Nice mix of Nu Jazz/Electro to be found here. SP has put also recruited some top talent for this project too. Replife, Kia Bennett & Deborah Jordan among them. Peep the taster. Enjoy!
rolar disco
DJ Spinna, a man that, when it comes to music, can do no wrong. The Post Disco Club Jams Boogie Back. From the track listing one would think that a rag tag collection of a bygone era was on offer. But to be frank, the music Spinna has assembled here is gold. My head has been bobbing to this one for while now. Peep the tasers. Enjoy!
Volume 4 (2nd)
Finally Volume 4 is here. Double the music on this one. head to the brother site for the Hip Hop tracklist & links. Enjoy!
2nd
201 The Fantastics - I Cant Dance With You feat. Noel Mckoy
202 Laura Vane & the Vipertones - Man Of Your Word
203 Kylie Auldist - Ship Inside A Bottle
204 Natural Self - Every Day
205 Nino Moschella - Continue To Call
206 Designed People (Shin-ski and Taninaka Koji) - W.I.O feat. Dub Rock Allstars (Light and Mr. Man from the Bush Babees)
207 Jonas - Sensational
208 Elliot Luv - Devil Can't Walk
209 Coma Chi - Beautiful Day
210 Dub Pistols - Peace Of Mind (Ft. Red Star Lion & Rodney P)
211 Eric Roberson - A Tale Of Two feat. Ben Oneill & Michelle Thompson
212 Russell Leonce - Smile feat. Vanessa Briggs & Antus Keith
213 Lizzy Parks - Soul Bird (Acoustic Version)
214 Yameen - Fire feat. Casual & Georgia Anne Muldrow (Blockhead Remix)
215 Nostalgia 77 - New Inner City Blues feat. Keith & Julie Tippett
216 Ayanna Witter Johnson - Give In
217 Satya Project - Truth & Love feat. Kelli Sae
218 Zap Mama - African Diamond with Tony Allen & Meshell N'degeocello
219 The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker - (It's a) Sunny Day
220 Shuya Okino - Love is The Key (DJ Kawasaki Remix)
221 Outro (beat by The Sound Stylistics) (assembled by nofrillz)
In This for the Sweet Dreams
For those of you that don’t know. In 2006 Jonas put out one of the most slept on Neo-Soul albums of recent years. We Are In This Together aka WAITT, is the long awaited follow up and having had my 1st listen I suspect this one will fall into the same trap. This is simply great music. 4 years is plenty of time to expand your sound and that is exactly what Jonas has done. The extension of live instrumentation being my favourite, Peep the taster.
Jonas – Electric / Not What You Want
Allo Allo Allo!!!
This ones niceness. Guitar briven eats and a melodic delivery make for an interesting release. Add to that the fact that The Tones & Blu are both featured and you can see why I took a punt on this one. Peep the tasters.
(Shi)buyakasha
We've all had those days. Usually falling on a lazy weekend or possibly a lacklustre holiday. When you'll be hitting a club later on but until then your schedule is distinctly on the baren side. Either the rain is too fierce or the heat is too intense for any reasonable shopping journey to be worth the effort. Grabbing a bite would be an obvious choice, if last nights self catered extravaganza hadn't rendered the fridge an empty vessel. Daytime TV (as usual) plays its hand of predictability. While mainstream radio follows the same path once those 20 tracks begin their recycling phase. You try to find a classic to help pass the time but even Illmatic doesn't quite cut it because this day, doesn't feel like a Hip Hop day. So... Shibuya... proof that Nicolay, truly is a beatsmith who can fill many voids. A Jack of all trades who for once can profess to be a master of all of them. 99% of Instrumental albums, whatever the genre, are simply a collection of beats that may or may not have been picked up by one artist or another if their producer had so chosen. Volume 1.5 as good as it is falls under the beat collection mantra thanks to its Hip Hop backbone. Shibuya is one of the few that are created with a purpose from the outset. The key to this albums appeal is its constantly changing landscape. There's a hint of everything from Electro to Nu Jazz and almost everything in between. The varying of sounds is superb and, as with Time:Line, each track always acts as a precursor for the next. Thus the smooth transition between each make it a lot harder to press the pause button. The vocal tracks are also well placed and serve not to alienate the Leave It All Behind newbies to the Nicolay experence. A far more adventurous outing than it's predecessor, Volume 2 is a testament to the musical versatility the man who created it.
p e a c e
ain’t no riff Raf here
And so the Philly tradition continues. Rafiya’s is a name i hadn’t heard of before. this is one well travelled lady. Congolese heritage should ensure a nice sounding debut when it drops. Stay tuned. Enjoy!
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