“A person cannot understand the art they are studying if they only look for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.”
– Miyamoto Musashi
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released November 2, 2021
Music by soundcloud.com/muadeepmusic
Art by instagram.com/therealmueseum
Mastering by fixedmastering.com
On his latest release, Bon-Psy promotes empowerment of the mind, or at the very least, the notion that we all have the ability to control our own negative thoughts.
Cursed Life begins in a bleak state of affairs, murky pianos fill the space whilst a poignant commentary details the mental challenges people face in their adolescence. With this, Bon-Psy sets the scene, and provides insight into his own circumstances growing up.
As the track progresses, we are exposed to a variety of moods and styles. Bon-Psy navigates this gloomy world he has manifested, exploring its depths and finding glimmers of hope intertwined with jazz infused Electronica.
The closing stages of Cursed Life suggest a newfound sense of power. The once disheartening commentary now appears imbued with a fighting spirit, suggesting to the listener that they have the power within themselves to control and appease the mental anguish that plagues them.
“Many times in my life I have felt cursed. On my worst days, the mental anguish of just being a human, and the trials and tribulations associated with it feel like too much of a burden to bear. At some point in our lives we are all destined for a degree of extreme hardship, sadness, depression, anxiety, death or despair, and it can appear at times that as humans we really are cursed in that sense. We find ourselves lost in these states, and digging ourselves out of that hole is a task too big and monstrous to even begin contemplating. But Whilst the world can be daunting and cold beyond measure, you as an individual have the facilities and resources to make your life better. You can get yourself out of those states if you do everything within your power to do so. Take control, move towards a better existence, as there’s something to be said, to know that you’re the sort of creature that can look mortality and catastrophe straight in the eye, and nonetheless, stand up.”
Radio support by
* Los Ultrasonicos on Radio Nacional de España in Madrid (ESP)
* The Good, The Dub, The Global on RRR in Melbourne (AUS)
* In The Pocket on The Face Radio in Brooklyn, NYC (USA)
* Afro Base on Totally Radio in London (UK)
* Radio UEL FM (BRA), Totally Wired Radio (UK), Avopolis Radio (GRC), Soul Power Radio (UK), Radio Alhara (PAL), …
21 tracks for 2021. For the second year in a row, Mukambo and NYP Records team up to prove the global afrobeat scene is more alive than ever! 21 bands from the four corners of the earth, bringing their own blend of afrobeat to pay tribute to the Black President Fela Kuti and maestro drummer Tony Allen.
From Nigerian artists in the diaspora like Femi Koya (South Africa), Dele Sosimi (UK), or Okwei Odili (Brazil) to bands really creating their own sound like the Japanese afrobeat rockers Stepak-Takraw or Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos (Venezuela/UK),
‘Mukambo presents Global Afrobeat Movement Volume 2’ proves that #AfrobeatNoGoDie !
Since Fela passed away, France has been one of the main afrobeat producers. Emil Abossolo Mbo, Jumbo System and Break Ya Bones Afrobeat Orchestra make sure #felaliveson in France while this compilation also desires to pay tribute to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry through a dub mix of a track by The Anthronauts from Switzerland. Eastern Europe is slowly showing up on the Global Afrobeat Map and with The Mabon Dawud Republic from Hungary that process is accelerating. Germany also tries to get its share of the pie with Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble from Cologne and Renegades of Jazz remixing a track by Haitch & Rhabdomantic Orchestra.
Latin America really discovered afrobeat the past few years, this compilation highlights Luka Afrobeat Orquesta and Afro Iná from Argentina, He K Tombe from Mexico and Tabó Afrobeat from Uruguay. Àbáse from Hungary smoothly bridges the gap between the Nigerian and Brazilian yoruba cultures.
The compilation finished strong with a few remixes of original Fela Kuti tracks by Makala (Spain), smallFall & AmazeMe Breaks (Greece) and a maloya dedication to Fela by Lindigo (Reunion Island).
