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August 01 2012

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Jack Sparrow – Afraid Of Me / Good Old Days 12″ (DEEP MEDI)

Written By 1 - August 01 2012

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DEEP MEDi are very happy to welcome Jack Sparrow to the label with his latest single ‘Afraid of Me’. Leeds based Ryan Wild aka Jack Sparrow has ben producing his own strain of Dubstep since 2006 and in that time has shown his versatility with releases on Contagious, Earwax and Tectonic ranging from dark tribal techno to heavy Soundsystem pressure. With residencies at Exodus/DMZ Leeds, Outlook festival, numerous shows and tours worldwide Jack Sparrow is becoming a highly in demand DJ and producer. Jack is also one half of production duo “Author” who released their debut album in November 2011.His first release on MEDi shows Jacks love of Techno and Soundsystem culture with the lead track ‘Afraid Of Me’. ‘Afraid Of Me’ intros with a heavy kick and twisted techno influences which drops straight into the pulsating sub bass which is tenacious throughout, only pausing for the beautifully dark breakdown where the track opens up and threatens to roll into a film score evocative of the ‘Watchmen’ from where the sinister vocal sample is taken. ‘This city’s free of me, I’ve seen it’s true face”. The flip ‘Good Old Days’ is a far more laidback, meditative and blissful vibe, Moody old skool jazz running’s with tripped out blissful sax, one for the hot summer nights!

a Jack Sparrow – Afraid Of Me b Jack Sparrow – Good Old Days

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July 31 2012

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EVENT: First Thursdays -Thursday 2nd August - K'RD

Written By 1 - July 31 2012

First Thursdays is a community-conscious collaboration of artisans and art lovers whose ultimate goal is to showcase new and exciting talent in the fields of visual arts, music and performance. On the first Thursday of four months a year, K Road will come alive with visual artists, performance artists, photographers, musicians, DJs, and hopefully... you! If you live in Auckland or just visiting for the summer, come be a part of the collaboration!

See this First Thursday's full event programme here

Keep up to date with First Thursday via their Facebook Page and their Twitter Page

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July 31 2012

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T-SHIRTS: New Tees from Society6

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July 27 2012

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UPCOMING: Häzel - The Lost Tapes (THE BEAT DOWN)

Written By 1 - July 27 2012

Due out August 2012, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

Following the success of his debut EP "Playground" on Onra's imprint, Catblock Records, Parisian producer Häzel is back with The Lost Tapes, a 21 track beat opus compiled from his extensive catalog.

With collaborations from Drake, Slakah the Beatchild and Ebrahim, The Lost Tapes is far from a simple compilation of instrumentals and features; it's an album in the truest sense of the word, crafted with painstaking attention to detail. Longtime collaborator and friend Ebrahim selected, arranged and mastered each track to blend seamlessly together, creating an album deserving to be experienced in its entirety by the listener. Combining punchy basslines with crisp snares and deep kicks, Hazel's music gives a nod to the signature style of those who inspired and came before him; hip hop producers who breathed soul into their sound. The incredible artwork was conceived and developed by Mikael Columbu (videographer & director for Bilal, The Weeknd, Cee-Lo, Onra & more).

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July 26 2012

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IG Culture - Soulful Shanghai 2LP (KINDRED SPIRITS)

Written By 1 - July 26 2012

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1. I Can't Believe It ft. ID 4 Windz
2. Truth ft. John Robinson
3. Core Exit ft. Bilaal Salaam
4. Talkin' Bout Mine
5. Black Rennaissance ft. Akwasi Mensah
6. Futures Back ft. K Banger
7. Take It There ft. K Banger
8. The (blessed) Mizells ft. Akwasi Mensah
9. Half Black Half Japanese ft. John Robinson
10. Bluff and Fold (Gamble and Bluf)
11. Catalog Pieces ft. John Robinson
12. The Revolution Will Not Be Tell Lie Vise
13. Do The Math ft. ID 4 Windz
14. Tangible Dream ft. Bilal Salaam
15. Outsider (the lite) ft. Eagle Nebula
16. Whats Happening ft. K Banger
17. The Sankofaz Peace Arkestra
New IG Culture album, featuring ID4 Windz, John Robinson and Bilal Salaam. This is Ltd to 1000 copies and comes in a heavy gatefold sleeve. TIP!! With ‘Soulful Shanghai’ IG draws a lineage directly from the civil values of jazz musicians like Harry Whitaker’s Black Renaissance and Roy Ayers’ We Live In Brooklyn, to present day music styles via the rhythms of hip hop, electro, house, and other drum machine oriented genres. “I’m an OG,” says IG. “It feels right to me to link the music from musicians like Harry Whitaker, Gil Scott Heron, and the Mizells. They should be household names, but the younger generation don’t necessarily know who these people are.” Musically, ‘Soulful Shanghai’ mixes it all up while still making sense. Selected vocalists ID 4 Windz and John Robinson, both of east coast hip hop duo Scienz Of Life, Georgia Anne Muldrow conspirator Eagle Nebula, and New Jersey residents Bilal Salaam and K Banger lock IG’s skewed beats together. The hip hop swagger is punctuated by plenty of live jazz tracks, with dedications to the Mizell brothers and Harry Whitaker keeping the swing spiritual. Perhaps the centre-piece of the album is the live rework of ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’, with a 2012 lyrical update by Niles ‘Asheber’ Hailstones, reminding us that images of riots stay the same, and they keep happening round the world, round the clock, from decade to decade. “The same issues are still relevant today,” IG says. “That’s why we did an update of ‘Revolution’. Same shit, different year. The sense of community and social values from that music is something I respect. At this stage in the game, if I’ve not got something to say then I shouldn’t be doing music, cause it’s not about the money.” IG isn’t anachronistic though, and he’s quite happy to use the Internet to link up with like-minded artists across the Atlantic. New possibilities and opportunities are always to be embraced, and as the world gets smaller, it seems the same issues affect us all, as the sample of a newsreader on the track ‘Core Exit’ demonstrates. IG Culture has been releasing music and albums since the early 90’s - that’s over two decades of craft under his belt. He’s no stranger to anyone familiar with groups like New Sector Movements and Quango, a multitude of hip hop and broken beat projects and labels like Mainsqueeze. IG’s blend is about more than the craft though. It’s about why music is important to society, and why we’re moved by it. Soulful Shanghai is a continuation of jazz and the civil rights of Black Jazz and Strata East. It’s a continuation of the spiritual funk of the Mizell brothers and the spoken word of Gil Scott Heron. It’s a descendant of hip hop and the resistance of the Zulu Nation, a distant cousin of techno and Juan Atkins’ deep space explorations. “Soulful shanghai is a place you navigate, hopefully you find It somehow,” IG concludes. Keep on searching.

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