Mark De Clive-Lowe - Church Vol.3

Our favourite Kiwi producer, Mark de Clive-Lowe, keeps bringing heat. He just drop a new mixtape in the Church series inspired by his live club session in L.A.

"This coming sunday october 2, my monthly LA party CHURCH turns one year old. the clubnite is the first sunday of the month at Angel’s Piano Bar on LA’s westside in Santa Monica. over the course of the night we take the music from a live acoustic jazz trio set to an improvised electronic beats session with special guests and guest DJ sets inbetween and after. you never know who’s going to turn up - whether it’s the likes of chris daddy dave or ohmega watts jumping on the band stand; louie vega or leon ware hanging out in the audience; robert glasper jamming drums (!) with the guest DJ or some other unexpected surprise, CHURCH is all about taking the music somewhere new.

in commemoration of the one year celebration, i’ve put together a new mixtape featuring some of my favorite cuts from some of my favorite jazz artists. it’s a free download… enjoy!"

Download: Mark de Clive-Lowe - Church Vol.3
Download: Mark de Clive-Lowe - Church Vol.1 + 2
Read our earlier features on MdCL right here!

Not only that, last week he dropped the first smooth single Why from his upcoming album Renegades due November 14th. It's still available as a free download over at TruThoughts. Check it!

Download: Mark de Clive-Low - Why

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Beathearts rewind #26: Change - Heaven/Change of heart (re-edit)

Change is probably one of the disco-funk-era crews that is surrounded by most rumors and myths. Created by Italian producers, entrepreneurs Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi the group has had members like Luther Vandross and Jocelyn Brown coming and going.

In our mind their greatest tune is Change of heart, produced by the almighty Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in 1984. At the time they put together Change of heart Jam & Lewis were the hottest producers around with tracks like S.O.S. Band Just be good to me and Thelma Houston's You used to hold me so tight flying off the shelves.

We recently found two new edits of the track and thought we'd share it with y'all.

Download: Change - Change of heart (Tim Z edit)

The second version is from french beatmaker Onra which is a more twisted and up to date re-edit.

Onra - Change of heart (re-edit)

As a bonus you need to check this very slick edit of another Change track Heaven of my life off their second album Miracles (1981).
Download: Change - Heaven (Danny's heavenly edit)

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Dam-Funk – Inafocuseddaze EP

Master of G-funk slow jams, Dâm-Funk, is back. The Inafocuseddaze EP is the warm up for Dâm's upcoming album on StonesThrow. Four new deep tracks and he's putting it out there for free.

Tracklist:
1.Forever
2.Don't you know (that the funk iz real)
3.Inside of U
4.Innafocuseddaze

Download: Dâm-Funk - Inafocuseddaze EP 

And as a bonus and only available for one day (!) here's Don't U know. Get it today while it's still available!
Download: Dâm-Funk - Don't U know

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King Midas Sound - Earth a kill ya (Mala remix)

Wow! We were expecting the King Midas Sound rework album to be dope, but this time the people over at Hyperdub have outdone themselves. Judging from the first drop of the album, Kuedo and Mala's versions, this is a keeper. Especially Mala's rework of Earth a kill ya is out of this world. Last year the Digital Mystikz album was on our top 5 and this tune is the logical progression of that renown DMZ sound. The dubby laidback vibe with menacing hihats and deep deep dirty basslines. You need this.

If you want more Mala insights check our interview with the man here: Beathearts meet Mala


Listen on Spotify: King Midas Sound - Earth a kill ya (Mala Remix)

The Mala/Kuedo version are available now via Beatport.
The album is supposed to drop during fall but has no set release date as far as we now.

Tracklist:
1. Goodbye Girl – Kuedo rework
2. Without You – D-Bridge revoice
3. Lost – Flying Lotus rework
4. Earth A Kill Ya – Gang Gang Dance rework
5.Tears – Kiki Hitomi revoice
6.Spin Me Around – Cooly G revoice
7. Goodbye Girl – Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe rework
8. Say Somethin’ – Joel Ford revoice
9. Lost – Nite Jewel rework
10. Sumtime – Hype Williams rework
11. Meltdown – Kode 9/Spaceape rework
12. Earth A Kill Ya – Mala rework
13. Goodbye Girl – Deep Chord presents Echospace rework
14. Come and Behold – Green Gartside revoice
15. Cool Out – Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program rework

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Like & PacDiv - Funky Drummer reprise

Hard working trio PacDiv (Like, Mibbs, and BeYoung) are about to release a new material The Div in November. As a warm-up rapper Like has put out this freestyle over James Brown's Funky Drummer. Not sure how but he makes this overused break sound fresh again. Maybe it's just the fact that he's got a nice flow which is quite rare these days.

Download: Like - Funky drummer reprise

If you just discovered PacDiv (like we did) you should check their mixtape Don't mention it. Our two favourite tracks off the tape are Rollin' which for some reason reminds us of early Teddy Riley/Guy productions like Round and Round and the minimal Shine which takes Ying Yang Twins The whisper song vibe to new levels. Download: PacDiv -Rollin'

Download: PacDiv - Shine

Download the whole mixtape here: PacDiv - Don't mention it

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