Ambient Complex

This song was orignally released on the album "Recombination":
https://taylorhaskins.bandcamp.com/album/recombination-2010

Aphex Twin (aka Richard D. James), composer
Taylor Haskins - trumpet, synthesizers, arranger
Nate Smith - drums
Ben Monder - guitar
Henry Hey - piano & keyboards
Todd Sickafoose - bass

Alberto Balsalm (Aphex Twin cover)

Magnolia

Dark Moon

A deep, atmospheric mix that blends Afro-jazz, electronica, and organic rhythm. It moves between moments of introspection and energy, like a lost transmission, unfolding in waves, blending past and present.

Arrangement - Coconut Mango
The Brother Moves On - Itumeleng Revisited
Gerald Toto - Ma Mama
Sibusile Xaba - Umdali
Sophia Kennedy - Kimono Hill
Håkan Hellström - That's All Right (Håkan Hellström edit) by Laura Rivers
DJ Koze - Wie schön du bist
Gerry Read - Satyricon
Schlammpeitziger - Loch ohne Licht - Ada Remix
Dave DK - Don't Eat the Homies
El_Txef_A - Mugarrirantz feat. Napoka Iria - Dave DK Remix
Masayoshi Fujita - Story of Forest
La Finca - What Clouds Say
DJ Koze, Ada - Take a run

Disclaimer: This mix is a non-commercial, creative project for promotional purposes only. All tracks and their respective rights belong to the original artists and labels. No copyright infringement is intended. If you own the rights to any of the music featured and would like it removed, please contact me directly.

Webby’s coconut mango transmission

[Verse 1]
It's 5 AM and they've called  the cops
But I don't wanna stop the fun
(ooo let's keep going keep going keep going)

[Chorus]
I wanna get funked out

[Verse 2]
Hey, that's my DJ, turnin that shit up!

[Chorus]
Turn it up, turn it up
I wanna get funked out

I can't stay away, I can't stay away
I can't stay away, from this funk thang
I can't stay away
I can't stay away, no.

[Verse 3]
Hey, that's my DJ, turnin that shit up!

[Chorus]
I wanna get funked out

I wanna get funked out
I can't stay away, I can't stay away
I can't stay away

Heavy Head Music (ASCAP)
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Loaded Brew serves up 11 shots of pure ’70s heat — from the tear-stained confession of “If He Ever Makes You Cry” to the tender surrender of “I’m the One Who Loves You.” Each track walks you through Carlena and Peter’s forbidden love story: the secret dances, the whispered wishes, the bruised nights, and the final run for freedom.

“Close Your Eyes” pours out Peter’s promise of escape.

“This Feeling” rides a groove you can’t talk yourself out of.

“You’ve Been Crying” holds the hurt in one hand and hope in the other.

“I Can’t Stay Away” spins like a slow dance in a smoke-filled lounge.

“Kisses” simmers with fire-softened tenderness.

“Wishing” looks up at the stars and dares to believe.

“JT Lude” crawls through the city like a shadow.

“Shadow of a Man” lays bare the weight of doubt and broken pride.

“I Had to Run (You Came For Me)” runs breathless through the night.

“I’m the One Who Loves You” is the sunrise after the storm.

Loaded Brew: sippin’ smooth, hittin’ heavy.
Drop the needle, dim the lights, and let the movie play in your mind.

I Can t Stay Away

I wish I was braver .mp3

1970’s Shimmer & Strings

THIS IS THE HOPEFIRE WAY

“1970’s Shimmer & Strings” is a warm, cinematic dive into the golden era of love-soaked disco-pop.
Every track glows with vintage soul — analog basslines, real drum shimmer, funky rhythm guitars, velvet-soft strings, and candlelit electric piano. The vocals lean into expressive, heartfelt male performance, carrying that Bee Gees / Elton John / early ABBA emotional punch.

It’s nostalgic but fresh, retro but polished — a little Saturday-night fever, a little midnight romance, wrapped in the signature Hopefire shimmer.
Think: smoke-lit dancefloors, soft brass swells, slow spins under a mirrorball, and that unmistakable 70s glow.

A love letter to groove, warmth, and real human emotion —
Electric Heart Presents continues… and it’s never sounded more alive.


