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Album Review: James Last – Funky Music

  • November 25, 2024
  • Adrian Barr
There are people who think that the terms JAMES LAST and FUNKY MUSIC cannot be used in the same sentence. These people may know James Last, but they certainly don’t…
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Album Review: Dora Morelenbaum – ‘Pique’: a dynamic new MPB voice which really delivers.

  • October 20, 2024
  • John Parry
Anyone who caught Bala Desejo’s set-of-the-day at WOMAD UK in the summer would’ve already noted the dynamic Dora Morelenbaum flying in the front line of this exuberant nu-tropicalia band. A…
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Track: Double Talk go ‘Swimming’: an incandescent and infectious groove in the fast lane.

  • May 2, 2024
  • Arun Kendall
The funky disco bop of Anglo/Australian band Double Talk‘s ‘Swimming’ is positively incandescent and guaranteed to get the most lethargic soul up, down and twisting around. According to the Gold…
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Album Review : Ana Frango Elétrico – ‘Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua’ : Another high point for new wave MPB.

  • October 21, 2023
  • John Parry
Musician/producer Ana Frango Elétrico is one of the pivots of today’s kaleidoscopic Rio scene, who over the last few years has helped power the resurgence of Música Popular Brasileira (MPB).…
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Track/Video : Rio producer Ana Frango Elétrico announces new album with delicious, disco-funking single ‘Electric Fish’

  • August 24, 2023
  • John Parry
Now here’s more signs that the MPB new wave shows no intention of turning tide. Musician/producer Ana Frango Elétrico, one of the key pivots of today’s kaleidoscopic Rio scene is…
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Album Review: Nkono Teles – Love Vibration : remembering the man who put synth into Afro-boogie.

  • March 27, 2023
  • John Parry
May be less celebrated than William Onyeabor or Jake Sollo, you could say that keyboardist Nkono Teles was similarly fundamental to Nigeria’s electro pop explosion in the eighties. Well, Soundway…
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News: ‘Midnight Street Special’- Afro boogie magic from Nkono Teles ahead of his stellar retrospective ‘Love Vibration’.

  • February 27, 2023
  • John Parry
Behind a seminal scene there’s often a super producer, a sound shifter who gets the credit listing but sometimes not the credit. Now Soundway Records are set to introduce another…
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Premiere: We get exclusive access to Keelan X’s new single ‘Fever’; an infectious, burning, disco-infused blast.

  • July 28, 2022
  • Arun Kendall
We are proud to exclusively unveil the new single ‘Fever’ from Ireland artist Keelan X, former member of The Marigolds. ‘Fever’ very much has an eighties genetic link with its…
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EXCLUSIVE: BOBLEBAD EXCLUSIVE TAKEOVER MIX FOR BACKSEAT MAFIA AHEAD OF HIS NEW LP ‘Rund I Kantene’

  • May 5, 2022
  • Adrian Barr
Ahead of the release of his new LP, ‘Rund I kantene’ which drops 27th of May on Beatservice Records, we are delighted to have a Takeover Mix from Oslo based…
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Premiere: Robotikus is ‘Out Of Love’ – a shimmering disco pop collaboration with KOWL and Calypso from the outer reaches of the world.

  • November 25, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Like rays of sunshine filtering through gum tree branches, the new track ‘Out Of Love’ from Robotikus, collaborating with fellow Hobart residents Cal Young (KOWL) and vocalist Calypso, is a…
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