Vinyl only

GENRE/S:
Progressive House, Techno, Trance

TRACKLISTS:
A1. Café Del Mar (Nalin & Kane Remix)
B1. Café Del Mar (Deadmau5 Remix)

SHORT INFO:
Energy 52’s Café Del Mar has come to represent the most euphoric and hedonistic pleasures of dancefloors - in Ibiza and all around the world - and has been remixed by some of the biggest names in electronic music. Known for its infectious melody and its strong impact on dancefloors around the globe it charted multiple times around the world and won countless awards. Now, 30 years after its first original release, Superstition Records will be putting out a new series of releases, with brand new remixes as well as some of the many remixes from across the last three decades.

The second part in the series features two of the most recognizable interpretations, which fed into the hearts of millions: the remixes from 90ies Trance legends Nalin & Kane, originally released in 1998, which takes us on a deeper trance journey, raiding the senses with warm, calming pads before lush basses come through and ultimately that famous, instantly recognizable melody, alongside iconic Deadmau5 who delivered a remarkable housegrooving deep interpretation of the classic in 2008.

After about 15 years this cult classics are finally available again on vinyl in a new cutting.


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Tracklist
A1 Circuit 15 – Herbert’s ‘Kyiv Dub’
A2 Circuit 07 – Tolouse Low Trax Remix
B1 Circuit 04 – Lowtec’s ‘Objects, People, Visions’ Remix
B2 Circuit 18 – Lawrence Remix


Release Info:
Moiré's rain-streaked and masterful Circuits album dropped this past September. RA's Andrew Ryce stated the eight-track album cast the shadowy producer into "a rarefied air occupied by the only the finest and most influential of ambient techno artists."

Now, in short order, the label returns with a remix EP charting out multiple hubs of oblique dance floor innovation. If there's a sonic motif on the A-side, it's vastly reactive interpretations of the "factory floor" element that inspired techno's pioneers. Matthew Herbert, a pioneering force in his own right, mixes steam engine percussion with the dreamy atmospherics of "Circuit 15" and comes up with eight minutes of cerebral machine funk. Tolouse Low Trax, meanwhile, continues his masterclass in modern motorik on his remix of "Circuit 7," integrating a chiming piano into a fascinating, perfectly-timed 110 BPM rhythm.

The B-side, meanwhile, doubles down on the oneiric nature of the original material. Workshop head and Avenue 66 alumnus Lowtec builds allows "Circuit 04"'s synths to billow into Gas-like immersive layering, sheets of melody are anchored by a restrained beat for an ambient techno track that doesn't tip the scales too far in one direction or the other. Rather, it achieves a perfect balance. Hamburg/Dial mainstay Lawrence closes things out with his version of "Circuit 18," which also concludes the original album. While the original has a wistful, Deckard's dream quality, Lawrence's version is deeply-rooted in the late-night German style; a low-slung bassline will keep dancers deeply rooted while those wistful chords sweep in like the violet before dawn.



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Format Notes:
2023 re-issue, 140g vinyl, reproduction of the classic Tele Music sleeve, full colour insert with liner notes and archive photographs


Territories:
Worldwide no restrictions

Track List:

A1 : Latin Leitmotiv (3:08)
A2 : Red Medium (6:58)
A3 : Dead Slow (3:30)
A4 : Royal Shuffle No 1 (3:08)
A5 : Royal Shuffle No 2 (3:08)

B1 : Rock 73 (9:34)
B2 : Bass In Action No 1 (3:31)
B3 : Bass In Action No 2 (3:31)
B4 : Pepper Rock (2:30)

Release Notes:

Wow! Tonio Rubio's Rhythms is a stone-cold killer, a heavyweight library breaks LP and the inaugural release in Be With's new partnership with legendary French library label Tele Music. Yes, you lucky people, there's lots to come. For this extremely special 50 year anniversary re-issue, we've reproduced the classic Tele Music sleeve with a full colour insert featuring rare photographs, fresh liner notes and personal memories of Tonio from the likes of Jean-Claude Vannier, Jean-Claude Petit and Janko Nilovic.

Sumptuous opener “Latin Leitmotiv” is all funky phasing effects and a killer montuno, with what sounds like piano and bass in tandem, stoking straight up Latin fire. The gritty hard funk of blaxploitation groove "Red Medium" is dripping in wah-wah attitude and head-nod oddness. The atmospheric, exotica-tinged "Dead Slow" emulates the languid, sensual afro groove of Quincy Jones’ wild masterpiece “Gula Matari” whilst the proggy, electric jazz fusion epic "Rock 73" is 9+ minutes of moody, rolling menace.

But the *real* highlight of this cult classic - and why it has long been *so* desirable - is the devastating, deep, hypnotic minimalist groove of "Bass In Action N°1". Very much in conversation with Quincy's rendition of "Hummin'", the loping, rumbling bassline and sweet electric piano over clean, crisp drums making it one of those tracks that sounds like a hip-hop beat 20 years ahead of time. Sensational. “Bass In Action N°2“ features Tonio's own vocal scat performance. Remarkable.

Antonio "Tonio" Rubio Garcia got his start playing the double bass in jazz clubs. In 1962, Tonio joined the Golden Stars, the first backing band of France’s teenage idol Johnny Hallyday. A genius musician with a unique guitar sound, he played on standards of French chanson including Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot’s "Bonnie and Clyde", Françoise Hardy’s "Tous les Garçons et les Filles", Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s "Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus" and Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg’s infamous "Lemon Incest". Tonio also lent his brilliance to such legendary figures as Janko Nilovic, Jean-Claude Petit, Hervé Roy, and Jean-Claude Vannier. The latter remembers Tonio as “a secretive, mysterious man, with an endearing personality, albeit difficult to reach out to. His virtuosity as a bass player allowed me to write very innovative basslines, because he was able to play any of my eccentricities!”

The audio for Rhythms has been remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis whilst Christopher Stevenson has brought the original and iconic Tele Music sleeve back to life in all its striking glory as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue. More

Printed Sleeves, 24x36 Poster, Color in Color 2LP- Milky Clear with Bone Core

About:
BLK ODYSSY seamless fuse Alternative soul with elements of 70s Rock & Roll into a new fresh sound. Front man, singer-songwriter & producer Sam Houston & Guitarist Alejandro Rios bring two opposite ends of the Music spectrum to one stage to deliver a sanctifying musical experience. Growing up in the urban city of Plainfield New Jersey, Sam was exposed to Neo-Soul, Funk as well as the Life lessons that brought this music about early on.

Key Marketing/Selling:
- Special Packaging Features: Printed Sleeves & 24x36 Poster.
- LP pressed on Color in Color vinyl - Milky Clear with Bone.
- CD also available (ERE845 - 194690858864).
- BLK ODYSSY has over 700K monthly listeners on Spotify.
- This album has amassed over 10M Spotify track streams to-date.
- BLK VINTAGE: THE REPRISE is a broadened perspective of themes & stories discussed in BLK ODYSSY'S debut BLK VINTAGE, a concept album that tells a story of tragedy & triumph within the black community.
- The additional songs dive into more specific stories that inspired these songs.
- Benny's Got a Gun speaks on the deadly cycle of retaliation accompanied by Complex of Killing a Man which tells that same exact story from the victim's perspective.
- Suicide Doors details the concept of success for African Americans from 3 different perspectives blanketed in what seems to be a celebratory bop about getting paid that.
- Also contains a Ghost Ride Remix featuring Mereba.
- Appearances on this deluxe include George Clinton, Benny the Butcher, Mereba and Baby Rose.

Tracklist:
A1/1. BLK VINTAGE (INTRO) (Feat. Grace Sorenson)
A2/2. FUNKENTOLOGY
A3/3. NINETEEN EIGHTY
A4/4. BENNY'S GOT A GUN (Feat. Benny the Butcher & George Clinton)
B1/5. SUICIDE DOORS
B2/6. HANG LOW (Feat. James Robinson)
B3/7. BIG BAD WOLF/SOBER (Feat. Eimaral Sol)
B4/8. YA NO PODIA SALIR
C1/9. MURDA
C2/10. GHOST RIDE (Feat. Mereba)
C3/11. BLK REVOLUTION
C4/12. COMPLEX OF A KILLING A MAN (Feat. Baby Rose)
D1/13. THE REPRISE (Feat. Charlie Stacey)
D2/14. DAISIES
D3/15. DRINKING GOOD (Feat. Eimaral Sol)
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Purple & White Galaxy

About:
You never have to guess what Tink's thinking. The Chicago-born songstress and rapper says it all in her music. She spits, speaks, and sings straight from the heart without filter or apology. At the same time, she breaks boundaries, dropping off bars with uncontainable charisma and belting out hooks with show-stopping range. She can be romantic in one crescendo before getting raw in a bout of wild wordplay. This versatility consistently affirms her as a force in her own lane. Following her 2011 debut mixtape Winter's Diary, she dropped projects at a prolific pace, including Alter Ego, Blunts & Ballads, and Boss Up. 2014 saw Winter's Diary 2: Forever Yours arrive to widespread critical acclaim, landing on year-end R&B album lists from Billboard and Rolling Stone. It also yielded "Treat Me Like Somebody," which gathered 64 million Spotify streams and counting. A year later, XXL touted her among its coveted "Freshman Class." Following a stint in the major label system, she embraced independence again with Winter's Diary 4 [2016], Voicemails [2019], Hopeless Romantic [2020], and A Gift And A Curse [2020]. She collaborated with everyone from Sleigh Bells and Pentatonix to Future, G Herbo, 6lack, and K Camp. During 2021, she served up Heat of the Moment powered by "Rebel" [feat. Jeremih] and "Might Let You" [feat. Davido]. After raking in streams in the hundreds of millions and earning acclaim from Pitchfork, The FADER, HYPEBEAST, and more, she opens up like never before on her 2022 album, Pillow Talk.

Key Marketing/Selling:
- Tink exclaims these songs as her realist yet, "Many of these songs were written solely by me, I'm still pushing my pen. Hitmaka and I put a lot into this." Playing with the name, this album indeed feels like you are, " laying in your bed talking to your guy or girl. It's a very sexy, soft mood." says Tink.
- Her most honest and vulnerable album to date.
- First single from the album, "Cater", featuring 2 Chainz a #1 Most Added at Urban Radio and currently charting Top 40.
- Official video for "Cater" has accumulated over 2.4M views.
- "Cater" is well past 2.55M track streams on Spotify.
- Added to Spotify's "Channel-X" (1.7M likes) & "Fresh R&B" playlists.
- Spotify Stats: 2.36M monthly listeners & 791K followers.
- Included in XXL's Freshmen Class of 2015 feature.
- 3rd full-length album release (16 tracks!)
- Solid streaming activity on previous albums, "Hopeless Romantic" (51M+ Spotify track streams) and "Heat of the Moment" (19M+ Spotify tracks streams).
- LP pressed on Purple & White Galaxy vinyl.
- CD also available on OCT 14, 2022 (ERE851 - 194690899621).

Tracklist:
A1/1. Goin Bad
A2/2. Switch
A3/3. Opposite
A4/4. Goofy
B1/5. Cater (Feat. 2 Chainz)
B2/6. Throwback
B3/7. Mine (Feat. Muni Long)
B4/8. 25 Reasons Interlude
C1/9. Cum See Me
C2/10. Oooh Triflin (Feat. Fabolous)
C3/11. Balance
C4/12. Drunk Text'n (Feat. Layton Greene)
D1/13. News (Feat. Russ)
D2/14. Ghetto Luv (Feat. G Herbo)
D3/15. Cum'n 2
D4/16. I Choose Me
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CLEAR VINYL

About:
Money Man (Born: Tysen Jay Bolding), famous with the name, Big Money, was born in New York, but raised in Decatur, Georgia. He attempted to break into the music industry in the early 2010's but paused to focus on his finances. The rapper emerged in 2016 with three mixtapes featuring the likes of Young Thug, Akon, Gucci Mane and others that earned him a significant following. Over the next few years, this momentum continued with the release of seven more successful mixtapes. Money Man found Top 40 chart success in 2019 with "Paranoia," followed by more album chart presence with "State of Emergency" and "Blockchain." "BIG MONEY" features guest artists G Herbo, Nardo Wick, Benny the Butcher, BJ Jroc, Peezy, and Juney Knotzz.

Key Marketing/Selling:
- Featured guest artists include G Herbo, Nardo Wick, BC Jroc, Benny the Butcher, Peezy, and Juney Knotzz.
- Clear vinyl pressing.
- Videos for "Big Money," "Corrupted," "Overload," and "Undertaker" alone have amassed over 11 millions views.
- Spotify Stats: 4.89 million monthly listeners and 460K followers.
- "Big Money" has accumulated nearly 10 million track streams on Spotify to-date.
- Tracks from the album have been strongly supported by the likes of Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon.
- Album press features include Our Generation Music, Revolt, Hot New Hip Hop, Respect, and much more!

Tracklist:
A1/1. Cowboy
A2/2. Corrupted
A3/3. Big Money
A4/4. Streets Cold (Feat. G Herbo)
A5/5. Undertaker (Feat. Nardo Wick)
A6/6. BodyRock
B1/7. Stompers (Feat. BC Jroc)
B2/8. Overload (Feat. Benny the Butcher)
B3/9. Ali Baba (Feat. Peezy)
B4/10. Escape (Feat. Juney Knotzz)
B5/11. New York
B6/12. Roar
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2023 repress

2LP with printed inner sleeves

Tracklist

1. The Mod 4 - A Puppet
2. The Yardleys - Just Remember
3. Decompressed Impossibility - You Can't Ride Away
4. The Living End - Brigitta
5. The Newports - Feelin' Low
6. The Landlords - I'm Through With You
7. The Prisners Dream - Autumn Days
8. The Fortels - She
9. The Bohemians - Say It
10. Tresa Leigh - Until Then
11. WM. Penn & The Quakers - Ghost Of The Monks
12. The Tempters - I Will Go
13. Jerry McGee - Twilight Zone
14. Carroll - The Boy Called Billy Joe
15. The Common People - Here, There & Everywhere
16. Dennis Harte - Summer's Over
17. Toe Head - Goodnight Jackie


Short info:

A North American road trip of coming of age garage soul mapped by Ivan Liechti, Ghost Riders is Efficient Space’s latest narrative compilation, hovering in a liminal emotional ravine between moonlight melancholy, teenage heartache and unchecked, unrealised ambition. Across 17 open hearted ballads recorded 1965-1974, the 2LP collects and connects dots between British Invasion fanatics, child prodigies, the loners and the luckless, in a kind of trans-continental survey of those swept up in rock’n’roll mania and buoyed by local newspaper ads promising fame and gold records.

From the tangerine dreams of 8th grade all-girl combo The Mod 4 to the tri-state jukebox aspiring echoes of The Tempters, The Yardleys' poetic Farfisa vamp and lilting folk pop, and The Landlords’ weepy break up b-side blues, these are mostly one shots by dreamers whose experience was brief before being checked back to the reality of suburban normality and realistic career options. Hailing from the regional backwaters of Illinois, Arkansas, Nevada, Massachusetts, Ohio, Idaho, Texas and beyond, the licensed artists were scouted by way of local fire departments, spiritualist fellowships and animal welfare centres, often barely a stones throw from where their contributions were originally laid.

