Italian born Federico Costantini is now a close member of the Hell Yeah family having released a number of EPs and a couple of little classics on the label before now. Here, for the first time, he steps out with a full-length album project that really showcases his style across nine great tracks.

As a regular spinner in Rome best parties, Luminodisco knows how to work a dancefloor in style and does so again with the tracks here, which will appeal to fans of everything from house to disco to feel good beats. He's also half of Studio22 with Francisco (Jolly Music) releases on Edizioni Mondo and generally always impresses with his unhinged sense of sound.

Opening up this LP is the title track Understory: bird calls, humid jungle ambiance and rising synths make for a great bit of evocative musical imagery that places you somewhere hot immediately.

La Mission is next and is a serious slow-mo groove awash with elastic chords, stretched vocals and prickly percussion. The Pirates then offers a playful disco jam with clipped vox and lively chord stabs, Welcome then suspends listeners amongst celestial chords and baby sounds before Equipe gets freaky with bendy bass, blurts of synth and all sorts of beautifully odd sounds and samples that are charming and curious in equal measure.

Continuing to prove he uses totally different sound sources and textures than anyone else, Da Simonetti chugs along on the laziest of drums as sun kissed synths radiate from the core.
Zenigata is a more dancefloor-aligned track with rising arpeggios, twinkling melodies and stirring, emotive synths.

Lavori Forzati is a soupy, gooey number with cosmic ripples and deep space energy permeating throughout and the album closes with the upbeat and authentic disco jam that is Oh Mary.

This album has many tricks up its sleeve but always manages to sound like nothing else as well as making you feel good in its presence. It’s moving both physically and emotionally and really takes you on a unique trip.

The Pirates

Luminodisco - The Pirates

"Selallane" by The Black Five is the third track made available for streaming prior to the release of the compilation "Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie in 1980s South Africa", out on 9 March 2018 on Triple Vinyl, CD and digital.

The compilation features 16 rare cuts handpicked by Miles Cleret (Soundway) and DJ Okapi (Afrosynth) highlights the period that nestles in between the ‘70s (where American-influenced jazz, funk and soul bumped shoulders with local Mbaqanga) and the ‘90s when Kwaito and eventually house music ruled the dancefloors of urban South Africa.

These tracks have been made available for the first time on digital and first time on vinyl outside of their original release.

Pre-order now via our website www.soundwayrecords.com or via Bandcamp bit.ly/2B4JwNM . Vinyl orders via these 2 sites will receive a FREE digital download of the full album from release date.

Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie in 1980s South Africa

Selallane

The Black Five - Selallane

Dowdelin est un trio qui propose une soul music contemporaine en langue créole.
Les trois musiciens mélangent élégamment musique des Caraïbes françaises et influences afro-américaines tentant d'esquisser un afro-futurisme créole.
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Dowdelin is a trio delivering a contemporary soul music in the Creole language.The three musicians elegantly fuse together French Caribbean music and afro-american influences, in an attempt to herald a Creole afro-futurism.

Carnaval Odyssey

DOWDELIN - Ka Fwo Bit

Download / Stream: https://kryptox.lnk.to/BrotherAllAlone  

"Yellow Sari" is the second pre-single of JJ Whitefield’s solo debut album "Brother All Alone". A sitar - jazz funk tune with a heavy live played Hiphop beat. A stylish mix of the new Hipster jazz vibe, with Krautrock and ethno elements.
Released on the new German Neo-Jazz label Kryptox/ K7. Guitarist and producer JJ Whitefield is kind of a legend to many Neo-Funk, Krautrock and Afro connoisseurs around the world. Before joining the Kryptox label he released albums on Ninja Tune, Stones Throw, Now Again, Daptone with his bands Karl Hector & The Malcouns, Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield, Rodinia. 
He also was the band leader and co-produced the two comeback albums of Ebo Taylor for Strut Records. JJ Whitefield - the German multitalent - has been living in San Francisco before coming back to Germany and now recording "Brother All Alone" - A Jazz Funk album with some of the best young heads from the new Berlin Hipster Jazz scene. The album could make some waves as Whitefield has prominent fans all over the world: American dons like Madlib, DJ Shadow, Dan Auerbach, Mark Ronson to the UK Jazz heads around the Gilles Peterson and Shabacka scene. Many of the albums of his former bands are cult. So this next step in his carrier will get some attention too.

JJ Whitefield - Yellow Sari

Kubatana

Hapana (feat. Zeke Manyika)

Another volume of RAW funks. A bunch of 8 tracks from beats, boom baps & soul music. It's also a great pleasure or us to collab on this one with great musicians like Vincent Choquet (DBFC, Aérobrasil) & Nicolas Delahaye (Concrete Knives). Thanks for the support and keep it funky ! 

All tracks composed by Souleance
rhodes on "Basta" by Vincent Choquet (Aérobrasil, DBFC)
guitars on "Paule's Goulash" by Nicolas Delahaye (Concrete Knives) 
bass on "Paule's Goulash" by  Fulgeance

Buy/Stream on bandcamp

Cigar Et Cognac

"Balance", the laid back and soulful new single from Tender Games feat. Flowers, celebrates the importance of balance in life. Its smooth therapeutic energy even feels like a doctor’s order. Give „Balance“ (by the way the debut of Flowers, loaded with sweet saxophone melodies and Wurlitzer Electric piano chords) a listen.

Download: http://smarturl.it/tender-games-balance
Release: 30.08.2019

Tender Games:
Soundcloud: @tender-games
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tendergames
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tendergames

Flowers:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jamminflowers
Instagram: http://instagram.com/flowers_lofi/

Midnight Snacks:
Soundcloud: @midnight-snacks-music
Facebook: www.facebook.com/midnightsnacks.label
Instagram: www.instagram.com/midnight_snacks_music

Artwork by:
Hans Berger: www.instagram.com/hans_berger/

Tender Games feat. Flowers - Balance

It'll All Be Over

ONE NATION UNDERDOG GROOVE - french label - home of FLOX, DAFUNIKS, JOHN MILK, FANGA, TRIBEQA, JANKO NILOVIC ...

Paris · http://www.underdogrecords.fr

DOWDELIN - Ka Fwo Bit

Underdog Records France