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November 06 2009

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Dam-Funk - Toeachizown 2 x CD (Stonesthrow)

Written By 3 - November 06 2009

Dam-Funk - Toeachizown 2 x CD (Stonesthrow)

Known as Los Angeles' "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," Dãm-Funk represents the citizens of the Funkmosphere. Headquartered in the Leimert Park section of L.A., Dãm (pronounced: 'Dame' as in Damon) spent the last few years cultivating a musical renaissance rooted in the early-'80s styles known as Boogie, Modern Soul and Electro-Funk.

As a DJ/selector, Dãm attracts the most discerning Boogie Funk afficionados within driving distance of his storied Monday-night Funkmosphere parties. But it's not just collectors at the bar toasting to the melodic sounds. Anyone who grooves to the likes of Slave, Aurra, early Prince, Prelude Records and the like, will get a dose of those groups' unknown contemporaries – more obscure but equally Funk-worthy.

The next phase of the Ambassador's mission is his debut album Toeachizown: continuing the classic West Coast tradition into today's scene with Dãm's own original "Modern-Funk" compositions. By plugging in his arsenal of vintage synths and drum machines, Dãm channels the galactic harmonies of his inspiration into his own brand of new boogie. Stones Throw Records' like-minded honcho Peanut Butter Wolf brought Dãm on to the team to glide into the future with his unique, synth and bass-driven vibe. It's a promising new chapter for Southern Cali space funk.

Get Dam-Funk's - Toeachizown 2 x CD here

01 Disc 1:Dam Funk Let's Take Off (Far Away) clip
02 Dam Funk Come On Outside clip
03 Dam Funk Mirrors clip
04 Dam Funk One Less Day clip
05 Dam Funk Brookside Park clip
06 Dam Funk The Sky Is Ours clip
07 Dam Funk (My Funk Goes) On + On clip
08 Dam Funk Searchin' 4 Funk's Future clip
09 Dam Funk Love Is Here 2Nite clip
10 Dam Funk I Wanna Thank You For (Steppin' Into My Life) clip
11 Dam Funk Fantasy clip
12 Dam Funk Keep Lookin 2 The Sky clip
01 Disc 2:Dam Funk Toeachizown (D-F's Theme) clip
02 Dam Funk 10 West clip
03 Dam Funk Flying V-Ride clip
04 Dam Funk Burn Straight Thru U clip
05 Dam Funk Candy Dancin' clip
06 Dam Funk Rollin' clip
07 Dam Funk Hood Pass Intact clip
08 Dam Funk Killdat aka Killdatmuthafu'ka clip
09 Dam Funk I Gots 2 Be Done Wit' U clip
10 Dam Funk LAtrifying clip
11 Dam Funk Spacecapades clip
12 Dam Funk In Flight clip

More Info:

Dam-Funk in LA Times

Dam-Funk Fader Cover Story

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October 28 2009

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Gilles Peterson - Presents Havana Cultura 2xCD (Brownswood)

Written By 3 - October 28 2009

World renowned globetrotting DJ, broadcaster and tastemaker, Gilles Peterson teamed up with the award winning Cuban jazz pianist, Roberto Fonseca, to find the very best up and coming musical talent in Havana. 12 Months in the making it represents the biggest collection of contemporary Cuban musicians in a single musical initiative since the highly acclaimed launch of Buena Vista Social Club in 1990.

Featuring the work of over 20 musicians and artists recorded across 28 tracks, the double CD album is a celebration of Cuba’s freshest musical talent from latin, afro jazz and fusion to hip hop, funk, reggaeton and R&B. The album includes a collection of new material written and recorded in Havana by undiscovered local street and urban musicians such as vocalist D’nay (described by Gilles Peterson as “Cuba’s Jill Scott”) and Doble Filo as well as international award winning artists such as rapper Kumar and pianist Roberto Fonseca. Fans of Cuban music will also recognise a number of traditional Cuban classics such as Chekere Son, which have been carefully re-recorded by Gilles Peterson.

PODCAST: Check out the podcast Gilles put together here featuring music from the Havana Cultura album

