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March 23 2011

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UPCOMING: Mr. Lager - Kailas / Runaway (VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS)

Written By 3 - March 23 2011

Due out soon, to reserve a copy please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

Mr. Lager flits among the cloaking shadows of Various Production with two half-lit creepers mutated from the dubstep genepool. Probably best known for 'Tell Me' on DJ Chief's Sub Freq label - one of the finest pop-wise releases in the whole dubstep canon - Mr. Lager engages with some darker spirits on 'Kailas' in a widescreen setting of post-apocalyptic, scorched-earth atmospheres and hanging, heavy-breathing rhythms, recalling recent moves from Raime. 'Runaway' featuring Asher Dust is smokier and more hip hop influenced, perhaps imagining a hybrid of classic 'Blue Lines'-era Massive Attack dystopia and Instra:mental's attention to immaculate rhythmic detailing. House Of Various artwork legend Bonesy is, as ever, responsible for the picture sleeve. Limited pressing, so be quick or hang your head in shame.
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Kailas / Runaway

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March 23 2011

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Marshall Headphones - Minor & Majors In At Conch

Written By 3 - March 23 2011

Marshall Minors Available Here

1753_0b009ba933-original The Minor is an advanced and hard working in-ear model. In addition to its good looks it incorporates quite a few exciting features. EarClick is a patent that ingeniously secures the earphone into position in your ear. The Minor comes equipped with microphone and remote for use with your cell phone*. Combined with excellent audio and a tangle resistant fabric cord the Minor is in it for the long haul. 1753_8e360624b6-original
Compatible with any 3.5 mm music player
Cell phone compatible
Microphone and remote for use with cell phone using 3.5mm plug unprotected two-way standard Cell phone compatible
Marshall cable clip Neutral stereo plug adapter

For use with sound sources not compatible with two-way standards such as computers and older electronic equipment.

Technical specifications
Transducer 15.4MM MOVING COIL DYNAMIC SPEAKER Impedance 32 ? ± 15% AT 1kHz
Sensitivity 115 ± 3dB AT 1kHz 1mW (SINGLE SPEAKER) Frequency respond 20 ~ 20kHz
Rated input power 2mW Maximum input power 5m

Majors Available Here

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March 23 2011

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PODCAST: Earshot - Japan Special - Sun 20th March 2011

Written By 3 - March 23 2011

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Tracklist: World Famous - Sound Sniper In Sri Lanka Major Force - Love Break DJ Takemura - Science Fiction (Remembrance Of '89 Mix) Dj Takemura - Serene DJ Takemura - Harmonium Soil & Pimp Sessions - The Black Widow Blues / The White Widow DJ Kentaro - Tasogare Highway High DJ Krush - Just Wanna Touch Her (Stoned Jazz Mix) Yukihiro Fukutomi ft Rich Medina - Equality (Blackbeard Rmx) Grooveman Spot - Levitation Grooveman Spot ft Miss Jack Davey - What We Do Gagle - Sunset 4 Two Hanif Jamiy - My Lament DJ Muro From Microphone Pager ft Go - ? Towa Tei - Technova J Dilla - Lucy ft Bo Bo Lamb United Future Organisation - I Love My Baby My Baby Loves Me Towa Tei - Butterfly (Cornelius Rmx) Cornelius - Music Gagle - Eastern Voyage Soil & Pimp Sessions - A.I.E. (Cobblestone Jazz Rmx) Soil & Pimp Sessions - Scoop Out United Future Organisation - Loud Minority United Future Organisation - Good Luck Shore Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Game Mika Arisaka & Bembe Segue - Misgivings Soil & Pimp Sessions - A Wheel Within A Wheel

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March 21 2011

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UPCOMING: Sick Team - Street Wars (JAZZY SPORT)

Written By 3 - March 21 2011

Due for release May/June 2011, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

Here's  a limited EP by special project of Jazzy Sport's beat maker BUDAMUNKY co-op with S.L.A.C.K and ISSUGI as "SICK TEAM". They will release a full album in 2011. Here they drop a  3TRK EP from the album here with exclusive instrumentals.  "Street Wars" features Japanese bamboo flute samples over smokey beats. "Tou-Kyou" is laid back Hip Hop groove with jazzy and mellow funky keys. "Monkey Business" features smokey and progressive by B.U.D.A!!
Tracklist & Sound Clips:
01 Street Wars clip
02 Tou-Kyou clip
03 Monkey Business clip
04 Street Wars - instrumental clip
05 Tou Kyou - instrumental clip
06 Monkey Business - instrumental clip

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March 21 2011

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GIG: The Funky Meters @ Powerstation - Friday 15th April

Written By 3 - March 21 2011

The founding members of The Meters -- ART NEVILLE and GEORGE PORTER JR bring their FUNKY METERS to Auckland for one night only, Friday 15th April 2011.

