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©© Les Frères Smith - Contreband Mentality - mixed and mastered by Grant Phabao

Sunday 24 April 2011, 22:04

©© Les Frères Smith - Contreband Mentality
(gatefold 2xLP) Cafe Creme Contreband Corporation, 2011-04-22
(CD/Digital) Comet, late may 2011

©© les Freres Smith - the Smiths brothers - is a Paris based 14 piece collective specialized in afrobeat and ethio flavoured grooves. These music smugglers have been touring the French and European scenes for more than 10 years, always with the same blasting energy. Well known for its explosive live interventions, the band is now releasing its first real album after various collaborations with artists such as Tony Allen, Kutiman, Franck Biyong, or Kokolo, among others. Already accounting as a reference on the Parisian live scene and after a first 7" single on Melting Pot Music, the crew is now releasing its very first album!! 11 crazy afro joints mashed up with as many influences as there are family members in this band, and gathering the cream of the Parisian afrobeat family. Produced by les Freres Smith themselves with support and precious help by mythical afrobeat label Comet Records led by Eric Trosset, featuring the great Tony Allen and the crazy guitarist minister Oghene Kologbo from Fela's Africa 70, the album was mixed and mastered by experienced producer Grant Phabao (T.I.M.E.C.), with the help of afrobeat specialist Loik Dury (Kraked Records) who mixed one of the album's tracks.

Doctor L- Open Window - out on COLORED-INC.

Tuesday 04 January 2011, 21:49

Doctor L - Open Window
(Download/limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI022, 2011-01

Doctor L's new album is once again different!
Rather than classify it simply as music, the performer use sound to express feelings he cannot put into words. He's free, free to use sound in any style he may conceive, free to avoid the obligations of any debt to the rules of standard harmony or anything that has gone before him in music. He's free to observe these rules or break them.
Open Window is a walk through the musical universe. It explores new areas, plunges into territories never before investigated, says whatever it pleases without being concerned staying in any one musical bag.
Open Window is a lifestyle, it is beyond category. The sources of its words and music span the centuries. Its concept and interpretations are timeless and boundless. If its contribution can be summarized in a phrase, 'Open Windows' is the sound of now, encompassing all the yesterdays and all the todays in the limitless cosmos of sound.

Black Magic - Hard 2 Find Vol.5 - out on COLORED-INC.

Wednesday 29 December 2010, 10:10

Black Magic - Hard 2 Find Vol.5
(Download/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI019, 2010-12-20

An artistic revolution has been ongoing these recent years in Paris, with some unique producers breathing new life into the idea of jazz music, upping the standards of sound and production to those of the masters - Miles Davis, Lee Perry, Fela Kuti, Sun Ra, Traffic and the such...

From the message-intense material, impressionistic soundscapes and folk musings of Doctor L to the dancefloor-filling cosmic afro and soulful roots reggae vibes of Grant Phabao, the Colored-Inc. collective has managed to create a solid universe, showcasing the many facets of the jazz spectrum in the shape of a free-minded label, undoubtly this year's most ambitious one.

Black Magic is their fifth experience in cooperative expression, a voodoo-themed concept album of music suitable for the dancefloor or the living room, a fresh wave of Jazz, Soul, Afro & Reggae production, untangling the scribble of the wicked world with clarity and maturity, and bringing Paris back to its rightful place, the cultural center of the world.

T.I.M.E.C. - Noëlectro - out on COLORED-INC.

Friday 24 December 2010, 13:52

T.I.M.E.C. - Noëlectro!
Merry Christmas Beats
(Download/CD 500 ex. limited edition, hand-numbered) 2010-11-20, reissue from 2004-12

You can trust me Xmas this year will be funky!! For a fresh look on the gospel word expressed through electro-funk, banghra beats, jingle-jangle electro-jazz and a bit of hip hop on the side... Don't miss Noelectro and its merry christmas electro-jazz grooves!

Brownout - Pole Position (Grant Phabao remix) - available on "Aguilas and Cobras - Remixed and Regrooved"

Sunday 12 December 2010, 14:46 1

Brownout - Aguilas and Cobras - Remixed and Regrooved
(Download/limited CD) Six Degrees Records, 2010-12-07

Brownout, the Psychedelic Latin Funk alter ego of Grupo Fantasma, heated up dance-floors and critic's lists around the world with last year's Aguilas & Cobras record. The group's trademark soulful beats, psychedelic guitar excursions, tough grooves and ultra-tight horn arrangements have now been handed over to a dream team of remixers from the electronic dance, funk, cumbia & nu-groove scene, resulting in Aguilas & Cobras Remixed & Re-Grooved. Remixers include J Boogie, The Mexican Dubwiser, Tal M. Klein, Kokolo's Ray Lugo, Second Sky & Thomas Blondet, Jeremy Sole, Senor Oz, Afrolicious, Anthony Mansfield, Grant Phabao & CaZ.

Limited Edition CD: The CD version of Brownout's Aguilas & Cobras Remixed and Regrooved is now available as a hand stamped and numbered limited edition release (100 copies only!), available at the Six Degrees Shop and at Brownout live shows.

Franck Biyong & Massak - Voodoolectric Ground - out on COLORED-INC.

Sunday 12 December 2010, 13:46

Franck Biyong and Massak Voodoolectric Ground

Franck Biyong & Massak - Voodoolectric Ground
New Directions In Afro Music - Volume 5
(Limited CD/Download) Colored-Inc. COLI020, 2010-11-25

In the Jungle there Lies a trace, of connection between the Earth and Space...

