Bombay Connection

OK so I just found out about this and was instantly desperate to hear it, a fascinating musical relic from 80s Bombay that was so far ahead of it's time it's hard to believe...

This will blow your mind!

"Until recently it wasn’t much more than some rumours on the web: a 1982 released LP called TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT containing Kraftwerk-like acid house music, years before the genre was invented...

So it turns out, the record was no rumour. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define Acid House, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh, set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so seems to have invented House music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive."

Taken from www.bombay-connection.com

Buy it HERE!

Kerry Devine ~ It's Morning

Beautiful song! From her forthcoming album out soon on Drip Dry Productions...

South African Rhythm Riot

The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Volume 6 is a brilliant foray into the 80s and 90s birth of electronic music in South Africa, known as kwaito. Featuring brilliantly retro sounds combined with traditional African beat patterns and instrumentation this is a fascinating and catchy album that features such Kwaito legens as Arthur Mafokate and Brenda Fassie. There is many a tune! Download download download!

Here as a taster is a couple of videos from youtube that feature on the album. The first, in addition to being terrible quality (sorry), is by Brenda Fassie, one of Africa's brightest stars. This song is wonderful! She tragically died in 2004 aged only 39.

Next up is the huge hit Oyi Oyi by Arthur Mafokate, while british teenagers were dancing to Spice girls and Blur, this guy had the hits in S.Africa. Still going strong today!

Micachu - Backchatter

Here's a little choon I've been bouncing in my seat to for the last hour and a half. It's taken from the Filthy Friends Mixtape that Micachu released awhile back via the internet and features a sample from Toddla T's track "Rice and Peas"

It's had me clicking repeat for some time now, I flippin well love it! Download it here!

Also I highly recommend getting the full mixtape as it is a glorious messy noisy celebration of Londonsounds! ( download it here)

Crookers + Roisin Murphy = ROYALTY

Ok ok ok, Crookers release their long awaited debut full length LP on Monday and if only half the tracks are as mighty as this one then it's definitely gonna be a winner. Roisin Murphy has long been in collaboration with the Crooks and one gets the feeling they always save their best for her, so feast your ears on this...

Crookers & Roisin Muprhy ~ "Royal T"



PS ; I have no idea what this image is about, I just googled Royal T and this is first thing that came up, it's strangely appropriate...

Have One On Me

Joanna Newsom is by far one of the most exciting and talented artists to have emerged in the last decade. Her debut The Milk-Eyed Mender was a heart stopping collection of songs that sounded like the oldest folk tales passed down from generations ago, yet at the same time sounded totally new and unlike anything else you had ever heard. She followed it up with the bewilderingly complex Ys, an album which required a lot of work from the listener in this age of 3 minute radio edits, and the equally labyrinthine Ys Street Band EP. But for the avid music fan who has the patience to sit down and immerse themselves in an album, there were bountiful rewards to be reaped.
The same goes for her new album, a stunning collection of songs that is spread over three beautifully presented discs. There is over two hours of music here and most of the songs are between 6 and 10 minutes long, but having been listening to it all day I can safely say the desire to skip tracks is non-existent. Not that skipping tracks or dipping in and out would take away from your enjoyment, because as with Ys this is a long term relationship of an album. It's going to take several weeks, maybe even months before I've unlocked all of its treasures.

And as a taster for those not yet acquainted, here is the song Go Long, which have had on repeat for awhile now, to download for free
(click here!)