Doctor L - A Hole In Your Soul
(Free MP3 download on ParisDJs.com) 2011-04-28

Open Window is a lifestyle, it is beyond category. The sources of its words and music span the centuries. Its concept and interpretations are timeless and boundless. If its contribution can be summarized in a phrase, Open Window is the sound of now, encompassing all the yesterdays and all the todays in the limitless cosmos of sound.

Here's an exclusive free track extracted from Open Window, the brand new album from Doctor L!!

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A HOLE IN YOUR SOUL by doctor l

Ebo Taylor - Love And Death (Strut) parisdjs
Free The Robots - Ctrl Alt Delete (Alpha Pup) parisdjs
Gonja Sufi - A Sufi And A Killer (Warp) parisdjs
Homelife - Exotic Interlude (Humble Soul) parisdjs
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Stay Gold (Kinnara) parisdjs
Marco Benevento - Between The Needles And Nightfall (Royal Potato Family) parisdjs
Mushroom - Naked, Stoned & Stabbed (4 Zero) parisdjs
Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro - Tradition In Transition (Tru Thoughts) parisdjs
Skeletons - Smile (Impossible Ark) parisdjs
The Souljazz Orchestra - Rising Sun (Strut) parisdjs

After publishing a solid 10-records-a-year selection of the last decade (from 1999 to 2009), we took a few days to think about the 2010 best of... The first thing that came to mind when weed look back at the past 12 months, was the obvious blast of compilations that were released. From the incredible Ninja Tune XX boxset (6xCDs, 6x7", 2x12" and a book - all new tracks and remixes!), the amazing "world" compilations and reissues from Soundway Records, Analog Africa, Academy LPs, Nascente or Vampisoul, the fantastic and rare funk/jazz stuff from the diggers at Finders Keepers, Jazzman or Luv'N'Haight, the jaw-dropping sets from Numero Group, all those Fania Records reissues... I'm missing a few but you get my point: this is highly-entertaining quality stuff, but from hte independent's viewpoint it also looks like the music industry has never been so much focused of its back-catalog.

Meanwhile, a few labels are still doing the job of distributing today's music to the people of today, and maybe they deserve a little bit more spotlight... That's what we thought would be interesting to look at anyway. We had to forbid ourselves not to put any Colored-Inc. release in our selection, of course, even though some of the records we've put out this year were simply astonishing... such as the Hard 2 Find series for example!

What was left: some genre-bending electronic/hip hop/psychedelia marvels from Gonja Sufi and Free The Robots, from the Los Angeles beats scene, ecstatic afro/jazz from Germany (Eboy Taylor & Afrobeat Academy), Canada (The Souljazz Orchestra), or England (Skeletons), addictive cumbia/soul from Columbia (Quantic and his Combo Barbaro), psychedelic folk exotica from former Nina tune affiliates Homelife (their leader Paddy Steer has also released a solo album that's quite a treat too), and finally mesmerizing jazz/indie rock mixtures from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey or Marco Benevento, both released thru the sensational US label The Royal Potato Family. Well, all in all another good year for music, nothing like 1976 when stadium FM rock was rising and Hotel California was king...

Contenders : Bonobo, The New Mastersounds, Randa & The Soul Kingdom, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Qualitons, Saravah Soul, Hidden Orchestra, The Roots, Kings Go Forth, Big Pimp Jones, The Hot Rats, Flying Lotus, Candice Monique & The Optics, Aloe Blacc, Cochemea Gastelum, The Bees, Roots Manuva, Lloyd Miller & Te Heliocentrics, Brownout, Grupo Fantasma, Mike Gordon...

Colored-Inc. presents Carlton Livingston
(MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2011-02-05

Carlton Livingston is one of the great, sort of lost singers of the early eighties dancehall scene. He's just released a new album, Bridge of Life and it's a killer. Under the production of Grant Phabao, Carlton's smooth style and voice made this album full of both dancehall mashers and lovers tunes. The sound is a cross between Groundation and more traditional 70's reggae from the island. Here's a selection of some of his earlier hits mixed with a few tracks from this new album.

Tracklisting :
01. Carlton Livingston - Amagideon Time
(from 'Amagideon Style' 12 inch, 198? / Dynamite) youtube
02. Carlton Livingston - Baby Girl
(from 'Rumours' LP, 1984 / Bebo's)
03. Carlton Livingston - Tales Of The Two Cities
(from 'Tale Of Two Cities / Revolutionaries' 7 inch, 1978 / Channel One/HItbound)
04. Carlton Livingston - 100 Weight Of Collie Weed
(from '100 Weight Of Collie Weed / Soundman Clash' 7 inch, 1984 / Kaya) youtube
05. Grant Phabao & Carlton Livingston - The Life Of A Don
(from 'Bridge Of Life' album, 2010 / T.I.M.E.C./Colored-Inc.) info
06. Carlton Livingston - You Make Your Mistake
(from 'Rose-Marie / You Make Your Mistake / Collie Dub' 12 inch, 198? / Black Joy)
07. Carlton Livingston - Throdding Through The Jungle
(from 'Throdding Through The Jungle' album, 1983) info
08. Carlton Livingston - Children On The Mountain Top
(from 'Soweto' album, 1981 / El Bebo)
09. Carlton Livingston - Soundman Clash
(from '100 Weight Of Collie Weed / Soundman Clash' 7 inch, 1984 / Kaya)
10. Carlton Livingston - Rumors
(from 'Rumors' LP, 1984 / Bebo's)
11. Carlton Livingston - Cold Cold Winter
(from 'Cold Cold Winter' 7 inch, 1988 / Grade One)
12. Carlton Livingston - Mr DJ
(from 'Mr. D.J. / Rougher Yet' 7 inch, early 1980s / Grade One)
13. Grant Phabao & Carlton Livingston - Running for my Life
(from 'Bridge Of Life' album, 2010 / T.I.M.E.C./Colored-Inc.) info
14. Grant Phabao & Carlton Livingston - Sing Power to the People
(from 'Bridge Of Life' album, 2010 / T.I.M.E.C./Colored-Inc.) info

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Doctor L - Open Window
(Download/limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI022, 2011-01

Doctor L's new album is once again different!
Rather than classify it simply as music, the performer use sound to express feelings he cannot put into words. He's free, free to use sound in any style he may conceive, free to avoid the obligations of any debt to the rules of standard harmony or anything that has gone before him in music. He's free to observe these rules or break them.
Open Window is a walk through the musical universe. It explores new areas, plunges into territories never before investigated, says whatever it pleases without being concerned staying in any one musical bag.
Open Window is a lifestyle, it is beyond category. The sources of its words and music span the centuries. Its concept and interpretations are timeless and boundless. If its contribution can be summarized in a phrase, 'Open Windows' is the sound of now, encompassing all the yesterdays and all the todays in the limitless cosmos of sound.

A FACTORY WORKING DAY by Doctor L

STONE AFTER STONE by Doctor L

Tracklisting :
01. Moving On - feat. Dom Farkas
02. So Many People Must Save Us - vocals by Doctor L
03. The World Is Leaking - vocals by Doctor L
04. A Factory Working Day - vocals by Doctor L, backing by Dom Farkas
05. A Hole In Your Soul - vocals by Doctor L, backing by Dom Farkas
06. Stone After Stone- vocals by Doctor L, backing by Dom Farkas
07. Cosmic Flow- vocals by Doctor L
08. 9 Below Zero- vocals by Doctor L
09. Control- vocals by Doctor L
10. The Irish Freedom Song- vocals by Doctor L
11. Still Using Guns- vocals by Doctor L


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