Its been a while since we put out a mix to let people hear whats going on at Soul Motive. With the recent launch of 2 sister labels in the form of 2 Floors Down and SM White, we thought it was time we let you hear what we have been up to and some forthcoming bits from all 3 labels.
If you like it, don’t be selfish, share it around!
Every week in the UK at least 12, apparently “fit and healthy” young people (under the age of 35) die of undiagnosed heart conditions. That is 600 deaths a year and this is likely to be a conservative estimate.
In 2009 one of these was close friend and co-owner of Soul Motive, Neil Schuyleman who died suddenly and unexpectedly at the tragic young age of 34.
CRY raises awareness of young sudden cardiac death (YSCD) and offers support to families who have been affected by this.
Some of our friends are bravely tackling their first 10km run to raise money for this cause.
You can sponsor them here – http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/SarahColesy
Through Virgin Money Giving, you can sponsor them and donations will be quickly processed and passed to charities.
Virgin Money Giving is a not for profit organisation and will claim gift aid on a charity’s behalf where the donor is eligible for this.
We really appreciate all your support and thank you for any donations.
To celebrate the release of Coleco’s superb Patience EP on 2 Floors Down and our first Soul Motive release of 2012, Stableface by Eleven Tigers, featuring remixes from utter legends Peverelist, Dark Sky and Macc, we are going to hold a competition. Not just any old competition, a big one, as follows:
The Showerman First Prize:
* The entire Soul Motive back catalog (1 through 8, yes that’s the original Snake Eater by Joker in there) on Vinyl and MP3 (008 on CD).
* The first release from 2 Floors Down (Coleco – Patience EP) on custom dubplate.
* The first release from Soul Motive White on vinyl.
* The next release on Soul Motive (Eleven Tigers, Peverelist, Dark Sky, Macc) on vinyl before release date.
* £50 voucher code for Juno Download.
(Total value: £150 excluding P&P which we will pay for)
Strangleman with the microphone lead Second Prize:
* The entire Soul Motive back catalog on MP3 (008 on CD).
* The first release from 2 Floors Down (Coleco – Patience EP) on MP3.
* The first release from Soul Motive White on vinyl.
* The next release on Soul Motive (Eleven Tigers, Peverelist, Dark Sky, Macc) on MP3 before release date.
* £5 voucher code for Juno Download.
He’ll be praying please don’t boy of the ting Third Prize:
* The first release from 2 Floors Down (Coleco – Patience EP) on MP3.
* The first release from Soul Motive White on vinyl.
* The next release on Soul Motive (Eleven Tigers, Peverelist, Dark Sky, Macc) on MP3 before release date.
* £5 voucher code for Juno Download.
If man’s talking like he’s a shooter, cool I’ll get the Consolation Prize:
* Mastered 320 MP3 of Phaeleh’s unreleased ‘There Will Come Morning’ featuring I-Mitri.
To enter:
Send an email with ‘I want it all‘ in the subject to competition [at] soulmotive.co.uk with the answer to this question:
In the C&P statement on every Soul Motive release ends with a grime bar. On Julio Bashmore’s release that bar was ‘… if I go back to the yard for the fruit bowl, grapes will be flying out like British Airways’. Was this bar originally written by:
A: D Double E
B: Our local greengrocer
C: CEO of British Airways.
D: P Money
One entry per person, closing date is the 30th December.
We now have a live-o Youtube channel sorely lacking in likes and subscribes, we promise to upload all the latest goodies and more up there, so head over to SoulMotiveRecords and check it out. Currently up is the latest release on 2 Floors Down from Coleco, out now.
And to celebrate the (re)launch of the channel we have uploaded a special treat, a promo of the forthcoming release featuring Eleven Tigers, Dark Sky, Peverelist and Macc.
So, like every aspect of the label, we hunted for someone with skill, finesse and an innate talent for creating atmospheres and journeys.
Make sure you check out his blog for more visual and geek treats.
New website, Another new label.
2 Floors Down has been launched out of a desire to release dance centric, experimental live music from Soul Motive artists and beyond.
A label to capture the back street basement club atmosphere where the new, unheard and the established artists, bands, emcees and singers treat you to journeys through their most involving, intimate and progressive sounds.
Dubstep, Broken Beat, House, Psyche Rock, Folk, Soul, Drum and Bass, Grime, Hiphop, no genre restrictions, just live music.
We’re always striving to bring you the highest quality product we can and being vinyl enthusiasts, each release will be available not just digitally through the standard stores (Juno, Beatport, iTunes, etc), but thanks to the good people at DubStudio, we can provide unique extremely limited edition dubplates with artwork up to a full month before the full digital release (which is included at the time of purchase).
