Soul, R&B, Lounge

DJ Nob Tee aka Dugsoul - Dear My Soul

DJnob tee_aka_dugsoulThe soul is the totality of all temotions and mental processes in humans. Music can be the road that leads through the soul. A path through life. DJ Nob Tees new album "Dear My Soul" is a reflection of the musician on his own being in the past, present and future, a letter to his own soul. "Dear My Soul" returns to his own mind. The musical outlines are rock classics in which jazz, and funk elements beyond all genres. Warm tones that heat the heart.

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nor elle - 2nd home - mole

nor elle-2nd_HomeThe space is defined by three dimensions. Height, width and depth. Likewise, ll the physical processes are playing in space. A space is also a home. nor elle (aka Terry Lee Brown Junior) is a master of space and home. No other musician has developed such a perfect sounddesign in all dimensions on his albums. The innovation is to fill the same four walls always with new fresh colors, shapes, objects, and above all with the magical depth. The result is a work of art, that flatters the senses and creates an unprecedented well-being, that goes far beyond a simple listening over.

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Lloyd McNeill - Washington Suite

Universal Sound are releasing this extremely rare and in demand deep, spiritual jazz album, Lloyd McNeill’s ‘Washington Suite’. The CD and album are bespoke original cover art reproductions. The CD comes in limited deluxe hardback Jap style gatefold card. The heavyweight vinyl pressing is very limited to 1000 worldwide. Flautist and composer Lloyd McNeill is also a distinguished American painter, poet, and photographer born in Washington, D.C., in 1935. His multi-disciplinary creative life has led to encounters and friendships with Nina Simone, Picasso, Eric Dolphy, Nana Vasconceles and other legendary cultural figures.

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Ohm-G - Big Surprise

Ohm-G - Big SurpriseOHM-G alias Olaf Gutbrod is a well-known name in the music scene. Vangelis or Vaya Con Dios estimate his work and his remixes just as much as Blank & Jones and many others. The artist OHM-G is in great demand for successful compilations, his involvement in the well-known chill out "Café Del Mar", on the “Klassik Lounge” CDs, in the "Clubber´s Guide to Ibiza" (Ministry of Sound) or in "Le Café Abstrait" speaks for itself. With his albums, OHM-G offers always evidence for his unbelievable versatility, his overflowing creativity and his obviously never-ending fund of ideas. Olaf Gutbrod sees himself as a story-teller, he exposes a lot of his inner life and tries to make you hear a moment in an acoustical form - which he manages in an extraordinary way. The source of Gutbrod´s inspiration is his life. He has traveled a lot, got to know and learned to love a variety of countries and cultures. At the moment, he lives on the sunny island of Ibiza on the Balearic Islands.

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Yonderboi - Passive Control

After long years of work the author of unique and successful albums “Shallow and Profound” (2000) and “Splendid Isolation” (2005) is back with his new long-player, “Passive Control”, which is considered to be the third, closing part of the trilogy. “Passive Control” is another typical contradictory, multilayered Yonderboi title that can be explained in different ways. One of them refers to the constantly changing and unpredictable economical/social situation of today, which is witnessed by most of us inertly, hoping that this recession-thing “gets sorted out” soon. The album’s opening song “Sustainable Development” is an equally beautiful and sarcastic interpretation of this phenomenon, featuring the suggestive voice of Edward Ka-Spel - who can be familiar already from the previous album’s closing song “Even if you are victorious”.   “Passive Control” could also describe the typical mindset that social networking sites create. You sign up, put yourself in the little showroom, and then you WAIT. Like fishing. Sometimes you throw in some bait, but secretly you hope that one day something unexpected will pull the other end of the line.”  And the above-mentioned method is not just a plain theoretic observation, as it was also used in practice. Actually, Yonder found the album’s female voice via myspace: the previously unreleased young German singer Charlotte Brandi. The goal was to create the sister-sequel of “Splendid Isolation”, so having female voice on the new album was of key importance. Like every Yonderboi record “Passive Control” is as well a diverse, story-like collection of songs, with a strong personal background. Even though the eleven songs are spread on a large-scale of styles, compared to the earlier works it is a bit less eclectic. Yonder produced and mixed the entire record alone in his Budapest home studio, the aim was to develop a more electronic and skeletonized version of his sound. He used to play a decisive role on the visual side too, but this time he took everything into his own hands, he shot all the photos and designed the cover himself.   The whole album has an elusive feel of utopia, which can be explained easily by Yonder’s love for science fiction ever since he was a kid. Jean Gireaud Moebius the legendary French comics artist, Russian sci-fi movie “Kin-Dza-Dza”, or Hungarian cult-film “Meteo” are just a few examples that inspired him during the making of “Passive Control”.   “One of my very favorite subjects is how they imagined today’s world in the past, which was the future for them. It is funny to live in the “future” and to compare how much it didn’t end up as they imagined… “After long years of work the author of unique and successful albums “Shallow and Profound” (2000) and “Splendid Isolation” (2005) is back with his new long-player, “Passive Control”, which is considered to be the third, closing part of the trilogy. “Passive Control” is another typical contradictory, multilayered Yonderboi title that can be explained in different ways. One of them refers to the constantly changing and unpredictable economical/social situation of today, which is witnessed by most of us inertly, hoping that this recession-thing “gets sorted out” soon. The album’s opening song “Sustainable Development” is an equally beautiful and sarcastic interpretation of this phenomenon, featuring the suggestive voice of Edward Ka-Spel - who can be familiar already from the previous album’s closing song “Even if you are victorious”.

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Delorean Suite - Love & Sincerity (The Remixes)

DeLorean Suite_Love_and_Sincerity_The_RemixesDeLorean Suite, a three-piece Band from Limerick, Ireland consisting of Jennifer McMahon (Vocals), Tony Roche (Drums/Percussion) and Graham Conway (Keyboards/Production). The trio have spent several years crafting a laid-back, subtle sound which seeks the amalgamation of genres as varied as house, downtempo, nu-jazz and R'n'B. The result is a dynamic blend of soulful grooves, punctuated by tight percussion and delicate synth textures which has found its way already to labels like Slip 'N' Slide and Sofitone. DeLorean Suite made their mark with Craic House Recordings as part of its Sampler Vol. 1 vinyl release.

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Thundercat - The Age Of Apocalypse

Thundercat - The Age Of ApocalypseThe highly anticipated debut album from vocalist and bassist Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint. Thundercat has worked with everyone from thrash metal band Suicidal Tendencies, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg to Stanley Clarke. Influenced by George Duke, Roy Ayers and Weather Report, 'The Age Of Apocalypse' is fundamentally an electro-jazz-funk fusion album brought into 2011 with abstract electronics and syncopated drumming. A hippy, laidback, spacey grooove feel to this!

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