mixtape - 3B

A recent mixup showcasing the amount of great music available as free downloads (some blogged some not) from heavyweight labels such as Ninja Tune, XL & Japan's 7even Recordings to NeT labels, Cut, Echodub & Abaga...nJoy!

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Seeds

The highly anticipated LP by Georgia Anne Muldrow is about to drop on the 27th courtesy of SomeOthaShip Connect  and the first full length project produced by the Beat Konducta Sensei: Madlib.
 We've been busting the title single since it's release in February and never tire of it...It just Pops in all the right places and as GAM says herself  'It's a diss record to that ugly corporation Monsanto, about seeds, children and contemplating the future'   Right Onn!

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CD/LP/Digital Album Release Date: March 27, 2012

The Blues (It Began In Africa)

Brand new from the Black Acre label by Romare on a spiritual jazz tip with a deep 4x4 bass riff, that's building a bridge between the tradition sound palette of Africa and Future dance rhythms....Recommend!

A1 Freedom (Aspirations Of A Prisoner)

A2 The Blues (It Began In Africa)

B3 Down The Line (It Takes A Number)

B4 I Wanna Go (Turn Back) 

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Available here - boomkat/piccadilly/juno/zero-inch

 Check out Romare's year collecting samples and working on his concept.

 

Kinshasa Superbad

Following on from the DRC Music  Kinshasa 1.2 concept LP dropped last year by Damon Albarn, Warp Records  & Oxfam, there now comes a new musical documentary 'Congotronics vs. Rockers' an evolving cast of 10 Congolese musicians and 10 members of various indie-rock bands who've come together to record and play live gigs across the world. Filmmaker Pierre Laffargue has chronicled the Superband - which includes members of Konono N°1, Deerhoof, and Wildbirds &  Peacedrums plus Juana Molina and others..A project conceived by Marc Hollander and Vincent Kenis from Crammed Discs in Belgium.Here's the first glimpse of the promo Reel.

Here you check out the Congolese members of the live group on their way to last years Fuji Rock festival in Naeba, Japan.

Legacy!!

A superb 2004 remix of the original Blood Brothers Pressure Drop aka Justin Langlands & Dave Henley track given the propa treatment by the unmistakable Paul (leftfield) Daley...Dark and subtle with an awesome bass...Also worth checking out by the Pressure Drop boyz is their RedbullRadio Train Wreck Mix

Global Rotation

A delicious double mix of an unreleased compilation mix CD that never saw the light of day due to unforeseen circumstances the release was shelved until now! The Global Cowboy, DJ Pathaan as you will know from our posts of his World Peace Mix and his Ibiza Playlist mix is an old cohort of this blog and has just uploaded these mixes so we can all enjoy what we originally missed..The first mix would have been CD1 and entitled 'Love Throughout The World' and the second mix CD2 would have been entitled 'Dancing To A Different Drum’. On these mixes he perfectly showcases his early musical stylings prior to 9.11, When he had a monthly residency in NYC for 2 years...Originally to have been released on Danish label Music For Dreams. Quality music from a pioneering DJ....Enjoy!

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Kinshasa 1.2

Looking forward to this dropping in October via Warp records Kinshasa One Two is a collection of Congolese artists brought together by Damon Albarn all to benefit Oxfam and recorded in just 5 days with 11 producers adding their unique talents. Ordered mine...Awesome stuff!

Pre-Order all profits go to Oxfam's work with DRC musicians.

Beat Submission Compilation

The first volume of tracks from the project we blogged about earlier, which feature producers who use Roy Ayers’ catalog to make original beats has been released as a free download...Get on it!

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Playlist mix

Fresh out from my old mate Pathaan a cool summer Ibiza playlist of his recent favorite balearic tunes. Essential beach lounging headphone vibes...Njoy!



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6mix

Another Xcellent mix i heard yesterday by DJ, Producer and US techno music icon Carl Craig who takes over the 6 Mix. The best known of the second wave of electronic producers from Detroit in the early '90's, Craig took his cues from the likes of Derrick May and Jeff Mills, fusing their pioneering sounds with a more experimental, jazzy soundscape.....check this ASAP....you got only 11 days left. Essential!

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World Peace Mix

As another 6.5 Earthjolt hits Japan this morning over breakfast and a blogpost, it's a good time to let you know about an old cohort of mine who has just dropped an Xclusive mix from back in 2002 on GenBass. I first meet Pathaan when he used to come into my record shop and bug me silly for new tunes with his unmistakable signature of world globetronic sounds that set off a very dear friendship with him. Together we started a club night AUDIO SUTRA @ the famous central LDN cavern called Bar Rhumba in the late '90's, with such legends of the dance music scene as Pressure Drop, Howie B, Paul Daley (leftfield), Tsuyoshi Suzuki & record shop co-founder Pete Herbert.

Pathaan says about the mix;

I’m not a politician but am human and sickened by the current world affairs.......... During a time of religious conflict, war, oppression, famine and racism etc etc, can music change & influence man ? I BELIEVE IT CAN !!! So here begins a story I feel I must share and a mix for you to download. Just under a decade ago, as a mark of respect and to acknowledge in my own way the 1st anniversary of 9/11, this was a 'Stoned Asia Music' priority release in Sept' 2002 that was never released in this form. The reason being, a few of the distributors felt nervous about the tracklisting especially the 1st track and the point I was trying to make through the music !!

So sit back and allow me to take you, ‘back to the future’ on one of my musical voyages around the globe – From September 2002, 15 EXCLUSIVE & HARD TO FIND tranquil productions from artists around the globe....Smiles & Hugs !!! Pathaan x