Welcome to the week in good music:
In barely two days time A Tribe Called Quest will take to the stage in Sydney! Congrats to local outfits Horrorshow and Thundamentals for making it onto the support bill. Hopefully Tribe gets to the venue in time to have a listen to the skills of our city’s finest live hip hop outfits. Kool Keith & DJ Flagrant will be doing the honours in Melbourne.
Keeping it hip hop, Sydney emcee The Tongue has a new record on the way. Alternative Energy is the album, and features production from Hermitude’s El Gusto, M-Phazes and Dizz-1 amongst others. You can listen to his lead single ‘The Show’ below, which is out through Elefant Traks and Inertia.
The Tongue – ‘The Show’
In European music news Compost Records announces the creation of the new sub-label for disco, called… wait for it… Compost Disco. The new label’s manifesto will span the full disco spectrum including, Compost says, “new, old, Balearic, spacey, soulful, crunchy, edited or without any references.” The vinyl 12”’s will be released with custom art from Benjamin Roeder, also known as Spectacle, who’s output you might know from Permanent Vacation. This is the first release on the new label, accompanied by a funny ass film clip:
The UK’s Ben Westbeech has begun recording under the Breach moniker. Man’s got skills, this tune ‘Fatherless’ is pretty massive. Lets hope next time he comes out to Sydney that he gets to play somewhere more suitable than Ivy, because that was a party fail if ever Soul Sedation has seen one.
Breach – ‘Fatherless’
Soul Jazz records have a new project in the pipeline. They’ve rounded up a bunch of pioneering futurists, and have commissioned them to produce for a new project entitled Future Bass, that will take in “post dubstep, post-house, post everything”. Four Tet and Mala are first out of the gate to release the leading double header single, with Untold, Black Chow (Kevin Martin AKA The Bug’s latest project), Coki also on in on the project.
Italo/nu disco label Italians Do It Better have earned the boasting rights for releasing some of the finest nu disco and cosmic disco in the surge of the last few years. An unmixed collection of their 12” singles has emerged that includes tunes from Rubies, Invisible Conga People, and Twisted Wires, as well as other select artists from the much admired IDIB stable. If you don’t collect the black wax for whatever reason, these compilations are a godsend. Buy it here.
Soul Sedation favourite and Argentinian digital cumbia producer El Remolon has dropped a new EP, The Pangeatico, that continues his work fusing tradition cumbia rhythms with new styles like dubstep, electronica and an IDM. We like track 3, ‘Animal’. Have a good listen to the rest of the ZZK label’s material while you’re there.
El Remolon – The Pangeatico EP
In upcoming tour news LA’s futurebeat sceneshaper SAMIYAM will join us in Sydney for the first time next month. The Flying Lotus associate, Low End Theory DJ, and acclaimed innovator of the new beat scene, will appear for Space Is The Place at a venue yet to be confirmed. It goes down Thursday 16th September. If you’re kicking yourself because you’ve missed the Fly Lo and Gaslamp Killer gigs – and you should be – here’s an opportunity to start catching up.
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