Album Review: “This Is F–king Nice” – Heptet

Ashley Slater released an album called “This Is F–king Nice” with his band Heptet and I decided to write a track by track breakdown. Turn On Tune In Cop Out This Is Fucking Nice by HipKit Records To open the album this is a track that takes me back to the summer of 1995, and …

Single Review: “Some Birds Don’t Fly” – Gotts Street Park

This has such a nice warmth around the production, it feels like it has been recorded using analogue. This is pure soul transporting you back to the early 70s with that vocal. With every listen I suspect that a mellotron was involved for that flute sound that’s being played. If you don’t know what that …

Fresh Faves: Batch 607

Here’s another batch of tracks from the Fresh Faves thisweek. BARELO, ANTREX & SUSIE LEDGE – Rewind Sekora · Rewind I’m not entirely sure who BARELO, ANTREX and SUSIE LEDGE are as any info leads me back to the Sekora label. They do have an interesting site though with audio packs for serum which could …

Track Of The Day: “The Emergence” – Jon Onabowu

Wow. From the intro to the end, what we have here is an instrumental track that fuses futuristic jazz sensibilities with leanings towards chords you can only have learned in church. Shout out Aaron Lindsey, Tom Brooks and those uncles that guided us through those hours of rehearsals. Anyway, the synth lead and guitars take …

Fresh Faves: Batch 605

ANNA BLAISE – We’ll Be King  Anna Blaise · We'll Be King Anna Blaise is a newcomer to fresh on the net and brings a down tempo synth track with an ethereal vocals. This also appears to be her debut single! In any case double congratulations on making the faves as well as her debut! …

Fresh Faves: Batch 604

I wrote the faves reviews for fresh on the net this week so I thought I’d publish them here. BUTTER FUNK FAMILY – Love Power Printz Board · Love Power (feat. Nadav Peled) To kick off this week’s faves we have a psychedelic funk track that takes us all the way back to the early …

Track Of The Day: “We Are The People” – Oli Rockberger X Laura Mvula

Oli Rockberger is back with a track that’s soul stirring but then that’s on brand for him. But he’s not alone he brings along Laura Mvula for the ride too. She reduces me to a blubbery mess with “Father Father” so her contribution here already told me before I hit play that this was going to be …

Track Of The Day: “Touch By An Angel” – Maxi Priest

Maxi Priest has landed with a track that goes classic in its style – you have the one drop beat, the horn section the layered harmonies, organ and electric piano rounding it out along with the guitar lick and bassline for you to groove on. This has summer written all over it and Maxi brings …

Track Of The Day – “Can We Make It Real?” – Manny Norte X Ayanna

This is a new one from Manny Norte and Ayanna, and it slaps. This is based around an afrobeat groove, and it’s smooth, you can tell they cooked it up for the summer because it gets you dancing immedately even if your’e not in the mood. What caught my attention was the Neo soul chord …

Track Of The Day: “Can We Make It Real?” – Manny Norte X Ayanna

This is a new one from Manny Norte and Ayanna, and it slaps. This is based around an afrobeat groove, and it’s smooth, you can tell they cooked it up for the summer because it gets you dancing immedately even if your’e not in the mood.  What caught my attention was the Neo soul chord …