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Track: LA vocalist/composer Sharada Shashidhar announces new album ‘Soft Echoes’ with the succulent, sensitive title track.

You may have been lucky to have caught a glimpse of LA based vocalist/composer/producer Sharada Shashidhar’s debut EP ‘Rahu’ a few years ago. Here was a musician bringing something different…

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Album Review: MADELEINE – Sun Daughter EP : an intimate future soul statement, sparkling with intensity.

The nu-soul universe can seem dense at times, packed with talented starlets who often shine for the briefest spell. Standing out takes extra energy and individuality, a spark of distinction.…

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News: Manchester’s legendary Band on the Wall launches a singles club with the lush future soul of Mali Hayes’ ‘Forgive You’

A VENUE legendary across the North-West, with bands gracing its hallowed boards at least since a stage was installed 90 or so years ago (when it was The George &…

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Track: TOMÁ – ‘Blind War (feat. Ben LaMar Gay)’: eclectic future soul breaks herald a rising talent sans frontières

ATOM is the forthcoming and wholly anagrammatical album of the Austrian-based, Bulgarian-born leftfield beats investigator Tomá Ivanov, known for the purposes of music as TOMÁ. His particular thing, he tells…

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TRACK: Mndsgn covers Sofie’s ‘Truth Of The Matter’ – chilled Stones Throw soul funk

LA’S Mndsgn, the musician and producer who drops glimmering and floaty future funk soul for Stones Throw, has just shared a cover of “Truth Of The Matter” by stablemate Sofie.…

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SEE: Becky and the Birds – ‘Paris’: awesome Swedish future soul

LEAVING aside the Anglophone countries, there’s a cast-iron case that no other country has engaged with the world of post-1955 popular music quite like Sweden. There’s that acronymical band, two…

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Track / Video

Track: Crayon – Bones

Ahead of his forthcoming 4 track EP via seminal french label Rouche Musique, which drops on July 15th, Parisian illustrator turned producer/DJ Crayon has revealed a new track, Bones, taken…

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Music

Track: Seven Davis Jr – Good Vibes feat. Julio Bashmore

With his album, Universes, due out on 24th July via Ninja Tune, things are hotting up for future soul producer Seven Davis Jr, a man who had appeared on the…

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