A barely teenage Dennis Harte's ‘Summer’s Over’ perhaps best taps the collection’s essence. A gut-wrenching lament of the passing of the season as if it was the last on earth. Flanked by players from The Left Banke, Harte, a now-piano tuner to the stars, is from the minor segment that found longevity in showbiz. Likewise with Michigan icon Lyn Nowicki who cast her ghostly voice over Beatles cover song chameleons The Common People and Jerry McGee, The Ventures member and conduit of Dr. John’s ‘Twilight Zone’.

Ghost Riders simmers with the scent of youthful summers, the pang of schoolyard romance, and the excitement (and disenchantment) of teenage naïveté, delivered via a deceptively simple and frequently wonky garage band set up. The vision of record collector and graphic designer Ivan Liechti, these eternal psych-folk howlers are further crystallised by Colin Young’s fastidious audio restoration, the original artwork of Elise Gagnebin-de Bons and an aptly penned forward from Sonic Boom.






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ECO-FRIENDLY 100% RECYCELT VINYL & PACKAGING.

Matthias Vogt ([re:jazz], Motorcitysoul) verbindet auf seinem neuen Album "Pianissimo" großartige Musik mit aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen Einstellungen und Themen. In diesem Kontext wird Musik relevant! Pianissimo bedeutet nicht nur, sehr leise zu spielen, sondern auch sehr intensiv zu spielen. Seine Begleiter sind Demian Kappenstein (ÄTNA & Masaa) am Schlagzeug & Gitarrist Daniel Stelter (Sing meinen Song, TV-Total Heavytones). Das Vinyl inkl. der Umverpackung wird auf komplett recycelter Basis von INFRACom! produziert.

"At the eleventh hour" bedeutet im angloamerikanischen Raum so viel wie "Fünf vor Zwölf". Und mit seinem zwölften Album "Pianissimo" gibt Matthias Vogt erstmals ein klares politisches Statement ab, das nicht in Konkurrenz, sondern in Symbiose mit seinen wohlgesetzten Noten und dem stilvoll experimentellen und prononciert eklektischen Electro-Jazz-Sound existiert. Wie das geht? Es ist kompliziert und doch ganz einfach, gehaltvoll, spannend und dabei geradezu organisch gewachsen.

Am Anfang war das Piano. Matthias Vogt hatte in vielen Monaten der pandemiebedingten Club- und Livemusik-Pause eine, wie er selbst betont, "verinnerlichte Musik" komponiert. Bald war ihm aber klar, dass die Musik mehr wollte, als es die elegischen, zuweilen bis an die Neoklassik heranwogenden Jazzklänge zunächst vermuten ließen. Mit dem Gitarristen Daniel Stelter und Schlagzeuger Demian Kappenstein fand er zwei kongeniale Mitstreiter, um aus seinen inneren Monologen machtvolle musikalische Manifeste zu gestalten. So wurde etwa aus der melancholischen "Elegy" ein augenzwinkernd schiebender Dub-Reggae-Groove, aus den Molltönen von "Down to Earth" ein wohlgefälliger Downtempo Vibe zum Mitwippen. Und mit dem Video-Designer Sebastian Rieker war das Band-Projekt beinahe komplett.

"Everything in our lives is political" (Asterico, Japan)

Gedanklich trieben Matthias Vogt jenseits des Studios ganz andere Themen um: Klimawandel und Naturkatastrophen, die Abholzung von Wäldern für umstrittene Autobahnen und Braunkohlebergbau sowie Veganismus als persönliche Strategie, Tierleid zu verhindern und den eigenen, ökologischen Fußabdruck zu reduzieren. Also führte er zu diesen Themen Interviews mit Menschen aus seinem Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis - Kreative, Künstler*innen, Aktivist*innen und Musiker*inen, die ähnlich ticken wie er selbst und mit deren Stimmen er seinen eigenen Gedanken Ausdruck und Form verleihen konnte:

"Everything in our lives is political", sagt die in Hiroshima geborene "Rico", eigentlich Asterico: "Let's just put that straight: Everything you do, everything you see, everything you live in is political." Und "Doing nothing is not defensible", stellt Tom Szirtes aus London in "Music for Interviews" mit ruhiger, aber auch besorgter Stimme fest "Now is the time that we have to do something", spricht Danny Howells, DJ aus London, über den elegischen Soundtrack "Amdu", "otherwise we have no chance." Auch die deutsche Umweltaktivistin Pippi sowie Daphne Fernberger, Tänzerin aus New York, und ihr Mann, der französische Musiker und Tänzer Ulysse verleihen mit ihren authentischen Statements der abstrakten Emotionalität der Musik eine tiefe Erdung.

Asterico, Tom, Danny, Pippi, Ulysses und Daphne repräsentieren wie die Musiker Vogt, Stelter und Kappenstein eine neue Art kreatives Weltbürgertum, das Lichtjahre vom materialistischen Hedonismus der 1980er und 1990er und beinahe ebensoweit von der ungezügelten Technikgläubigkeit entfernt ist, die seit den Nullerjahren des neuen Jahrtausends vor allem in den USA und Asien, aber auch in Europa die merkwürdigsten und zum Teil hoch gefährlichen Blüten treibt. Aber passt so viel politisch-philosophischer Gehalt, so viel engagierter Aktivismus kombiniert mit konzentriert-experimenteller Musikalität auf die doch recht überkommene Form eines Longplayers mit 15 bzw. 16 Titlen auf dem Vinyl ? Die kurze Antwort lautet: Ja.

Die lange Version: "Pianissimo" passt genau wegen seiner Vielstimmigkeit in diese von Pandemie und Naturkatastrophen und dem erschütterten Glauben an die Lösbarkeit aller Zivilisationsprobleme gezeichneten Zeit. "Vielstimmig" ist "Pianissimo" auch in dem Sinne, dass dieses schön gestaltete Gefäß die ganze Bandbreite vom dystopischen "Lamento" bis hin zu den hoffnungsvoll groovenden Tönen einer "Une Nuit Exceptionelle" zu fassen vermag, ohne zu zerbrechen. Es wäre zu simpel nach einer einzigen, verbindenden Message zu fragen, nur so viel sei vielleicht erlaubt: Es ist Fünf vor Zwölf, allerhöchste Zeit zum Aufstehen... und wenn du erstmal aufgestanden bist, um deine Stimme zu erheben, kannst du auch gleich ein bisschen dazu tanzen.

Genre: Electronic / Jazz / Ambient / Neo Classic

A - 33 rpm
01. Pianissimo (DEQ922100004) 01:50
02. Quintessence (DEQ922100005) 04:39
03. Music For Interviews (DEQ922100006) 04:49
04. Elegy (DEQ922100007) 04:28

B - 33 rpm
05. Shimmering Sea (DEQ922100008) 04:22
06. Cargo (DEQ922100009) 06:32
07. Amdu (DEQ922100010) 04:06
08. The Mind Traveller (DEQ922100011) 05:53

C - 33 rpm
09. Dystopia (DEQ922100012) 04:08
10. Afraid Of The Future (DEQ922100013) 03:15
11. Lament in D Minor (DEQ922100014) 05:25
12. Down To Earth (DEQ922100015) 05:29

D - 33 rpm
13. I Remember Being Loved (DEQ922100016) 03:58
14. Introduction (DEQ922100017) 01:17
15. Outro (DEQ922100018) 01:32
---Vinyl Bonus---
16. Une Nuit Exceptionnelle (DEQ922100019) 06:31
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INFRACom!, one of the longest operating Independent labels in Germany, celebrate it´s 30yrs anniversary with a vinyl compilation consisting of tracks that have never been released on vinyl before. Label co-founder Jan Hagenkötter handpicked these from various artist in the catalog, true to the spirit of the label and its operator – We couldn´t save the entire planet but we still like to save your soul.

The artwork was once again designed by Rafael Jimenez Heckmann, a well-known graphic designer from Offenbach. He is responsible for most of the artworks and designs on INFRACom!... his covers have already been awarded several times e.g. in Lürzers Archive and others.

The inlay was designed by the long time friend & well known artist Jim Avignon. In the nineties before Jim went to Berlin and New York to get world famous he lived in Frankfurt for a few years and drew and partied a lot with Jan Hagenkötter & Namé Vaughn…the two DJ´s, friends and founders of INFRACom! He even contributed a song to the very first INFRACom! production. Since that time they cultivate a lovely friendship and Jim was happy to contribute an artwork to this anniversary release.

Most of the tracks included on the compilation were released only on CD and then digitally in the so-called 2000s or noughties, as it was very difficult to release any album on vinyl during that time due to the situation in the music market while the transition from physical to digital products and the piracy phenomenon. Fortunately, today the different formats can coexist again.

INFRACom!, once started locally in Frankfurt with artist like Shantel who released his first recordings on the label. He is featured by a collaboration with the Brazilian duo Rosanna & Zélia. Soon INFRACom! expanded to an international platform for artist from all over the world like Jhelisa (USA), Mop Mop & Gabriele Poso..both from Italy, Metropolitan Jazz Affair the brainchild of French producer and musician Patchworks, Taxi from the UK, Rime from Finland or Aromabar from Austria…all with different styles of music.

The vision of the two founders Jan Hagenkötter & Namé Vaughn was and still is artistically oriented and has never favored just only one style of music.
The roots of INFRACom as a label are based in the various form of black music culture - conditiopned to the influences and personal history of the two founders - but also deeply rooted in the club and DJ culture and various forms of electronic music. The compilation can only show a small glimpse into the universe with tunes that stand the test of time.

One of the best examples is Matthias Vogt with whom the label has a long standing collaboration and who just this year released the album PIANISSIMO on INFRACom!. He can be heard with his Matthias Vogt (Jazz) Trio in a cinematic remix from Joash and two pieces by the highly successful [re:jazz] band which he leads.

With Valique we are happy to feature a Belarus/Russian artist on the release these days….one who already showed ten years ago on his album artworks what he thinks about the politics of his government. As an open minded label and ethnical diverse ppl. we think “Fuck Putin and his disciples and like-minded people, but let's not condemn all Russian-born people. Some prefer to worship Herbie Hancock...like Valique and we want to support that.”

With Nekta, Dublex Inc. feat Stee Downes and Kosma this release features three more artists from various regions in Germany, each with their great moments.….and last but not least the mysterious Woodland Conclave (UK)…a waltz and a story yet to be told and hopefully will be…on INFRACom!…in the near future!


TRACKLIST:
A1. Nekta - Who´s Sorry Now
A2. Mop Mop - Hot Pot (Ezequiel Lodeiro "Latinazo " Dub)
A3. Gabriele Poso - Freedom
A4. [re:jazz] Feat. N'dea Davenport - Don't Push Your Luck (Wagon Cookin´ Vocal Remix)
B1. Aromabar - Calling
B2. [re:jazz] Feat. Mediha -Tears
B3. Metropolitan Jazz Affair - You Can Dig
B4. Dublex Inc. feat. Stee Downes - Something´s Missing
B5. Valique - Herbie's Delight
C1. Jhelisa - Love Is A State Of Mind
C2. Woodland Conclave - Celebration Of Life (Song For Simon)
C3. Matthias Vogt Trio – Driver (Joash Remix)
D1. Taxi – The Accessory
D2. Rime - Smoke And Regret
D3. Shantel - Considerando (Video Version)
D4. Kosma - La Seule Fleur Dans Le Jardin (For Karen) More

Voila: "1982
the band Karat released their album "The Blue Planet". The one of the same name the single reached gold status (at that time) in East and West Germany and has just become a cult song in the former east of the country. 40 years later text and music have not lost their topicality. Reason enough for that Berliner, Oliver Marquardt aka Dj Jauche, with members of the band to put together and record the "Blue Planet" again. All traces were newly recorded, reconstructed and reassembled.
Marquardt first reconstructed a version based on the original in order to to be able to produce more mixes based on this. So for the first time there is one new recording of the song, with Claudius Dreilich as the vocal part, which since many years the role of frontman and singer on "Karat", from his father, has taken over.
"It was important to us the character of the Keeping the originals was one of the fundamental ideas behind the Reissue of the title."

Voilá: "1982 veröffentlichte die Band Karat ihr Album "Der blaue Planet". Die gleichnamige Singleauskopplung erreichte, (damals) in Ost- und Westdeutschland, Goldstatus und avancierte gerade im ehemaligen Osten des Landes zum Kultsong. 40 Jahre später haben Text und Musik nicht an Aktualität verloren. Grund genug für den Berliner, Oliver Marquardt aka Dj Jauche, sich mit Mitgliedern der Band zusammen zu setzen und den "Blauen Planeten" neu aufzunehmen. Alle Spuren wurden neu aufgenommen, rekonstruiert und neu zusammen gefügt. Marquardt rekonstruierte als Erstes, eine an das Original angelegte Version, um davon ausgehend weitere Mixe produzieren zu können. Zum ersten Mal gibt es somit eine neue Aufnahme des Songs, mit Claudius Dreilich als Gesangspart, welcher seit vielen Jahren die Rolle des Frontmann und Sängers bei "Karat", von seinem Vater, übernommen hat.
"Wichtig war es uns den Charakter des Originals beizubehalten, dies war einer der grundlegenden Gedanken bei der Neuauflage des Titels."



TRACKLISTS:

A1. DJ Jauche feat. Karat - Der blaue Planet (Rework)
A2. DJ Jauche feat. Karat - Der blaue Planet (No Drums Version)

B1. DJ Jauche feat. Karat - Der blaue Planet (Dub Mix)
B1. DJ Jauche feat. Karat - Der blaue Planet (Original 2022 Revision)

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Tracklist:

Ataxia - Detroit Gospel
Ataxia & Andres - Pine Island
Ataxia - Language
Ataxia & Dj Minx – Maxia
Ataxia - Spit In Your Percolator
Ataxia - 98 Degrees
Ataxia - Number Streets
Ataxia - The Formulator
Ataxia - The Pusher
Ataxia & Mister Joshooa - Feels Like
Ataxia – WM
Ataxia - Dance the Bridge

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Having torn up raves for well over a decade, the Detroit duo Rickers and Ted Krisko AKA Ataxia present their debut longplayer ‘Out Of Step’. Featuring guest spots from close peers DJ Minx, Andrés and Mr Joshooa, they twist house, techno, electro, breakbeat and rave into revitalized new shapes; embellished with a touch of soul, funk and hip hop. With backgrounds in hardcore and punk, Ataxia’s debut is suffused with that energy, attitude, and approach; this is raw, lean and unashamedly no-nonsense dance floor tackle that goes straight for the jugular. Heavily analogue, the album experiments with tape saturation, which harks back to the duo’s formative years in bands, recording demos to cassettes. These straight-up, in-the-red tracks give preference to overdriven drum machines, rather than generic polished sheen, but conversely, it’s all deceptively well-crafted too; ‘Out Of Step’ is a standout record that’s big in character, bringing to mind the renegade spirit of Underground Resistance, and the bombastic brilliance of The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers.

