Featured Artists, Songs and Posts
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Songs, Artists and Music News that has win Nagamag’s attention. Timeless sound harmony and unique pesonalities that are worthing extra attention! With no specific release date or music genre, fine music never expires.
Charley van Veldhoven – Hideaway (Spotify)
Charley van Veldhoven – Hideaway (Spotify)
Charley van Veldhoven wrote this track when was living in London for two years before I decided to become a full time composer and musician. It is greatly inspired by Nina Simone and Chick Corea and is a hybrid between classical music and jazz with some modern and romantic influences!
Thusgaard & Bierlich – Electric Yellow (Spotify)
Thusgaard & Bierlich – Electric Yellow (Spotify)
The duo of Thusgaard & Bierlich returns with a solid stomping melodic house theme "Electric Yellow" which is sound design tickling ears and the layering is playfull.
I Want Poetry – Growing Pains (Spotify)
I Want Poetry – Growing Pains (Spotify)
"Growing Pains" is about the beauty of coming out of your "egg shell" and leaving your comfort zone that keeps us safe but also keeps us small.
Noé Solange – Nocturnal Lady (Spotify)
Noé Solange – Nocturnal Lady (Spotify)
Inspired by moments of insomnia, ‘Nocturnal Lady’ delves into the realm of downtempo electronica with shades of trip hop. The fast-paced rhythmic backdrop of electronic elements juxtaposed with dreamy harmonies and melancholic lyrics detail the endless struggle into slumber.
It also tries to depict how we as individuals have started to disregard our need for sleep. One could say that in some sense, we have all become nocturnal. We live in a non-stop world, having programmed ourselves never to turn off, to be intolerant to patience and the notion of waiting.
Funky Notes Interview on Nagamag.com
Funky Notes
Interview
Nagamag:
What are the genres that describe better your music style?
Funky Notes:
Soulful-, funky-, jazzy-Instrumentals / Beats / Urban Instrumental-music
Nagamag:
Few words about your musical background and career?
Funky Notes:
I started making beats in 2009/2010 ruffly, before I was DJing for a couple of years and all in all loved Hip-Hop ever since I was about 8 years old. Started releasing music online in approximeately 2011/2012, first Soundcloud and Bandcamp-Releases. Had first Vinyl appearances starting 2014 and released my first EP/Alubum on wax in 2016. 2018 and 2019 two more Albums were following which both have been released digitally as well as on vinyl. I base my music-production around my MPC, a lot of vinyl and synths. I would describe my beats as varrying from raw Boom-Bap Beats to smooth, soulful instrumentals, always with my own touch.
Nagamag:
Do you remember your first connection of love to music that was the right impact to be a music artist now?
Funky Notes:
Not one in particular, but when I started DJing at the age of 17 and I had many friends over, also to spit on the beats I bought on wax, I thought, "Damn, I want to make these type of beats, how does that even work...!?". It took me at leaset 3 more years to ever produce my first beat but it was still an enlightening moment.
Nagamag:
Most artists have a favorite song from a different music genre than the one they are producing music for... Which is yours?
Funky Notes:
Queen "Somebody to Love"
Nagamag:
Of Course Nagamag would love to listen also which track from a similar artist you admire?
Funky Notes:
Apollo Brown Beauty of the day
Eguana – You Are My Weakness (Spotify)
Eguana – You Are My Weakness (Spotify)
The new future garage album of Eguana, Loves Waves is another timeless piece of sound art. Intelligent layered and harmonic structured promises an easy listening pleasure. A wonderful chill out trip that proper doses of nostalgia which evolves in daydreaming.