Conch Records
UPCOMING: Mala - Noches Sueños 12" (BROWNSWOOD)
Due out June 2013, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Mala returns, donning his Cuban hat once again, this time at the helm with friend and collaborator Simbad. Reworking the single 'Noches Sueños' from his acclaimed 'Mala in Cuba' album, Mala takes a step southwards towards Croydon and his dubstep roots, going deeper and more Mystik in style, while keeping those lucid, dream like jazz vocals provided by Havana's Danay Suarez.
Soundclip: A: Noches Sueños (Mala & Simbad Super Dub)
Adrian Younge - Presents The Delfonics (WAX POETICS)
Available here on LP, here on CD
Adrian Younge, the talent who scored the Black Dynamite soundtrack, is turning the gears on his collab project, 12 Ways to Die with Ghostface Killah. But before he does that, he’s releasing another collab project with the legendary Delfonics on Wax Poetics Records. The Delfonics is the quintessential sweet-soul group. Hailing from Philadelphia, the crew formed in the mid-’60s, with the definitive original lineup as lead vocalist and songwriter William Hart, his brother Wilbert Hart, and mutual high-school friend Randy Cain (later replaced by Major Harris). With the help of producer/arranger Thom Bell—and with William’s signature falsetto—the Delfonics set the tone for all other sweet-soul groups that would follow. Between 1968 and 1974, the Delfonics had twenty charting singles and won a Grammy for their massive hit “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time).” Out of their twenty hits, William Hart wrote or cowrote eighteen of them, thirteen with collaborator Thom Bell, like "La-La Means I Love You," "He Don't Really Love You," and "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)." “The Delfonics represents that classic soul era from the ’60s and ’70s that our older generation has grown up listening to,” comments DJ Rhettmatic of the Beat Junkies. “Adrian Younge represents the generation that grew up on the classic ’90s golden era of hip-hop, yet has the knowledge and the aesthetics of the ’60s/’70s musical era, from a young Los Angeleano point of view.” “We did everything that they would have done in the ’60s,” says Younge. “I don’t have any computers in my studio, it’s all analog tape, all old equipment.” Explaining the vibe of the album, he says, “It’s quite conceptual. It’s deep and cinematic from an Italian [soundtrack] perspective, also from an American perspective as far as old music is concerned. It sounds like an album that the RZA from Wu-Tang would sample.” “The Delfonics album is definitely important,” says A-Plus from legendary Oakland hip-hop crew Souls of Mischief. “They have been heavily sampled by the hip-hop community. Many of us grew up listening to them from our parents.” Track List & Sound Clips:UPCOMING: Christoph El Truento - What We Used To Know LP (ON GRAVITY)
Available for pre-order via info@conch.co.nz
Christoph El Truento’s debut album, what we used to know, is born of change and confusion, and sounds utterly incredible for it. The deeply talented 24-year-old New Zealander started writing back in 2011 at the time his son was born. Tired fatherhood, personal upheaval and artistic indecision would actually help show Christoph a clear path towards completing the record – a transcendant sweep of synths, samples, organic instrumentation and window ledge field recording that gently reveals new layers of sonic texture and emotion to the listener.
The elegant stillness of intro ra, dedicated specifically to Christoph’s child, is a mesmerising sign of things to come. Tracks such as autumn, with its pensive interplay between trumpet, acoustic guitar and tree breeze, and the title number, sprinkling atmospheric percussion and FX over warm synthscape, are beautifully serene. But there are powerful, if subtle shifts in mood and tone. mo0onbirds delivers quirk ‘n’ rumble via smart rewind riffs and punchy sub-bass, dreams of colour plumbs new jagged, electro-pulsing depths and, at a decidedly faster clip, the euphoric raindance revels in its gradually intensifying percussion and cascading synths.
Christoph El Truento is seriously up-and-coming, his unique, forward-thinking vibes sitting comfortably within a country where so much original electronic music is currently being produced and starting to impact around the world. He issued his first release, EP01, in 2011, a clued-up mix of nusoul, future funk and leftfield beats, and followed with the equally well-received Sunflower in 2012. Christoph has explored other musical ideas in local underground groups @Peace and Some Other Planets (also featuring Gooch), as well as producing for rated Kiwi artists and collectives including Homebrew Crew and Mara TK, but is now calmly focused on building his extremely promising solo stock.
With what we used to know, Christoph has created a beautiful, free-flowing collage of sound that taps into personal emotions and stories but remains wide open for others to interpret and digest as they wish and need to. Breathing life in from his open window and exhaling it into some seriously heartfelt studio production, Christoph’s remarkable vision is both intimate and spectacular; both subtle and panoramic; both the artist and listener’s game-changing adventure. That’s what we know NOW....
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