Defiantly optimistic despite the state of the world, a “life is good” vocal sample meets minor chords sliding over 808 hats on the exemplary house/techno pumper ‘Detroit Gospel’, before a lighter moment on the album, but no less impactful with its hefty low-end thump, is ‘Pine Island’ featuring Motor City hero Andrés. Together they cook up a Motown-inspired house cut awash with horn swells and backup singers, bouncing to wide swung funk bass, in classic 313 style. ‘Language’ turns the club on its head – busting out one of the most distinct basslines in recent times, and bristling with buzzy, undulating chords, whilst ‘Maxia’ features influential Detroit royalty DJ Minx. Inspired by her classic ‘A Walk In The Park’, with a fat distorted kick and stealthy bass groove, this is low-slung, stripped-back, heads-down coolness. The high-tech funk of ‘Spit In Your Percolator’, is laser-guided in its efficiency, with a strobe-like, increasingly intensifying energy, peppered with clever, tripped up vocal chops. With the next cut, conveyor belt noises and fast churning low-end gives way to a dubbed-out breakdown, on the deep breakbeat roller ‘98 Degrees’. Charged with a blistering, rave intensity, ‘Number Streets’, is a futuristic distorted techno workout that booms through the subs, whilst ‘The Formulator’ mixes filtered snippets, abstract synth noises and melodic bleeps with a bassline echoing Paperclip People’s ‘The Floor’. Closer to the UK definition of hardcore, combining 4/4 and breakbeat, ‘The Pusher’ evokes the spirit of late 80s orbital raves, adding a natty keys solo, and deadly bass used sparingly, for even deadlier effect. ‘Feels Like’ sees Rickers and Ted team up their studiomate and fellow TV Lounge resident and club booker, Mister Joshooa. Inspired by Photek but also almost UKG in style, this breakbeat session is stamped with MJ’s signature chopped vocals and intricate rhythmic interplay. The bubbling, wobbly loose swing of ‘WM’ is constructed around a classic chopped-up MTV cribs sample, with a filtered vocal creating a far out psychedelic effect – all of which is propelled apace by a huge bruising LFO. The LP concludes in fine style with ‘Dance The Bridge’, where bouncy beats and wigged-out keys meet bright, gently uplifting synth chords that bring a clear-skied mood; ending the record as it began, on an optimistic note.

‘Out Of Step’ marks another chapter in the ongoing relationship between Life and Death co-founder DJ Tennis and Ataxia. Their connection goes back to the earliest days of the label, where they played gigs together on some of Tennis’ initial visits to Detroit. It’s a friendship that’s blossomed organically over the last decade through their shared love of punk and hardcore, and led to the fruition of one of Ataxia’s most compelling projects to date. Labels to release Ataxia’s output include legendary Detroit techno imprints Planet E and KMS, plus the seminal American house label Nervous Records. Their catalogue also includes music for Visionquest, Leftroom, 20/20 Vision and Seth Troxler’s Play It Say It.

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LP
GENRE/S: Hip Hop Instrumental


TRACKLISTS:

1.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo, Pavel - Runde Um Den Block 01:39
2.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - Straßenträume 04:37
3.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo, Escape - Goldene Mitte 02:37
4.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo, Pavel - Flugmodus 03:31
5.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - High Five 03:14
6.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - 2005 02:58
7.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo, gliq - Sekt Oder Selters 03:31
8.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - Zeitmaschine 02:58
9.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - Wenn Die Würfel Fallen 02:02
10.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - Dinner For One 03:37
11.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - Back To The Streets 02:56
12.Mister Jones, Tito Tentaculo - Augen Zu Und Durch 02:44


SHORT INFO:
"Augen Zu Und Durch" heißt es auf dem neuen Album von Mister Jones und Tito Tentaculo. Illustre Geschichten, voll vernebelter Erinnerungen und episodischer Straßenträume. Wenn die Würfel fallen drehen die beiden dann doch erstmal eine Runde um den Block und suchen gemeinsam mit Escape ihre Goldene Mitte. Bevor es schließlich in die Zeitmaschine zu Sekt Oder Selters geht, heißt es am Ende dann zwar doch wieder Back To The Streets. Aber das war bei den beiden ja zu erwarten.

Auf den souligen bis roughen Produktionen von Tito Tentaculo findet Jones den perfekten Nährboden für sein verschachteltes Storytelling genau wie für seine Alltagsbetrachtungen aus der Eingeborenenperspektive auf die Großstadt.
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Track listing:
A1 Longing For You
A2 I Wanna
A3 Nite People
B1 Floating On Silence
B2 Mighty Groove


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Tour-Maubourg’s music is a subtle synthesis of jazz and house, which seduces hundreds of thousands of house aficionados every month.

The Belgian producer based in Paris has an eternal desire to translate the feeling of love into music as in Longing For U, the opening track of his upcoming EP Floating On Silence. The artist mixes a melancholic piano with groovy congas and a jazzy saxophone. The result is a relaxing track, perfect for enjoying a cocktail while the sunsets on a warm summer evening.





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Book (No Audio Included)

GENRE/S: Alternative / Electronic / Noise

TRACKLISTS (Chapters):

1-Pedro Paramo on his way to meet the dead
2-I was convinced that an atom of your love could keep me goinng
3-Sometimes a day can last a lifetime
4-The tune of Titan 3
5-John Coltrane and John Fahey crossing the Danube
6-So long lover




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Charbel Haber is Lebanese musician, performer, visual artist and composer from Beirut. His work has seen him collaborate with artists from a wide range of disciplines - film, video art, visual art, theatre, dance - both in Lebanon and abroad.

As a solo artist and as a member of post-punk band Scrambled Eggs, he has composed music for directors Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, Ghassan Salhab, Mohamad Malas, video artists Lamia Joreige and Akram Zaatari, Maqamat dance company and playwrights Rabih Mroueh and Lina Saneh, to name but a few. His prolific and collaborative career includes free improv group Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, psychedelic Arabic music ensembles Malayeen and Orchestra Omar, cold wave band The Bunny Tylers and minimal ambient duo Good Luck In Death. He is the founder of Those Kids Must Choke and co-founder of Johnny Kafta's Kids Menu - two experimental record labels - and he has recorded and collaborated with notable artists from the fields of free rock and improv such as Oiseaux-Tempête, Radwan Moumneh, Tarek Atoui, Jean Francois Pauvros, The Ex, Michael Zerang, Mats Gustafson, Eddie Prevost, Xavier Charles and Tony Buck.

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And once again, here I am telling you to go look for the truth and its beauty in the words of dead poets, in the little tales of ravaged cities, in aborted dreams, in the melancholy of the ruins of tomorrow, in meaningless plastic totems, in the enigmatic end of restless fools.

I'll be here long after you all disappear.

These are the first and last sentences from Charbel Haber's latest offering, A Common Misunderstanding of the Speed of Light: a multi-media musing on the chronic and the chronological, the subversive nature of time. This combination of a record and book observes the slow passing of life and the illusion of retrogradation in his every day. Simply by documenting - via image, text and tune - Haber assigns value to everything that is cast in amber by this project. There's an acceptance and appreciation of the destitution he witnesses, it is an homage given in overlapping forms.

ACMOTSOL has two parts. The book, hardcover in an embossed orange, features photographs and texts taken from Haber's personal digital diary spanning from 2020 to the start of 2022. Broken into six chapters - named for the six tracks on the record - the entries are an artist's log of sorts during a peculiar period of global hyper stagnation and navigating the aftermath of the Beirut explosions. The 96 pages highlight Haber's interest in decay, negative space and the temporality of the human condition. Instead of presenting the images and texts as they were originally paired online, they're reordered and recontextualized in the book. New connections are formed, as tenuous and fleeting as the content they surround. The images interrupt the texts in many instances, forcing pauses and inviting distraction.

At the center of the book is a sudden burst of orange pages, with stylized pluckings of the text framing a QR-code that grants access to the record. With the brilliant orange covers and matching innards, pregnant with the music at the core, it's almost as if these central pages act as a way to turn the book inside out. There, the book's purpose is altered, fixated on a mirror image of itself. It forms a self-completing arc for the project, a loop.

ACMOTSO's second half is that mirrored album. Six tracks totalling just under 52 minutes. The music could be a continuation of his solo albums Of Palm Trees and Decompositions (2016) and It Ended Up Being a Good Day Mr. Allende (2012), an exploration into the expansiveness of seemingly simple loops of a lilting guitar. Careful electronic effects add dimensions or reground the listener. There's a swelling of sound, the illusion of the push of space before it retracts back into itself or fades into the distance. Much like the images and texts the music complements, the songs challenge the purity of cycles. Endings are beginnings, beginnings are endings or is everything just the middle? Haber is quietly and elegantly grappling with the troublesome act of place-making. In music, in words and in visual storytelling.

ACMOTSOL is a work that can be calming or disorienting, depending on what is requested of it. Similar to the way loops and cycles can signify both meditation and mania. The tendrils of Haber's past - his home of Beirut, fictional and real characters encountered, authors read, films watched, composers listened, walks taken - knit themselves together for a presentation of our immediate present. An evidence of a happening. A considered project of time.

All photographs, texts and music by Charbel Haber. Album mixed by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. Design by Maziyar Pahlevan. Printed by Albe De Coker in Belgium.

This dual-part project will be released on XX XXX 2022 on 'Other People.'

Description by Nereya Otieno.

86 images
6 songs*
52 minutes*
96 pages
86 texts

*there are no audio files coming with the book.
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- Debut Ovum release from Francesca Lombardo
- Releases on Crosstown Rebels, Mobilee, Leftroom, Poke Flat, Bedrock and her own Echoe and Echolette


GENRE/S: Deep House/Minimal techno

TRACKLISTS:
A1. Magic Moment feat. Viktoriia
A2. Magic Moment feat. Viktoriia (Dub)
B21. Sea

SHORT INFO:

Longtime underground star Francesca Lombardo steps up to Ovum with a trio of superb new signature sounds. Italian Lombardo has been crisscrossing the globe and headlining all its most tasteful clubs and festivals for many years. Her powerful, heartfelt grooves have come on the most influential labels of the day and her critically acclaimed debut album 'Life of Leaf' showed that she can do all sounds and styles from downtempo to pop with equal skills. Her mix of innovation and compelling grooves continues on this latest EP. The vocals on the opener 'Magic Moment' are a poem Francesca's friend Victoria sent to her. She kept them for four years before ?nding the special inspiration that encouraged her to use them in these writing sessions. They lend the tune an intimate feel and draw you in deep to the elegant house drums and warming synths. It's an uplifting and classy tune with a standout Moog bassline that will lock in the floor. After the dub version is 'Sea,' a much more twisted and peak time techno tune. The synths are spangled over jacked-up drums, with edgy textures and late-night menace all making it a sure-?re winner This is another tasteful take on techno from Francesca Lombardo.

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Edition of 250 UNITS

English short Version
Almost five years after the inaugural compilation "El sol desde oriente", Passat Continu releases "El ser
y el tiempo", the first solo recordings of the Tenerife musician Javier Segura, a set of seven
compositions that make up a true exceptionality in the panorama of Spanish experimental music and that
have never before been uncovered for listening. This sound document recorded between 1976 and 1978
is presented remastered from its original tapes and with a bonus track, with the invaluable collaboration
of Juan Belda.

Genre: Early electronics / Experimental / Concrete musique


Spanish Version

Casi cinco años después del recopilatorio inaugural “El sol desde oriente”, Passat Continu lanza “El
ser y el tiempo”, las primeras grabaciones en solitario del músico tinerfeño Javier Segura, un conjunto
de siete composiciones que conforman una auténtica excepcionalidad en el panorama de la música
experimental española y que nunca antes han sido destapadas para su escucha. Este documento sonoro
registrado entre 1976 y 1978 se presenta remasterizado de sus cintas originales y con una canción
extra, con la inestimable colaboración de Juan Belda.
Existe cierto consenso en llamar transición española al período que va del fallecimiento de Francisco
Franco, el 20 de noviembre de 1975, a la ratificación mediante referéndum de la Constitución, el 6 de
diciembre de 1978. Años de agitación y anhelo democrático que la población vive con gran
intensidad. Aquejada por una larga enfermedad, la madre de Javier Segura fallece en 1976. El
tinerfeño tiene entonces 21 años y acaba de salir de su primera experiencia discográfica como
compositor en el cuarteto Huellas. Como todo el mundo entonces, Segura se ha educado en un colegio
religioso. Es allí donde empieza a cultivar interés en la música, el cine y la filosofía “dentro de mí
existía, y aún persiste, la idea de que somos un espejo donde algo o alguien se mira para
reconocerse. Es una idea que surge de la lectura de “El ser y el tiempo” de Martin Heidegger.”
Con el objetivo de seguir dando forma a las ideas, Segura destina la totalidad de sus ingresos a la
compra de equipamiento, experimentando en el desván de casa en los ratos libres. Se adentra en
sesiones extenuantes utilizando la metodología de las músicas de corte concreto, grabando encima de
un casete Sony, reproduciendo encima de otro al tiempo que mete más instrumentación por la entrada
del micrófono. Así varias veces hasta sobreponer tres, cuatro y hasta cinco capas. En 1977 se hace con
dos Tascam de carrete abierto de cuatro pistas. Las cintas grabadas en los casetes Sony se pasan al
magnetofón para luego volver a encima del mismo, y así una y otra vez. En sus más de 40 minutos de
duración, en “El ser y el tiempo” suenan flautas, saxos, un vibráfono, un piano, un violín, un arpa, un
salterio turco, un Crumar DS-2, sintetizador monofónico de dos osciladores y de más de 50 kilos de
peso popularizado por Sun Ra en los años 70 e incluso unas placas de metal.

A1 – 1, 2, 3 secuencias (5'31”)
A2 – Andrea Ex 1
A3 – Andrea Ex 2
A4 – Andrea Ex 3
B1 – El Mencey loco
B2 – El ser y el tiempo
B3 – Medication. El sueño ante el espejo
B4 – Para piano More

Extremely well produced edits by Fort Romeau
Tracklist:
A. K.O.N.T.R.O.L.
B1. L.O.S.T. B2. P.I.C.T.U.R.E.

Short info:
Extended remix versions of some of the best pop music ever made. Vocals, drama, dance rhythms and witty lyrics: the intellectual shuffle!
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LP incl. Album CD

Label Name: Time In The Special Practice Of Relativity

Genre: New Age / Soundtrack


Tracklist 12":

A1 – Miss/Take
A2 – Never Been Said
A3 – 2021 12 16
A4 – Sorry.
A5 – A Distance Defined By Proximity
A6 – Peer/Less
B1 – What Happened?
B2 – The Yellow Sky
B3 – CTK
B4 – 2021 11 22 / 19 03
B5 – Just Like It Has Been



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Rico Friebe returns with a second part to JENNI, his initial full length album from early 2022.

The furthermore ongoing personal story of empathy, tragedy and hope continues with a cycle of orchestral compositions, leading Friebe's work into unforeseen directions.

