Music Update: September 15th, 2010

Music Update: September 15th, 2010

With so much music this week, we're just going to get right into it.

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

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The Funk
featured: artist. Brett Johnson / label. Oomph




For THE FUNKy ones--The young talent of SOUL DE MARIN has made quite a name for himself this year, appealing to multiple genres and several chart topping hits. He displays his hard work with two EP's this week, "On A Swing" for Lingo, with remixes from EMIL LANNE and JONN HAWLEY, and "Los Shuffles" for Funkfield; FILTA FREQZ get their "Salsa Dip" on; Australia's Brain Kat presents the Acid sounds of "Second Summer" returning JORES to the roster and introducing his techier alter ego JAMIE D; Trendy Mullet enlist DREW TEMPEST and TOM ELLIS to remix "That Feeling"; MR CLEAN's "I'm Sneaky" gets remixed from KANE IAN, MR PIRATED and MIKE JULES; promising young label Chronic Beats comes through with CAMOUFLAGE's "Lockdown in the Funk Bunker"; the unique funk of D'EXPERIMENT's "Home Made" has its own flavor; Black 'N Pink's second release "Shake It" is a sweet package from UNEAQ, 4PEACE and HOKUS; BRETT JOHNSON's spooky "Ghosts" gets remixed from LIL MARK and NONFICTION; and after a recent trip overseas, DJ SNEAK and MONOMAN got together and busted out a slew of tracks, and "Need Your Lovin" is the first EP to come from their new STEREO GANGSTAZ alias.

Staff Picks of the Week for The Funk

Check the full list of Features in THE FUNK

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Soul Full
featured: artist. Ian Friday / label. Stellar




For the Deep and SOUL FULL catz--the legendary Downtown 161 label opens up their vaults of classics, and the first to hit the digital shelves is "Running Around" from KERRI CHANDLER's alias TRAILER ENDS, with many more from their extensive catalog to come. Malaysia's Love International offers up a soulful house excursion under the influence of label boss RAYSOO and "Rock With U"; two of Brazil's most celebrated names in the underground, AZEE & CLUADIO MANSUR, release "AfroBR" for Discotehque exclusive to Stompy; HARD MIX is under the "Influence Vol 4"; the latest release from red hot Loco is the splendid "Summer Start" by MARTIJN; the immaculate vocals of PEVEN EVERETT's "Inspiration" get the TIMMY REGISFORD workout; GENE HUNT's versatility shines through on "The Hunt is on"; "The Sound" is jazzy, deep house from JUSTIN IMPERIALE on his Cabana label; and heavy hitters MR V, JON CUTLER, DJ SMASH are featured on the "I'll House You Album: Volume 1".

Staff Picks of the Week for Soul Full

Check the full list of Features in SOUL FULL

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Tek
featured: artist. Dyed Soundorom / label. Look Long




For the Moody and TEK players--A regular in the sets of the worlds biggest DJ's, ACUMEN teams up with TIMID BOY for "You Make Me" on 2000 And One's new Bitten label; Kisk's ONEBOY project seems to have entered a time machine with the funk and improvisation of "Phus1ony" with a LOPAZZ remix; AUDIOJACK's new Gruuv label drops the taste of jackin house on KID CULTURE's "Summer EP"; for the third Cadenza Labs release, they present an old friend from the Geneva scene, DARIA and his "Santeria EP"; DEEPCHILD turns in a super remix of "Foundation" for Opossum; TwoBirds release their compilation "Mid Summer Digits"; local SF label Auralism drop THE TOURIST's "Lack Out"; MILTON JACKSON's "Beautiful Liars" is moody tech house from a master; and CARL CRAIG rounds up ten of Planet E's finest releases for the first label compilation in years, "Modular Music Vol 1".

Staff Picks of the Week for Tek

Check the full list of Features in TEK

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Down-N-Out
featured: artist. Modaji / label. Spacetalk




For the DOWN 'N OUT flavors--After heavy anticipation following his Resident Advisor podcast, THE REVENGE remixes of "Forever in their Debt" is now available on Home Taping is Killing Music; "Tuff Enuff" is the first single from SHIT ROBOT's forthcoming album on DFA; the NIGHTRIDERS and TOMMIE SUNSHINE remix "Wounded Valentine"; opting to take on Bangalter and Christo's equally recognisable 'Around The World' the DROP OUT CITY ROCKERS embellish the five instrumental parts with vintage live sounding disco dust for the "International Track"; MIGHTY MOUSE release "Disco Circus 2" with 30 tracks of top tier Disco; MARK E is the first to remix MATTHEW DEAR's "Little People" off of his Ghostly album; filled with swagger and 70's style Italo, Aniligital is back with their third compilation of "All Your Beats"; and UK Disco band ATMOSFEAR compiles material from their famed Elite label for their prolific "Dancing In Outer Space" album.

Staff Picks of the Week for Down-N-Out

Check the full list of Features in Down-N-Out


Enjoy the Music!
-Stompy Crew

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