EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Tinny - Zingolo (Doorly Remix)
Glass and a Half Full Records (populated by the good people behind this) is a new project supporting the campaign celebrating Cadbury Dairy Milk’s recent fair-trade certification. “Zingolo” features Ghanaian MC Tinny and Paul Epworth (Florence & The Machine, Friendly Fires) and its profits fund educational programs in cocoa growing communities in Ghana—where Cadbury’s been sourcing cocoa for 101 years. Below, check the Doorly remix—a big Afro-beat banger that gets nasty at the two-minute mark, and help the cause by purchasing the original here.
Sounds like: M.I.A., Major Lazer
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou - Malin Kpon O
Among reissue labels with a specific focus — a time, a place — you’ll find none finer than Analog Africa, a favorite of Afro-minded DJs and fans the world over. As its name implies, the imprint dusts off the jaw-droppingly rich and diverse treasures of Africa’s happening ’70s, and its next sack of gold (coming in November) is a must-must: the second volume exploring Benin’s crazily prolific Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou. Don’t think of this as “just” some Afro-beat excursion — these cats absorbed and mastered every style of music that flashed across their viewscreen. Prime evidence is “Malin Kpon O,” a 1975 jam supreme that Analog Africa has been cool enough to share with us, with hot guitar licks and psychedelic organ bursts arranged around a killer Afro-funk rhythm. This magic could not have been made anywhere else in the world.
DOWNLOAD: Gyratory System - Cargo Cult
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Why do people hate Mark Ronson so much? The Londoner seems to attract an extraordinary amount of bile for someone whose arrangements are so basically inoffensive. Perhaps Ronson's problem is that his strings are just too heroic, to the extent that at times they appear to come tooting and parping from between Lois Lane's legs. Superman, as we all know, is incredibly boring. Not just the most boring of all superheroes, but probably more boring than 75 per cent of the mortal population, among which lurk Gyratory System, whose strings are anything but heroic - the instrumental quartet's sound is paranoid and pent-up, reassuringly human. For them, strings wriggle and throb like fraying nerves. They'll probably never have to worry about stopping a runaway train or get to gunge-race prime-era Teri Hatcher, but they're infinitely more interesting than Superman and that's what counts.
Sounds Like: Emperor Machine, Talking Heads, Valerio Cosi in a rush
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STREAM: NOMO - All The Stars + More
If only our home-made instruments sounded so fresh! A full-on orchestral band, with trumpet, home-made percussion, and a load of ‘distinct’ instruments, Michigan-based NOMO is walking in plain of its own in terms of musical style. Yes, they make it very clear their music ISN'T intended to be afrobeat, jazz, funk, but they may be closest analogies you're able to draw on the fly. Whatever they may be, their laced and looped rhythms and ambitious, animated syncopated beats urge you to groove, shimmy, jive and/or rumba. Check it below.
SOUNDS LIKE: ENO, Can, Kuti, Funkadelic
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