Forty tracks to end the strange 2020. Without live music being played, other than the occasional stream, this year was particularly hard for all cultural workers. Yet they were more important than ever in our lives. Through their work it was actually fine to stay at home. So let’s celebrate it.
Read More
On Jupiter is part of a series of very special albums that were recorded between 1978 and 1980 - Lanquidity, Sleeping Beauty, Strange Celestial Road - demonstrating the influence on Ra of the musical and production trends of the mid and late 70s.
Read More
Little is known about Moondance. His - or her - first EP, Never Found Love, just showed up in Local Talk’s inbox alongside other tracks. The Swedish label was swift, fast, eager to put it out, not hesitating twice to sign all of those tracks.
Read More
Colombian DJ and Producer, and Nomada Records co-founder, Ivan Lozano (a.k.a. Joint4Nine) presents his P-Connection EP - a 5-tracker that showcases the producer’s versatility, navigating with ease through different approaches within his funky deep house canvas.
Read More
Raw. Emotional. Heavy. Short. Back in 1969, hailing from Angola, Vum Vum was creating a special EP of just four tracks that would set him up to be considered today the father figure of the Angolan rock scene.
Read More
More than ten years ago “In Love Again” surfaced as part of Red Rack’em’s All Ever I Wanted EP, becoming subsequently an underground smash. Through WOLF Music Recordings, this slice of genius from the British producer is repressed a released in a very limited vinyl only edition.
Read More
Taken from the upcoming debut album by Australian super trio Oyobi, Mi Ritmo ignites our desires for warmer nights. Vincent Sebastian, Adam Ventoura and Daniel Pliner (Oyobi) team up with Danny G Felix and his Colombian orchestra Malo Malo to deliver an awesome latin-jazz-house anthem that will definitely reach great heights.
Read More
Via Wadada Records We Talk Tomorrow is the result of five consecutive studio days that joined the underground legend Wun Two, on his SP404, with the experimental jazz-hop trio Wyl, taking their new concept of beatmaking to a new level.
Read More
We have to place Stefan Ringer (a.k.a. REKchampa) as one of the most exciting names in the deep house scene at the moment. Dropping today, the last release from Quintessentials in 2020, The Difference offers up a loose and soulful take on MPC-made house full of deep tips and sci-fi tricks.
Read More
Via HIGH JAZZ* RECORDS we have the pleasure of listening and sharing the reissue of a dusty gold-standard 1981 album by the Oakland/Berkeley-based septet Bridge. Crying For Love, due to the conflicts within the group, was released for the first time in 1999, nearly 20 years after it was completed.
Read More
Released last week, through the Italian label NICEPEOPLE, Gotta Paint is an elegant, deep and emotive EP by singer and songwriter Khadeeja Grace and her ‘remixing’ mates. Performing with incredible vocals meld into each of the versions here presented, Khadeeja shows her versatility and her ability to fill a house track.
Read More
The first Los Hermanos EP on vinyl in over a decade was released last friday via Mother Tongue Records. Gerald Mitchell, the man behind Los Hermanos and a longtime figure in the house and techno music scene of Detroit, showcases three tracks filled with soul, funkiness and groovy basslines.
Read More
A hero to both Muhammad and Younge, Carn was more than an inspiration in their respective careers. His compositional and improvisational integrity, presented in this fifth installment of the Jazz Is Dead series, remains indisputable.
Read More
With the release date set for tomorrow, Sun After Rain is a three-track EP from the sage and globetrotter Jitwam, coming out via his own The Jazz Diaries and Studio 54 Music. Composed by two original tracks in collaboration with Folamour and Mike Bloom, plus a remix by Kaidi Tatham, this one goes directly to the imaginary dancefloors we’re craving.
Read More
After being spotted by the legendary multi-instrumentalist and The Roots’ member James Poyser during an open-mic session, Ezekiel was quickly placed in the “right rooms” to record this amazing project - blending melodies of the western world with the sounds of Africa.
Read More
Coming up later in the night, Markus Lindner, a.k.a. Delfonic and his bouncy 4-tracker Delfonic Edits. Via Nómada Records, releasing their first volume of disco-afro-boogie-house edits, Delfonic pays homage to the roots of house music and to the the legacy of Black culture and Black music.
Read More
This compilation, celebrating the MENACE’s fifth anniversary, showcases a talented cast of producers and artists - some of the we presented here before, others to take note and follow closely: Bugseed, DJ Mitsu The Beats, Hugo LX, Underground Canopy, Midori just to name a few.
Read More
Having dropped last friday, What Up Doe? Vol. 2 is a sunsoaked house affair with a penchant for acid lines, jazz inspired keys and a bumpin’ groove. The inimitable and talented Byron The Aquarius gives us a sonic masterclass, completing a year in which he definitely stepped up into the olympus of the deep house scene.
Read More
Yussef Dayes is on the verge for his legendary status. We might say that he is a legend already. His newest album, the live project Welcome To The Hills, via Cashmere Thoughts, is a definite step towards that status.
Read More
Terra was the debut LP of the influential Gaúcho musician Gelson Oliveira in partnership with drummer Luiz Ewerling. The album was released independently in 1983, with access to minimal resources. None of that influenced the quality, the musicality and the magic present in nine tracks.
Read More