KACHINA - Heisenberg EP [Affectionate Grooves]

Please tell us about the label’s background. How did you get the idea for the label and what’s the vision behind it?

Affectionate Grooves is NexGen Music’s loooong time project in the making. I grew up on UK underground music in the late 80’s and early 90’s witnessing the evolution of early Dance, Rave, Hardcore, Breakbeat, and later Jungle/Drum & Bass.

In the mid-to-late 90’s I started getting deep into Downtempo, Chill, and Deep/Chill-House. I couldn’t get enough of the “alternative” sounds that labels like Goodlooking Records (UK) were putting out on their Cookin’ imprint and Earth Compilations. Likewise with the sound pioneered by Miguel Migz and Jay Denes on Naked Music (US).

With NexGen Music focusing primarily on Drum & Bass, Downtempo, Chill, Nu/Future-Jazz, and other alternative styles, and Migration Recordings focusing more on Dubstep and Bass music, we had to get a label together to provide the label group with a sound and that we were missing, particularly on the house and garage front. Affectionate Grooves is the perfect compliment to the NexGen Music Group sound.

You’re about to release the Heisenberg EP by Kachina. We love the sound, please tell us a bit more about the artist and the release.

Kachina is a tribe of veteran producers and artists from the UK Midlands, channelling their skills honed from mastery of a wide variety of electronic music styles into two very distinct and spiritual flavors of house and garage, which represent the sounds of day and night. Heisenberg represents the ‘dark’ side of Kachina – moody glitchy techno-infused bass heavy garage with some seriously funky drum work and eerie soundscapes.

Which other artists are you’re working with at the moment? What’s their backgrounds and how would you describe their sound?

So, unlike our other labels which mainly represent production artists, with Affectionate Grooves we’ve decided to give as much if not more attention to the vocal and lead artists.

Alongside Kachina, we currently have upcoming releases featuring the following vocal artists:

• Afua – with a background in Soul/RnB/Garage/House
• Lyndsey Murray – with a background in Folk music (and also an awesome guitarist!)
• Nikki Marie – with a background in RnB, Soul
• Amazee – with a background in Indie Rock and also widely know as an underground conscious MC
• Dee Ellington – with a background in Classic Soul and RnB

Being a new label, we are on definitely on the hunt for some new artists and producers to join the rank! Get those demos over!

What have you got lined up for next year?

Lots more Kachina releases! Kachina’s sound has piqued the interest of DJ’s like Bunzero, Jenna G, Che and Nappy, so we’re getting a lot of solid support. At some point next year we’re looking to perform live versions of some of our music with vocalists and musicians in full tribal headgear

Where can people hear the the sound of Affectionate Grooves next? Any gigs happening soon?

Prangman (Migration/A-Grooves) runs a night called Sous Sol usually @ Sub8ten (formerly Sophbeck) on King Street in Leicester UK. Prangman & Kachina are regulars, artists who’ve played there recently include garage legend El-B, Flava D, Mooney & Killjoy. We’ve got a mini-tour lined up next year covering New York City, Washington, D.C, Baltimore, and Atlanta.

You can also find us via our soundcloud channels:

https://soundcloud.com/nexgenrecs

https://soundcloud.com/affectionategrooves

If Affectionate Grooves was an animal what would it be and why?

Hmmm… It would have to be a fox… With Kachina representing Leicester, UK, and Leicester currently being top of the British premiere league (who would you have known?). It’s all about the Foxes right now!

Kachin “Heisenberg EP” is out 25/12/15 pre order here and stream the Certified Premiere below

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