Soundway
British label founded in 2002 by Miles Cleret. Soundway Records started off life in by re-issuing and compiling old music from Africa, Latin America, The Caribbean, Asia and beyond, but now releases music from all eras and regions: contemporary and vintage. Music ranges from Psychedelic Rock to Disco, Boogie, Electronic, Afrobeat, Funk.
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Soundway
Various – Onda De Amor (Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were 1984-94)
$39.00
Visit product page →Some crate-digging compilations are often the result of someone hand-picking their choice favourites from another country’s musical history, perhaps unaware or uninvolved with its cultural lineage in the process. On Soundway’s latest release - a treasure trove of synth jams, pop, samba boogie, balearic and electro from 1980 & ‘90s Brazil - the tracks are picked by Millos Kaiser, one half of the Brazilian duo Selvagem, who are at the helm of throwing some of the country's best dance parties. It’s a rare compilation that offers Brazilian music actually picked by a Brazilian.
This collection of sixteen tracks doesn’t comprise tracks scoured from deeply in-demand records, the rare sort that sell for eye-watering sums and that collectors spend years tracking down. They are the sort you’d find for a few quid should you come across but, as Kaiser says, “the problem is finding them. They aren’t rare because everyone wants a copy but because no one wants them, not even the dealers.”
So, whilst names such as Ricardo Bomba, Villa Box, Fogo Baiano, Electric Boogies and Batista Junior may not be household names, they tell an untold, yet rich and important part of musical history in Brazil. The release also covers a decade that has been intentionally forgotten and brushed aside by many in the country. “Use of synthesizers and electronic drums in polished and groovy productions was seen as a way to standardize and Americanize Brazilian music,” Kaiser says. “This is a thought that seems to still hang in the air. Many people stand by their opinion that the 80s were the lost era of Brazilian music.”- Bandcamp
Label: Soundway – SNDWLP125
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 06 Jul 2018
Genre: Electronic, Latin, Funk / Soul
Style: Axé, Synth-pop, Electro, Hip Hop, Boogie, House
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Soundway
Various Artist - Body Beat (Soca-Dub And Electronic Calypso 1979 - 98)
$48.00
Visit product page →Filled with up-tempo tracks from start to finish, the compilation's lead single "I Want Your Love" by Peter Britto is a soca-house number which originally came out on NYC-based label Hometown Music in 1998.
It features the recognisable soca synth beat, along with Caribbean steel drums and horns - but with the obvious influence of New York's booming house scene, making it an ultimate crossover track for club dancefloors and carnivals alike. So here you go - seventeen slabs of soca crossover, rapso, electronic calypso, and Caribbean ‘soca-soul’ for your enjoyment - and bound to fit well into modern, open-minded DJ sets alongside the resurgence of burger-highlife, digi-reggae, soukous and zouk. – Bandcamp
Label: Soundway – SNDWLP132
Format: 3 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 25 Oct 2019
Genre: Electronic, Reggae, Funk / Soul
Style: Calypso, Soca, Dub, Disco
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Soundway
Grupo Controle Digital - A Festa E Nossa
$39.00
Visit product page →Obscure 1980s Brazilian lo-fi synth LP re-issued and remastered for the first time. Soundway Records delivers a beautifully remastered reissue of Brazilian duo Grupo Controle Digital’s only album, “A Festa É Nossa”. First released in 1988, the album is now housed in a tip-on heavyweight sleeve with restored artwork.
With the title track “A Festa É Nossa” having circulated the last few years in the DJ sets of influential tastemakers, the album has become highly sought after by electronic fans and collectors alike. Lo-fi synths and cruising bass lines permeate the record, influenced by the group’s Brazilian contemporaries at the time such as Tim Maia, Cláudio Zoli, Secos E Molhados, and rock outfit Made In Brazil.
Band members Billy Jaguar and Gel Valiery regularly performed in various groups in São Paulo throughout the 80s and 90s, but after Gel passed away, Grupo Controle Digital was no more - the band and the album faded into obscurity and Billy became a priest, working with gospel music. It remained that way until Brazilian DJ Millos Kaiser (from label Selva Discos, and one half of Brazilian street party organisers Selvagem) tracked down the remaining member of the group to be able to include one of their tracks on the highly anticipated Soundway compilation “Onda De Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were (1984-94)”, which was released in July 2018. - Bandcamp
Label: Soundway – SNDWLP126
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: UK
Released: 2018
Genre: Electronic, Latin, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style: New Wave, Disco, Hip Hop, Leftfield, Synth-pop
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Soundway
Family Atlantica – Family Atlantica
$39.00
Visit product page →“Recorded over 4 years in London and Venezuela, Cuban rumba, Venezuelan tambor and tonada, Ghanaian highlife, Ethiopian blues and calypso have been soaked and infused with psychedelia and spiritual jazz to come up with what Gilles Peterson described as “a really great record”. The DJ and tastemaker included the band in his recent ‘Hot For 2013 Show’ on BBC 6music, premiering the track Cumbacutiri. A diverse host of heavyweight musicians from both sides of the Atlantic are led by London born Jack Yglesias, producer, multi-instrumentalist and a veteran of The Heliocentrics, and his wife Luzmira Zerpa, traditional Venezuelan musician, poet and singer with a magical voice acclaimed by Manu Chao.
Recorded while living in an abandoned vicarage in East London, the record contains three different generations of Luzmira’s family as well as a cast of musicians from the wider Family Atlantic family. One of the guests on the album, legendary Ethiopian-jazz maestro Mulatu Astatke, adds a classic touch on piano to ‘Escape To The Palenque’, soloing in his unmistakable flowing Ethiopian 6/8 style. Also featured on the record are Senegalese Nuru Kane and Afro-Cuban group Yoruba Andabo. Much of the record was recorded by the Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto at their East London studio.” – Bandcamp
Item description:
Artist:
Family Atlantica
Title:
Family Atlantica
Label:
Soundway
Format:
2 × Vinyl, LP
Pressing:
Europe
Release Date:
2013
Genre:
Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Latin Jazz, Psychedelic
Catalog No:
SNDWLP042
Condition:
New
