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Featured Events Manchester 

D.R.E.A.M. Ring @ Manchester International Festival

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…Man is chosen by each pair of dancers. 3) Groups: We will be looking for 2 groups to compete against each other. Each group can have up to 8 members, and can perform choreographed group sequences and individual solos. Music for the groups is selected by the DJ. JUDGING The D.R.E.A.M. Ring will be judged by Brooklyn-based Flex dance pioneer Reggie ‘Regg Roc’ Gray and a team of specially assembled judges, who will be looking for creativity, innovati…

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New Music 

Preview: WU-TANG x D-BLOCK // Wu Block

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…tor’s note – the iTunes link only works if you have a US ID) LEGENDARY RAP GROUPS WU-TANG CLAN AND D-BLOCK JOIN FORCES TO RELEASE “WU-BLOCK” ON OCTOBER 8, 2012 Two of hip-hop’s most storied groups, Wu-Tang Clan and D-Block, will collaborate on a new album to be released through eOne Music in North America and Modulor in Europe. “Wu-Block”, the new album, will be released on October 8th, 2012 and features Ghostface Killah, Sheek Louch, Method Man,…

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News 

terry callier live

…singing on the streets of Chicago as a member of several competing doo-wop groups. Chess Records first recorded him in 1963, releasing the single Look At Me Now. Since then his heart-felt jazz and soul-fuelled compositions have delighted fans across the world. His numerous recordings include the classic 1972 album What Colour Is Love and the 1978 album Fire On Ice featuring the soul masterpiece African Violet. Retiring from music in 1983, his care…

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Featured Events Manchester 

M20 Collective’s Pop-Up this Friday, Antwerp Mansion: Interview

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…cene, or is it all a little too disparate? There are small communities and groups of people that could do with being better connected and knowing each other, not just in a “bump in to each other at a party way”, but in a let’s do something, let’s start a project, let’s make something together way which needs to happen more everywhere. We appreciate this is hard, easier said than done, but we hope to provide this platform for people. Poet Chris Jam…

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New Music 

New Music / Pan Amsterdam: Kubrick

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…Music Vol. 1 which featured Open Mike Eagle and Iggy Pop. Def Pressé are putting the single out now, but it will soon appear on a series of albums by Savage Virtual Orchestra, a collective brought together by Lear. SVO features MCs from groups like Hieroglyphics, Freestyle Fellowship, D12, Oldominion and Blackalicious. Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share…

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beats electronic hip hop Manchester 

New Music / Star Slinger: Home Is Where We Start From

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…nges of hip-hop, soul and house music. Sampling everything from 50’s vocal groups to jazz standards to pscyhedelic rock to my drunken podcast interview with King Krule & my 5 year old daughter’s voice. On a deeper level, home is the most important place on earth for most of us.     -Star Slinger   Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in…

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beats hip hop Interviews Manchester 

Interview / AVER preps Dressed For CCTV on Village Live Records

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…r 2 with additional TNC favourites added in after, the album serves as our groups first vinyl release. It came as part of a double EP release with the other disc being a solo venture I made which is a piece of work I am still very happy with and I love the lyrics, though due to my terrible ability at promo, not many people heard it   Instrumentals series – These are my annual cutting room floor clearance selections. Anything that’s been sat around…

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African soul funk Interviews jazz Manchester 

Groovement Interview / Agbeko prep their first vinyl release

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…izes tends to make for quite a spectacle, inherently. There’s so many good groups around the city but not a lot of afrobeat-influenced music being made. I guess we slot in there, even if the music is beginning to move away from that more than it used to.   I think the thing I’m most proud of with respect to the group is how it’s fuelled this coming together of people… we’re now almost growing fond of one another. If I wasn’t such a cynic, I’d say…

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Latin soul vinyl 

On Wax: Ondatrópica / Baile Bucanero / Soundway Records

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…ues between Calypso and Gaita, Accordion and Lapsteel, Clave and Mandolin, even synthesizer and a horse’s jaw bone. Between the two locations a total of 35 musicians were recorded, and in true tradition of the Onda style, all came from very different backgrounds, musical styles and age groups. A group of musicians transformed into buccaneers, raising a toast to their treasure: melodies and grooves.   Here’s the video for Hummingbird, the first sin…

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hip hop Manchester New Music vinyl 

On Wax? Help fund Chalk’s next release on vinyl

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…together with his crew TNC (one of Manchester’s most vital and fundamental groups) he set a new standard for the city’s lyricists. Now he’s ready for the follow up, and needs your help. Over to Chalk: Hello to all my present or future fans. If you already know me then you will know that I have already independently released one record: Chalk – One For Being Me. At the time I spent all my savings getting that record pressed and it is so far my grea…

