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Premiere: ‘I Just Knew Her As Ma’ – The Great Emu War Casualties confess a greater need for maternal contact in a brilliant funky pop blast.

One of our favourite antipodean indie outfits, Naarm/Melbourne band The Great Emu War Casualties (now a four piece) are back with a bit of bang with their new single ‘I…

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Track/Video : Producer/drummer SHOLTO previews incoming cinematic soul ep ‘The Changing Tides Of Dreams’ with the dramatic ‘Vampire’.

You’ve probably latched onto the music of producer, composer, drummer and instrumentalist Oscar ‘SHOLTO’ Robertson, many times without ever knowing it. He was part of the indie/r&b leaning, Deltasonic-signed Hidden…

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Gallery: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic – Seattle, Wa – 30.07.23

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic this past Sunday night brought the “Just for the Funk of It!” tour to the historic Paramount Theatre in Seattle Washington. The packed theatre was…

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Album Review : Huw Marc Bennett – Days Like Now : Folktronica, funk and global beats make inspired new connections

Welsh producer and bassist Huw Marc Bennett is one of those orbital artists who washes up on your essential listening zones with a tidal regularity. A global beats innovator and…

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Track: Crash & the Crapenters Get Funky on New Single

Crash and the Crapenters Get Funky

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Album Review: McNeal and Niles – ‘Thrust’/ Wilbur Niles and Thrust – ‘Thrust Too’ : Late seventies lo-fi funk gems re-discovered.

Super curators We Are Busy Bodies are at it again, digging up those buried sounds and the forgotten stories from music’s underground archive. Last year saw them spotlight Almon Memela’s…

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Album Review: Nkono Teles – Love Vibration : remembering the man who put synth into Afro-boogie.

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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Album Reviews: Claude Cooper & Brain Fog – More Myriad Sounds : Raucous rhymes and blistering jazz breaks make for one rebellious reworking.

Ah yes, the mysterious Claude Cooper – one person or many, illusive or illusion, prankster or producer, rumoured from Bristol but maybe not…still one thing is for certain, last year…

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News/Tracks: Coming soon – two lo-fi funk lost gems ‘Thrust’ and ‘Thrust Too’, kickstarting an overdue retrospective of Wilbur Niles seminal grooves.

A label that does the crate digging for you, Toronto’s We Are Busy Bodies have announced a gold dust reissue series shining a light on the work of guitarist/producer Wilbur…

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News: Dakota Jones release new single ‘Sugar Pie’

Easing you into the new year are Brooklyn’s very own Dakota Jones, who make their come back with new single ‘Sugar Pie’.‘Sugar Pie’ is the first new music from the acclaimed…

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