textura

Albums
34423
The Analog Session
ASC
Black Mental vs L. H. Path
Dewa Budjana
Cam Butler
Caragnano & Dozzy
Digitonal
D'Onofrio & Lyn
Dronelock and Ontal
Harris Eisenstadt
Elian
The Eye Of Time
Kit Wilmans Fegradoe
Forrest Fang
Godspeed You! Black E.
Wayne Horvitz
Huntsville
HVOB
Labfield
Monobody
Oscar Mulero
M. Ostermeier
Eliesha Nelson
offthesky
Papir
Piano Interrupted
Qibe
Re-UP
Bruno Sanfilippo
Martin Schulte
Patrice Scott
Soft Machine
Matt Starling
stilllife
Mark Wingfield
Toshiyuki Yasuda
zmi

Compilations / Mixes
BamaLoveSoul On Deck 3
Embark 05
Nummer Eins

EPs / Cassettes / DVDs / Mini-Albums / Singles
Dominik Eulberg
eyesix
Jones & Gregson
Pavemental
Soul Clap / Sphynx
Andrew Weathers
Jeremy Young

Soul Clap / Sphynx: So Sedated / Azul
Bastard Jazz Recordings

Excerpted from Bastard Jazz Recordings' forthcoming Tempo Dreams Volume 3 compilation, Soul Clap's “So Sedated” offers a preview of what one might expect from the full album Boston residents Charles Levine and Eli Goldstein have assembled for the label. It's one of two cuts on the seven-inch vinyl single, with the other side occupied by “Azul,” a non-compilation cut from Italian producers Sphynx.

Active under the Soul Clap name since 2001, Levine and Goldstein certainly know their way around a club track, and no better proof of that is needed than “So Sedated.” A sultry funk-soul number guaranteed to induce a swoon or two, the seductive cut's enhanced by Dayonne Rollins' restrained vocal contribution and a plethora of trippy, Moog-styled synthesizer treatments. A different species of animal entirely, Sphynx's “Azul” unabashedly leaps back to the ‘80s for a frothy electro workout replete with squiggly synths, squelchy bass, echo-drenched claps, and a classic B-Boy drum machine groove. Like many a single, the release is short at eight minutes, but the tunes, Soul Clap's especially, are memorable.

April 2015