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Guts – Paradise For All
3rd album by famous French Beatmaker GUTS.
Frameworks
Rich, warm compositions bursting with blossoming strings, pulsing bass, and haunting vocals fill the catalog of Frameworks, Manchester-based performer and producer Matthew James Brewer. Adding his sophomore LP, KINGS, to his previous two EP’s for Loci Records last year, Brewer has built an arsenal of deeply personal songs that move the body and mind. KINGS featured Ninja Tune’s Jono McCleery, who joins fellow UK standout JP Cooper among the high-profile vocalists who have contributed to the Frameworks project across downtempo, organic house, and subtle hip-hop. His debut album, Tides, released in 2015 by First Word Records first thrust the producer into the international spotlight, granting him a following in the United States. Frameworks has made a splash on the North American festival circuit, performing at Coachella, Electric Forest, Lightning in a Bottle, Camp Bisco, Global Eclipse Gathering, and the 20th anniversary of Shambhala. He’s also toured in Europe alongside Loci Records founder Emancipator. This year, Brewer has been touring the Frameworks live lineup with drummer Cory Eberhard, violinist Jessica Borth, guitarist Gareth Metcalf and bassist Keith Thomas. Taking the Frameworks catalog to new and evocative heights, the live band brings a depth and focus that demands to be experienced. – https://linktr.ee/frameworks_uk
Thommie G
Image: Bandcamp
“Providing the world with music that takes the listener to places beyond their audio system. Creator of deep, electronic and slow house. Head honcho at Dansen onder de Sterren parties. Graphic designer. Dad. Husband. Thomas was caught by the enchantment of music since the very beginning. Working as a graphic designer for 16 years, it felt natural to step into the world of sound design. Although not married to a specific genre, his style touches elements of deep, melodic and tribal. He produces different sounds for different occasions, mostly by himself, sometimes joining forces with other musicians.
And with success: his first solo EP, titled Athinouk, was released on Tropical Twista Records in May 2016. More releases appeared on Amsterdam based Phat Elephant Recordings, Sol Selectas, Cosmic Awakenings and many other respected labels.” Resident Advisor
Audiophysical
Audiophysical is Andre Lamb, New Zealand born Vancouver, BC based multi instrumentalist, producer and visual artist. Lambs deep sound fuses genres like Blues, Reggae, Jazz, Funk and Folk into grooves that roll along like fog through the streets. He plays all the instruments, but his trumpet playing is what stands out for me. A couple tracks have definite whispers of Miles Davis.
Alek Lee
Though Alek Lee is known as one of the busiest and most eclectic djs in Tel Aviv, he grew up playing drums and soon developed proficiency in percussion, singing, writing and playing other instruments as well as producing original music and remixes, and playing for other projects, both in the studio and in live. These days he is running his new live act by the name of “Alek Lee & The Leaders”, with himself on the vocals and congas, singing his new original songs in hebrew, backed up by a full band including drums, bass, electric guitar and samples from the studio productions. no computer.
Adouk Boucan
Adouk Boucan is a twenty-years-old composer and producer from Bordeaux. In a cold and broken groove, “Blanche” tells a terrible love story: that of the daughter of the Moon, came down on earth out of boredom and in order to discover imaginary metropoles inhabited by disturbing characters. One of them is to become her lover. Anachronistic and contradictory, the world she enters mixes double-basses and machines, yesteryear swing and nocturnal, trip hop sounds – edited from Amazon Editorial Reviews
“Back To Nature,” which features Kuauhtli Vasquez and Wixárika Tribe, is the first track from Nightmares On Wax’s 2018 album, Shape The Futurewww.behance.net. From the message, to the video collage to the music itself this music video is one of my favourites. Its so amazing viewed on fullscreen, (bottom right corner) but you wont be able to see the lyrics. Image: www.behance.net
All humans… share one spirit. All humans share one consciousness. But yet they wanna be separated “like my life, “my ideas”. They don’t realize that all humans share a huge pool of consciousness, of thought. All human thought vibrates at a certain frequency. Were all in communication. You know, when you exhale I breathe air, you breathe..were all together really. This is the way nature designed it. So that we will be sharing the earth, together. Theres a time, when you’re understanding mother earth, how nature is functioning. Nature and the earth, understand this relationship. Like, the earth itself is a huge magnet. So its creating energy, a magnetic force. The earth is giving it to us in a perfect and natural way. Everything in the material world comes from the spirit. The reason nature is alive is because theres a spirit thats being manifested constantly. So we said that everything comes from the spirit, from the energetic life source. And humans they just wanna take.They go, they gather, they take. They’re taking, just taking, taking, taking. Or they can say you have to give first…To the spirit. Everything from there you will receive…Take a couple breaths of air. This is the same air that my family is breathing. This is the same air that they’re breathing in every part of the planet. Lets take care of this. We’re all eating the food that mother earth gives us everywhere, everybody’s food comes from the same earth. So lets create that global consciousness This planetary way of living.
