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Upfront Playlist: December 2017

The System - You Are in My System

Released in October 2016 this 17 track Anthology brings together a clutch of Jazz legend mark Murphy's best works. Heralded by many as possibly the greatest Jazz vocalist ever Murphy's output has been both known and obscure, influential and ripe for discovery. 
Soul Brother Records in London are proud to present 'Mark Murphy - The Jazz Singer | Anthology: The Muse Years 1972 - 1991' on CD and Double Vinyl. 

Tracklist:

STOLEN MOMENTS
ON THE RED CLAY 
CANTALOPE ISLAND
SLY 
EMPTY FACES 
WATERS OF MARCH  
TWO KITES 
BOLERO DE SATA 
LOOKING FOR ANOTHER PURE LOVE
EFFENDI 
MAIDEN VOYAGE
NIAMA 
BEBOP LIVES (BOPLICITY ) 
DING WALLS 
I DON'T WANT TO CRY ANYMORE 
COME AND GET ME
ELEANOR RIGBY 

Purchase the vinyl here 
http://www.soulbrother.com/shop/the-jazz-singer-anthology-the-muse-years-1972-1991-2/

Purchase the CD here
http://www.soulbrother.com/shop/the-jazz-singer-anthology-the-muse-years-1972-1991/

Anthology

Empty Faces

Available here:
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Je T’aime

Jlin returns with the first fruits of her new work since last years ‘Free Fall’ EP. ’Dark Lotus’ is a transition between 'Dark Energy’, her debut album, and her forthcoming ‘Black Origami’ full-length. 

A-side ’The Escape of the Blvck Rxbbit (ft. Avril Stormy Unger)’ is the more traditional of the two tracks, starting off proceedings with a constantly switching rhythmic structure and a stop-start sweeping hoover stab panning between the speakers, descending bleeps and Avril's vocals cut into shapes and pushed through effects.

B-side ‘Nyakinyua Rise’ races headlong into uncharted territory, with a fierce barrage of djembe drums over pounding bass, punchy war cries and jubilant uluations that paint a tension between hot aggression and weightless ecstasy.

Nyakinyua Rise

Roller Coaster Ride

Say Brother

Hak Baker @ 93 Feet East, London (May 19th)
FB Event: https://goo.gl/nak02r // E-Ticket https://goo.gl/wxAisD // Physical https://goo.gl/lcwk5w

The Misfits EP coming soon.

Conundrum

Rûwâhîne

Laa la illa Allah

Stombali - Baba ‘Alaia

The Mugician

Wayfaring Traveler (feat. Jermaine Holmes, Georgia Anne Muldrow & Robert Glasper)

Sweatshop Soundsystem's debut 12". 

Treat the music with respect... 

We decided if we're gonna to do this, we're gonna to do it properly. Heavyweight 180g black wax, full artwork, Ten Eight Seven masters + lacs, Optimal press. 

We've been in love with Ash's music since day one whilst he's been quietly killing it in the underground. Coming in with heavy dub pedigree Ash's sound taps the veins of Soul, Jazz and Funk, fusing them into a suspicious Trip Hop tapestry. Both tracks feature the killer horn work of Yazz Ahmed, one of the freshest artists to rupture the Jazz world with her psychedelic arabic rhythms. And RUDEBWOY visuals come courtesy of Sophie Bass, the dopest illustrator in the UK right now. 

3ft Above // 

One for the heads. 

"3ft above was inspired by Ezra: he made a sketch originally that i reworked into my own vibe, removed layers and then added in drums, bass etc until i ended up with what it was.... then Yazz truly finessed it..... lots of space echo used". 

Bagger // 

An opiate laden dancefloor stomper. Big Fishtank Funk. 

"Bagger was originally made at my old studio in crouch end, and was inspired by the greek/turkish food i was eating at the time in the area.... I played it with Charlie at home, decided that it would sound great with Yazz on, and pulled the trigger.... the Bagger was born". 

Also, a slice of each record goes to the anti sweatshop activist organisation 'No Sweat' - fighting for workers rights worldwide. 

We also throw loophole raves... 

3ft Above Inspired by Ezra-Lloyd Jackson (www.ezralloydjackson.com) 

Horns - Yazz Ahmed 
The Rest - Ash Walker 
Making it all happen - Charlie Curran 

Mastered and cut by Rob Thomas at Ten Eight Seven (www.teneightsevenmastering.co.uk) 
Pressed at Optimal Media 

Artwork by Sophie Bass (www.sophiebass.co.uk) 
Art direction by saCCuli

Bagger -Ash Walker (ft Yazz Ahmed)

production: @itsnamesake
vocals: @pinkcaravan & @SamStanMusic
engineering: @AdrianStresow

artwork by popotepower 

premiered on @pigeonsandplanes: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/discover/2017/10/namesake-pinkcaravan

available on streaming services Tues, 10/24!

