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July 19 2011

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UPCOMING: Paul White - Rapping With Paul White 2LP (ONE HANDED MUSIC)

Written By 1 - July 19 2011

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

It's been a long time coming….the inevitable Paul White Rap album! 4 years of carving out his own psychedelic (mainly instrumental) niche on the UK’s One Handed Music imprint, a lot of people have been asking when this was going to happen. Loaded with shining appearances from the cream of current underground MC’s, Guilty Simpson, Marv Won, Danny Brown, Tranqill (Ruling on one of Paul White’s rudest beats to date), Homeboy Sandman, Nancy Elizabeth, Moe Pope and the crown prince of UK Hip Hop, Jehst,. There are also plenty of whacked out instrumentals and skits to keep the beat-heds heady.

UK producer leads transatlantic talent on a freewheeling hip-hop adventure.

“We don’t know where we’re going but we sure make a lot of noise getting there!” - so goes the tongue-in-cheek opening to Rapping With Paul White, the gifted South Londoner’s first full-length vocal project. It’s another left turn after last year’s intriguing Paul White & The Purple Brain excursion into prog and psych-rock and deserves to establish its mastermind as one of the most versatile and individual producers working today. Paul White first made his name with 2009’s instrumental opus The Strange Dreams of Paul White which led Diplo to declare “I’m his biggest fan” and The Independent to label him “a 21st century DJ Shadow”. While included in the ‘beats scene’ alongside Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus and others, Paul White’s hip-hop sensibility has always been at the forefront, which partly explains why his 2010 podcast for LA’s Stones Throw Records racked up 300,000 downloads in just a few weeks and alerted a new audience to the young Brit. All this meant that assembling some of his favourite MCs was the easy part. Stones Throw artist Guilty Simpson appears twice, his grim warnings perfectly matching the sparse, brooding production on lead single Trust. Gap-toothed, mohawked Danny Brown is one of rap’s rising stars – a recent signing to A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold label, his lewd punchlines top White’s exuberant production on the not-safe-for-work One Of Life’s Pleasures. There’s humour in New Yorker Homeboy Sandman’s turn too, as one of hip-hop’s most likeable lyricists recounts his cultural missteps during a trip to London over a quintessential Paul White track. It’s not all Americans on the mic: Jehst shows why he’s one of the UK’s most respected MCs on Indigo Glow, and One-Handed Music label mate Tranqill lays waste to Rotten Apples in the album’s grittiest moment. And how may hip-hop records feature a folk singer from Wigan, Nancy Elizabeth, laughing her way through a bizarre Edward Lear poem? There’s plenty for fans of Paul’s instrumental work too: from waltzing drum machines to medieval vocoders, the interludes are as compelling as the vocal tracks. He might not “know where we’re going”, but with work commenced on projects with five of the artists featured here and a new live show in which he sings, plays keys, drums and drum machines alongside label mate Mo Kolours, it’s the “getting there” that’ll be worth watching...     Track List & Sound Clips:
1 01 Paul White Intro: We Make A Lot Of Noise mp3 08.07.2011
1 02 Paul White Right On mp3 08.07.2011
1 03 Paul White Trust ft. Guilty Simpson mp3 08.07.2011
1 04 Paul White Run Shit ft. Marv Won mp3 08.07.2011
1 05 Paul White One Of Life's Pleasures ft. Danny Brown mp3 08.07.2011
1 06 Paul White The Doldrums mp3 08.07.2011
1 07 Paul White Life Is Flashing Interlude mp3 08.07.2011
1 08 Paul White Stampeding Elephants ft. Moe Pope mp3 08.07.2011
1 09 Paul White Rotten Apples ft. Tranqill mp3 08.07.2011
1 10 Paul White Thirty Days mp3 08.07.2011
1 11 Paul White A Weird Day ft. Homeboy Sandman mp3 08.07.2011
1 12 Paul White African New Wave mp3 08.07.2011
1 13 Paul White Indigo Glow ft. Jehst mp3 08.07.2011
1 14 Paul White Dirty Slang ft. Guilty Simpson mp3 08.07.2011
1 15 Paul White A New Way mp3 08.07.2011
1 16 Paul White Evasive Action mp3 08.07.2011
1 17 Paul White Wily Walruses ft. Nancy Elizabeth mp3 08.07.2011
1 18 Paul White Outro: We'll Never End mp3 08.07.2011

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July 18 2011

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Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World 2LP/CD (NUMERO)

Written By 1 - July 18 2011

Available On CD Here & 2LP Here

As much spiritual adherents of black sounds as they were of black Islam, Father’s Children was born in the dirt and grime of Washington, D.C., and incubated in local producer Robert Hosea Williams’ less-than-immaculate suburban beltway garage. Hailing from the Adams-Morgan neighborhood, in 1973 Nick Smith, Billy Sumler, and Ted “Skeet” Carpenter created a lost document of gritty soul, concerned with its own time and place, stripped of the L.A. gloss that permeated the the group’s own 1979 “debut” for Mercury. Unreleased until now, Father’s Children’s true freshman offering is an amalgam of sunny vocal group harmonies, fuzzguitar solos, shimmering keys, bubbling percussion, spiritual prophecy, and dub experiments. Who’s Gonna Save The World gets the full Numero treatment, with extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos. Deluxe LP edition includes the bonus 45, “Linda Movement” b/w “Intellect” (the latter side not on the the CD).
Tracklist & Soundclips:
01 Everybody's Got a Problem clip
02 Linda clip
03 Dirt and Grime clip
04 Who's Gonna Save The World? clip
05 Kohoutek clip
06 In Shallah clip
07 Father's Children clip
08 Universal Train clip
09 Linda Movement clip

