AFRICA10 Soundtrack Inspirations

As some of you know we are working on what will hopefully be a great doc on African football (soccer) in the run up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. We have a giant library of music we sample form to edit the film and on our Dipdive Channel we will be showcasing some of that great music every week. Here's a sample of some of the songs we've already posted. Enjoy!

Carlo Van de Roer Photography

Find out more here. Be sure to check out the "orbs" series, fantastic.

Sessions Vol 28

January is coming to an end but there's just enough time to knock out another mix before the year truly gets under way. There's been a lot of organising and digitizing of music this first month of 2010 at the HQ, which gives us a more comprehensive access to the music library. Look out over the forthcoming weeks for more classics mixed in with the new 2010 music. Listen below or head here to download to your computer. As always you can listen and download via iTunes, follow the link on the right side.

1. The Voices of East Harlem - So rare
2. Jonathan Jerimiah - What's a guy got to do
3. Build an Ark - Sunflowers in my garden
4. Resurrectors - Let the rhythms flow
5. Bjork - Like someone in love
6. Antonio Carlos Jobim - Choro
7. Modern Jazz Big Band - Kleines Lied Fur Eric
8. Air - Universal traveler
9. Amp Fiddler, Sly & Robbie - Drama inside
10. Four Tops - Are you man enough
11. Kool G Rap ft The RZA - Cakes
12. Femi Kuti - Turth don die (Nuyorican Soul version)
13. Feist - So sorry
14. Galliano - Twyford down
15. Harlem River Drive - Idle Hands

runtime just over an hour. This week's graphic found at Sophie Henson, great illustration and more, check it out.

A Single Man

A great film that's worth checking and a beautiful reinterpreted poster from ck/ck as seen on his/her flickr stream via the ever hip Kitsunenoir.

Sessions Vol 27

There's a common theme running through this week's mix. It is kinda cheesy on second thoughts now but it's done so enjoy. Everything is out of the "D" section from our harddrive. No real reason why we started with the letter "D" but this may become a ongoing feature. So here's to the discovery of music related to the letter "D" from D*Note to David Bowie (should he be in the "B" section? Ah the purists will argue to the end of time!). Listen below, on SoundCloud or download from here.

1. D*Note "Garden of earthly delights" (Ballistic Barrio Boom)
2. Dimitri from Paris "Prologue"
3. Dimitri front Paris "Mousieur Dimitri joue du stylophone"
4. Deyampart "Song For Kailen"
5. David Bowie "My death"
6. Donavan "Get thy bearings"
7. Dirty Diggers ft. Nostalgia 77 "So grown up"
8. De La Soul "Keepin the faith"
9. Dwele "Close to me"
10. Diana Ross "Brown baby"
11. Dee Dee Bridgewater "Sweet rain"
12. Dee Felice Trio "Nightingale"
13. Dzihan & Khmien "Stiff jazz"
14. Dazai Yuri Sextet "Midnight, Tokyo"
15. Darondo "Didn't I" (Trishes Edit)
16. Derrick Laro "Don't stop till you get enough"
17. Daft Punk "Something about us (love theme from Interstella 5555)"
18. Danger Doom "Space hoes"

runtime 1 hour 10 minutes

MJ Cole "Geared Piano"

Been listening to this on SoundCloud repeat for quite a while now. Finally realised there's a handy player that can be shared! So here it is.

Geared Piano by MJ Cole

Sessions Vol 26

We are hopping the new year is going well for everyone so far. New music is starting to flow to HQ and more samplings of those to come later this month for now here are a few great tunes knocking about our sound system for you including great soundtrack music from Alexandre Desplat (Lust, Caution) and Shigeru Umebayashi (A Single Man). Listen below or download from here.

1. Alexandre Desplat "Tsim Sha Tsui Stroll"
2. Shigeru Umebayashi "George's Waltz"
3. Robert Glasper "For you"
4. Soundspecies ft. Ahu "Can we call it loud"
5. Peven Everett "Soul Music"
6. Michael Jackson "Baby me mine" (TouchSoul Re-Edit)
7. El Michels Affair "Outro"
8. Wu Tang Clan "Da mystery of Chessboxin" (DJ Asparagus vs. El Michel's Affair Edit)
9. Kafka "Illumination"
10. Osunlade "Patchouli"
11. Phoenix "Love like a sunset"
12. Crowdplease and Ly Sanders "Walking home" (Jexx 7 Version)
13. Amy Winehouse "Valerie"
14. Five Corners Quintet "The Murder"
15. Gerardo Frisina "Solo"
16. Doom "Gazzillion Ear" (Thom Yorke Remix)
17. Flying Lotus ft. Laura Darlington "Unexpected delight"
18. Freakpower in Dub "My Heart Sings"

runtime an hour

this week's graphic from Kinsey.

Charlie Dark + Paolo Novelli

Iam1 Journey - London as seen on Put me on it!

Jazz Sessions Vol. 25

First mix of the year is in fact a 2009 mix knocked out for the annual Brownswood message board mixtape-swap-shop bonanza! Going to be posting the one we got in return which was a lovely journey into jazz-funk tastiness. We got some jazz, African rhythms, some soul, a couple of classic jazz-funk masters as well as some tasty re-edits off of SoundCloud folks. Listen below or download from here.

1. Choir of Young Believers "Things I stole"
2. Jazz Quintett "Cuba Libre"
3. Chick Corea "Moon Dance"
4. The Boogoos "The journey Ghana '74" (Dusty remix)
5. One Essence "Blackness of darkness"
6. Hugh Masakela "Been such a long time gone"
7. Pierre Nadeau Trio "Consuelo"
8. Womack & Womack "MPB" (TouchSoul Edit)
9. Ronnie Laws "Always there"
10. Erykah Badu "Soilder" (Mark Wayward Re-edit)
11. PPP "50 ways to leave your lover" (Alkalino Re-edit)
12. The Lamont Johnson Quintet "Off spring"
13. Barry Miles "Rebate"
14. Chaz Jackle "Give it up"
15. Quasimode "All is one"

runtime just over an hour