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UPCOMING: Oddisee - Tangible Dream (MELLO MUSIC GROUP)
Due out January 2014 on CD & LP, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
I live in a gentrified part of Brooklyn, I eat out several times a week, I travel the world sampling the best that cities across the globe have to offer. Do I live in a penthouse loft? Am I dinning in five stars restaurants? Can you only find me in the most exclusive areas? Do I own a jet? The answer to all the above is most certainly no. I’m just a regular man from Prince George’s county, Maryland that figured shit out. I discovered that I can make a career in an arena dominated by artists that sell false dreams. I realized that although the masses may not know of my body of work, it doesn’t take the whole world to have the world I want. Tangible Dream is a mix-tape dedicated to the deconstruction of our traditional ideas of success & shedding light on the possibility of a sustainable rap life. These rhymes were written in economy class seats, these beats were produced on long bus trips & these songs were recorded in airbnb apartments. All I want to do is make music for a living so that I can live to make music. The only dreams I’m interested in are the ones I can grasp. It just so happens that anything you want bad enough can be obtained. Perhaps the world may never know of my accomplishments but accomplishments they are nonetheless. 1.Tangible Dream 2.Yeezus Was A Mortal Man 3.Killing Time 4.Own Appeal 5.The Goings On feat. Ralph Real 6.Be There 7.Yeah & Nah 8.Interlude Flow 9.Unfollow You feat. Olivier St Louis 10.Bak Of My Mind feat. Paolo Escobard 11.Tomorrow Today 12.Outro Flow feat. Toine & Trek Life 13.Bonus Flow feat. Diamond DistrictUPCOMING: 7 Days Of Funk (Snoop Dogg & Dam Funk) - 7 Days Of Funk (STONES THROW)
Due out December 2013 on LP & CD, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Dam-Funk and Snoopzilla are 7 Days of Funk! The debut album from 7 Days of Funk, the new band of Snoopzilla (Snoop Dogg) and Dam- Funk. Snoopzilla is the funk alias of Snoop Dogg, the multi-platinum hip-hop artist who has received 15 Grammy nominations and sold over 30,000,000 records. Dam-Funk is a Modern Funk artist widely credited with the revival of funk music. His debut album Toeachizown was described by Pitchfork as "a work of real transcendence." This is Snoop's first album with a single producer since the 1993 album Doggystyle. Funk legend and former Slave member Steve Arrington features on 7 Days of Funk, as does the rapper Kurupt and,his rap group Tha Dogg Pound.
UPCOMING: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give The People What They Want (DAPTONE RECORDS)
Due out January 2014 on CD & LP, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
The appeal of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings just keeps growing. Michael Bublé has duetted with Sharon on "Baby, You've Got What it Takes", after recording "Crazy Love" with the Dap-Kings back in 2009. The Dap-Kings also contributed to several songs on this year's smash album "To Be Loved". They count Beck, John Legend, Lou Reed and Rufus Wainwright among their collaborators, and of course the Dap-Kings were the band behind Amy Winehouse's Back In Black album for which Gabriel Roth, bandleader and co-founder of Daptone Records, won a Grammy for his engineering skills. Yet it's the Augusta, Georgia native Sharon Jones who is the undisputed centre of attention here. A recent Hollywood turn acting alongside Denzel Washington will certainly do her star power no harm, but one listen to Give The People What They Want will tell you Sharon doesn't need the silver screen to set her name in lights. Her fervent, impassioned singing goes straight to your heart, those sweet soul hooks stay in your head for days on end. These are vocal performances that withstand any comparison to the soul greats. Give The People What They Want is the band's fifth album, recorded at home in Bushwick's Daptone House of Soul Studios after two years of touring behind 2010's lauded I Learned The Hard Way. These ten songs are seasoned with the classic Soul sound one might expect - yet there's a freshness in the band's performances and songwriting that gives the group's fifth studio album a feel unlike anything they've done before. From the electrifying stomp of album opener "Retreat!" to the instantly familiar feel-good groove of "We Get Along," via "Stranger To My Happiness", which perfectly captures the Dap-Kings' sound in three-and-a-half joyous minutes, this is a record that has it all. Give the people what they want, indeed.| Track | Title | clip | ||||
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| 02 | Stranger To My Happiness | clip | ||||
| 03 | We Get Along | clip | ||||
| 04 | You‘ll Be Lonely | clip | ||||
| 05 | Now I See | clip | ||||
| 06 | Making Up and Breaking Up (and Making Up and Breaking Up Over Again) | clip | ||||
| 07 | Get Up and Get Out | clip | ||||
| 08 | Long Time, Wrong Time | clip | ||||
| 09 | People Don‘t Get What They Deserve | clip | ||||
| 10 | Slow Down Love | clip |
Julien Dyne - December (WONDERFUL NOISE)
Available here on CD, here on LP
Following on from the impact of 2011’s sophomore album ‘Glimpse‘, we’re proud to announce the release of Julien Dyne’s third full length album ‘December’. Stylistically a continuation of the futuristic elements hinted at on ‘Glimpse’ blended with the stilted pulsing rhythms of Dyne’s first LP ‘Pins and Digits‘ ‘December’ offers studies in shimmering melodies, woozy beds of rich harmonic sound, sturdy percussive backdrops, combined with RnB stabs and dense vocal harmonies.
Featuring the vocal talents of Parks, Mara T.K (Electric Wire Hustle), She’s So Rad and Dalziel (of Dear Time’s Waste) this record contains elements of soul and left field vocals against a backdrop of futuristic hiphop inspired beats.
Picked up by Japanese boutique label Wonderful Noise and UK heavy weights BBE, 2009’s ‘Pins & Digits’ received worldwide exposure from global tastemakers Gilles Peterson and Benji B reaching both their top 100 lists for that year. Glimpse raised the bar higher again, moving further into electronic forays and deeper into hazy beatscapes.
‘December’ further solidifies Dyne’s vision and stature within the world of Beat Based Electronic Music.
BIO: Julien Dyne (b. Montreal /Canada) is a multi talented drummer, producer, Dj and visual Artist, best known for his solo output on BBE records and Wonderful Noise (Japan), he also performs and records with Ladi 6 and Opossum plus has recorded with Opensouls , Fat Freddys Drop, @peace, Sola Rosa , Eru Dangerspiel, Christoph El Truento, James Duncan , She’s So Rad and many other top New Zealand acts.
Julien attended the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in Rome 2004, receiving private Drum tuition from session master Bernard Purdie and learning valuable production tips from many other renowned guest lecturers.
He was invited back to work with the Mizell Brothers (Jackson 5 / Donald Byrd), Theo Parrish (Sound Signature), Steve Spacek (J Dilla / Space Invadas), Mark Pritchard ( Harmonic 313), Om’mas Keith (Sa-Ra / Erykah Badu), Andreya Triana (Flying Lotus/ Bonobo) and others as part of the ‘A Class Of Its Own ‘ recording sessions in Cologne, Germany, 2007.
Julien’s debut solo full length album ‘Pins and Digits’ received air time and high praise from Gilles Peterson and Benji B, featuring on both Dj’s top 100 lists of 2009. His second full length album ‘Glimpse ‘ was released in 2011 / 2012 on BBE records worldwide and Wonderful noise records Japan (via Rhythmethod New Zealand). Julien has toured extensively performing through out New Zealand /Australia, Europe / UK and has recently finished a 9 date solo tour of Japan.
Julien is also an accomplished visual artist, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland 2002 , his work has been exhibited through out New Zealand and has featured in publications such as Art New Zealand , Art News and in the Book , ‘Seen This Century’, 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists a collectors Guide, By Warwick Brown.
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