Format: Vinyl LP, CD, Digital
Web: www.hopestreetrecordings.com/woodenboy

It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares! Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one’s telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It’s dark here, so you can do your own thing.

Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel -- a ten piece band from Melbourne, Australia -- all born in the 90s and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year's rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic odyssey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog -- if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA's score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener's imagination.

Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel’s taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby, Wooden Boy.

PRAISE FOR HAPTICS by THE CACTUS CHANNEL (debut 2012 album):

•	"Hot-to-trot... an embryonic version of the Meters or the Dap Kings" - THE AUSTRALIAN (four stars)
•	"Tightly raw soul, rambling deep-funk jams and organ-driven party mash-ups" - THE AGE
•	"Infectiously funky sounds... a horn-fuelled, butt-shaking affair" - TRIPLE J HOME & HOSED
•	"Old-fashioned, gritty soul music – by a bunch of white teenagers from Melbourne" - THE MONTHLY
•	"Album Of The Week" - RTR PERTH, PBS-FM, SYN-FM, 2SER + EASTSIDE RADIO, RTR PERTH

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The Cactus Channel - Black Flag and Lady Bountiful

One of the best version of DeVaungh's song

Yo La Tengo - Be Thankful for What You Got

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back on 45: https://www.discogs.com/release/28148479-Trishes-Edits

Darondo - Didn't I (Trishes Edit)

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Most honored to even have the chance to put my spin on this beautiful piece of love by two of my all-time favorites. Sincerely hope yall dig it. I played all the guitar work, drums sampled from Shawn Lee, and grateful for my man Reed Mathis, coming through in a rush and laying bass on it night before the deadline for submissions.
Blessyall!
// Sole.

UPDATE: The winners of the DJ Shadow remix contest have been announced! I'm not one of them, but it was great to hear the ones that shadow picked. So glad Archive's Waltz version was in the ranks, played that on my KCRW show on Wednesday. I'm not bummed one bit, everyone who Shadow picked killed it in their own way, and since I only set out to make what I consider to be a beautiful song... I feel successful in that. BLESSYALL for voting, and all the kind words. Now that it's over I can give it away for free. Enjoy.

DJ SHADOW ft. LITTLE DRAGON - Scale It Back (Jeremy Sole Remix)

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Combining traditional African rhythmic textures with melodies and grooves steeped in American funk, soul, and jazz, Ikebe Shakedown offers a unique and powerful sound. The 8-piece, Brooklyn-based band formed in early 2009 and, after a slew of dates around NYC, recorded their debut 7” single and EP, Hard Steppin', at Dunham Studios (home of Menahan Street Band, Budos Band, Charles Bradley and more). The 5-track offering, released on Colemine Records, received high praise from critics, fans, and distributors.

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!!! These are stripped-down 192mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: V.A.
Title: Compost Vocal Selection (Brothers) „Merging – Male Vocal Tunes“ compiled & mixed by Rupert & Mennert 
Cat No: CPT 418-3
Format: Download
Releasedate: 15.03.2012

Tracklisting:

01.	Zwicker - Prism (Featuring Serpentine) (05:23)
02.	General Electrics - Take You Out Tonight (Feat. Lateef the Truth Speaker) (05:16)
03.	Intuit - Western Sunrise (Featuring Andy Bey) (06:37)
04.	General Electrics - Facing That Void (Featuring Maroons) (03:06)
05.	Wagon Cookin' - Start To Play (Featuring Aqeel 72) (07:31)
06.	TJ Kong & Nuno dos Santos - Merging (Featuring Robert Owens) (10:18) 
07.	Phreek Plus One - True (I Know It) (Featuring Ovasoul7) (05:20)
08.	Beanfield - Someone Like You (Featuring Ernesto) (05:46)
09.	Daniel Magg - Set For Seizure (Featuring Gentlerain) (06:11)
10. Kyoto Jazz Massive - Deep In Your Mind (Featuring Victor Davies) (07:23)
11. Les Gammas - All Of Me (03:24)
12. Alex Attias Presents Mustang - Help Me (Featuring Colonel Red) (04:54)
13. Joseph Malik - Evil Things (Bobby Hughes Combination Remix) (04:37)
14. Muallem - Holla (There's Sun In Primrose) (Featuring Marc Frank) (04:29)

V.A. – Compost Vocal Selection (Brothers) (Continuous Mix) (62:38)

Info: After one and a half decade and more than 400 releases, Compost Records bundles some of their finest tunes as Various Artists digital download compilation albums. The variety and full spectrum of Compost’s repertoire has never or rarely been presented in form of a musical genre compilation. These releases will be compiled or DJ-mixed by Compost’s artists and are available as digital downloads, except in some rare cases very very limited as 500 CDs.

