marky's fresh faves pt2

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 29 June: from around midday on Friday you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch372

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud GO tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 372

Real Time/Good Time

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

You’ll get dressed up
Jacket and tails
Ready for the day
Like a magpie, caught in the nude
You hide yourself away
You’ll put one foot forward
Then you take it back
Restless feet on a broken track

You’re a loud-mouth
Say what you hear
And speak before you think
Put your ear that close to the ground
And dirt will soil you speech
Won’t you let us in
And we’ll watch you cry
Smiling broadly with arms held wide

Don’t mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t Mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t you go
No don’t you go
Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you

When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you going to learn?
How long, how long, until you learn?
I said when you gunna
When you gunna
Learn?

I won’t

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

Don't Mind Me

Heart Food for Hard Times is out on Friday 15th May 2020. 

Track credits: 
Nealo - Vocals & Lyrics
Adam Garrett - Music 
Uly - Trumpet
Adam Shanahan - Production 
Marcin Ciszczon at Diffusion Lab - Mixing & Mastering


For more information please contact: 
Sheena Madden
+353 87 245 8046
sheena@amplifyagency.ie

HEART FOOD FOR HARD TIMES

French Sunset

The Light

Baby Brain

Babababo

Place Is Here is a wonderfully textured call to arms for people to seize the day led by resplendent piano hooks and the velvety tones of former Faithless singer Harry Collier. A feel good summer anthem all the way, demonstrating The Hempolics can execute Indie Pop to match their vaunted Reggae numbers.

Kiss, Cuddle & Torture Volume 2

Place Is Here

Self Destruct is about the fact that our brain plays tricks on us. 
It keeps reminding us of the rare bad things we've said and done but not all the good things.

I'll Self Destruct Over Here

Sleeper

My Only Home

A reflection on landscape and changing times.

Isolation Etude 4

MATT MEREPORT - Isolation Etude 4

For the past 10 years electronic music producer and composer SAD MAN, The Dark Jazz Project, Nimzo-Indian and Cars from the Future has released over 25 albums and 350 tracks of music. His music has been played extensively on Radio both in the UK and Internationally. 
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Radio Play
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BBC 6 Music - Jamz Supernova, Mary Anne Hobbs, New Music Fix with Deb Grant and Tom Ravenscroft,  BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, BBC 6 Music - Stuart Maconie Freak Zone, Tom Robinson BBC Introducing Mix Tape, NTS Radio, Resonance FM, Z Radio, Rinse Radio (France), New New World Radio (Moscow), Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM (UK), Radio Free Matlock, Dark Train, Reform Radio and Brum Radio., Bristol Community Radio, BBC West Midlands, Artfefaktor Radio (Mexico City) , Tak Tent Radio, Neon Hospital, Radio Regent (Canada) and various internet shows such as the Target Shoots Next, Phantom Circuit, Gated Canal Community, Transmitter down, The Sevenths Wave, Transmitter Down, New Ratio Radio, Radio Panik (France)
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Quotes
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"I kind wouldn't mind if that track went on forever" DJ Deb Grant, New Music Fix, BBC 6 Music

“It’s weird, it’s interesting, it’s challenging, maybe slightly discombobulating as well” 
Jamz Supernova - BBC 6 Music 
 
“More bite than a cage of hungry wildcats”
Mat Smith - Electronic Sound Magazine
 
“Like a moon-guided abstract fear; a ghostly voyage aboard a Kubrickian, Lovecraftian and Tarkovskyian space 
freighter this new vision scopes lunar caverns and the deep cosmos.”
Monolith Cocktail
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‪“relentlessly obscure and prolific British music maker”.
9/10 DJ Mag
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“Like a Loony Tunes Cage or Stockhausen, banished to a makeshift potting shed”.
Monolith Cocktail. 
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“It sounds like Major Force mashed with Wagon Christ and Les Rita Mitsouko;
a sort of electro-operatic funk.”
Monolith Cocktail 
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“Electronic music that nods in the direction of futuristic glitch school pointillism”.
Electronic Sound Magazine 
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“so many disparate ideas into its brief, sixty-second existence, from muted house-style riffs, deep beats and a frantic jumble of melodies that sound like a stroll around a dimly-lit games arcade.” further dot 
 
“These are pieces that jerk around like they’re being attacked with an electronic music cattle prod, all quirky beats, skewed melodies and sounds that feel like they’re splintering and fragmenting inside your ear canal.”
Mat Smith
 
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Sleeper

SAD MAN/ The Dark Jazz Project