Earful May 5th, 2010

Music Update: May 5th, 2010

Today is Cinco de Mayo, and any holiday where its required to drink Coronas and eat guacamole, you can count us in.

* click an image to get an earful of our featured artists and labels...

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The Funk
featured: artist. High Maintenance / label. Sploit




If you like it Funky, we got what you need--Jump Recordings goes back to their first release from 1998, "Skyler" from DJ JAZ, and resurrects it with fresh remixes from DJ SNEAK, UNEAQ and ARTURO GARCAS, exclusively at Stompy. DJ SNEAK's Magnetic also releases one from Sneak himself, "Something About Chicago", and one from the PHIL WEEKS & JOSS MOOG collaboration, "Not Over"; JAM FUNK "Gets On Down" for his second EP on Monokini; LAWNCHAIR GENERALS team up with the vocals of ALEXANDER EAST for "Talk To Me", with GIOM and RHYTHM PLATE delivering solid remixes; Portland, OR of all places has been turning out some quality House music of late, and PDX resident DJ FLIPSTA comes through with "You Sick Freak" on Forrest Avery's Serial Sickness label, who enlists CORDUROY MAVERICKS for the re-freak; GIANO is "Feeling Good" on Blatt Traxx, and the TOKA PROJECT mix has already been on the hot list; Patsada returns with "The Pimp Action Science"; the funky minimal sounds of OFF have been heating up lately, and "Moods" is their latest beater featuring MARCIN CZUBALA; Chicago producer HARRISON CRUMP issues the "Lost Files" for his Hump Records label; FUNK MEDITERRANEO continue their busy year on Round House with "RHD Presents"; and Spatula City presents its 21st release with the return of France's favorite sons BOBBY & KLEIN and their new record "French Toast", exclusively to Stompy.

Staff Picks of the Week for The Funk

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Soul Full
featured: artist. Pete Moss / label. Visions Inc




THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS, the wonderkids that aren't really kids anymore, release "Don't No Yet", the follow up EP to their previous hit on mentor DENNIS FERRER's Objektivity on a more darker vibe; Dennis also teams up with JEROME SYDENHAM this week on "MBall" for Jerome's Ibadan imprint, which also includes his mixes of MOTORCITYSOUL and ANTHONY COLLINS; MARK de CLIVE-LOWE is featured on TORTURED SOUL's "Do You Miss Me" for their TSTC label; the dubbed out sound of "Back to Dub" from IVAN I & JASON HOWELL is released on Jah Love; ANGEL RIZE gets some fine textures out of his latest EP "Dreaming of You"; COMBO drops "Amazone" on Heya Hi-Fi; Wazi Wazi is the latest spinoff from Moodmusic men SASSE and NILS PENNER as their deep house platform, and "Another EP" is an enjoyable touch of soul from PENNER & MUDER; Soul Heaven release NEIL PIERCE's "Relish Your Soul"; Jellybean Soul double down with two EP's, "You Bring Me Joy" from the 3 AMIGOS featuring GUY ROBIN and LAYABOUTS remixes, and followed up by "Share" from KENNY BOBIEN with ABICAH SOUL remixes; we're loving SEAN MCABE's retouches of "Reach Inside" for Restless Soul; and the Windy City's soul full label Smooth Agent drop the "Chicago EP V2", with singles from GENE HUNT, SOUTH OF ROOSEVELT, MEL HAMMON, and label boss SEAN SMITH.

Staff Picks of the Week for Soul Full

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Tek
featured: artist. Robert Dietz / label. Intacto




Up and coming Bulgarian producer KiNK is making serious noise with a rapidly expanding discography under an assortment of styles--from moody tech house like his debut EP on Ovum, "Rachel", to experimental trips, disco, and even smooth, deep house in the vein of his remix of LOVEBIRDS' "My Man" for Freerange. The superhero duo of SETH TROXLER and DEETRON power up with "Each Step" on Circus Company; Workshop celebrate release #10 with one of their finest to date from LOWTEC and RON DEACON; Tiefschwarz recruits dOP and RUEDE HAGELSTEIN to remix "Sick Liar/Pink Panther" for their Souvenir label; Spain's GARCYNOISE delivers "Disco Tech", two original tracks plus four effective DJ tools for the Spanish housemaster´s second collaboration Nacho Marco's Loudeast; MOODYMANC remixes "The Rough" from UK based Japanese producer TOMOKI TAMURA; "Live In Paris" features two tracks recorded live at CARL CRAIG's 2006 show in Paris, and alongside Carl is horn man WENDELL HARRISON, composer/pianist KELVIN SCHOLAR, and 'MAD' MIKE BANKS on keyboards providing a live twist; leading the charge for Welt Recordings "Various Artist EP 2" is the consistent Greek dynamo, ALEX CELLER, along with label head NIMA GORJI and Tokyo's AKIMO & ITTETSU; and we're happy to welcome French label Karat, which features artists like ARK and EDDIE C, and also German labels Suol, and Airdrop, which includes the likes of SOUL CLAP, TANNER ROSS, and AXEL BARTSCH. Add to your Picks, more to come.

Staff Picks of the Week for Tek


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Down-N-Out
featured: artist. Uptown Funk Empire / label. South City




Staff Picks of the Week for Down-N-Out


Enjoy the Music!
-Stompy Crew

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