Rutzy - Baby - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

One of Miami's longest running producers of electronic music, Amos Larkins II is a cut above the pack when it comes to pure musical knowledge. A classically trained bassist who studied with the great Jaco Pastorius, Amos turned that knowledge into beats and became one of the original inventors of the Miami Bass sound back in the late 1980s. Over the years he has worked on productions in various styles of music from hip-hop to jazz, lo-fi electronica, deep house, synth pop... you name it, he's done it and he hasn't stopped. One of his specialties is working and collaborating with vocalists... which brings us to his latest project. Hailing from Cross River State in eastern Nigeria, vocalist Odey Ruth Ohaha, better known by her stage name Rutzy, is the perfect foil for Larkins' experimentations. Amos weaves exotic electronic lines around Rutzy's other-worldly sensuous vocalizations to create something unique and totally original - ultimately crafting modern Afro house at it's finest.

Los Angeles rockers Dead Sara will their new album AIN't IT TRAGIC, on Sep 17th via Warner Records. The long-awaited, highly anticipated full-length marks their first new music since 2018's Temporary Things Taking Up Space EP, and contains the 2020 comeback track Inch Hands Up,Inch and the latest single InchHeroes.Inch As their most ambitious body of work to date, AIN't IT TRAGIC was co-produced by Dead Sara's drummer/programmer Sean Friday along with Noah Shain, who previously produced, mixed, and engineered the band's previous full-length albums, Dead Sara (2012) and Pleasure To Meet You (2015). The 11-song strong album spotlights the group's signature dual guitar attack cuts deep as firebrand front women Emily Armstrong (vocals/guitar/songwriter) and Siouxsie Medley (guitars/backing vocals) trailblaze intense yet melodic verses/choruses throughout. Percussive force-of-nature Friday anchors each track with punishing rhythmic beats. Largely written and recorded during lockdown in Los Angeles, AIN't IT TRAGIC reveals a band at the apex of their songwriting prowess with a penchant for earworm melodies, hard-hitting twin-guitar assault, masterful drumming with generous doses of energy and attitude that have made the band live legends for the past decade.

Smoovie Baby - Stay True [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/02/2014