Rorschack
If there were anyone to label as an eclectic artist, it would be Noam Aharon, alter ego Rorschack. While the rest of us were playing video games and avoiding cooties, Aharon invested his time and energy into his love for music by the age of 12. From start to finish, Rorschack’s music successfully takes listeners on a trip across the world, creating a diverse experience as you jump from one song to the next. Aharon’s unique music can be credited to the jet setter lifestyle he has lived. Born and raised in Israel, Noam moved to Europe as a young adult to experience some of the world’s best cultural habits and the music scenes in Berlin, Spain and Italy. While spending four years in Kolkata, India, Rorschack dabbled in indo jazz world fusion, adding to his already expansive musical spread. 2008 brought Rorschack to where he is now – a member of the electronic music scene in California. There’s no doubt that he prides himself on having a unique sound combining everything from Middle Eastern to Indian and Persian music, as well as funk rock, jazzy beats, hip-hop groove and more. – Soundcloud
Marenn Sukie
Chris Roth, AKA Marenn Sukie is an accomplished sample manipulator whose richly organic sounds call to mind ‘Rounds’ era Four Tet and the sophisticated jazz of Cinematic Orchestra. Mining audio gold from the widescreen productions of classic 70’s music Roth balances an interest in contemporary beat culture with a winsome eye for the golden sounds of the past. “My tracks have usually around 30 different samples in one tune,” Roth explains “I make a point to never sample ‘loops’ – it’s a mix of pitching samples then maybe adding a synth for bass lines.” The Mosaic EP spans a wide range of moods and tempos – genre is fluid in the world of Marenn Sukie; house, drum n bass and jazz bleeding together, creating a beguiling blend all Roth’s own. Released May 11, 2018 – from Bandcamp
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Clutchy Hopkins
Nobody knows for sure who the elusive, desert dwelling Clutchy Hopkins really is. A multi instrumentalist from California, his music brings to mind DJ Shadow and Shawn Lee, both of whom could be the man behind Clutchy. This is music that wanders through you, just press play and step away, its a journey.
Clutchy Hopkins and Fat Einstein – High Desert Low Tide High desert crunch meets city life punch for this collaborative project in sound. Instrumental elements of Soul, Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock and more resonate throughout the record. Acoustic and electric instrumentation set the tone, and in their individual styles Clutchy & Fatty navigate your journey through psych-folk caverns of cactus dust to bloodshot rust-covered marine layer funk. It’s completely distinctive, original, and fresh, paying homage to the past, present and future. Visionary Folk-Funk. – Mike Jones, M.I.M.S.
