Posts tagged Yusef Lateef

James Pants – Clouds Over The Pacfic EP

Pants is back! Our favourite former resident of Spokane has fled the nest and finds Clouds Over The in superb 4-track EP form.

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Emanative – Time

“Incredibly this is the first time these guys have played live and this is the official launch of the new album Time, Ladies and Gentleman – !”

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Stonephace – Stonephace

Now there’s probably only two labels with the foresight to say, “Hey, that’s a great idea to mix sax, Portishead’s guitar and bass with old skool rave – lets do it”. I’d say one would be (who haven’t) and the other, Tru-thoughts who have. And they’ve pulled it off?

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Zim Ngqawana – Vadzimu

Zim mixes up African traditions with classical western music and avant-garde with varying amounts of horns, strings and djembe.

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V/A – Kings Of Techno: The History Of Detroit (Carl Craig / Laurent Garnier)

If you love your techno, you love Craig and Garnier but check the tracklisting to this double CD set before you buy.

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V/A – Pure Fire! A Gilles Peterson Impulse! Collection

Pure Fire! is a suitable companion to the recent Sunday Afternoon At Dingwall release and it features some of our long time heroes on the scene and some top tunes like the classic ‘See You Later’ and ‘The Blessing Song’

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Ammoncontact – With Voices

From the maverick beatsmiths , comes With Voices an album packed with all the trademark warped menace and skewed soulful excursions the duo are famed for. More collaboration-focussed and vocal-based than previous outings this is the colossus album the duo have always wished to make and threatened to craft.

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Ammoncontact – Looking For A Voice?

Gerry Hectic digs in the crates for Carlos Niño and Fabian ‘Ammon’ Alston’s project,

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Joe Henderson

was a great musician and a lovely man. This piece was written several years ago on a rare visit to the UK while he was riding high on the success of his recent releases.

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