ELIZABETH SHEPHERD - Heavy Falls The Night (2010) (Fixed)

A wonderful third album from Elizabeth Shepherd, possibly her best yet, taking the stripped down, yet adventurous jazzy Soul intimacy of the debut and the deeper, dreamier sound of her Parkdale album, and coming up with a lovely, unique and wholly excellent sound on Heavy Falls The Night!! There are some heavier moods at play, but, the production and arrangements have a light touch, leaving plenty of space from Elizabeth's lovely voice to pull you in. Shepherd handles most of the production and all of the arrangements, with one track produced by DJ Mitsu The Beats, his jazzy dancefloor Funk groove well suited for the style!! Elizabeth sings and plays keys, with Ross Macintyre and Scott Kemp on bass, Roman Tome on percussion, Colin Kingsmore on drums and percussion, with some guests and guitar on just a couple of tunes. Why Elisabeth hadn't yet become a superstar by the time of this album's release is a mystery and an injustice!!

Tracklisting:

1. What Else
2. The Taking
3. Heavy Falls The Night
4. Numbers
5. Seven Bucks
6. One More Day
7. A Song For Dinah Washington
8. High
9. It’s Coming
10. On The Insufficiency Of Words
11. Danny’s Song

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JOYO VELARDE - Love And Understanding (2010)

Fresh modern Hip Hop Soul sounds from Joyo Velarde, her full length debut for Quannum, featuring production that ranges from uptempo funky to laidback and bumping!! Joyo has a versatile style vocally, and the producers bring a variety of backdrops to suit, including producer and vocal collaborator husband Lyrics Born, plus production by Jake One, Headnodic and others, and collaborations with RJD2, Tommy Guerrero and others. But this is Joyo's show all the way, and she pulls it off with soul to spare!!

Tracklisting:

1. Mama's Got A Brand New Swag (So Exquisite)
2. Build This World
3. Certain Special Way (I Feel About You)
4. Strong Possibility
5. Ticket To Love
6. With Feeling
7. The Way We Are
8. You Got Me (In The Mood)
9. Lower Deck
10. Feels Right
11. Take You Home
12. On And On

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DIRA - Something About The Girl (2010)

A mellow Soul killer from Dira J Sugandi, working here with production from Bluey, and help from the rest of the Incognito crew!! In a way, the album's almost an Incognito record at heart, yet Dira's vocals and overall approach really help give it a fresh feel too, a mode that stays away from some of the upbeat groovers you might normally get from Incognito, with a stronger focus on mellow tracks and laidback numbers that really show off her vocals!! Other guests on the record include Omar, Ski Oakenful and Matt Cooper!!

Tracklisting:

1. Inside Love
2. Time Out Of Time
3. Let's Go Back
4. Get Through To You
5. Loving A Stranger
6. Daydream
7. Essentially Yours
8. Bring It On
9. Hand On Your Heart
10. Won't You Come With Me
11. No More Tears

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SILHOUETTE BROWN - Two (2010) (Fixed)

The second effort from Silhouette Brown, every bit worth the 6 year wait we've had since their first album!! The sound here is even more deep than before, not just a 4 Hero offshoot, but a complex bit of Cosmic Soul that shows that the 21st Century spirit is alive and well, if you just know where to look!! Lady Alma handles lead vocals on all tracks, and gets tremendous musical backings from Kaidi Tatham and Dego, lots of bristling beats and jazzy keyboards, all fused together with a subtle sensibility that's really wonderful, almost a bridge between London experimentation and American underground Soul, yet with a flavor that's all its own, that beautiful sound we immediately loved on Silhouette Brown's first album, equally wicked here as well!!

Tracklisting:

1. Bitter Pills & Butterflies
2. Casualties Of Honey
3. Constant Questions
4. Fools Gold
5. Get With It feat. Sadat X
6. Hear Them Often Say
7. Interlude
8. Leave A Note
9. Strawberries In Vinegar
10. We Used To Run Steady

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SUN CIRCLE - Reborn (2009)

A warm blend of Soul and laidback jazzy beatcraft from Sun Circle, the duo of producer/DJ/soundscape generator Simon S of Break Reform and lovely & soulful UK singer Deborah Jordan, taking the Broken Beat and jazzy Future Soul groove to a higher level!! It's the glowing natural warmth that puts this project a step ahead of the pack, having been won over by the work of each partner in the past, this one seemed like it would be a winner from the outset, and it surely is. The beats, bass and stirring elements floating over the melodies are nice enough, and Deborah's voice carries it straight to the heart & soul, while a few tunes offer of a broader palette of colorful sounds, including vibes in the title tracks and some strings!!

