann - I Got Werk (Unreleased Version)
D2. Javonontte  - Feels So right

2x12" vinyl (VIBES007)  
compiled by Rick "the Godson" Wilhite 
distributed by mahogani music
snippet by @floreal1

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Unreleased 2020 - 2022 pt.1 (2x12" snippet)

@80-karat gave us a visit and killed the decks !

Come say hi and visit our wine shop with audiophile soundsystem including Nagaoka MP110 cartridges, Varia RDM40 mixer, McIntosh 252 amplifier & Klipsh Heresy III speakers.

TASCAM DR-05

80 Karats - Satriale's Diggers Session - 10/03

Track taken from "Photoautomat" by Max Newton & Matalo!

Release date : June 16th
(C) Omena Records

Photoautomat

Max Newton & Matalo! - Crooklyn Survivor

In My Heart

Bacala [Lisbon Journeys Records]

Chas jankel "Boy - DJ Darryn edit"

Snippets of the 3 tracks taken from the "Lights Out" EP featuring Kaidi Tatham released exclusively on vinyl November 2016 on Blend it! records. 

Tracklist:
A1. Lights Out
B1. High Flames
B2. Flash Burn

Juno records review:
Verona-based Patrick "Twice" Gibin is making a habit of collaborating with nu-jazz and broken beat veterans. Having previously joined forces with one-time Sonar Kollektiv regular Clara Hill, this E.P sees him acquire the services of killer keys-man Kaidi Tatham of Bugz In The Attic fame. The latter's smart, jazz-funk influenced riffs are all over the sweet, gently soulful and wonderfully positive deep house A-side "Lights Out", but can also be heard on the woozy, broken beat-goes-boogie flex of "High Flames". "Flash Burn", another musically rich, organic house groover - this time complete with what sound like eyes-closed guitar solos - completes an excellent package.

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/patrick-gibin-twice-kaidi-tatham-lights-out/625999-01/

Patrick Gibin featuring Kaidi Tatham "Lights Out" EP

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Patrick Gibin featuring Kaidi Tatham "Lights Out" EP

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