Thursday, July 31, 2014

DIVERSA - you think i'm playing?


Signed with Inspected

Paco Sala - Impossible Places


Composed of Anthony Harrison and Birch, the London duo Paco Sala plan to release their new album Put Your Hands On Me through Digitalis records in the autumn.  

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Jeremih & Shlohmo - No More (EP)

Yea... what we've wanted for a while for the boom boom room collection... Jeremih and Shlohmo's FreEP available for download HERE.  It has 'No More', Bo Peep, and 'Fuck You All The Time' plus 3 others including one with a Chance The Rapper feature. You can stream/get it for free for an email address.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Paradis - Garde Le Pour Toi

Paradis captured our hearts with their video for Hémisphère in 2012.

Now we get a slice of their new project and it feels real heavenly. I wish I spoke French right now.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

hide sentient drones vol​.​1 by ЯΛRΞ ППUƉΞS


New release from one of the cleanest labels in the game right now: ЯΛRΞ ППUƉΞS

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Throwback Thursday: Lou Bond - I'm So In Love - Motherless Child (Live)


Lou Bond... the boss known best for his song "To the Establishment" (also amazing and heavily sampled by the likes of Mary J Blige and Outkast)... gets loose in a little medley action seamlessly bleeding Al Green's Let's Stay Together and Motherless Child blues (popularized by Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks - but covered by many and began as a "traditional negro spiritual").  Lou's scatting at the beginning is especially interesting... reminiscent of Jack Black at some moments - putting a smile on your face and yet by his wailing at the end, you all but cry.  Lou Bond should be lauded as one of the great soul artists of the 60s and 70s but is actually fairly slept on.  His conscious strumming and wailing is perhaps a political response to Bill Withers.

Throwback Thursday: Ann Sorel - L'amour à plusieurs


1972.  Okay so you might be able to tell a little bit from her tone, but the lyrics to this joint are about "making love to many".  She speaks to her lover who she realizes she desires most but is likely making love to someone else in the room and she questions if "making love with many is good for the heart".  French composer Jean-Claude Vannier did his thing with the strings on this one... giving them a piercing oriental sound.

Throwback Thursday: Tubeway Army - Are 'friends' electric?


One of my favorite new shows is "Halt and Catch Fire" on AMC.  It's a fictionalized depiction of the personalized computer revolution and takes place in the early 80s.  The soundtrack to the show is some really great synth heavy 80s shit.  Tubeway Army dropped this track in 79 acctually but it's about as 80s synth banger as you can get.  The London based group was really masterminded by Gary Numan, the lead singer, song writer and producer. But they were definitely pioneering a new wave sound out of a punk era.

Throwback Thursday: Tony Allen and The Afro Messengers - Love Is A Natural Thing


This track is from "Tony Allen And The Afro Messengers - No Discrimination"
Recorded in 1979 at Phonogram's Studio in Lagos - originally released on Shanu Olu Records. [ Grandstar, GSLP (LP) 1012 Nigeria 1979 ]... Tony Allen is maybe the greatest drummer of the 20th century. So hopefully you've heard some stuff by him.  He was born in Nigeria in 1940 and rose to fame as Fela Kuti's drummer and creative director in the late 60s and 70s.  Fela said once that "without Tony Allen there would be no afrobeat". Pioneers. Happy Thursday.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

miniνan_markuѕ - nothing existed. Everything Exists.


minivan_markus is from Memphis, TN and is a cofounder of Rare NNudes.  He's also one half of the producer duo cvlt45.  cult45 made one of my fav tracks last summer: єxιмιæ
So... minivan_markus' beattape dropped today:

Tele Fresco - Trophies

Drake - Trophies remix from Stevie The Kill God

My cousin Tele broke this joint off for Mayne a "MUSIC SHARING PLATFORM / BLOG / INDEPENDENT LABEL" out of France.  Their website hasn't launched yet? But they continue to release ice cold bangers on their soundcloud.