To set it all off and bring our dark Bristolian cellar club to life, comic artist Betty Black has created a series of beautiful characters in burlesque settings for each release. From the sexy to the downright macabre, few artists have the style, emotive capacity and sense of humour Ms.Black displays and it’s an honour to have her commit her own provocative creations to ours.
Who better to launch the label than the king of live drums and progressive melodies, Coleco. The Patience EP showcases his inherent ability to create hypnotic grooves with eastern inspired inflections. The feel of modern day isolation in Patience with it’s cutting percussion, incredible synth work and emotive vocals from Victoria Klewin is testament to Coleco’s skills as song writer and producer. Breathwork and Under display the prodigious skill in percussion and progression. And as an extra special treat, ‘Train Ticket’ forthcoming on Coleco’s debut album due on Soul Motive in the near future. Due for release in september, DubStudio dubplates are available to order now with full artwork from the shop.
Things ain’t what they used to be.
You may have noticed things have changed round here, our esteemed friends at ‘All That Good Stuff‘ have designed a brand new website to get Soul Motive rolling again. Have a look around, you can stream all of our releases from the Soundcloud player in the top right, navigate the website from links on the left. There’s even more exciting features in store to come and alongside our constant updates of what’s hot in the music world, come back and get involved.
We know a lot of our regular fans have been wondering what the hell we’ve been doing this year. After moving distributor twice, dealing with a few legal and financial wrangles and then making some executive decisions (diamond studded nike air maxs for me and adam was a good choice), we’re back and with a whole load of material to release.
The first of which is a new side project for us, Soul Motive White.
As the name suggests, white labels for those hype tunes with perhaps not the cleanest samples on them. They’ll be unmarked save for the ‘Soul Motive White’ logo in the shops, and you’ll only be able to get them on mp3 and find out direct from here who made them.
First up rising star Presk with the beserk, progressive ‘Jump’ backed with scene stalwart Sines with the seductive ‘Secrets’.
Have a listen to the tracks yourself here.
Buggsy has become somewhat of a local legend. His flow and content are unique and I don’t think there’s anyone quite like him out there. He’s been around for a while and despite a few false starts (E.P.s never getting released etc.), his new album is exactly as good and imaginative as we all hoped it would be. Sparse guest appearances and remixes from Jehst, Alys Blaze and Gemmy, let the album deliver a concentrated Buggsy album as possible and it’s the better for it. Some great productions and stand out tracks such as Pure Gas, Bris Ting, Connect the Spdif and This is Our life, really set this debut album off. Cannot recommend you check this enough.
Album is available on iTunes : http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-great-escape/id436207159
Or listen for free on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7i33aP49Du8ZTXSzMPKnMp
On Tuesday, a good friend of mine came round to watch Transformers: The Movie (80′s cartoon) and Black Dynamite (long live the mo’ bitches variety pack). He brought with him a vinyl copy of his new album due out next week. Broadcast by Hyetal, if you like any of his previous releases (Soul Motive, Reduction and Punch Drunk) or any 80′s Blade Runner esque sound tracks, you should most definitely check this out.
Combining real textural, catchy synths, Hyetal’s trademark rhythms and beautiful vocals from Alison Garner, the album really shows off Hyetal’s colourful and emotive composition.  Searchlight being a stand out example, wonderful sounds you can practically feel (alligator scales and sandy glass in particular for some odd reason) and an involving, heads down vibe. The album really does feel like an evolution and refinement of his sound following on from the superb Phoenix on Orca Records (which is included on the CD release but not the vinyl).
Despite living down the bloody road, I have yet to catch Hyetal’s live performance in a club, but you can get a taste for it from his Boiler Room appearance. And if you’re in Bristol there’s rumour of an Idle Hands in store performance to celebrate the label launch, so keep checking for details, I’ll post when I know.
You can of course still get Hyetal’s excellent release on Soul Motive from our shop, I think we even have a couple of vinyl in stock; ultra extra specially limited though.
Broadcast is set for full release next week on Monday the 9th of May. I highly recommend you check it out!
DJ Mag asked Soul Motive to provide a podcast showing the new material we have upcoming. We in turn asked Coleco and he in turn got some Vietnamese sweat shop to produce it. Okay the last bit is a lie.
The mix contains forthcoming material from Coleco’s album due later this year, our new sister label Two Floors Down (which we will start piping up about very soon) and of course forthcoming material from Soul Motive itself.
http://www.djmag.com/music/podcast_detail/2655
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