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The tuffest unit, the TMLR aka Kaidi,Mr Mensah,Matt & dego drop more london boogie, afro funk and goodgood vibes.

Dope two tracker on Shanti Celeste's newly ripened Peach Discs from the lady herself...Shanti - I started Peach Discs because I feel like the time is right!!! I want to release music that makes me happy and build a little family with all my friends and friends of friends who I know are making great music. I also want this to eventually be my main home for releases. In the future there will be releases by a new Bristol duo called 'Fred' and a 12'' by Samuel as well as many others of course!The first release, by yours truly, has an emotional and energetic breaksy number on the A side and the B side is a more striped down - ish , tough and bass heavy cut with some vocal samples. Both full of twinkly melodies and arpeggios as per usual !

2nd volume of the now highly sought after Paradise Bangkok 45s series, of vintage luk thung and molam that have been released over the past 2 years, collected here for the 1st time - including 3 exclusive tracks that have never been reissued before! Exclusive insert designed and illustrated by Lewis Heriz: ‘Cosmology of Paradise Bangkok’ showing the musical connections between South and South East Asia, The Middle East and East Africa

Escapism II is a continuation of Gellaitry’s bright experimental production, following up to last year’s critically acclaimed Escapism EP..

First Word are keeping it moving for 2017 and welcoming Kaidi Tatham into the fold, with a firing four-track EP, 'Changing Times'.Kaidi is a talented multi-instrumentalist that's produced, featured, remixed and performed with an array of artists across numerous genres; jazz, soul, broken beat, hip hop and beyond.Perhaps best known for his work with Bugz In The Attic, 4Hero and Dego, his accomplished catalogue of musicianship can be heard amongst the likes of Amy Winehouse, Slum Village, Mulatu Astatke, Soul II Soul, Leroy Burgess, Amp Fiddler, Macy Gray, King Britt, DJ Spinna, Gene Harris, Mr Scruff, The Salsoul Orchestra, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Blu, Vikter Duplaix, Nathan Haines, Phil Asher, IG Culture and Eric Lau, to name a fraction.

Finally available again on a 7", two essential disco and soul cuts from Silvia Striplin orginally releases in 1980. Produced by Roy Ayers on his Uno Melodic label.A. 'Give Me Your Love'An umptemp disco groover for the more discerning dancefloor. Sylvia’s glorious vocals float over a sumptuous uptempo Roy Ayers tracj. Sampled by Armand Van Helden, Deepdown and Madd Rapper.B. 'You Can't Turn Me Away'A soul breakbeat classic. Deep downtempo business, this shows Roy Ayers at the height of his powers and Sylvia more than does the track justice. Beautiful!The instantly recognisable bassline was sampled by Notorious BIG/Junior Mafia on ‘Get Money’. Also sampled by Naughty By Nature and Backstreet Boys.

Mukatsuku launches into 2017 with two killer official reggae disco versions to ignite your jam ...

On their new 45, Mako & The Hawk take you back to a time when breaks were funky and rappers knew how to rhyme for a massive double dose of fresh original boom-bap. With beats forged from previously un-sampled (and legally cleared!) vintage funk breaks and emcee Chima 'The Doctor' Anya delivering lyrical wisdom, The Devil Made Me Do It and Strut Your Stuff are a pair of block-rocking jams to turn any party out!Mako & The Hawk bio.They might sound like a seventies cop show but Mako & The Hawk are always on the cut, producing and spinning floor-filling dirty funk and soul, old school hip-hop, reggae and party breaks.Since forming in 2009, the pair have had vinyl and digital releases on Breakbeat Paradise, Freestyle Records, Funk Blasters and Tour of Booty, garnered frequent radio plays on Craig Charles' BBC Radio 6 Funk And Soul Show, supported the likes of JStar and The Bongolian and held down a never-less-than-packed seven year long residency at Mr Wolf's in central Bristol.The Hawk is bassist for mod-funk legends and BBC Radio 2 darlings Big Boss Man, while Mako also produces as one half of Mako & Mr Bristow and is the long-running editor of music site monkeyboxing.com.This autumn will finally see the long-awaited vinyl seven inch release of their throwback boom-bap double A-side featuring rapper Chima Anya on beats created from never-previously-sampled early 70s Stateside funky soul."I've got a real soft spot for what this pair get up to!" (Craig Charles, BBC Radio 6)Chima Anya bio.Chima Anya is an internationally renowned emcee who time and again has proven to be ahead of the curve while simultaneously staying true to the foundation. When not blessing mics worldwide, he moonlights as a medical Doctor in the depths of south London.