Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos - are set to release their highly anticipated debut album 'Crooks & Lovers' on Scuba's Hotflush label in July. Mount Kimbie's first two EPs - 'Maybes' and 'Sketch On Glass' - seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were instantly turned into voyeurs.
"Jungle Music" is due out in August, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Walter Gibbons remains one of the most important and unheralded DJ / remixers in New York dance music history, a pioneer of reel to reel edits and the art of the remix and a tangible link between early hip hop and disco through his quickfire turntable skills developed during the mid-70's.
At his famed residency at Galaxy 21 (alongside a then young percussionist, Francois Kevorkian), Gibbons perfected his turntable prowess, mixing two copies of records seamlessly at a similar time to Kool Herc's famed block parties across town in the Bronx in 1975. He was among the first to make his own reel to reel edits of tracks, extending breaks and restructuring tracks specifically for the dancefloor. As a direct result, he was the first DJ to be granted access to multi-track tapes as Ken Cayre's Salsoul Records brought him in to re-work Double Exposure's 'Ten Percent' in '76, a mix that would set the blueprint for disco, the 12" format and all future dance music mixes.
This compilation focuses on some of the more adventurous and ground-breaking mixes that Gibbons produced during the disco era including a freeform treatment of Dinosaur L's 'Go Bang', Paradise Garage favourite 'You Are My Love' by Sandy Mercer and underground disco rarity, 'I've Been Searching' by Arts & Craft.
Track List & Listening Clips:
01
Jakki
Sun... Sun... Sun... (Walter Gibbons Original 12" Edit)
The Strange Games series from BBE Records is back with the 5th installment, check sound clips below. To pre-order a copy please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
The Strange Games... series which began in the summer of 1997, represents the blueprint for modern R&B and rap music. It joins the dots between 70s soul, 80s rare groove and 90s mass market hip hop. This compilation contains a wide variety of styles of tracks, from classic dance-floor fillers as well as lesser known delights. A more accessible diggers delight if you wish with an emphasis on quality track and not just songs worth having for a 2 second sample.
Featuring a much more worldly selection than its predecessors - tracks by the multi platinum selling War to Sylvia (founder of Sugarhill Records) sit side by side with world music underground icons like C.K. Mann and Francisco Aguabella. This volume is the 5th in a series of compilations that appears to have the widest appeal of all BBEs compilations and proves to be even better by the fact that there is a bonus mixed CD by the one and only Dj Spinna!
Tracks List & Listening Clips:
This week see the release of Sola Rosa's "Get It Together - The Remixes", featuring remixes by The Nextmen, DJ Vadim, Yes King, moO, J Star, Biggabush, TM Juke, Beatfanatic, Alister Johnson, Hermitude, Thomas Blondet, Richie Phoe… and more.
Track List:
1. Turn Around Ft. Iva Lamkum (Alister Johnson Remix)
2. Del Ray (Thomas Blondet Remix)
3. I've Tried Ways Ft. Serocee (The Nextmen - The Michael Fowler Centre Remix)
4. Lady Love Ft. Bajka (Richie Phoe Mix)
5. Love Alone Ft. Spikey Tee (Mr. Boinkin's Mank Remix)
6. Turn Around Ft. Iva Lamkum (TM Juke Remix)
7. Humanised Ft. Bajka (moO ISTANBUL Guitar Check Remix)
8. I've Tried Ways Ft. Serocee (Hermitude Remix)
9. Lady Love Ft. Bajka (Biggabush Version)
10. These Words, These Sounds, These Powers Ft. Spikey Tee (J Star - Concrete Break Out Mix)
11. Turn Around Ft. Iva Lamkum (DJ Vadim Remix)
12. I've Tried Ways Ft. Serocee (Yesking Remix)
13. Humanised Ft. Bajka (Jason Eli's Groovadelica Remix)
14. Get It Together (Beatfanatic Remix)
15. Del Ray Ft. FOUR-D
The World Ends is the latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. Featuring 32 electrifying and funk laden grooves, this is the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war.
Spread over 2 CDs and 2 triple gatefold LPs, this bumper collection is brimming with youthful exuberance, fuzzed out guitar and cosmic organ vibes and owes much to the psychedelic sounds of Jim Morrison, Santana, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and James Brown.
As the summer of love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafran war of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives yet at the same time as the country was being pulled apart there was a new world beginning. The tracks featured represent a forgotten chapter in Nigeria’s musical history when the youth threw their varied morsels into the pot from hard rock to psychedelic soul when guitars were cherished instruments, symbolic of a new movement, when highlife and Afrobeat played second fiddle to ‘the beat’.
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