Viva Azteca! Fourteen hot south-of-the-border artists conjure up 18 new designs in Kidrobot's bold Dunny Azteca II Series.Blind-boxed in Jesse Hernandez's inspired indigenous packaging, each distinctive Dunny celebrates La Raza.
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On the tails of 2007's hotter-than-habanero Series I, the second celebration of Dunny Azteca includes designs by anais e3, Oscar Mar, Jose Leandro Cordova Lucas, Izzie Ramirez, OCHOstore, Michelle Prats, Tepetonga, Luis Mata, Dani Bravo, The Beast Brothers, Jesse Hernandez, MARKA27, MIGUEL DE LA BARRACUDA, and Saner.
Left-field Luk Thung, Jazz and Molam from Thailand 1964 -1975
Thailand means different things to different people. Beyond the beaches and tourist spots lies a world of music still waiting to be discovered. Be it spaced out jazz, raw funk or the meditative sounds of the North East, Soundway has dug deep into the country’s vinyl archives to present a broad range of vintage sounds that underlines Thailand’s status as one of South East Asia’s musical hot spots.
As Soundway’s entry point into the Asian music world, The Sound of Siam CD and double LP offers a unique vantage point to the most experimental period in Thai musical history. The 19 tracks reflect the outcome of a twentieth century journey from Thai classical to Luk Krung and Luk Thung – music that incorporated western influences such as jazz, surf guitar, ballroom and even Latin and African.
The music maps changing social demographics, the movement of people, culture and language from countryside to city and all during a period when the record labels were at their most experimental.
The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam 1964 - 1975 by SoundwayTracklist
1. Chaweewan Dumnern – Lam Tung Wai
2. Chaweewan Dumnern – Lam Toey Chaweewan
3. Onuma Singsiri – Mae Kha Som Tam
4. Thapporn Petchubon, Noknoi Uraiporn, Thongthai Tin Isan – Isan Klab Tin
5. Ream Daranoi – Fai Yen
6. Panom Nopporn – Sao Ban Pok Pab
7. Plearn Promdan – Wan Maha Sanook
8. The Petch Phin Thong Band – Soul Lam Plearn
9. Waipod Phetsuphan –Ding Ding Dong
10. Saknatee Srichiangmai – Nom Samai Mai
11. Yenjit Porntawi – Lam Plearn Toh Lom Nhao
12. Chaweewan Dumnern – Sao Lam Plearn
13. Dao Bandon – Mae Jom Ka Lon
14. Sanae Petchaboon – Pen Jung Dai
15. Thong Huad & Kunp’an – Diew Sor Diew Caan
16. Sodsri Rungsang – Uay Porn Tahan Chaydan
17. Kawaw Siang Thong – Kai Tom Yum
18. The Viking Combo Band – Pleng Yuk Owakard
19. Dao Bandon – Tang Ngarn Si Nong
Vinyl Bonus Track: Soi Saeng Daeng – Hi Five
Released Late February 2011, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
[Via Brownswood Recordings]
Recently migrated from the capital city of the West Midlands – Coventry – to the southerly climes of London, Ghostpoet looks set to make his mark on 2011. The softly spoken 24 year-old has already won over BBC Radio 1’s foremost tastemaker Gilles Peterson with a handful of off-kilter, loopy electronic ditties blessed with his delightfully rambling musings on modern life. Signing to Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings imprint, a free EP entitled ‘The Sound Of Strangers’ sidled into the public domain in June 2010. Comprising four tracks, three original compositions blessed with playful prose, one remix of A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Electric Relaxation (Relax Yourself Girl)’… and a feature from left-leaning pop mastermind Micachu, it hit a hungry online audience and earned Ghostpoet a coveted spot in The Guardian’s New Band Of The Day feature as well as glowing recommendations from NME, CMJ, RCRDLBL, URB, XLR8R, Drowned In Sound and The Mercury Prize.
Born and raised somewhere between London, Coventry, Nigeria and Dominica, Obaro admits that his heritage is important to him, but that it hasn’t consciously affected his musical career: “My parents enjoyed listening to music around the house but never really encouraged it as a career. I kind of pursued listening to various sounds late into the night when the house was asleep.” And as for attempting to pinpoint his tastes… it’s hard to gauge when his palette flips from Badly Drawn Boy’s ‘The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast’ (the first CD he ever bought) to the angular dynamics of the UK grime scene via Iggy Pop, Fela Kuti, Radiohead, MF Doom and Squarepusher. This was the music that captured his imagination at university, where Obaro was part of a grime collective: “One of the guys made the beats with Reason, he taught me the basics and I kind of stumbled, bumbled and fumbled my way to the present.”
Dusting himself off, Ghostpoet drops his debut single – ‘Cash & Carry Me Home’ – on 24th January 2011, followed by his album on 7th February 2011. Showcasing Ghostpoet’s loveably ramshackle, but hook-laden productions and his lazy baritone, ‘Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam’ is a neat summation of the MC’s musical journey to date, but also an impressive statement of intent. Don’t sleep on this young, inventive, British MC – he’s destined for greatness.
Highly anticipated debut album by James Blake! The past couple of years have seen creative explosions and new generations coming through in both dance floor electronics and heartfelt, introspective singer-songwriting, but self evidently they’ve remained mutually exclusive genre islands. Until now. With a uniquely emotional electronic production style every bit as deeply personal and impassioned as his voice or song writing, James Blake is sketching out his own place in the musical universe. When a teenage James first visited the pivotal London dubstep night FWD>> in 2007, he’d already been to drum ’n’ bass nights with school friends, but the music and atmosphere there were unlike anything he’d experienced. This was what James had been waiting for – he just hadn’t realised. This midnight epiphany in Plastic People’s Shoreditch cellar led, in a few short years, to the James Blake of 2010, a surefooted 22-year-old composer whose extraordinary tracks are not so much breaking down existing musical barriers as leaping over them and creating an entirely new kind of pop that belies its author’s tender age. Although loosely tethered to the cutting edge of contemporary electronics, James’s songs possess uncommon grace and soulfulness. Whether intended for the FWD>> dance floor or, like new single ‘Limit to Your Love’, destined to melt hearts and prick ears, his music is characterised by a playful and arresting honesty, a human touch that, despite his status as a hugely in demand DJ, naturally aligns him with contemporary artists such as Bon Iver or Laura Marling or the xx. Yet more than this, it is the shock of the new in James’s music that’s causing real commotion: the sounds, that voice, the silence, the rhythm (or lack of it), the waiting, the tension. You have to know the rules in order to break them with such conviction, and by daring to be different, James stands head and shoulders above his peers. No doubt, you’ll remember where you were when you heard tracks like ‘Limit to Your Love’ or ‘I Never Learnt to Share’ for the first time. His self titled debut album, released on February 7th, promises to change the game forever.a James Blake – Tep And The Logica2 James Blake – Unlucka3 James Blake – The Wilhelm Screamb1 James Blake – I Never Learnt To Shareb2 James Blake – Lindisfarne Ib3 James Blake – Lindisfarne IIc1 James Blake – Limit To Your Lovec2 James Blake – Give Me My Monthc3 James Blake – To Care (Like You)d1 James Blake – Why Don’t You Call Me?d2 James Blake – I Mind
d3 James Blake – Measurements
d4 James Blake – You Know Your Youth
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James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream from no name on Vimeo.
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