A soundtrack of the soul with the uniquely natural and timeless touch of orchestra music...
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Ultramarine & Anna Domino meet again for a reworking of their collaborative track '$10 Heel'.

The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). $10 Rework replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter House backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes.

Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window.

Iain Ballamy wields his saxophone like a graffiti artist with a spray can; scrawling and skronking across the canvas. Ric Elsworth lurks in a side alley, unraveling a trash can monologue of wild flamming bongos.

Ultramarine is the UK duo of Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, their albums include Every Man and Woman is a Star (Rough Trade, 1991), United Kingdoms (w/ Robert Wyatt) (Blanco Y Negro, 1993) and Signals Into Space (w/ Anna Domino) (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019).

Anna Domino is an American musician based in LA and NY, best known for her classic run of releases on Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule in the 1980s and '90s.

Iain Ballamy is a composer and saxophonist; a member of the Loose Tubes collective in the 1980s and more recently with several albums to his name on ECM.

Ric Elsworth is UK-based percussionist and vibraphone player.

Tracklist:

A - $10 Heel (Rework)
B1 - $10 Dub
B2 - $10 Dub (Instrumental)

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WW -DE, -AT.

LP incl DL code

GENRE/S:
Electronica, Breaks, Drum & Bass

TRACKLISTS:
A1. Jungle Times
A2. Roll Of Thunder
A3. When Young
A4. Ombre
B1. Aura
B2. Dog Days
B3. Drift Out

SHORT INFO:
ZG is the moniker of London based Zansika Lachhani and Grant (aka Anthony Collins, and the Tony in Frank & Tony). The concept was borne out of a connection online, as Grant and Zan connected on Soundcloud, both independently vibing off each other's music and approach to their art.
In 2018 they began to work together, developing a number of tracks but eventually parking the project as other life commitments got in the way. Fast forward to 2021, while clearing out old harddrives, Grant rediscovered the recordings and was blown away by the music already put down. Together they began to rework and develop the project further, resulting in a blindingly beautiful seven track LP.
Opener Jungle Times sets the scene, an atmospheric dreamy opening giving way to an idiosyncratic breakbeat and whispered vocals from Zan, setting the tone perfectly, floating the sound equally between London and New York styles. Following it up is the enigmatic Roll of Thunder, drawing its power broken beat patterns, deep and soulful strings and washes reminiscent of 4Hero in their prime.
When Young also brings a jazz aesthetic to the fore, with upfront drums and Rhodes chords washing over in melodic bliss. Ombre starts with a thick bassline and urgent synth stabs before developing into a tripped-out groove, layered with thick synth lines and subtle harmonic touches. Similarly, Aura uses some of the same sound palette as well with touches of guitars and more sparking pads creating an uplifting yet melancholic journey. The first real vocal arrives with the penultimate track Dog Days, dreamily layered over beautifully evolving synth washes and skittering beats. By the time Drift Out arrives to usher in the last act of this exceptional LP, we are on cloud nine.








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Special Remarks: includes download code and stickers

GENRE/S: Tribal, Techno

TRACKLISTS:
A1 Astika
A2 Nagamani
B1 Brahma Kamal
B2 Danca Of Tandava

SHORT INFO:
The next EP on Space Drum Meditation comes with 4 vigorous, percussion-heavy cuts for a powerful ceremonial dance
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Territories: WORLD minus FR

World / Asian / Funk / Rock / Nhac Vang / Reissue

SHORT INFO:

DEUTSCH
Was 2012 als Idee begann, wurde mit der Veröffentlichung von SAIGON SUPERSOUND Vol.1, zusammengestellt von Jan Hagenkötter, Realität. Eine Compilation über die Geschichte einer fast verlorenen musikalischen Ära in Vietnam, bestehend aus Tracks aus den Jahren 1965 bis 1975, der sogenannten "Goldenen Musik"-Periode im Süden Vietnams, in der sich - unter schwierigen Umständen - eine lebendige Popkultur entwickelt hatte. Diese Periode ist gekennzeichnet durch die Verschmelzung vietnamesischer Musik mit westlicher Popmusik Mit der Veröffentlichung von Saigon Supersound Vol. 1 im Mai 2017 wird die Geschichte dieser fast unbekannten Musik zum ersten Mal neu aufgelegt. Einige Stücke werden zum allerersten Mal wiederveröffentlicht, oder überhaupt auf Vinyl veröffentlicht seit sie ursprünglich auf R2R-Tonband oder 7" Vinyl veröffentlicht wurden. ??

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What started as an idea in 2012 became reality with the release of SAIGON SUPERSOUND Vol.1, compiled by Jan Hagenkötter. A compilation about the story of a musical era in Vietnam that was almost lost, made of tracks from 1965 to 1975, the so-called "Golden Music" period in the south of Vietnam, where - under difficult circumstances - a lively pop culture had developed. This period is characterized by the fusion of Vietnamese music with western pop music. With the release of Saigon Supersound Vol. 1 in May 2017 the story of this nearly unknown music will be reissued for the first time. The compilation includes some tunes reissued for the very first time since they´ve been released originally. Some tunes even for the very first time on Vinyl since they ?ve been released originaly on reel 2 reel tape only.


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Artikel und Features in FAZ / SZ / MINT Special (9 Seiten) / TAZ / JAZZTHING / u.a.
Radio Specials/Interview: WDR "Cosmo" / SWR2 "Talking Music" u.a.

TRACKLISTS:

A1. Tình Ta Nhu Lua Ðom Hoa - Carol Kim
A2. Song Cho Nhau - Hùng Cung & Mai Le Huyen
A3. Mong Ve Quê - Duy Quang & Thái Hi.n
A4. N.u Mình Còn Yêu Nhau - Thanh Vu

B1. Lý Luan Tình Yêu - Connie Kim
B2. Ph. Ðêm - Hòa t.u
B3. Mùa Xuân G.i Em - Phu.ng Mai
B4. Di.m Xua - Khánh Ly
B5. Can Nhà Ngo.i Ô - Kim Loan

C1. Ðoàn Ngu.i L. Th. - Thanh Thuý & Van Thanh & Hoàng Liêm & Thanh Mai
C2. Ðêm Cu.i Cùng - Ki.u Oanh
C3. Hát M.ng Xuân - Thanh Lan, Châu Hà & Thanh Mai
C4. Có Ai Trên Ð.i Mà Không Yêu - Mai L. Huy.n

D1. Ch.n M.t G.i Vàng - Vân Son & Thùy Dung
D2. Mùa G.t M.i - Hoàng Oanh
D3. Tình Ðêm Liên Hoan - Thanh Lan
D4. Vòng Tay Gi. Tr.n Ân Tình - Phuong Dung
D5. 7 câu v.ng c. chúc T.t - Ng.c Giàu
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Territories: WORLD minus FR
- 2LP
- OBI
- Gatefold
- Printed Inner-sleves

GENRE/S:

World / Asian / Funk / Rock / Nhac Vang / Reissue

SHORT INFO:

Saigon Supersound wird fortgesetzt um weitere interessante Melodien aus einer musikalischen Ära zu präsentieren, die lange Zeit im Dunkeln lag. Nach dem interntional gut aufgenommenen Release von Volume 1 freuen wir uns sehr, tiefer zu diggen und interessante Musik einer kurzen, aber bedeutenden Periode in der Geschichte Vietnams zu teilen.

Diesmal beschränkt sich die Auswahl der Titel auf die Zeit zwischen 1964 - 1975, das sogenannte "Goldene Zeitalter", in dem es im Süden Vietnams unter schwierigen Umständen eine lebendige Popkultur gab.

Für uns ist diese Geschichte mit Vol. 1 noch nicht zu Ende erzählt. Einige musikalische Facetten sind noch nicht beleuchtet, auch aus Mangel an qualitativ, geeignetem Ausgangsmaterial zur Aufarbeitung/Restaurierung. In der Zwischenzeit und vor allem durch die große Resonanz, die wir mit Vol. 1 in Vietnam erhalten haben (wir konnten zur Veröffentlichung Shows in den drei größten Städten Vietnams organisieren) und auch auf Festivals, die wir in London und Paris gespielt haben, haben sich neue Türen geöffnet und uns die Möglichkeit gegeben, Vol. 2 so zu gestalten, wie wir es uns wünschen.

VITAL SALES POINTS:

Erneut Features in FAZ / TAZ u.a.
- In der Auswahl für "Deutsche Schallplattenkritik" 2018


TRACKLISTS:

A1. Sai Gon - Carol Kim
A2. Khi Tinh Yeu Ðên - Son Ca
A3. Co Tay Ðen - Van Son
A4. Loan Mãt Nhung - Elvis Phýõng
B1. Con Gai Cua Me - Thanh Tuyên
B2. Trang Mõ Ben Suôi - Thanh Thuy
B3. Khuc Hat An Tinh - Phuong Dung
B4. Sang Rýng - Thanh Lan
C1. Thon Trang Mõ H.i Trang Tron - Son
C2. Xin Lê Cuõi Em - Tuy Phuõng
C3. Funky Do – Champagne
C4. Tai Anh Hay Tai Em - Hùng Cýõng & Mai L. Huyên
C5. Tup Lêu L. Týõng - Connie Kim
D1. Ðuõng Len Non - Truõng Hai
D2. Nhõ Minh Anh Thoi - Mai L. Huyên
D3. Mýng Nãng Xuan Vê - L. Thu
D4. Nhýng Ðôi Hoa Sim - Phuong Dung
D5. Lo Tho To Liêu - Kích Ð.ng Nhac More

Territories: WORLD minus FR


LP Gatefold with two printed Inner sleeves incl. liner-notes and lyrics

GENRE/S:

Rock / Funk / Soul / Asian / World


SHORT INFO:


ENGLISH
Ho Chi Minh City based band, Saigon Soul Revival has been bringing alternative pre 1975 music from Saigon back to the stage since 2016 with their live performances. Honouring the original composers, singers and the golden era from which this music (Nh?c Vàng) came while applying new arrangements and interpretations of old Vietnamese songs. With tight grooves, psychedelic textures and a powerful unique sound, SSR has performed countless shows at a variety of venues across Vietnam. In 2017 they also took part in the nationally known "Ban Nh?c Vi?t" (known in the west as "The Band") TV format and and accompanied live the two release tours to the Saigon Supersound Compilation releases.

With support from *British Council's FAMLAB Fund initiative they started to create own compositions in the same vein for their debut album "H?a Âm X?a" that was produce by Jan Hagenkötter and released in 2019 on the Saigon Supersound Imprint. The album was recorded in Vietnam with additional guests like the famous (pre 1975) Vietnamese singer Mai L? Huy?n and the current popular Saigonese rapper "Blacka" (2022 finalist of Vietnam's most successful
TV show "Rap Vi?t") in order to combine the old sound with the new sound of Saigon. Some compositions include traditional Vietnamese instruments like the ?àn Nguy?t or the ?àn tranh & ?àn b?u which is played by famous traditionally-trained musician Th? H?i Ph??ng on the album. This fusion distinguishes it from the original recordings of the 60s and 70s and has resulted in a unique and contemporary sound. Their debut album "Hoa Am Xua" gained international success. Among many other media features It was nominated for the SONGLINES MUSIC AWARDS 2021 in the UK ! and received massive radio airplay and rotations on Radio FIP in France.

All members of the band are of Vietnamese background or have a strong connection to its culture and heritage through loved ones and their time spent in the country. Their music focuses on compositions that fuse Vietnamese lyrics and sounds with influences of western rock, soul, bolero, tango and other popular genres of this time period, most of which was banned after the war. This project strives to revive this beautiful musical heritage of Vietnam which represents an important cultural bridge between east and west.

Video LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLT4gwBLvk

DEUTSCH
Die in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt ansässige Band Saigon Soul Revival bringt seit 2016 mit ihren Live-Auftritten die alternative Musik aus Saigon vor 1975 zurück auf die Bühne. Sie ehren die ursprünglichen Komponisten, Sänger und die goldene Ära, aus der diese Musik (Nh?c Vàng) stammt, während sie neue Arrangements und Interpretationen alter vietnamesischer Lieder verwenden. Mit knackigen Grooves, psychedelischen Texturen und einem kraftvollen, einzigartigen Sound hat SSR unzählige Auftritte an verschiedenen Veranstaltungsorten in ganz Vietnam absolviert. Im Jahr 2017 nahmen sie auch an dem landesweit bekannten TV-Format "Ban Nh?c Vi?t" (im Westen als "The Band" bekannt) teil und begleiteten live die beiden Release-Touren zu den Saigon Supersound Compilation-Veröffentlichungen.

Mit Unterstützung der *British Council's FAMLAB Fund Initiative begannen sie, eigene Kompositionen in der gleichen Art und Weise für ihr Debütalbum "H?a Âm X?a" zu kreieren, das von Jan Hagenkötter produziert und 2019 auf dem Saigon Supersound Imprint veröffentlicht wurde. Das Album wurde in Vietnam aufgenommen, mit zusätzlichen Gästen wie der berühmten (vor 1975) vietnamesischen Sängerin Mai L? Huy?n und dem aktuell sehr populären saigonesischen Rapper "Blacka" (2022 Finalist von Vietnams erfolgreichster
TV-Show "Rap Vi?t"), um den alten Sound mit dem neuen Sound von Saigon zu verbinden. Einige Kompositionen enthalten traditionelle vietnamesische Instrumente wie die ?àn Nguy?t oder die ?àn Tranh & ?àn B?u, die von demr berühmten, traditionell ausgebildeten Musiker Th? H?i Ph??ng auf dem Album gespielt wird. Diese Fusion unterscheidet es von den Originalaufnahmen der 60er und 70er Jahre und hat zu einem einzigartigen und zeitgenössischen Sound geführt. Ihr Debütalbum "Hoa Am Xua" ist ein internationaler Erfolg. Neben vielen anderen Medienberichten wurde es für die SONGLINES MUSIC AWARDS 2021 in Großbritannien nominiert und erhielt massives Radio Airplay u.a, von Iggy Pop in seiner BBC Radio Show sowie Rotationen auf Radio FIP in Frankreich.

Alle Mitglieder der Band sind vietnamesischer Herkunft oder haben eine starke Verbindung zur vietnamesischen Kultur und zum vietnamesischen Erbe durch geliebte Menschen und ihre im Land verbrachte Zeit. Ihre Musik konzentriert sich auf Kompositionen, die vietnamesische Texte und Klänge mit Einflüssen von westlichem Rock, Soul, Bolero, Tango und anderen populären Genres dieser Zeit verbinden, von denen die meisten nach dem Krieg verboten wurden. Mit diesem Projekt soll dieses wunderschöne musikalische Erbe Vietnams, das eine wichtige kulturelle Brücke zwischen Ost und West darstellt, wiederbelebt werden.

