The Bubble, Tel-Aviv's nickname, is now the Middle-East funkiest place to be! The music scene over there is bursting with infectious grooves, matching reggae, afro, oriental and hip hop beats, as a whole bunch of bands and artists ranging from Boom Pam, DJ Sabbo, Kutiman, The Apples, Karolina Avratz… to The Ramirez Brothers jam band, have emerged as a funk movement. Here's a taste of all these 'Bubble' grooves, melting soul horns, kinky surf guitars, crazy turntablism... but no falafel!

Kinny - Can't Kill A Dame With Soul
(CD/Digital) Tru Thoughts TRU241, 2012-02-06

Kinny is coming back with a new album entitled Can't Kill A Dame With Soul, released february 6th 2012 on Tru Thoughts, with a digital single released previously early december 2011. The producers are Soul Drop, who co-wrote Water for Chocolate and Idle Forest of Chitchat on her previous album. They're a trio of DJs/producers consisting of Even Brenna, Teddy Touch and Pål Myran-Håland.
We haven't received this album so can't tell you if it's bad or good sorry.
Listen to Big Fat Liar, the new single, in our latest mix Paris DJs Soundsystem - Bag of Goodies Vol.4

Adam Scrimshire
(Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau, for Paris DJs - February 2012)

Maybe you're not familiar with the name of Scrimshire. No, it's not the name of a hidden british county (even if it could have been), but a new and young talented multi-instrumentalist from Rugby, England. Adam Scrimshire released a first and advisable record in 2009, Along Came The Devil One Night (Wah Wah 45s). A cliché says that a second album is dicey, but Scrimshire has transformed this so-called trap in a superb achievement with The Hollow. We can understand, at a glance to the gorgeous art cover and perfect typography, that he is a man of great taste, a craftsman who loves working detail in every aspect. The record starts with A Promise Is All It Was, a virtual one-man-band track where Scrimshire plays and sings every single note, and it ends without him: on the eponymous and final track, he's vanished and leaved harpist Rachael Gladwin (Matt Halsall and Nat Birchall's longtime collaborator) alone. She draws indeed a moving epilogue and makes us think that maybe The Hollow is a metaphor of disappearance and vanishing souvenir itself. This is one of the surprises of a subtile and mutiple record that welcomes folk, soul, spiritual jazz, afrobeat, malian splinters and fine electronica in one single flow, with a predilection for the female voices (Heidi Vogel and her Nina Simonesque tone, the warm gospel of Stac...). Fans of The Cinematic Orchestra, Nostalgia 77 or José James will love the exquisite fusion delicacy of The Hollow for sure. Adam tells us how he imagined it and, as one of the Wah Wah 45s' label owners, evokes the label's latest news and the music industry.