Classic Valentine's Jams courtesy of our very good friend and mighty Moscovite DJ Tactics. Big up all Flammable Beats crew.
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Here Lies Man are the L.A. based quintet founded and conceptualized by Marcos Garcia of Antibalas, bringing his erudite experience of West African rhythms and music to the more riff-based foundations of heavy rock. Extra prize for that cover. Killer.
THE GOVENOR No. 6: DAVID AXELROD
Wax Poetics posted this great interview with David Axelrod from Big Daddy Magazine.
David Axelrod’s life is sensational. Forget for a minute that the man produced some of the finest R&B and jazz albums of the 1960s for luminaries such as Lou Rawls and Cannonball Adderley. Forget Axelrod the visionary who, long before Shadow and his sampling contemporaries “endtroduced” themselves to the musical world, created the blueprint for classical melodies melded with the funkiest of backbeats. This interview would be worth reading for the intense anecdotes that characterize David Axelrod’s life.
Read here: http://bit.ly/2lnnUIY
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COOMING SON (AND OTHER MADE UP WORDS)
- WILLIS ELLMORE - POP LIFE CRISIS E.P.
TUT VU VU ON VICE SHOW 'ABANDONED'
Our favourite sonic trio and Va Va recording artists Tut Vu Vu grace the visual treat that is Viceland's Abandoned series. Fronted by Rick McCrank and directed by our old friend Alex Craig you can catch up on their series here: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/show/abandoned
Also, we have just made the debut and self-titled Tut Vu Vu L.P. available for digital download at our shop here or if you prefer the vinyl format you receive an immediate download straight to your inbox.
“Do not adjust your radio, this sound couldn’t be more different…” – Stephen Duffy, The Jazz House show on BBC Radio Scotland.
ONE FOR THE DIARIES
WILLIS ELLMORE REVIEW 2016
By no means definitive, by all means affirmative. Willis Ellmo is back once again with his annual hit of favourite wares from the year that is/was/tiswas: 2016.
Tracklist:
Tinfoil Hardhat - Etch
Your Love - Basic Rhythm
Slow Love - Lahun
Juicy Patty - Terror Danjah
Standard Affair - Addison Groove & DJ Die
Run, Don't Play Dead - General Ludd
Naturally Spineless - Minor Science
Lightering - Illtet
Triptych - Etch
So True - DJ Clent
World Wide Lamper - Kool Keith (ft. B.a.R.S. Murre & Dirt Nasty
Robotic Handshakes In 4D - Zuli
4-7-8 - Sias
Alkahest- Best Available Technology
Geh Nie Zur###ck - Fred Und Luna
Pull Up - Abra
Wave - Factory Floor (Jlin Rmx)
Timelapse Walrus - Oliver Coates
Busy Port - Powder
Alsatian (1) - Facta
Oberyn - O'Flynn
Ndlamu (Alternative Mix) - Lorca
Cunningham Shame - General Ludd
Cedar Wood State (Volt Mix) - Mosca
Swim (Obe1) - Phork
A1 - Dynamo Dreesen, SVN & A Made Up Sound
Rotor Soap - Pangaea
Man Like Me - Trim
Why Don't You - Synkro
Dark Plan 5 - SVN
Care Home - Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lock Pickers
History - Richard Holmes
Rest In Peace The Governor
TUT VU VU FOR YOU YOU
Tut Vu Vu and The Evil Usses (Bristol) perform at the Flying Duck, Glasgow on Sunday 20th November. Doors at 8pm. Only £4 Door tax. Get on the mother.
SOUND IN PRINT 05: WILLIS ELLMORE // TRY
Sound In Print is our series of releases that partner choice musicians, singers, songwriters, bands and producers with artists, painters, photographers, illustrators and designers to create a piece of music and artwork respectively.
The fifth in the series is a collaboration between young producer Willis Ellmore and design house TRY Industries.
MUSIC – Willis Ellmore – 'Rhythm & Repitition' EP
ARTWORK – TRY Industries – Watermarked & numbered 250gsmArcoprint Indigo, 280mm x 280mm.
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Devo (and Gerald Casale) cutting in '73.
JACOB YATES & TPGLPs @ KING TUTS
Tickets available now from kingtuts.com // Ticketmaster - 08444 999 990
JACOB YATES @ THE CITIZENS THEATRE
Saturday 15th October sees a special 'Citz Sessions' fundraiser for the refurbishment and development of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.
It's an amazing bill of Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit, Withered Hand, Rick Anthony aka Rick Redbeard and our very own Jacob Lovatt who will all be collaborating with The Rogue Orchestra.
Tickets are limited and cost £20.
GOTHS!!! L.P. - THE PROMO TRAIL
WIN A 7" TEST PRESS OF 'THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SELFISH GENE'
Sign up to our mailing list here: http://www.vavarecords.com/about/ for your chance to own a limited test pressing of The Gospel According To The Selfish Gene by Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lock Pickers.
Competition runs till Nov. 4th 2016
'CARE HOME' SINGLE & REMIXES AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
Care Home is the second single from the forthcoming album GOTHS!!! by Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers, it is an unflinching dub that stares into the abyss into which many fall.
It is brutal, honest, uncomfortable and describes real horror. A walk through the dark corridors of the human mind. Deep in this twisting, confusing, endless maze, the band plays.
'You don't want to come in here, each one of us is bad...’
Remixed by Sordid Sound System (Green Door Studios, Glasgow) with a ‘baggy as f**k’ take on the original and completed with a vintage Dub version by A La Fu & Lotek (Va Va, Roots Manuva, Big Dada).
http://apple.co/2bl3UTK // http://bit.ly/2bnAyTw // http://bit.ly/2bkweQs
THE GOSPEL 7" IN RECORD STORES TODAY
The Gospel According to the Selfish Gene is the first single from the album Goths!!! by Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers and is a life affirming rail against blind acceptance, a secular Gospel anthem. On the flipside Cassie Ezeji (Golden Teacher) delivers heartbreak on the Jacob Lovatt penned (non-album version) 'The Tigris' a nightmare song of loss set in a place that has lost so much. Life is chaotic, dark and unpleasant, the lyrics and music don't shy from this awful truth. Also available via our site here.
JACOB YATES & THE PEARLY GATE LOCK PICKERS LIVE BBC SESSIONS
'CARE HOME' BY JACOB YATES & THE PGLP ON NTS RADIO
Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present 'Channeling', a fortnightly window into their musical world. This episode includes 'Care Home' by our own Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lock Pickers, an unflinching Dub that stares into the abyss, a walk through the dark corridoors of the human mind. Listen again here.