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Linkwood Family - Miles Away (Intrusion Dubs) 12" (Firecracker)

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Linkwood Family - Miles Away (Intrusion Dubs) 12"

Clip: Intrusion Sunrise Dub

Two of the heaviest forces combine! Firecracker Recordings presents Intrusion Dubs of possibly the biggest Firecracker jam to date, Linkwood Family’s 'Miles Away'! Steve Hitchell aka Intrusion, CV313, Soultek and one half of Echospace has had a prolific output of material over the last 12 months. From the Echospace projects to his killer Intrusion coloured vinyl series, culminating in the CD only album, “The Seduction Of Silence” which sold out it’s full press in just a few hours. Collectors have had to be super-fast to snatch copies literally everything touched by this guy, and these dubs are no exception, with only 1000 copies pressed. Each white vinyl copy is hand stamped and housed in bespoke, screen printed sleeves. As usual the vinyl is ultra heavy weight.

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August 10 2009

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Just In: Isaac Aesili - Eye See Album Sampler 12"

Written By 3 - August 10 2009

UPDATE: Isaac Aesili's full album is now available on cd here Just in today is the 12" album sampler for Isaac Aesili's forthcoming album Eye See.  Featuring the vocal talents of Mara TK, Deva Mahal, Rachel Fraser and Rosita Vai.  The full album is due for release on September 7th 2009

Get It From Conch: Isaac Aesili - Eye See Album Sampler 12"

Isaac Aesili’s debut solo album Eye See is a rich tapestry of sound with R&B at its heart, and lashings of soul, reggae and funk woven within. Experimental and futuristic in some parts, warm and soulful in others, the album, an extension of its author, is a tribute to diversity.

The concept behind Eye See was born of Isaac’s desire to offer today’s youth a counter voice to the glorification and idealisation of gangster culture, so often promoted by commercial R&B. Destructive lyrics endorsing kids to fail school and encouraging promiscuity, drugs, violence and degradation of women, saw Isaac grow increasingly disillusioned with the genre of music he had loved since he was a teenager. He resolved to record an R&B album that used contemporary production styles, with references to commercial R&B so that it would still appeal to youth, but he would transpose the negative messages with hopeful, positive themes.

Eye See is an inspired album of intelligent, conscious music, an investigation of our world from the perspective of the youth. The opening eponymous track, a song that explores the state of the world today, features Isaac’s nephews and nieces each reciting a line. It is for them and their generation that Isaac created Eye See.

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August 10 2009

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Half The Size, Double the Flavour - Fri 14th Aug @ Rakinos

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Half the Size, Double the Flavour

Monthly club night at Rakinos featuring short residents and tall guests. This month Junior and Bobby Brazuka are joined by Aimee & R.I.A.

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August 08 2009

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Lee Perry Vs Horsepower Productions - Exercising

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Music Clip: Lee Perry Vs Horsepower Productions - Exercising

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After the Moody Boyz epic dubstep fix of ‘God Smiled’, the dancehall tune-up of ‘International Broadcaster’, and Kode 9’s funky style workout on ‘Yellow Tongue’, this latest episode in the Lee Perry bespoke remix series adds yet another twist to the musical path, with a hair-raising interpretation from Horsepower Productions. Seeping into halflight zones of bruised ambient dub, over the course of six minutes ‘Exercising’ builds like a distant tropical storm, it’s dense clouds gathering ominously on the horizon while Lee Perry’s shamanic spiritual abstractions add to the sense of heavy weather ahead. Built from similar strands of the low end gene pool as Kode 9 & The Spaceape’s ‘Sine Of The Times’, Horsepower’s brooding view of ‘Exercising’ discards dubstep’s recognised rhythmic frameworks in favour of a largely beat-free excursion, relying instead on swelling subs and oscillating bassline pulses for it’s unstoppable low tempo momentum. Tapping congas, echoing woodblocks and skeletal skittering noises dart insect-like across the mix, while the droning tabla and reverbed melodic guitar figures of Adrian Sherwood’s original production maintain an air of dread occidental mystery. With an equally massive no-vocal take on the flip, this is a simultaneously skin-chilling and oppressively close body heat raising journey to the heart of darkness, and yet another must-have release from the ever mighty On-U Sound.

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August 08 2009

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Upcoming: Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information 2LP & CD (Strut)

Written By 3 - August 08 2009

From Ventvox.com Strut Record's Information Inspiration series has established itself as a reliable source of globe-trotting, genre-bending sounds; the product of spontaneous collaborations between two musical forces.  Hot on the heels of volumes from Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics, Horace Andy & Ashley Beedle and Sly & Robbie & Amp Fiddler, Strut is pleased to announce that the latest volume will feature legendary Fela Kuti drummer and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen along side Finnish electronic / jazz maverick Jimi Tenor.  The is a raw and forward-thinking take on Afrobeat which will thrill fans looking for the next evolution in worldly future funk.  See the teaser trailer below for a taste. To preorder a copy please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

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