Friends, Romans and countrymen....I come here celebrate great new music and to praise it.....music is ART..it's IMPORTANT.....it's NOT product to be taken for granted...to be acquired and enjoyed for free and it's NOT disposable...
After last week's post about the mighty Massive Attack,Underworld and Leftfield the focus is on a 3 artists....the amazing Lafawndah...the great Wiz Khalifa .....and the INCREDIBLE,GLORIOUS Octave One who have taken Techno to a different planet......
Disciples,followers,non-believers and cynics ( you're the worst ) I'm talking NEW music....
Lafawndah's new EP " Tan ".....I LOVE it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TicX8IcImtE
Lafawndah....raised in Paris,grew up in Tehran and Iran and now lives in New York....a very eclectic life that is beautifully expressed on the 4 track EP " Tan "
In collaboration with L-Vis 1990,Tamer Fahri and Nick Weiss of Teengirl Fantasy Lafawndah has created something exciting,unique...impossible to categorise so don't bother trying...just enjoy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6JQlIhQsA
Next up is Wiz Khalifa whose new album " Khalifa " dropped this week......like Kendrick , Wiz is a lyrical king with a great easy flow that I like a lot...here's the first track BTS.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU7N6SloCXE
Cameron Jibril Thomaz ( aka Wiz Khalifa ) is a consumate rapper.....intelligent,thoughtful,insightful...
I'm a 60 year-old white guy so I wouldn't presume to be " street " or have any shared experiences with the youth of today....but I recognise outstanding Soul,Electronic,Drum & Bass and HIP-HOP ( as we used to call it ;-) ).....Khalifa is a really good body of work that sits together perfectly as an album...and I LIKE that ......featuring a group of collaborators including Rico Love,Courtney Noelle , Ty Dolla Sign amongst others this is rap for the new generation....HIGHLY recommended
So finally we come to the GENIUS that is Octave One.....the greatest techno artists EVER I think....Atlanta-based brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden have made some of the greatest records ever....Blackwater featuring Ann Saunderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmg_DtZ0Scw
and current club SMASH " Jazzo " ( Paul Woolford rework )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmg_DtZ0Scw
They recently played live with members of the Tonhalle Philharmonic of Zurich....you MUST watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxL1rdNqFM
It's amazing,incredible,unbelievable....one of the greatest things you will EVER see
My great friend Neil Rushton introduced me to Octave One ....Neil took me to Detroit in the early 1980's to meet 3 young guys making this new music called " Techno "....Kevin Saunderson,Juan Atkins and Derrick May ....the rest is true music HISTORY as I released a double album called " Techno -The New Dance Sound Of Detroit " featuring amongst others Inner City
Now thanks to Neil I am working with Octave One and I am so happy,so grateful....and so honoured....there will be AMAZING new Octave One projects soon....I'm lucky coz I've heard one of them...that's why I'm The Soul Guru
The Soul Guru LOVES you
After last week's post about the mighty Massive Attack,Underworld and Leftfield the focus is on a 3 artists....the amazing Lafawndah...the great Wiz Khalifa .....and the INCREDIBLE,GLORIOUS Octave One who have taken Techno to a different planet......
Disciples,followers,non-believers and cynics ( you're the worst ) I'm talking NEW music....
Lafawndah's new EP " Tan ".....I LOVE it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TicX8IcImtE
Lafawndah....raised in Paris,grew up in Tehran and Iran and now lives in New York....a very eclectic life that is beautifully expressed on the 4 track EP " Tan "
In collaboration with L-Vis 1990,Tamer Fahri and Nick Weiss of Teengirl Fantasy Lafawndah has created something exciting,unique...impossible to categorise so don't bother trying...just enjoy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6JQlIhQsA
Next up is Wiz Khalifa whose new album " Khalifa " dropped this week......like Kendrick , Wiz is a lyrical king with a great easy flow that I like a lot...here's the first track BTS.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU7N6SloCXE
Cameron Jibril Thomaz ( aka Wiz Khalifa ) is a consumate rapper.....intelligent,thoughtful,insightful...
I'm a 60 year-old white guy so I wouldn't presume to be " street " or have any shared experiences with the youth of today....but I recognise outstanding Soul,Electronic,Drum & Bass and HIP-HOP ( as we used to call it ;-) ).....Khalifa is a really good body of work that sits together perfectly as an album...and I LIKE that ......featuring a group of collaborators including Rico Love,Courtney Noelle , Ty Dolla Sign amongst others this is rap for the new generation....HIGHLY recommended
So finally we come to the GENIUS that is Octave One.....the greatest techno artists EVER I think....Atlanta-based brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden have made some of the greatest records ever....Blackwater featuring Ann Saunderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmg_DtZ0Scw
and current club SMASH " Jazzo " ( Paul Woolford rework )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmg_DtZ0Scw
They recently played live with members of the Tonhalle Philharmonic of Zurich....you MUST watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxL1rdNqFM
It's amazing,incredible,unbelievable....one of the greatest things you will EVER see
My great friend Neil Rushton introduced me to Octave One ....Neil took me to Detroit in the early 1980's to meet 3 young guys making this new music called " Techno "....Kevin Saunderson,Juan Atkins and Derrick May ....the rest is true music HISTORY as I released a double album called " Techno -The New Dance Sound Of Detroit " featuring amongst others Inner City
Now thanks to Neil I am working with Octave One and I am so happy,so grateful....and so honoured....there will be AMAZING new Octave One projects soon....I'm lucky coz I've heard one of them...that's why I'm The Soul Guru
The Soul Guru LOVES you
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