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| News Juni/09
greetings music lovers,
it´s been some months since we sent out the last news about our label switchstance recordings. we apologize for the lack of communication and updates on our musical activities but were very busy with restructuring the label, finishing the ancient astronauts album and finding the perfect international licensing partner for it, doing remixes and much more. but now we´re back with our regular news blasts so read below for what happened around switchstance recordings!
- ancient astronauts & esl music
- the beatstalkers – modern stalking ep
- in the loop
- switchstance productions
- trix & flix summer special
- switchstance radioshow 22
1 ancient astronauts & esl music
we here at switchstance recordings are proud to announce that we found the perfect licensing partner for the debut album "we are to answer" by the ancient astronauts. the album will be worldwide exclusively released on june 9th by esl music from washington dc, the label of thievery corporation. after working with esl music for several years we are stoked to license this pearl of an album to them for worldwide territory to make sure the music of kabanjak and dogu gets the widest spread that is possible. the album is a superb mixture of organic and intelligent hip hop, funk, downtempo and dub reggae and it features imani & bootie brown of legendary hip hop crew the pharcyde, uk reggae heavyweight tippa irie, raashan ahmad from the crown city rockers posse, azeem & dj zeph, bajka and many more. click the following link to check out the ancient astronauts artist profile and prelisten their album on the esl music website:
http://www.eslmusic.com/artist/ancient_astronauts
here some first prelisteing feedback:
"a refreshing, genre defying, cross pollinating masterpiece"
Pathaan[BBC/Worldwide]
"Peeped the CD, good stuff." Beni B (ABB Records/USA)
"The album is a beautiful slice of hip hop ingredients, dub-tinged spices and jazz chili sauces, all blended into a heady stew of breakbeat wonderfulness." Lostinasupermarket.com
in addition to their debut album the ancient astronauts just completed a brand new dj mix called "heart of the future" that features a lot of songs and remixes by the ancient astronauts as well as some tunes under their bootleg alias the beatstalkers. to listen to this spaced out and funked up dj mix just follow this link: http://www.eslmusic.com/hifi/dj_sets/1330
besides completing their debut album kabanjak and dogu were also doing remixes for like minded labels and artists like dj brace (balanced records/canada), timewarp inc (timewarp music/greece) and analogik (auditory designs/denmark). all soon to be released.
of course we will have a big album launch party for the "we are to answer" album and it will be celebrated within our trix & flix summer special at bogen2 club in cologne on the 10th of june. more news on this below in the trix & flix section!
2 the beatstalkers – modern stalking ep
after the successful first release (the pyramid funk & dynamite reggae vol.1 ep was sold out after 4 weeks) on our bootleg label foot forward music it is time to come again with some heavy dancefloor bombs from the foot forward camp. this time it´s the beatstalkers (aka ancient astronauts) with some new funk, hip hop and reggae mash ups where david axelrod meets the beastie boys or large professor (from legendary main source) meets shaft. what can we say, it´s killer beats with great conscious lyrics and already tested in the stadium of last billabong air & style snowboard contest in front of 13.000 people. and believe us, they were jumping. prelisten here:
http://b2b.grooveattack.com/searcharticle/search?q=The%2BBeatstalkers
3 infos around switchstance
after several years of working with zebralution in terms of digital distribution we just recently changed to finetunes from hamburg as our new worldwide digital distributor. from now on our entire switchstance catalogue will be exclusively digitally handled and distributed by finetunes. thanks a lot to zebralution for the great collaboration in the past years! now we are looking forward into a great future together with finetunes. our first ever digital only release will be out through finetunes in late summer. it will be a selection of older musical pearls from the switchstance catalogue showcasing the past years of all our artists. this compilation will go by the name "forward ever". more news about this soon. follow this link for more information about finetunes: www.finetunes.net
you never really knew what switchstance recordings is all about? never heard our releases? never saw any boardsports dvd with our music in it or visited one of our parties and shook your leg to our music? alright, then have a look at this short youtube video that sums up all information about our label´s activities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-AvB-KatA
what else happened around switchstance recordings? well after finishing the debut ancient astronauts album with his partner dogu, kabanjak already started working on his solo album that is planned for early 2010. a first ep is planned for late 2009 and we here at switchstance recordings are very excited about kabanjak´s solo work cause they won´t be one single sample on his album but still it will have his significant dopeness all over. all instruments are played live by him. we definitely keep you updated on this. but this guy is not only busy with ancient astronauts or kabanjak, he just completed a new ep by deela called "everything goes" with two hot remixes by radio citizen and kid loco and african singer fire tongue on vocal duties. news about release date of this ep soon.
last but not least our psychodelic beat monster called protassov is working on a follower ep to his highly anticipated debut album "shalina music" that was released in summer 2008. we haven´t heard any samples of this new ep yet but are very excited about it and will keep you updated with information about this as soon as possible.
4 sp – switchstance productions
after many years of experience in the international label and publishing business switchstance recordings took the next step and will soon start a new sub-company called sp – switchstance productions. the main goal is to produce custom-made music for clients that need quality music for any kind of project (trailer, film, web, etc). the main person and producer behind this new switchstance related company is ingo moell who is better known for his releases on switchstance under his different pseudonyms kabanjak, deela or ancient astronauts (together with dogu). we will soon have a brand new website for switchstance productions up presenting you show reels with all sort of music to give you a good overview about our services.
5 switchstance radioshow no.22
hosted by ancient astronauts
01 :: DJ Brace & The Electric Nosehair Orchestra__NH4 (Ancient Astronauts remix)__Balanced Records
02 :: Ancient Astronauts (with Entropik)__Lost In Marrakesh__ESL Music/Switchstance
03 :: Madlib feat. Karriem Riggins__Life__BBE Music
04 :: The Beatstalkers__Beatstalkers Anthem__Foot Forward Music
05 :: Del The Funky Homosapien__Get It Right Now__Spectre Promo
06 :: Ancient Astronauts (with The Pharcyde)__Classic__ESL Music/Switchstance
07 :: TIDE__Hooded Horsemen__Foot Forward Music
08 :: Hot 8 Brass Band__It´s Real (Lack Of Afro remix)__Tru Thoughts Recordings
09 :: Mash & Munkee__Mexican B-Boy (Mr Confuse remix)__Backslide Music
10 :: Frohlocker__Hip Brass (Protassov Remix)__Galopp Records
11 :: Ancient Astronauts (with Ulf Stricker)__Dark Green Rod__ESL Music/Switchstance
12 :: Lee Fields__Honey Dove__Soulfire Records
13 :: Mayer Hawthorne__Just Ain´t Gonna Work Out__Stones Throw Records
14 :: Doom__Ballskin__Lex Records
15 :: N.A.S.A feat. RZA, John Frusciante & Barbie Hatch__Way Down__Anti Records
16 :: The Beatstalkers__Edgelactic__Foot Forward Music
17 :: Ancient Astronauts feat. Bajka__Surfing The Silvatide__ESL Music/Switchstance
the switchstance radioshow is worldwide exclusively hosted by samurai.fm and giantstep.net
this show will be online within the next 7 days. click here for the direct link to our radioshow:
www.samurai.fm/switchstanceradio & www.giantstep.net/artists/898
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