This first sentence of the spoken-poetry inspired track Afro Map of Space enlightens us about the musical texture of this brand new release by Franck Biyong and Massak. From the traditional rhythms of Central Africa to the swinging beats of Congo Square, the words, messages, hopes and aspirations were always carried by the sheer power of the drums and embodied by the beauty of dancing. In Basaa, Massak means Spiritual Dance...

Musical wisdom was only explored to the fullest while being taught within a secret order. The Electric Voodoo Ground you’ll discover here (where else but on Colored-Inc?) is surrounded by late night mystery and close cousin to the Electric Miles Pan-African sonic experiences of the mid 70’s. These multidirectional rhythms and harmonies are leaning towards Freedom of the Soul... and Initiation for an African Renaissance.

Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach (Grant Phabao Remix) - out on 30 Years Anniversary Remixes compilation

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 00:57

Martha and The Muffins Echo Beach 30th Anniversary Remixes

Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach - (30th Anniversary Remixes)
(CD/Digital) Echo Beach CD080, 2010-08-27

The legendary wave tune Echo Beach by the Canadian combo Martha & The Muffins is back on earth. Germany's finest (as far as progressive sounds and flows are concerned) dub label, named Echo Beach and inspired by the lyrics and spirit of that track, has set out to pay tribute to this song which is more than a classic. The first mix/remix of Echo Beach, done by Reverend E.C.H.O. and released on the Echo Beach sampler Various Artists: Far Away In Time has already enjoyed a strong reputation world wide. Marki Gane, the original composer of Echo Beach and still a member of M & M (aka Martha & Muffins) - and by the way, also married to Martha Johnson (lead singer of the band M&M) - enthused: "It sounds as if the orignal ECHO BEACH was shot into outer space, hit a planet and floated back to earth in pieces...!!!" NOW - 30 years later - after Echo Beach was written - the Echo Beach label proudly presents the 30th Anniversary Remixes and the full and essentiel: ... it is one of those tunes that on first hearing you like, but can`t exactly place why, and by 30 seconds into the spin you´re close to falling in love. You just have to go with it and this seductively simple number is just that. Don´t try to understand it just accept this as love at first sight.

The Duke and The King - Long Live The Duke and The King - out on Loose (UK) / Silva Oak (US)

Monday 27 September 2010, 10:47 1

The Duke and The King - Long Live The Duke and The King
(CD) Silva Oak Records (US) / Loose Records (UK), 2010-09-27

The Duke & The King's debut album Nothing Gold Can Stay was one of 2009's most acclaimed albums, with its heady mix of rootsy folk-rock and vintage soul earning comparisons with artists ranging from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to Sly & The Family Stone. Little over a year later, the band led by Simone Felice and Robert 'Chicken' Burke prepares for the September 27th release of their second album, the extraordinary Long Live The Duke & The King on Loose Music/ Silva Oak. Entirely self-produced, Long Live The Duke & The King was recorded in the band's own studio/shack deep in their home woods of Bearsville, New York. Exalting in their ongoing love affair with rock, folk, soul and psychedelia, The Duke & The King have officially knighted two irreplaceable members to the cast, Nowell "The Deacon" Haskins (of Parliament-Funkadelic lineage), and The Sensational Simi Stone, both of whom contribute golden vocals throughout this stunning collection of songs.

The Drug Store - Hard 2 Find Vol.4 - out on COLORED-INC.

Tuesday 21 September 2010, 23:49

The Drug Store - Hard 2 Find Vol.4
(Download/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI009, 2010-09-06

The Drug Store is the first venture for the Colored-Inc. label into Psychedelic Folk & Rock vibes. Blending Nigerian harmonies with American Folk and Jazz, Reggae chants with Stoner Rock and Hip Hop beats or Nyabinghi percussions, freaky electronics with Afrobeat or deep poetry, James Bond-like arrangements with 21st century Chicago Soul, and inviting some famous Zulu Nation King & MC to a deep garage-blues session, this is indeed a kind of a Multi-Colored Thing, a nearly hallucinatory record pushing the Colored-Inc. label's identity towards more edgy forms of African, Carribean and Afro-American music.

Production duties by Erik Rug (3), Doctor L (1,4,6,8,10), and Grant Phabao (2,5,7,9), with star guesting Amayo from the Fu-Arkist-Ra and Allonymous (USA), Kiala Nzavotunga and Tony Allen (from Nigeria), The Jays (from Jamaica), Le Damn Dog, Kactus Hunters, The Joslyns and The Farell Girls (from Paris)

Kactus Hunters - Silver Clowd out on COLORED-INC.

Tuesday 21 September 2010, 22:33

Kactus Hunters - Silver Clowd
(Limited CD/Download) Colored-Inc. COLI015, 2010-10

The two scientists of post-psychedelic progressive rock of the 21st century are back with a second album, nearly a decade after the first one, and they’ve been travelling through new territories, exploring new textures and tasting new flavors while keeping a similar vibe that only belongs to the Kactus Hunters!

Haunting voices, conscious while poetic lyrics, dope beats and soft rock guitar lines, the Kactus Hunters push things further with attitude, humor and poetry!

Kactus Hunters are :
• Doctor L / musician, performer, irish, composer, producer, film maker, father of 3...
• Mister Baby / actor, cooker, singer, performer, writer, musician, composer...

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