There’s a spare, spacious approach on Walking Backwards that almost reminds us of the energy that we first felt in DJ Shadow’s groundbreaking work of a decade before — a similar love of gritty, organic source material — and an ear for putting it together with lots of dark twists and turns that balance nicely between classic funk and current hip hop production sensibilities. The flavor of each tune changes nicely — making the album way more than just a clichéd collection of beats…” – Dustygroove
The music on The Life of Clutchy Hopkins is a marvelously concocted and amazingly fresh & contemporary mesh of funk, hip-hop, jazz, and straight-out weird orchestral psychedelia (Hopkins played all the instruments himself, which include drums, bass, guitar, organ, flute, melodica, and assorted percussion) – Bandcamp
2009’s Fascinating Fingers by Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins
Clutch of the Tiger sounds like a collection of film-noir tracks run through the Clutchy Hopkins and Shawn Lee magical music machine. It’s dusty and mysterious junkyard jazz that’s powered by sly beats and other-worldly funk. Famous comic book creator Jim Mahood (who has worked on Spiderman/Marvel, Clerks, Grrl Scouts, Stupid Comics, etc etc) liked the tunes so much he provided the killer artwork for the package! – Ubiquity Records
Music is my Medicine – Late in ’08, Ubiquity was approached by the mysterious Misled Children about another project from Clutchy Hopkins, the man they claim to represent. A vintage Caribbean tracksuit jacket was found in the office fridge, and written in permanent marker on the inside right arm was their request for a meeting where we would “get another piece of the Clutchy Hopkins puzzle.” Cutting a long story short, we acquired a bag of 2-inch reels that contained the dusty, dubbed out Clutchy Hopkins tracks on this LP. Take a pinch of Hopkins deep musical madness and add a sunshine-blessed dubbed-out twist, and that is “Music Is My Medicine”. Ubiquity
Binkbeats
Image: redbull.comMaster percussionist and multi instrumentalist Frank Wienk, aka Binkbeats creates a rich tapestry of sound using looping and a vast collection of instruments – from vibraphone to the guzheng (Chinese harp) and even typewriters. Beats Unraveled marked an exploratory phase of how to recreate certain sounds with his own instruments and gear. Now composing his original material, Wienk has began stretching his sonic purview beyond just his vast array of percussion, completely disregarding any parameters. Binkbeats influences bleed into each other freely, intuitively and fearlessly. Cavernous, four-to-the-floor club sprawlers, widescreen pop euphoria and brooding drone workouts all orbit Binkbeats’ all-embracing vision. The common thread of it all: to spawn something surreal out of the earthly. On stage, Wienk naturally surrounds himself with a dazzling amount of toys, instruments and gear: a physical performance that ranges from daredevil to introspective, exploring a nexus of possibilities. – Resident Advisor
Binkbeats Soundcloud Profile
Picture Shop is Quentin Le Roux and Christophe Menassier from Marseille, France. They released their first album Clockwise in 2007.
saQi
Portland-based artist saQi is a classically trained composer, producer and trumpet player. Drawing his name from the Sufi title for a mystic muse, saQi creates eclectic electronica that maintains a balance between organic and synthesized sound. His live sets rock the dance floor while maintaining a grace and musical depth to engage the listener. The music is never limited by genre, tempo or any other stylistic elements. Allegiance to the creative flow and its truest expression thereof is saQi’s manifesto.For live performance saQi is often accompanied by the multi-instrumentalist/composer Russ Liquid, as well as Taylor Aglipay on guitar and Saxophones. All three are composers and horn players for the infamous March Fourth Marching Band. – from saQi homepage
The Allergies is the production/DJ outfit from heavyweight disc jocks Rackabeat (Chai Wallahs) and DJ Moneyshot (SolidSteel). Drawing on such influences as Boca 45, DJ Format, Gramatik and RJD2, the pair aim to bring that vintage sound of sampled funk, beats and breaks back to the forefront of club music. – Bandcamp
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ProleteR (aka Benjamin Roca) was born in the South of France in 1982.
He made a solid reputation as a producer in the indie beat making scene, as proved by millions views and streams, with his unique mix of old school swing and jazz with heavy hip-hop beats, and soulful electro. – Bandcamp
Bubbles- Released June 27-2018
Life Playing Tricks- Released May 19, 2017
Tribute to the Masters Vol.2- October 28, 2015
Tribute to the Masters Vol 1 – August 1, 2014
Rookie – November 30, 2014
Feeding the Lions – April 12, 2013
Curses From Past Times – November 20, 2011
“Curses from past times” belongs to the tradition of Hip-Hop sample based music. It is a combination between heavy hip-hop beats and jazz/charleston samples, spiced with guitar arrangments and smooth piece of synth.
Kutiman
Ophir Kutiel, professionally known as Kutiman, is an Israeli musician, composer, producer and animator. He is best known for creating the online music video project, ThruYOU, where he creates songs by editing together random amateur video clips. The more you watch, the more you appreciate how much skill this takes to do.
