Jazz Chronicles is a project by Futuristica´s Simon S and is heavily influenced by his love of classic era hip hop and deep, spiritual jazz. Simon is joined on this set by horn player Ben Hadwen, who has worked with Recloose, Mark De Clive-Lowe & Emanative and award winning Vibraphonist Corey Mwamba who has recently played alongside Quantic & Robert Mitchell. The sound sits somewhere between 90´s Mo´ Wax and 70´s Strata East with Simon´s heavy, break laden tracks and Ben & Corey´s free-flowing solos. The album includes the single ´One For Joe´ (FM010) and forthcoming single ´Bologna´ with remixes from K15, As Valet & Emanative.
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 Jesse’s participation with Damon Albarn’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 band’s forthcoming album – a collection of gloriously hypnotic Afro grooves symbolic of the true culture clash between the Luo and London.
Dubstep pioneer Maddslinky - also well known as Zed Bias - has signed to Tru Thoughts to release his new album, 'Make A Change'. The first single is "Special" featuring Omar. A full colour sleeve houses a 5 track vinyl EP and a 10 track bonus CD, with a brand new track co-written with Mr Scruff plus all-star remixes from MJ Cole, Toddla T, At Jazz, Chimpo and Simbad. Also included, is the video. Omar's career at the forefront of British soul has seen him collaborate with Stevie Wonder and other greats including MOBO winner Estelle, Angie Stone, Rodney P and Erykah Badu to name a few. "Special" is a perfect marriage of his immense talent and charisma with the cutting edge production of Maddslinky.
Under his Zed Bias moniker, Maddslinky has been supported by BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Pete Tong. He hit the UK Top 40 in 2000 with "Neighbourhood" - one of the all time classic UK garage tracks, which was re-released last year with a remix from Roska that fully redefined its importance to a younger generation of clubbers. The 'Make A Change' album features collabs with Skream and other major names in the current UK music scene.
As postmodernist space odysseys go, Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma has confidently weaved itself into the lineage of Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra's Strange Strings, Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth and Afrika Bambaata's Planet Rock…
While Cosmogramma is a monolithic convergence of 20th and 21st century musical forms, high in concept and wide in musical collaboration, Pattern+Grid World pulls the focus back to Steven Ellison and his machines. These machines are speaking (and possibly looking as well, judging by the EP's cover) from the go, as "Clay" introduces itself in a fog of synth and vocoder and gives way to one of the many surprises here, the schizophrenic ping-ponging electro of "Kill Your Co-Workers". Drenched in alternating melodies, it's a synthetic counterpart to the grand string and harp arrangements of Cosmogramma, making acclaimed illustrator Theo Ellsworth's subtly psychedelic cover image of vision-through-noise all the more intimate.
When Flying Lotus records hit their stride, all buttons labeled "pause" and "stop" disappear, and this one is no different. "Pie Face" is led by icy keys that could almost be mistaken for classic grime, before the stoned plastic marching band steps in. "Time Vampires" amazingly lands somewhere between vintage DJ Premier and Lee Hazelwood, while the stripped back bass and drum explorations of "Jurassic Notion/M Theory" are as shamanic and ceremonial as anything you're likely to hear come out of California. If "Camera Day" brings to mind a certain crew of dungeon-dwelling ATLiens, it won't come as much of a surprise that Killer Mike found its syrupy bounce recently inspiring.
Much of the messages surrounding Cosmogramma's release as well as reportage on the world's ever-emerging beat scenes has painted a picture of Flying Lotus as a patriarchal figure blazing the trail for scores of young artists with new conceptual notions of what can be done with a drum machine and a dream. While this notion is certainly not inaccurate, it sometimes overshadows the fact that FlyLo is also an incredibly singular entity. However, as "Physics For Everyone!" stutters to a close, if you listen closely you might just make out the sound of another kid in his room somewhere in the world, anxiously tapping out his first beat.
This New Release from Wonderful Noise features new songs from New Zealand's 7 piece Funk/Soul group Opensouls.
"Sweet Love" Featuring New Zealand's female vocalist/MC Ladi6 who recently released her album "Time Is Not Much" on BBE. With this release the Opensouls give us a mixture of Hip Hop and Organic Funk/Soul.
This EP Features remixes from 2 Japanese up and coming Hip Hop producers, Mabanua & Monkey Sequence 19 takes the original soul/funk taste and develops it's jazzy, hip hop flavour. MONKEY_sequence.19 picks up the Soul/Jazz essence from original and stamps his beatmaking style on it.
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