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Jungle Fire - Firewalker (Grant Phabao Remix) (Digital Single, Paris DJs)
12 June 2013, 15:48
Jungle Fire's second seven inch, 'Firewalker', released in april 2013, is an irresistible raw Afro Disco number with a fuzzy bongo breakdown, such a killer track Paris DJs couldn't pass on licensing for their second afro/tropical compilation 'We Are The Fire Inside Your Mind'… and also have it remixed by Grant Phabao, once again, for a unique blend of Afro-Latin Disco Funk action and Jamaican Ska...
Brownout - Grant Phabao & Renegades Of Jazz Remixes (Digital single, Kept Records/Paris DJs)
28 May 2013, 21:15
Before running the Kept Records label, founder Dale Barrie was putting out some cool mixes of 45s on Paris DJs as Citizen Dale. Now both entities have became music labels, and they're still conspirating together, for official releases this time! After licensing a Polyrhythmics track for the second Paris DJs Soundsystem compilation 'We Are The Fire Inside Your Mind', Paris DJs and Kept Records are...
Grant Phabao & Leroy Gibbon - Wipe The Tear From Your Eye (Digital single, Paris DJs)
22 May 2013, 12:35
Leroy Gibbon and Grant Phabao only met once a few weeks ago, thanks to fellow Jamaican singer Echo Minott who brought his long-time friend to his favorite recording studio. When Leroy heard Phabao's music, he was instantly hooked and offered to voice one of his riddims, the 'Usain Bolt The Puma' relentless one, tight and bumpy, like 70s Jamaica sounding heavy. The song is an original one, penned...
Grant Phabao presents The Lone Ranger - Take Her To Jamaica Weh The Reggae Come From feat. Carlton Livingston (Digital Single, Paris DJs)
16 May 2013, 14:24 2
Jamaican rub-a-dub deejay The Lone Ranger and singer Carlton Livingston are reinventing themselves with an eye toward the past on this brand new Grant Phabao roots reggae riddim, bringing back memories of breezy, sun-filled days on the island. The French producer delivers an intense and profound instrumental, a cover of Ken Boothe's 'Artibella' from 1965, pure roots reggae music that could have...
Paris DJs Soundsystem - We Are The Fire Inside Your Mind - Tropical Grooves and Afrofunk International Vol.2 (Digital Compilation, Paris DJs)
09 May 2013, 00:58
This second volume in the series of 'Tropical Grooves & Afrofunk International' selections from the Paris DJs Soundsystem is the follow-up to the 'Dis Is Good For You' compilation from last year, one of Paris DJs' bestseller since the media morphed into a label (now releasing a new single or album every week!). This time artists were sent a mesmerizing Ben Hito artwork as a source of...
GregSky & Grant Phabao - La Danse Du Shadow (Digital Single, Paris DJs/Noble Art Records)
01 May 2013, 13:52
'La Danse Du Shadow' marks the beginning of a new series of releases for Grant Phabao and his Paris DJs label, with long-time collaborator & multi-cultural artist GregSky, and his newly-launched Noble Art Records label. Both artists have been producing music together for 15 years already, including a cult album, 'Meet The Joslyns', released on the T.I.M.E.C. label in 2004, and many saxophone...
Grant Phabao presents The Lone Ranger & Echo Minott - Plant Up A Vineyard (Digital Single, Paris DJs)
22 April 2013, 20:07
Today, with the world financial and environmental crisis, it's just basic logic of consciousness (with a measure of good humor) which brings Jamaican veteran singers The Lone Ranger and Echo Minott to record this new combination tune, urging their fellow countrymen to go back to the roots, plant their own vineyard and become farmer men again. The instrumental is a brand new elastic and...
Submit your tracks for the 3rd Paris DJs Soundsystem compilation!!
18 April 2013, 11:30
"Rise Of The Troubadour Warriors - Tropical Grooves and Afrofunk International Vol.3" will be the third compilation coming out on the Paris DJs label, gathering old cats and newcomers from the worldwide Afro/Tropical scene, and curated by Djouls (Paris DJs) & Elvis Martinez Smith (Les Frères Smith). We are looking for artists willing to participate by submitting tracks… Read the...
Doctor L - Sweet Life feat. Allonymous (Grant Phabao Remix)
13 April 2013, 14:05
Coming from Dublin, Liam Farrell a.k.a. Doctor L came along various musical courants: hip-hop, rock, afro, folk… Well-known producer (Assassin, Rodolphe Burger, Tony Allen…). He's always in quest of a sound revolution. His latest albums from 2012, 'The Great Depression' and 'We Got Lost', saw him deconstructing and re-inventing the blues genre with class, just like he had done with hip hop, rock...
Grant Phabao & Carlton Livingston - Cramp & Paralyze (Digital Single, Paris DJs)
02 April 2013, 16:25
Carlton Livingston's wicked dubplate style is coveted by sound systems all over the world. His relentless flow of releases on Paris DJs - album and singles, all produced by multi-instrumentalist Grant Phabao - covers a lot of ground across the roots reggae spectrum, from reality tunes to lovers rock, hard core ganja tunes to roots dance hall music… This exclusive track, 'Cramp & Paralyze', is...
