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Jed and Lucia - Super Human Heart - out on Ubiquity Records

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 11:05

Jed and Lucia Super Human Heart
Jed and Lucia - Super Human Heart
(CD/2xLP) Ubiquity Records UR277, 2010-10-19

Like the distant cousins of Jose Gonzales and Boards of Canada, Jed and Lucia’s songs have a pastoral sensibility that has been warped by their love for electronics. Superhuman Heart is a kaleidoscope of tunes dreamed-up and recorded in the hills, parks and woods of North Berkeley. Their vocal harmonies smack of classic 1960s Cali-pop, but Jed and Lucia’s acoustic guitars and poignant lyrics are subverted by sun-drenched synths and bass lines that add a subtle dose of urban bump and grind. Folksy songs are transformed by acid-tripped atmospherics in a soundtrack for creatures that crawl from the back woods into the city at nightfall.

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Paris Suit Yourself - Craig Machinsky - out on Big Dada

Monday 11 October 2010, 03:23

Paris Suit Yourself Craig Machinsky
Paris Suit Yourself - Craig Machinsky
(Download) Big Dada BDDNL170, 2010-10-11

Hailing originally from Bordeaux and Arkansas, based - very roughly speaking - in Berlin and coming on like PiL reincarnated as a French psychedelic soul revue, Paris Suit Yourself are the first "rock" band ever to sign to venerable hip hop label Big Dada. First single, Craig Machinsky is a furious tirade on the fetishisation and demonisation of blackness and sounds like nothing else you've ever heard. The single, the first for Big Dada, heralds the release early next year of Paris Suit Yourself's debut album, My Main Shitstain - forty five minutes of powerful polemic and impassioned lyricism, all delivered with the kind of hooks that you find yourself humming (or screaming and shouting) months later.

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Jed and Lucia - Apostrophe/April Showers - out on Ubiquity

Monday 04 October 2010, 00:07

Jed and Lucia Apostrophe April Showers
Jed and Lucia - Apostrophe/April Showers
(10"/Digital) Ubiquity Records UR278, 2010-10-05 (Digital), 2010-10-28 (Vinyl)

Like the distant cousins of Jose Gonzales and Boards of Canada, Jed and Lucia's songs have a pastoral sensibility that has been warped by their love for electronics. Their forthcoming album, Superhuman Heart, is a kaleidoscope of tunes dreamed-up and recorded in the hills, parks and woods of North Berkeley. This limited edition 10" (300 only!) features two tracks from that album, plus stellar remixes from Shawn Lee and Shlohmo. Lee turns the breezy Apostrophe into a catchy head-nod-inducing bossa with just a touch of psych. While LA beat scene fave Shlohmo bends the already-twisted folk sound of April Showers into a new more angular shape, complete with other-worldly electronics, aggo-gritty beats and plenty o'bass. Jed and Lucia's vocal harmonies smack of classic 1960s Cali-pop, but their acoustic guitars and poignant lyrics are subverted by sun-drenched synths and bass lines that add a subtle dose of urban bump and grind. Folksy songs are transformed by acid-tripped atmospherics in a soundtrack for creatures that crawl from the back woods into the city at nightfall.

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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 3
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)

The Lone Ranger Sweet Talking
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Jono McCleery - Tomorrow - out on Ninja Tune

Monday 02 August 2010, 11:48 1

Jono McCleery Tomorrow
Jono McCleery - Tomorrow
(single) Ninja Tune ZENDNLS261, 2010-08-02

Tomorrow is the first single from Jono McCleery, a London based solo artist, who recently signed to Ninja Tune. He completed his 1st album Darkest Light independently in 2008 which was self-produced and funded by his fans, including folk-star Vashti Bunyan and BBC radio DJs Tom Robinson and Fiona Talkington. He collaborated with the Part Time Heroes on their debut album Meanwhile and is about to release a new album on Ninja Tune with electro producer Fybe.

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Tom Eno - Barnstormer

Sunday 30 May 2010, 20:51

Tom Eno Barnstormer
Tom Eno - Barnstormer
(CD) Jack To Phono JTP013, 2009-11-12

Tom Eno steps forward for Jack to Phono's 6th album this autumn on the back of his previous two successful 7 inch singles. The album, Barnstormer, features collaborations with Mr James Bright (Tape Club Records) & Rose Pryce on vocals. Hailing from downtown Winchester both Tom & James have been turning heads in 09 with some hefty praise from heavyweight DJs & tastemakers alike including Rob Da Bank & Hotel Costes.

