My Nov Favs

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 9th November: from Friday afternoon 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/batch385

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.

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Butter

We’ve got more of what you like in our latest playlist. Listen to the playlist and follow us on our website, Mixcloud and Spotify for more music.

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Alternative soul, hip-hop and all that jazz. Cover: Arlo Parks

This time I teamed up with the incredible Corey Amador from the U.S.! Corey is one hell of a musician!! Extremely talented, versatile and multifarious. And he is a true brother of metal, with a great personality. Please, check out his profile: https://soundcloud.com/corey-amador

Vocals and lyrics: Corey Amador
Music and mix: Alexander Schwarz

"PATH OF RAGE"
Swelling from deep within me
Is a complete
Mutany of the senses
A mind in total over-drive
All regard for life suspended
Eradicated is any ounce of compassion
That I once felt inside
Consumed by the burning desire
To skin your fucking hide

Seeing red,
Blood is what I crave,
White knuckle grip
Smashing your fucking face
RAGE!

I am unchained
Best stay away
There's only pain
Down this PATH OF RAGE

Drowning out every single word
It's just incessant chattering of your teeth
Better stay out of arm's reach
Or you'll recieve crude dentistry
Continue flapping your gums
And I'll be sure to swell them shut
Unlike the Hand of Mitus,
Everything I touch will self-destruct

And as I begin
The snapping of your limbs
Say your fucking prayers
Your future's looking grim

(Laugh)

Gone is all chance of sympathy
My passion is for what you bleed
Once I've set down this Path of Rage
In endless pain
You shall remain

CRY OUT!

Echoes bounce, but no one hears
I am the embodiment of all your fears
Sweet sounds of suffering
The end is near

DIE NOW!

DISAPPEAR!

I am unchained
Best stay away
There's only pain
Down this PATH OF RAGE

An all out assualt is unleased seemingly unprovoked
Your existance, itself, is enough for me to tear out your fucking throat
You can try to beg and plead
But the cries all fall on deaf ears
For you see, to the sanguinary arts, I am forever endeared
No stopping this cascade of fists
Rest in piece?
Fuck it
Rest in Piss

"Path Of Rage" with COREY AMADOR [+lyrics]

Why Why Why Why Why

10/October/2019

Street Lights

Listen every Friday from 21 till 22 (Moscow time) Jazz 89.1 FM

Rhythms Radio Show on Radio Jazz FM (radiojazzfm.ru 89,1 FM Moscow)

tracklist:

1. BadBadNotGood - Key to Love (Is Understanding)
2. Freedom Fry - Call Me
3. The Affirmations - Worrying Mind
4. TM Juke - Just For A Day (Sunday)
5. Eric Boss - Forward
6. Kiefer - Frozen
7. Eric Legnini and the Afro Jazz Beat - Cinematic
8. The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Niara Scarlett - Horizon
9. Haadood (feat. Wordsworth) - You Choose (Instrumental)
10. Aldo Vanucci (feat. Kylie Auldist) - Get a Hold on This (Dr Rubberfunk Remix)
11. Анатолий Айс + Искра - Слёзы в Такт (Instrumental)
12. Mark de Clive-Lowe - Steps Ahead
13. Outlines - Our Lives Are Too Short
14. The Rongetz Foundation - Broken Doll Beat
15. Colman Brothers - She Who Dares (Remix)
16. CSC Funk Band - A Troll's Soiree 
17. DJ Dez - New World
18. George Shearing - Aquarius

RHYTHMS Radio Show (Jan.10.2020)

Sunny Afternoon is the 2nd single of the upcoming new Benny Sings album. The song is special as it was co-written by Grammy Award R&B soul singer PJ Morton when he was in Amsterdam. A fine feel good track perfect suits the spring. Soft and gentle, with a touch of classic Motown 70's soul songwriting.

Release: April 29, 2020

Released by Stones Throw Records (US & EU), Victor Entertainment (ASIA) and AAA Label Services (Benelux). 

P&C Sings Records. Published by Soepermart Music / Pennies From Heaven

Sunny Afternoon

So Sunshine

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Wind Parade

Five years after his critically acclaimed debut album Throwback, Glenn Astro returns with his deeply personal album Homespun, releasing on Tartelet Records this October.

