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Upcoming: Various - Strange Games & Funky Things Vol.5 2CD/2LP (BBE)
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:01 | Ned Doheny | Get It Up for Love | clip | |||
02 | Sylvia | Sweet Stuff | clip | |||
03 | Richard Evans | Capricorn Rising | clip | |||
04 | Sylvia St James | Motherland | clip | |||
05 | Eddy Senay | Cameo | clip | |||
06 | Cal Tjader | Morning | clip | |||
07 | Francisco Aguabella | Ramon's Desire | clip | |||
08 | The Philly Armada Orchestra | For The Love Of Money | clip | |||
09 | The Ambassadors | I Ain't Got The Love (Of One Girl On My Mind) | clip | |||
10 | Family Tree feat Sharon Brown | Family Tree | clip | |||
11 | The Perfect Circle | The Hands Of Time | clip | |||
12 | WAR | War Is Coming, War Is Coming | clip | |||
13 | Hiroshi Fukumura | Hunt Up Wind | clip | |||
14 | Wood Brass And Steel | Always There | clip | |||
15 | C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 | Asafo Beesuon / Obaa Yaa Aye Me Bone (Medley) Edit | clip | |||
16 | Bill Summers | Brazilian Skies | clip |
Kon & Amir - Off Track Vol III CD/2LP (BBE)
Get It Here on 2LP here & 2xCD here
Digging duo Kon & Amir occupy a select corner of the DJ world, with radio, mix-CDs, live sets and compilations on their radar. Theirs is a slowly-but-steadily growing catlogue crammed with timeless releases: six volumes of their widely celebrated On Track mixtape series, a highly regarded compilation The Cleaning (2004), a breaks-heavy instalment called Kings of Digging (2006) with DJ Muro from Japan and now the third volume of five in their Off Track series for BBE. Not to mention tours spanning the US, Europe and Far East taking in appearances at clubs, festivals and weekenders, in addition they have a strong affiliation with record diggers' bible 'Wax Poetics', and have just completed an 18-month residency of their own monthly show on online music 'zine Spine Magazine's radio station.
Off Track III finds the New York/Boston-based pair shining light on another diverse array of underexposed vinyl. The eclectic African disco and soul cuts Amir highlights on his disc are Americanized by style but inherently authentic in feel, demonstrating the very best of the region's dance music from the period following Fela Kuti's mid-70s creative peak. Some standouts: Tee Mac's 1980’s insistently catchy 'Living Everyday', Effi Duke's percussive materpiece 'The Time Is Come', and Christy Essien's glorious 'You Can't Change', which features famed bandleader Geraldo Pino's Show Train outfit. Also in the mix are a couple of cuts from unsung Nigerian star Dizzy K. Falola aimed at sophisticated dancefloors.
Kon's disc opens with an extended edit of Donny McCullough's 'From The Heart' from a pricey 1981 album. Rudolph Baker's little known album track 'Getting Next To You' is a floor-filling anthem in the waiting. Edge of Daybreak were a prison band whose punchy title track from their rare Eyes Of Love album provides a solid argument for subsidizing more music programs behind bars. 'Tin Top' is another cut with a Kon edit, but Kenny Mann & Liquid Pleasure are the antithesis of mysterious indy-label group, the veterans performing to this day and maintaining a comprehensive website loaded with videos and resumes.
Track-listing:
01 | Donny McCullough | From The Heart (Kon's Multi Remix) | clip | |||
02 | The Mazyck Project | More Power To You | clip | |||
03 | Randolph Baker | Getting Next To You | clip | |||
04 | Fred Prescott & The Jeff Band | Come Fly With Me | clip | |||
05 | S.F.B. | Burnin' Up (Kon's Edit) | clip | |||
06 | Gerard 'PJ' Browne | Sexy Lady | clip | |||
07 | Twilight | Play My Game | clip | |||
08 | The Edge Of Daybreak | E.O.D. (Edge of Daybreak) | clip | |||
09 | Kenny Mann Jr. & Liquid Pleasure Band | Tin Top (Pt. 1 & 2) | clip | |||
10 | Taxie | Rock Don't Stop | clip | |||
11 | Backyard Construction | I Want Your Lovin' | clip | |||
01 | Bomp | Funk INA Ghatto (feat. Austin & Jones) | clip | |||
02 | Dizzy K | Saturday Night Raps | clip | |||
03 | Bomp | Disco Power | clip | |||
04 | Tee Mac feat. Majorie Barnes | Living Everyday | clip | |||
05 | Effi Duke & The Love Family | The Time Is Come | clip | |||
06 | Christy Essien Igbokwe | You Can't Change A Man | clip | |||
07 | Harry Mosco | Step On | clip | |||
08 | Doris Ebong | Boogie Trip | clip | |||
09 | Galaxy | Galaxy | clip | |||
10 | Dizzy K | Take It To The DJ | clip |
Upcoming: Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives Sampler LP
UPDATE: This is now available - to buy please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
The Distant Relatives Sampler LP is due for release in June, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nzWhat we're about to do right now is go back. Back to a time when rap's greatest hits were created in basement soundrooms, not corporate boardrooms. When dancehall and hip-hop music was all about moving the crowd not "moving units." Before Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley and Nasty Nasir Jones first began treading the long and winding "Road to Zion." The artists' first collaboration went so well that they decided to do a full album together, and that album is Distant Relatives!
Unlike all previous collaborations between Jamaican and American artists, Distant Relatives is neither a remix nor a featured guest spot on a single track. The recording is a fully collaborative effort filling an entire album, opening new avenues of musical expression.The album created by two serious artists to explore and celebrate the correlations and deep-rooted connections between reggae and hip-hop, tracing both sounds back to the African motherland that is both the cradle of humanity and the wellspring of mankind's music. And who better to fulfill this mission? The youngest son of the legendary Bob Marley, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, and all time legend of Hip-Hop - Nas Jones.
Track listing: A1 AS WE ENTER A2 TRIBAL WAR (FEAT. K’NAAN) A3 STRONG WILL CONTINUE A4 LAND OF PROMISE A5 DISPEAR B1 IN HIS OWN WORDS (FEAT. STEPHEN MARLEY) B2 NAH MEAN B3 LEADERS (FEAT. STEPHEN MARLEY) B4 MY GENERATION (FEAT. JOSS STONE & LIL’ WAYNE) B5 AFRICA MUST WAKE UP (FEAT. K’NAAN) NAS & DAMIAN "JR GONG" MARLEY DISTANT RELATIVES preview from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.
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