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Marian Tone Feat. Meravi & Leon Mache - Vibes

A smoothed out, catchy little downtempo bobber from a cool late-winter night in The Vault.  Makaya bounces on a flammed rimshot, Abrams jumps in quickly with some nice bass chords, Justefan colors the progression with his singing vibraphone harmonies, and Marquis tops it all off with a gorgeous trumpet melody and solo verse.

Recorded on March 5th, 2014 by Dave Vettraino.  Personnel: Makaya McCraven - drums, Joshua Abrams - bass, Justin Thomas - vibraphone, Marquis Hill - trumpet.

Steppe Smoothe

The Dassler

Tracklist and download available here: http://blrrm.tv/2TxE4U

Henry Wu Trio Boiler Room London Live Set

Pink Countdown by @cam-hands is featured along with 26 other songs on RISING TIDES vol. 3.
RISING TIDES is SVNSET WAVES' autumn collection of music featuring only music from artists with 500 followers on less on SoundCloud. RISING TIDES is the best way for avid music listeners to discover new artists to support and get behind early on. Each artist on the 27 track compilation was invited to participate by SVNSET WAVES founder and tastemaker, Corbin Cary. So sit back, relax, and discover new music. 
Art by Alec McKeand (alecmckeand.smugmug.com @amongthepine on Instagram)

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Cam & Hands - Pink Countdown

'The Yard Work Simulator'  Out Now -
Ninjashop / Stream / Download: https://maxglenn.lnk.to/yardworkSo

Max and Glenn will celebrate the album release in the UK at Dance Tunnel in London on 19th May and 20th May in Brighton at Patterns (alongside Letherette and Throwing Shade) as part of The Great Escape. The following week sees them back in Berlin for what will surely be an amazing session at Panorama Bar on 28th May.

Dance Tunnel Tickets: http://found.ee/yardworklaunch
Great Escape Tickets: http://found.ee/yardwork-escape

Taken from 'The Yard Work Simulator' released 27th May 2016 via Ninja Tune.

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Soundcloud: found.ee/maxgraef-sc

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The Yard Work Simulator

Where The Fuck Are My Hard Boiled Eggs?!

Max Graef & Glenn Astro - 'The Yard Work Simulator' [ALBUM PREVIEW]

Athletic Progression - Dark Smoke ft. Minna Forouzandeh

Music Video ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9bR0p1q9zs

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AthleticProgression4/

First single from the instrumental group Athletic Progression

Album on the way

Vocals: Minna Forouzandeh
Keys, MPC, Synth: Jonas Cook
Guitar: Ole Koefoed Larsen
Bass: Justo Gambula
Drums: Jonathan Jull Ludvigsen

Dark Smoke

Dark Smoke ft. Minna Forouzandeh

Just Negotiate feat. Simeon Jones (Kaidi Tatham Remix)

A beautiful jazzed out number floating between hip hop and dub influences. Taken from the debut collaborative effort from South London musicians Joe Armon-Jones and Maxwell Owin. Out 8th September via @yamrecords.

Read more: http://bit.ly/JoeArmonJonesMaxwellOwinIdiom

Listen On YouTube

Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin feat. Oscar Jerome - Idiom (STW Premiere)

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Breaking (For This World To Change)

One of Italy’s finest purveyors of jazzy and soulful house beats, Academy alumnus Broke One, returns this February with a new EP. ‘This Thing Called Reality’ collects four tasteful takes on Big Bait Records’ random color series with 555 individually colored records. “Don’t Fight the Feeling,” the second groove on the record’s A-side, is built around Herbie Hancock’s musings on what he learned about mistakes from Miles Davis. The tune itself bears strong traces of a jazz signature and will slide nicely into your crates next to the likes of Max Graef and Theo Parrish.

Broke One’s ‘This Thing Called Reality’ EP is out February 5th via Big Bait Records and can be ordered here: https://brokeone.bandcamp.com/album/this-thing-called-reality

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Broke One - Don't Fight the Feeling

When The Expansions self released their first single in 2013, the laid-back jazz funk of Lavender, it quickly gained strong support from soul and rare-groove aficionados including Kenny Dope, Dom Servini, Patrick Forge and Andy Smith. A run of shows followed and before long, when someone was asking if there was a soul-jazz band around to play with, “The Expansions” was the answer. 

