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Presenting the first digital single, ‘Everything (Gone Crooked) / Go Slow Heart (Beat Crooked)’, from Crooked Man’s forthcoming, future-facing Transmission Towers remix album Crooked Transmissions on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label. Remoulding, re-energising and completely reworking tracks from Transmission Towers’ critically acclaimed debut LP, Transmission One, Crooked Man sets forth a whole new album’s worth of transcendental, tripped-out productions.
A key figure in electronic dance music’s history, Sheffield-born Crooked Man aka Richard Barratt released one of bleep techno’s defining records back in ‘89. Landing on Warp, it came under the alias Sweet Exorcist with the late great Richard H. Kirk. Since then, Barratt has put out a slew of exceptional productions under a variety of different monikers from Crooked Man and Parrot, to Earth Angel and Athletes of God. He has released on DFA, delivered countless remixes for Róisín Murphy and reimagined the likes of JIM and Joe Goddard. Every inch of that experience and expertise has been deployed on this Transmission Towers remix release.
‘Everything (Gone Crooked)’ takes the original and contorts it from a post-punk guitar trip into a cybertronic, new beat heater. A percussive state of hypnosis leads the charge, building the tension for a rumbling kick drum and buzzing synth-line to twist their talons into your mind. Eleanor Mante’s vocals take on a new vivacity, feeling like your head has been sucked into a psychedelic swirl away from reality. Afrofuturist, arresting and perfectly equipped to electrify any waning dancefloor into action.
Next, Crooked Man takes on the emotionally charged ‘Go Slow Heart’, morphing it from a celestial beacon of light into a Balearic, slo-mo, sci-fi tribal march. Tweaking out the synth melodies so they reverberate from ear to ear, Crooked Man’s kick thumps like a heartbeat, as the pads fall backwards into a sonic blackhole. Atop a thundering bassline and theremin-esque soundwaves, Eleanor’s vocal refrain is looped, echoed and imprinted into your consciousness – a cautionary mantra of reason, just as emotion is about to override logic.
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Presenting the first digital single, ‘Everything (Gone Crooked) / Go Slow Heart (Beat Crooked)’, from Crooked Man’s forthcoming, future-facing Transmission Towers remix album Crooked Transmissions on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label. Remoulding, re-energising and completely reworking tracks from Transmission Towers’ critically acclaimed debut LP, Transmission One, Crooked Man sets forth a whole new album’s worth of transcendental, tripped-out productions.
A key figure in electronic dance music’s history, Sheffield-born Crooked Man aka Richard Barratt released one of bleep techno’s defining records back in ‘89. Landing on Warp, it came under the alias Sweet Exorcist with the late great Richard H. Kirk. Since then, Barratt has put out a slew of exceptional productions under a variety of different monikers from Crooked Man and Parrot, to Earth Angel and Athletes of God. He has released on DFA, delivered countless remixes for Róisín Murphy and reimagined the likes of JIM and Joe Goddard. Every inch of that experience and expertise has been deployed on this Transmission Towers remix release.
‘Everything (Gone Crooked)’ takes the original and contorts it from a post-punk guitar trip into a cybertronic, new beat heater. A percussive state of hypnosis leads the charge, building the tension for a rumbling kick drum and buzzing synth-line to twist their talons into your mind. Eleanor Mante’s vocals take on a new vivacity, feeling like your head has been sucked into a psychedelic swirl away from reality. Afrofuturist, arresting and perfectly equipped to electrify any waning dancefloor into action.
Next, Crooked Man takes on the emotionally charged ‘Go Slow Heart’, morphing it from a celestial beacon of light into a Balearic, slo-mo, sci-fi tribal march. Tweaking out the synth melodies so they reverberate from ear to ear, Crooked Man’s kick thumps like a heartbeat, as the pads fall backwards into a sonic blackhole. Atop a thundering bassline and theremin-esque soundwaves, Eleanor’s vocal refrain is looped, echoed and imprinted into your consciousness – a cautionary mantra of reason, just as emotion is about to override logic.
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![Horace Tapscott Quintet - The Quintet [Full Album]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OlpGxuVX3jQ/hqdefault.jpg "Horace Tapscott Quintet - The Quintet [Full Album]
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00:00 - World Peace
08:33 - Your Child
20:52 - For Fats
This previously unreleased album by the Horace Tapscott Quintet was unearthed from master tapes in the Flying Dutchman archives. Recorded in 1969 and was intended to be a follow-up album to the classic The Giant Is Awakened which was released that year.
