For your convenience, we have put together a comprehensive list of physical and digital music retailers that carry SunStorm. The list is as complete as possible and will be updated frequently. If you have a hard time finding the album in your area, please don't hesisate to leave a comment and/or to contact us via email, so that we can help you find your copy.

As always, thank you very much for your support!

The first single taken from Zo!'s upcoming SunStorm album, This Could Be The Night, is now available on iTunes! The iTunes single contains the following tracks:

01. This Could Be The Night feat. Eric Roberson, Darien Brockington & Rapper Big Pooh (Album Mix)
02. This Could Be The Night feat. Eric Roberson, Darien Brockington & Rapper Big Pooh (Video Mix)
03. This Could Be The Night (Instrumental)

Click here to purchase the single on iTunes

You can listen to This Could Be The Night now, download your FREE copy of the song, or watch the video.

SunStorm is available for pre-order in the +FE Music Webstore.

For a limited amount of time, you can purchase the digital version of YahZarah's hot new release The Ballad Of Purple Saint James for the low price of $7.99! If you haven't already picked up your digital copy of The Ballad, now is the time! Need more convincing? Read up on some of the many fantastic reviews of the album here.

Buy The Ballad Of Purple Saint James on iTunes | Amazon MP3

The readers of SoulTracks have nominated The Foreign Exchange's Grammy nominated song "Daykeeper" (feat. Muhsinah) amongst the Greatest Songs Of the 2000s! You can click here to vote. When the voting is all done, SoulTracks will post the 100 Greatest Soul Songs 2000-2009.

Enter now for your chance to win tickets to see The Foreign Exchange LIVE at The Masquerade in Atlanta, courtesy of SoulBounce and album prize packs, courtesy of FATS

Right now there are a couple of different giveaways going on for the Atlanta area in celebration of our return, on May 21 to The Masquerade, in over 1.5 years. We are looking forward to seeing all of you out there and best of luck to all those that enter.

Win tickets to see +FE live via SoulBounce

We're capping off our week of giveaways with something special for our Atlanta Bouncers. The Foreign Exchange is coming to town on Friday, May 21st, and we're hooking up two Atliens with a pair of tickets each to see the show. As folks who've already seen The Foreign Exchange live can attest, their concert is not to be missed. Phonte, Nicolay, YahZarah, Darien Brockington and Zo! break it down for it to forever be broke on stage. They'll be hitting the Masquerade and unless you want to miss out on a great night filled with even greater music, then you need to hit the show, too. To lock down your attendance, tickets may be purchased via Ticketmaster. However, if you're in it to win it, then hit the bounce to enter.

CLICK HERE to enter the SoulBounce & The Foreign Exchange Atlanta Concert Ticket Giveaway

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Win album prize packs via From Afros To Shelltoes

As you ponder the perfect jams for the cookout at Craig's house or the remedy to chase the "over due bill blues" away, we have the perfect soundtrack for all occasions. In support of The Foreign Exchange show May 21 @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA), From Afros To Shelltoes (FATS) will lace two (2) lucky winners with the following FATS Prize Packs courtesy of our play cousins at The Foreign Exchange Music:

FATS Prize Pack 1: Nicolay - City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya

FATS Prize Pack 2: Yahzarah - The Ballad Of Purple St James

CLICK HERE to enter the FATS & The Foreign Exchange Album Prize Pack Giveaway

For your convenience, we have put together a comprehensive list of physical and digital music retailers that carry The Ballad Of Purple Saint James. The list is as complete as possible and will be updated frequently. If you have a hard time finding the album in your area, please don't hesisate to leave a comment and/or to contact us via email, so that we can help you find your copy.

As always, thank you very much for your support!

YahZarah's debut on +FE Music, The Ballad Of Purple Saint James, hits physical and digital music stores today!

To purchase your copy of The Ballad, click on the music retailer of your choice below:


Listen to the full album by clicking here!

Singer/songwriter Esthero bigs up YahZarah's new single, "Why Dontcha Call Me No More", on her blog:

My friend Phonte just sent me this super fun tune yesterday that he and his partner Nicolay (collectively known as The Foreign Exchange) produced for singer Yahzarah.

I feel this is the perfect song to blast on a Sunday afternoon while you clean the house because cleaning is definitely more fun when you're dancing your ass off at the same time.

Thanks for spreading the word, Esthero, and much love and continued success to you!

Download "Why Dontcha Call Me No More" for FREE here.

Enter now for your chance to win tickets to see The Foreign Exchange LIVE at the Double Door in Chicago, courtesy of our good friends at SoulBounce!

