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This is the feature track new album ‘Stories in Slow Light. It was inspired by a photograph taken by Helena Whitten.

Listen full album here:

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The piece was recorded at Swallow Studios in Smallwood and features members of the string section of the Northern Film Orchestra.

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Dance music figurehead Kevin McKay has released 'Goodies', the new single from his brand new album of the same name; a superb collection of his most standout recent tracks, looking back over a massively productive 15 month period. The essential selection takes in a broad array of remixes and originals from the Glasgow Underground label head, world-renowned DJ and tireless producer.

The single 'Goodies' is a rework of Ciara's 2004 R&B classic ‘Goodies.’ Talking about the new single Kevin McKay said, "This track started as an edit I made of the Ciara original to play out. I love the simplicity of Lil Jon's production (musically, it's almost all on one note!), and Ciara's rhythmic delivery makes for a great dancefloor mover. So I've taken the signature chorus, wrapped it up in a heavy tech beat and developed the Ocarina synth in the original into a big drop synth. It got a wicked reaction when I played it at the GU party at NT's Loft in January."

Even by his high standards, Kevin McKay has had a landmark couple of years. His label is closing in on an incredible 700th release, and the man himself continued to turn out a high-grade, non-stop selection of vital sounds that covered a wide spectrum of house styles. Back in 2020, he dropped his well-received 'Summer Of Love' LP which perfectly captured the club experience in one indispensable album. There was also a huge collaboration with French house producer Norman Doray on "Let Me Work On You" while the Glasgow Underground label continued to make exciting new talent signings with the likes of prodigious producer Harvee quickly making his mark.

All this of course comes after Kevin has spent many years deeply entrenched in the scene. In that time he has earned a deserving reputation as one of house music's most hard-working figures and has done everything from working in high profile collaborative duos with Omid 16B, creating numerous dance floor anthems, discovering and co-producing Mylo’s seminal album, ‘Destroy Rock & Roll’ album and holding down a residency at Mick's Garage in London.

The new album features plenty of new vocal tunes such as "Take It Back", "Open Your Heart" and "Voices", but the majority of the tracks are classic songs and samples re-imagined with a 2022 groove, including his huge new rework of Ciara's "Goodies".

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With a minimalist and sensitive tone, Hannah Schneider's new single Mirror Sphere tells a monumental story about the beginning of life. Mirror Sphere returns to the amoeba's path from sea to land in an organic, ambient pop song. The single is the second single from Hannah Schneider's upcoming album Ocean Letters.

Mirror Sphere will be released on February 25 via Copenhagen label Midnight Confessions

The singer is one half of the celebrated duo AyOwA who have received significant international support from the likes of Huffington Post, The Independent, VICE, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH Magazine and Wonderland Magazine as well as airplay from both BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens as well as BBC Radio 6’s 6mix with Nemone. Independently, Hannah Schneider has been nominated for several music prizes in Denmark, and has performed all over Europe, the UK and the USA. Her spherical voice has appeared on several big Scandinavian TV series, recently in the international nordic TV series Ride Upon the Storm.

The mysteries of nature and the oceans have inspired all the new songs, and the story of Mirror Sphere is told from the perspective of the amoebas - life at the beginning of the earth.

“I wrote Mirror Sphere in the middle of the darkest times of the pandemic. It felt like it was a crucial moment in history - almost as if it was the end of it all. I came to think of the earth's long history, and that everything happens over billions of years - all the way back from the time the amoebas decided to go ashore, to become animals and later humans. We're just part of the long haul, and that’s kind of a consolation!”

Hannah Schneider is obsessed with contrasts. The strength of the vulnerable, the acoustic, the organic in encounter with darker electronic elements. For her, as for many, the pandemic time has given room for new reflections on life, but also a change in her sonic expression:

“This time of isolation and complete quiet sent me back to something basic. A nearness and a simplicity. Creatively, for me it meant going back to my classical roots, and to where the music started for me - at the piano. Mirror Sphere mixes the acoustic sound of my piano and guitar with electronic and spherical elements into an ambient pop song. The production has been turned down, the vocals are done in one take, and these new songs reflect a new process in many ways.”

Mirror Sphere, like the album's other songs, has been created in collaboration with Danish producer Nicolai Kornerup, with whom she also creates music in AyOwA.

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The lyric video from award-winning jazz singer-songwriter Ori Dagan’s upcoming album “Click Right Here” for his self-penned single “My Finger Slipped” it is a hilarious slice of 21st-century life we can all relate to.

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YOU WERE THERE is an Afro house blended into organic house and electronica created with sharp plucky lead sounds and soft background pad that drives rhythm of the bass in and out shouts come in to build the vibe of the desert and empty space you were once standing in recalling if you saw it or if it was just a blur of the past the track has a lot of percussive elements to keep it tribal yet progressive i hope you enjoy this piece and make your own imagination to it

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"Blessings," featuring Free.Vurz is a upbeat, Amapiano influenced celebration of life. The lyrics is about thanking God for his blessings in the midst of the challenges and successes on his musical journey. The song was inspired from a creative spark Jo-el Sii and Free.vurz experienced when they took a trip to Lagos and rubeed shoulders with producer "Froshtunez" and other creatives in the Afrobeats hub.

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