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| The Leisure Bandits: EP | | UP |
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The Leisure Bandits are a party band known for their high-energy live performance and super catchy original tunes. With rich harmonies and raw grooves, the Bandits have found the perfect balance between mass-appeal and musical credibility. The Leisure Bandits play music that everyone can relate to while maintaining a strong individual identity - And now you can bring the party home! The first song released for download from The Leisure Bandits EP is: Lord Don't Tell - A fun swinging party track with a touch of Hip-Hop. Think Outkast on holiday in NZ with a New-Orleans horn section!
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Released on site:
23 Apr 2012
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| The Kumpnee: The Kumpnee Ball | | UP |
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Founding members of The Kumpnee, Josh Gage and Ronnie Lavender have been steadily building up a base of fans in Australia and New Zealand over the past few years and have recently been joined by Gino Hawkins, Stevie Taylor and Huia Ratapu to make up the core of this smooth 5-piece live band.
Their sound can be described as a blend of unpredictable urban funk, rap, and soulful harmony, think Outkast thrown into a cauldron mixed with a dash of Gnarls Barkley and a sprinkle of The Black Eyed Peas. They draw on their life experience growing up in New Zealand and living in Australia.
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Released on site:
15 Nov 2011
Album Download: AUD
$15.20
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| Professor Groove and the Booty Affair: And So Funketh The Wise Man | | UP |
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Do you remember SWOOP, the groundbreaking mid '90s popfunk band responsible for songs such as: "Apple Eyes" (one of the biggest Australian singles of 96), "Rock Dog", "Do It", "Neighbourhood Freak" and "Everything I Do From Now On Is Going To be Funky" (all high rotation JJJ staples)?
Well, Professor Groove and The Booty Affair is a recent project from the writers, performers and funkifiers that were behind Swoop.
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Released on site:
18 May 0
Album Download: AUD $15.20
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| Polar Nation: Polar Nation | | UP |
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Polar Nation released their debut self-titled album in 2010. Genre defying and game changing, Polar Nation takes polar opposites and melds them together in a unique blend of Rock, Hip-Hop, Electronica and Rhythm and Blues. Polar Nation are Aki Redbird, Matthew Charles and Samson. Reminiscent of sounds your spirit knows, Polar Nation will shock you into a rediscovery of what urban music is all about. A fusion of dark and light. Of ancient and futuristic. Of earthly yet mystical.
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Released on site:
3 Jan 2011
Album Download: AUD $15.20
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| Michael Wheatley: Sloppy Joe - Butter & Scissors | | UP |
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Sloppy Joe is a 3 piece instrumental groove outfit with Michael Wheatley on keys. Sloppy Joe completed a 2 year residency at Sydney Opera House, Opera Bar in 2002/3. Sloppy Joe's lives signature is to mold and remold their sound depending upon the mood of those around. Butter & Scissors is their second album after Joe Mumma. Featuring Paula Baxter on the track "When you Come Round".
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Released on site:
18 May 1200
Album Download: AUD
$8.00
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| Merenia Gillies: Libertine | | UP |
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Libertine is the 2008 debut release from dynamic Sydney songstress and MC, Merenia Gillies. A rising star in the Sydney club and world music scene, Merenia is best known to date for her collaborative work with Love Tattoo, Rephrase and Paul Mac. An intensive labour of love, Libertine features an eclectic, well crafted collection of songs which inspire, empower, excite and convince the listener to surrender themselves to the infectious beats. Libertine defies traditional genre categorising and embodies elements of smooth soul, solid funk, Latin flavours and vintage hip hop.
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Released on site:
23 Feb 2011
Album Download: AUD $15.20
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| Maupower: Two Shades Of Grey | | UP |
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"Two shades of Grey" radiates the raw energy from Maupower - the hypeman of "One Blood Hidden Image". This solo album released by Maupower in 2008 crosses between underground hip hop lyrical energy to RnB, while maintaining the influence of the Indigenous Torres Strait culture and language. With songs like "Rogue Souljah" identifying Maupower's struggles to become the image he is in the hip hop scene to "My Blood My People" sharing his pride to be identified as an Indigenous Australian, in particular a Torres Stait Islander.
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Released on site:
14 Feb 2011
Album Download: AUD $15.20
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| King Farook: Land Of The Horny | | UP |
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King Farook: An action-packed five-piece maelstrom of funky pockets mixed with a rock edge, urban flows, and smooth vocal harmonies that all combine to create their uniquely energetic and epic hook-driven sound. audiolunchbox
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Released on site:
1 Jun 2009
Album Download: AUD $15.20
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| Danny G Felix Project: Danny G Felix Project | | UP |
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Danny G Felix is one of the most exciting young jazz players to emerge in Australia for many years. He is a highly accomplished improviser on piano, trumpet and percussion, and has played with many Australian and international outfits including the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, the Charles Mingus Big Band, and Vusi Masasela. The Danny G Felix Project showcases a fresh genre he calls Urban Fusion. A mix of Neo-Soul, Hip Hop, Big Band Jazz and Afro-Latin music. This is songwriting that connects different languages of rhythm and musical sensibilities with strength, smoothness and sophistication.
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Released on site:
18 May 1200
Album Download: AUD $15.20
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| Candy Royalle + Sloppy Joe: Stories By Starlight | | UP |
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'Stories by Starlight' is an all-consuming fus...ion of music, poetry, performance and soundscapes. Known for her arresting and confronting work, performance artist and wordsmith Candy Royalle found a natural fit with Sloppy Joe, a trio who bend the genres of funk, jazz and soul. Their unique sounds are now the backdrop to her latest body of work. Born of desire, politics and self-discovery, 'Stories by Starlight' is an intense, rhythmic journey through the self and into the stars.
EXCLUSIVE TO IHEARMUSIC.COM!
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Released on site:
8 Jan 2012
Album Download: AUD
$16.90
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