Marking a change in course from his first release on Tartelet Records, Glenn Astro is set to showcase his sophomore album Homespun, a testament to a visionary artist who has come into his own. 

Made up of ten tracks spanning 45 minutes, the record twists and turns between electronic meditations, soulful vocals by Ajnascnet, and futuristic electro, carving out a world of spacey eclecticism that is as nostalgic as it is experimental.

“This album is in all facets different from the first one, which was a deliberate decision. No vintage sounds and references, no sampling, combined with futuristic sound design and song structures. Less obvious references, more everything else. I tried to keep it as current and intuitive as possible,” he says. 

Known for his chunky beats and fuzzy textures, Glenn Astro was a key figure in the wave of MPC-heavy house music that spread like wildfire between 2013 and 2015. Since then, he has released on labels such as Ninja Tune and Apollo, leaving a distinctive signature on everything he touches. 

But Glenn Astro has quietly been crafting a new sound for himself. Sometimes taking detours – morphing into his dark alter ego and experimenting with artist collaborations. The sound of Homespun is a culmination of several years of reflection and artistic development – however, the album itself was produced in less than three months. 

“I set myself an ultimatum to finish the album within three months. If I didn’t make it, I’d have to rethink my career path and keep music as a hobby. If it wasn’t for this album I’d be selling home-assembled ballpoint pens now,” he says.

On the introspective first single and album title track “Homespun,” Ajnascent’s vocals lend a sincerity to the melancholic production. “It’s about the regret of not taking chances and giving in too much, but also about taking responsibility and being honest with yourself. Homespun is a nod to nostalgia and a desire for simplicity and prudence, being equally the culprit and the cure,” elaborates Ajnascent. 

On “The Yancey,” an homage to J Dilla, Glenn Astro paints his vision of contemporary dance music with shimmering melodies, deep ambient soundscapes, and advanced drum programming. “Moreira” and “Look at You” feel like spaced-out electronic funk hybrids, while “Taking Care of Business” goes back to the future with Glenn Astro’s take on jungle. Other tracks such as “Mezzanine,” “Slow Poke Flange,” and “Viktor’s Meditation” provide the finest dubby electronics. 

Out on September 16th, the first single “Homespun” comes accompanied by a video featuring the notorious Copenhagen-based graffiti artist and activist Spyo. The video provides a glimpse into a parallel, nonconformist society and subculture in the Danish capital, where urban exploring and daring quests for artistic fame is a way of life. 

Homespun will be available on vinyl and digital platforms 23rd October 2020.

Homespun

:: Glenn Astro - Homespun LP (snippets)- Tartelet Records 2020 ::

Fragile X is the new collaborative guise of Inga Schunn and Dylan Chase, the latter has been releasing material as Caffeine Worldwide over the past few years. Here with the ‘Lifetime’ EP the pair inaugurate their new project, the collection of tracks was recorded over four days in Mexico City in early 2019. Schunn provided vocals while Chase focused on the mechanical aspects. It was mixed by Chase in Mexico City in 2020, while he was sick with Covid-19. We don’t know if there will be another record. A lot is uncertain these days. This EP marks the third vinyl release by Bouquet, a label and party series based in Chase’s hometown of San Diego.
Title-cut ‘Lifetime’ leads the release with garage tinged off-kilter drums, swirling atmospherics, snaking sub bass grooves and resonant synth melodies all dynamically
 underneath Schunn’s hypnotic vocal stylings. ‘Prix’ follows and employs a similarly organic rhythmic feel while stirring in airy string melodies, plucked strings and an amalgamation of fluttering woodwind and acid synths throughout.
‘Karaoke Gurl’ kicks off the flip side of the EP, edging into electronica realms with a bumpy 303 bass hook and dreamy synth chimes while once again welcoming Inga’s silvery vocal contributions. The ‘Fragile X’ theme then concludes the project on a cinematic tip, nodding towards an early 2000’s IDM aesthetic with broken drums, textural synths and organ melodies.

