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Our Brother Oveous appears on the new Yoruba SOul Remix of the Dancefloor Hit Single Mirror Dance some of you may recognize the poem he be spittin... This is and Ode to a dancer meets Mirror Dance...Yoruba Style!
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1. Boddhi Satva ft Robert Walker - Get Up (Shelter Mix) Seed Recordings
2. Jihad Muhammed ft Chris Dockins - No More War (Seedadiandeep Remix) Camio
3. DJ Spinna & Ovasoul7 - You Should Be Loving Me (Original Organic Mix) Wonderwax
4. Flowriders - Russelology (Bittersuite Mix) NYSoul
5. Anthony Nicholson ft Ogochi - Dont Stop (U Can Make It) (JMJ Edit) Circular Motion
6. Vega - Jo'Bergs Theme (Me No Worry Mix) Vega
7. Tamara Wellons - Like Rain (Movement Soul Mix) Ocha
8. Peven Everett - Feelin Who You Are Trippin UK
9. Adam Rios - Vibe Track Symple Sound
10. Sumantri - Will You Dance For Me (Utopia Sundays Deep House Mix) Utopia Boston

Steve Soulbasics :: "Kuchwa" Remixes
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Review by Terry Matthew | Published May 2008 | Review Archives

Afro-Funk is more than just adding a tribal beat and some incomprehensible chant to the mix. It's actually sort of bothered me for a minute that so many folks have played around with really cheap effects to get that "Ron Trent" sound, without bringing any of Ron Trent's musicality or (this is the point here) appreciation for the culture that inspired this music. In the end, you get something about as authentic as a swami playing a flute in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

It's good to see that Steve SoulBasics understands this, as he shows on these remixes of his "Kuchwa" single from 2007. The remixes (brand new from Miami) have some rough edges, which actually makes them all the more listenable in my opinion. The More Keys Mix and SITC Mute Pass are both funky and tribal without ever getting repetitive, while the BSC Deep Mix cools it down for some ultra-deep dancefloor heat. The Jay Tripwire Mix is probably the most "clubby" of the mixes and probably the one you're most likely to hear on a standard night out - using some elements of the original to offset a harder sound. This is what art is about: grabbing influences and reincorporating them into your own sound and vision.

Not content to merely follow in his father's footsteps, Femi Kuti continues to expand his musical palette with his latest studio release, Day By Day, a hybrid of Afro-pop, jazz and urban influences. The album has been a long time coming: seven years since his last studio album Fight To Win and four years since the live Africa Shrine, which contains early versions of three songs from this new album. Femi might shun the 24-minute diatribes favored by his father - indeed "One Two" could be the shortest Afrobeat track ever - but in many other ways Day By Day is a return to the glory days of Nigeria's big bands, of wailing organs, frantic polyrhythms and behemoth horn sections, playing against each other. Yet, now the palette is broader. "Do You Know" and "They Will Run" are undeniably jazz. "You Better Ask Yourself," "Oyimbo" and "Eh Oh" carry the air of lost messages from Marvin Gaye or Curtis Mayfield. And then there is the title track, infused with gospel, suffering and ghostly echoes of work songs from the early 20th century. Classic Afrobeat, classic Kuti. "Everybody is back in training now," he smiles, "we have to re-establish my music. We have to come out and play it live, because the record industry is in such a bad shape, we are all suffering. He laughs, "luckily, the African man is used to suffering." (Courtesy of Giant Step)

2009 North American Tour Dates
Jan 7 - 8 PM @ Paradise Rock Club - Boston, Massachusetts
Jan 8 - 9 PM @ Webster Hall - New York, New York
Jan 9 - 9 PM @ 9:30 Club - Washington DC, Washington DC
Jan 10 - 9 PM @ World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jan 11 - 8 PM @ GlobalFest at Webster Hall - New York, New York
Jan 14 - 8:30 PM @ Club Soda - Montreal, Quebec
Jan 15 - 9 PM @ Opera House - Toronto, Ontario
Jan 16 - 9 PM @ Majestic Theatre - Detroit, Michigan
Jan 17 - 9 PM @ Metro - Chicago, Illinois
Jan 19 - 8 PM @ Boulder Theater - Boulder, Colorado
Jan 22 - 8 PM @ The Fillmore - San Francisco, California
Jan 23 - 9 PM @ House of Blues - West Hollywood, California
Jan 24 - 9 PM @ House of Blues - San Diego, California

Soul Heaven Official USA Tour Dates:
Nov 7th - Get Down @ King King - Los Angeles
Nov 8th - Candelas Lounge - San Diego
Nov 13th - TBA - New York City
Nov 14th - Seed In The City @ The Goodlife - Boston
Nov 15th - Paradise @ Hyde Park Cafe - Tampa
Nov 19th - Roots @ Cielo - New York City
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artist:  ALTON MILLER
title: Together (rmxs)
label:  Seed Recordings (SED-013)
format: mp3 promo

Seed Recordings keeps pushing the bar to the sky with this, their 13th release. And as most people would stay away from the number 13, I strongly urge you to not apply that theory here. Old-school producer and vocalist (and DJ), Alton Miller, gets the remix treatment, and what a makeover it is.

Camio’s Jonny Montana offers up a vintage, ultra smooth musical painting, whereas Ezel’s tougher version is aimed for packing dancefloors. Big Logan & Dave Lalla (collectively, Jersey Soul) get things warmed up, steel pan fashion, with a top quality rendition of the original. Finally, enough heat gets produced in time to start a fire, or rather FIYAHHHHH, in the form of Trinidadiandeep’s infectious and serious caribbean beatdown. Large…

- Michael "Sinister" Terzian (UH Magazine October 2008)

artist: JIHAD MUHAMMAD feat CHRIS DOCKINS
title: No More War (remixes)
label: Camio Recordings (CAM-016)
format: mp3 promo

Originally released in 2006 on Jihad Muhammad's Movement Soul imprint (MSR-004), "No More War" gets the makeover treatment courtesy of the good people at Camio Recordings.

In addition to the superb original mix, this release also showcases 6 remixes. The most noteworthy renditions are afforded by the duo of Trinidadian Deep & Bradford James (collectively, Seedadiandeep), as well as the DJ Man-X remix. As expected, Groove Assassins knit together a solid re-edit of the original mix, whereas the Dolls Combers moulding is a pleasant 10 minute journey, very reminiscent of some of Incognito's feelgood and highly musical House productions. Unfortunately, Dom Navarra's remix misses the mark altogether.

All-in-all, this release gets my overall thumbs up, as the Man-X, Groove Assassins and Seedadiandeep versions carry the brunt of the weight.
- Michael "Sinister" Terzian (UH Magazine November 2008)

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