Slowed Down Paranoid Funk
When it comes to pushing musical boundaries Delroy Edwards is as real as they come because, quite frankly, he doesn't seem to care about, what you or anyone else thinks. If you can't feel what he's feeding you, then you're free to go eat somewhere else. But if you're willing to try, to listen and...
Blameful Isles
While preparing a recent post on Heidelberg’s Radio Juicy imprint and browsing through their superb selections, I came upon “The Soft Weed Factor” mix by Blameful Isles, which struck me quite simply as different: distinct yet familiar, rooted in a jazz-drenched souliverse of crisp rhythms and melodic bliss, here were sounds most definitely worth exploring....
The Juice Bar
Straight from the juicy green hills of Heidelberg comes this fruitful imprint, peddling the freshest produce from Germany’s burgeoning underground Hiphop scene. Officially clouding the airwaves since 2012 Radio Juicy was initially launched as a weekly radio show, but with the support of like-minded Urban Waves Records, quickly evolved into a top-notch record label, releasing...
Obaa Sima
Who else but the Awesome Tapes From Africa is now re-distributing this funkified, lo-fi production, an amazing find made by AFTA label founder Brian Shimkovitz back in 2002. Originally released in Ghana in 1994, the tape and its unique Afrodisco aesthetic went more or less unheard of for a rough 21 years.