His own work has a decidedly more psych rock feel to it. This is my favourite track from 6am
And a couple awesome remixes
Reggae version
Musical accompaniment on “Space Cassava” by Shlomi Alon (Saxophone and Flute), Sefi Ramirez Sizling (Trumpet), and Yair Slutzky (Trombone).
Michal Menert
Michal Menert is an electronic music artist and producer based in Denver, Colorado. He was also the first artist on the Pretty Lights Music label and was an integral part of Pretty Lights, producing their debut album, Taking Up Your Precious Time as well as contributing to several tracks after his official departure from the project. Throughout his youth, his father exposed him to a wide variety of Eastern and Western music, giving Menert fertile soil in which to plant his musical visions. His passion for original analog sounds coupled with a vast knowledge of music history has given him an even larger platform from which to produce. A multi-instrumentalist, he incorporates live guitar and keys into his final production for a full sound and rich feel. By tapping into the world of music that surrounds him, Menert twists and turns day-to-day inspirations into music that is all his own.
Taku is a modern day renaissance man. Rising to prominence as one of Australia’s most in demand beat-makers, the Perth based artist (real name Regan Matthews) has found himself curator of a rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary creative empire. Borne from a late night sideline to his day job selling health insurance, Taku’s music has quickly become a global, full time concern. From early days uploading chopped hiphop cuts to Soundcloud, the “genre killer”’s prodigious credits now include ambitious projects like 50 Days For Dilla, high profile remixes for Flume, Chet Faker, BANKS, Childish Gambino and Justin Timberlake, as well as a clutch of cowrites, production efforts and countless self releases.- http://www.windishagency.com/artists/taku
https://soundcloud.com/takugotbeats/sets/25-nights-for-nujabes
https://soundcloud.com/takugotbeats/sets/remixes-compilations
DJ GROUND started DJing in his teenage days and has played all over Japan with Osaka’s underground music scene. He’s a true omnivore when it comes to music – his style is a widespread border- and genreless garden of sound with absolutely no barriers, picking bits and pieces of whatever feels right and good to him. This led to numerous releases on various labels all over the globe, such as Chillmountain, Most Excellent, Magic Wand, Bokeh Versions and now on Multi Culti’s Moon Faze Sun Gaze compilation.Together with Mori-Ra he teamed up for an amazing edit work as Oyama Edit .
He member of the Chillmountain Corective in the mountains surrounding Osaka. -Soundcloud
Brady Watt has been one of hip-hop’s best bassists for years playing with Ski Beatz, Curren$y, Joey Bada$$ and others; more recently, he’s become part of DJ Premier’sall-star band. He’s finally stepped to the forefront and took the lead on his on album, bringing those connections together to curate a diverse compilation record, Lifetronics, featuring comrades fromTalib Kweli to Smoke DZA to Melanie Fiona. -Wikipedia
‘Texture Like Sun’ is the follow up to the much-loved self-titled debut by Anglo-Mauritian producer, singer and percussionist Joseph Deenmamode aka Mo Kolours. The Guardian described ‘Mo Kolours’ as “the best album Curtis Mayfield never made with A Tribe Called Quest and Lee Perry”. Soundcloud
Autarkic is Nadav Spiegel, a Tel Aviv born musician, who currently resides in Berlin. Autarkic is the latest representation of Tel Aviv’s cold wave scene. The leftfield movement through an Eastern lens. Holding up a mirror to the current state of his world, Autarkic (assisted by Red Axes) released the Hello To Mrs Blank EP last July on Golf Channel Recordings. 4 tracks which manage to be thought provoking, compelling, and even anthemic, in equal measure. Industrial Techno tribal goth dub vibes
Tensei returns with another installment of the HotBox Sessions. These instrumentals were originally created in 2009-2010 and used by Chicago mc’s for mixtapes and various projects. The HotBox was our old studio in Chicago in a tiny extra room that had no central air. It used to get very hot and literally we would be sweating while making music in the summer. These songs were created prior to incorporating jazz and soul musicians to our sound. Tribute, the final track is a bonus cut inspired by the late great dilla. The vocal versions to these songs are below
Full Throttle – Primeridian ft Mike Flo – Da Crack-a-Dawn Mixtape
djbooth.net/mixtapes/entry/primeridian-crack-dawn
HeartBeats Anthem – Phillip Morris “Chicago Anthem” – Lady Liberty is Wasted
phillipmorris.bandcamp.com/album/lady-…y-is-wasted
It’s Mine – ADaD “It’s Mine” – P.S. I’m Next Mixtape
www.okayplayer.com/news/adad-ps-im…e-download.html
Moon Gas – Pugz Atomz “Got a pill for that” – Bami Pi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPUMjpRklE
Smoke it Out Remix – ADaD “Smoke it out”
www.hillydilly.com/2013/10/adad-sm…t-tensei-remix/ – Soundcloud
MLiR is a Swedish musical collective fronted by Marco Gegenheimer and Einar Alterfix Christoffersson. Utilizing hundreds of samples and mostly old analog equipment, their releases are a dizzying foray through 60’s psychedelia, fuzzed out 70’s gangster funk, beats and disco house. Since these mixes are so long, and full of so many change ups, its best just to let it play in the background while you’re around the house.