Tracklisting:

1. Reborn
2. Stars Fall Down
3. Sun Circle Theme
4. I Can See The Sun
5. Peaceful
6. Interlude
7. If You Speak
8. Stand Still
9. Beginnings
10. My Story

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DESSA - A Badly Broken Code (2010)

Long-awaited sophomore full-length album from Dessa, the only female artist in the Doomtree Hip Hop collective!! She has a strong fanbase who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this release. The album features production from Paper Tiger, Lazerbeak, Cecil Otter, MK Larada, and Big Jess. The songs emphasize Dessa's wingspan as a singer, rapper, and lyricist and range from melancholy a cappella arrangements to vintage torch songs to infectious Rap cuts!!

Tracklisting:

1. Children’s Work
2. Poor Atlas
3. The Crow
4. Dixon’s Girl
5. Mineshaft II
6. The Chaconne
7. Matches To Paper Dolls
8. Go Home
9. Seamstress
10. Dutch
11. The Bullpen
12. Momento Mori
13. Crew
14. Alibi
15. Into The Spin

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More From Guru...R.I.P.

One of the best songs did by the duo of Guru & Premier!! The bomb "Royalty" feat. K-Ci & JoJo from Jodeci, taken from the album "Moment Of Truth".

Guru Passed Away After Hard Battle With Cancer, R.I.P

Sad news and sad day for all music lovers. Guru Passed Away After Hard Battle With Cancer, R.I.P. May his soul rest in peace and his legacy remembered

GRINGO - Xperimental (2010)

New album from Moçambiquean producer Gringo, and one that goes side by side with its title!! Xperimental is a conceptual album that comes from the combination of the words "Experience" and "Instrumental", where Gringo distinguishes himself in 4 musical genres, The Vintage, The Progressive, The Hi-Tech and The Soulful, and is exactly with this word that Gringo goes deeply and majestic!! Gringo uses several new ways to make his soulful sounds even more captivating than in his previous effort, opening new boundaries to his fascinating Instrumental Hip Hop world. The Dillanesque tinged beats of Bitologista opens a bit of a space for far rich and different elements like 80´s influenced beats, Future Funk, avant Jazz Funk, Brazilian Bossa, modern Electronica, New Grooves and more, but always keeping the identity, that reflects the most perfect, loyal and humble incarnation of Dilla!! Gringo´s definetly ready for a BIG contract and we´ll be here to support it (LABELS, WHAT ABOUT BEING VOLUNTEERS??)!! We´re proud to have this man as a partner - and last but not least - to review this awesome album!!

Tracklisting:

1. O Começo
2. Ultra Beat
3. The Brazilian Job feat. Ell Puto
4. Monkey D. Ruffy
5. Mellowdioso
6. Sorriso Alegre
7. Quiet Please
8. Studio Soul
9. Gear Second
10. Bolinhas Amarelas
11. Nintendo Entertainment System
12. De Jazz
13. Hard Soul
14. Old School feat. Mpetula
15. Sol, Sábado & Soul
16. Gear Second
17. Minimalista
18. Nostalgia
19. Épico
20. O Desfecho

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MILES BONNY - Smell Smoke (2006) / Incense & Wine (2010)

Double feature from the great Miles Bonny, with his first album Smell Smoke and the newest and fabulous Incense & Wine!! The slow rolling moody Soul sounds from Miles Bonny are a mix of relaxed beatcraft that's rich in hypnotic atmosphere. Beats, bass and keys flavor the sound, with Miles' vocals laid down as part of the overall atmosphere as much as the driving force of the tunes, and makes for an interesting blend of danceable keys & synth Soul to more of a headphones head nodding experience!! Fantastic!!

Smell Smoke (2006) - Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Cans Ass City Waltz
3. You
4. We
5. Car Symphony
6. Stampede
7. Not The One
8. I Need A Drink
9. Bridge Breakfast Shortage
10. Garden Work
11. The Garden
12. Shining Ignorant
13. Meditation On Hip Hop
14. When Your Dead
15. Boom Doos
16. War Is The Enemy
17. Sing Your Song




Incense & Wine (2010) - Tracklisting:

1. Spiritual Nutrition
2. Do You
3. Words (I Love You)
4. Endless Possibilities
5. Blue And Green
6. Number 5
7. Satisfy
8. Never Be The same
9. On Impulse
10. Green Chemical Lawns
11. Cans Ass City (Feel Sexy)
12. Something I Can Dance Too
13. Joy
14. Shouts Out
15. Aggressively Calm
16. Marion Truth

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CROWN CITY ROCKERS - The Day After Forever (2009)

Long standing Bay Area crew Crown City Rocker's first full length in a few years, and group is balancing their love for classic group Hip Hop and future funky beatcraft as deftly as ever. Spacey keys and jazzy Funk styled sounds and straight up Boom Bap from some veterans!!

Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Break
3. Soul
4. Kiss feat. Silya
5. Go On feat. Aima
6. Astroshocks
7. Go Away
8. Cruisin feat. Destani Wolf
9. Let’s Love
10. Clap Your Hands feat. Aima
11. Make It Hotter
12. That’s Life feat. Jason Jasper
13. Forever Song

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GALACTIC - Ya-Ka-May (2010)

Chunky & funky New Orleans sounds from Galactic, as far reaching and unpigeonholeable as ever on their second album for Anti, possibly the the most diverse of their career!! Ya-Ka-May rolls out some of the Hip Hop Funk vibe that carried their previous album, but that's just one flavor in a boldly spiced entry, with brassy Crescent City Funk, heavy percussive groovers, swampy Soul & Funk Rock numbers and more. Galactic's been pumping long enough to earn the requests of young guns and legends alike, and this record features guests including Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Rebirth Brass Band, Trombone Shorty & Corey Henry and many more!!

Tracklisting:

1. Friends Of Science
2. Boe Money feat. The Rebirth Brass Band
3. Double It feat. Big Freedia
4. Heart Of Steel feat. Irma Thomas
5. Wild Man feat. Big Chief Bo Dollis
6. Bacchus feat. Allen Toussaint
7. Katey vs. Nobby feat. Katey Red & Sissy Nobby
8. Cineramascope feat. Trombone Shorty & Corey Henry
9. Dark Water feat. John Boutte
10. Do It Again feat. Cheeky Blakk
11. Liquor Pang feat. Josh Cohen & Ryan Scully
12. Kreve D'Etat
13. You Don't Know feat. Glen David Andrews
14. Speaks His Mind feat. Walter Wolfman Washington
15. Bonus

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JAGA JAZZIST - One Armed Bandit (2010)

Jazzy and proggy modernism from Jaga Jazzist, a record that finds the group unafraid to to recall some of the adventurous instrumental Rock and Jazz aware prog of the 70´s onward without feeling like a throwback, and very much of the modern era. It's a lot of fun, even with a dizzying display of instrumentation, with synths and spacey keys, subtle programming, vibes, guitar, flute, clarinet, horns, banjo, mandolin, glockenspeil and more!!

Tracklisting:

1. The Thing Introduces...

2. One-Armed Bandit

3 .Bananfluer overalt

4. 220 V / Spektral

5. Toccata

6. Prognissekongen

7. Book Of Glass

8. Music! Dance! Drama!

9. Touch Of Evil

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JUNO WHAT?! - Late Night (2009)

Great sounds from Juno What?!, America’s newest contribution to the late 70's/early 80's-inspired, high energy, Funk Disco, synth bass tinged and electronica!! A rising star in their field, Juno What?! brings their illuminated madness to every venue upon which they descend. Catalyzing dancefloors into sonic landscapes, Juno What?! is poised to take stages around the country to sternum bump its prey. A sound that is ahead of its time yet is steeped in a foundation of Electro 80’s Dance grooves with a healthy dose of progressive, booty-shaking themes!! Props to our partner Jans Ingber, who figure in this EP with his brilliant vocals!!

Tracklisting:

1. Late Night
2. Don´t Wake
3. Electrocity
4. Body Double
5. Get On Down
6. Spark It
7. Dragon


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VARIOUS ARTISTS - "Jay Fusion Presents Jewels & Gems V. 5"

5th installment of the series Jewels & Gems from the mighty Jay Fusion!! For those who don´t know, Jay Fusion is an UK DJ and a long time GGC member, and his perception for good sounds is one of the main points that make him so cool and joyful, but never sounding poppy. It´s clear that Jay pay a tribute to Hip Hop here, specially for the master J. Dilla, who appears with 3 tracks plus a highly influenced one from Robert Glasper. There are some New Grooves tinged tracks here and there, but Hip Hop deal the great part of the cards here. A masterful compilation from Jay Fusion, and just a lil of a mega dose from Jay that we´ll put up here!!