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hip hop New Music 

Introducing: The Lytics

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The Lytics’ new EP Hold On has just dropped and is a precursor to the groups third studio album, due for release later this year. Heavily influenced by golden age crews such as The Pharcyde and Tribe, their sound pays tribute to their forefathers without being derivative. Check their music out below! THE LYTICS FACEBOOK TWITTER Download the album They Told Me:   The Lytics are currently on tour, hitting the UK next week: April 21 2016 Clapham – S…

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Featured Events Interviews Manchester New Music 

Interview: Smif-N-Wessun x Band On The Wall

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…than released since we formed in 2000. These are some upcoming artist and groups I am currently working with, Genesis I., 7ven HD, Vvs Verbal, Coke, Louie Skaggs, Mar’rz and (Araminta) Moon Atomz. Under the Bucktown USA Entertainment umbrella, Cynical is company manager and program director for BeatminerzRadio.com. We also have a few documentaries and short films in production as well. Although dealing with the loss of Sean Price has been a diffi…

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Interviews 

Groovement Interview // DJ Yella

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…id it, there was very little competition. And, you think about it, all the groups from back then, everybody had their own style. Own sound, own style, own lyrics, whatever it was. Nowadays, there’s a lot of people sounding the same. It sounds like the same producer producing most of the tracks. Then the Kendricks, and certain people, break away from the crowd. Or the Drakes, The Game, a few people break away from the crowd. But a lot of the music…

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funk soul 

Sofrito Island Series: Martinique 7″

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…the Lamentin suburb of Fort-de-France, Martinique, playing the local circuit and self-releasing one eponymous album before going their separate ways. After his military service, lead singer Eustache Plancy went on to sing with groups such as the Super Sternes and is still singing in Paris. Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new wind…

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funk Interviews Manchester 

Interview // Sven Atterton funks up Manchester pre-Tuxedo

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…lee and stayed an optional extra year to continue playing bass for various groups to gain more experience. To summarise, I learned that we shouldn’t give up on something until we have given it our all. I know it’s sometimes easier said than done, but things will ofter seem harsher in the long run if we feel we could have done more or tried harder. What’s your take on Tuxedo? Tuxedo bring so much fun back into music. One of the things I like about…

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beats Interviews Manchester New Music 

Interview and preview: SheBeKeke – Abecedarian EP

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…d in various antholgies and is a core member of Manchester’s youth writing groups Young Identity and Inna Voice. She’s opened up for the likes of Saul Williams, Amiri Baraka and Kate Tempest and performed at such illustrious venues as Glastonbury’s Poetry and Words tent and Nuyorican Poetry Cafe, New York. She’s currently hard at work prepping her solo show I Wish I Had A Moustache, more of which you can find out about below. Abecedarian is her de…

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Free Download New Music 

Download: Writers Guild – Where Did They Go? (Mr. Miranda, MC Pennywise, RoQy TyRaiD and Random)

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…Download A lament/ode to hip hop groups, from a hip hop group inspired by them. Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)…

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Nat Birchall – Akhenaten … Gondwana’s second release

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…and Charles Lloyd. Nat currently plays in Matthew Halsall’s adventurous groups, appearing on his “Sending My Love” CD, as well as performing with Arun Ghosh’s Indo-Jazz ensemble, Jon Thorne’s Oedipus Mingus and guitarist Gary Boyle’s quartet. For fans of John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Sleep Walker, Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd will appreciate where Nat is coming from. The album features: Nat Birchall – T…

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Interviews New Music 

SUBSTANCE ABUSE // Exclusive interview and ‘Frontrow’ video

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…reative stuff has come out of this town. Subz: There are so many bands and groups from all over the globe concentrated in LA because they are serious about their craft that this town can’t help but be diverse and inspirational. Your first LP dropped in 2006, Background Music at the end of 2012 and the Brand New Crime EP back in 1998 – why so long between works? Subz: It took a while to understand the changing dynamics of the music business we wast…

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New Music 

Classic soul from Master Plan Inc on Jazzman

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…r on the North Side where we all lived. Ken had been in one of my previous groups and he was game to try something new. I then hooked up with a new management company – Midwest Talent – to secure some work for us. Midwest gave me the green light and co-sponsored a concert for the new band. Elated, I returned to Detroit and dropped the news on Joe and Dean, and they both quit the James Clark Band right away and came back to Chicago with me. Dean al…

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