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released October 14, 2021
released October 22, 2021
*OFFLINE VERSION*
Produced by JPEGMAFIA
Mixed by JPEGMAFIA
Mastered by JPEGMAFIA
NEMO contains additional production from BUZZY LEE
THOT’s PRAYER contains an interpolation of “HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME” by BRITNEY SPEARS
HAZARD DUTY PAY sample replay by ALEX GOOSE
Ive been making music since i was 12 years old. but ive been in the music industry for about 4 years now and almost the entire time I’ve been surrounded by people who never had my best interest at heart. I live and die by the quality of my work, not the hype. And the minute anyone does anything to impede on that. You are dead to me. and that’s how it will stay. I had a contract to fulfill and I used a lot of things I was gonna save for the album just to be out of this shit. but it’s over now. this is my last release under a label. From this day on Im free as hell, more free than i already was something I haven’t felt in a long time. I don’t make music for dickriders, I don’t make music for casuals, theres plenty of wanna be ass niggas to fill that void for u, if u just need some bullshit to put on in the background, while u do dishes or whatever. but I’m just not here for that. me and my fans, we like detail. so if your not actually good at what u do. we don’t care. i understand that in this day and age a black man being great at what he does consistently is just not enough for some.
My goals are different my body is different my mind is different, where I came from is different. We’re not aiming at the same thing. I am a true outcast and that’s who I want to draw in. if u feel out of place, in every place. Im here for u. because that exactly how i have always felt. i’m just happy i have people to feel that with now.
my time in the music industry is over because I refuse to be disrespected by people who aren’t respectably in the first place. the only ones I care about now and forever are you my fans, I love u. and for u will always be here. This is the true LP! & i hope u all enjoy
Nerdcore Dub versions from ‘The Secret of Monkey Island I & II’ adventure game soundtracks (1990/91), the forgotten Voodoo-Reggae classics from the floppy disc age.
The original game soundtracks by Michael Z. Land, in all their uncanny 16bit-Soundblaster FM-synth glory, were a massive influence for Jahtari (weird computer game reggae!) – but could those soothing and somewhat wimpy tracks be translated into a Heavyweight Dub context, something that might work on a sound system?
Well, here are our attempts from around 2005/06: Meanwhile Deep Below the Island. Sixteen haunting tracks optimized for drinking grog by Gamle Harlev Orchestra & Bo Marley, John Frum, Volfoniq and disrupt. Finished cuts, various dubs and plain demos, raised from the Undead, just for the torment of your ears!
Available as FREE download on Bandcamp – and as limited tape run with alternate ‘Head of the Navigator’ cover!
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released February 24, 2021
Album with trap, bass, hip hop, techno, house, ambient… influences.
Made in 2019-2020.
Kai Nobuko is a Dutch musician and producer who has released countless albums (he has definitely lost count!) under his own name and as Toxic Chicken and Covolux.
Kai was recently reunited with his Oberheim OB•12 synthesiser, which he had lent to a friend and then sort of forgotten about. He quickly fell in love with this intrument again, and with this album he presents a sincere homage to the OB•12 in the shape of imagined fantasy “demo tunes”, which showcase what this sky-blue beauty can do. To add to the challenge, no sequencing software or hardware was used. What you hear was played live, in just a few layers of tracks.
Within this dreamy album you might be surprised by what the synth is capable off when treated with love and kindness, but it’s even more likely that you will simply zone out as you find yourself floating away into a cloudless sky, with the OB•12 as your magic carpet.
It has been a long time since we released any music out as a label. We’ve been quite (and we still sort of are). This whole new worldwide situation got us thinking in what direction should we go next…and if we should at all. We still haven’t really figured that out, but since we had our 12th anniversary this summer, we’ve decided to gather few tracks from our friends (who you may already know from their past appearances on the label) and offer them as a reminder that we are still here.
Enjoy and do not forget to share & support if you are really feeling it!
released September 3, 2021
Mastered by ANS / Krmelec Studios.
Cover design by Displaay / Martin Vácha.
released August 31, 2021
Music by Forin: soundcloud.com/forinmusic
Art by instagram.com/therealmueseum
Mastering by fixedmastering.com
Na/Na is the final contribution in a thematic series of 2021 Ep and Single releases by R_Garcia. Borrowing from “all over the place”, the tracks in this series (which also includes previous releases Ojo, Solum & Yoru) represent a meeting point of past and present, of home and away, and of familiar and foreign — all for the sake of a funky beat.