Chicago Bouncers, I know that it seems like NYC and DC have all the free giveaway fun, but don't say that we don't have love for y'all with this latest giveaway to see The Foreign Exchange hot on the heels of last week's Bilal bounty. The FE crew will breeze through the Windy City on Thursday, April 15th, and, in the event that Uncle Sam sticks you for your income tax papers, we're hooking up two lucky Bouncers with a pair of tickets each to see one of the best live shows on the road right now. Phonte, Nicolay, Darien Brockington, Zo!, The Els and the first lady of The Foreign Exchange, YahZarah, will do it to it at the Double Door, and tickets are currently available for the bargain price of $22 in advance online or at the DD box office.

Click here to enter the SoulBounce & The Foreign Exchange Chicago Concert Ticket Giveaway

38 tracks for as low as $11.99!

The digital version of The Foreign Exchange's classic debut album, Connected, is now available again at your digital retailer of choice. The brand new Extended Edition bundles the original album (17 tracks), the complete instrumentals (17 tracks) and four rare bonus remixes for an alltime low price. The original album, instrumentals and bonus tracks can also be purchased separately.

Buy Connected (Extended Edition) on iTunes | Amazon | eMusic | Rhapsody

If you haven't already purchased City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya, now's the time! Amazon's editors have hand-picked Nicolay's latest among their 100 MP3 Albums for $5 Each for Februari. This means that for the entire month, you can get your digital copy of Shibuya for the incredible bargain price of $5!

Buy City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya on Amazon

Multiple GRAMMY® winners Ludacris and Roberta Flack hosted milestone gathering that truly was music to their years

GRAMMY® winning superstars Ludacris and Roberta Flack met yesterday on the set of his top secret video shoot in Hollywood to gather a diverse group of music makers who, like themselves, were celebrating career milestones in 2010!

Joining Ludacris and Ms. Flack in Hollywood were current GRAMMY-nominated artists Hiroshima and The Foreign Exchange. Nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album for the aptly titled "Legacy," genre- and culture-bending Hiroshima is celebrating its 30th year making music heard 'round the world. First time GRAMMY nominees The Foreign Exchange are celebrating their fifth collaborative year, as well as their nomination for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for "Daykeeper," the lead track from their latest CD Leave It All Behind.

You may have noticed that our BBE releases Connected (by The Foreign Exchange), City Lights Vol. 1.5 and Here are now officially out of print, and for a good reason: As of January 1st 2010, the rights to our BBE releases reverted back to us, the artists. The doors are now open for us to start using better and more fan-friendly ways of getting the music in our back-catalogue to you. In other words, great music for a great price, from the artists directly to the listener.

Hard copies of the aforementioned albums will be increasingly hard to find in stores and online until they will be completely sold out. We were able to obtain some of the very last copies for the Nicolay Music webstore. Please note that this is the very last of our BBE stock and once its gone... it's gone.

We'd like to thank BBE for helping us get started, and we wish them all the best in the future. Stay tuned for more updates soon, and thank you for your support!

The Foreign Exchange swept the Blind I 2009 End of The Year Awards, winning three of the four categories in which they were nominated: Album Of The Year (Leave It All Behind, with 40% of the vote), Best Collaboration (Daykeeper feat. Muhsinah, with 28% of the vote) and Song Of The Year (Daykeeper feat. Muhsinah, with 35% of the vote). Thank you to everyone that voted!

Grammy® nominated producer Nicolay, fresh on the heels of his nomination in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category celebrates the Holidays with Vikter Duplaix with a remix of Duplaix's new single Electric Love.

The Netherlands raised / North Carolina based Nicolay, one-half of the artistic collective known as The Foreign Exchange, was nominated this year by The Recording Academy in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category. The Los Angeles based Duplaix, who hails from Philadelphia, is known in international circles as a Producer/Artist and DJ who earned Grammy® recognition in the same category in 2008.

As a celebration of the holidays, Vikter Duplaix and Nicolay are teaming up to offer the remix for free beginning Christmas day exclusively at VikterDuplaix.com.

The Foreign Exchange is up for four Blind I For The Kids 2009 End Of The Year Awards!

The Foreign Exchange is nominated for Album Of The Year (Leave It All Behind), Best Collaboration and Song Of The Year (the Grammy nominated single ''Daykeeper'' with Muhsinah), and Best Video (''I Wanna Know'', directed by Matt Koza) in Blind I For The Kids' 2009 End Of The Year Awards. The polls close New Years Eve, and you can vote as many times as you like. The results will be published on New Years Day.

