The French group consolidates its soul, rock and Americana roots in a liberating and timeless second album.

In 2021, Lowland Brothers, the first self-titled album from the group led by Nico Duportal (vocals, guitars, lyrics), Hugo Deviers (percussion, guitar, lyrics) and Max Genouel (bass, keyboards) built an unprecedented transatlantic bridge between soul, rock and the woody sounds of Americana. " We have some African-American, but our desire is to transport this baggage and take it elsewhere,” specifies the group from the West and North of France.

A1 - Brotherhood Hazy Night
A2 - For A While
A3 - Can You Hear Me
A4 - Little Big Man
A5 - Sound From The Attic
B1 - Shape Up
B2 - We Shouldn’t Be Here
B3 - Rolling Man
B4 - Here Come The Shadow Heroes
B5 - Don’t Let Me Fall More

"After their critically acclaimed LP “Arcadia” THE BUTTSHAKERS return with a powerful new 45” in celebration of Record Store Day. A two-sided slab of heavy hitting soul grooves.
Cold World, with it’s darker, Stax-influenced horn hook, drives the listener on with an infectious groove and heart-wrenching vocals. The riff is heavy, but the message remains hopeful: stay golden in a cold, isolating world. A post-covid soul anthem.
On the b-side, THE BUTTSHAKERS sink into the bluesy-country roots of soul music with CROSSROAD. The intimate guitar-voice of the intro gives way to a feverish drum and bass rhythm sent straight from the bayou. The song galops and races, taking the listener on a strange and dreary trip to meet the Devil at the crossroad. A story of legends; reimagined with some twang and a whole lotta soul."

A - Cold World
B - Crossroad More

Ecstatic brass, 70’s keyboards, elastic guitars, round bass and world percussion: from this sonic heritage, Ireke makes a unique fusion, enhanced by the audacious contribution of his dub science, and a few electronic touches.

A1 - Petit a petit (feat Agnès Hélène)
A2 - Man bo diak (feat Amatah Keo)
A3 - Femme qui danse (feat Pat Kalla)
A4 - Bas les masques (feat Charly Sanga)
A5 - Oh ma cherie (Petit à petit Part 2) (feat Agnès Hélène & Charly Sanga)
B1 - Love is jokin (feat Pat Kalla)
B2 - Metissage (feat Sana Bob)
B3 - Kinkeliba (feat Jy Cooly)
B4 - Electro highlife (instrumental)
B5 - T’es haut (instrumental)
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Square represents a major turning point in the career of the pioneer of nu reggae. An extraordinary architect of studio production and multi-instrumentalist who records, mixes and produces but also, for several years, performs on stage with his musicians. After recording Square, he started touring alone, equipped with a machine he designed and built with Midi controllers to launch original samples and loops - an autarky assumed from one end of the process to the other. “You have to master all the tools to deliver what you want”, he has been saying for years... Yet, this Square is wide open: old school rhythms or techno-like approaches, vintage dub or futuristic take offs, thick sound basses and melodies, scraped to the bone…

All this is Flox, a solid innovator who never stops renewing his nu reggae, a maniacal craftsman who regulates, to the micron, tracks of perfect simplicity of access. His trademark is this highly spatialized form of reggae, with an enveloping sound, which seems to take the artist and the listener into a shared bubble; as padded as tense.

TRACKLIST:

A1 Smoke Grass
A2 In The Shade
A3 Coming Out
A4 Herbs and Spices
A5 Never Gonna Stop
B1 Morning Tempo
B2 Spices and Herbs
B3 Move On
B4 Be My Guest
B5 Square More

I wanted to talk about what I know best, which life from my perspective" Rébecca M'Boungou is not unaware of the universal part of her mixed race life so many upheavals, splendors, melancholies, pleasures or pains present in this century.Kolinga tells much more than the musical adventure of a dark-skinned country girl from southwestern France who expresses herself in French, English and Lingala on a music which drawsfrom pop, Congolese rumba, jazz, soul, song, hip hop... More

Following the recent reissues of Pop Impressions (UR000651) and Super America (UR000651), Underdog Records label follows-up to the series with another brilliant album by French underrated composer and producer, JANKO NILOVIC.
JANKO NILOVIC certainly was one of the greatest studio talents of Europe in the 70s!
He is a musician who devotes himself to music, which resulted in a great number of published works, but most of them made for library music labels and also not available for sale.
His oeuvre stretches from classical, jazz and funk to pop, psyche and easy listening. And has been sampled many times by hip-hop artists such as JAY-Z, DAFUNIKS or GUTS...

TRACKLIST:
A1 Hippocampus 3:01
A2 Open Country 1:47
A3 Crazy Enterprise 2:01
A4 Soul Impressions 3:23
A5 Lettre De Mer 2:19
A6 Drug Song 3:11
B7 Man of Genius 3:07
B8 Push Push 2:13
B9 Black Swan Lake 2:11
B10 Lady Day 2:41
B11 To and Fro 1:57
B12 Family Tree 2:07 More