Earful: March 4th, 2010

Music Update: March 4th, 2010

The recent earthquake in Chile was so colossal it tilted the Earth's axis permanently and caused it to rotate faster, which means all of our days just got shorter by 1.26 microseconds. That's one way to up the Tempo.....

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The Funk
featured: artist. Bang Bang / label. Sampled




"Keep It Original" is a great way to get it started, partly for the meaning and also because its the new release on Guesthouse from one half of RANDOM SOUL, HUSKY, and features a remix from the other exports from Down Under, THE HOUSE INSPECTORS; the longtime staple of quirky, funky house, THE FREAKS, release a collection of classics on "Best of Times" for MFF; the techno cowboy, BRETT JOHNSON, appears on Q-BURNS Eight-Tracks with his signature beats and bump on "Missing You"; MONOMAN shows his versatility with the "Nasty FM" LP; JT DONALDSON is "Getting Up" on Amenti; "Drugmules" is the latest beater from the HOODFELLAS for their Smoke City label; "Sexy Memories" from CHRONIC FLAKES comes from one of our favorite labels, Bosconi; BYRON FOXX has "Soul Fever" on Monokini; with four tracks in the Top 10, WATTIE GREEN is rapidly making noise--the Funky, Jazzy kind--on "Midnight Radio", his latest release on Spatula City; JOE SILVA & JOTA WAGNER give some "Thermal Shock" to Jota's Lunatic Jazz label; UNEAQ collaborate with COMBINED for "Where's My Bottle" on their Clique Trax label; the HAWT boys, EASILY INFLUENCED, remix JOHNNY KARTON's "Workbody" alongside MEL ROSARIO and PETE LeFREQ for Shak Digital; the popular French producer from London, GIOM, remixes FUNK MEDITERRANEO & ALEX AIUGELIO's "Special Thanks" on FLC Records; and returning after a three year hiatus from putting out some of the funkiest West Coast house tracks from a long line of producers--LAWNCHAIR GENERALS, THE RURALS, JT DONALDSON, RITHMA, BLACKSOUL, EAST COAST BOOGIEMEN to name a few--Los Angeles based label Deepfunk is back with SLEAZY McQUEEN's "Deep Blue Voodoo" exclusive to Stompy.

Staff Picks of the Week for The Funk

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Soul Full
featured: artist. Scott Wozniak / label. Real Tone




We're thrilled to add Pooled Music, the label from one of the underground's House legends, IAN POOLEY, whose latest release is a collaboration with another leading Deep house light, MATTHIS VOGHT of MOTORCITYSOUL, for "Aviator"; Toronto's JOJO FLORES remixes MARIM's "Rio Pinturas House" for Cabana; the jazzy vibe of DAGUI RODANN & TIMOTHEE MILTON's "Papa" is out on Seasons; Compost doles out "Fiction Jar" from EDDY MEETS YANNAH, a joyful fusion of sophisticated soul, urban beats and future jazz, whose featured guests include rhyme spitter Capitol A, UK Garage master Zed Bias and Ras T-Weed from the legendary Rockers HiFi; it's "About Time" from FUDGE FINGAS, a taster of his forthcoming debut album on Prime Numbers; KONDI releases the deep gem "What You Want" as a digital one-side on House Cafe; WIL MILTON & RODNEY CARTER ream up again for the Soul Full "Future In Our Music"; RESTLESS SOUL remixes "Captured" for Soul Heaven; Open Bar gets into the South Beach vibe with JAE VYNEL's "Sax Over Miami"; JAY TRIPWIRE double-downs on his Tonality label, CHRISTIAN SOULE's "A Soul Journey..." and the G-Family's "Deep From the Crate"; smooth afro grooves and chants on AMBROSIO DINERO's "Afriteka" on Vintage Vibe; "The Muck" is the latest NYC Soul release from RAFFA & TAFFA on Ruben Mancias' Devotion; "Acid Andy" Compton gets down on his Peng label--check out Andy working it out in the studio on the Stompy YouTube channel; and RON TRENT celebrates "16 years of Prescription" with a collection of classics from the vault.

Staff Picks of the Week for Soul Full

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Tek
featured: artist. Sebo K / label. Love Letters from Oslo




This week we welcome with open arms CARL CRAIG's peerless dance label Planet E, one of the most influential Tek labels ever. The first release added, fittingly, is "Art Love & War" from Detroit-to-San Francisco-back-to-Detroit's MONTY LUKE, with Carl remixing it under his C2 guise. Welcome to Stompy, Planet E. We also welcome the important London based label Safari Electronique, with ARNAUD LE TEXIER's "Perfumes of Our Dead Times"; JACUZZI BOYS' "De La Casa" is the most recent release for NICK CURLY's Cecille Numbers; MANIK's "Drink Your Juice" on Fresh Meat gets Moody with a WIRETAPPEUR remix; BROTHERS VIBE remixes "Salty Womb" for Rotary Cocktail; Barraca celebrate their second in the "Love Barraca Love Music" series with a continuation of all things groove related taking precedence; MARCO RESMANN gets "Remixed" by EMERSON TODD, HOLGER ZILSKE, ACUMEN and others for Upon You; already receiving huge support, RYAN CROSSON & GUTI drop the superb "Marimbaby" on Supplement Facts; LOPAZZ teams up with ALEX FLATNER for "Make Up Your Mind" on Cocoon; PAOLO DRIVER turns in "Flower Road" for Romania's Cimelde; three tracks from ANJA SCNEIDER on "iThought" for Mobilee; K ALEXI SHELBY throws down some techno for "I Can Go" on Detroit Grand Pubahs' Detelefunk label; Trenton release their "City Sounds Vol 1" comp, a collection of tracks from the likes of ALLAND BYALLO, TILL VON SEIN, REYNOLD and more; and it was just a matter of time that the funky minimal beats of M.IN made their debut on Loco Dice and Martin Buttrich's Desolat label, and that time is now with with "Sing and Blow At The Same Time".

Staff Picks of the Week for Tek

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Down-N-Out
featured: artist. Osborne / label. Future Classic




Twisted Disco this week from some excellent sources--THE REVENGE's "Curtis" is one of the hand picked selections on the new Wolf Music EP; RAY MANG gives his versions of "Jet Set" for Maxi Discs; PRINS THOMAS reworks "Since You Left" on Internasjonal; KHAN drops "Candygirl" for I Am Single; BISON shows us the "Way to LA" on Claremont 56; UMBO & BALATZ get their "Groove On" with some funky Broke Beat for Aniligital; Aus Music, WILL SAUL's more experimental sublabel from his Simple Music imprint, gets down with CORTNEY TIDWELL's "Palace", which also features a MICHEL CLEIS remix; and THE LOVE SUPREME's fantastic album "New Millennium Freaks" is out now on Tirk.

Staff Picks of the Week for Down-N-Out


Enjoy the Music!
-Stompy Crew

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