1, Always Be With Me - 70's Shimmer & Strings

03 - I CAN SHOW YOU HIGH

Our second release and the debut single from Melbourne four piece, Mildlife is finally here! 

Narrowing down the group's style into a genre is almost impossible, as they bond over the desire to push musical boundaries. No strangers to the Melbourne band scene, the four old friends have been drawing crowds through an epic journey at intimate venues and festivals for the best part of the past 4 years. Developing a tight live show bolstered by wild improvisation, the group have left punters itching for their first full length studio album that mines jazz, psych and disco for its irresistible groove.

"The Magnificent Moon" a 9 minute psychedelic disco journey is the opening track taken from Mildlife’s debut LP "Phase" due for release early 2018. Capturing the spirit of the band, this kaleidoscope jam is the interplanetary path between jazz, funk and disco with the perfect amalgamation of cosmic electronics and soulful acoustic instrumentation. 

Tom Shanahan explains its entrancing grip, “The Magnificent Moon feels like the veteran journeyman to the rest of the album. I’m not sure if that’s because it was written first or because it seems to know what it wants and has a more considered direction. It never really second guesses itself except for maybe just before the outro when he realises he may have journeyed too far and his space suit has a hole in it. But then he just jams some gum in the hole and gets on with it anyway.”

Single available here: https://mildlife.bandcamp.com/track/the-magnificent-moon

Mildlife - The Magnificent Moon

Music From Memory © 2018

Vinyl: http://www.musicfrommemory.com
Digital: http://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/

Pete Brandt’s Method – What You Are (3:35)

This is a rare recording of folkloric free jazz soul music by Sam Gendel.
Listen if you want to view paradise.

Sam Gendel - Pure Imagination

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar full-length album on ltd cassette and world wide digital June 15th

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - BOA

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar album out June 15th on cassette and world wide digital via Leaving Records

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - THEEM AND VARIATIONS

From the album Anne.  Available November 16, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/anne
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/anne/1427808233?ls=1&app=itunes
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/19FD6RN5K3xYFThAHM4fGy?si=0hUO0rFVQAigvSPTvJL_4w
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv182

Joseph Shabason
Twitter https://twitter.com/JosephShabason
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Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with interviews of Shabason’s mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his mother's struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazz-laden ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. 

Shabason’s uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. On Anne’s second track “Deep Dark Divide” rays of effected saxophone shine behind clouds of digital synthesizer that echoes the sound of jazz in the late 80s, but with a Jon Hassell-esque depth of sensibility that consciously subverts the stylistic inoffensiveness of that era. There is detail and idiosyncrasy beneath Shabason’s dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen that elevates the album far beyond a mere aesthetic exercise.

Still, the sounds on Anne are not so experimentally opaque as to stand in the way of the album’s through-line of sincerity and emotionality. When dissonance is employed it is punctual and meaningful, like on album-middler “Fred and Lil” where a six-minute cascade of breathy textures builds suddenly to an agitated growl, only to abruptly give way to Anne Shabason speaking intimately about her relationship to her own parents. Snippets of such conversations see her taking on something like a narrator role across Anne while the sound of her voice itself is sometimes effected to become a musical texture entwined into the fabric of the songs without always being present or audible.  The subsequent piece “Toh Koh” then drifts into playful disorientation as a lone female voice echoes the two syllables of the title, recalling the vocal techniques of composer Joan La Barbara, or even the light-hearted mantras of Lucky Dragons. From here the album veers back onto its aesthetic thoroughfare with “November” where Shabason lays muted brass textures atop a wavepool of electric chords provided by none other than the ambient cult-hero Gigi Masin, one of Anne’s many integral collaborators.

The serene tragedy of the album distils itself gracefully into the ironically titled album closer “Treat it Like a Wine Bar” wherein flutters of piano and mournfully whispered woodwinds seem to evaporate particle by delicate particle, leaving the listener with a faint emotional afterglow like a dream upon waking. There is a corollary to be drawn here with what it must be like to feel one’s own mind and body drift away slowly until nothing remains, while the collection of memories and abilities that we use to denote the “self” softens into eternity. On Anne, it is precisely this fragile exchange of tranquillity and anguish that Joseph Shabason has proven his singular ability to articulate.

