http://www.myspace.com/josejamesquartet
http://www.labellevilloise.com/programmation.htm

No tracklisting available.

for any comment or booking contact me @ dudizm@gmail.com

The World-Psych Masterpiece from the Whitefield Brothers – featuring Edan, Mr. Lif, Quantic, Percee P, MED, Bajka and members of the Dap Kings, Poets of Rhythm, El Michels Affair.

Earthology is the long awaited follow up to The Whitefield Brothers cult-classic In The Raw 9 years ago. While In The Raw’s hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk music was grounded in the great musical traditions of both America and Africa, Earthology finds the Brothers infusing their funk (or, as the Brothers prefer it, “raw soul”) with musical traditions that span the globe.

To achieve the Earthology’s unique sound, the Brothers employed an array of instruments and put in a dizzying amount of research – traveling the world, joining different bands and ethnic performing ensembles, amassing and absorbing field recordings, trawling used record bins for lost examples of global psychedelic-fusion – over a period spanning some fifteen years. Like In The Raw, Earthology is grounded by a “raw soul” band’s building blocks – drums, guitar, bass, keys and horns – but it is augmented by such exotic instruments as gongs and flutes from Asia, xylophones and string instruments from Africa and Central American percussion instruments.

The use of African polyrhythms now seems commonplace on a funk or psych album; Arabic rhythmical structures, African pentatonic scales and Oriental modes do not. The Whitefield Brothers – and a multitude of guest ranging from vocalists Edan, Mr. Lif, Bajka, Percee P and MED to musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Quantic and the Dap-Kings – set these elements in a modern context and, over the course of thirteen, dense tracks, blend them with the fierce funk their fans have grown to love.

The Whitefield Brothers will be in concert @ LA BELLEVILLOISE March the 11th at 8pm / 25€.
More details http://www.labellevilloise.com/programmation.htm

The Warm up will be performed by DJOULS member of the excellent Paris DJs crew and recently running the new records Shop  SUPERFLY RECORDS (with Manu Boubli and Paulo ‘Superfly’) in Paris ! Expect a special Digger selection!   http://www.parisdjs.com/

1 – Minos Pour Main Basse – Tout Doit Disparaitre
2 – Fresh & Low – No Going Back
3 – Global Communication – The Way (Secret Ingredients)
4 – Nick Bump – Red Brick
5 – S.D.A – Vous etes un arbre
6 – Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen – Forever Monna
7 – Jihad Muhammad – Melt In You (Mr V Sole Channel Inst)
8 – Blackbelt Andersen – Kuv Av Stal
9 – Furry Phreaks (Herbert Remix) – Charles Webster
10 – Big Moses Feat Ja’Nel – Tokyo Black Star Dub
11 – At Jazz – Bless The Funk
12 – Noel Nanton – Things Are Changing
13 – Incognito – Reach Out (Alex Attias Straight Funk Dub Version)
14 – Ananda project – Breaking Down (Red Square’s Project)

Check out his excellent music Blog here : http://db1233inthemix.blogspot.com/

No tracklisting available.

Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls is the collaborative project of esteemed sound scientists Money Mark, ShawnLee, and Tommy Guerrero. In the winter of 2008 they locked themselves away in Money Mark’s Los Angeles-based studio. A tasty three-way meeting of the minds resulted in this funk-inflicted collection of beats n’ breaks, wrapped-up in a sunny West Coast musical tortilla that’s smothered in as much jazz and prog-rock as it is in soulful psychedelia.

The opening track on Lord Newborn & the Magic Skulls’ self-titled album on Ubiquity tells you everything you need to know. « A Phase Shifter I’m Going Through » features slippery, bluesy, psychedelic electric guitar, a bubbling, repetitive bassline playing 12-bar blues, and shimmering hi-hats and snares — all wrapped in a loose groove that might have been an outtake from Jimi Hendrix’s « Rainy Day, Dream Away. » Voices hum along in harmony, and the entire track just slithers and adds to itself with the sound of sampled sitars, fuzzed-out guitar, more percussion, and breakbeats, while never losing its groove. Lord Newborn & the Magic Skulls are the studio collaboration between Shawn Lee,Money Mark, and Tommy Guerrero. Together they’ve responded to Ubiquity’s penchant for psych-drivenbeats and grooves and come up with a messed-up, acid-drenched, rhythm-heavy mosaic of sounds, textures, open spaces, and EFX. The grooves are deep and dubby — reminiscent of some of Lee’s work with Clutchy Hopkins and his own middle-period recordings.

