Petite Noir – Till We Ghosts(Video)

Yannick Ilunga is a 21 year old South African making some of the most beautiful and original electronic music we’ve heard in a long time.
Till We Ghosts is the stunning debut single on Bad Life from Capetown based producer Yannick Ilunga aka Petite Noir. He crafts his innovative sound alone with live instruments and electronics; his remarkable voice underpinned by forward thinking production.

A unique concoction of influences, Petite Noir is able to seamlessly fuse intricate contemporary electronics with his stirring, soulful vocal and African shuffles that echo is homeland.

Articulation a Free EP from Parallel Thought

Parallel Thought – Art Of Sound

(LP|DL , July 24th , 2012 Parallel Thought LTD.)

DOWNLOAD FREE EP: Parallel Thought  ”Articulation”

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A precursor to their upcoming instrumental album “Art Of Sound”. Parallel Thoughtpresents “Articulation” their debut group EP introducing Caness on the mic.  Its free by the way!

FaltyDL – ‘Hardcourage’ (preview)

Kitted out in the finest of old skool, trad Ninja livery, here comes the new single from Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL. Designed squarely for the dancefloor, the two tracks catch hold of you and never let go. “Hardcourage” starts off ostensibly four to the floor before working in enough subtle rhythmic drive to satisfy the most ardent polyrhythmagist. Dub influences abutted with jazz swing and rave insistence, FaltyDL makes the hard work of getting you moving look easy. “Our House Stab” continues at a similar tempo and with a melancholy feel which resolves into such a jackalicious groove that shape-making is all but guaranteed.

Hardcourage is available now (7 August in NA) on 12″ vinyl at the Ninjashop: http://bit.ly/QVmU64

A digital version will be released 20 August.

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Toots and Maytals – Live & Unplugged At Strawberry Fields( first ever acoustic album)

TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS 
‘UNPLUGGED ON STRAWBERRY HILL’ / ‘REGGAE GOT SOUL’ 
METROPOLIS

RELEASE DATE: 6TH AUGUST 2012

Living reggae ambassadors Toots & the Maytals unveil their first ever acoustic album this summer through Metropolis, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Jamaican Independence Day.

Grammy award-winning Toots Hibbert was the first to use the word reggae on tape in his 1968 classic, ’do the raggay’, and over the last six decades has defined and redefined the sound. Now with his latest offering ‘Unplugged on Strawberry Hill’ the legend continues.

This is the first ever recorded acoustic set by Toots & the Maytals, recorded overlooking Kingston at the iconic Chris Blackwell property, while the afternoon sun’s golden rays washed over the set with the Blue Mountains a poetic backdrop. The album includes a bonus DVD documentary (‘Reggae Got Soul’), containing rare live footage from Toots’ unforgettable performance at Rockpalast in 1981 and unique liner notes contributed by Grace Jones.

The album, a gorgeous, sun kissed acoustic session, depicts an intimate and soulful side to the revered classics like ‘Funky Kingston’ and ‘54-46’. Toots’ iconic bruising vocal is smooth and saunters over laissez-faire rhythms that sound like they are recorded at sunset – ‘Unplugged on Strawberry Hill’ is the perfect summer album for lazing around waiting for bands to start at a festival or kicking back at a barbecue.

Toots & the Maytals, record holders for most number one singles in Jamaica, have been concocting and performing their brand of firecracker reggae/ska since 1961, with tracks like ‘Pressure Drop’ and ‘Monkey Man’ firmly cemented as rock & pop standards, the former being covered by everyone from The Clash to Robert Palmer, the latter covered most movingly by the late legend herself, Amy Winehouse.

Today, more than 40 years into their career, the band show no signs of slowing down – since their last reformation in 1995, the band have toured extensively, selling out stadiums all over the USA, Europe, and Jamaica.

“Toots’ voice is one of the great musical gifts of our time” – Anthony De Curtis, New York Times & Rolling Stone

“When he starts to sing, the place lights up”— Jimmy Cliff, Singer & Songwriter

UK tour dates: 
2nd August The Empire, Middlesbrough Thursday
3rd August: Indigo2, Jamaica50 Concert theo2.co.uk/indigo2/event/jamaica-50-20120726.html
8th August: Special Live at 100Club
10th August O2 ABC Glasgow (ABC1 & ABC2), Glasgow
15th August 2012 O2 Academy Oxford, Oxford
12th August: Holmfirth Picturedrome
19th August: Beacons Festival

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