Check the track-listing below and get it here Track-listing:
01 Havana Cultura Band Pa Gozar clip
02 Havana Cultura Band Arroz Con Pollo clip
03 Havana Cultura Band Roforofo Fight feat. Mayra Caridad Valdes clip
04 Havana Cultura Band Ipacuba feat. Danay, Francis del Rio, Vince Vella & Julio Padron clip
05 Havana Cultura Band La Revolucion Del Cuerpo Pt.1 feat. Ogguere, Danay & Obsesion clip
06 Havana Cultura Band La Revolucion Del Cuerpo Pt.2 feat. Roberto Fonseca clip
07 Havana Cultura Band Lagrimas De Soledad (No Existen Palabras) feat. Danay clip
08 Havana Cultura Band Think Twice feat. Danay & Obsesion clip
09 Havana Cultura Band Chekere Son feat. Mayra Caridad Valdes clip
10 Havana Cultura Band Afrodisia clip
11 Havana Cultura Band Mami clip
12 Havana Cultura Band Rezando clip
01 Ogguere La Revolucion Del Cuerpo clip
02 Gente De Zona Homenaje A Benny More clip
03 Free Hole Negro Listos Pa La Lucha clip
04 Wichy De Vedado & Tony Rodriguez La Perla Del Son clip
05 Yusa Candao Cerrado clip
06 Kumar Acompananos clip
07 Obsesion Me Lastimas clip
08 Danay Individual clip
09 Los Aldeanos Pasa El Borrador clip
10 Doble Filo Amor Internacional clip
11 Cubanito 20.02 Por Un Milagro clip
12 Francis del Rio Sentimiento clip
13 Doble Filo feat. Pepito Que Tu Te Crees clip
14 Descemer Bueno & Kelvis Ochoa Punala clip
15 Telmary Spiritual Sin Egoismo clip
16 Harold Lopez-Nussa La Jungla clip

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October 20 2009

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Upcoming: Mulatu - New York - Addis - London CD/2LP (Strut)

Written By 3 - October 20 2009

Mulatu - New York - Addis - London CD/2LP (Strut)

UPDATE: Now Available On CD / 2LP

To reserve a copy please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached a global audience and a new, younger generation of fans. In November of last year, he recorded an inspired new album with London psych jazz band The Heliocentrics for Strut's 'Inspiration Information' studio collaboration series. Now, Strut are proud to present, for the first time anywhere, the definitive Mulatu career retrospective covering his landmark 60's and 70's recordings.

Mulatu is a true pioneer of African music. He was the first Ethiopian musician of his generation to travel extensively and to record abroad – he studied in the UK in Wales and at Trinity College Of Music in London, cutting his teeth on the buoyant London jazz scene of the early 60's. He became the first African student to attend Harvard and he lived and recorded in New York, developing a unique sound that fused Western jazz with traditional Ethiopian melodies.

Tracing the progression of his Ethio jazz experiments with full access to all of the labels for whom he recorded, Mulatu Astatke: New York-Addis-London is the essential Mulatu. Covering his first recordings in the UK during 1965, his groundbreaking fusions for the small Worthy label in New York and his key ‘70s recordings back in Addis on Amha, Phillips and Axum, the album features comprehensive sleeve notes by Miles Cleret, boss of the excellent Soundway Records imprint, and rare, previously unseen photos from Mulatu’s personal archive.

More Info:

Stinky Jim's Interview With Mulatu Astatke

Tracklisting:

01 Mulatu Astatke Yèkèrmo Sèw clip
02 Mulatu Astatke I Faram Gami I Faram clip
03 Mulatu Astatke Shagu clip
04 Mulatu Astatke Emnete clip
05 Mulatu Astatke Mulatu clip
06 Mulatu Astatke Yègelé Tezeta clip
07 Mulatu Astatke Asiyo Bellema feat. Frank Holder & Niaaza Alsherif clip
08 Mulatu Astatke Ebo Lala with Seifu Yohannes clip
09 Mulatu Astatke Fikratchin with Menelik Wossenatchew clip
10 Mulatu Astatke Yefikir Tizita clip
11 Mulatu Astatke Dèwèl clip
12 Mulatu Astatke Yèkatit clip
13 Mulatu Astatke Girl From Addis Ababa clip
14 Mulatu Astatke Mascaram Setaba clip
15 Mulatu Astatke Ené Alantchie Alnorem clip
16 Mulatu Astatke Nétsanét clip
17 Mulatu Astatke Kasalèfkut Hulu clip
18 Mulatu Astatke Wubit with Muluken Melesse clip
19 Mulatu Astatke Lanchi Biye with Tilahun Gessesse clip
20 Mulatu Astatke Tezeta clip

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October 19 2009

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Clonious - Between The Dots 2LP/CD (Ubiquity)

Written By 3 - October 19 2009

Clonious - Between The Dots 2LP/CD (Ubiquity)

Available on 2LP / CD - check the music clips below

Somewhere between the past and the distant future, sparked by dusty old jazz records and beat generation hip hop, at the sonic cross-roads of Detroit and Vienna, lies a series of sound stories steeping in the head of 23 year old beat navigator Paul Movahedi, also known as The Clonious.

The Adroit Adventures EP, released on Ubiquity in June, was the first set of tales to exit his studio and hit limited edition wax. It was immediately picked up by the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs (who aired a Clonious mixtape the week of it’s release) and Benji B on BBC Radio. DJs from Helskinki to Tokyo to New York also gave thumbs up to his unique blend of bouncy cosmic vibes and glitchy shoegazer funk. On Between The Dots his debut album, Movehadi continues his development of sounds that are at once new and classic, soulful and striking, organic and electronic.