When Panagiotis Melidis, the Greek producer who records as Larry Gus, first began releasing music, his primary mode of expression was parroting other artists to create sample-heavy pastiche. His productions encompass everything from Afrobeat to hip-hop; after signing to DFA, his first two albums were attempts to turn bits and pieces from prototypical psych pop outfits like El Guincho and Animal Collective into a whole. His 2015 album, Years Not Living, was a more conceptually confident stew of African-influenced grooves, slathered-on samples, and his own heavily layered vocals. His latest album was June 2016’s ‘At Your Desk’. This seven-track collection features two original tracks, a cover of Bjork’s “I Miss You”, and four epic remixes from some of the album’s standout tracks by 40 Thieves, Musik Non Stop, Luke Vibert, and Daniel.T. & Cooper Saver-Pitchfork
Laband had, as he puts it, “a big fall from grace” where he could barely take care of himself, let alone write music. Before all that, though, Laband was one of South Africa’s bright young things, a gifted and troubled musician that got his start in a thrash punk band as a guitarist and screamer.
Soon, though, Laband fell in love with electronic music generally and Kid Loco specifically. Acid trips with A Grand Love Story led to his own sample-laden soundscapes that made him a star in his home country and, eventually, a deal with Compost Records in Europe to release his third album, Dark Days Exit in 2005. Laband has an uncommon touch with mellow sounds—a way of creating downtempo that never treads near cliché.
Things went quiet release-wise after Dark Days, but recently Laband has re-emerged with a new DJ name (Snakehips) and the promise of a new album with Compost. He also has plenty of opinions about music and his beloved—and fragile—homeland. Indeed, as RA’s Richard Marshall found out earlier this year, even as he makes noise about leaving South Africa, Laband can’t help but speak to how much he still has to learn from it.
just some funky beats..
Feindrehstar are a German 8 man band who make music that is a fusion of funk, jazz, house, hip hop and world beat.
https://soundcloud.com/rutabaga/sets/feindrehstar
Sans Soleil is a project of German funk/soul producer & dj Mr Confuse. While similar, his latest offering is more on the light acid jazzy side of things. Click top left corner to expand album.
Sam Fergusson known to many as Frenic is a fast emerging UK talent garnering an international reputation for producing music which shows his inspiration from many forms of dance and hip hop whilst hinting at deeper musical influence. Frenic first started making beats for hip hop MC’s after becoming inspired by listening to rap heavyweights Wu-Tang Clan, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock. Having bought a pair of turntables began his quest into understanding scratching and turntableism which then lead him to forming a live act called Lost Project. Popular on the U.K hip hop scene, they played many lives sets to great response, even supporting hip hop royalty like The Pharcyde, The Beatnuts, Task Force and Afrika Bambaataa.
Mr Confuse is producer/dj from Hanover Germany. His music is a blend of 70s soul, beats and high octane future funk….
Ben Lamdin AKA Nostalgia 77 is a UK based Jazz producer who’s been releasing music on Tru Thoughts for over 10 years, whilst also running his own Jazz label, Impossible Ark.