Ninja Tune and If Music Presents If - Electronic Downtempo Jazz- RSD 180Grm 2LP

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Various - Ninja Tune and If Music Present: If (If Music is 10)

Label: Ninja Tune – ZEN198
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
180grm
Ali Augur designed gatefold sleeve with liner notes
free DNL code
(Limited edition indie store exclusive for Record Store Day 2013)
Country: UK
Released: 20 Apr 2013
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Downtempo, Leftfield, Jazzdance



Tracklist

A1 Dave Invisible – Feel Love (Demo)
A2 Cougar – Foil Épée Sabre
A3 Skalpel – If Music Was That Easy

B1 Dobie & Eclectic – Kin
B2 Nu Era – Sweet Tweets


C1 Herbie Hancock – Wiggle Waggle (Mr. Scruff Remix) Remix – Mr. Scruff
C2 Bonobo – If You Stayed Over (Cessa Remix) Featuring – Fink
Remix – Cessa
C3 Stan Kenton – Lazy Afternoon

D1 Association, The – Wantin' Ain't Getting
D2 Henri Texier – Quand Le Blues S'en Ira
D3 John Gregory – Goodbye Civilisation
D4 Terry Garthwaite – What More


Notes
RSD 2013 Release. Gatefold Sleeve.

Includes 320kbps MP3 download code inside release; download does not include "Wiggle Waggle (Mr. Scruff Remix)" by Herbie Hancock due to licensing restrictions.



All the new songs were specially commissioned for the project incl. unreleased remixes from Scruff and Cessa.
never before heard music from the likes of Bonobo, Herbie Hancock, Dobie and Dave Invisible, it's a who's who of music legends and If Music's aesthetic representatives.

If Music is a legendary record shop which opened it's doors in 2003, and since then it's thrived. The proprietor Jean-Claude and Ninja go way back; he's been a close friend of Cinematic Orchestra's J Swinscoe for years, and DJ'ed at the Royal Albert Hall shows that the band played.

Ninja isn't alone in being close to J-C and If Music. Mark Ronson thanks the store for 'saving me from falling into a sea of American musical mediocrity.' Plantlife was broken by If, SBTRKT worked in the shop for 7 years, which it hardly seems could have failed to influence his own musical formation. Jazzie B, Theo Parrish and a plethora of name DJ/producers are regularly seen hanging out in the store's comfortable, gentleman's club atmosphere

The beautifully presented album features liner notes from luminaries such as Floating Points, Marc Mac of 4 Hero, Ross Allen, Patrick Forge and Craig Kallman, the Chairman of Atlantic Records, no less. All except Cougar's Foil Epee Sabre are either brand new or previously unavailable, and as such this album is a thrilling listen, taking in cutting edge electronica, jazz, funk, introspective blues and experimental bass.

If ever a record was made for Record Store Day this is it. Long live independent stores, and long live If Music.





If Music is 10

This video is about If Music, the Record Shop, and it's 10th Anniversary compilation album. This video released on the eve of Record Store Day and documents the making of the If Music is 10 album, a double vinyl compilation inspired by If Music's customers, fuelled by London's music culture, and supported by a premier independent label.

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Bonobo feat. Fink - If You Stayed Over (Cessa Remix)

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Cougar - Foil Épée Sabre

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Skalpel - If Music Was That Easy

"skalpel you know your arrangements very tasty production, cant praise you enough!

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Henri Texier - Quand le blues s'en ira

"Texier was experimenting using instruments with different timbre. The beggining of this song is very terrestrial"

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Terry Garthwaite - What More

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More Information
Condition New
Format 2LP
Label Ninja Tune
Artist Herbie Hancock