Video LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLT4gwBLvk

TRACKLISTS:

A1. Ði Xa Ð.i Nhau
A2. Hào Hoa feat. Blacka
A3. Nhân Gian T.nh
A4. V. M.ng ân T.nh Nguy.n feat. Th. H.i Phý.ng
A5. T.nh Nh.c S.
A6. S.u Ðông
B1. Giây Phút Cu.i Tu.n feat. Mai L. Huy.n
B2. Nào Ta Cùng Hát
B3. Bài Ca Ngông
B4. Chu.n Chu.n Xanh (H.a t.u) feat. Nguy.n Th. H.i Phý.ng
B5. Ch.n T.nh Xýa


VITAL SALES POINTS:

…The five-piece band's background is as diverse as can be, but they all share the same fascination with this era of Vietnamese music. Two tracks, 'Vo Mong An Tinh' and 'Chuon Chuon Xanh,' employ the unique sounds of Vietnamese instruments performed by traditional musician Nguyen Thi Hai Phuong. Phuong lent her expertise on ?àn tranh, ?àn nguy??t and ?àn bâ?u to the record, creating a fascinating mix of influences across eras and genres. (SAIGONEER - Vietnam 11/2019)


Le label allemand sort le 8 novembre H?a Âm X?a, le premier album de Saigon Soul Revival, quintet d'Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville qui se réapproprie avec modernité la richesse de cet "âge d'or" musical. (- several titles are on rotation) (RADIO FIP - France 11/2019 )

S? h?u 5 thành viên ?a qu?c t?ch, ??n t? nhi?u n?i trên th? gi?i, Saigon Soul Revival gây ?n t??ng m?nh cho khán gi? b?i nét ??c ?áo không tr?n l?n. Càng ??c bi?t h?n, khi nhóm quy?t ??nh ch?n cover các ca khúc vang bóng m?t th?i, và sáng tác nhi?u tác ph?m m?i có giai ?i?u, tinh th?n ?úng v?i ch?t nh?c th?i ?i?m n?m 60, 70 c?a th? k? tr??c. (Tu?i Tr? - Vietnam 12/2020)


…The tight, polished arrangements suggest a band that have earned their stripes on the live circuit. Managing to avoid the "tribute" band" trap, they do a good job of breathing new life into stifled vein of Vietnamese pop culture / TOP OF THE WORLD REVIEW (as best asian album in April 2020) (SONGLINES - United Kingdom 04/2020)


…Saigon Soul Revival widmet sich also dem goldenen Zeitalter, alles in allem mit Gewinn, es belebt nicht nur wieder, sondern gestaltet auch neu.
Darum sind neben Interpretationen auch eigene Stücke vorhanden…Damit treffen sie die goldene Mitte: Erhalt des Alten und bestenfalls eine Motivation für junge Vietnamesen, weniger Plastik zu konsumieren.
(TAGESZEITUNG/TAZ - Germany 01/2020)
...su vocalista no trata de imitar a las féminas anglos sino que su deje y forma se encuentra más enraizada con la delicadeza y sensibilidad asiática…(ARCADIA NEGRA - Spain 11/2019)





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GENRE/S:

Rock / Funk / Soul / Asian / World


SHORT INFO:


ENGLISH
Ho Chi Minh City based band, Saigon Soul Revival has been bringing alternative pre 1975 music from Saigon back to the stage since 2016 with their live performances. Honouring the original composers, singers and the golden era from which this music (Nh?c Vàng) came while applying new arrangements and interpretations of old Vietnamese songs. With tight grooves, psychedelic textures and a powerful unique sound, SSR has performed countless shows at a variety of venues across Vietnam. In 2017 they also took part in the nationally known "Ban Nh?c Vi?t" (known in the west as "The Band") TV format and and accompanied live the two release tours to the Saigon Supersound Compilation releases.

With support from *British Council's FAMLAB Fund initiative they started to create own compositions in the same vein for their debut album "H?a Âm X?a" that was produce by Jan Hagenkötter and released in 2019 on the Saigon Supersound Imprint. The album was recorded in Vietnam with additional guests like the famous (pre 1975) Vietnamese singer Mai L? Huy?n and the current popular Saigonese rapper "Blacka" (2022 finalist of Vietnam's most successful
TV show "Rap Vi?t") in order to combine the old sound with the new sound of Saigon. Some compositions include traditional Vietnamese instruments like the ?àn Nguy?t or the ?àn tranh & ?àn b?u which is played by famous traditionally-trained musician Th? H?i Ph??ng on the album. This fusion distinguishes it from the original recordings of the 60s and 70s and has resulted in a unique and contemporary sound. Their debut album "Hoa Am Xua" gained international success. Among many other media features It was nominated for the SONGLINES MUSIC AWARDS 2021 in the UK ! and received massive radio airplay and rotations on Radio FIP in France.

All members of the band are of Vietnamese background or have a strong connection to its culture and heritage through loved ones and their time spent in the country. Their music focuses on compositions that fuse Vietnamese lyrics and sounds with influences of western rock, soul, bolero, tango and other popular genres of this time period, most of which was banned after the war. This project strives to revive this beautiful musical heritage of Vietnam which represents an important cultural bridge between east and west.

Video LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLT4gwBLvk

DEUTSCH
Die in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt ansässige Band Saigon Soul Revival bringt seit 2016 mit ihren Live-Auftritten die alternative Musik aus Saigon vor 1975 zurück auf die Bühne. Sie ehren die ursprünglichen Komponisten, Sänger und die goldene Ära, aus der diese Musik (Nh?c Vàng) stammt, während sie neue Arrangements und Interpretationen alter vietnamesischer Lieder verwenden. Mit knackigen Grooves, psychedelischen Texturen und einem kraftvollen, einzigartigen Sound hat SSR unzählige Auftritte an verschiedenen Veranstaltungsorten in ganz Vietnam absolviert. Im Jahr 2017 nahmen sie auch an dem landesweit bekannten TV-Format "Ban Nh?c Vi?t" (im Westen als "The Band" bekannt) teil und begleiteten live die beiden Release-Touren zu den Saigon Supersound Compilation-Veröffentlichungen.

Mit Unterstützung der *British Council's FAMLAB Fund Initiative begannen sie, eigene Kompositionen in der gleichen Art und Weise für ihr Debütalbum "H?a Âm X?a" zu kreieren, das von Jan Hagenkötter produziert und 2019 auf dem Saigon Supersound Imprint veröffentlicht wurde. Das Album wurde in Vietnam aufgenommen, mit zusätzlichen Gästen wie der berühmten (vor 1975) vietnamesischen Sängerin Mai L? Huy?n und dem aktuell sehr populären saigonesischen Rapper "Blacka" (2022 Finalist von Vietnams erfolgreichster
TV-Show "Rap Vi?t"), um den alten Sound mit dem neuen Sound von Saigon zu verbinden. Einige Kompositionen enthalten traditionelle vietnamesische Instrumente wie die ?àn Nguy?t oder die ?àn Tranh & ?àn B?u, die von demr berühmten, traditionell ausgebildeten Musiker Th? H?i Ph??ng auf dem Album gespielt wird. Diese Fusion unterscheidet es von den Originalaufnahmen der 60er und 70er Jahre und hat zu einem einzigartigen und zeitgenössischen Sound geführt. Ihr Debütalbum "Hoa Am Xua" ist ein internationaler Erfolg. Neben vielen anderen Medienberichten wurde es für die SONGLINES MUSIC AWARDS 2021 in Großbritannien nominiert und erhielt massives Radio Airplay u.a, von Iggy Pop in seiner BBC Radio Show sowie Rotationen auf Radio FIP in Frankreich.

Alle Mitglieder der Band sind vietnamesischer Herkunft oder haben eine starke Verbindung zur vietnamesischen Kultur und zum vietnamesischen Erbe durch geliebte Menschen und ihre im Land verbrachte Zeit. Ihre Musik konzentriert sich auf Kompositionen, die vietnamesische Texte und Klänge mit Einflüssen von westlichem Rock, Soul, Bolero, Tango und anderen populären Genres dieser Zeit verbinden, von denen die meisten nach dem Krieg verboten wurden. Mit diesem Projekt soll dieses wunderschöne musikalische Erbe Vietnams, das eine wichtige kulturelle Brücke zwischen Ost und West darstellt, wiederbelebt werden.

Video LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLT4gwBLvk

TRACKLISTS:

A1 Ði Xa Ðei Nhau
A2 Hào Hoa feate Blacka
A3 Nhân Gian Tenh
A4 Ve Meng ân Tenh Nguyen feate The Hei Phýeng
A5 Tenh Nhec Se
A6 Seu Ðông
B1 Giây Phút Cuei Tuen feate Mai Le Huyen
B2 Nào Ta Cùng Hát
B3 Bài Ca Ngông
B4 Chuen Chuen Xanh (Hea teu) feate Nguyen The Hei Phýeng
B5 Chen Tenh Xýa



VITAL SALES POINTS:

…The five-piece band's background is as diverse as can be, but they all share the same fascination with this era of Vietnamese music. Two tracks, 'Vo Mong An Tinh' and 'Chuon Chuon Xanh,' employ the unique sounds of Vietnamese instruments performed by traditional musician Nguyen Thi Hai Phuong. Phuong lent her expertise on ?àn tranh, ?àn nguy??t and ?àn bâ?u to the record, creating a fascinating mix of influences across eras and genres. (SAIGONEER - Vietnam 11/2019)


Le label allemand sort le 8 novembre H?a Âm X?a, le premier album de Saigon Soul Revival, quintet d'Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville qui se réapproprie avec modernité la richesse de cet "âge d'or" musical. (- several titles are on rotation) (RADIO FIP - France 11/2019 )

S? h?u 5 thành viên ?a qu?c t?ch, ??n t? nhi?u n?i trên th? gi?i, Saigon Soul Revival gây ?n t??ng m?nh cho khán gi? b?i nét ??c ?áo không tr?n l?n. Càng ??c bi?t h?n, khi nhóm quy?t ??nh ch?n cover các ca khúc vang bóng m?t th?i, và sáng tác nhi?u tác ph?m m?i có giai ?i?u, tinh th?n ?úng v?i ch?t nh?c th?i ?i?m n?m 60, 70 c?a th? k? tr??c. (Tu?i Tr? - Vietnam 12/2020)


…The tight, polished arrangements suggest a band that have earned their stripes on the live circuit. Managing to avoid the "tribute" band" trap, they do a good job of breathing new life into stifled vein of Vietnamese pop culture / TOP OF THE WORLD REVIEW (as best asian album in April 2020) (SONGLINES - United Kingdom 04/2020)


…Saigon Soul Revival widmet sich also dem goldenen Zeitalter, alles in allem mit Gewinn, es belebt nicht nur wieder, sondern gestaltet auch neu.
Darum sind neben Interpretationen auch eigene Stücke vorhanden…Damit treffen sie die goldene Mitte: Erhalt des Alten und bestenfalls eine Motivation für junge Vietnamesen, weniger Plastik zu konsumieren.
(TAGESZEITUNG/TAZ - Germany 01/2020)
...su vocalista no trata de imitar a las féminas anglos sino que su deje y forma se encuentra más enraizada con la delicadeza y sensibilidad asiática…(ARCADIA NEGRA - Spain 11/2019)





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- Thick 350 g Picture sleeve
- Includes 30x30 cm insert (250 g)
- Previously unissued full length album
- Fully licenced, recorded in 1985-1988

The story about the lost recordings of Ghia continues: Following the recently released "At The Hilton" single, our label is extremely proud to present "Curaçao Blue", the band's first full-length album. And it is simply mind-blowing, to say the least! The LP features 10 unreleased tracks in a similar Balearic vein as featured on the single.

Incredibly, it was only just a few months ago that these tracks were rediscovered on some old tapes by band members Lutz Boberg and Frank Simon. Could anyone imagine that two physics students from a small German town could create such beautiful, thrilling music in their home studio? Although the technical aspects in the creation of the band's earliest tracks may have been straightforward, the outcome is high-quality, creative, modern jazz-funk, with one step in the electro-funk genre due to the use of a drum machine and synthesizer basslines. The album features mostly 4-track recordings, based mainly on the musicians' weapons of choice: a DX21 keyboard (later updated to the legendary DX7) and a guitar. Many things had to be done live in just one take, though the artists were unafraid of using overdubbing techniques to weave their instrumental journeys. The DIY aesthetics just add more beauty and uniqueness to the songs and compositions, and the result is an extremely harmonic work of undeniable musicality. Ghia delivers Balearic jazz-funk at its finest.

Though the music was recorded in Germany, Ghia had a true relationship with the Balearic region and effortlessly applied the vibes to their compositions. As a side note, one track on their earliest demo tapes was called "3 AM at Moëf Gaga" and we did not know what it meant. The band explained that Moëf Gaga is a nightclub on the Spanish coast that is actually still active today. Boberg and Simon, the two original band members of Ghia, visited the club in the early 80s and spent their holiday close to the sea. With their music, they intended to create a summery vibe, capturing a relaxed and soulful view of the seashore, likely with a drink in hand... Perhaps a Blue Curaçao?

The album starts with a revised version of the title track. The drums in this take are much punchier, and we thought that it would fit just perfectly as an introduction. We continue with the already classic "Down At The Hilton" that was featured on the single, but like us, we are sure you could happily listen to this track on repeat. Next up, "Jump In The Water" opens with a catchy delayed melody, which develops into another perfect jazz-funk piece with an extended guitar solo. Another remarkable song might be "In The Fast Lane". As the name suggests, an uptempo number, now with an electro-funk beat combined with speedy keyboard solos that almost sounds like a marimba. On side B, the album keeps the relaxed seaside vibes flowing. To round out the album, we are treated to two pieces that originated after the return home, with memories of the Spanish coast fading but still lingering, likely recorded between 1986 and 1988. Both are instrumental versions of songs to be used later for studio sessions with their new band member, singer Lisa Ohm (who you will hear on Ghia's next album!). On "Crystal Silence In Dub" we get a perfect downtempo groove, positively reminding us of the sound of the 1980s UK funk scene. The album ends with "Keep Your House In Disorder", here as an earlier, rougher, and funkier take than on the final vocal version, which could be found on the B-side of the "What's Your Voodoo" single.

We hope you love this album as much as we do! Nothing like this has yet been released out of Germany. We hardly can recall any privately produced, home recorded jazz-funk/fusion from the 1980s as free, creative, and uninhibited as Ghia's Curaçao Blue. The playful and creative approach, coupled with those nostalgic tones should make this LP an essential pick for any record collection, whether you are a DJ, a home listener, a music lover, or a modern jazz-funk/synth-funk aficionado.

The album is out now on The Outer Edge, the new label by record collector DJ Scientist, aka John Raincoatman. We also want to thank Frederic Stader for his awesome work mastering and sound restoration of the material on this LP.

