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Melchior Production LTD – Alpha and Omega – My King Is Light
Whispered by the sagely ghost of a poetic past both of these soulful new productions from Melchior aim high while digging deep into the process of being. The Feeling version serves effortlessly cool beats, bass and generosity of spirit that quenches the quest for knowledge as it drives forward into blissful refrains. Having said that,…
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Adrian Mart & Markyno – Dividing Air – Our House
Diving headlong into a world undulating pads, brisk drums and all-round summer vibes this latest production from Adrian Mart & Markyno sounds warmly inviting. Although, perhaps the height of the arrangement is reached at the breakdown as vocoder voices wash over cool keys while letting your imagination run riot. Release: August 5https://www.facebook.com/adrian.mart.sound1988https://www.facebook.com/markynodjofficialpagehttps://www.facebook.com/ourhousegroup/
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Ricardo Villalobos Samuel Rohrer – Microgestures – Arjunamusic Records
Collaborating between the words fervent, experimental and funk comes this expression of sheer intoxication speaking an impulsive electronic language much more readily than it does of anything resembling the values of traditional music. Yet by the time Helix 7 reaches midpoint, circa five minutes, you are intimately involved with its burst of defiant energy, offset…
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Money In My Pocket – The Joe Gibbs Singles Collection 1972-1973 – Doctor Bird
I meant to review this before its release, must have been distracted by unseasonal sunshine here in the UK. It’s a real pleasure to listen to this collection of Jamaican sounds spanning 1972-1973 produced by the legendary Joe Gibbs well before his masterpiece Chapter Three. Still containing that cutting skank from Ska the brew of…
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The Trammps: Burn Baby Burn – Disco Inferno – The Trammps Albums 1975-1980 – Robinsongs
If you’re going to do a boxset then do it right, make it big. Totalling eight discs charting their album releases over the course of 1975 to 1980 this pays testament to the enduring legacy of the band in the national consciousness. While the final album Stepping Out succumbs to the schmaltz and musical clique…
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Morgen Wurde & Tis – Wacht – Werra Foxma Records
Wacht approaches you like a wave of uncertainty crashing across the wash of stereo in unpredictable, unnerving patterns. If the drums weren’t there to provide guidance, to anchor the unearthly nature of it all, it would feel very much free of form with a life defining its own determination. While the compelling list of sounds…
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Afterlife – Medicine Man – Subatomic
Beginning with an evocative splash of delayed reverberation time rapidly expands into the New Year as hopes, dreams along with a selection of desires tempt the mind. Once again Afterlife finely tune organic strains of music into likeminded thinking, this time round enveloping you in life reassuring instrumentation by replacing the clouds outside with a…
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Afterlife – Bluedog – Subatomic
Chasing your own tail can be a distinctive, timely occupation that many of us will be familiar with. The by-product of some ancient tradition or due to more contemporary stresses and strains, either way if it’s good enough for dogs then why not humans. This latest number in the sequence sees Afterlife exercises the ghost…
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aAirial – As Above So Below – Rednetic
Simplicity in the complexity of the here and now isn’t always an easy piece of the jigsaw to capture but this combination of introspective impulses alongside a blissfully unaware uplift seeks out those corners in abundance. The sounds themselves sculpt moods that are as old as you may feel referencing a history of electronics that…