Moonstarr is back with a vengeance. After a long minute making beats for other peeps like Voice, LAL, Daedelus, DJ Kentaro, Zero DB and scoring music for film, our man heeded the calls and poured energies into his latest album, Instrumentals Forever, his second full-length release on Public Transit Recordings. To say this is a highly anticipated record is an understatement, given the worldwide rounds and critical acclaim that followed his bossabreakbeat and synth-infused debut album Dupont earlier this century.
On this latest outing, Moonstarr effortlessly melds the sonic spaces between hiphop, techno and bossa-jazz with that classic Moonstarr drumbreak swing programming. Not one to shy away from being a bit cheeky, Instrumentals Forever is a slight play on words with tracks featuring vocal collaborations with bossa soul crooner Sarah Linhares, political dub soul collective LAL, Montreal hip hop luminary Lotus Jai Nitai and jazz-inflected Toronto hip hop fams Fineprint.
Instrumentals Forever ventures into a thick realm of moods and eclectic breaks and body rocking tempos on tracks like “Broken Bossa”, and “Break It Down”, to ESG-inspired “Get Outside” and classic techno vibe of “String Theory”. For the headnodders and rap fans get your neck brace ready for “Climax”, “Planets Collide” and the soon-to-be classic “Fucked Up Love”. And of course, we can't forget the comedy, like calls from a certain superstar DJ's disgruntled brother and random ridiculous messages from random ridiculous folks in Moonstarr's life.
MOONSTARR
Moonstarr's sound has continuously evolved with releases on such noteworthy labels as Sonar Kollektiv, Guidance, Twisted Funk, Planet E, Ninja Tune, MPS, Compost, Do Right! and on his own imprint Public Transit Recordings. He has collaborated on musical projects with indie soul, electronic, and jazz heavyweights such as Jazzanova, Recloose, 4hero, Ennio Morricone, Abacus, LAL, and Ivana Santilli. In the process, Moonstarr has gained worldwide acclaim for his music from veteran DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Rainer Truby, Laurent Garnier, Marc Mac, Derrick May, and DJ Spinna and from various publications like Straight No Chaser, XLR8R, Montreal Gazette and Exclaim, and has scored for the cult hit film Next: A Primer On Urban Painting.
Favorite Flava - So Crule (sauce81 remix) - ubeat Dorian Concept - Be Tween - Rush Hour The Rascals - Visit To Mother Nature Land - Knowledge - Kreate - ubeat Skymark - Chuchis - white Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Ditry Beauty Ft.Erykah Badu - Ubiquity Nitta - Hate or Love - white Fulgeance - Sour Socca - One Handed Music Dollkraut - Catch My Soul - Doppelschall Marter - Planet Earth - disques corde Mono/Poly - Oil Fields - Fat City Dam Funk - Toeachizown - Stones Throw Prespeus - 7PM - Tupy Mitsu the Beats - The Game Changer feat WILDCHILD and Georgia Ann Muldrow - Jazzy Sport MJ - Dance with me (Kay Sputnik boost edit) - b i p o l a r Chalk Hill - Nobody Can Do What You Do - Chalk Hill Edits Thibo Tazz & Tony Nwachukwu - Tee Times Two - RBMA
Please check out my new album "Feel The Fire" - The Remixes!
Including remixes by Smoove, Lack of Afro, Rephrase, AIFF, Thomas Blondet, Ed Royal, Una Mas Trio, Mash & Munkee, ALVO, Daytoner, The Uptown Felaz, JetTricks and Alan De Lanaire!
Feel welcome to listen to it on my profile and leave a comment.
you can order the new 12" on good old vinyl at: www.juno.co.uk www.fatcity.co.uk www.kudosrecords.co.uk www.hhv.de www.deep.hu
and the whole album digital at: www.iTunes.com www.amazon.com www.play.com www.musicload.de
Simo - WopWop - white Mr. Dibiase - May The Force - Fat City The Clonious - One At A Time feat.Muhsinah - Ubiquity Ichiro_ - Brew - white Deborah Jordan - Breathe (Chamade Beat remix) - Futuristica music Nosaj Thing - Coat Of Arms - Disques Corde mfp - Step & Go - white Julien Dyne - Layer feat.Mara TK - Wonderful Noise Noah feat.Blu - Just Relax (grooveman Spot remix) - Wonderful Noise J Dilla - I Told Yall - Nature Sounds Four Tet - As Serious As Your Life(Jay Dee Remix) - Domino Pharoah Sanders - Japan - Impulse JACK - High On Disco - white Chip E. - Time To Jack(house mix) - House Records Ruari, Zinc & Tom Oberheim - Analogue - RBMA Fujimoto Testuro - Avoyager - white
Playlist Nea Posey - State of the World Pursuit Grooves - For You Jamie Vex'd - In System Travel Brackles & Shortstuff - Broken Harp (Geiomix) Yoggyone - Preparation Fatima & Dorian Concept - Timetravellin' Lukid - Onix Bjork - Hunter AYBEE ft Erik Rico - So Much Greater Common ft. Bilal - Star *69 (PS With Love) DARU & REGGIE B - I Was Wrong Georgia Anne Muldrow - Larva Dwele - Continued /Holla Everything but the Girl - Before Today Daft Punk - Indo Silver Club
Moonstarr - "Gonna Break It Down" / Public Transit is part of my guest mix @ Riccicomoto's AUDIO SELFDEFENSE Radio Show on IBIZA GLOBAL RADIO www.ibizaglobalradio.com
will be ON AIR sunday 26 April 2009 at 15pm after the airplay the whole mix will be podcasted @ http://soundcloud.com/suonho
PHRANTEEK present his first edition of the Miami Bass All-Stars mixtape series : "We Like To Dip" !! including tracks from: 95 South, Jam Pony Express, 2 Live Crew, A-Town Players, Dj Assault, Poison Clan,Freak Nasty, Prince Rahiem, Cybonix...
Yes Moonstar! All is good here in the T Dot. Hope you been surviving that Montreal winter okay. Actually gonna be out there this weekend. Lemme know if anythings going down.
dude! been a hot min. We need to get up. Lemme know when you have a min. Gonna pm you my deets now, just in case. BTW, your name came up in MIA. Nothing but praise. ;)
Hey Man thanks for the add. We met years ago at a birthday party for Masimba on Yonge St. Love your beats dude! Maybe one of these days you'll do a re-mix of one of our tunes.
