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January 31 2012

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DJ Adlib - Hi-Hat Club Vol. 6 - Haus & Garten (MELTING POT MUSIC)

Written By 1 - January 31 2012

Available here on LP

DJ Adlib is bringing the Hi-Hat Club back to Cologne. „Haus & Garten“ is the sixth installment of our producer series and were taking things to the next level with this one. Not only because Adlib has choosen to share the spotlight with Black Spade, Declaime, Frank Nitt and Planet Asia but simply enough for the music the turntablist turned producer has cooked up in his „Haus & Garten“(„House & Garden“).

Since 1999, Adlib has been a member of the Noisy Stylus crew, who won trailorloads of turntablist competitions and released their fully scratches album „Table Manners“ in 2005. As a producer, Adlib dropped his first solo effort (Adlibertine EP) under UK's exotica drum & bass pioneer Danny Breaks' own imprint Alphabet Zoo. Ever since Adlib has laced production for various hip hop outfits including Stones Throw's MED and Rawkus' Dynas.

By no means a beat tape "Haus & Garten" is a complete album by one of Europe's most complete hip-hop producers. One could cite influences ranging from early electronic to prog, miami to UK bass, Jay Dee to ??? and still wouldn't do justice. Give it a listen and you'll know what we mean...

MC's aside, the album also features Colognes beatsmith Hubert Daviz and long-time Fred Freddy's Drop side-kick Adi Dick. Mixed & mastered by engineer extraordinaire Erik Breuer at Brewery Studios Cologne. Cover photos by Robert Winter.

Tracklist & Soundclips:

01 Enter clip
02 1,2 Yo! clip
03 For Shore clip
04 Wine w/ Black Spade & The Primeridian clip
05 Burds clip
06 Electric Cars clip
07 Alex Harvey clip
08 Lordamercy clip
09 U & I clip
10 Streets w/ Planet Asia clip
11 Ice Cold clip
12 Bang It Out w/ Frank Nitt clip
13 Uschi w/ Hubert Daviz & Adi Dick clip
14 Been Around The World w/ Declaime clip

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January 30 2012

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PODCAST: Earshot with Cian - Sun 15th Jan 2012

Written By 1 - January 30 2012

Earshot - Sun 15th Jan 2012 by Conch Records on Mixcloud

Tracklist: Opolopo ft Amalia - I Do Stephanie McKay - Tell It Like It Is (Morgan Spacek Rmx), mystrofly - away ft sharlene hector prod by dj flip Erykah Badu - Rimshot (Live) Georgia Anne Muldrow - Seeds Christoph El' Truento - Sold Raekwon - Silk ft CL Smooth & Sauce Money & Big B Robert Glasper - Lift Off ft Shafiq Husayn Robert Glasper - Afro Blue ft Erykah Badu Common - Lovin' I Lost Robert Glasper - Black Radio ft Mos Def Sinden - High Demand ft Jesse Boykins Tyler The Creator - She ft Frank Ocean DRC - Hallo ft Tout Puissant Mukalo and Nelly Liyemge Swing Ting - Hold Your Corner Flyamsam - The Offbeat Gucci Mane - It's Alive (Funkineven Inst) Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio - Otherworldly Kuniyuki - All These Things (Theo Parrish Rmx Dubstramental) Mighty Bop - Le Voyage Skymark - There You Go ft Blackspade Azymuth - Dear Limmertz Dez - Brain Blackstar - You Already Knew Steve Spacek - Dolla (Up High Rmx) Funkineven & Fatima - Yellow Sound Modeselector - Berlin feat Miss Platnum Ben Westbeech - Pusherman J.A.M. - Master Of The World

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January 30 2012

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UPCOMING: Recloose - Magic 12" (RUSH HOUR)

Written By 1 - January 30 2012

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

 
 
Track List & Soundclips:
1. Magic feat. B.Slade (Original Mix) 2. Magic (Instrumental Mix) 3. UHF (New Mix) 
4. Magic feat. B.Slade (Carl Craig Edit)

Recloose is officially BACK! Brilliant new 12" from our soulful Detroit brother - 3 great house tracks with corking Carl Craig re-edit.

After his sublime 'Saturday Night Manifesto EP' from last year, Recloose is back with a new single and sprinkles some magic on us.

With 'Saturday Night Manifesto' Recloose reconfirmed his status as one of the most soulful electronic artists around. He quitely worked away over the past few months on his new single, which is a collaboration with ex-gospel singer - turned r&b artist – B.Slade.

The outcome is a soul shimmering, joyful vocal workout. With its cut and paste vocals and airy guitar loops it creates an uplifting groove. Summer feels around the corner already. Included next to the original mix are a subtle Carl Craig edit as well as an instrumental version. Also included is a new mix of 'UHF', which was previously only available on a limited Serato pressing. This version sees new drums added and is another great and soothing electronic workout.

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January 27 2012

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Mighty Sparrow - Sparromania (STRUT)

Written By 1 - January 27 2012

Available here on 2LP & here on 2xCD

Strut present a brand new retrospective of one of the Caribbean's most towering musical figures, Mighty Sparrow, covering 1962 to 1974. During a career of over 40 years, Sparrow has been an unmatchable figure in the world of calypso and a constant backdrop to Caribbean life, recording over 300 albums and winning eleven Calypso Monarch and eight Road March titles at the annual Trinidad Carnival during one of the most competitive times in its history.