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July 18 2011

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UPCOMING: Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse (BRAINFEEDER)

Written By 1 - July 18 2011


Available on 2LP+MP3 or CD, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz


Thundercat - For Love I Come by BRAINFEEDER Thundercat - Daylight by BRAINFEEDER

If indeed "you blows who you is," as Louis Armstrong once famously said, then Stephen Bruner's bass is a mainline to the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from the stars onto staff paper. His Flying Lotus-produced debut, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, offers both stone-cold skill and uncanny astrality, picking up where the pair left off on 2010's Cosmogramma and further distilling the jazz current running through that landmark Lotus release. A longtime contributor to others' albums, Bruner, aka Thundercat, is accompanied by an impressive cast ranging from Erykah Badu to members of Sa-Ra and J*DaVeY, to pianist Austin Peralta and his own Grammy-winning brother, drummer Ronald Bruner, Jr. Still, the end result is unmistakably a Thundercat record -- a lush and magical document combining classic jazz fusion, futurist electronic strains and timeless musical seeking.

A native of South Los Angeles, Bruner found his instrument at the age of 4. That made him a late-bloomer in the house of Ronald, Sr., who drummed with the Temptations among others. His first bass was a black Harmony, and he practiced to the Ninja Turtles soundtrack until pops played him Jaco Pastorius. School was a blur of lessons, sessions and waking up for zero periods. At 15, he scored a hit in Germany as part of the short-lived boy band No Curfew. At 16, he toured Japan with soul man Leon Ware and joined thrash legends Suicidal Tendencies (he's still their bassist). More road and studio time followed, with everyone from Stanley Clarke to Snoop Dogg to Eric Benét. Eventually the name Thundercat stuck, a reference to the cartoon he's loved since childhood and an extension of Bruner's wide-eyed, vibrant, often superhuman approach to his craft. As one writer put it, he's "a mutant jazz cat," nuff said.

Spanning a cosmic stew of players, locations and times, The Golden Age of Apocalypse was years in the making even though Bruner had never planned on releasing his own music. But Lotus spurred him on, and each song became a journey. There's the ebullient "Daylight," a soft whirl of bluesy piano, New Age synth, snapping beats and warm bass. There's "Walkin'," an upbeat soul strutter powered by Bruner's digitally distorted plucks. There are raw, improvised numbers like "Jamboree" and virtuosic bass pileups like "Fleer Ultra." One of the album's most stunning moments arrives with a spacious cover of George Duke's "For Love I Come," a taut beauty spangled with crystalline harp and keys. Bringing this string of divinely unexpected moments to a moody and cinematic close is "Return to the Journey." There, Bruner sings, "Time will pass us by," but listeners needn't worry. Inside of this space, time really isn't a thing.

Tracklisting : 01. HooooooO 02. Daylight 03. Fleer Ultra 04. Is It Love? 05. For Love I Come 06. It Really Doesn't Matter to You 07. Jamboree 08. Boat Cruise 09. Seasons 10. Goldenboy 11. Walkin' 12. Mystery Machine (The Golden Age of Apocalypse) 13. Return to the Journey

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July 17 2011

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Project Tempo - Project Tempo Vol.2 12" (Project Tempo)

Written By 1 - July 17 2011

Available Here

Residing in the 16th District of Paris, Project Tempo is a mysterious duo of DJs with a passion for 80s funk, boogie and soul. The slo-mo, friendly vibe in their DJ sets led them to create a series of re-edits which, after appearing on some well respected DJ forums, have steadily gained momentum and support from a hugely diverse range of DJs. The king of the edit himself Greg Wilson, plus other big hitters in the disco scene like Ashley Beedle and Dimitri From Paris are among those who have shown their appreciation for the Project Tempo reworks and featured them in their DJ sets. Now Project Tempo material is available for the first time on VERY limited vinyl only release for demonstration purposes only. "Get Up And Clap Your Hands" chops up Gwen McCrae's early 80s boogie-soul anthem "Funky Sensation", creating something new and teasing for the dancefloor. On the flipside we have what sounds like the kings of mid 80s Brit-soul, Loose Ends, although with the "Rue 52" title, maybe it's Manchester's own 52nd Street.

Tracklist & Soundclips:

01 Get Up & Clap Your Hands clip
02 Rue 52 clip

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July 15 2011

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Häzel - Playground (CATBLOCK RECORDS)

Written By 1 - July 15 2011

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After gaining a solid reputation over the past few years thanks to his numerous productions for artists such as Drake or Slakah the Beatchild to name just a few, French producer Häzel finally presents his first solo project. These voluntarily J-Dilla influenced 6 tracks build a superb Hip-Hop/Soul opus. „Playground. will also be released on Catblock Records, new label launched together by Favorite Recordings and Onra. Under the successful French beatmaker.s artistic direction, Catblock should quickly establish itself as one of the essential imprints from the contemporary Hip-Hop/Electronic music scene 2011 is not Häzel's year. He already had it. You're just late for the celebration.

A1_ Playground Feat. Eyo A2_For You A3_Fantastic B1_Still Wanna Do You B2_I Can’t wake Up B3_Twilight

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