New In At Conch - 5th August

Actress - Splazsh 2LP (HONEST JON'S RECORDS)

Upcoming: Owiney Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam 12" (Brownswood)

Robbie M & Terry Patton - Tri-Fire Vol.2 12" (PEOPLES POTENTIAL UNLIMITED)

Print: Dam Funk At The Mezzanine, San Francisco

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New In At Conch - 5th August

Actress - Splazsh 2LP (HONEST JON'S RECORDS)

Upcoming: Owiney Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam 12" (Brownswood)

Robbie M & Terry Patton - Tri-Fire Vol.2 12" (PEOPLES POTENTIAL UNLIMITED)

Print: Dam Funk At The Mezzanine, San Francisco

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Written By 3 - August 05 2010

Just finished processing a whole bunch of new bits in store this week, check below for a selection of some of the new bits in. Best Conch Team

Written By 1 - August 04 2010

Darren Cunninghamâ€™s eagerly-awaited new album is an adventurous, ultra-modern, thoroughly British affair, rummaging about in the inner lives of house and techno, and brilliantly elaborating the accomplishments of his debut, Hazyville.Â For Splazsh the fog has lifted, the sounds are less submerged than before, but still sticky and close â€” a signature combination of exuberance and introversion, luminescence and puzzlement.Â Â Unconstrained by the formal cliches of the dance music he loves, Actressâ€™ melodies and arrangements are enthralled by their own genies. Worlds of disturbance and melancholy revolve giddyingly inside the insidious funk of tracks like Get Ohn and Lost. A range of musical influences is redrawn, from speed garage (Always Human) to grime (Wrong Potion), with none crowned king. There is a reflectiveness â€” the ambient drift of Futureproofing, the radiophonic judder of Supreme Cunnilingus â€” in amongst the industrial, synth-wave flavours of Casanova, and the stirring, stately Maze.Â Â In love with the mysteries of groove and repetition, Splazsh is both a culmination and a new beginning for Actress, a substantial and eccentric work from a brave and coolly individual artist.

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Written By 3 - August 03 2010

Jesse Hackett's (Elmore Judd / Gorillaz) new project. Gloriously Hypnotic Kenyan grooves - a true culture clash between the Luo and London. Championed by Gilles Peterson they are a new signing to Brownswood, with an album due early 2011.

In 2009, a handful of London-based musicians travelled to Nairobi in Kenya to collaborate with two local musicians: Joseph Nyamungo and Charles Okoko, who hail from a village up country called Owiny Sigoma. The workshop/rehearsals were a lot of fun and pretty fruitful so they set about finding a studio that could accomodate a 7-piece live band. The resulting four tracks made their way to Gilles Peterson who promptly signed the band to his Brownswood imprint and sent the boys back to Nairobi for another week-long recording session with Joseph, Charles and their extended musical family. The traditional folkloric music of Kenya has not received the same global exposure as that of Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa or North Africa for example and one of the objectives of this project was to try and build on this. The band draw on a broad spectrum of African influences, from Fela Kuti and Tony Allen to the likes of Thomas Mapfumo and Oumou Sangare, but bar Jesseâ€™s participation with Damon Albarnâ€™s Africa Express, this was the first opportunity for Jesse Hackett (keys), Louis Hackett (bass), Sam Lewis (guitar), Chris Morphitis (bouzouki/guitar) and Tom Skinner (drums) to visit specifically for a musical project.

The results are documented on the bandâ€™s forthcoming album â€“ a collection of gloriously hypnotic Afro grooves symbolic of the true culture clash between the Luo and London. A 12â€³ featuring two tracks from the original session in Nairobi â€“ â€˜Doyoi Nyajo Namâ€™ b/w â€˜Jalako Onyoono Pakaâ€™

Various - The World Ends Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria 2xCD (Soundway)

Various - Afro Rock Vol. 1 CD (Strut)

Written By 3 - August 03 2010

Following the success of the Midnight Express single 'Danger Zone', Robbie M and Terry Patton continued to search for new sounds. Over the next few years the duo would produce dozens of instrumental sketches. Terry always recorded these backing arrangements to cassette tapes so they could easily listen to them later in the car. Cruising the streets of Rock Island IL, vocalist Robbie M would write the additional melodies and lyrics. The plan was to release a full length studio album, combining all parts and adding vocals, but the group dispersed in 1985 before their dream was realized. The Terry tapes, which were never intended for commercial release, are all that remain. When we first heard them, they were inaudible with almost no tones left to preserve, but thanks to a few small miracles and genuine science the shroud of noise has been lifted to reveal an unexplainable haze of funk.

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Ballplayers - Ballplayers EP 7" (People's Potential Unlimited)

Written By 3 - August 03 2010

When Stones Throw Records approached Berlesque of North America about designing and printing a concert poster for his royal flyness, the one and only boogie funk ambassador DÃ¢M-FunK, they jumped at the chance!Â Mike Davis put together this design for Dam's upcoming performances in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Screenprinted by Ben LaFond.

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