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KABA 001EP
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Kalakuta Soul Records is back and starts the year with a new collaboration with one of the most inspiring record stores and well of fortune for all music lovers, especially for those who enjoy Caribbean music and the profound musical heritage of Jamaica: the infamous Bahlo Records. For this first release, both have created a new imprint that brings both labels together and goes by the name KABA that stands for (well?) Kalakuta Soul Bahlo Records. For their first collaborative release, they were able to license two songs originally released on a private press LP by the mighty Golden Sunshine Steel Band in 1980 that will definitely bring the listener through day and night, whether at home, on the road or in a furious set on a mind-blowing sound system.
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KKS 009EP
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Italian boogie doctor Giovanni Damico joins forces with the mighty Gabriele Spagnuolo and Francesco Di Domenico on guitars and saxophone. "To Fela's People" is one of three stompers delivered for this joint teaming up with Mr. Villy Odili -- lead singer of the amazing Nigerian band Villy And The Extreme Volumes -- who's precise lyrics and drifty voice joins forces with a charging Afrobeat rhythm hailing from Giovanni Damico's bad ass laboratory. "Afro Stomp" and "Baba" on the other side come with the most furious drums and bassline one could ever imagine accompanied by a celestial instrumentation.
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KKS 10001EP
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Limited restock. Kalakuta Soul Records present Kai Niggemann's solo debut, an all original album of outrageous poetically abstract music created live and without overdubs on a Buchla 200e Electric Music Box. It's all improvised and recorded live in Berlin, yet it sounds meticulously crafted in a dark basement studio throughout the entire last winters. Kai is a member of the 30-piece kraut-noise-jazz collective The Dorf and the electronics duo The Last Books (with Achim Zepezauer), performs and records with Mia Zabelka as Redshift Orchestra, cofounded the internet-computer music European Bridges Ensemble and the electroacoustic duo Resonator.
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KKS 008EP
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A long-awaited release of two iconic songs by Mr. Ed Motta, properly edited by The Mighty Zaf and engineered by the mighty Phil Asher. Fully licensed by Warner Music Brazil. A sure banger for the summer.
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KKS 001LP
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Kalakuta Soul Records present the Homewreckers' new full-length album, Machinekiss. The Ruhr valley-raised trio has been heavily involved in the underground dance music scene for many years and the soulfulness of their output is unquestioned. Now, Machinekiss might come as their masterpiece. Recorded over the course of three years, the album's nine tracks evolved out of a long, in-depth investigation of blues and funk recordings from 1910 to 1980. As the sole sonic sources, the musicians -- Johannes Ehmann, Gregor Pottmeier, and Krischan Wesenberg -- use their own music collections, making the work a reflection of their personal and collaborative history and backgrounds. Micro particles of guitar chords, organ sounds, and drum elements reappear in new contexts and are fused with contemporary synthesizer and bass motifs. The results are deep, rhythmic, complex, and eccentric, leading the listener into the melancholic, more obscure sides of urban life. The Homewreckers have previously released on Thee Blak Label/Radikal Fear (Chicago), Groove Attack Productions (Cologne), Unique Records (Düsseldorf), and Circus Company (Paris). Featured artists: Johannes Ehmann - bass, digging, sampling, arrangement, slicing; Gregor Pottmeier - organs, reeds, fractured sampling, dequantization; Krischan Wesenberg - drums, engineering, shaping, balancing. Comes in gatefold sleeve; Edition of 500.
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KKSEP 001EP
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Hailing from the Ruhr area in Germany, the Homewreckers have a long history to look back on. Numerous projects have involved the three band members Johannes Ehmann, Gregor Pottmeier, and Krischan Wesenberg in the past 20 years, always meandering between the realms of jazz, blues, soul, house, and techno. Their unique sound spans from deep dancefloor oriented electronic music to film soundtracks that, amongst others, underlined the infamous productions of the artist Harun Farocki. Confusion EP is an excerpt of their upcoming album Machine Kiss that sums up six years of research and work.
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KKS 007EP
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Waxist, one of the best selectors of reggae, soul and disco, delivers a strong release on Kalakuta Soul Records, with Watch You Step. A fine selection of Jamaican, French and US relates bangers meticulously edited and mastered to blow both hips and minds away.
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KKS 006EP
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Founded in 2013, Kalakuta Soul Records has been delivering quality releases keeping quite a bunch of dancefloors busy all over the world. For their sixth release, the Bochum based label has managed to put its hands on three soulful jams that will shake the hell out of any encrusted hip. Cary Crant has put three marvelous tracks together delivering a heavy stomper on the A-side while dedicating the B-side to all the dancing souls that love to get lost in a huge amount of love leaving the speakers in every single minute of its two tracks.
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KKS 005EP
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After a strong release by Soul In The Hole's disco godfather Sadar Bahar (KKS 004EP, 2015), Kalakuta Soul Records returns with a strong three-tracker from the hands of West Atlantis's best kept secret, Cuttlefish & Asparagus, celebrating their third release on the label. This time, the duo dedicates the A-side to never-ending dances with a touching vocal that goes through body and soul. The B-side is a sure shaker and a massive dancefloor-oriented set of tracks that brings out the boogie in every single person in the club.
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KKS 004EP
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repressed! After a furious release from Cuttlefish & Asparagus (Hang On in There (KKS 003EP, 2015)), Kalakuta Soul presents a 12" from Sadar Bahar, one of the major influences on the label's work. Listeners who are still dancing and sweating to his unforgettable Chicken Wing Edits series may have been wondering what he's been doing. Well, Soul in the Hole's true soul and DJ's DJ Sadar Bahar has been travelling the world giving everybody a serious lesson in soul music that he calls disco beatdown. Some would also call Sadar's ceremonies "exorcism" -- pretty apt for the fantastic disco tracks here.
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KKS 003EP
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Cuttlefish & Asparagus deliver a strong three-tracker made to work the hell out of every imaginable sound system. With a sound spectrum wider than the Panama Canal, "Hang On in There" is guaranteed to turn any straight-cut jeans into glossy orange bell bottoms and any mirror into a disco ball. Meticulously edited without changing the filth of the unique bassline, "Lovin You" is a wild stomper made to immediately fill or blast any imaginable dancefloor. "Drum Song" embodies the deep spirit Kalakuta Soul, always after music to dance their asses off to. A tropical bliss.
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KKS 002EP
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Kalakuta Soul Records come back with another deep set of disco gems, touched by Glasgow's disco godfather, the almighty Al Kent, who delivers three eclectic masterpieces. The A-side keeps every imaginable sound-system busy with a drifty percussive harvester adorned with eclectic instrumentation. "Colder Than Cold" features a thick bass drum, a bass slapped by the fingers of a giant, keys and chords from heaven, and horns hailing from the utmost depth of Kalakuta's soul. "Gee Wiz" closes this opus with an orchestral beauty that once gathered all the souls behind what we call music today. Limited to 500 copies.
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