Money Mark’s killer instrumental work is very similar to the stuff he did for Mo’ Wax. And what can you say about former skateboard champ turned rocker Tommy Guerrero? The instrumental work here resembles — at least texturally — his Soul Food Tacqueria album. Soul-jazz and early soul-esque funk are all wrapped up and layered inside the rockist stance. The set’s best cuts are the opener, the beautifully woven « Rainy Day Dog » (check out those flute sounds), the completely flipped-out and acid-inspired « L.I.V.E, » and the dubby funk of « Ancient Scrolls. » Hopefully this isn’t a one-off and these cats can find time to work together again; while what’s here is deeply satisfying, the possibilities they introduce on this set are nearly limitless.

Tracklist:

01. A Phase Shifter I’m Going Through
02. Astro Blue
03. Dime Bag Conspiracy
04. Escape From Prism
05. Disco Loco
06. Rainy Day Dog
07. That’s Right (It’s Time To Get Down)
08. She’s My Melody
09. Ringa Ding Ding Ding
10. L.I.V.E.
11. Revenge Of The Fillet O’Fish
12. Ancient Scrolls
13. Crazy Apartment

Check out the video for « A Phase Shifter I’m Going Through » which is a bit of a slacker parody of Kutiman’s still-mindbending « The Mother of All Funk Chords ». For those who knows, in the video, you ‘ll also recognize some musicians such as Daedelus playing instruments. Check it out!

http://www.myspace.com/lordnewborn

http://www.ubiquityrecords.com

The follow-up to his inspired 2007 debut LP, Working Nights, sees the Mancunian producer and Prime Numbers honcho Trus’me revamping his lively synthesis of soul, disco, funk and house with a newly organic feel that largely eschews samples in favor of live instrumentation and a host of guest vocalists including the likes of Paul Randolph, Pirahnahead, Dâm Funk and Amp Fiddler. In the Red manages to show off the scope of Trus’me’s talent in a mere eight tracks.

For futher information

http://www.myspace.com/trusme

When he and SoulPhiction met again last year during the Philpot Tour in Japan, co-operation was affirmed and tracks were committed. Two of those funky nuggets are released, one coming with a brilliant SoulPhiction remix treatment. Check out ‘Mo’ Roots’, his last EP.
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/61603

If you like Moodymann, Théo Parrish, Move D, Soulphiction, Trus’me, Linkwood, Losoul among lot others, you may have a big time listening to Radiq.

« 1968 I » from the album’People’ (2009)

http://yoshihirohanno.com/
http://www.myspace.com/radiq

Discography @ http://www.discogs.com/artist/RADIQ

Signed to Ninja Tune, but on Tru Thoughts for a one off compilation, jazz, electro, hip hop, house, Latin heat and of course, bass. As any avid follower will know, the Zero dBoys, Chris Vogado and Neil Combstock, have been keeping busy at the cutting edge since the release of their seminal ‘Bongos, Beeps & Basslines’ (Ninja Tune), making killer club music under various monikers, and packing out dance floors with DJ sets in some of the biggest clubs and best sound systems known to man, including Plastic People and Japan’s Club Yellow. Vogado, now living in Barcelona, runs the boutique Fluid Ounce label from his legendary Fl. Oz. Studios, and Combstock has also seen his muse lead him round the globe, living, DJing and making music variously in Japan and Thailand among other places.

Tracklisting no available but this mix is mainly made of tunes from the compilation. So we strongly recommend you to get the Double Cd One Offs, Remixes and B Sides.

Strut will be releasing the first all new Internationally released solo album from Mulatu Astatke in over 20 years.  Mulatu Steps Ahead explores new directions in fusions of Western jazz with Ethiopian modes, moving forward the pioneering sound Mulatu developed during the ‘60s and ‘70s, showcased on the anthology New York – Addis – London. For the new album, tracks were recorded with members of Either/Orchestra in Boston, with contributions by traditional Ethiopian musicians in Addis, members of The Heliocentrics and some of the UK’s leading jazz and African players during the final sessions in London in November 2009.

Mulatu will be touring the album from March 2010 globally, interspersed with dates with The Heliocentrics.  Streaming audio and info will be available soon at www.mulatu-steps-ahead.com

Strut records website : www.strut-records.com

Tracklist:

01 Radcliffe
02 Green Africa
04 The Way to Nice
04 Assosa
05 I Faram Gami I Faram
06 Mulatu’s Mood
07 Ethio Blues
08 Boogaloo
09 Motherland
10 Derashe *

* Digital-only bonus track