Vroom Vroom

1M on Spotify!

I remember the day clearly. I was searching for treasures in a record shop in Yaoundé, the Capital city of Cameroon, when suddenly I came across a 7-inch record with a picture of a young man wearing a traditional hat and bearing the marks of several imposing vertical scars on the side of his face, carved when he was just a boy as a reminder of his heritage in the Musgum tribe of the northern part of the country.

The record contained two songs – ‘Gandjal Kessoum’ and ‘Touflé’ – by an artist I had never heard of before named Hamad Kalkaba. Both cuts were raw classics of fuzzed-out bass, pin-sharp horns, built upon the unshakable foundation of Northern Cameroon’s mightiest rhythm: the Gandjal. The shop owner - who noticed that I was listening to the same record over and over again - mentioned that ‘There is another single with a green cover of the same artist, if I am not mistaken’.

Over the next six years I searched for that ‘green cover’ and finally found it in a record collection belonging to an old bar in Parakou in northern Benin. While most of the records had been beaten and worn by a life spent in the jukebox, this one had been sitting in its paper sleeve for forty years, untouched and unplayed, seemingly waiting for us to pick it up and rip the two soulful Gandjal tunes from it, the masterpieces ‘Fouh Sei Allah’ and ‘Tchakoulaté’.

These two records, plus a third simply named ‘Nord Cameroon Rythms’ constitute the entire discography of Hamad Kalkaba. Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music, Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds at long last gathers together the body of work of one of Cameroon’s forgotten geniuses.

But unlike many musicians who emerged from nowhere, recorded a few singles and vanished again, Kalkaba hadn’t disappeared. Far from it. He was a distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of Cameroon’s Olympic Selection Committee. When we tracked him down he was serving as president of the Confederation of African Athletics. And Although Kalkaba’s job kept him busy, and he seemed initially dismissive of the music he’d made as a young man, he turned out to be an enthusiastic ally in this project. He arranged interviews, helped fill in the blanks and, when we finally met him in Yaoundé in 2016, provided us with photographs, lyric sheets and notes.

During the interview Kalkaba explained how the songs recorded in the mid 1970s were part of a movement, a movement initiated by musicians from all around Cameroon who, with the help of keyboards, drum kits and electric guitars, had started to modernise the traditional rhythms of their regions. For Kalkaba it was no different and backed by his band the Golden Sounds, devoted himself to the promotion of the sounds of northern Cameroon.

One of the aims of Analog Africa is to showcase the colourful diversity of styles that exist in Africa and its diaspora and today we are very proud to be able to give these Gandjal tunes their first worldwide release.

Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974 - 1975

Get the Record here:

Hamad Kalkaba - Astadjam Dada Saré(Leave a comment, tell kalkaba how much you love his song!)

@jitwam with @wuesli on baseline duties whips up oodles of beats, funk and nasty in this heavy number. Out now on his ज़ितम सिहँ LP via @cosmiccompositions.

Read more:http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/11/08/premiere-jitwam-somethingtochewon/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/jitwam-somethingtochewon

Listen on YouTube

Jitwam - somethingtochewon (STW Premiere)

DDM Discoveries #2 (Discover upcoming talented artists)

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The Long Way Home

Aaron Taylor - Saw You In My Dreams

I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) (Pomo Remix)

Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) [Pomo Remix]

Or More is a project series involving musical ideas and concepts that are currently inspiring the album’s creation process. As creatives we live in a world of time constraints imposed by illusive industry standards,  anxious demands of appreciators, or even our own self reflections. #OrMore is a smaller context of this larger pool of thoughts.. a world of exploration removed from the confines of a particular method. Its my way of sharing the beauty in Indecisiveness. Sometimes we have to make music to locate the true music within our being. The first hones in on the ANXIOUS.

Energies ft. Saba [Prod. THEMPeople]

off 8, out December 8th worldwide. Pre-order now!

produced by Statik Selektah.
Bass by Brady Watt.
Additional keys by Cas Weinbren.
Horns by Utril Rhaburn

Ain't A Damn Thing Change feat. G-Eazy, Joey Bada$$, & Enisa

01 Will LV - Nina

Betty Chung - Bang Bang

'almost there' (Level42 cover)

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Upfront Playlist: December 2017

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