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March 27 2013

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@Peace - Girl Songs CD (YOUNG, GIFTED & BROKE)

Written By 1 - March 27 2013

 

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From the Young Gifted & Broke movement comes hip-hop outfit @Peace with their latest release – a 10 track conceptual EP about a failed relationship aptly named Girl Songs. Featuring Tom Scott (Home Brew) and Lui Tuiasau on vocals, @Peace won over the bloggers with the release of their self-titled debut in 2011, which featured a musical soundscape laid down by Christoph El Truento (Wonderful Noise), Hayden ‘Dandruff’ Dicky and Brandon Haru. Since 2011, @Peace have been working on their first major release, a conceptual album about space, finality, quantum physics and other things that you probably can't dance to. Girl Songs is the preview to this craft - veering slightly off the boutique rap track that he normally takes, Tom Scott reveals that listening back to Girl Songs is like “listening to my subconscious shout at me from under a pile of suppressed denial”.

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March 26 2013

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Various - Original Raw Soul V.3 (NOW AGAIN)

Written By 1 - March 26 2013

Available Here on 2LP

The Collective That Includes The Poets Of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers And Karl Hector & The Malcouns Present A Series Of Rare Funk, Jazz, Soul And World-Psych Singles Compiled As An Album.Housed In A Hand Silk-Screened Jacket By Antidesigns, Usa & Includes A Bonus 7". It’s been nearly fifteen years since the vinyl-only releases by the various ensembles helmed by Jay and Max Whitefield – also known as the  Whitefield Brothers and the nucleus of the revered Poets of Rhythm – were collated onto an Original Raw Soul album. The last – 1997’s More Original Raw Soul – largely contained the duo’s heavy funk and soul… well before the aughts’ Deep Funk revival that one could argue began with these two German siblings’ earliest recordings.  Fitting, then, that this – Original Raw Soul III – looks back at recordings dating back over twenty years but never once sounds dated or dull. There’s the garage funk of the early Poets incarnation the Bus People Express, the deep jazz of vocalist Bajka gigging with a Max Whitefield ensemble, the pan-African psych-jazz of the Whitefield Brothers. And that’s just three of the ensembles contained within. Original Raw Soul III contains fifteen tracks (plus two selections on the bonus 7”) that span the gamut of forty years of musical innovation, recorded over the past twenty years, and presented anew today. SIDE 1: 1. New Process - Bus People Theme 2. Poets of Rhythm - Summerdays 3. Bajka - A Vision 1/3 4.Karl Hector & The Malcouns - J.B. R.I.P. SIDE 2: 1. New Process - Freedom 2. Mercy Sluts - $600 Song 3. Karl Hector & The Funk Pilots - Funky Sex Machine 4. Bajka - The Only Religion That I Believe SIDE 3: 1. Whitefield Brothers - The Bastard 2. Polyversal Souls - Muswell Hill Run 3. Karl Hector & The Funk Pilots - Free I Wanna Be 4. Whitefield Brothers - Savannahstan SIDE 4: 1. Neo Hip Hot Kiddies Community: Hip Walk 2. Poets of Rhythm: Flight To St. Vincent 3. Mercy Sluts - Banana Republic

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March 23 2013

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Gilles Peterson - Black Jazz Radio (BLACK JAZZ)

Written By 1 - March 23 2013

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Gilles Peterson, known for his record label (Brownswood), BBC radio show and deep crates, pays tribute to one of his favorite labels, Black Jazz Records. Very arguably a “Best Of” the label, this selection highlights the work of Doug Carn, whose track “Higher Ground” ranks up there with all time greats in spiritual jazz, Cleveland Eaton, his 9+ minute funk chant “All Your Lover, All Day, All Night” would segue well with Sugarcane Harris, early EWF, or Funkadelic. End result is that most all aspects of the label are referenced here, the soul/jazz/funk spectrum playing like a radio show, which perhaps was the curator’s intent…  “I stumbled upon a Doug Carn album and my life changed” (Gilles Peterson) This is part 2 of a 3-disc mix series, coordinated with remastered reissues of the original albums on CD, featuring newly discovered photographs and artwork. Tracklist: 1. Black Jazz Radio Intro  2.The Awakening – Awakening Prologue – Spring Thing 3. Gene Russell – Black Orchid  4. Rudolph Johnson – The Highest Pleasure 5. Henry Franklin – Beauty and the Electric Tub 6. Walter Bishop’s 4th Cycle – N’Dugu’s Prayer 7. Doug Carn – Higher Ground  8. Cleveland Eaton – All Your Lover, All Day, All Night  9. Roland Haynes – Second Wave 10. Kellee Patterson – Maiden Voyage 11. Calvin Keys – Aunt Lovey  12.The Awakening – Awakening Epilogue

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March 21 2013

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Dialectrix - Satellite EP (GRINDIN)

Written By 1 - March 21 2013

Available here on CD, here on 12"

Dialectrix is a revered and prolific Hip Hop lyricist hailing from Sydney who is signed to the legendary Hip Hop label Obese Records. Since releasing his first solo album “Cycles Of Survival” produced by beat extraordinaire Chasm in 2008 Dialectrix has received media exposure from Rage, MTV, Channel V, NOVA, JJJ along with a slew of community radio stations nationwide.

His solo sophomore album ‘Audio Projectile” produced entirely by veteran producer Plutonic Lab, received critical acclaim and heavy rotation on JJJ with the singles “Whut” and “Pieces Of A Puzzle” the latter would later be featured on the Hollywood blockbuster film “Chronicle” and become the first Australian Hip Hop song to be featured in a big budget American movie.

Dialectrix is also a member of the rap group Gully Platoon alongside Dj 2Buck and MC’s Joe New and Obese Records stalwart Pegz. Having released their debut record ‘The Great Divide’ in 2009

Currently Dialectrix is finishing his 3rd solo album “The Cold Light Of Day” due out mid 2012 once again pairing him up with Australia’s best producer Plutonic Lab with the signature cuts of the one and only DJ 2Buck.

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March 16 2013

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Flatpocket (Twit One & Lazy Jones) - Geldpfundphantasyen LP (MPM)

Written By 1 - March 16 2013

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Like Showbiz and AG, Twit One and Lazy Jones like their pockets fat not flat. But as fate would have it, this is not always the case with these two young musicians from Cologne. That's why they call their new band Flatpocket and have recorded a concept album based on this topic, titled "Geldfundphantasyen" (german for "Finding Money Fantasies").

Track List & Soundclips:

  01   Flatpocket Theme   clip  
  02   Nomoneynohoney   clip  
  03   Wartemarke   clip  
  04   Jingle   clip  
  05   Sofortrente   clip  
  06   Trees & Efes   clip  
  07   Roomboy   clip  
  08   Lostitall   clip  
  09   Kurze Arme   clip  
  10   Acht Uhr Outro   clip  
  11   Redebedarf   clip  
  12   Sunday   clip  
  13   Keinasselskit   clip  
  14   Metime   clip  
  15 De Flöt   clip  
  16 Down & Wise   clip  
  17   Liechtenstein   clip  
  18   Rotgeldhustle   clip  
  19   Geldpfundphantasyen   clip  

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