BALANCE #570 (Hosted by Spacewalker)
Into the first days of summer 2022 with Spacewalker and the latest edition of Balance! On this month’s show expect new music from Ron Trent and his WARM project, Broken Keys with a new single, The Pro-Teens and their bumping version of DOOM’s Doomsday, Retromigration bringing the broken beat vibes, …
MIMS Guest Mix: Mambele x Rosie From the Block (Brussels, Belgium)
Today we have over an hour of soulful body-moving inspiration, mixed by two of our favourite new producers, Mambele and Rosie From The Block, both fresh from hot releases on Vice City. Perfect for fans of broken beat and forward thinking soulful house. Rosie tells us: “Mambele and I got …
Exclusive Premiere: B-ahwe “Fall Into” (apltn Remix)”
Upcoming UK neo soul starlet B-ahwe returns with a tasty remix of “Fall Into”, one of our favourite tracks from her 2021 ‘Motions EP’, by Leeds beatmaker apltn. Leeds’ experimental hip-hop and nu-jazz producer apltn is a mainstay of exciting label start-up ‘Well Overdue’, and is a long-term collaborator of …
Exclusive Premiere: John Beltran “A Dança da Manhã”
Today’s premiere comes from Detroit’s John Beltran, one of the most respected figures in electronic music, with a catalogue of key releases spreading across three decades. The past 3 decades or so have seen many electronic music artists come and go, but one name who has certainly established many spaces …
Exclusive Premiere: EABS “Dead Silence”
Latin-tinged jazz grooves with a modal edge on “Dead Silence” from EABS forthcoming ‘2061’ album on Astigmatic. Another essential release from our favourite Polish jazz ensemble. If one was to interpret the whole output of EABS in general, an inquisitive listener would notice that each subsequent album stems from the …
Shabaka debuts solo project on ‘Afrikan Culture’ EP
Acclaimed saxophonist, philosopher, bandleader, and musician Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, the Ancestors), now professionally known as Shabaka across all solo musical efforts, today releases his first major label solo body of work, ‘Afrikan Culture’ on the legendary Impulse Records. Entirely written by Shabaka, the eight-track …
Video Premiere: Silvan Strauss “Shades” (Forthcoming on Kabul Fire)
Today’s video premiere sees drummer/composer, Silvan Strauss, performing a live take on forthcoming single “Shades” – recorded live at Cineteatro Scala, Maputo, Mozambique, featuring Muhamago on mbira and electronics. Crunchy Madlib-soaked beats, pulsing contemporary jazz and analogue studio fx collide on 2021 Hamburg Jazz Prize winner and drummer/composer, Silvan Strauss’s …
Video Premiere: Los Kenya “Record en TV”
Olindo Records sister label Música Infinita presents the raw and uncompromising Afro Latin sound of Ray Perez and Los Kenya, one of the most interesting groups to spring out of the Venezuelan salsa scene in the late sixties, with a brand new remaster of their debut album ‘Siempre Afro-Latino’ set …
Exclusive Premiere: Ayala (IT) “Fuse”
An exciting premiere this afternoon as we introduce Italian producer and musician, Ayala, and the laidback grooves of “Fuse”, forthcoming on Batov Records. The third taste from Ayala’s forthcoming ‘Views’ release, “Fuse” is a full-bodied slow groover, the steady Afrobeat rhythm and bassline complimented by laidback horns and synths. Francisco …