Although this popularity meant a hiatus in releasing music, the band have been constantly busy, playing around Europe with legendary British-Ghanaian soul singer, Andrew Ashong and the exceptional, upcoming talent Connie Constance. 

There has also been a breakout project from drummer Jonny Drop - the album Sub Plot gained massive support and love from BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne. While keys-man Dave Koor has been busy playing shows with Gilles Peterson favourite Hector Plimmer, Shaun Escoffery, and Ego Ella May, improvising with Yussef Dayes (Yussef Kamaal) and Nubya Garcia, releasing music as Deoke and collaborating with label-mate Scrimshire on their Modified Man exploration. 

But always, The Expansions has remained a central focus and the true home of these four jazz and soul lovers, with occasional trips out to the country to form ideas and practice new music for the eventual album. 

Murmuration, recorded over three days at Big Noise in Southend, is constructed of single takes, with minimal overdubs, as the band attempt to capture the feeling and energy they create live. 

Debut single Breakthrough introduced the insanely catchy but deeply soulful blend of synths and groove, but here on the album that is explored to the fullest with longer breakdowns and more expansive, experimental solos. Pocket 5 displays the, possibly unexpected, influences of broken beat and almost combative rhythm playing – particularly in the complex guitar and keys breakdown where Koor and O’Keefe layer conflicting time signatures and battle to ride it out to the heavy drum return. 

Cannonball brings warm mellowness that delicately evolves through beats, touching on bossas alongside their fundamental hip-hop sensibilities. But even here there is a raucous zenith before the band sublimely recede into the silence of the a-side ending. 

Colossal album highlight Ivory Mountain is truly an epic. Evoking moments of 4Hero, there is a lightness of groove in the first half of this soulful exploration. But at the halfway point, all restraint is let go as a live string section joins the four quarters of the band for three glorious minutes of soulful disco. Evoking sounds of Quincy Jones, George Benson and Johnny Hammond, all the way through to a beautifully cacophonous finale. 

Dragonfly undoubtedly reflects on the work of Herbie Hancock and is the most direct throwback to the band’s earlier work, which is a welcome marker of how far they have come. A quintessential jazz funker. 

The album closes with the thoughtful and introverted shuffle of Miles Away. In the final eight minutes of Murmuration, The Expansions allow space and time to take precedence, with once-more-restrained peaks and developments. It becomes clear though, that the band cannot resist one last explosive finale, as they rise with screeching synths, strings and dubs for a perfect race to the finish line. 

You can hear the influences of Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington, even parallels with South London peers Yussef Kamaal and Ruby Rushton. But The Expansions have tirelessly worked to create a sound of their own and are very proud, along with label Albert’s Favourites, to finally share it.

Murmuration

Miles Away

A cover of the Mighty Ryeders 'Evil Vibrations' by napkingcole
From Episode 001 : Mandarin Dreams Radio (skylab)

Evil Vibrations - Nap King Cole Synth Jam

Yussef Kamaal - String of Light (Live @ Jazz Cafe) ::: Mixing / Mastering (2016)

@abasemusic delivers groove and sateen sweetness on this eight-minute stunner via @cosmiccompositions.

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/11/30/premiere-abase-align-feat-wayne-snow/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/abase-snow

Listen on Youtube

Àbáse - Align feat Wayne Snow (STW Premiere)

Pre-save the album on Spotify:
https://presave.kud.li/jrf0016

Drift Glass

Afronaut - SEED ENSEMBLE

Won't Get Better

02. Scrimshire - Won't Get Better feat. Emma-Jean Thackray

Kamaal Williams DJ-Kicks is coming in November

pre-order ⟶ k7.lnk.to/KamaalWilliams

Game-changing multi-instrumentalist Kamaal Williams has put together the latest DJ-Kicks mix. Due for release on November 8th, it features four of his own brand new and exclusive tracks and hints at the wide world of influences that have made him one of the most prominent artists of the last few years.

