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Star of NBC's The Voice, Suzanna Choffel wowed the judges with her renditions of Fleetwood Mac and Bob Marley, earning singular praise from Rolling Stone as 'the only artist you'd want to listen to a complete album from'. Suzanna also released one the 20 best singles of 2013, 'Guardians', produced...
Tuesday 21 January 2014 17:33
Already the 5th single extracted from the sublime 'Stepping Up In Time' album from Jamaican vocal trio The Jays, 'Zion Holy Place' first appeared in 2009 as the b-side of the 'Don't Sell Your Soul', a 45 pressed in Jamaica at 100 copies only… But this flipside was not the original version, instead...
Thursday 09 January 2014 19:22
What happens when a Jew and a Latino walk into a recording studio at Christmas? 'Mambo Sapin' (hard to translate, as this stupid joke refers to the traditional 'O Tannenbaum' song, in French 'Mon Beau Sapin'…) is Los Lobes' Xmas anthem, inspired by the sound of Charlie Palmieri 'El Fantastico'...
Tuesday 24 December 2013 13:55
'Agatha' is the fourth single extracted from The Jays roots reggae masterpiece 'Stepping Up In Time', after 'Don't Sell You Soul' released on a Jamaican 45 in 2009, the title track 'Stepping Up In Time', and 'African Man', both released digitally at the beginning of 2013. While still shining a...
Saturday 09 November 2013 15:26
Chicanos in outer space Ocote Soul Sounds (a.k.a. Martin Perna from Antibalas) and Adrian Quesada (from Grupo Fantasma, Brownout or The Echocentrics have put out 3 fantastic, cornerstone albums of Afro-Latin music. A real blend between African grooves and Mexican/South American music that hasn't...
Friday 01 November 2013 16:57
Jamaican singer Carlton Livingston woke up one morning 'in a bad mood, wanting some lovin' to be soothed' and started writing this catchy Dancehall Soca tune, 'Too Rude', produced in Paris by French multi-instrumentalist Grant Phabao with an old school early eighties vibe, and illustrated with...
Thursday 03 October 2013 15:38
This summer, UK raw funk activists The Grits have put out a new irresistible 45, with some heavy breaks, a funky groove, some typical JB shouts and a psychedelic finale! 'Hey, make a sound, doesn't matter what sound it is, as long as it sounds like James Brown', it says. You need this piece of...
Tuesday 24 September 2013 18:26
Featured early 2012 in Grant Phabao Live Soul System's 'Dubtape #2', the smashing combination of Jamaican legends The Lone Ranger and Carlon Livingston finally gets a proper release! Recorded a few years ago at Paris DJs' studios, 'Imitation Sounds' has been one of the label's Boom Bam secret...
Friday 13 September 2013 12:38
Love is AFRODYETE's mission and Paris DJs is helping her carry that torch with some fantastic recordings from their in-house producer Grant Phabao. After the storming and entrancing soulful ska burner 'Itchin' For Your Love' backed by the afrobeat burner 'Feelin You Feelin Me', the vocalist from...
Tuesday 25 June 2013 18:32
Quench Aid & John Wayne are original dancehall killah artists, they collaborated together in 2004 for a 45 released on the small Bam Salute label from France, 'Don't Go Girls', now re-produced & re-mixed by the King producer Grant Phabao, who's roots reggae and ska recordings have been...
Tuesday 18 June 2013 13:26
Jungle Fire's second seven inch, 'Firewalker', released in april 2013, is an irresistible raw Afro Disco number with a fuzzy bongo breakdown, such a killer track Paris DJs couldn't pass on licensing for their second afro/tropical compilation 'We Are The Fire Inside Your Mind'… and also have it...
Wednesday 12 June 2013 15:48
Leroy Gibbon and Grant Phabao only met once a few weeks ago, thanks to fellow Jamaican singer Echo Minott who brought his long-time friend to his favorite recording studio. When Leroy heard Phabao's music, he was instantly hooked and offered to voice one of his riddims, the 'Usain Bolt The Puma'...
Wednesday 22 May 2013 12:35
Jamaican rub-a-dub deejay The Lone Ranger and singer Carlton Livingston are reinventing themselves with an eye toward the past on this brand new Grant Phabao roots reggae riddim, bringing back memories of breezy, sun-filled days on the island. The French producer delivers an intense and profound...
Thursday 16 May 2013 14:24
'La Danse Du Shadow' marks the beginning of a new series of releases for Grant Phabao and his Paris DJs label, with long-time collaborator & multi-cultural artist GregSky, and his newly-launched Noble Art Records label. Both artists have been producing music together for 15 years already,...
Wednesday 01 May 2013 13:52
Today, with the world financial and environmental crisis, it's just basic logic of consciousness (with a measure of good humor) which brings Jamaican veteran singers The Lone Ranger and Echo Minott to record this new combination tune, urging their fellow countrymen to go back to the roots, plant...
Monday 22 April 2013 20:07
Coming from Dublin, Liam Farrell a.k.a. Doctor L came along various musical courants: hip-hop, rock, afro, folk… Well-known producer (Assassin, Rodolphe Burger, Tony Allen…). He's always in quest of a sound revolution. His latest albums from 2012, 'The Great Depression' and 'We Got Lost', saw him...
Saturday 13 April 2013 14:05
Carlton Livingston's wicked dubplate style is coveted by sound systems all over the world. His relentless flow of releases on Paris DJs - album and singles, all produced by multi-instrumentalist Grant Phabao - covers a lot of ground across the roots reggae spectrum, from reality tunes to lovers...
Tuesday 02 April 2013 16:25
After three full-lengths with respectively The Lone Ranger, Carlton Livingston and The Silvertones, The Jays' album 'Stepping Up In Time' is a new landmark in authentic Jamaican releases from the 21st century by the French producer Grant Phabao, who says : 'This is The Jays' first album conceived...
Thursday 28 March 2013 10:56
Pepe Deluxé is an inter-continental collective orchestra from Finland directed by James Spectrum (baron of Sealand) and Paul Malmström (explorer of worlds both know and unknown). They released their 4th album last year, 'Queen Of The Wave', a new, in-your-face, kind of eccentric thing, from bizarre...
Tuesday 19 March 2013 23:48
While singing & touring with The Breakestra, AFRODYETE stopped twice a Paris DJs' studios to record some new productions with multi-talented French producer Grant Phabao. This is her first single with Paris DJs, 'Itchin' For Your Love', a storming and entrancing soulful ska burner, super hot,...
Tuesday 12 March 2013 14:24
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