PREMIERE : Fragile X - Karaoke Gurl

Cobra

'Burying' expresses the need to break away whether from the media, the news or an unhealthy relationship. It is a dance between strength and weakness depending on how it is perceived.
Produced by Asta Kalapa studios, electric guitar by Aidan Mulloy.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tell me that you really care
But you're talking to a lit up square
Different versions of reality
You don't understand the things
That mean something to me
And you're always giving me advice
As if I can't see with my own two eyes
Mending my views on the world's affairs
Because clearly I'm too unaware

Mister bigshot what you wanna fight about next
It's a fine line, you're a million miles from it
Mister headstrong why don't I just tell you a lie
Tell you I'm wrong, tell you that you are right
Oh you were right

I can see I'm losing this fight
I don't feel the need to be right
Don't you know I've given up hope
Oh I'm burying, burying, burying
Burying my head
I can see I'm losing this fight
I don't feel the need to be right
Don't you know I've given up hope
Oh I'm burying, burying, burying
Burying my head in the sand
Burying, burying
Burying my head in the sand
Burying, burying

Hard to know if you can hear
If you can see me standing here
You're too busy looking in a mirror
Can't you see I've given in
What's the point in arguing
It isn't gonna make it any clearer
What's your game, what you come for
I don't wanna be ignored
There's a sweeter side, just to make it alright
Oh well okay fine, I'll be back like the tide
It's a sweetness, such an incompleteness
Weather to my water is you

I can see I'm losing this fight
I don't feel the need to be right
Don't you know I've given up hope
Oh I'm burying, burying, burying
Burying my head
I can see I'm losing this fight
I don't feel the need to be right
Don't you know I've given up hope
Oh I'm burying, burying, burying
Burying my head in the
I can see I'm losing this fight
I don't feel the need to be right
Don't you know I've given up hope
Oh I'm burying, burying, burying
Burying my head
I can see I'm losing this fight
I don't feel the need to be right
Don't you know I've given up hope
Oh I'm burying, burying, burying
Burying my head in the sand
Burying, burying
Burying my head in the sand
Burying, burying
Sand, burying, burying
Sand, burying, burying

Hide

Burying

I bought a house in the South
For my family and friends
It has a garden as big as Jamaica
We can put up some tents
Invite the friends of our friends
Declare our own independent state
Free of fear
Free of hate

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

No nine-to-five, more life
Basic income for all
It is a real version of Utopia
We speak with plants and trees
The teach us lessons of peace
We travel places deep inside
Free of fear
Free of hate

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

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Pala

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Small Moments

Moving

Music, lyrics and vocals by Irina
Guitar by AB

The Japanese system for counting higher numbers is based on the decimal progression grouping into sets of 4 zeros: 10,000 (万), 100,000,000 (億), etc, rather than 3. I was always fascinated why, particularly because in Japan 4 is not a popular number due to its "on" reading... This song will not delve into further exploration of this topic but the influence is apparent in the title - ichiokukai.

Tell me once, now tell me twice
Tell me hundred million times
All those hundred million lies
I long to hear

When you talk the way you do
I don't care if it comes true
All I care about is you
When you're so near

Hush, my heart
Don't jump out just yet
Hush, my heart
Time and again you forget

Tell me fast, now tell me slow
All those things I wanna know
Say you never let me go
I'm ready to believe

When you talk the way you do
I don't care if it comes true
All I care about is you
I'm ready to forgive

Hush, my heart
Don't jump out just yet
Hush, my heart
Time and again you forget

Tell me once, now tell me twice

Hundred Million Times (一億回)

Better Days - Single

Girl Eats Sun

Cherries

Belong

SOLAR

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Earlier this year the Aussie producer Zen In Space dropped his debut album Earth Tones on Pharmaceutical Audio, a record label but know primarily as a trespass series of gatherings occurring in industrial/demolition sites in urban Australia. 

In the follow up rework project Allysha Joy strips back 'Jannali' in almost emancipatory fashion, creating an ethereal warmth from a groove sojourned in a state of vocal confession.

Read more & buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2020/10/20/premiere-zen-in-space-jannali-allysha-joy-remix/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/Zen_Jannali

Earth Tones Reworks - [PHRM008]

Zen In Space - Jannali (Allysha Joy Remix)(STW Premiere)

Juno

Juno (feat. Charlie Allen, Fr1th & Marcus Tenney)

Electric Swing

DAVEHEFFNER.COM

Privacy (Dudly Ulysse & Dave - vocals)

Big beat with heavy bass, melodic vocal and catchy hooks.  Very funky...

