Circus Company welcomes a new artist on the label: the Homewreckers. Named after a track by Southern Soul legend Sam Dees, the production collective from Germany has been moving and breaking new ground between Detroit techno, abstract funk and melancholic disco music since 1995. Their debut album Amercian Ruhr has been released on Unique Records in 2008 and creates an absolutely distinctive sound which seems to come straight out of a from a feverish dream populated by the ghostlike figures of Larry Graham, Juan Atkins, Frank Hutter, Bernard Edwards, Erik B or Al Green.

The Not My Business EP perfectly shows how the Homewreckers flow on these two original tracks. You feel the funk, you feel Detroit and you feel a deep and unique sense of music. Cherry on the cake, you got a remix from San Francisco based artist Dave Aju who is back on the label after his much acclaimed album Open Wide released in 2008.

Not My Business isn't their first shoot on the label as they were already part of last months Snuggle & Slap Circus Company compilation with a brilliant " Live-Version " of Chicago Urban Blues.


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Special remarks : 12” with printed deluxe sleeve

Tracklist

A1 Nechîrvano
A2 Weso

B1 Tesîye De Bi Lûr Lûr
B2 Kurdistanê Baxcê Gulan
B3 Baran Barana


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We gladly present the long awaited debut album by kurdish multi-instrumentalist Philippos Sîpano and Frankfurt am Main’s mighty duo Dan Bay & Le Rubrique aka The MPC Orchestra. “The Spirit of Dilovan” pays tribute to Philippos Sîpano and Dan Bayat’s youth band “Spirit Of Dilovan”, sketches the different musical paths the two took over the years and finds its final form in their new collaboration with Dilovan Le Rubrique, a master in the studio and a true patchbay wizzard.

With multilayered arrangements based on different kurdish music traditions and inspired by their indivudual experiences of Pop- and Clubculture, Philippos Sîpano & The MPC Orchestra’s new album can be both perceived as diasporic Popmusic or epic dancefloor monster for experienced music lovers.

All songs were produced at Offenbach’s Upper Citycenter Studio and dedicated to all DIlovans* out there, hoping they will one day constitute the majority of all people and we will all find peace, love and habibtiness on planet earth.

* good-hearted people <3


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Special Printed deluxe sleeve / Limited to 500 copies / Featuring Villi Odilli from Lagos, Nigeria

Tracklist
A. To Fela's People feat. Villy
B1. Afro Stomp
B2. Baba

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Giovanni Damico keeps amazing things coming and takes it with this release on the mighty label Kalakuta Soul Records to the next level. Joining forces with the mighty Gabriele Spagnuolo and Francesco Di Domenico on guitars and Saxophone, the italian boogie doctor brings to life three filthy stompers inspired by amazing artists from the african continent who have shaped what we now call (dance) music.

To Fela's People is one of three stompers delivered for this joint teaming up with Mr. Villy Odili - Lead singer of the amazing nigerian band Villy and the extreme Volumes - who's precise lyrics and drifty voice joins forces with a charging afrobeat rhythm hailing from Giovanni Damico's bad ass laboratory.

Afro Stomp and Baba on the other side come with the most furious drums and bassline one could ever imagine accompanied by a celestial instrumentation that hits the mind, the soul and the hips.

Vital Sales Points:
- Limited to 500 copies
- Great feedback from Nomad, Lakuti and Antal


