Babylon is Music...Music is Soul

Doublemoon Remixed 2
After 10 years of releases, Doublemoon Records, an award-winning label, reaches out to world class DJs and artists such as DJ Spooky, Plaid, Makossa & Megablast, Swayzak, Unai and more, presenting them with tracks from the Doublemoon catalogue,  which are indicative of the sounds mingling in the spice bazaars and nightclubs of Istanbul so that they may infuse their own style in a true, new spin on East meets West collaborations.

Babylon is Music... Music is Love.
Babylon, which is one of the most important live music places of Istanbul, celebrates it's 10th anniversary with special album series. Babylon has brought together many international musicians with Turkish audience for the last 10 years and aims to carry on this traditiion throughout "Babylon is Music" album series which will be completed with it's 6th album at the end of the year. First one, "Babylon is Music... Music Is Love", is a downtempo album that will you chill you out with important musicians such as Nouvelle Vague, Senor Coconut, Horace Andy & Ashley Beedle, Earl Sixteen, U-cef featuring Damon Albarn so fort and so on.

Babylon is Music... Music is Hot
Second album of the 10th anniversary special album series of Babylon, "Babylon is Music... Music is Hot", presents spicy dance music from the hottest and lively places all over the world. "Music Is Hot", is full of mid and uptempo songs, performed by very important musicians such as Easy Star All Stars, Dub Pistols, Nicolas Repac, Ojos De Brujo, Nortec Collective ve Transglobal Underground.

Shantel - PLANET PAPRIKA
Shantel, who creates a passionate and exciting blend by mixing ecstatic Balkan tunes into club music, is keeping the party going with his new album "Planet Paprika" picking up just where he left off with "Disko Partizani"
Shantel, who celebrates the perfect harmony of east and west, north and south with his language still connected to music's roots, invites everyone to get rid of geographical barriers and come together in the universal language of dance with his new album, that promises pure and complete entartainment with its globally famous rhythms and boundless dynamism.

İmer Demirer - You, Me & Char
Imer Demirer publishes his very first album 'You, Me & Char' under the label of Positive Music Production. He has four compositions in this album. And other compositons in the album belongs to Emin Fındıkoğlu and Ali Perret.  Demier met his instrument trumpet at the age of 12 and after his 10 years longing classical music education he was graduated from Istanbul Conservatory. He took place in many international festivals despite of his young age and worked with important musicians such as Aaron Goldberg , Essiet Essiet, Ari Honig. He also took part in several important projects like Istanbul Jazz Quartet, Emin Fındıkoglu Group, TRT Jazz Orchestra and EBU Jazz Orchestra. İmer Demirer, who has been appreciated by leading jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan and Wody Shaw, is already regarded as one of the most respected and important trumpet player among Turkish jazz musicians.

Babylon is Music...Music is Soul
Babylon Compilation Series "Babylon is Music" goes on with the 3rd Volume of the Serie, "MUSİC IS SOUL"!
The third volume of the serie complied by DJ Yakuza has a potential to catch a wide  variety of souls includes songs from soul, r&b and electronical music scene. The first track of the album "How Bout Us" is an impressive one that puts Katalyst talent into sharp relief , then comes Smoove & Turell's "The Difference" that makes you stand up and move and album's rhytm continues to rise with "Anything You Want" from Belleruche who had performed at Babylon stage before.
The other artists & songs featured in the album are Speech Debelle,  young act who surprisingly won the Mercury 2009 price by leaving the well known stars behind, Kraak& Smaak, Stee Downes, Mr Scruss, Oi Va Voi,Bonobo, Orient Expressions and Quite Village.
Babylon promises a joyous music for the "Music is Soul" listeners. New  albums of the serie "Babylon is Music " is on their way!

Brazzaville in İstanbul
World-famous band Brazzaville which gives concerts all around the world now comes up with an international album and concert project which they  re-arranged their songs with Turkish musicians, in İstanbul, the city they love and be loved.
The producer of the album and project is Deniz Cuylan who carries on his music work in İstanbul, Stockholm and New York and known as the member of bands Portecho and Norrda.
With this project, it is expected that position of the band will be strengthen in Turkey where they have already impressed people and are called many times. Moreover enchantment of Brazzaville and Istanbul intersection will attract great attention among international indie and world music stage.

Doublemoon Records  
Founded in 1998 as an offshoot of Pozitif Productions, Doublemoon Records, is an independent pioneering label based in Istanbul, Turkey dedicated to spreading the cultural tapestry that is the city's sound around the world. Doublemoon has made a name for itself that is synonymous with world fusion where global souls bring together jazz & world, acoustic & electronic, and occidental & oriental music.
Over the past 10 years, in synergy with three sister companies, Doublemoon has succeeded in nurturing a roster of promising talent into internationally recognized artists. Ranging from Sufi-electronica to groove alla turca, from jazz to gypsy funk, from oriental hip hop to Anatolian blues the musical gems that emerge from recording sessions are documented and recorded by Doublemoon.

With this philosophy, all albums released by Doublemoon feature cross-cultural collaborations among the likes of Sufi-electronic Mercan Dede with Susheela Raman, Dhafer Youssef, and Hugh Marsh; resident rhythm-meister Burhan Ocal with Jamaledeen Tacuma & Natacha Atlas; chill-out clarinetist Husnu Senlendirici with Laco Tayfa; Turkish-Greek Buzuki Orhan Osman—French-Tunisian Smadj; Alevi influenced Orient Expressions with Sound Engineer Murat Uncuoglu; psychedelic-folk rockers Baba Zula—Mad Professor; as well as nu-jazz pioneer Ilhan Erşahin with Norah Jones;—Doublemoon Records has released 50 albums to date!

Doublemoon has received a number of accolades including: being selected as one of the 3 most important independent record labels by the French publication, Vibrations; hitting number one on the European World Music Charts; and landing among the top 10 record labels in the world by WOMEX/World Music Charts Europe. Doublemoon's artists spread the sound of Istanbul around the world by playing the world's biggest festivals like Montreux Jazz, Montreal Jazz, Exit, and Roskilde; through gracing the covers of magazines like Global Rhythm; and in receiving nominations for the BBC Radio 3world music awards.

Doublemoon albums are accessible to all around the world through licensing agreements with international heavyweights like Atlantic Records, Ultra Records, BMG Germany, Traditional Crossroads, Musidisc and through partnerships with ten major distributors stretching from Spain to Germany, from France to Benelux, Italy and United Kingdom. Doublemoon has become the first Turkish record label to have its catalogue sold on Apple's iTunes, Napster, MSN, and many other digital music stores.
Doublemoon is a Pozitif vibration.

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