Tracklisting:

1. Baldwin Brothers - A Word From The Doctor
2. The Cinematic Orchestra - All Things To All Men
3. Squarepusher - Tetra-Sync
4. J. Dilla - One For Ghost (The Strap)
5. Nas feat. Jay-Z - Black Republican
6. Black Milk - Popular Demand
7. J. Dilla - Think Twice
8. Dr. Who Dat? - Beat Rock
9. DJ Vadim - Dig Yourself, Baby
10. Stateless - Too Late
11. Thief - (Like) Leaves
12. My Brigthest Diamond - Something Of An End (Version)
13. J. Dilla - Hi
14. Soil & Pimp Sessions - A.I.E.
15. The Cinematic Orchestra - Child Song
16. Dr. Who Dat? - Brazilian Thought
17. Little Brother - Lovin’ It
18. Slum Village - In The Lab
19. Robert Glasper - J Dillalude
20. Benny Sings - Coconut

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UNITY GAIN CONTINUUM - BEYOND THEORY EP (2010)

We are so proud to announce this release from Trust In Dust records on DVAN. As you can see on our twitter page Global Grooves Collective has realy good partnership or even friendship with Trust in Dust. When we first heard this EP and track Where's Tokyo Going, we were delighted at the moment as far as quality and creative. We know that you are gonna fell the same when you hear it. You can also check Trust In Dust Radio weekly show on mixcloud and on DVAN. Enjoy in this amazing album, and we hope to listen more of it. We just want to say big thanks to TRUST IN DUST RECORDS for free download. But, you must check their site for other releases.

Tracklist:

01 Where's Tokyo Going
02 Broken Song
03 Visual Lies
04 Pathways

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AMEDE & THE Soundsmith - BE... RE-FIXED (2009)

These 2 cats outta east London tackled a big task of remixing an already bangin album and as they say “Re-Fixed” it. Common teamed up with Kanye (and a few other producers including J Dilla) to bring you Be. So you ask yourself, “what’s there to fix?! That album’s hot.” My thoughts exactly, until I got an ear full of Be…Re-Fixed. They moved a few things around, added a lil stutter-step remixing it, and still keeping that Ye & Common sound. Be…Re-Fixed is all instrument, but from what I’ve read Amede is the man with the blows.

Tracklist:

01 Be (Intro)
02 The Corner
03 Faithful
04 Testify
05 Love Is....
06 Chi-City
07 The Food
08 It's Your World
09 Go!_They Say (Outro)

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THE BEAUTY ROOM - BEYOND AN INFINITE (2006)

Along with producer Kirk Degiorgio and vocalist Jinadu, 'beyond an infinite' features drummer Chris Whitten (Paul Mccartney, Edie Brickell) and grammy winning engineer Peter Henderson (supertramp) along with classical pianist Tom O Grady and peacefrog favourite and guitarist Ian O Brien. a Gilles Peterson favourite, the beauty room have already appeared on a radio 1 Maida Vale session and appeared as headliners at Gilles night at Cargo in London. with a nod in the direction of Steely Dan ('holding on' ) and prime 70s Stevie Wonder ('soul horizon') alongside glorious orchestral arrangements by brazilian legend Deodato, the beauty room navigate a sophisticated, hugely accessible path between metropolitan soul shimmer and yearning spirituality. this is mellow, but by no means lightweight music. there are lyrical stones tossed into the millpond tranquillity of a track like the string-propelled 'burn my bridges' or elegant closer those days ', proving that while this is undoubtedly music to chill to, it s certainly not aimed at those with either heart or brain in the deep freeze.

Tracklist:

1. Soul Horizon
2. Holding On
3. Burn My Bridges
4. Visions Of Joy
5. Weight Of The World
6. Don't You Know
7. Fortress
8. Shades Of Yesterday
9. Moment
10. Those Days

THE ROOTS - DILLA JAWNS (2010)

When you see names THE ROOTS and DILLA on some project... you know it is perfect. So, here it is. We have to say big thanks to FROLAB on this one. You are just gonna love this, like we do.

Tracklisting:

01. Donuts Outro
02. Hot Shit (I’m Back!)
03. World Full Of Sadness
04. Upper Egypt
05. Stereolab
06. The Stars
07. Antiquity (feat. The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Dillchestra)
08. She Said
09. Hall & Oates
10. Eve
11. Look Into Her Eyes
12. Make Em NV
13. Oh! O!
14. Wicked Ways

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RARE FORM PRESENTS DONUTS ARE FOREVER 4

Rare Form presents Donuts are Forever 4, NYC's annual tribute to the late, great James "J Dilla" Yancey. DAF4 took place on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at The Bell House in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Music was provided by ?uestlove of The Roots along with DJs Brainchild, Parler, Low Key & Tara. $4400 was raised and donated to the J Dilla Foundation. Thanks to everyone who came through and showed their love and support. Here's a nice look into how dope of a night it was.

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