TRACKLISTS:

Side A
Curaçao Blue (Introlution)
Down At The Hilton
Jump In The Water
Close To You ('85 Interlude)
In The Fast Lane

Side B
Flowerplay
Curaçao Blue
Through The Window
Crystal Silence In Dub
Keep Your House In Disorder (Instrumental)



Genre: Modern Jazz Funk / Balearic Jazz Funk / Synth Funk / Melodic Electro Jazz Funk More

Territories: World excl. UK + North America

Format: digipack CD, silver pantone

Tracklisting CD:
1. Under Sea Disturbances 08:07
2. Digital Tsunami 06:21
3. Soul Of The Sea 04:31
4. Song Of The Green Whale 04:59
5. Dr. Blowfins’ Black Storm Stabilizing Spheres 06:12
6. The Plankton Organization 06:08
7. Mission To Ociya Syndor And Back 05:13
8. Aquatic Cataclysm 05:18
9. Lake Haze 05:17
10. Birth Of New Life 06:22

Release Info:
Tresor Records is proud to announce forthcoming special editions of its entire catalogue of Drexciya and
related projects. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the
Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rightsholders, their families, and the label have
commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of
Tresor's Drexciya-related catalogue. These editions will be released sequentially, bimonthly, starting
early-September 2022.
Three months after the album release of 'Neptune's Lair' in September and its companion 12"
'Hydro Doorways' being released in October, 'Harnessed The Storm' and 'Digital Tsunami' are coming on
November 11. They are followed by the release of Transllusion in February 2023. The series is completed by the
long-awaited re-release of 'Shifted Phases – The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope'
- at the end of March.
These records, individually and as a catalogue, represent some of the most crucial moments in the Tresor
label history, with the sound and mythic world of Drexciya undoubtedly inspiring generations. More

Territories: World excl. UK + North America

FORMAT 2x12" 180g vinyl, silver pantone, UV spot varnish

Tracklist 2LP
A1 Digital Tsunami 06:20
A2 Soul Of The Sea 04:30
B1 Dr. Blowfins’ Black Storm Stabilizing Spheres 06:11
B2 Song Of The Green Whale 04:56
C1 Lake Haze 05:16
C2 Mission To Ociya Syndor And Back 05:12
D Under Sea Disturbances 08:06

Release Info:
Tresor Records is proud to announce forthcoming special editions of its entire catalogue of Drexciya and
related projects. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the
Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rightsholders, their families, and the label have
commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of
Tresor's Drexciya-related catalogue. These editions will be released sequentially, bimonthly, starting
early-September 2022.
Three months after the album release of 'Neptune's Lair' in September and its companion 12"
'Hydro Doorways' being released in October, 'Harnessed The Storm' and 'Digital Tsunami' are coming on
November 11. They are followed by the release of Transllusion in February 2023. The series is completed by the
long-awaited re-release of 'Shifted Phases – The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope'
- at the end of March.
These records, individually and as a catalogue, represent some of the most crucial moments in the Tresor
label history, with the sound and mythic world of Drexciya undoubtedly inspiring generations. More

Territories: World excl. UK + North America

FORMAT 12" 180g vinyl

TRACKLIST
A1. Digital Tsunami 06:19
A2. Aquatic Cataclysm 05:17
B1. The Plankton Organization 06:06
B2. Birth Of New Life 06:17

RELEASE INFO:
Tresor Records is proud to announce forthcoming special editions of its entire catalogue of Drexciya and related
projects. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion
and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rightsholders, their families, and the label have commissioned
Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of Tresor's
Drexciya-related catalogue. These editions will be released sequentially, bimonthly, starting early-September 2022.
Three months after the album release of 'Neptune's Lair' in September and its companion 12" 'Hydro Doorways'
being released in October, 'Harnessed The Storm' and 'Digital Tsunami' are coming on November 11. They are
followed by the release of Transllusion in February 2023. The series is completed by the long-awaited re-release of
'Shifted Phases – The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope' - at the end of March.
These records, individually and as a catalogue, represent some of the most crucial moments in the Tresor label
history, with the sound and mythic world of Drexciya undoubtedly inspiring generations. More

Repress

180g 12" Vinyl /Full Neon Sleeve + Download Code.
Dave Sumner returns with a new Function record, entitled Awakening From The Illusory Self. Released as a 12" EP on Tresor Records, it follows on from Existenz, his last full-length album released in November 2019.
Packed in a beautiful sleeve printed with 3 x special Neon colors, Tresor.320 kicks off with the fast techno of Misinterpretations Of Reality', it features a minimal acid-infected crescendo and throbbing pulse. As ever with Function, this idiosyncratic rhythmic work finds a place out on a limb from contemporaries, shapeshifting impulses that infer and guide this raw drum sound.
The second track 'An Optical Illusion Of Consciousness', Function moves towards a different direction, bringing more elements to the mix. It recalls the Dutch 90s techno sound with its melodic blurred synth leanings stretching and morphing across saturated, playful drums and hefty low-end movement. Its bind is perfectly weighted, a phenomenal track that nurtures its inner dancefloor soul as melodies fade away and tighter patterns take precedence.
'Spiritually Unconscious' points to all the trademarks of Function's celebrated sound. A smooth 909 groove underpins bubbling atmospheres and hallucinatory effects, and a nod to the Motor City vision with its fleeting synth strings.
At the core is potent, repetitive simplicity, its beat playing with weight and dynamics but never at risk of being lost. Closing track 'Compulsive Thinking - Repetitive and Pointless' kicks a juddering swagger, finding public addressed system emissions drenched in reverb resonating above bleak analogic synth drones. It haunts and creeps towards a thunderous apex, finding its depth in sparse drum movements.
An enduring fixture in the techno and electronic music landscape, Sumner continues to step through new terrains, reinforcing his spike and vision. Awakening From The Illusory Self finds him as ever delivering the goods in elating moments of pure club heft.
Tresor.320 releases April 16th on 12" and digital.
TRACKLIST:
A1. Misinterpretations Of Reality 6.19
A2. An Optical Illusion Of Consciousness 6.35
B1. Spiritually Unconscious (Dissolve) 9.21
B2. Compulsive Thinking: Repetitive and Pointless 6.46
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Bristol has always been a hotbed of innovative producers within the UK's sound system and rave cul-tures. One of these music makers is without a doubt Lamont, whose massive hit Titanic came out on Loefah's influential Swamp 81 imprint in 2016. With a style sitting in between classic 808-driven electro and instrumental grime, his productions are authentic dancefloor slayers: minimal and effective, yet pro-duced with musical sophistication. Just listen to his drum programming and feel the funk. Lamont's latest 4-track EP on Version is his second release on the label. These are certified bangers, rinsed by the likes of Loefah. All tracks are 130 bpm, sub-heavy and fun to mix - translating the darker side of early dubstep into a unique, contemporary club sound. This one from Lamont and Version is not just deadly DJ ammuni-tion. It is also a testament to the label's longtime bonds with the UK's cutting edge. Out on vinyl and digital.

Tracklist:

A1. Cut It Back
A2. I Wasn't Even There
B1. It's What It Izzz
B2. Tailbone
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DLP: 350gsm Sleeve, Sticker

Tracklisting DLP:
A1. Aranjuez
A2. Galaxy Deca
A3. Kiso Bushi
A4. Iyano Kobiki
A5. Kusatsu Bushi
B1. Nanbu Ushioi Uta
B2. Chakkiri Bushi
B3. Ryotsu Jinku
B4. Hyamikao
C1. Cantata no.147
C2. Kokiriko Bushi
C3. Fortunate 1mark
C4. Otemoyan
D1. Yosawya San
D2. Hietsuki Bushi
D3. Monkey Turn
D4. Kyoteidaiski
D5. Plum Song

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WRWTFWW Records is ecstatic to announce the first ever best-of compilation of Soichi Terada’s amazing project OMODAKA. including 14 songs never released on vinyl before. The 18-track ZENTSUU: Collected Works 2001-2019 album is available on double LP in heavy 350gsm sleeve with printed inner sleeves, as well as in CD and digital formats.

Initiated in 2001 while trying to create a "boat racing song", the OMODAKA project features sublime music by veteran electronic/house/jungle/video game music producer/DJ Soichi Terada and the vocals of Japanese folk min'yo & enka singer Akiko Kanazawa for a never-heard-before colorful blend of retro game 8bit/chiptune sounds and traditional Japanese music with wet electro rhythms, joyful 90s house grooves, and slick downtempo vibes. Feel-good, sexy, and fun, Terada’s project brings forth one of the most unique sounds in recent memory. The smile-inducing sonic adventure is packed with irresistible hits and a good dose of dancefloor-ready gems: a well deserved delivery of good times for 2022 and beyond!

Tokyo born genius Soichi Terada has built an impressive career in different music genres. He co-founded respected label Far East Recording with Shinchiro Yokata, composed the soundtrack for cult video game series Ape Escape, released tons of amazing house music records (some included in the beautiful compilation Sounds from the Far East released by Rush Hour in 2015), and has been a celebrated world-touring DJ.


Points of interests

- For fans of folktonica, house, dance, Japanese traditional music meets video game music, chiptune, Soichi Terada, Far East Recording, good times, good times, and more good times.

- First ever vinyl release of collected works from Soichi Terada’s project OMODAKA!



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WORLDWIDE

CD: Digipack, Sticker

Tracklisting CD
01. Aranjuez
02. Galaxy Deca
03. Kiso Bushi
04. Iyano Kobiki
05. Kusatsu Bushi
06. Nanbu Ushioi Uta
07. Chakkiri Bushi
08. Ryotsu Jinku
09. Hyamikao
10. Cantata no.147
11. Kokiriko Bushi
12. Fortunate 1mark
13. Otemoyan
14. Yosawya San
15. Hietsuki Bushi
16. Monkey Turn
17. Kyoteidaiski
18. Plum Song

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WRWTFWW Records is ecstatic to announce the first ever best-of compilation of Soichi Terada’s amazing project OMODAKA. including 14 songs never released on vinyl before. The 18-track ZENTSUU: Collected Works 2001-2019 album is available on double LP in heavy 350gsm sleeve with printed inner sleeves, as well as in CD and digital formats.

Initiated in 2001 while trying to create a "boat racing song", the OMODAKA project features sublime music by veteran electronic/house/jungle/video game music producer/DJ Soichi Terada and the vocals of Japanese folk min'yo & enka singer Akiko Kanazawa for a never-heard-before colorful blend of retro game 8bit/chiptune sounds and traditional Japanese music with wet electro rhythms, joyful 90s house grooves, and slick downtempo vibes. Feel-good, sexy, and fun, Terada’s project brings forth one of the most unique sounds in recent memory. The smile-inducing sonic adventure is packed with irresistible hits and a good dose of dancefloor-ready gems: a well deserved delivery of good times for 2022 and beyond!

Tokyo born genius Soichi Terada has built an impressive career in different music genres. He co-founded respected label Far East Recording with Shinchiro Yokata, composed the soundtrack for cult video game series Ape Escape, released tons of amazing house music records (some included in the beautiful compilation Sounds from the Far East released by Rush Hour in 2015), and has been a celebrated world-touring DJ.


Points of interests

- For fans of folktonica, house, dance, Japanese traditional music meets video game music, chiptune, Soichi Terada, Far East Recording, good times, good times, and more good times.

- First ever vinyl release of collected works from Soichi Terada’s project OMODAKA!



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[2LP Gatefold]

“Music that came from some intimate and deeply ethereal place that effortlessly bridged the gap between the dance
floor and the home-listening environment. Pulshar is a unique dub-heavy, soulful, psychedelic journey.”
Vladimir Ivkovic.
“A crossover sound that the deepest electronic heads and mainstream music fans can equally enjoy. The energy in their
music is universal, and moves all who are exposed to it. One of my all-time favorites”
Rod Modell ( Deepchord / Echospace )


GENRE/S: Dub, Electronica, Deep House

TRACKLISTS:
A1 Down by the river
A2 Mr. Money man
A3 Maerdream
A4 ACT 2
B1 Better than tears
B2 S.T.A.R.S
B3 Da Creator
B4 Montparnasse 2am
B5 ACT 1
C1 Jungle fever
C2 Nospheratu
C3 Sacrifice of love
C4 Dream when it's wrong
D1 The price you pay
D2 California state of mind
D3 Stepping stones
D4 Marathon man

SHORT INFO:
A double vinyl compilation that perfectly captures Pulshar’s sound: an elegant mixture of Dub, Techno, R&B &
Ambient. Contains 12 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl.
This release was certainly not meant to be a 'Best of' compilation but it is a collection of special moments that Sergio and
Pablo wanted to capture and share on one definitive release.This is an opportunity to look back on Pulshar's career in a
retrospective and reflect about how their background and influences have led to the complete sound of the act.
UMBRA / LUX (title based on their production technique that naturally blends dark and light aesthetics) contains 17
tracks that traverse the gamut of their sound with an impeccable level of quality.

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2022 Repress Edition, Beautifully Designed 2LP

When Recondite, AKA Lorenz Brunner, emerged with his debut LP for Acid Test (2012's On Acid), we were still learning about the German producer's inward-
looking dance floor sound. A few years later, his sinewy jams have proved near universal -- like an underground Zelig, he's fit perfectly everywhere from Rødhåd's Dystopian to Ghostly International and Innervisions. Acid Test also allows Recondite the chance to indulge his more outré tendencies and a welcomed return it is.

Tracklist:
A1 Compel , A2 Pass Up , A3 Sequenze feat. Tale Of Us
B1 Subdue , B2 Pages , B3 Poised
C1 Ley , C2 Undulate , D1 Nifty , D2 Placid More

Tracklist:

A1 – Repeater
B1 – Nobody
B2 – Repeater (DJ Seinfeld remix)


Release Info:
Life and Death founder Manfredi Romano aka DJ Tennis debuts on Aus with ‘Repeater’ - here he delves deep into his own cosmos creating two cuts that are uniquely spacey whilst playful and powerful. DJ Seinfeld needs no introduction. His DJ Kicks mix and debut album for Ninja Tune have both been critically acclaimed. His ravey mix of 'Repeater' is a tension builder, his version simmers away for seven minutes patiently dropping metallic stabs and detroit fm synths licks. Manfredi’s career spans over two decades as agent, manager, promoter, label owner, dj and producer. His releases are few and far between so, it’s an honour for him to trust us with his art.





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Tracklist

A1 Circuit 1
A2 Circuit 2
A3 Circuit 15
A4 Circuit 16
B1 Circuit 4
B2 Circuit 8
B3 Circuit 7
B4 Circuit 18


Over the past decade, the mysterious, London-based artist Moiré has perfected a syrupy, addictive brand of dance music via labels like Actress's Werk Discs and illustrious imprints like Ghostly and Rush Hour. For most of this period, Moiré seemed pramarily concerned in creating alternative universe club tracks. The beats were hypnotic, if wonky. The pads were deep before they were refracted through an oblique filter. In a discography bearing a surfeit of leftfield high points, Circuits, Moiré's latest album for the Berlin-based Avenue 66 (Lowtec, John Frusciante, Joey Anderson) is a massive creative leap that fully breaks with the strictures of a "conventional" dance music.

While there are still nods to the low-slung, slow house style Moiré's perfected in the past ("Circuit 1"), as well as the looming shadow of hardcore ("Circuit 8), Moiré's style now billows into a liminal, cinematic zone that recalls the canonical SAW albums, BOC or even Seefeel's enduring, genre-free experiments. Rhythms come and go at all tempos, from Hauntological four-on-the-floor to flickering downtempo and ambient house approximations. But the emphasis lies with the melodies. From the queasy orchestral style of "Circuits 1" to the glacial, "end credits"-style synths that close out the album, these motifs bear an uncanny familiarity, as though they always existed. You recognize them, not from a previous listen, but rather, some half-remembered dream, or, perhaps, a previous lifetime.



