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Monday, Aug 6 2018, 2AM
The Return takes up where Black Focus left off, harnessing classic jazz-funk and fusion with hip hop and its British offspring grime, broken beat and drum & bass.
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Videotapemusic is a young music and video producer from Tokyo who uses old Japanese and Asian VHS tapes collected in dusty recycle shops and closed rental video stores as raw material for his sampling work and video production, creating a singular and highly unique musical world that has created waves on the Japanese scene since 2009.
The Sufis are an Anglo-Indian/American band based on the writing partnership of Calvin Laporte and Evan Smith. During a chance meeting at Belmont University in Nashville, TN they bonded over a shared love of the Elephant 6 Collective and 20th-century classical music.- burgerrecords.11spot.com
Hailing from the mysterious producer of many monikers, ‘Nothing 2 Loose’ is a stunning ambient album from the artist formerly known as the Prince of Denmark or Traumprinz but this time under a brand new alias, DJ Healer.
Esther Philips died on this day in 1984. At age fourteen, she won the amateur talent contest in 1949 at the Barrelhouse Club owned by Johnny Otis who added her to his traveling revue, the California Rhythm and Blues Caravan, billed as 'Little Esther Phillips'. Her first hit record was "Double Crossing Blues" (#1 R+B), recorded in 1950 for Savoy Records.
