HopeStreet Recordings

Announcing The Island of Dr Electrico, the second studio album from The Bombay Royale out worldwide on June 2nd through HopeStreet Recordings.

This track Kis Taref was recorded in the same session but doesn’t appear on the album and is available exclusively here as a free download for our fans (click the arrow above in the bottom right of the player).

The Island of Dr Electrico is the follow up to You Me Bullets Love which for which iTunes US named the band their Breakthrough World Music Artist in 2012.

We’re proud to announce we’ve just received funding from Australia Council to increase our output over the next 12 months!

The funding is under the new Recording Initiative category which this year is supporting 11 Australian labels including Mistletone, Two Bright Lakes and Chapter Music. Some good company to be in!

Stop what you’re doing. Lovers of soul, funk, and all the other good grease need to get on this 45 real quick. HopeStreet Recordings brings you a collaboration between Australia’s hottest soul voice, Nai Palm, and Australia’s heaviest rhythm section, The PutBacks, on that classic, classic joint Spanish Harlem. The Worm, a typically heavy PutBacks instrumental on the flip rounds out two smokin’ sides of Burn City soul.

Get it now from HopeStreet or in stores from Monday.

Karate Boogaloo are the funky funky rhythm section behind The Cactus Channel and they opened the night we ran at The Shadow Electric last November to launch our Tropical Brunswick Mixtape.

Thanks to Cesar and Blank Tape Music for shooting the night for us.

Late last year we began work on the 2nd full length recording from The Bombay Royale.  We’re on the way to finishing the mixdown which is pretty exciting.  In the meantime, here’s a peek into the studio when we tracked the band (pretty much all live).

Our latest release is a 12″ from San Lazaro featuring 5 gritty salsa tracks.  You can download one of them today for free below, and pre-order the 12″ or CD to be the first to get a copy.

Here’s a free tune for you this Friday! It’s a bonus track from our next 7″ by The Putbacks featuring Nai Palm, out March 2014. It’s a long wait, but In The Dirt should help you bide your time.

The Tropical Brunswick Mixtape Launch was a huge success, with the convent chock full of people getting down to the sounds of funk, latin, afro and bollywood rhythms. Thanks to Tim Chmielewski who documented the whole evening on camera and shared his work with us – check out his other work here.

And if you haven’t heard/downloaded the free mixtape by Jumps yet, you can stream and download here.