Scoring his first hit, 'Jean And Dinah', aged 20, Sparrow's style drew on influences from US street harmony quartets to crooners like Nat King Cole, jazz greats - Ella, Sinatra - and the early calypso generation including Lord Melody and Lord Kitchener. By the late 50's and in his early 20's, he was already an influential figure, encouraging Trinidad's people to pay taxes with Carnival hit 'P.A.Y.E.' and highlighting cruelty to animals on 'Russian Satellite'.

This new collection hones in on Sparrow's most creative years as he effortlessly surfed musical styles from calypso party jams to hard-hitting boogaloo and soul. He had become a confident political commentator, tackling subjects as varied as domestic economic hardship ('Ah Diggin' Horrors'), slavery ('The Slave') and the Cuban missile crisis ('Kennedy And Kruschev'). Other tracks serve as a vital reference point for today's music. On 'Picong Duel', we hear Sparrow and fellow calypso legend, Lord Melody, trade insults, a direct forerunner to later mic battles in hip hop culture. Elsewhere, Sparrow just plain rocks the party ('Calypso Boogaloo', 'Jook For Jook') and turns in the odd choice cover - we feature here his lilting version of Otis Redding's 'Try A Little Tenderness' with Byron Lee. The album also documents Sparrow's fearsome live reputation with two firing tracks from a late 60's gig at the Barbados Hilton and excerpts from a 70's concert in Brooklyn featuring Sparrow's dynamite backing band, The Troubadours, at the peak of their game.

This is a long overdue retrospective placing Sparrow in his rightful position as a true Caribbean great, a cultural and social icon on a par with Fela Kuti in Nigeria or Miriam Makeba in South Africa. As journalist Ric Hernandez wrote in 1967, "It's all there with Sparrow - wit, wisdom and an earthy irreverence for the established order. He sings life as he sees it, as one long boisterous contact sport."

Tracklist & Sound Clips:
01 Bongo clip
02 Calypso Boogaloo clip
03 Zinah clip
04 Fool Fool Fool clip
05 Congo Man clip
06 She's Been Gone Too Long clip
07 Ten To One Is Murder clip
08 Kennedy And Krushchev clip
09 Mi Son Cha (Sparrow & His Troubadours) clip
10 Sweet Loving clip
11 Oriental Touch clip
12 Ah Diggin' Horrors clip
13 Jook For Jook clip
14 Sparrow Come Back Home clip
15 The Slave clip
16 Try A Little Tenderness (With Byron Lee) clip

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January 27 2012

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UPCOMING: Union - Analogtronics (FAT BEATS)

Written By 1 - January 27 2012

Available on CD & LP, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

After waiting patiently behind two singles, a dope video, and a neon-blue triangle shaped vinyl, Union is ready to unleash the most musically challenging, painstakingly crafted, MC-packed album in the dawn of 2012 - Analogtronics. Featuring Talib Kweli, Elzhi, MF DOOM, Roc Marciano, Guilty Simpson, and more, Union produces space-aged bangers that mold perfectly around each guest, in addition to sprinkling in a few lush, eye-widening instrumentals. This is the full length we have all been waiting for, as bonus tracks provide over twenty songs hypnotic interstellar boop-bap.

Union consists of two Parisian producers whose otherworldly approach to analog-driven, melodically abstract, sample free hip-hop inspired Fat Beats Records to extend a label invitation immediately. When a mysterious, monolithic, glossy black package arrived at FBHQ with nothing more than a cryptic note and an unlabeled CD inside, the staff wasn’t sure if Stanley Kubrick had risen from the dead to make mixtapes or if their lives were about to be transformed forever. Luckily it was the latter, and today the legendary label is poised to unleash Union’s debut album Analogtronics on an unsuspecting Earth in the Fall of 2011. Union was born when OJ, a Dilla-obsessed beat junkie with an unhealthy obsession for science fiction, met Gold, a jazzhead whose vast collection of vintage keyboards and synths left little room in his flat for trifling vanities like clothing and kitchen appliances.  Though both shared a parallel vision for the music of tomorrow, they each occupied opposite corners of Paris’ electro underground when their worlds collided in 2009. OJ, upon catching a flash of Gold’s keyboard prowess at a Belleville loft party, approached the funky technician immediately in hopes of applying his melodic touch to a nearly finished beat tape. Gold loved what he heard, and thus two unique creative energies become one distinct Union.

Tracklisting & Sound Clips: 1. Intro 2. Mystery Part I 3. Time Leak feat. Talib Kweli & Sly Johnson 4. Cocomango feat. MF DOOM 5. Light Odyssey 6. Good Morning feat. Moka Only 7. Song for Janasa feat. Rachel 8. Wings feat. Elzhi 9. Fallin’ feat. Rapper Big Pooh & Janice 10. Blue 11. Preset Mars feat. Roc Marciano 12. October Rush 13. Digital Delight feat. Guilty Simpson 14. Space B-boy 15. Sky Dust 16. Baby Mama feat. Mani Hoffmann 17. Mystery Part II

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