Future Classic: Fat Freddy’s Drop “Bays”
Via Fat Freddy’s Drop: Introducing BAYS a 9 track boil up heralding a fresh chapter in Freddys fantastic voyages. BAYS opens with slow burn funk of ‘Wairunga Blues’ journeying through a hybrid of reggae, hi-tek soul and jazz with techno rhythms underpinning Freddy’s signature horns and Joe Dukie’s smooth & …
Future Classic: The Xtraordinairs “X-Life”
Laruche Records comes back with another stellar project, “X-Life” by the Xtraordinairs, a Kansas City duo made of Leonard Dstroy & Dominic Sandersa. The 1st track that was leaked from the album, “No Pressure” featured Reggie B , and just from that glimpse, I knew the whole project would be …
Forgotten Treasure: Charles Mingus “Scenes in the City” (1957)
As I walked 5 hours alone today in New York City with nothing than other than music in my headphones to accompany me, I thought of sharing with you a song that is quintessentially NYC. “Scenes in the City” released in 1957 by double bassist, composer and jazz legend Charlie Mingus is …
Future Classic: Tenderlonious “nobodyElse”
“Yoruba Records is proud to welcome multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer and 22a label owner, Tenderlonious to the family with this magnificent six-track EP. The opening and title track of this EP, Nobody Else, is a deep and jazzy cut – the chunky kicks and floating bass line move this track to …
Forgotten Treasure: Norman Weeks & Revelations “Hold On” (Rent Productions)
This amazing slice of disco-funk with a gospel touch has been a favorite of mine for a number of years now. I love playing this one in the dying moments of a club night filled with beautiful music and people. Since I played this one last night at our monthly …
Future Classic: Benny Sings “Studio”
It looks like the fine folks at Jakarta Records have been saving some gems and will be finishing 2015 with a bang with three highly anticipated album releases. In the next few weeks they will be introducing the upcoming LP’s for Ivan Ave and Fred Fades, Bluestaeb, an EP from Olivier St-Louis …
Forgotten Treasure: Boban Petrovic “Zora” (1984)
via DISCOM: Boban Petrovic‘s ”Zora” is our first release that has been made under Disco not Disco record label and which had huge international success reaching N#1 at Juno Bestseller chart in July 2014 (first time one name from the Balkans took N#1 in one UK chart). It was made …
Future Classic: Fred Fades & Ivan Ave “Reaping”
Seeing as their album titled “Fruitful” is only coming out on December 4th, I probably shouldn’t jump the gun and declare this a “future classic” just based on their first single. But judging from the work i’ve heard so far from producer Fred Fades and Ivan Ave I’m going to pre-emptively …
Future Classic: Zap Francis “Zap Francis EP”
Just when you thought instrumental / experimental hip-hop and the so-called “beats” scene was dead and burried, an EP from a mysterious young artist from Detroit comes along and reminds me to not give up on this scene that used to inspire me so much. The 6 track EP from …