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Limited to 500 copies 10" Mini LP
- collector quality special packaging with printed PVC sleeve
- special nerdy collector content: make-your-own papercraft “Buchla” card
Tracklist:
A1 heart murmur 04:31 A2 the pretty blaze 04:20 A3 faint rumor 03:53
B1 called phoenix 03:09 B2 talk light 03:19 B3 how a thing was done, why 03:58 B4 trilobites 06:36
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Kalakuta Soul Records joins forces with waf80music to proudly present Kai Niggemann’s solo debut, an all original album of outrageous poetically abstract music created live and without overdubs on a Buchla 200e Electric Music Box, one of the rarest and most sought after electronic music instruments.
Working on the platform since 2013, Kai Niggemann has become one of Germany’s leading artists who perform live with a Buchla 200e. His style is an electro-acoustic storytelling, a clubby dreamscape and a poetically-abstract kraut-infused energetic mix of new Elektronische Musik with contemporary club culture. Nerds love the technology and clubbers love the throbbing drive of the basslines. It’s all improvised and recorded live in Berlin — yet it sounds meticulously crafted in a dark basement studio throughout the entire last winters. Kai is a member of the 30-piece kraut-noise-jazz collective “The Dorf” and the electronics duo “The Last Books” (with Achim Zepezauer), performs and records with Mia Zabelka (Vienna) as “Redshift Orchestra”, cofounded the internet-computermusic “European Bridges Ensemble” (EBE, e-b-e.eu) and the electroacoustic duo “Resonator”. His most recent releases were the CD/vinyl “Lux” (feat. the noise drone artist N), “EviL/EvyL” and the cassette “Made in Österreich” with The Dorf (feat. Caspar Brötzmann & FM Einheit (Ex-Einstürzende Neubauten) or “Thinking Light” by Redshift Orchestra (duo with Mia Zabelka).
He performed concerts with Mia Zabelka (Wien), Yoshio Machida (JP), Trap & Zoid (BE), Stian Westerhus or Shahzad Ismaily (with The Dorf) among many others. Besides the Buchla he often uses other sources for his sounds and musics, such as fieldrecordings, a noise choir, DIY-soundmakers and acoustic instruments. He is artistic co-director of the theater company “PARADEISER productions” (with director Ruth Schultz), performs solo and with partners, teaches courses in Sounddesign at the Academy for Fine Arts in Münster, Germany as well as music-electronic workshops (“soldering under supervision”) together with sound artist Stan Pete.
www.kainiggemann.com
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Recorded by Richard Scott (Sound Anatomy) in Berlin 2016
Mastered by Rashad Becker for Dubplates & Mastering

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Printed deluxe sleeve / Limited to 500 copies /
Tracklist:
A. Ed Motta - Já!!! (The Mighty Zaf Edit)
B. Ed Motta - Parada De Lucas (The Mighty Zaf Edit)

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A long awaited release of two iconic songs by Mr. Ed Motta properly edited by The Mighty Zaf and engineered by the mighty Phil Asher. Fully licensed by Warner Music Brazil. A sure banger for this summer!



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Printed deluxe sleeve
Tracklist:
A1. Confusion A2. Rotthausen / B1. If I Should Loose You Part I B2. Guestlist

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Hailing from the Ruhr Area in Germany, the Homewreckers have a long history to look back on. Numerous projects have involved the three band members Johannes Ehmann, Gregor Pottmeier and Krischan Wesenberg in the past 20 years always meandering between the realms of Jazz, Blues, Soul, House and Techno. Between the profound bags of DJs and the shelves of audiophile heads.

Their unique sound spans from deep dancefloor oriented electronic music to film soundtracks that, amongst others, underlined the infamous productions of the artist Harun Farocki.

Confusion EP is an excerpt of their upcoming album "Machine Kiss" that sums up six years of research and work and melts the influence of more than 25 years of knowledge onto one record.


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Tracklist:
A.Get Dancin'
B1. Give It Up
B2. Xpresso

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Founded three years ago, KALAKUTA SOUL RECORDS has been delivering quality releases keeping quite a bunch of dancefloors busy all over the world. For its sixth release, the Bochum based Label has managed to put ist hands on three soulful jams that will shake the hell out of any encrusted hip.

For this release, Cary Crant has put three marvellous tracks together delivering a heavy stomper on th A side while dedicating the B side to all the dancing souls that love to get lost in a huge amount of love leaving the speakers in every single minute of its two tracks.