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Special remarks : CD Digipack

Tracklist CD:
01. Dors-tu ? - 02. Regard en arrière - 03. Mélopée - 04. L’attente - 05. Elégie - 06. Prélude - 07.
La fille de la nuit - 08. Ni toi, ni moi - 09. Le beau jour - 10. Opaline - 11. Tant que mes yeux

Short Info:
On his fourth solo album, much as in Oh! (2020), the French composer, pianist and vocalist follows his
ongoing exploration of the crossroads between poetry and songs, piano and synth, old-time verses
and contemporary sounds. Inspired by the rhythms, effects and speech patterns of urban music, he
also delivers, with a warm and moving voice, the texts of three poetesses from the past.
Since 2013, Ezéchiel Pailhès has been crafting a unique French synth pop. On his first three albums,
he switched between songs inspired by poetry, instrumental ballads and electronica with hummed
choruses. This latest record is a collection of eleven new songs, two of which he wrote: "Opaline" and
"Ni toi, ni moi" (neither you nor me). The others are adaptations of poems written in the 16th, 18th and
19th centuries by French poetesses Louise Labé (1524-1566), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-
1859) and Renée Vivien (1877-1909).
Poetesses from the past...
From classical music to songs, poetry adaptation is an old French tradition. "My universe has always
embraced the musicality of this literary genre," the artist recalls. He actually started this project in 2017
with poems and sonnets by William Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda, Victor Hugo and above all Marceline
Desbordes-Valmore, who can be heard again on songs such as "Dors-tu?" (Are you sleeping?),
"Élégie" or "L'attente" (The wait). A figure of romanticism, the author left her mark on the early 19th
century through the quality of her texts and her formal inventions, particularly praised by Balzac, and
apparently a decisive influence on Verlaine and Baudelaire. "Marceline's poetry is very musical," says
Ezéchiel admiringly. "Her use of rhythm and repetition sounds great and takes on a new perspective
when set to music. In fact, she wrote some of her texts with singing in mind.”
“Ces longs secrets dont l'amour nous accuse,
Viens-tu les rompre en songe à mes genoux ?
Dors-tu, ma vie ! ou rêves-tu de moi ?”
“These long secrets for which love accuses us,
Do you come to my knees to break them in a dream?
Are you sleeping, my life! or do you dream of me”
(“Dors-tu ?”, after “Les pleurs” (the tears), 1833)
Besides her, we find the more famous, and rebellious, Renée Vivien, whose texts inspired three
songs, "Regard en arrière" (Looking backwards), "Mélopée" (Melopoeia) and "La fille de la nuit" (The
night girl). Sometimes nicknamed "Sapho 1900", this figure of lesbian culture and, more broadly, of
female genius, combined in her work the themes of desire, dreams, melancholy and the relationship
with nature.
“Ta forme est un éclair
Ton sourire est l’instant
Tu fuis, lorsque l’appel
T’implore, ô mon Désir !”
"Your shape is a spark of lightning
Your smile, the very moment
You flee, when the calling
Begs you, O my Desire!"
(After “Parle-moi, de ta voix pareille à l’eau courante” (Speak to me, with a voice like flowing waters)
and “Ta forme est un éclair” (Your shape is a spark of lightning), Renée Vivien, 1901)
Lastly, with "Tant que mes yeux" (As long as my eyes), Ezéchiel was inspired by a 1555 poem by
Renaissance poet Louise Labé, whose main topic explored female love, physical and spiritual desire,
and the torments and pains they generate.
" At the start of the project ", Ezéchiel continues, " I was interested in many poets, men and women,
past and present, before my selection was narrowed down to these three female authors. Their works,
often written in difficult or secret conditions, express a raging romanticism, a passionate soul, fuelled
by desperate and tormented love. I found it interesting, as a man coming from another world and time,
to face this otherness, to trade viewpoints. Obviously, I could loudly claim that the album was the
result of a concept, that it reflects today's world, and that it allows me to explore the notion of gender,
giving visibility to the work of a few women, while at the same time pairing these ancient texts with a
more modern and rhythmic music, and obviously, there is some truth in that. But more than anything, I
wanted to serve the text itself, to express the emotion and connection I felt with these works.”
Today's rhythms and prosody...
Ezéchiel Pailhès combines texts from French literature with electronic music, its effects and rhythms,
as well as a form of scansion that echoes rap, R&B or the current fusion between hip hop and pop,
which is part of our musical background and that of younger generations. "I wanted to cross-reference
texts from the beginning of the century with this type of music. I wanted to use today’s techniques to
tell the tale of different daily lives and experiences.
The album is thus marked by contemporary electronic orchestrations, in which he drops his favourite
instrument, the piano, and his digital collage technique to use more extensive synth melodies,
enhanced by drum machines, bringing a gentle and bright vibe to the romantic texts. Lastly, we can
hear slight digital tones of Auto-Tune, which Ezéchiel uses sparingly and inventively.

Beyond its sophistication, the term "melopoeia" means a "sung declamation", a "recitative song",
sometimes interpreted in a monotonous way. On this album, it could also refer to a sense of phrasing,
which does not come from rap, but rather from jazz, Ezéchiel's first love. " In the past, I tried to hide
my jazz culture, but it naturally came back on this new album, as can be heard, for instance, in Regard
en arrière.” With its verses anchored in our literary memory, the following track "Mélopée", perfectly
illustrates the album's vision. It manages to transcend eras, mixing past romanticism with a modern
prosody, fuelled by the nonchalance of hip hop and the warm chords of jazz.
“Qu’un hasard guide enfin mon désespoir tranquille
Vers l’eau d’une oasis ou les berges d’une île,
Où je puisse dormir, mon voyage accompli,
Dans la sécurité profonde de l’oubli”
"May chance guide my quiet sorrow, at last
To the water of an oasis, the shores of an island,
Where I may sleep, having traveled my way,
In the safe depths of oblivion".
(After “Sillages” (Trails), René Vivien, 1908) More

Special remarks : LP Vinyl incl. printed inner sleeve

Tracklist LP:
A1. Dors-tu ? - A2. Regard en arrière - A3. Mélopée - A4. L’attente - A5. Elégie - B1. Prélude -
B2. La fille de la nuit - B3. Ni toi, ni moi - B4. Le beau jour - B5. Opaline - B6. Tant que mes yeux

Short Info:
On his fourth solo album, much as in Oh! (2020), the French composer, pianist and vocalist follows his
ongoing exploration of the crossroads between poetry and songs, piano and synth, old-time verses
and contemporary sounds. Inspired by the rhythms, effects and speech patterns of urban music, he
also delivers, with a warm and moving voice, the texts of three poetesses from the past.
Since 2013, Ezéchiel Pailhès has been crafting a unique French synth pop. On his first three albums,
he switched between songs inspired by poetry, instrumental ballads and electronica with hummed
choruses. This latest record is a collection of eleven new songs, two of which he wrote: "Opaline" and
"Ni toi, ni moi" (neither you nor me). The others are adaptations of poems written in the 16th, 18th and
19th centuries by French poetesses Louise Labé (1524-1566), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-
1859) and Renée Vivien (1877-1909).
Poetesses from the past...
From classical music to songs, poetry adaptation is an old French tradition. "My universe has always
embraced the musicality of this literary genre," the artist recalls. He actually started this project in 2017
with poems and sonnets by William Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda, Victor Hugo and above all Marceline
Desbordes-Valmore, who can be heard again on songs such as "Dors-tu?" (Are you sleeping?),
"Élégie" or "L'attente" (The wait). A figure of romanticism, the author left her mark on the early 19th
century through the quality of her texts and her formal inventions, particularly praised by Balzac, and
apparently a decisive influence on Verlaine and Baudelaire. "Marceline's poetry is very musical," says
Ezéchiel admiringly. "Her use of rhythm and repetition sounds great and takes on a new perspective
when set to music. In fact, she wrote some of her texts with singing in mind.”
“Ces longs secrets dont l'amour nous accuse,
Viens-tu les rompre en songe à mes genoux ?
Dors-tu, ma vie ! ou rêves-tu de moi ?”
“These long secrets for which love accuses us,
Do you come to my knees to break them in a dream?
Are you sleeping, my life! or do you dream of me”
(“Dors-tu ?”, after “Les pleurs” (the tears), 1833)
Besides her, we find the more famous, and rebellious, Renée Vivien, whose texts inspired three
songs, "Regard en arrière" (Looking backwards), "Mélopée" (Melopoeia) and "La fille de la nuit" (The
night girl). Sometimes nicknamed "Sapho 1900", this figure of lesbian culture and, more broadly, of
female genius, combined in her work the themes of desire, dreams, melancholy and the relationship
with nature.
“Ta forme est un éclair
Ton sourire est l’instant
Tu fuis, lorsque l’appel
T’implore, ô mon Désir !”
"Your shape is a spark of lightning
Your smile, the very moment
You flee, when the calling
Begs you, O my Desire!"
(After “Parle-moi, de ta voix pareille à l’eau courante” (Speak to me, with a voice like flowing waters)
and “Ta forme est un éclair” (Your shape is a spark of lightning), Renée Vivien, 1901)
Lastly, with "Tant que mes yeux" (As long as my eyes), Ezéchiel was inspired by a 1555 poem by
Renaissance poet Louise Labé, whose main topic explored female love, physical and spiritual desire,
and the torments and pains they generate.
" At the start of the project ", Ezéchiel continues, " I was interested in many poets, men and women,
past and present, before my selection was narrowed down to these three female authors. Their works,
often written in difficult or secret conditions, express a raging romanticism, a passionate soul, fuelled
by desperate and tormented love. I found it interesting, as a man coming from another world and time,
to face this otherness, to trade viewpoints. Obviously, I could loudly claim that the album was the
result of a concept, that it reflects today's world, and that it allows me to explore the notion of gender,
giving visibility to the work of a few women, while at the same time pairing these ancient texts with a
more modern and rhythmic music, and obviously, there is some truth in that. But more than anything, I
wanted to serve the text itself, to express the emotion and connection I felt with these works.”
Today's rhythms and prosody...
Ezéchiel Pailhès combines texts from French literature with electronic music, its effects and rhythms,
as well as a form of scansion that echoes rap, R&B or the current fusion between hip hop and pop,
which is part of our musical background and that of younger generations. "I wanted to cross-reference
texts from the beginning of the century with this type of music. I wanted to use today’s techniques to
tell the tale of different daily lives and experiences.
The album is thus marked by contemporary electronic orchestrations, in which he drops his favourite
instrument, the piano, and his digital collage technique to use more extensive synth melodies,
enhanced by drum machines, bringing a gentle and bright vibe to the romantic texts. Lastly, we can
hear slight digital tones of Auto-Tune, which Ezéchiel uses sparingly and inventively.

Beyond its sophistication, the term "melopoeia" means a "sung declamation", a "recitative song",
sometimes interpreted in a monotonous way. On this album, it could also refer to a sense of phrasing,
which does not come from rap, but rather from jazz, Ezéchiel's first love. " In the past, I tried to hide
my jazz culture, but it naturally came back on this new album, as can be heard, for instance, in Regard
en arrière.” With its verses anchored in our literary memory, the following track "Mélopée", perfectly
illustrates the album's vision. It manages to transcend eras, mixing past romanticism with a modern
prosody, fuelled by the nonchalance of hip hop and the warm chords of jazz.
“Qu’un hasard guide enfin mon désespoir tranquille
Vers l’eau d’une oasis ou les berges d’une île,
Où je puisse dormir, mon voyage accompli,
Dans la sécurité profonde de l’oubli”
"May chance guide my quiet sorrow, at last
To the water of an oasis, the shores of an island,
Where I may sleep, having traveled my way,
In the safe depths of oblivion".
(After “Sillages” (Trails), René Vivien, 1908) More

Tracklist:

A1. Gurn Saucer
A2. Gas On Tap
B1. Tartine de Merde
B2. Quick Bowl

Release Info:

Portion out of control.

In a shocking act of extreme togetherness, and ruthless efficiency, a third Droid platter in one earth year.

The crack management team at Tape Man Enterprises have assured us this is not a temporary blip, more bacon donors will be flying through the cosmos...as sure as night follows day, thus proving that for some ineptitude can work as a lifestyle choice and pigs do fly.

Hopefully this humble offering can pierce the shitstorm of life and help replenish your joy batteries..

Join us next time for more of not the same.
Dem Idjuts

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LP - - Second album from Manni Mono aka Schu von Blumentopf - Releases on Wertstoff Musik & Eskapaden Musik


GENRE/S: Instrumental Hip-Hop/LoFi-Beats/Boom Bap

TRACKLISTS:

1. so_tired
2. e_need_s
3. 3_candles
4. 09.15
5. sage_scent
6. that_girl
7. room_22
8. three
9. maury _t
10. save_O.K


SHORT INFO:


Behind Manni Mono hides Schu, he was 1/5 of the band "Blumentopf" and has given the band as a lyricist and rapper several Top10 albums.
He finally exchanged the mic for a sampler.
On "Pension Central" he now celebrates with us his vinyl debut on album length.
Almost infinite samples and set pieces are disassembled down to their molecular structure and put together to a nerdy and yet unique mosaic.
"Pension Central" is a true Frankenstein in the world of beat

Hinter Manni Mono verbirgt sich Schu, er war 1/5 der Band „Blumentopf“ und hat der Band als Texter und Rapper mehrere Top10 Alben beschert.
Das Mic hat er konsequent gegen einen Sampler eingetauscht.
Auf „Pension Central“ feiert er nun mit uns sein Vinyl Debut auf Albumlänge.
Nahezu unendlich viele Samples und Versatzstücke werden bis auf ihre Molekular-Struktur zerlegt und zu einem nerdigen und gleichwohl einzigartigen Mosaik zusammen gesetzt.
„Pension Central“ ist ein wahrer Frankenstein in der Welt der Beats.