The iconic pianist and composer Horace Tapscott was one of the most unique and important figures in LA’s jazz world. This lost recording was produced by one of the pivotal figures in jazz, Bob Thiele, a leading behind-the-scenes star who worked with many of the greats in jazz, such as Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Della Reese, Shirley Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, the list goes on. His name can be seen gracing, arguably the best, Impulse! releases and those released on his own Flying Dutchman imprint set up in 1969.
Joining Horace for this three-track, deep, heavy, avant-garde session are the same stellar cast featured on The Giant Is Awakened; Arthur Blythe on Alto Sax, Everett Brown Jr on Drums, with David Bryant and Walter Savage Jr. on Bass. Kicking things off we have World Peace’, which starts with an almost baroque-esque melody, leading to an eruption in sound, it then ends in the same manner it began. The beautiful Your Child is the jewel in the crown, skirting modal, deep jazz and introducing elements of free jazz. For Fats with its bow bass and piano intro takes you on a journey, dropping into, at times dark, stormy melodies and developing a driving energy as the composition progresses.
After recording this album, Horace was said to be wary of the music industry, so he retreated and distanced himself from this world, recording only for the independent labels UGMAA, Interplay Records, and Nimbus West Records. He set up The Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra and reintroduced the pan-African-roots sound back into the heart of jazz. He also developed and promoted the art form through performances and recordings.
Thankfully, this session from these wonderful musical pioneers was preserved and finally has its time to shine.
Featuring brand-new artwork by the illustrious artist/designer/musician Raimund Wong (Total Refreshment / Floating World Pictures).
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![SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) - Tezeta (Тизита) Ft. Petar Martic [Remastered]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PW6yRiVarEk/hqdefault.jpg "SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) - Tezeta (Тизита) Ft. Petar Martic [Remastered]
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SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) stole our hearts back in 2022 when we released their album Force Of The Wind to critical acclaim. Here we proudly present the predecessor to that LP, the band’s sophomore long player from 2019 that was previously only available digitally. It captures a pivotal evolving period in the bands career, the recordings giving a snapshot of what would become their sound on Force Of The Wind, yet with echoes of avant-psychedelic-pop footprints from yesteryears.
Produced at a time when band leader Alex Chumak had moved from Minsk to Kyiv, torn between the need to try something new and the homesickness it brought about. Travelling back to Minsk almost weekly, Alex joined fellow band members Mikita Arlou and Stanislav Murashko to lay down II at Studio 42. The album captures these transient feelings, contextualised through the broad scope of influences the band were nourished by. From MPB to Ethio-Jazz and the Italian library soundtracks of Piero Piccioni and Piero Umiliani, the album shines with touches of joy from across the globe.
The opening track Verocai is a tribute to the Brazilian maestro and Mirouze, whilst being named after a French favourite of the band, Jean-Pierre Mirouze, pays clear homage to Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges. A ghostly sample and invisible connection to music made miles away in a different era that has influenced and become part of the band’s lives. This is further reinforced in the albums enchanting closer, the aptly titled Nascimento, another nod to the great Brazilian musician and singer.
The beginnings of the cinematic, soul-laden jazz SOYUZ are now known for, are on display across the likes of ‘Lyric’ and Motive I. The latter an orchestrated jazz instrumental with sensuous string sections, all of which were recorded on the warmth of a Studer reel-to-reel and waltzing Rhodes keys.
SOYUZ’s wide-ranging palate is further demonstrated in tracks like ‘Business Partners’ with its Krauty, kosmische, new wave production featuring Inturist, and the oh-too-short Anatolian-influenced interlude Corrida. Elsewhere, Tezeta and ‘ES-2 Jazz’ hint at the psychedelic haze of soul-funk, with the former featuring verses from Serbian rapper Petar Martic.
For this new physical and digital release, the whole album was mixed from scratch by Ryan Power before Joker worked his magic on the remaster. More excellence is to come from SOYUZ, but in the meantime, we are thrilled to present this essential recording from the band’s foundational years, mixed to a level that does it the justice it deserves.
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