Picture This!

Dropping in ma inbox this week is the awesome Detroit native Kerry Dixon Jr's EP 'Picture This'.  8 tracks of exclusive motor city magic from Future jazz, soul/gospel-tinged house, techno and deep disco delights! free download courtesy Of ScionAudioVisual.

 Just drop your email in for a must grab!!

1.9 nights 2 nowhere 

2.Basement party 

3.Saturday at the rock 

4.U ranaway 

5.Pray 4 love 

6.Hold it down 

7.Got 2 make it 

8. Got to make it (dub)

I should KOKO

Tune of the week outta
Copenhagen, Denmark. Skippy big band jazz sampled coolness from Kari Guðmundsson aka. HYPNO...Luv it!

Tracklist
A.KOKO
B.Analies
TEAL002

Available - boomkat/juno//chemical/redeye/digital-tunes

LoveKontrol

As you can imagine with a new arrival in da house and her settling into her rhythm, i was a little busy over the weekend....and getting all mushy over her. Anyway enuff of my family bliss and back to some tune bliss!!

Kyle Hall's "The Perfekt Sin" 12" is only the second release on his own Wild Oats imprint and already the young man, he's only 18 is receiving much critical acclaim.. Schooled in the art of the deepest Detroit house tradition by mentors Rick Wilhite (Three Chairs) and Mike Huckaby, Hall’s productions look resolutely forward and refuse to be constrained by the established formulas of the genre. No matter what style of music he tries his hand at, he always leaves his own singular imprint..So good tings a gwan from the lad...A new production for hyperdub is coming soon well worth checking out.




A. Bsmnt City Anymle Kontrol - The Perfekt Sin
B1. Love Kontrol
B2. OatnOut
WO002

Available from juno

Those Strings Of Life

(Photo courtesy of leftlion)

The second track from the Detroit Dons is Derrick May's original 1987 masterpiece "Strings Of Life" Given a proper Latin/Jazz workout by London's own Funky lowlives breathing another life into the awesome classic with a splendid piano-led luscious percussive groove...Originally dropping on the Defected label back in 2005 and still sounding tuff!




A1. Strings Of Life (Stronger On My Own- Full Length Vocal)
AA1. Strings Of Life (Danny Krivit Re-Edit)
AA2. Strings Of Life (Funky Lowlives Mix)
DFTD094

It's A Good Life!

A couple of Latinesque/Future Jazz versions of all time House/Techno classics this week. Kicking off with a favorite of Detroit innovator Kevin Saunderson to close out his sets, of 'cause it would be the original was his. Kaori's "Good Life" version has stayed in the record boxes of numerous respected DJ's worldwide. Dropping in 2002 on Disorient a sub-label of the UK's mrbongo records, first thought to be an illegal remix but was a reworking by Berlin Techno dj/producer Thomas Schumacher, who had been dropped a demo tape by Kaori a well known Japanese vocalist while on a trip to the far east and he jumped at the opportunity to use Kaori's vocals to produce this cover of the legendary club anthem....still lovin' this!





1. Good Life (Good Vocal Mix)
2. Good Life (Instrumental Life Mix)
SUSHI35

Available on iTunes

Vertigo

Back in 2001 (before i moved over here,) I came to Japan at the request of the Audio Sutra record label (can`t believe it`s nearly 10 years already) who had organised a 5 city "make love not war tour" taking in Tokyo/Hiroshima/Kumamoto/Okinawa/Sapporo...During that tour there was one beautiful piece of sublime wax that was undoubtedly the "tune of the tour"

Dropped into the mix by that prodigious DJ/Producer Ian Simmonds who accompanied and headlined the tour. Stacey Pullen`s "Vertigo" a tune once heard loud over a quality sound system, bristled your emotional responses big-time. With the angelic-style female vocals over a deep bruken beat & hypnotic landscape of strings, the resulting sonic soundscape is powerful yet delicate.
(Pullen's claim that it reduced one listener to tears in the studio)
Is something i can attest to, i saw many a watery eye on that tour after this tune was dropped.

(big props to my man @ innersounds who dug up a copy for me)

Stacey Pullen - Vertigo



Tracklist:
A. Vertigo
B. Vertigo (4 Hero Remix)
QEDT9X

November

From the ex-London street buskers Portico Quartet over 7 minutes of pure blissful world jazz hang drum sounds...enjoy!

Portico Quartet - november



PODCAST- The lads discussing the music on the black & white sessions.

Check out there new Lp "Isla" on Real World

Golden Dream

In a vintage soundtrack studio somewhere in Paris previously inhabited by the likes of Nina Simone and Serge Gainsbourg and many others.
Mocky that chameleon-like cult figure of leftfield music, multi-instrumentalist playing drums, bass, rhodes, piano, guitar, percussion, bells, recorder, vocals, whistle, organ and toys as well as writing the string arrangements, produces a new future jazz/imaginary soundtrack/retro classic, that must be heard.
Equally soothing for the winter months or basking on sun drenched beaches..enjoy!

Mocky - golden dream



"The Mockumentary" seeks to illuminate the conspiracy theories surrounding the musical identity of Mocky!.....



Tracklisting:
1. Music To My Ears
2. Little Journey
3. Birds Of A Feather
4. Golden Dream
5. Chubby Cheeks
6. Guiding Light
7. Saskamodie
8. Somehow Someway
9. Jiinti
10. Music To My Ears (Reprise)
11. Sleepy Time
12. For Pepecito
CRAM140

"It's an exceptionally musical album-- there's no other word for it-- that could fail to seduce only the hardest of hearing, or the hardest of hearts."
Pitchfork

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Wet Look

Lush new music from Joy Orbison on Hotflush recordings.Future Jazzy techno at its best...niceeee!



Tracklist:
A. Hyph Mngo
B. Wet Look
HFT009

Available on Beatport