recommendations roundup - 18/8/2018

As usual we'll just put our Twitter friendly, succinct, alliteratively leaning descriptions by the side of the player to try and tempt you but let's face it music is a subjective thing. I guess we're more or less on the same musical wavelength or your wouldn't be here in the first place but you know how it goes the true test is what happens when that music hits your ears and connects with your brain.

disco dub band - for the love of money/disco dub (mr bongo)

Sequin suit up your commute & funk up your Friday with Mr Bongo's welcome reissue of the classic disco dub sounds of "For the Love of Money"

jake muir - lady's mantle (sferic)

Put a few fathoms between you and reality with the unrecognisably morphed surf rock samples, various sea field recordings & general womb regressing sonic warmth of chief submariner Jake Muir's wobbly new ambient LP for Sferic

gakudan hige danshaku - vol.11 (Hazukashi studios)

I'm still trying to fathom how Gakudan Hige Danshaku only consists of two members but I know for certain that it is a killer LP of unhurried Afro Latin Jazz on Hazukashi Records from Japan.

channel tres - channel tres ep (godmode)

Being as music is getting recycled faster than the yellow bin at the bottom of your road a hip house revival is well overdue. Nice to see Channel Tres & GODMODE leading the charge and at some old school tempos as well. Let it roll.

calm - by your side (hell yeah recordings)

Start the week nice and easy with the new album from Calm on HELL YEAH recordings. Pure Balearic sunshine vibes cooled with an ambient breeze, anchored by jazz & classic house trope tickled, barely conscious beats.

h. takahashi - low power (white paddy mountain)

Great Sunday listening as H. Takahashi drops this LP of considered, minimal composition, easing tones, gentle drones and pacifying ambient electronica for the ever reliable White Paddy Mountain

the green kingdom - see and unseen (sound in silence)

A new release from The Green Kingdom is always a happy day and his latest adventures in gently undulating sun dried synths, dulcet drones and kalimba, guitar and piano blessed ambient for sound in silence is a soothing Saturday tonic.