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OPTIMUS GRYME RECORDINGS PRESENTS –AOTEAROA DUBSTEP ALLSTARS

November 2010 sees the largest collaboration of NZ Dubstep artists with 29 of our biggest producers and MCs all coming together on a double disc compilation called “Aotearoa Dubstep Allstars” The release includes 29 tunes and features Tiki Taane, Optimus Gryme, Truth, Bulletproof, Shapeshifter, Antiform, Crushington, Organikismness, Dutty Ranks, Olie Bassweight, Joint Forces, P Vans, Sick Cycle, Billy Fluid and MC Beau just to name a few. The compilation also features a 75 minute DJ mix from NZ’s Dubstep pioneer Mr Optimus Gryme himself.

For Fans of: Optimus Gryme, Tiki Taane, Bulletproof

BRIAN ENO – SMALL CRAFT ON A MILKSEA

Always unfurling into the wider cultural sphere, the years since Eno’s last solo album (2005’s “Another Day on Earth”) have seen him constantly working in and beyond traditional recorded music.  In late 2006 his generative audio and visual software project “77 Million Paintings”. 2009 also saw the creation of the intensely popular and groundbreaking “Bloom” iPhone application. In 2006, the “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” album with David Byrne was re-released and in 2008 this partnership was renewed for a second studio album “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today”.  Also in 2009 he scored Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones”.

For Fans of: Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, David Byrne

PAUL SMITH – MARGINS
Paul Smith is best known as the frontman of MaximoPark and his debut solo record "Margins" allows Paul to explore a moreacoustic side that wouldn't fit so well into Maximo's frenetic template. The album was written over four years alongside producer Andy Hodson, while touring with MaximoPark. He is helped out here by Field Music siblings David and Peter Brewis. Inspired by the likes of Cat Power, Smog and Will Oldham, it’s a fascinating look atanother side of one of indie-pops leading current songwriters.

For Fans of: MaximoPark, Interpol, The Libertines

FRIENDLY FIRES – BUGGED OUT! PRESENTS SUCK MY DECK
Friendly Fires have dance music in their blood. Other indie rock bands may flirt with club culture, but Ed Macfarlane, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge live it and breathe it. The three of them grew up listening to Warp, and Macfarlane released trackson respected Manchester electronic imprint Skam and Hooj Choons offshoot Precinct. At the end of last year, Friendly Fires decided to round off 12 months of upwards trajectory by curating a Bugged Out event at The Coronet inSouth London. It was the start of a mutual appreciation that led to this incredible mix.

For Fans of: Hot Chip, The Whitest Boy Alive, Metronomy

WALTER GIBBONS – JUNGLE MUSIC
Walter Gibbons remains one of the most important and unheralded DJ / remixers in New York dance music history, a pioneer of reel to reel edits and the art of the remix and a tangible link between early hip hop and disco through his quickfire turntable skills developed during the mid-‘70s. This compilation focuses on some of the more adventurous and groundbreaking mixes that Gibbons produced during the disco era. Walter Gibbons found religion and had stopped producing by 1986. He died of AIDS-related illness in 1994.

For Fans of: Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, Giorgio Moroder

OSUNLADE – OCCULT SYMPHONIC
In 2002 R2 Records had the honor of releasing Osunlade’s first ever mix CD, “Offering”, a landmark album of soulful/afro/tech grooves. We are now happy to announce part three of this journey with Osunlade as we release “Occult Symphonic” the latest interpretation of the state of electronic house according to the man from Yoruba. With this mix, Osunlade delves deeper into Afro-Tech, exploring the hypnotic trance state that music can put you in as a cleansing, even healing force.

For Fans of: Rhythm and Sound, Francois K, Louie Vega

VARIOUS ARTISTS – SALSA EXPLOSION
Strut are proud to be associated with the greatest and most important Latin American music label of them all, Fania. Tagged “the Latin Motown”, Fania is perhaps most famous for its recordings during the coming of age of salsa from the late ‘60s to the mid-‘80s. The first installment, “Salsa Explosion”, provides an essential introduction to the classic Fania sound through some of the label’s major artists including Celia Cruz, MongoSantamaria, Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe, Ray Barretto and the Daddy of the Fania family, Johnny Pacheco.

For Fans of: Willie Colon, Tito Puente, Fania All Stars

SUSUMU YOKOTA – KALIEDOSCOPE
Susumu Yokota, one of the constant innovators in electronic music is back with a new album. Just turn out the lights, lie back and sink into this vast ocean of sound. “Kaleidoscope” will take you somewhere really strange but somewhere you’ve always wanted to go. “Kaliedoscope” epic in its scope and masterly in its execution is the album Yokota’s always hinted at. It has the raw, almost primal feel of his early albums along with the depth and complexity of his more recent work. Sometimes dark and deep like Nurse With Wound, other times light and rhythmic like Steve Reich.

For Fans of: Philip Glass, Four Tet, Brian Eno

Thanks to www.border.co.nz for this story.

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