Using his classical Spanish/Jazz guitar blend and inspiration from the likes of classic jazz masters such as Charlie Byrd and Django Reinhardt, alongside classical guitarists such as Segovia and Villa-Lobos, Tom creates his own rather distinctive style. In recent months he has been working with vocalists Mr James Bright and Rose Pryce to add a new dimension to his work.


Download a 30mn Taster Mix he cooked for Paris DJs here!

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Steve Mason - Boys Outside - out on Double Six Records

Monday 03 May 2010, 19:57

Steve Mason Boys Outside
Steve Mason - Boys Outside
(CD/LP/Digital) Double Six/Domino Record Co. DS027, 2010-05-03

Having recently signed to Domino imprint Double Six, Steve Mason has announced the release of his new album, Boys Outside, on Monday May 3rd 2010. The 10-track album was produced by Richard X and Steve Mason. Very much indicative of the fragile, stripped down, haunting sound of the album, All Come Down was released as a download only single in December of last year and was roundly praised for it's beauty and simplicity drawing numerous comparisons to his early work with The Beta Band on the 3 EPs album. Having previously recorded as both King Biscuit Time and Black Affair, both largely electronic based projects, Steve Mason enlisted the help of producer Richard X and consciously made a decision to go back to basics; the album was written entirely on acoustic guitar with many of the finished tracks stripped back to reveal his undoubted songwriting talent.

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Zzebraa - Rock n' Soul Radio

Monday 22 March 2010, 12:00

Zzebraa Rock n Soul Radio
Zzebraa - Rock n' Soul Radio
(CD) Zebramix / distrib. Musicast, 2010-03-22

The French rock DJ specialized in bootlegs DJ Zebra finally releases his album, between producer and radio host, in the spirit of the Good Morning England movie... He plays everything on the record, guitars, bass, keyboards and rhytmic programmations, with Monty from Dionysos adding trombone and trumpet. Together they've re-arranged in "Rock N' Soul" dressings 9 songs they loved, blending rock guitars, pop horns and funk rhythms, with hints of cinematic soul and hip hop. The album is assembled like a Zebramix show, with jingles, etc., and former Radio Nova progammer and Paris DJs co-founder Loik Dury is even featured among the guest DJs!

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Lou Rhodes - One Good Thing

Sunday 14 March 2010, 21:28

Lou Rhodes One Good Thing
Lou Rhodes - One Good Thing
(CD/LP/Download) Motion Audio MOCD003/MOLP003/MODNL003, 2010-03-14

Lou Rhodes releases her third album, One Good Thing through Motion Audio on the 14th March 2010. Manchester's most cherished and acclaimed female soul returns with her most brutally raw record to date. One Good Thing disarmingly documents the last two years of Lou's life. With exquisite attention to detail, it was recorded over an intensive two-week period. This third album, which follows 2006's Mercury Prize nominated, Beloved One, and 2007's frank follow-up, Bloom, was recorded solely in live takes with minimal editing and overdubs to reflect the brutal rawness of its subject matter.

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Homelife - Exotic Interlude

Monday 01 March 2010, 00:53

Homelife Exotic Interlude
Homelife - Exotic Interlude
(CD/LP) Humble Soul HS302CD/HS302LP, 2009-10-05
Released in France 2010-03-01 thru Discograph with bonus tracks

The world of the exotic lives in the imagination, a way of looking at the world. A useful way of coping now we live on Google Earth, mapped and finite, a shrunken head. More than an interlude, Homelife have painted an Exotic English landscape. An urban crust on heathen clay, the village green from tower blocks. The tower blocks seen distant from green hill sides, Pagan pylons bathed in antiseptic sunlight fingers. Bright moulds, vines and blooms on Victorian iron decay. Feel the sandstone turn to limestone, rock of ages, dirty flags, caves of blue john, land of lakes and red brick evening glow. Exotic Interlude is a mature work, slow brewed. I feel I’ve heard it all in a dream, it's familiar but utterly strange. It might be words engaging me, emotions I can empathize with, uncomfortably honest, sweetened by being set amongst gardens of glowing music. The music is both ethereal yet earthy, with heavy use of acoustic timbres, swarms of coloured percussion, bulbous synths and fresh use of languid Hawaiian guitar. A timeless English summer of a record.

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