We’re kicking off September in a massive way with a world premiere from London-based multi-instrumentalist/DJ/producer Ziggy Funk.
Brandishing a musical signature influenced by soul, jazz, hip-hop and blues, we’re thrilled to present the rousing title track from the U.K. talent’s upcoming Brondesbury Park EP.
Set for release on September 3 via BBE Music, the party-perfect track is a funky melange of undulating Afrobeat grooves peppered with elements of Latin and broken beat. Horn lines float atop shuffling drum beats that’ll make you want to move your waistline to the bassline.
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Since their formation in the late ’80s, left-leaning industrial band Consolidated has used their music to serve as a platform to speak out about a wealth of societal issues, including corporate greed, fascism, homophobia, animal rights and ethnocentrism. Much of what they discussed on 1991’s landmark album Friendly Fa$cism sadly came to the forefront under America’s 45th president.
After the release of their most recent full-length album, We’re Already There, comes a remix album issued today via Austin-based eMERGENCY heARTS.
We’re thrilled to world premiere the remix of “Musica Sin Fronteras” crafted by Chicago’s woman-led electronic duo R34L. Like every note Consolidated has played during their lengthy career, their hard-hitting interpretation pulls no punches.
After last year’s release of Nostalgia: Beats of 2008 – 2020, revered Canadian producer Beatchild (f.k.a. Slakah The Beatchild) is back with the red-hot Unselfish Desire EP out August 13 on BBE Music.
We’re over the moon to world premiere “Adapting” from the six-song release, a song featuring a quixotic blend of folky fingerpicking, euphoric disco strings and soulful vocals.
“‘Adapting’ is a song about false progress,” explains Beatchild (a.k.a. Byram Joseph) of the breezy summertime track.
“The music is a never-ending loop that feels like progression in how it moves from joy to sadness and back again. It’s the perfect paradox musically and I wanted the lyrics to mirror the feeling I got from the music.”
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As the heartbreak of the past 15 months lingers in our collective consciousness, it’s heartening to see a creative finding their voice.
Since the start of the year, Iranian-born producer/multi-instrumentalist/musical journeyman Reza Safinia, who was raised in London and lives in Los Angeles, scored HBO Max’s Warrior and presented his piano-driven, neo-classical album, Yin. On July 16, Reza will issue Yin’s electronic-fueled companion, Yang, on his Music & Texture label.
Ahead of the album’s release, we’re thrilled to world premiere “Vitruvian” from the 11-track affair. It’s an epic, bittersweet instrumental filled with crashing waves of heavenly pads and hellish atmospheric synth melodies. Reza orchestrates the melancholy cut to conclude on a tense and rousing crescendo. In the end, you’re left emotionally spent with your body racing with adrenaline, almost as if you’ve just stepped off a wild rollercoaster ride. Trust us when we say that this is peak-hour fodder for one of Acid Pauli’s shamanistic DJ sets.
Reza had this to say about the song: “Vitruvius was an architect who had ideas about sacred ratios in design that were made famous by Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing ‘The Vitruvian Man,’ the image of the man in a circle showing the proportionality of his limbs. I was thinking about that design in all of nature when I wrote this track. It was the second track I recorded on the album and it defined a lot of the areas I was going to explore in the other tracks.”
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