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Minoru ‘Hoodoo’ Fushimi is Left Ear Records 25th release – ‘Hakodate Lady’ mutates Japanese enka genre into darker and abstract versions – a fitting celebration for a wonderfully diverse label
We love Minoru Fushimi and his unique approach to music in the early 1980s – check out his interview with us after his In Praise of Mitochondria compilation was released in 2017 on Left Ear Records – now his catalogue is being revisited for the 25th release on this fantastic label, with a special 7″,…
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Russian producer Wulffluw XCIV makes music from the heart of Uganda to body moving and mind bending effect – debut album via Nyege Nyege Tapes imprint, Hakuna Kulala – it’s another fantastic fusion born in Kampala
Russian producer Wulffluw XCIV releases on Hakuna Kulala – an imprint of the mind blowing label, Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Tapes. Wulffluw XCIV moves between industrial music, EBM techno, dembow rhythms, kuduro, gqom and cyberpunk. It’s out on October 30th. This debut album was started during his residency at Nyege Nyege Studios in Kampala, Uganda’s capital,…
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Ammar El Sherei’s ‘Oriental Music’ is the latest revive by Wewantsounds – the iconic musician and composer revisits six classic compositions by another Egyptian legend, Mohamed Abdel Wahab
This is a fantastic example of the mastery and invention within Egyptian music, with the soon to be reissued Oriental Music by Ammar El Sherei – Wewantsounds are making this cult collectors piece available again on vinyl, for the first time since its 1976 release. Using early electronic keyboards like the Steelphon S900 or the…
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LISTEN: industrial chuggers – weird vibrations – strange clonks – dark ambient – unclassical – other people’s experiments – drone – it’s the World Treasures Music Light Sounds Dark periodic review
Another one of our favourite labels – Light Sounds Dark – here’s a mix of some recent highlights. Anyone know anything about them? Get in touch, would love to hear your theories.
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Asha Pulthi’s debut is reissued by Mr Bongo (with more to come) the Indian singer-songwriter made Loft classics, was sampled by Jay Z, 50 Cent, The Notorious B.I.G. and worked with Ornette Coleman and Goblin
Asha Pulthi’s self-titled album from 1973 gets the deserved reissue treatment from Mr Bongo. This Indian singer-songwriter creates majestic music that transcended various places – from proper NY discos, to hip collections worldwide – her repetoire drenched in blues, funk, soul, exotica, jazz and much more. Mr Bongo puts it better below and they’ve even…
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Gabrielle Roth’s ecstatic dance was at the fore of the Human Potential and New Age movements – now reframed by the Time Capsule label on ‘Endless Wave Volume One’ – it’s a movement meditative masterpiece
Gabrielle Roth was a classically trained dancer and her 5Rhythms – her method of an ancient shamanic technique of ecstatic dance – created a globally recognised movement meditation practice and it has been lovingly reissued on Time Capsule’s Endless Wave Volume One. The label is at the fore of producing audiophile quality vinyl releases that…
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Tvii Son’s new album for MIC Records crafts sublime sonic forces with a modern ooze of glorious post-punk on this sensational debut – hear dubwise production merge with electro and attitude, via Berlin and Ukraine
A sure contender for best album of this bizarre year, Tvii Son’s self-titled album on MIC Records is a dubwise document of dreamily jangly post-punk melancholly and sublime, effortless industrialised funk. Tracks such as Out Of Vogue and Am I conjure the spirit of the NY underground or Sheffield’s best – alongside interludes of tight,…
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‘Suzie Super Groupie’ from 1976 is one of Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison’s masterpieces, an inspiration for DJs and hip hop producers – the much sampled father of funk is reissued by Be With Records
Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison released his third solo LP, Suzie Super Groupie, in 1976 and is yet another essential album reissue from Be With Records this month. The killer Suzie Thundertussy is a favourite of taste makers like DJ Harvey, Theo Parrish and was brilliantly sampled by Madlib for Kanye West’s No More Parties In LA.…
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