Looking back, our trace is visible. We came a long way and through that road we kept 60 tracks, ten more than usual. November 2020 was rich in signature tracks, although the second confinement, although the impact this strange year has been having in all of us. But the artists didn’t stop, specially those who produce from dungeons to rooftops.
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Colonel Red and Lord Byron have been collaborating for some time, delivering their own brand of bouncy broken beat anthems and energetic live sets. Fluid Bounce is their collaborative project, now introducing the entirely self-produced Chapter 1 via Inner Tribe Records.
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Reaching his mogul status, ShunGu invites Dreamcastmoe, one of the most interesting artists currently hailing from the US, to write and sing over his brilliant productions. Temptation, via Trading Places Records, is one of the results of the most promising collaborative project of 2020.
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Gerald Mitchell and Billy Love are longtime figures in the dance music scene and have made a huge impact on Detroit house and techno. They are the Celebrity BBQ Sauce Band, now presenting an unique combination of soul, fusion and funk with electronic music.
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Light Headed is SaiR’s new album, released last friday. The multi-instrumentalist and producer from Porto has consistently delivered great modern-funk projects in the past years and Light Headed follows that tone, although exploring more soothing and relaxed textures.
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Dan Kye is Jordan Rakei’s mysteriously dancefloor focused moniker, now releasing his first LP entitled Small Moments, on Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section INTL, which is the result of new a life in London and lockdown experiments.
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Plug One is CoOp Presents’ highly awaited double-album compilation featuring a plethora of global talent from in and around the world of broken beat and beyond. The 17 tracks that compose it range from cosmic psych jazz, to classic UKG tweaks, to thought-provoking vibes, and to a veritable who’s who of 2020 bruk talent.
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Sankofa Season takes both artists to new heights as they seamlessly complement each other’s musical language. In six tracks, Ashong and Tatham criss-cross jazzy broken beats, neo soul and funky moments, crossing as well time, moving into their own distinct lane.
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Cherry picking a tree full of influences - from golden age hip hop, ‘90s House to leftfield jazzy sounds - Bonfim presents six sample based tracks, each one of them with its unique texture, representing in a perfect way the duo’s eclectic tastes.
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Jneiro Jarel’s work is distinctive, forward thinking, diverse in its influencing forces, with a special love for Afro-Latin-Brazilian rhythms. After A Thousand Years is a perfect fit into Far Out Recordings’ catalog, collecting and organizing those life-long ‘inspirations’.
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One of the leaders on the wave of musical talent coming from Italy, Vito Loperfido (a.k.a. Twovi) is not afraid of using inspiration from different sources. Panama, released via the Stockholm-based Omena Records, blends jazzy house vibes with intricate afro-latin-infused drum patterns into a very natural soundscape.
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"Not average, not nothing for the norm. This is for my true party people, my true club heads... that just wanna dance and jack. You know? Specially in…
What Up?"
Dedicated to those that…
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The navigation through o sótão’s October is easier through the month’s playlist, summarizing a high-karat-gold selection of the artists and projects we’ve showcased. The usual 50 tracks explore a variety of approaches to music, showcasing young promise’s magic and well-established virtuosity.
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Y Su Descarga Internacional picks up where 2018’s Love & Resistance left off, filled with disco and funk steeped in Afro Latin rhythms and influences, finding more genre defying dance floor amalgamations.
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Rooted in jazz, soul music and r&b, LTDBLBL008 carries a an ultra-super-smooth stamp on it, representing both artists’ vision of a sound shifting from classic to modern influences.
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Following What Up Doe? Vol. 1 on Shall Not Fade and Apron EP on Apron Records, the Atlanta producer joins Jeff Mill’s legendary Axis Records to deliver one of the albums of the year - one that we will come back to over and over again for many more -, Ambrosia.
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The Bacatá Extrapolation is Gordon’s latest project, marking his debut on the revered Shall Not Fade label, and is a groove-laden homage to his hometown, Bogotá. A must record from a must producer for all the house music fans out there.
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The sound present in the six tracks that compose Les Mouches is faithful to the band’s style, but with the new members Souleance’s sonic imprint becomes bigger, more realized and more formidable than ever.
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Providing high-karat remixes for a variety of artists recently, Fradinho now presents his first EP on the newly created Eclectic Beats Music label, jumping back to 2001 to recapture and release his first electronic track ever made - A Bright Future drops tomorrow.
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Via Apparel Music, Jazzyness is a carefree miscellaneous of jazzy sounds and virtuosities not failing for a second in the portrait of Kisk’s way of thinking music. Every track is a journey through the Italian producer musical mind and a perfect display of his influences.
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