Press Releases
Oct21
Tokyo Dawn Records adds fourteen colorful remixes to Swede:art's highly successful boombap album 'Emotional Colors'.
Enjoy these musical repaints from standout producers such as TOKiMONSTA (from Flying Lotus' label Brainfeeder), Andreas Saag (Swell Session fame Sweden), San Francisco funkateer B. Bravo and Duktus (Brownswood Records), Vienna turntablist stars Waxolutionists , Aroop Roy (Freestyle Records Japan), Matt Flores (Farside/Compost Germany), Devonwho (All City...
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Sep29
Mario Lucio’s new album Kreol tours 7 countries and 3 continents, covering 92,482 km to create its 17 songs.
On his journey, the artist forged subtle bonds and sang - in Creole and Portuguese - with great names in Afro-Atlantic music: Ralph Thamar and Mario Canonge in Martinique, Toumani Diabate in Mali, Pablo Milanés in Cuba, Teresa Salgueiro and Pedro Joia in Portugal, Milton Nascimento in Brazil and Harry Belafonte in the US, before returning to Cape Verde to Cesaria Evora.
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Oct24
Direct Soul...
“For me there's no one set way that I begin the creative process, which is why technology is so
important; it allows me to capture things on the fly like a moment’s inspiration” Erik Rico
When L.A. based Erik Rico and Marc Mac (4hero) hooked up in the studio this summer, the only
guideline was not to let the boundaries of tempo & style limit the creation. Direct soul was really captured in a moment of time
with all 4 tracks recorded in one late afternoon session in...
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Oct 1
The heart. A vital muscle organ responsible for pumping blood through vessels by rhythmic contractions. This symbol of life and love is the quintessence of the sound concept behind Tokyo Dawn Records' new compilation project of love-drenched heart beats.
Including over a dozen previously unreleased songs from some of today's most engaging producers such as Machinedrum, Swede:art, Robot Koch, Jay Scarlett, Simbad, fLako, Comfort Fit and more, 'The Heart' also features special vocal...
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Sep20
On their new single they invited six of Hungarys most popular independent female singers, called The Underground Divas. Wings of Love entered the top 10 charts immediately in Hungary, earned heavy radio airplay and secured a no 1 position on the Hungarian MTV Video Charts. They have gained numerous awards for this record also, most notably the Hungarian Record Industrys "Phonogram Award" and second prize in the International Songwriting Competition. Following the single release, here are the...
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Sep10
London (September 20,2010). Navid&Teel will release their debut album “and I’m saying it…” on Divan Music.
“and I’m saying it…” is an eclectic instrumental album produced, arranged and orchestrated by Mason Neely (Cerys Matthews, Diane Birch, Thad Cockrell, Dawn Kinnard, Owen Powell etc)
Clean airy guitars, dream compositions and diverse world music influences makes “and I’m saying it…” a rollercoaster of a ride for the listener.
“and I’m saying it …”...
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Sep10
NYC very own label Funk la planet brings you a banger from top notch producer Scott Wozniak
New York very own label Funk la planet is back once again with a brand new banger from to notch producer Scott Wozniak!!
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I originate fire
A. I Originate Fire
B. I Originate Fire (Instrumental)
All instruments and programming by Scott Wozniak.
Recorded @ Woz's Lab, Brooklyn, NY.
(c) and (p) 2010 Funk la planet prods
Executive producer: Benjamin Deffe for Funk la planet prods Corp...
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Nov11
Cameroonian-born Myra Maimoh is, Pure & simply, addicted to singing.
Her gift - besides a deeply felt love of song - is a unique, soulful voice & the generosity of spirit to want to share her gift with the outside world. Now, for the first time, that gift has been wrapped up into a perfectly packaged unit with the release of album 'answer'd me'.
This 11-track testament to the sheer joy of Myra's music is the perfect introduction to a young woman who uniquely combines the passionate music...
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Oct 3
“Worth It” is the latest production by the DeLatin Sound Boss, David Elliott (aka The Vinyl Gibbon) fronted by the sensual yet powerful voice of Sanna Hartfield. Taking the bands funky Latin vibes into the club scene in collaboration with WaxHart, a duo that make vocal House and percussion come alive. The EP contains three diverse remixes by two outstanding producers, Butcherd Beats and Krantz. Venturing from Deep House to Minimal Techno and Lounge.
In the live music scene DeLatin Sound...
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Sep 6
The record "Invisible Cities" draws its inspiration from "Le Città Invisibili" by Italo Calvino, Just like the book, this too is a metaphysical voyage where the predominant themes are the dual nature of language and communication, closed versus open environments, movement and stasis - in the sense of actual physical movement as opposed to mental 'travel'. The trumpet is both traveller and listener; but this role is also exchanged with and between the other instruments: Piano and Guitar. As...
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