Click here to vote for The Foreign Exchange in Blind I For The Kids' 2009 End Of The Year Awards

A big thanks to allmusic for including City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya among their Favorite Electronic Albums of 2009! To check out their entire selection, click here.

Even though The Foreign Exchange's sophomore album Leave It All Behind officially came out in 2008, it is still getting lots of love, even as 2009 closes out. First there was the Grammy nomination for "Daykeeper"; now popular soul-music site SoulTracks has selected the album among their Best CDs of 2009:

The Foreign Exchange: Leave It All Behind -- Arguably one of the best albums of the decade; not since Sweetback's debut has electronic music sounded this soulful and seductive (L. Michael Gipson)

Click here to check out the rest of SoulTracks' Best CDs of 2009.

We are proud and humbled to announce that "Daykeeper", the first single taken from The Foreign Exchange's sophomore album, Leave It All Behind, has been nominated for a Grammy award! "Daykeeper" (feat. Muhsinah) is nominated in the category "Best Urban/Alternative Performance". The Grammy winners will be announced on January 31st, 2010. For more information and to see who we are up against, visit www.grammy.com.

We'd like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone that has supported The Foreign Exchange family, and we hope that this serves as proof that you CAN succeed on your own terms. God bless.

Last week, we informed you that The Foreign Exchange is nominated in four different categories of the 2009 SoulTracks Readers' Choice Awards: Independent Album of the Year ('Leave It All Behind'), Song of the Year ("Daykeeper"), Female Vocalist of the Year (Yahzarah) and Duo or Group of the Year. The SoulTracks committee has now narrowed down each category to seven finalists, and we have just learned that The Foreign Exchange is a finalist in all four of those categories!

Between October 23 and November 8th, SoulTracks' readers will be voting for this year's winners. If you're not a registered SoulTracks user but want to vote for The Foreign Exchange you can still sign up and receive a ballot by email. The 2009 SoulTracks Readers' Choice Awards will be broadcast on December 7th at 8:00 p.m., hosted by our good friend Jodine Dorce of Jodine's Corner.

For more information on the 2009 SoulTracks Readers' Choice Awards and how to vote, visit SoulTracks.

A comprehensive list of physical and digital music retailers that carry City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya.

For your convenience, we have put together a comprehensive list of physical and digital music retailers that carry City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya. The list is as complete as possible and will be updated frequently. If you have a hard time finding the album in your area, please don't hesisate to leave a comment and/or to contact us via email, so that we can help you find your copy.

As always, thank you very much for your support!

One of the most popular soul music websites in America, SoulTracks, announced their nominees for the 2009 SoulTracks Readers' Choice Awards today. The Foreign Exchange is nominated a total of four times, in the following categories: Independent Album of the Year ('Leave It All Behind'), Song of the Year ("Daykeeper"), Female Vocalist of the Year (Yahzarah) and Duo or Group of the Year!

For more information on the 2009 SoulTracks Readers' Choice Awards and how to vote, visit SoulTracks.

Big up to the homie DJ Anthony Valadez for adding 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' to KCRW (Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate)'s DJ Picks for the month of October. More on Anthony Valadez, who also DJ-ed all three Roxy Theatre performances of The Foreign Exchange this year, on his website.

From SoulBounce:

The Foreign Exchange is taking a little break from touring for a hot minute, but when they crank it back up again in a few weeks we got you covered with free tickets. Which means that Bouncers in Baltimore, New York City and Washington, DC will have a chance to get the hookup from SoulBounce and FE when they hit those cities. If you live in Bmore, NYC or DC and have yet to experience the live artistry of Phonte, Nicolay, YahZarah, Darien Brockington, Carlitta Durand, Zo! and The Els, then now is your chance.

Click here to visit SoulBounce and submit your entry!

Nicolay's new album debuts with a bang

After racing up Amazon's MP3 Album charts last week,'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' has now officially entered not one but two Billboard charts: the Current Electronic Album chart at #27 and the Top New Artist Albums chart at #110! This is quite a debut for an independent project that is brought to you by the artists themselves. Not to mention the lack of cooperation from iTunes. We appreciate your vote of confidence and would once again like to thank you very much for your support. If you haven't yet picked up your copy of 'Shibuya', why not do so today?

Let's take a walk through the city tonight...