Aspiration

Star Crow

Conversations with Xia Lang remain enigmatic. As far as determining his intentions, the 21 year old Beijing native appears to puzzle even himself. Citing a desire to abandon conventions and rebuke ritual in favor of daring experimentations, he nevertheless appears bound to the traditions that precede him. The declassified works contained in Codex exemplify Xia’s stance in his art: his sound counters the rigid norms demanded by his day job producing music for commercial media, fully embodying his outlook on the global creative landscape. Yet it remains familiar, if only distantly so.

By day Xia works toward completing a university degree while excelling in a job scoring ads, TV, and video games. He hopes to eventually compose for films - like Ryuichi Sakamoto - and one day carve a distinct stylistic lane for himself where sound meets picture. For now, he concedes to being a go-to composer in his field crafting music for broad appeal - a one-man orchestra playing the same hits over and over.

It was in the early days of university that he was finally able to visualize his path forward. Stumbling upon a chance performance by Yuyu Feng (aka Fishdoll), he found inspiration. Yuyu had just returned from New York, recently releasing music with local label Paxico Records. The two met after the show; song drafts and emails of encouragement soon followed. Yuyu saw a special quality in Xia’s instincts - something equally delicate and devastating unique to his artistic sensibilities. Xia felt the satisfaction of making music for himself, retreating deeper into the trenches of his abilities and imagination. After long days at work and in class, the late night became Xia’s arena to become the architect of his own sonic structures. The end result of his constructions would form his genre-defying multidimensional debut collection, Codex.

Spanning 30 minutes and a myriagon of styles, Codex flutters through cataclysmic IDM inflections, weightless baroque colorations, and swaying samba sensibilities. At no point does it fall comfortably under one label, rather finding solace as a shapeshifter. High flying string arrangements nod toward Xia’s work composing for picture, pairing rich neo-classical sentiments with a tasteful sampling of otherworldly electronic delights and blue jazz piano strikes. Xia’s work carefully meets Satie with Autechre with Bill Evans, only to violently mix them into a vibrant bloody pulp to create a new canvas. All moments of stylistic clarity are forced through a prism - twisted and reflected back at the music it once referenced as a deliberately vague adulteration of its former self.

Codex follows the beat of Xia’s drum in both abstract and material ways. “The Corridor”, along with the title track, marches at a swaying pace - impressed by round bass notes and open piano. “That, There,” “Angles,” and “Steps” explore the hollowed cavities of Xia’s investigations in structure, flipping traditional notions of arrangement into phantasmic mechanical rhythms. “Reddish,” featuring vocals from Fishdoll, finds an intersection where Codex’s stylings converge - blending latin-jazz influences with a soaring choir of arpeggiated vocal clips, all collapsing into a somber conclusion of solo piano; or, Xia left alone with his primary tool of invention.

Xia intends to carve his own space rather than encode a message. His goal through his art, while not explicit, is easily recognized through his enthusiasm for seeking newness in the midst of noise:

“I find beauty in little accidents…it’s really hard to give them meaning. I want to create - chords with color, beauty, and accidents.”

Codex

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Xia Lang - Angles

We are extremely excited to premiere a rare mellow outing from On The Corner's secret weapon Moroccan producer Guedra Guedra, taken from a forthcoming dubplate and digital missive, due to drop on December 1st.

Guedra Guedra released one of the most sought after leftfield dancefloor EPs of the lockdown period with "Son of Sun", fusing the energy of footwork with the spirit of his home country. Ahead of a full album next year, OtC are leaking two specials tracks this December with a digital release and extremely limited dubplate.

The nominal B-side of said release, we are pleased to share today. "Purple Ambergris" shows Guedra Guedra in tender, dextrous, soulful focus. Exclusive to this release on December 1st, it won't be found on the album coming next February.

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Exclusive Premiere: Guedra Guedra "Purple Ambergris" (Forthcoming via On The Corner)

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Better Days - Single

Rosie Frater-Taylor