Ever since the beginning of electronic music the voice was considered an instrument that shouldn’t be forgotten. So when everybody considered the beats and the bass as the King, there was still love for vocals. Sometimes to create an atmosphere of tribalism with its own mantras, sometimes as a work of poetry. But always present.

From the depths of the Compost vaults vocal tracks were selected and mixed by Rupert & Mennert. Compost and Rupert & Mennert are more than proud to present two shining examples of all the great songs that were sung and produced in the last two decades.

Could one say that this particular ‘Compost Selection’ defines a genre? Well... not entirely. Do all the great vocalists that sang on an immense amount of Compost releases deserve their own spotlight? Well... hell yes!

The first take has the appropriate sub-title: Brothers.

On this very compilation, fourteen tracks are selected and mixed together. With vocal contributions by Robert Owens, Victor Davies, Colonel Red, Marc Frank, Joseph Malik, Ovasoul 7, Jamie Lloyd, Ernesto and many more. The tracks will go back and forth through all kinds of genres. From the deep folk electronic of Zwicker , the latin-jazz by Intuit and the spoken word by General Electrics to the beats by Wagon Cookin’, Daniel Magg, Phreek Plus One and TJ Kong & Nuno dos Santos. Giving you post broken beats by Beanfield and Kyoto Jazz Massive. Ending with some classic crooning from Les Gammas and funky soul by Muallem and Alex Attias.

So let the brothers of Compost be your guide through their musical landscape!

Who are Rupert&Mennert? 
Rupert & Mennert reside in Den Helder, The Netherlands. One of the most beautiful cities in the world. From there they send their music into the wide world. They broadcast a highly irregular radioshow called Weird Pigs. They remix tracks and invent new concepts about making music. One of those mysterious new concepts is called: Brain Connection Series... also on Compost Records. And of course you can expect more Compost Selections from their hand too.
More information or booking: 

www.rupertmennert.nl 
Contact them directly through info@rupertmennert.nl

The Compost Selection releases:
V.A. Compost Ambient Selection Vol.1
„ Sleeping Beauty“ – Compost Relax Works “ compiled and mixed by Minus 8 (limited edition CD, Download) 
V.A. Compost House Selection Vol. 1 „ 10.000 Leagues Deeper – Compost House Cosmos “ compiled and mixed by Thomas Herb (Download) 
V.A. Compost HipHop Selection Vol.1
„ 2Hot 2Cold 2Tuff – Compost HipHop Hunk “ compiled and mixed by Sepalot (Download) 
V.A. Compost Disco Selection Vol.1 „ Astro Boogie – Neo Disco Voltage “ compiled and mixed by Michael Reinboth (Download) 
V.A. Compost Jazz Selection Vol. 1
„See The Sun – Compost Jazz Affairs “compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download) 
V.A. Compost Downbeat Selection Vol. 1 „Ocean Beat“ – Warm Organic Harmony“ compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download) 
V.A. Compost House Selection Vol. 2
„Get Slapped Up“ – House Moods“ compiled and mixed by Shahrokh Dini (Download) 
V.A. Compost Downbeat Selection Vol. 2 „One Step Forward – Warm Pop And Folky“ compiled and mixed by Michael Reinboth (Download) 
V.A. Compost Jazz Selection Vol. 2 „ Crosswinds – Compost Jazz Affairs“ compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download) 
V.A. Compost Experimental Selection Vol. 1 „ Seismic Tranquilizer – Leftfield Tracks “ compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download) 
V.A. Compost Remixes Selection Vol. 1 „ Incredible – Best Of Remixes“ compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download) 
V.A. Compost Ambient Selection Vol.2 „The Quiet Room – Smooth Spheric Noise “ compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download) 
V.A. Compost Brazil Selection Vol.1 „ Primavera – Bossa & Samba Beats “ compiled and mixed by Tom Burclay (Download) 
V.A. Compost Remixes Selection Vol. 2 „Go Get It – More Remixes“ compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download) 
V.A. Compost Downbeat Selection Vol.3 „Cherish Your Love – Moody Twilight Vibes“ compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download)

General Electrics | Take You Out Tonight (Featuring Lateef the Truth Speaker)



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