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Tracklist
A. Tik Tok - 8:41 B. At The Concert - 7:12
After a furious release by Atlantis' best kept secret Cuttlefish & Asparagus entitled Hang On In There, KALAKUTA SOUL RECORDS meticulously puts a new twelve together you'd want to throw your hands upon immediately.
Always referring to Sadar Bahar as one of the most influential cats to their work, the crew behind the label hasn't stopped crying ever since they received the tracks. And although we've pinched them a couple of times, they still can't seem to believe this really is coming true. Can you?
Now it surely isn't the first time the world's coolest cat has released a couple of his rare edits. But you surely are still dancing and sweating to his unforgettable Chicken Wing Edits series and have been wondering, what this guy's been doing. Well, Soul in The Hole's true soul and Dj's Dj Sadar Bahar has been travelling around the world giving everybody a serious lesson in soul music that he calls Disco Beatdown. Some brothers would also name Sadar's ceremonies "exorcism", which pretty much leads us back to the tracks released on this fantastic sounding 12" Disco Single.




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Tracklist:
A1. Hang On In There - 7:00 B1. Lovin You - 8:00 B2. Drum Song - 5:42
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KALAKUTA SOUL RECORDS come with a series of releases and new gems that surely will keep this year quite busy. After Al Kent's killer joint that went by the title "Love & Care", it's Cuttlefish & Asparagus who once again deliver a strong three tracker made to work the hell out of every imaginable sound system. Mainly known for their unforgettable work on Black Sun's self-titled epic track, Atlantis' Cuttlefish & Asparagus deliver an A side that couldn't work any hip harder. With a sound spectrum wider than the panama canal Hang On In There is guaranteed to turn any straight cut jeans into glossy orange bell bottoms and any mirror into a disco ball. On the B side Cuttlefish & Asparagus work out one of the most essential soul joints that always made you wonder why songs couldn't play forever. Meticulously edited without changing the filth of the unique bassline, Loving You is a wild stomper made to immediately fill or blast any imaginable dance floor. And to adequatly close this drop, Drum Song transports the deep spirit of the crew behind KALAKUTA SOUL RECORDS who's always after music they love to dance their asses off to. A Tropical bliss.


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Release: 01.04.2014
Tracklist: A1 - Love & Care - 8:24 B1 - Colder Than Cold - 6:23 B2 - Gee Wiz - 7:46
After an overwhelming start with the illustrious artist Cuttlefish & Asparagus, who did an immense job both on Black Sun's homonym and Ish's "Don't Stop", KALAKUTA SOUL Records come back with another deep set of disco gems, touched by the hand of one of the most respected heads of the genre. Glasgow's disco godfather, the almighty Al Kent, has delivered three eclectic masterpieces, due to take the international dancefloors to a further level of musical consciousness. A further pack of deep dug bombs that confront the functionality in music many labels have always strived for. The A Side keeps every imaginable sound system busy with a drifty percussive harvester adorned with an eclectic instrumentation that splits flesh from bones and mind from soul. "Colder Than Cold" on the B Side is a perfect example of how a dancefloor should sound like. A thick bassdrum, a bass slapped by the fingers of a giant, keys and chords from heaven and horns hailing from the utmost depth of Kalakuta's soul. Bringing you back to where it all started, the almighty Al Kent does an immense work on an evergreen, you might have bumped into as a munchkin. "Gee Wiz" closes this opus with a orchestral beauty that once gathered all the souls behind what we call music today.
Limited to 500 copies!!


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Born and raised in the KALAKUTA REPUBLIC and having witnessed music from the four corners of the world, the KALAKUTA SOUL SYSTEM has put up its own and long overdue music label to reach out with inspiring gems they had held secret for a long time. Bringing finely selected releases from the most respected producers and DJs, the KALAKUTA SOUL SYSTEM meticulously discusses the content of each and every tracklist leaving the headquarter of their KALAKUTA REPUBLIC. The first release on KALAKUTA SOUL RECORDS comes from the elementary spine of the KALAKUTA SOUL SYSTEM that goes under the name Cuttlefish & Asparagus, a vital combination of vinyl collectors and meticulous sound engineers that have worked for almost 20 years on inspiring cuts and rough jams. All tracks are produced with a single aluminum fork and a ceramic pasta dish.


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