Muito Kaballa - Everything Is Broke

Today I would like to recommend you the upcoming Muito Kaballa Album "Everything Is Broke" that will be out 10.05.2019 on Switchstance Recordings.

Labelled a world music artist, Muito Kaballa offers grooves of an Afrobeat persuasion, refracted through the restless energy of punk; kindred spirits Ebo Taylor and Fela Kuti, legends of African highlife music, impress upon his work indelibly. Such musicianship has produced a pleasing cacophony in Everything is Broke, Kaballa's debut album, which takes in his usual influences of street funk, jazz, Afrobeat and just the slightest etchings of hip-hop. Edging out even further in his experiments this time, the artist now explores the nervous, juddering energy of New Orleans inspired pop, running freely the course of the album with the sensual sounds of the city's Latin Quarter.

 Built on the back of improvisation, Kaballa's music employs an on-the-pulse approach in style, where, for every measured arrangement, there is the sense of using every rudiment skill on hand. Essentially a one-man band, Kaballa is as adroit with the various live instruments he plays as he is with the electronic sequencers he uses to loop his grooves. He ensures there are surprises at every turn and his experience playing to crowds on the hustling and bustling streets of Cologne has taught him such ingenuity.

 Sweet jams like 'Quasi' bristle with Dixieland funk and salsa rhythms while a searching, Moog-rippled number like 'Tin Tin' riff smartly with jump-start drums. The Brazilian notes on the chunky 'Lugor Ao Sol' are underpinned by an Afrobeat sway, and the lambent, twilit 'The Easy Way' opens the album as softly and warmly as the coastal waters that surely inspired it. At turns elegant and rough-hewn, these eight ventures into a textured and multifarious pop are very much rooted in the street culture it was born from; the sly, punkish element that runs through Kaballa's work is still firmly in place here. And, yet, Everything is Broke dreams of cities far beyond the ones the listener could ever hope to know. It is the sound of the hustling and bustling of people everywhere, making their way across a traffic-congested city to a dream of elsewhere...
 

Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo

Khruangbin's "Con Todo El Mundo" was the perfect chill Album of 2018 for me. I've listened to these tracks, that sound like a big jam session, dozens of times and they never get boring. For me these tunes are pure feel good music.

 Here's some background on the Band:

Globetrotting Texan trio Khruangbin present their second album ‘Con Todo El Mundo’. Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums; Khruangbin’s sounds are rooted in the deepest waters of world music infused with classic soul, dub and psychedelia. Their 2015 debut album ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ was heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Thai cassettes the band listened to on their long car journeys to rehearsal in the Texan countryside. ‘Con Todo El Mundo’ takes inspiration not just from South East Asia but similarly underdiscovered funk and soul of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, particularly Iran.

 

Bibio - Why So Serious?

If you know the latest Bibio album called "A Mineral Love" you already know the title track of his new EP called "Why So Serious?". It's a funky tune with a groovy guitar riff and some disco vibes.

Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You

Taken from Khruangbin's debut album "The Universe Smiles Upon You" released on 6th November 2015, the track "People Everywhere (Still Alive)" sounds like a jam session of 1960's Thai funk. Their smooth sound is steeped in the bass heavy, psychedelic sound of their inspiration, Tarantino soundtracks and surf-rock coolness. The Texan trio is formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums.

Skeewiff - Ghetto Latin

Howdy guys, here is the freshest release by UK funky breaks "legend" Skeewiff. Lately Alex Rizzo the man behind the scenes has dedicated himself to Remix a lot of old vintage genres and styles fom all around the globe. His latest album is called "Ghetto Latin" and this is what he says about it:
".. born from a love of all things latin & Dance. It is a Skee-Journey through the archives... from the 18th Century Waltz, 19th Century Polka, Rumbas, Tangos, Bossas and Sambas. If it has historically got butts shaking... we’re all over it."
Check it out if you like heavy basslines, funky breaks, cumbia riddims and latin vibes!

Minimatic - Contre Vous (j'men contrefous version)

Another free download for everybody. Oh, all these christmas gifts they sound so good to me. This time it's one by Minimatic, the french "electro-organic hopsoul swinghop mashedblues lowfunk beats"producer. Happy christmas for your ears!

Ancient Astronauts - Etnies & Switchstance Recordings Anniversary Compilation

Do you guys also like some smooth jazzy downbeats for the cold season? I do and that's why I just downloaded this free Compilation by Ancient Astronauts based in Cologne. These guys are on the ESL label, wich is the homebase of Thievery Corporation and guess what....this is exactly how the compilation sounds. Funky world sounds fused with Electronica and Hip Hop Beats. Have a listen and grab it for free!