I wished, I tried to be fun, to be light
I wished, I tried, to be the best, to be kind
I wished, I tried to breathe, to be nice
I wished, I tried to please, to be loved
But in the end
But in the end

I wished, I tried to attach, to be kind
I wished, I tried to please, to be loved  But in the end
But in the end
It hurts

I Tried To Please

Tracklist:

Retromigration - ‘Kunta’
Navy Blue - ‘To Fall In Love’
Helene Smith - ‘I Am Controlled By Your Love’
Modha - ‘Break The Cycle’
Tasha Angela - ‘Away’
YungMorpheus - ‘Playing’ The Same Game’ 
BoogieMonsters - ‘Honeydips In Gotham’
Matt Wilde - ‘Who Cares’
Ohbliv - ‘Much Given’
Jennifer Lara - ‘I Am In Love’
Yumi And The Weather - Be Your Lover (MossGatherer Remix)
Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed & Lonnie Liston Smith - ‘A New Spring’ (Feat. Loren Oden)
Kai Meara - ’Somewhere In Between’ 
Larry June & The Alchemist - ‘Art Talk’ (Feat. Boldy James)
MossGatherer - ‘Mood Ring Purple’ (Feat. JC)
Moin - ‘Life Choices’ 
Theo Parrish - ‘Sweet Sticky’ 
Arthur Russell - ‘In The Light Of The Miracle’ 
Talaboman - ‘Madhouse Dub’ (Feat. Kristian Harborg)
Janet Jackson - ‘The Pleasure Principal’ 
No Smoke - ‘Koro Koro’ 
Greg Surmacz - ‘What We Can Assume’ 
Scrimshire - ‘Unforgiven, Unforgotten’ (Feat. Nat Birchall)
Divorce From New York & Blaze - ‘Paralelo66’ 
Chunky - ‘MEH’
Foshe - ‘Polyrhythmic Housification’ 
Marijus Aleksa - ‘Guided By Sensations’
Dampé - ‘King Tide’ 
Dampé - ‘Ravey Emo Tool (Like Me)’ 
Delory Edwards - ‘I Love Sloane’
XOA - ‘Drawing Light’ 
Les Abrades - ‘Mmliyi Kan’ 
Kai Meara - ‘Blocks Flicker’ 
Mushkilla & Gaptoof - ‘Stay Up’ 
Ohbliv - ‘Dreamcatcher’

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Rinse FM Podcast

Jyoty feat. DJ Nyack - 29 June 2023

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Demo 3110

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Pre-order: https://ingrv.es/space-and-time-1ov-d

Hot on the heels of her debut LP 'Who I Am’, Toronto-based singer @tashaangela returns with a brand new single, 'Space And Time'.

Laroye (@tomlaroye) picks up remix duties with a deep, percussive groove topped with Tasha’s intoxicating vocals floating overhead.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Tasha Angela 'Space And Time' (Laroye Remix)

Broken beat, or bruk, is intrinsically collaborative. Its London originators often recorded together, taking inspiration from jazz, hip-hop, deep house, drum & bass and Afrobeat. Because the genre was born of fusion, it brought together heads from all corners of the music spectrum—sound system purists to junglists to Latin Nuyorican aficionados—who each resonated with bruk's complex rhythms in their own ways.

Ian Grant, AKA IG Culture, is an early pioneer of bruk, and his story underlines the style's synergetic nature. Starting out as an MC, he struck fame in the early '90s as one half of Dodge City Productions but quickly grew disillusioned with the major label business. After immersing himself in early George Duke records, Fela Kuti, Fuji music, The Headhunters and the like, he started experimenting in the studio. The jazz inspiration, plus his roots in reggae and background in hip-hop and acid jazz, led to his now-seminal, late '90s productions as New Sector Movements—widely considered as the starting point in bruk history.

Since then, Grant has kept building infrastructure for the hybrid sound. Alongside Bugz in the Attic, Phil Asher, Dego of 4hero, Demus and Orin Walters, he cofounded the legendary CoOp party, which became a meeting place for diverse musical minds and enabled bruk to keep evolving. Grant remains deeply committed to co-creating, as seen by the Selectors Assemble artist collective he runs with Alex Phountzi (the two are also known as NameBrandSound), his releases with Psykhomantus as Shall I Bruk It, his Afrofuturist take on bruk as Likwid Continual Space Motion and various other projects.

On his RA Podcast, the veteran artist presents a forward-thinking portrayal of bruk, adjacent styles that were directly inspired by it and other global club cuts. There are cerebral, jazzy cuts from his CoOp label, Nigerian cruise music, percussive UK garage, 2-step swing, dancehall dub and much more. This is Grant's world, where rhythmic and swung beats reign supreme.

@ig-culture

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/897

RA podcast

RA.897 IG Culture

Brain Marrow w/ Josh Byrne - Aaja Channel 2 - 04 09 23

Further strengthening the musical link between New York City and Singapore, Darker Than Wax is proud to welcome Brooklyn mainstay Eamon Harkin to our sonic universe. Through his long time partnership with Justin Carter, Eamon has been at the forefront of dance music for over a decade via his club night and label Mister Saturday Night, groundbreaking day party Mister Sunday, as well as running Nowadays, one of the most forward thinking clubs globally. The Irish DJ/producer graces our label for the first time with Noetic, a four-track meditation on the lifelong search for a deep personal connection through spiritual practice.


Eamon Harkin
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/eamonharkin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistereamonharkin

Darker Than Wax
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Noetic EP

PREMIERE: Eamon Harkin - Noetic (Darker Than Wax)

Oozing urban and tropical, jazz infused electronic sounds, Lucked In is a serious vibe. Formed in Paris in late 2017, the trio draws upon an intercontinental wealth of musical traditions to produce a cutting edge approach to experimental afro sounds, fully DIY punk in its attitude. Poet and rapper Kwame Write (Ghana) conjures the ancestors of afrobeat and calls up ancient Akan aphorisms. His urgent, multi-lingual verses merge with the ethereal vocal melodies of singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Black Rainbow (New Zealand/Ghana, a.k.a. Leila Adu), working in tandem with saxophonist and producer Alejandro Van Zandt-Escobar (Colombia/USA) to produce percussive live electronica creations that remain firmly left of center.

The trio met in Paris in 2017 when all three were living there, and organized an impromptu poetry / music jam session in a rum bar in the 11th arrondissement. Drawing from a wide range of experiences as people who have immigrated several times, living between different cultures and having multiple countries which they have called home, difficult to pin-point their identities musical or otherwise.

On the themes of the EP, the band expains: “ Many of the songs speak of the sociopolitical impact of a world that is increasingly interconnected, increasing movement of people and in reaction increasing hostility towards others. Experience of living between cultures, tensions between tradition and modernity”


The group is currently dispersed between Tema / Copenhagen (Kwame), NYC (Leila) and Paris (Alejandro), staying alive in this digital age through shared sessions, chance encounters as we cross paths, performance opportunities, etc.

Jean-Charles Versari at Poptones Studio, Paris
Mastered by Leon Atter at BAM Studios

Lucked In - Nuttin' Cold

Sounds From The Void. 
Est. 2012
Captained by Josh Byrne

Lucked In - Nuttin' Cold

XVI Records

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