Anne

Joseph Shabason - "Forest Run"

The Anne EP is the afterword to Joseph Shabason’s acclaimed 2018 full-length Anne through which he examined and processed his mother’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease.  Employing a small supporting cast that includes vocalist Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and guitarist Thomas Gill (Owen Pallett), Anne EP spotlights the Toronto saxophonist as he builds empathic tropospheres of woodwinds and synthesizers, deepening the sentiment established by the EP's companion album, which was released in November 2018.  The detail and idiosyncrasy beneath the material's dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen, elevates Shabason's work far beyond mere aesthetic exercise, cementing jazz, ambient sound design, and new age revivalism into a timely new genre all his own.

Tour with Jessica Pratt:
May-09-Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center
May-10-Chicago, IL Sleeping Village
May-11-Pittsburgh, PA The Warhol
May-12-Toronto, ON The Garrison
May-13-Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa
May-15-Boston, MA Great Scott
May-16-Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle
May-17-Washington, DC Miracle Theatre
May-19-Brooklyn, NY Park Church Co-Op

Anne EP

Joseph Shabason - "Broken Hearted Kota"

https://smarturl.it/VWETOII

"VWETO II is an astral funk laden mindscape. best used for long term discussions, late night ciphers, deep contemplation, clearing the air, or starting a brand new day. repeat as needed. Uhuru” - Georgia Muldrow

VWETO II mp3

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Wu Punk

"PLEASURE, JOY and HAPPINESS," AVAILABLE FROM DAY END RECORDS (DE-002).

STREAM: https://ffm.to/rlembdx
VINYL: https://dayendrecords.bandcamp.com/

eddiechacon.com

https://www.instagram.com/eddie_chacon_

https://www.instagram.com/johncarrollkirby

https://www.instagram.com/dayendrecords

Eddie Chacon experienced proper, peak-nineties acclaim in the soul duo Charles and Eddie: they scored a global No. 1 in 1992 with “Would I Lie To You,” appeared three times on Top of the Pops, and featured on soundtracks from True Romance to Super Mario Bros.. Their crooning style was clearly pop-ready, but undeniably reverent: the pair first met when Eddie noticed Charles carrying a vinyl copy of Marvin Gaye’s "Trouble Man” on a New York subway train.

By that time, Chacon had already been navigating music in interesting ways, all the way back to his teen garage rock band with the late Cliff Burton (Metallica) and Mike Bordin (Faith No More). In the late ’80s, he released a full-length on Uncle Luke from 2 Live Crew’s label and signed to Columbia as a solo act. He was a working artist, always popping up in unexpected places: through the course of his career, Chacon would write, sing, or produce ten Top 40 hits around the globe.

In the words of Mac DeMarco: “Eddie Chacon is planet earth’s number one musician. Yesterday, today, and forever.”

Years ago, Chacon retired from music for a second calling as a fashion photographer and creative director. In an interview at the time, he said, “I was fortunate to have a 35-year music career and felt that there wasn’t that much more for me to say or achieve.” Very thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Private experiments, far from the major-label center he once frequented, began to feel urgent and new. “There’s nothing more exciting for me than getting to start from the beginning again,” he says today.

“Pleasure, Joy and Happiness” will be available July of 2020 on the boutique Los Angeles-based label Day End Records. This is a thoughtfully considered album of quiet, confident R&B: it doesn’t jump out at you, but rather gets in you. Produced by John Carroll Kirby, the like-minded artist and collaborator with Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, it features restrained percussion from Kanye West’s Sunday Service drummer Lamar Carter. Celestial soul as a break from chaos, these are quietly challenging songs as timeless as they are contemporary.

“What a rare and cool challenge it was for me to help Eddie re-emerge after a long hiatus,” says John Carroll Kirby. “I was excited to produce a record for him that captured the chill, laid-back wisdom and easy vocal mastery he has that you don’t see that much these days.”

Lead single “My Mind Is Out of Its Mind” finds a deep groove to try and contain spiraling heartbreak, while the sweet and wobbly “Trouble” balances the delightful near whisper of the title track “Pleasure, Joy and Happiness.” But even the project’s lightest moments feel sincere and mature. Altogether: a truly unifying release, coming from a man who’s earned the right to share such a regal, romantic sound.

“I used to think to myself,” Chacon says, “if I ever make a record again, I’d want it to be a record you’d have to be my age to make.”

Eddie Chacon - 01 - "Trouble"

Day End Records

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