The wait is over! Last week, we already released the digital version of 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya', and today marks the release of the CD version of the album. You can purchase your copy through online music retailers such as Amazon and this website, as well as in (select) stores across the United States. Check back for a complete list of stores that carry the album, coming soon. Later this month, 'Shibuya' will be released in Europe, Japan and the rest of the world.

On behalf of the entire Foreign Exchange Music crew, we thank you very much for your continued support!

You can still download the first single taken from 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya', ''Lose Your Way feat. Carlitta Durand", as well as the album sampler, free of charge through this website.

Digital version of City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya released!

The digital version of 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' was released yesterday, exactly one week before the CD version drops on September 15. After an unusual but compelling request from Phonte and Nicolay not to purchase the digital album through iTunes (see: 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' and why NOT to buy it from iTunes', fans collectively took to Amazon.com, pushing 'Shibuya' into the site's MP3 Album Top 100 chart almost immediately. And it didn't stop there. At the time of writing, 'Shibuya' is the #1 album in Dance, and the #16 album overall! Not a small feat for an album released independently by the artists themselves, without any marketing budgets or other financial backing.

A heartfelt thank you to all of our supporters, past, present, and future. You are much appreciated!

Straight from the source...

Friends and Family,

Nic and I are proud to announce the digital release of 'City Lights 2: Shibuya', available right NOW.

The good news is that the full 'Shibuya' album is available for download on Amazon, eMusic, Rhapsody and other digital music retailers.

The bad news is that iTunes has decided to list 'Shibuya', as well as 'Leave It All Behind' (?!?!??!?!!) as "partial." Essentially, what this means is that you (the consumer) will be charged more money for buying the full album from iTunes, and that me and Nic won't receive credit for the album sales on SoundScan.

We are asking all of you who plan to purchase the full digital album to please do so via Amazon or any other music retailer, and not via iTunes. Not only will you get it for a cheaper price, but me and Nic will also get credit for the sale. In the very near future, Nic and I will be launching our own digital store via www.theforeignexchangemusic.com to ensure that we're not beholden to any more corporate bullshit that keeps our fans from getting great music at a fair price. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

For those of you who still buy your music the old-fashioned way, 'Shibuya' will be in stores nationwide on Sept. 15, and we will have CD's for sale during our upcoming west coast shows.

Thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy the record!

Peace,
'Te and Nic

Fresh off the press... and we couldn't resist sharing a sneak peek

Time flies when you are having fun...

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the release of The Foreign Exchange's debut album, 'Connected' (August 24 2004, BBE Records). Throughout the week, we'll be posting 'Connected'-related goodies on this website as well as on The Foreign Exchange's official website. Cheers!

More Shibuya news.

Kevin Nottingham lists 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' amongst his Most Anticipated 4th Quarter Music Releases.

"Hot off the release of last year's Foreign Exchange album, Leave It All Behind, Nicolay is set to release volume 2 in his City Lights series. The Foreign Exchange producer had decided to stick with the formula and has invited FE members Phonte, Carlita Durand, and Zo! along for the ride. Nicolay never seems to disappoint, so this album is sure to be a winner."

Read the full article here.

"Lose Your Way" finds its way...

''Lose Your Way'', the first single taken from the upcoming 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' album, is featured on the R&B + Soul section of MP3.com! Download the single for free at MP3.com or right here at Nicolay Music. 'Shibuya' will be in stores September 15.

''Lose Your Way'' has been out a little over a day, and already it is all over the place!

The first single taken from the forthcoming 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' is getting plenty of love from the music blogs. Here's a quick selection of links for your convenience, with a big shout-out to all of our supporters helping to spread the word:

Okayplayer | Nahright | SoulBounce | Suite903 | Trees for Breakfast | The Smoking Section | 2dopeboyz | Kevin Nottingham | GAK City | Potholes In My Blog | HipHopDX | Nodfactor | Wedoitrightmag | Ruby Hornet | Pop Matters

Nicolay's take on the Bob James classic makes the rounds

Nicolay's remake of 'Nautilus' by Bob James, posted as the first installment of our new series, Off The Shelf, has garnered serious buzz amongst music fans, DJs and bloggers. To add to this excitement, we have just learned that world-renowned British DJ Gilles Peterson played 'Nautilus' during his most recent BBC Radio 1 show! Big up to Gilles and everyone else that has played, copied, reposted, retweeted and otherwise helped spread the track. Even though today's musical landscape undoubtedly presents many challenges, it is truly a beautiful thing to be able to put our music from our "hands" directly into yours so that it can be heard and enjoyed literally around the world!

Click here to listen to the latest Gilles Peterson show