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Loka - Passing Place - out on Ninja Tune

Monday 28 November 2011, 15:29 2

Loka - Passing Place
(CD/Digital) Ninja Tune ZENCD175/ZENDNL175, 2011-11-28

Loka, Ninja Tune's cult psychedelicists, purveyors of cinematic music that disturbs and troubles and intrigues rather than comforts, return with a new album, Passing Place. With many acts finding considerable critical acclaim in the music world right now through adventures in the outer reaches of psychedelia/jazz/classical, it's worth remembering that Loka have been ploughing this field with stunning results ever since their debut track on Ninja Tune's 10th birthday compilation Xen Cuts in 2000 when they emerged from the same fertile alt-Liverpool scene as Pop Levi, Zukanican and Super Numeri. The debut album proper was Fire Shepherds in 2006. Since that album, co-founder Karl Webb left Loka, leaving Mark Kyriacou to carry the banner. Mark re-grouped with members of the live Loka band and went about sketching out ideas later to become Passing Place… The result is their most confident and cinematic album yet. Less claustrophobic and inward than before, the new album has a wide-screen, rolling hills vista feel to it. It is an album seeped in reflection, but containing a wide-eyed thinking of the days to come. Welcome to the timeless world of Loka. And as a bonus, there's an exclusive mix made by Loka for Paris DJs, The Daily Bread, to download here.

Loka - Sam Star / Temporary External - out on Ninja Tune

Monday 21 November 2011, 09:49

Loka - Sam Star / Temporary External
(Digital Single) Ninja Tune ZENDNLS293, 2011-11-21

Loka, Ninja Tune's cult psychedelicists, purveyors of cinematic music that disturbs and troubles and intrigues rather than comforts, return with a new album, Passing Place and, to build up to it, The Daily Bread, an exclusive Paris DJs mix, and the Sam Star EP, which sounds like Broadcast after munching an acid blotter and staring at a Boyle Family light show. Temporary External features vocals by Lido Pimienta and Brass layers by the welsh brass band Seindorf Beaumaris Band, comes on like the soundtrack to an anticipatory biopic of Robert Wyatt, made while he was still a school boy and. The 2econd Class Citizen remix of album track The Sound Stars Make allows the original's atmosphere of hazy menace to build for three minutes before hardening up the beats and building to a rhythm-led crescendo. Loka is an ever evolving band, drawing on influences from jazz to classical to BBC radiophonic to 60's psychedelia and much more. With a career on Ninja Tune that dates back to the year 2000 but has resulted in only one album (2006's critically acclamied Fire Shepherds) the band continues its compelling and innovative journey at its own stately pace. The eagerly awaited second album Passing Place, due for release in November 2011, is beautifully dark and disorientating with haunting vocals and brass interludes.

Loka - The Daily Bread

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 15:47

Loka's discography isn't hard to follow. All of this psychedelic jazz band's records have been released on leading UK label Ninja Tune. It all started with an exclusive, cinematic, trippy track on the label's 10-year anniversary collection Xen Cuts in 2000. Then 4 years later the band released their first single, the marvelous Beginningless, proving once more that Ninja Tune was THE 21st century jazz label at the time. 6 months passed before Loka re-imagined a Blockhead track, Sunday Seance, as a flurry of drums and gorgeous stringiness. Their first album, Fire Shepherds arrives in 2006 and...

Ninja Tune 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop Funk and Jazz

Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop, Funk & Jazz - Selected by Djouls

Saturday 28 August 2010, 12:44 3

Grant Phabao & Djouls - Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop, Funk & Jazz (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2010-08-28 We're still celebrating 20 years of musical activism from the english label Ninja Tune! The huge boxset is now coming out very soon... Parties in Paris and London are starting to get sold-out quite fast, and french magazine Trax has released a special (Ninja Tune 20 Ans...), in which I've written 3 articles. The first one is about 20 of the rarest pieces of wax released by the label. The second is a selection of 20 astonishing or stunning remixes, you might...

Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Remixes and Re-interpretations - Selected by Djouls

Sunday 15 August 2010, 23:56 4

Grant Phabao & Djouls - Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Remixes & Re-interpretations (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2010-08-10 Lots of stuff are happening for the celebration of the last 20 years of musical activism from the english label Ninja Tune. A huge boxset is on its way for september, with LOTS of new music. There are parties coming up everywhere, and french magazine Trax has just released a special (Ninja Tune 20 Ans...), for which I've been asked to write 3 articles. The first one is about 20 of the rarest pieces of wax released by the label. The second is a selection of 20...

The best of 2006

Sunday 31 December 2006, 23:57

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Benevento/ Russo Duo - Play Pause Stop (Reincarnate Music) parisdjs
Bonobo - Days To Come (Ninja Tune) parisdjs
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Secret Rhythms 2 (Nonplace) parisdjs
Club d'Elf - Perhapsody - Live 10.12.06 (Kufala) parisdjs
Loka - Fire Shepherds (Ninja Tune) parisdjs
Psyco - There Must Be A Revolution Somewhere (Mind) parisdjs
Radio Citizen - Berlin Serengetti (Ubiquity) parisdjs
Scotty Hard John Medeski, Matthew Shipp's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (Thirsty Ear) parisdjs
The Slip - Eisenhower (Bar/None) parisdjs
Tommy Guerrero - From The Soil To The Soul (Quannum) parisdjs

Loka - Fire Shepherds

Friday 24 March 2006, 17:20 2

Loka - Fire Shepherds
(LP/CD) Ninja Tune ZEN89/ZENCD89, 2006-03-24

Last year we had voted in our 'Best Of' selection for Super Numeri, and we're still listening to that album. So it's no surprise to find the Loka album in the best of 2006 list this year, as Loka is a duo fronted by Karl Webb, one of the three founders of Super Numeri. Go seek - and yes, there are vinyls for those albums!!

Super Numeri - The Enochian Way

Thursday 15 September 2005, 14:45

Super Numeri - The Enochian Way
(Mixed CD) Counter Records (Japan), 2005-09-15

Tracklisting :
01. Sonny - Sharrock Black Woman
02. Silver Apples - Lovefingers
03. Yoko Ono - Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City
04. Brigitte Bardot - Contact
05. Little Richard - God Is Real
06. Pop Levi - Skip Ghetto
07. Fairport Convention - Autopsy
08. Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - Moonsong
09. The Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation
10. The Beach Boys - Cool Cool Water
11. Snap Ant - Gunsticker
12. The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
13. Biltone - Humming Bird
14. Bruce Haak - Word Game
15. Loka - Meet Dad
16. The Shocking Blue - Love Buzz
17. Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Riversong
18. Esa Shields - Frolicsome On Last Road
19. Super Numeri - The Red Lady/Lunar Mansions
20. John Lee Hooker - Moanin' The Blues

[Pop Levi, Snap Ant & Loka are all members of the Super Numeri collective]

Blockhead - Expiration Date

Monday 12 September 2005, 17:31

Blockhead - Expiration Date
(Download Only Single) Ninja Tune ZENDL113, 2005-09-12

Tracklisting :
1. Expiration Date
2. Good Block Bad Block
3. Sunday Seance (Loka Remix)

Blockhead - Sunday Séance / Jet Son

Monday 18 October 2004, 18:25

Blockhead - Sunday Séance / Jet Son
(12") Ninja Tune ZEN12159, 2004-10-18

Blockhead returns with more of that uplifting melancholy on the aptly titled “Sunday Séance”. Possibly the standout track from his superb, critically-acclaimed debut album “Music By Cavelight”, “Sunday Séance” is a huge mash of harmonica, pitched up vocal wailing and the chunkiest break this side of a Yorkie Bar (for which metaphor I apologise, but I was brought up in the seventies). For added value, though, look no further than Liverpudlian duo Loka, who reimagine the original as a flurry of drums and gorgeous stringiness, once again confirming Ninja HQ’s prediction that they are most definitely Ones To Watch.

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Tag - Loka

Loka - Passing Place - out on Ninja Tune

Loka - Sam Star / Temporary External - out on Ninja Tune

Loka - The Daily Bread

Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop, Funk & Jazz - Selected by Djouls

Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Remixes and Re-interpretations - Selected by Djouls

The best of 2006

Loka - Fire Shepherds

Super Numeri - The Enochian Way

Blockhead - Expiration Date

Blockhead - Sunday Séance / Jet Son

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