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released August 31, 2021
Written, Performed and Recorded by Randy Garcia at The Hidden Fortress in Atlanta, GA
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Humanity 05:12
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Paranoid 03:24
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Quarantine 02:43
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Between two words 02:43
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Crystal Heart 04:13
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Dimensions 03:30
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Internal enemy 02:24
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Path of the samurai 02:15
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пусть невидимое Солнце озаряет путь, а творения живут вечно.
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10 июня 2021 года остановилось сердце нашего общего друга и талантливого музыканта Cloud Chemist, ему было 28 лет.
это его последний альбом, который он, к сожалению, не успел выпустить при жизни.
любим и помним всегда!
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released September 1, 2021
From Mexico Cirqular presents a new stack of audio candy carefully design with he´s bass signature
Out on Californian label Shadowtrix Music
#halftime #bassmusic #breaks
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released August 6, 2021
OMOIDE 232 Variations 甲
Artwork by Nonomoto Mumum
Planning and production byYZOX
Released by OMOIDE LABEL
Catalogue Number : OMOIDE 232
Mountain Day is a traditional celebration day in Japan.
This year, in 2021, it will be held on August 8 for sporty reasons.
The number “808” reminds us of the ROLAND TR-808, of course. It’s the famous drum machine that gave birth to a lot of techno and electro music.
However, it must be said that the overly electronic sound of the TR-808 has been unfairly traded in the decades of history since its birth by the music called Gorge.
The stage is set.
2021, 808, Mountain Day.
On this day, the question “Is it possible to have TR-808 x Mountain x Gorges? The bootists gathered to answer this question.
From Japan, the king of heavy slow music “SLAB,” Drastik Adhesive Force.
TEACHI, a proponent of the ” Island Gorge,” lives in Okinawa and is scheduled to release a full album on GORGE.
IN, and Gorge evangelist hanali, who moved to a remote area of Fukuoka two years ago and whose survival is now in doubt.
Then there’s KΣITO, a DJ and track maker who is leading the Japanese GQOM scene, who hosts the Tokyo-based GQOM party TYO GQOM and is active in the DJ unit GQOMZILLA.
And there are some from abroad who will join this experiment.
>From the Argentinean art community pantanosumpf’s “FANGAL” label, which specializes in Gorge
iZueL_, a Spanish bootist living in Munich, Germany, and
and the enigmatic CURTIEMBRE, who lives in Nueva Pompeia, an underground district in Buenos Aires.
Marginal electro music master Adam Ond Martono from Czechoslovakia also contributed tracks.
What will the chemical reaction of TR-808, mountains, and Gorges produce, or not?
This album is the answer.
2021/08/12 Postscript
Kazuki Koga and Indus Bonze, who had misunderstood the date of Mountain Day, joined additionally and upgraded to v1.1.
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released August 8, 2021
Cover design : Daisuke Hizume
Shika Shika is very happy and proud to share with you “QUERENCIA” our 2021 compilation introducing 14 tracks by artists from 14 different countries.
The theme of this compilation was migration in the broadest sense – how music, people and culture expands and goes beyond borders – and each artist approached that in their own way, in their own context. You can find out more about the inspiration by clicking on the individual tracks.
Querencia: ‘a place where you are your most authentic self; a place from which your strength of character is drawn, where you feel safe, where you feel at home’.
For the artwork, we invited Argentinean visual artist Gala Berger to collaborate with us with one of her pieces. She is co-founder of La Ene (New Energy Museum of Contemporary Art), an experimental museum based in Buenos Aires, and the Paraguay Printed Art Fair, a fair born with the aim of creating alternative platforms of exchange and circulation of independent publications without the traditional restrictions and regulations faced by the mainstream press.
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released August 12, 2021
Ancestral Beats (COL)
Dengue Dengue Dengue & Prisma (PER + ARG)
Elzy (RU)
Eat My Butterfly feat. Syna Awel (Reunion Island + ALG)
Expe (JP)
Hajna feat. Fayssal Naseur (FR + ALG)
Isami (JP)
LDLP (NL)
Lilium (US)
Maggie Tra (CAM)
Nuri (TUN)
Penya (UK – FL)
Sidirum (ARG)
Terror/Cactus & Pahua (ARG + MEX)
Artwork: Gala Berger (instagram.com/galaberger)
Design: Clau Smith (instagram.com/clau._.smith)
Mastering: Rob Small