Tickets available from www.ticketmaster.co.nz & Real Groovy Records

New Orleans is known for its gumbo and the sound of The Meters, the Funk Originators who put New Orleans at  the forefront of the 1970s funk style with innovative tracks such as ‘Cissy Strut’ and ‘Hey Pocky A-Way’. The band’s self-titled 1969 debut LP became a blueprint for the decade of funk that followed. Prior to their success as The Meters, the band were the young in-house musicians for New Orleans record producer Allen Toussaint playing on on hits for local soul legends such as Lee Dorsey. During the 1970s The Meters built their own career and their own brand of funk with genre-bending classics such as ‘Look-Ka Py Py’, ‘Fire On The Bayou’ and ‘Africa’. Their musical gumbo has defined the modern New Orleans style that embraces the region’s multi-cultural heritage. The Rolling Stones chose The Meters to open for them on tours of the USA (1975) and Europe (1976) but the group never broke beyond their cult status. The band split in 1977, frustrated by their punitive recording contract with producer Allen Toussaint and New Orleans studio owner Marshall Sehorn. Art Neville joined with his brothers to form the Neville Brothers. The Meters reformed in 1989 to 1994 with new drummer Russell Batiste who continues to play in the Funky Meters and in side projects with bassist George Porter, Jr. The guys must have Louisiana cabin fever as in April 2011 they are traveling downunder to play the Byron Bay Blues Festival and Auckland’s Powerstation. The legacy of The Meters has grown year by year as the decades have added more fans with the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival focussing on the city’s sound and as The Meters were discovered by the hip-hop community. The Foundation of Hip-Hop When hip-hop pioneers went searching for the perfect beat, samples taken from the classic Meters vinyl albums became the building blocks for modern hip-hop. The music of the Meters has been known to have been sampled over 140 times and the track ‘Cissy Strut’ has been sampled at least 18 times. The Meters played on: * ‘Lady Marmalade’ by Labelle. * ‘Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley’ by Robert Palmer. * ‘Right Place, Wrong Time’ by Dr. John. * ‘Working In A Coal Mine’ by Lee Dorsey. Art Neville a.k.a Poppa Funk, New Orleans legend: * As a teenager Art Neville joined the Hawkettes and recorded the New Orleans classic "Mardi Gras Mambo" in 1954.
* Art Neville and his brothers with their uncle Big Chief Jolly (George Landry) recorded the classic 1976 Mardi Gras Indians album The Wild Tchoupitoulas.
* Art has also played in the post-Katrina super-group, The New Orleans Social Club. Art Neville & Hurricane Katrina On tour with the Neville Brothers, in a Rochester NY hotel room, Art watched on TV, the devastation of his beloved city. His wife Lorraine had to flee New Orleans with their 9 year old daughter, the family photos, their dog and a chequebook. She wrapped up Art’s Grammy Awards and stowed them in the clothes dryer. Their house was on the edge of the most devastated area and remained standing, but looters did more damage than the storm and the flood. Art’s Awards were safe as the intruders did not open the clothes dryer. After three months Art returned to his home --“You know it's going to take at least 10 to 15 years before you can say, ‘Yeah, this is something like the old New Orleans’. But some people are never going to be able to come back here again." George Porter, Jr. on Funk and Fame: “Three months after Katrina my wife and I decided to buy us a home out in the country. So we bought a home out in a city called Darrow, Louisiana, which is 52 miles northwest of New Orleans.” “After the levees broke, it’s all supposed to be Mayor Ray Nagin’s fault. But he didn’t build those levees. The federal government built those levees, and the federal government managed and handled all the money that was put toward those levees. The city of New Orleans didn’t have anything to do with that. And they say the federal government is sending money our way. We just don’t see it. That drives a hole in my head. I came out to the country to get away from it. Out here, I don’t have to look at that stuff all the time. I’ve got to run away from my home just to get piece of mind. George Porter, Jr. on Funk and Fame: The Meters founding bass player has the inside juice on his style of funk."Space is a very equal part of the music," says George Porter Jr. "It's not what you play; it's what you don't play that makes it work." www.funkymeters.com www.muchmoremusic.co.nz

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