“If a regular hip-hop head and the biggest IDM nerd both find a track on the album that they like, it would make me happy,” says Movahedi. “The album is the sum of what I like. These tracks are little adventures that just want to say hello,” he jokes.

While “Fogged Spacesuit,” the ideal tune for astronauts on a spacewalk, and the outerworldly soul of “One At A Time,” (featuring DC-based vocalist Muhsinah, and remixed for the album) swell and bump, tracks like “Emora“ are more angular and to the point, building around a focussed theme. Keeping the beats edgy, Movahedi lets the jazz and improv fly between the dots on “If Joe Had The Power,“ and even more on the short “Agenda“ and “Hang On.“ There’s a Herbert-like warmth to the cut n’paste style of the more uptempo “Bugs N’Fools“ and “Leaving Belief“ should please the ears of Jazzanova and Atjazz fans with their floor friendly beats.

“I don’t really care how people explain my music. You will most definitely find references to others, and that’s cool with me,” says Movahedi. “You can’t invent the wheel a second time. It’s about your mix of influences, and with every record I have ever listened to I inhaled a piece of the world. Searching in the past always felt like looking in the future for me. The past and the future have the unknown in common - and I hope I also captured “the jazz” that make this music timeless,” says Movahedi.

Other guests on the album include Dorian Concept and Cid Rim, with whom Movahedi frequently collaborates. Los Angeles-based Georgia Anne Muldrow and partner Dudley Perkins round out the collabs, injecting some of their own brand of West Coast fonk.

Beat generation artists are smashing the boundaries and connections between electronic music and hip hop worldwide, making something new with every release. “I hope to achieve that fine balance between a superficial forcefulness and a striking deepness. I come from a musical background that is heavily influenced by the jazz era of the late 1950s and 1960s. But a big part of my sound is sampling. Everything I record or produce eventually ends up in a sampler. As I see it the art of sampling comes close to a cloning process. So add my love for sampling with my love for old jazz records and the name The Clonious makes sense...I guess!” he adds.

FOR FANS OF: FLYING LOTUS, SA-RA, DILLA, RADIO CITIZEN, PREFUSE 73, BOARDS OF CANADA, HUDSON MOHAWKE

Tracklisting:

 01 Clonious Fogged Spacesuit (album version)
clip

02 Clonious One At A Time (funked up)
clip

03 Clonious If Joe Had The Power
clip

04 Clonious Emora
clip

05 Clonious Agenda
clip

06 Clonious Bugs N'Folls
clip

07 Clonious Leaving Belief
clip

08 Clonious Hello
clip

09 Clonious Dataflow
clip

10 Clonious Lovelights
clip

11 Clonious 693 Balloons
clip

12 Clonious Hammertime
clip

13 Clonious Oily Glue
clip

14 Clonious Wolfteethgrind
clip

15 Clonious Goodbye
clip

Date

October 16 2009

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Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiraton Information 2LP (Strut)

Written By 3 - October 16 2009

Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiraton Information 2LP (Strut)

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Strut's Inspiration Information series moves on from the critically acclaimed Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics collaboration with the fourth album in the series, a mouthwatering head to head between Finnish maverick Jimi Tenor and Afrobeat drumming legend, Tony Allen.

Jimi Tenor remains a fascinating enigma in modern day music. Consistently one of the best and most unpredictable live artists around, his work since his breakthrough album 'Intervision' (Warp, 1997) to a series of Afro-based albums with his band Kabu Kabu. Tony Allen continues to attract new fans as one of the greatest drummers alive today.

Celebrated as the creator of the Afrobeat rhythm and a lynchpin of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band, his recent work has included The Good, The Bad & The Queen collaboration with Damon Albarn and his first album for World Circuit Records released earlier this year, 'Secret Agent'.

Recorded at Lovelite Studios in Berlin with further sessions this year in Finland and Paris, the Tenor / Allen collaboration whips up a raw, heavy analogue sound mixing the full range of Allen's Afrobeat repertoire with Tenor's off-kilter brew of dark humour, tongue-incheek lyrics and tight, firing musicianship. The sessions involved key members of Tenor's Kabu Kabu band.

Tenor's trademark range of home-made instruments rub shoulders with vintage keyboards and traditional African percussion.

The resulting set is one of the best recordings that both artists have produced in recent years, topical, biting, funny and always funky, experimental but never straying from 'the one', this is another high quality addition to the Inspiration Information series, a 'no rules' set that brings the best out of both artists.

Tracklisting:
01 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Against The Wall clip
02 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Sinuhe clip
03 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Selfish Gene clip
04 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Darker Side Of Night clip
05 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Got My Egusi clip
06 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Path To Wisdom clip
07 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Cella's Walk clip
08 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Mama England clip
09 Tony Allen / Jimi Tenor Three Continents clip

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