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Genre: Deep House, Minimal, Ambient

Tracklist 2x12“ Vinyl & Digital:

A1 Desires
A2 Interborough
A3 Apparent Calm Palms
B1 Quiet Decay
B2 Chimera
C1 Behind Their House
C2 Transfiguration
C3 Slalom
D1 Unfold
D2 Conclusions

Info:

Stólar label boss Philipp Priebe delivers his new album ‘Apparent Calm Palms’ this October, joining the roster of Mainz/Hamburg, Germany’s Feuilleton.
Berlin-based artist Philipp Priebe has been steadily making his mark on the contemporary deep hazy house and leftfield electronica scene over the past few years with a series of releases on his own Stólar imprint. Here though we see him deliver his second album following his debut LP ‘The Being Of The Beautiful’ released on Japan’s IL Y A Records back in 2014. Feuilleton is the brainchild of Chris Gruber (Fossar) and Tim Eder and since 2018 has unveiled material from the duo themselves, RR (René Raabe), Snad, Gari Romalis, Melina, Jakob Seidensticker and more.
Throughout the ‘Apparent Calm Palms’ LP Priebe delivers a concoction of styles and sounds cohesi-vely fused together to form the bigger concept which is he tells us is ‘’an album about small towns and villages and the needs and desires that brings one night out in clubs. The transport/travel, the preparty, all the things that you had to do, when you are not directly living in the big party places, but still want to have a decent night out, away from your usual suspects.’’.
Throughout the ten-track LP Philipp delivers ethereal deep house with opening track ‘Desires’, the succeeding ‘Interborough’ and ‘Chimera’, murky dub house leaning cuts like ‘Quiet Decay’, ‘Slalom’, ‘Unfold’ and ‘Conclusions’ while ‘Transfiguration’ showcases a more classic Chicago House influence. Title-track ‘Apparent Calm Palms’ and the interlude ‘Behind Their House’ then see Priebe offer a foray into textural ambient sounds, once again showcasing his unique ability to craft raw, understated and emotion fuelled material across a variety of genres.
Mastering by Sven Weisemann and Lacquer Cut by Stefan Betke


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2022 REPRESS - ORIGINAL ART

Richie Hawtin continues his reconnection to the dancefloors, following on from the 'Time Warps' EP from late last year. 'Acid King' goes from melodic introspection back to his intense and hypnotic acid style that first brought him to the stage in the early '90s.
Written, mixed, edited & produced by Richie Hawtin.


TRACKLIST:

A1. Acid King (Full Tilt Mix) [10:41]
A2. . Acid King (Vox) [01:57]
B1. Acid King (F.U.S.E. Bass Dub) [05:45]
B2. Acid King (Bonus Beat) [02:51]



"What started out as a studio experiment searching for the soft, warm distortions that were inherent in all my early 1990s F.U.S.E & Circuit Breaker ACID tracks, morphed into something else..."
Richie Hawtin - 'Acid King'
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Repress!

A fantastic Remix Package with Tracks from Dj Jauche s last Album „Spreekind“. Remixed by Tigerskin, YSE, Jay Eff & Frankman Gledd. Deep House at it Best. Soulful and Timeless Music.

Tracklist:
01 Dj Jauche - Simple Situation ( Gleed Remix )
02 Dj Jauche - Simple Situation ( Jay Eff & Frankman Remix )
03 03 Dj Jauche - Spreekind ( Tigerskin Remix )
04 04 Dj Jauche - Get Up And Start ( YSE Remix )
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2022 REPRESS
For its 3. release Infoline showcases never heard compositions of Marco Repetto (former Grauzone).

Special remarks : 2x12" LP Gatefold + 1x12" Bonus

includes:
1x12" Maxi (ILG003X)
2x12" LP (ILG003)

Genre: Acid House, Experimental, Industrial, Techno

LA LUNA SOTTO IL PONTE - L`Alchimia Dell Svanimento (ILG003)

A1 Celeste Sensibile
A2 Futurismo Luminescente
B1 Selvatico
B2 Teoria Della Meta?
B3 Baco Elettrico
C1 Leggere Nell Animo
C2 Allosauro
D1 Strada Feller
D2 Canale Dei Misteri
D3 Tra Due Onde
D4 Viaggiare A Vuoto
D5 Opera Abbuiata

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R.EPEE - QQX-7 (ILG003X)

A. E-Bear (R.Epee / Grauzone)
B. Eleventh Movement (R.Epee)

Short Info:
For its 3. release Infoline showcases never heard compositions of Marco Repetto (former Grauzone). La Luna Sotto Il Ponte is a 2x12' compilation and a never used alias of Marco Repetto. The compilation features tracks written between 1983 - 1989. Some years after his break up with Grauzone (1981), Marco went on a darker and more industrial path, which was a common route for experimental composers at that time. Expect a solid mixture of unreleased Industrial/EBM cuts. The bonus EP replaces La Luna Sotto Il Pontes grim and dark compositions for a much more utopian mind-set and movement in its heyday. It's 1988/1989 - Acid House is everywhere.
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2LP + Download , 2020 Repress of this Italo balearic Classic!

Feel Fly is the alter ego of Daniele Tomassini: DJ and producer, composer of sound for theater and cinema, member of multiple hybrid projects,
both live and studio. Based in Perugia (IT), the co-founder of the monthly party Afro Templum, has been for years an active organizer of musical and cultural events in the underground city scene.
Raised between the walls of the historical and transversal Norman Club, he is currently a resident of the Tangram and Numbers parties at Perugia's Urban Club, which led him to share the console with many important national and international artists.
An avid collector of synths, keyboards and any noisy toy he can lay his hand on, after appearances on on "Roots Underground" and his own"Too Romantic" it's now time for his first full length release "Syrius" on "Internasjonal" co-produced and mixed by Prins Thomas.

“In the mystical crescendo of soft cosmic-melodic carpets and expansive Balearic pulses, Feel Fly tinges his sounds with Neo Disco, House, Synth-pop and Italo incursions. A slow pilgrimage permeated by immersive and dreamy beats that envelop you ."

Prins Thomas , April 2019

Tracklist:
A
1. Il Teorema Del Delirio 6:56
2. Syrius 4:11

B
1. 10.01 5:22
2. Endless Truth 6:45

C
1.Brzone23 6:22
2.Arpini 5:43

D
1.Athenâ 6:08
2.Dromo Celeste 6:53



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2022 REPRESS Edition, 1LP+MP3
Carefully ReEdited, 100% Original

Lady of Mine is the 1989 debut LP by self-made Italian-American Joe Tossini. An astoundingly honest, passionate record of cosmopolitan lounge music, he willed this charming suburban oddity into existence without any formal musical training.
Special remarks : LP with digital download card

Tracklist
LP A1 If I Should Fall In Love, A2 I'm In Love With An Angel, A3 Sincerita, A4 Sulla Luna
B1 Tomorrow May Never Come, B2 Lady Of Mine, B3 Wild Dream


Short info:

Lady of Mine is the 1989 debut LP by self-made Italian-American Joe Tossini. An astoundingly honest, passionate record of cosmopolitan lounge music, he willed this charming suburban oddity into existence without any formal musical training.

Sicilian by birth, Tossini drifted around the world between Italy, Germany and Canada, before finally settling in New Jersey. After the passing of his mother and the breakdown of a second marriage, an anxious and depressed Tossini took to songwriting as a form of therapy, crafting disarmingly candid lyrics from his extraordinary life and loves. Whatever industry savvy or musical virtuosity he lacked was made up for by unflinching resourcefulness and infectious charisma. Befriending bandleader Peppino Lattanzi at local club The Rickshaw Inn, he was encouraged to animate his singular songs with an ambitious cast of 9 players and 5 backing vocalists, sincerely credited as his Friends.

The Atlantic City basement sessions are a low budget, high romance testament to Tossini's character and the power of positive thinking. From the defiant, Casiotone samba of If I Should Fall In Love, to Wild Dream's dizzying escapism and the native tongue croons of Sulla Luna and Sincerita, Lady Of Mine hums with the inimitable magic of a true original. Piercing the heart with an effectively sparse combination of humming keys, CompuRhythm drums, horn flourishes and backing divas, ample room was left for Tossini to frankly deliver his much-needed life lessons.

Underperforming commercially at the hands of short lived label IEA Records, Lady Of Mine has since earned a place in the outsider music canon. Recently peaking interest as a cornerstone of the Sky Girl compilation, the private press trades for inordinate sums, typically with no financial benefit to its creator. Lady Of Mine is now finally reissued on the artist's own terms via Joe Tossini Music, in partnership with Efficient Space, restored from original master tapes with unseen photos, extensive liner notes and Tossini's trademark wisdom.

Devoutly independent, Tossini has previously self-released the 2015 instrumental album When You Love Someone as well as two books - a new fiction novel The Devil In White and his autobiography The Account of My Life.
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LP
GENRE/S: Hip Hop Instrumental

TRACKLISTS:
1. Max Fresh & Deef Cosby, Slize, dédé - Yum 03:30
2.Max Fresh & Deef Cosby, Slize, Roboti Niro - Yum (Remix) 03:55
3.Max Fresh & Deef Cosby, dédé - Yum (Instrumental) 03:30
4.Max Fresh & Deef Cosby,Roboti Niro - Yum (Remix Instrumental) 03:55
5.Max Fresh & Deef Cosby, Roboti Niro - Niemals satt 03:27
6.Max Fresh & Deef Cosby, dédé - Niemals satt (Remix) 02:36
7.Niemals satt (Instrumental) 03:27
8.Max Fresh & Deef Cosby, dédé - Niemals satt (Remix Instrumental) 02:36


Slize, Max Fresh und Deef Cosby haben sich nicht abkochen lassen und zusammen mit dédé und Roboti Niro eine saftige Platte angerichtet, die vom Meisterkoch mit Michelin Stern Nadim Kabel aka Air Fork One abgeschmeckt und verfeinert wurde.
Zwei Tracks, zwei Remixe und die dazugehörigen vier Instrumentals ergeben ein Menü, das jedem geneigten Head das Wasser im Munde zusammenlaufen lässt.
"Yum" ist nicht nur ein Leckerbissen für Feinschmecker, sondern das, was Rap derzeit mal wieder braucht. Straighter Rap auf straighten Beats. Instant classic also.
Besonders die Remixe beweisen dabei, welche ungekannten Aromen ein und derselbe Track in neuem musikalischen Speckmantel entfalten kann. So ermöglichen die Köche es ihren Gästen, selbst die feinsten geschmacklichen Nuancen entdecken zu können.
Für die Labelarbeit zeigt sich "Das Label mit dem Hund" verantwortlich, welches schon bei zahlreichen andere Untergrund-Releases seinen Löffel im Topf hatte. Bon appétit!
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Rights: World excluding France & UK

Format: 1 X White Vinyl, deluxe Gatefold Mirror-Board Edition,Printed Inner Sleeve with new sleeve notes,download card,sticker

SPECIAL REMARKS :

- REMASTERED ALBUM
- DELUXE & LIMITED EDITIONS – ALL ONE RUN ONLY.

DELUXE WHITE VINYL : Remastered Album 1 X White Vinyl, Deluxe Gatefold Mirror-Board Edition,Printed Inner Sleeve with new sleeve notes,download card,sticker


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To celebrate the 30 year anniversary of Shakespears Sister’s seminal album ‘Hormonally Yours’,London Records have announced special edition releases across multiple formats.
A double platinum and top 3 UK album ‘Hormonally Yours’ secured Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit a place in British pop history, spawning the single Stay - which spent a staggering eight consecutive weeks at the top of the UK charts - and winning the duo an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection.
‘Hormonally Yours’ also features singles ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ and ‘I Don’t Care’, tackles friendships gone wrong on ‘My Sixteenth Apology’, powerful, dangerous attraction on ‘Emotional Thing’ and documents a friend’s coming out on ‘Are We In Love Yet?’ Fan favourite ‘The Trouble With Andre’, the full-throttle glam-blues of ‘Cat Woman and glorious finale ‘Hello (Turn Your Radio On) is the album’s glorious finale: an exhalation; a glorious, earth-shuddering moment that recalls the epic melancholy of David Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ and The Beatles’ ‘A Day In The Life’.
Shakespears Sisters second LP, Hormonally Yours, provided the perfect encapsulation of Shakespears Sister’s musical ying and yang; a deftly delivered balance of pop melody with a spikey alternative darkness

VINYLS TRACKLISTING:

1 Goodbye Cruel World 4:05
2 I Don’t Care 4:15
3 My 16th Apology 4:16
4 Are We in Love Yet 3:45
5 Emotional Thing 3:48
6 Stay 3:48
7 Black Sky 4:08
8 The Trouble with Andre 4:38
9 Moonchild 4:27
10 Catwoman 3:59
11 Let Me Entertain You 4:44
12 Hello (Turn Your Radio On) 4:12
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Rights: World excluding France & UK

Format: 1 X Black & White Splatter Vinyl, deluxe Gatefold Mirror-Board Edition,Printed Inner Sleeve with new sleeve notes,download card, sticker

SPECIAL REMARKS :

- REMASTERED ALBUM
- DELUXE & LIMITED EDITIONS – ALL ONE RUN ONLY.

DELUXE SPLATTER VINYL : Remastered Album, 1 X Black & White Splatter Vinyl, Deluxe Gatefold Mirror-Board Edition,Printed Inner Sleeve with new sleeve notes,download card, sticker

BIOG

To celebrate the 30 year anniversary of Shakespears Sister’s seminal album ‘Hormonally Yours’,London Records have announced special edition releases across multiple formats.
A double platinum and top 3 UK album ‘Hormonally Yours’ secured Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit a place in British pop history, spawning the single Stay - which spent a staggering eight consecutive weeks at the top of the UK charts - and winning the duo an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection.
‘Hormonally Yours’ also features singles ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ and ‘I Don’t Care’, tackles friendships gone wrong on ‘My Sixteenth Apology’, powerful, dangerous attraction on ‘Emotional Thing’ and documents a friend’s coming out on ‘Are We In Love Yet?’ Fan favourite ‘The Trouble With Andre’, the full-throttle glam-blues of ‘Cat Woman and glorious finale ‘Hello (Turn Your Radio On) is the album’s glorious finale: an exhalation; a glorious, earth-shuddering moment that recalls the epic melancholy of David Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ and The Beatles’ ‘A Day In The Life’.
Shakespears Sisters second LP, Hormonally Yours, provided the perfect encapsulation of Shakespears Sister’s musical ying and yang; a deftly delivered balance of pop melody with a spikey alternative darkness

VINYLS TRACKLISTING:

1 Goodbye Cruel World 4:05
2 I Don’t Care 4:15
3 My 16th Apology 4:16
4 Are We in Love Yet 3:45
5 Emotional Thing 3:48
6 Stay 3:48
7 Black Sky 4:08
8 The Trouble with Andre 4:38
9 Moonchild 4:27
10 Catwoman 3:59
11 Let Me Entertain You 4:44
12 Hello (Turn Your Radio On) 4:12
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LP, Limited, Download

Genre: Balearic, Disco, Indie Dance, Electonic

Tracklist:


A
1 Giorgio Lopez Chalet Miseno 00:06:27
2 Giorgio Lopez Journey To Punta Pennata 00:05:20
3 Giorgio Lopez Lido Florida Theme 00:04:31
B
4 Giorgio Lopez Luna Mirabilis 00:05:04
5 Giorgio Lopez Dragonara Punch 00:04:57
6 Giorgio Lopez via Faro 00:04:56




Short Info:

The Neapolitan producer makes a comeback on Horisontal Mambo with an ideal follow-up to his previous LP “Palinuro Phonebox”
and once again teams up with label boss Prins Thomas for some mixdown touches.
Halfway between italoboogie and Balearic beats, Chalet Miseno is a nostalgic ode to some 90s “estate italiana” holidays seen through the eyes of a kid.
From the catchy beats of the title track (with its roaring motorbike intermezzo) and “Dragonara Punch”, to the dreamy soundscapes of “Luna Mirabilis”
this album is guaranteed to be the perfect soundtrack to a hot summer (and a refresher for the long winter).

Mambo HQ August 2022



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