Future Classic: Reginald Omas Mamode IV “All Together” (Intimate Friends)
If this EP would have come out in the early 2000’s it would have found a place next to Jazzanova, Vikter Duplaix, Sa-Ra Creative Partners and other great releases of the Nu-Jazz / Broken Beat / Future Soul era. But there’s no use in looking back. It’s 2015 and there …
Future Classic: Dâm-Funk “We Continue”
DâM-FunK just released a video for his track “We Continue” taken from “Invite The Light’”, his newest full length project set to be released on September 4th via Stones Throw Records. The fusion between the song and the visual aesthetics is flawless. Driving baseline, cruising drums in duality with DâM’s …
Future Classic: Jr. Williams “Cash Maniac”
This week’s Voyage Funktastique Show was blessed with a guest set by Professor Groove, of WeFunk Radio, and it was 55 minutes of pure contagious Funk vibes; I always dig his sets and enjoy seeing him explore & dive into his favourite spectrums of Funk. On my side, if there’s …
Forgotten Treasure: Lou Bond “Lou Bond” (1974)
An incredible artist has passed on and although he may yet remain unknown to most hopefully his music will be brought to the forefront because the only record he has ever released is a poignant masterpiece. Lou Bond is the epitome of an engaged artist, his self-titled release on Stax …
Future Classic: Dego & Kaidi “EP2” (Eglo Records)
Two of the absolute legends of the Broken Beat movement return with their second EP to the fine EGLO Records imprint. Kaidi & Dego have been busy as of late with heavy releases for Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature, Holland’s Rush Hour and of course with Dego’s own 2000Black label. Their …
Forgotten Treasure: Debbie Taylor “No Deposit, No Return” (1972)
Debbie Taylor had fantastic releases on GWP, Polydor and Arista but here is another throwback sound from the early seventies “No Deposit, No Return” which came out on Today Records. Arranged and co-written in 1972 by Patrick Adams, the man responsible for so much of the quality disco to come …
Exclusive Premiere: INKSWEL – Watch Out ft. Charli James & Ugly Drums
We’re honoured to premiere a track from the exceptional Australian producer known as INKSWEL who has been a mainstay on our website and radio show these past few years. Actually he’s probably in our top 5 most played artists in the 8 year history of our monthly radio show. The world …
Future Classic: Alessia Cara “Here”
To be honest, any song that opens with the classic Isaac Hayes “Ike’s Rap II” sample starts off on my good side. However, it didn’t take very long for me to pause and pay close attention to what was going here. A R&B song that doesn’t follow the current 2015 blueprints. …
Prince drops new “HardRockLover” track on Soundcloud
Quite exciting to see an artist like Prince starting to embrace tools like Soundcloud. Lords knows the man must be sitting on heaps of demos and unreleased gold! Wanted to share “HardRockLover” with you all, its definitely worth a few listens. We have to dissect the lyrics a little bit …
Future Classic: Mocky “Key Change”
When the track “Tomorrow Maker” dropped two months ago, I immediately fell in love with this soulful voyage full of different moods and lovely mellow vocals. After playing the song five times in a row, I spent the rest of that day doing research to find out all I could about Mocky. …
Future Classic: The Internet “Ego Death”
Following 2 really strong singles to preview their upcoming full length, the album from Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians’ group known as The Internet is here. The new album is called Ego Death and features Janelle Monae, Vic Mensa, James Fauntleroy, Kaytranada and Tyler the Creator. Get it on …
Forgotten Treasure: Perk Badger “Do Your Stuff” (1966)
Last week we wrote about some of the absolute worst examples of advertising campaigns using music or featuring the musicians as celebrity endorsers. (Link) On the flip side, sometimes it does work out brilliantly. In this case, Nike of the best advertisers of the last 40 years goes digging deep …