Fresh n’ Green, -February 12th-

Nine “fresh n’ Green”, ultra tasty tunes to feed your music appetite. We are pretty confident, you don’t wanna miss those ones right?

The Good Graces – ‘Stopped Making Plans’ (feat. Jerry Kee)

About The Good Graces

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Ch!mes – ‘Selfish’

About Ch!mes

Dominic who with his music goes under the name ‘Ch!mes’, is a British UK-based electronic music producer from a lovely named town called Slough. Started his music producer journey back in 2015 when he got bored during preparations for GCSE exams in secondary school and began wondering what he wanted out of life. He was drawn to the freedom, opportunity to build something for himself by himself and endless creativity to what music could offer. It then became his goal to become a skilled and successful music producer. So he learned how to mix, master, do sound design and just overall make tracks using a computer and a world of sound. A few years later gained support from music blogs and radio such as Acid Stag, Stereofox, The Word Is Bond, SwanoDown, Kane FM, Night Swim Radio etc. As well as has acquired a sync placement on a corporate video for a UK-based watch brand called Uniform Wares.

Ch!mes likes to experiment with sounds and making music that sounds very different to what you usually hear. he tends to make a lot of Future Bass, Downtempo and Trap/Hip Hop/RnB sounding music (if you want to put a genre to it). His style tends to be experimental as he wants to keep music innovative rather than just what is somewhat seen as generic commercial music. Heavy basslines, punchy and interesting drum patterns as well as unique sound design is his specialty.

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JJ & The Mood – ‘How Many Times’

About JJ & The Mood

JJ & The Mood is a disco-pop duo comprised of Los Angeles-based cartoonist Jack Sjogren and Cincinnati-based songwriter & producer Joey Joesph.

Drawing from musical influences spanning Talking Heads, ESG, and Liquid Liquid, the duo’s palette features varying shades of soul, disco, indie pop, and gospel – cohesively held together by Sjogren’s playful vocal energy and Joesph’s warm and spirited production.

Sjogren and Joesph originally met in Orlando, Florida but it wasn’t until years later, during an autumn 2019 session at The Eyebrow Palace, that they started laying the groundwork for what would become JJ & The Mood.

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Uran Apak – ‘Bully’

About Uran Apak

Uran Apak is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in London. His music is a mix of downtempo, vocal improvisation and Turkish classical music. He’s equally influenced by Massive Attack, Bobby McFerrin and Zeki Müren. In his live performances he uses a loop station to perform his songs and music created in the moment, with audience participation.

Uran recently released his first single and music video ‘Out of Nothing’ which received various awards and nominations from film festivals such as East Village Queer Film Festival in New York and the The Monkey Bread Tree Awards in London. ‘Out of Nothing’ is a downtempo song about an artist who reflects on the meaning of success and recognition as his grandiose expectations meet physical and mental limitations. The single features additional production and mixing by London based producer David Ezra. After various gigs in London (Vortex Jazz Club, Barbican Exhibition Halls) and Istanbul (Dunia, Anahit Sahne) Uran is now preparing to release his second single.

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YVA – ‘Fountain of Youth’

About YVA

YVA, 29 and a native Geordie, previously performed under moniker Eva Stone and spent the early part of the last decade in and out of “anxiety inducing” sessions in London. She met Ivor Novello winner Nitin Sawhney shortly before taking a self-prescribed sabbatical from music due to poor mental health, but went on to become both good friends and a permanent fixture in his band, touring globally and featuring heavily on his last two albums.

“There is a truth to [YVA’s] voice that veers from unapologetically disturbing to simply sublime. An artist with a profound mastery of genuine magic.” – Nitin Sawhney.

Following the decade that she says was both instructive and “soul-forming,” YVA resolved to follow her intuition and invested in a home studio set-up with Hibbert, where her first EP HYPE MACHINE was written and recorded over the course of the shit-heap that was 2020.

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Eighty Ninety – ‘Forever’

About Eighty Ninety

Eighty Ninety’s debut single “Three Thirty” quickly reached #2 on Spotify’s Global Viral Chart. Their music has had over 26 million streams since the release of their moody, romantic debut EP “Elizabeth”, featuring on Spotify playlists New Music Friday, Pop Rising, Indie Pop, Chill Vibes, Chill Pop, Viral Hits, Fresh Finds and many more — even earning a co-sign from Taylor Swift along the way, when the singer added their single “Your Favorite Song” to her official Spotify playlist Songs Taylor Loves.

Compromised of brothers Abner and Harper James, the NYC-based indie duo fuses intimate storytelling, sticky melodies, and minimalist pop productions built on acoustic instruments and electronic sounds in a style they call “808s and telecasters”. They’ve been featured in Alt Press, Ones To Watch, Billboard, Galore, Indie Shuffle, NME, LadyGUNN, Dancing Astronaut, Run The Trap and more, and have toured and performed with artists including Des Rocs, VHS Collection, and Savoir Adore.

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The Leeward Fits – ‘I Don’t Want It Don’t Need It’

About The Leeward Fits

The Leeward Fits is a San Antonio, Texas based rock project. A self-described “living-room rocker”, The Leeward Fits’ principle songwriter, lyricists, and performer, Alex Schmidt founded a working relationship with Omaha based sound-engineer, producer, and rhythm artist, Timothy Zick. “This collaborative relationship has allowed me to develop an exciting and kinetic platform for fostering unconstrained and original music, even while at times on opposite sides of the globe”, Alex explains. “I just want to share the human experience through music with as many people as possible, and hopefully spread some happiness among like-minded people”. – The Leeward Fits.

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The Micro Band – ‘Bridge of Eden’

About The Micro Band

Staples of the Scottish festival circuit, The Micro Band live together in Leith, Edinburgh. Formed in 2014 the band have proved with each new release to be a constantly evolving entity. Making strongly rhythmic, outsider pop while stretching genres to fit their form.

The band’s next single Bridge Of Eden is written about a brain seizure in a supermarket and is due for release on February 12th 2021 on Leith based record label New Teeth. Its captures the thunder and lightning that happens inside a persons head… then the broken windows, cracked pavement and leaning walls that follow.

Bridge Of Eden is the first of many singles the band plan to release throughout 2021 and was the first track to be recorded in the band’s DIY studio hidden beneath the ancient Royal Mile.

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Yoji – ‘Tears On My Piano’

About Yoji

Born in London and later raised in Suffolk, Yoji is a soulful pop singer, pianist and has won songwriting awards such as Fame Music & Coffee House Sessions, iluvlive and Vodafone Future Breakers. Recent highlights include performing at the O2 Arena as a support act for Kool & The Gang at the Electric Soul Festival run and regularly performing in the West End. During lockdown Yoji performed live on BBC Radio 4 Today Show and this month Yoji has made two national BBC Introducing Mix Tapes including The Hot List & The Drive Home From Glastonbury.

Christos Doukakis