Onra-Long Distance
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Onra – Long Distance – New Album (Teaser) from enozoib on Vimeo.
It’s all about ‘All City’
FUNKINEVEN
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Had my eye on this dude for a little while. Now we’re finally over that wonky wackness, some proper next level heds are emerging on the UK scene, and FunkinEven is definitely one to watch.
He’s got just the right balance between a nod to back-in-the-day and nu skool production values. Heard some new stuff on the Benji show on Sunday which was in that techno funk space, much beloved of our very own Quaid, and sounding seriously heavy. This one is a bit more straight up but don’t sleep on his future releases.
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FRIDAY FUSION
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Last weeks ‘3 the hard way’ session is a tough post to follow. Taken a steer from Tommy’s Lonnie Liston connection to go to the funkier side of the Fusion spectrum, with a killer track from Roy Ayers.
It’s from the ‘Virgin Ubiquity’ sessions released a few years back, hard to believe he sat on this cut (along with dozens of others) that he recorded after months locked away in his Brooklyn apartment. I love those trademark strings that weave in & out of this tune, reminiscent of those numbers we know & love, and putting this track firmly in it’s place as a lost classic. Enjoy.
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Attack Of The Krystal Sphere
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Love this mix.
Krystal Klear, who is going to massive this year (12″ dropping on All City in April) and Illium Sphere bringing together an awesome selection of boogie and 80’s funk bullets.
It draws on loads of the same influences and grooves behind the Ulysses 82 stuff, even down to using some tracks we have jacked.
What’s especially nice is the way they have cut up the boogie to keep the groove and lose the dodgy major key middle eights (of which there are usually freakin loads in this genre)
Krystal Klear is playing there in April-you should really try and get there.
Check out the hoya hoya blog for more info.
Here’s the mix
The Future (days away)
music_ tech
Not quite as literal as my dream ipad app but the midipad is the next best thing (and it’s real). It’s going to be like deejaying in Logan’s Run, playing out with this sucker.
More info here
FRIDAY FUSION (TRIPLE HEADER)
music_ unified theory
We’re combining forces for a special Friday Fusion triple bill: 3 heds, 3 tracks, nuff said. First up Tommy C —
Spiritual cosmic fusion from one of the Daddy’s of the Kozmigroov sound. This cut from the Expansions album takes us down-tempo from the dancefloor (don’t-air-triangle) jazz-funk of the title cut. The rhythm section doesn’t let go of a deliciously simple groove while LLS does his usual trick of taking the listener on a cosmic journey with his rhodes and synths. Voodoo women put your finger and thumb around this one…
Lonnie Liston Smith — Voodoo Woman
It’s France 1977. There’s a studio full of serious dons from across the country and most of them are playing synths. Ex-Magma maestro Benoit Widemann is at the helm and the result is some beautifully over-the-top prog fusion. Part insanely funky, part frickin’ ridiculous – turn it up bitches!
Time for a bit of homegrown… Fusion in the UK leaned much more towards the prog-rock side of things, and definitely not in a good way, but Scottish trumpeter Ian Carr definitely had the right idea. After some classic jazz works with Don Rendell, Carr formed Nucleus and became the UK’s leading light alongside Soft Machine for the next decade or so. Often overlooked in favour of better-known artists from around the globe, the Nucleus back catalogue has some gems, and although hard to find, are worth the effort – We’ll Talk About It Later (1970) & Labyrinth (1973) are definitely worth some time. Here’s to the Best of British…
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Sword & Sworcery EP
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After spending the first few months of owning a iphone buying 2 games a week-I haven’t been tempted by anything for ages.
Well, until I saw this anyway.
The official TRON LEGACY trailer
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BOOM!!
Trevor Jackson @ RBMA
culture_ music_ video
Love this guy.
So much of what he has to say (especially the reasons for making music) really resonate with me.
And damn he’s got a back catalogue/portfolio that anyone would be proud of.
Worth an hour of your time for sure.
SCI—FI SOUL
music_ quaid_ scifi
Aside from the cosmic b-boy musings of ‘Reflections…’ Quaid is perhaps best well known, on these pages at least, for his ongoing love affair with soulful electronic music — citing the big ‘D’ and some of it’s visionary residents as a major influence. Sci—Fi Soul is a term Quaid uses to describe his music, not just because of his Sci-Fi obsession but more blatantly from sampling such classic scores as Gill Mellé’s ‘Andromeda Strain’ & Lalo Schifrin’s ‘THX 1138′.
But whether it’s the Gilles Peterson-championed body music of ‘Feel’, the synth-funk of ‘Raw Shit’ or collaborative pieces with vocalist’s like Nigerian soul-boy Ade on ‘City on Fire’, Quaid’s aesthetic remains the same – raw, emotive electronic music.
This is an ongoing project, so we’ll be adding more back catalogue, edits and new material in the coming weeks, hope ur feeling it.
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