Williams has taken his long standing love of seventies jazz fusion and mixed it up with the contemporary sound of the London underground to devastating effect. House, broken beat, grime, soul, funk, hip hop and jazz all permeate his work, which has seen him evolve from one-man producer Henry Wu to acclaimed live band Kamaal Williams, backed by talented drummers and bassists. His pioneering work in the studio and live arena has influenced a whole new generation of like-minded musicians that have helped make the capital one of the most musically exciting and quickly evolving cities in the world, with Williams' own virtuoso drumming and percussion right at the heart of it all.

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Snitches Brew (Live in Atlanta)

Kamaal Williams - Snitches Brew (Live In Atlanta)

If there is one artist that has truly become synonymous with jazz re:freshed over the years, it is Kaidi - the energy, the skill, the showmanship, the innovation, the genius. 

The vibe behind the West London/broken beats/nu-jazz scene as a core member of Bugz In The Attic, Kaidi's 5ive continues the lineage of jazz, fusing it with his own twisted funk, boogie and electronica. 

credits
released 25 August 2011 
K.Tatham 

All Keys, Percussion, Drums, Programming, 
Synth Bass, Flute, Vocals and Laughter 
by K.Tatham 
All tracks written and produced 
by Kaidi Tatham 
Engineered and Mixed 
by Matt Lord @ Chocolate Factory ii

available at http://jazzrefreshed.bandcamp.com/album/kaidis-5ive

Organic Juggernaut - Kaidi Tatham 5ive

Stream, download & pre-order LP: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/untermberg

A.U.D.D.A. Records, das mysteriöse Label um Twit One, Groove Attack Record Store und Melting Pot Music, präsentiert "Ein fraktales Duett", die zweite Single von Lazy Jones & Hazenberg featuring Eposz.

Das Producer/MC-Duo ist eine unbekannte Größe im Kölner Underground-Rap. Kaum Social-Media-Präsenz, keine Beziehung zum Deutschrapzirkus - Lazy Jones & Hazenberg machen lieber Musik. Zuletzt doch relativ häufig, weshalb demnächst ein komplettes Album mit dem Titel „Unter einem Berg“ ansteht.
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Hazenberg wuchs in der DDR der 80er-Jahre auf. Staatskommunismus und Pionieraction prägten seine frühe Welt. Erst Mitte der 90er hörte er das erste Mal einen Raptrack auf seinem Walkman: Method Mans "Release Yo' Delf" beamte ihn in eine Art musikalische Offenbarung. Viel weiter kam er auf dem Mixtape auch nicht - er musste den Track immer wieder hören und spulte ihn stets auf Anfang zurück. Von dort an entwickelte sich Hip-Hop zu einem stetig wachsenden Teil seiner Identität.

"Ich schätze, dass Hip-Hop viele Aggressionen aus meiner Kindheit kanalisiert hat. Und wahrscheinlich bin ich damit nicht allein… Das Ausspielen von Kämpfen im Hip-Hop-Battle ist für mich eine Übersetzung in eine kulturelle Bewegung. Heute verstehe ich meinen Rap oft als ein Selbstgespräch - auch als eine Art Selbstvergewisserung? - mindestens aber auch als eine Spiegelung für die von mir wahrgenommene Gesellschaft, ein Spiegelbild nach innen und außen.
Hazenbergs Texte sind oft collagenhafte Sprachspiele mit Assoziationen zu vergangenen und aktuellen Geschehnissen, nicht selten mit pessimistischer Kritik an neokapitalistischen Entwicklungen. 
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Lazy Jones gestaltet das Beat-Game auch über den Kölner Raum hinaus bereits seit geraumer Zeit mit. Sowohl als Solokünstler (sein letztes Solo-Album „Lazy Man Walking“ kam 2016 ebenfalls über A.U.D.D.A.) als auch an der Seite von Twit One, mit dem er zusammen in Bottrop aufwuchs. Unter dem Namen Flatpocket haben die beiden zwei richtungsweisende Alben über MPM releast, gemeinsam mit Retrogott und Count Bass D außerdem das Album „The Count in Cologne“. Zuletzt erschien von ihm die EP „Echoes of EKE“ - ein Kollabo-Projekt mit Twit und Flame. 

Lazy Jones
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lazitze/

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Cat No: AUDDA 004-2
Artist: Lazy Jones & Hazenberg
Titel: Das fraktale Duett

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