Ahead of his second artist album on his own Millionhands label in July, Tee Mango teases with a fantastic first EP taken from it. The album finds the UK artist stretch himself with a dazzling array of soul drenched, fully fledged songs featuring his own singing and that of Detroit legend (and Moodymann collaborator) Amp Fiddler. The sound, very much influenced by early Prince and even a little Bon Iver, combines effortlessly with that loose sampled MPC-house feel that you would associate with a Tee Mango production. It also comes with a seal of approval from Radio 6 Music legend Gilles Peterson and after EPs on the likes of Aus, Clone and Local Talk in recent years. Opening up the EP, Amp Fiddler features on ‘Feels Like Whatever’. Dancing Rhodes keys, ooze jazz charm and float atop a simple house beat, while the Detroit legend’s emotive raw soulful vocal directs proceedings. The heart breaking ‘No More Tears’ is an introspective sad soul song that shows another side to Mango’s skills. Tender chords, downbeat drums and vocal hums and coos all melt your very being. Last of all comes the dazzling ‘Lay Down (Disco Mix)’ with its slapped funk bassline, finger clicks and squelch synth work all topped off by an effortless falsetto. This is a fantastic introduction to the full length to come. More

We've had our eyes and ears on Tee Mango for a while now. His debut album 'Imperfections' is a future classic in our book and the Tribute series has been part of our DJ-sets for a while now. In short - we had to get him to do an EP for Local Talk. DADHAUS EP is forward-thinking music with an edge (undoubtedly sharpened through countless studio hours). Tee channels the deep house flavours of Detroit and Chicago across four tracks of exquisitely executed percussion and 'sample-not-sample' work. It's another winner from the man like Tee Mango. More

TIME IS NOW Time is Now comes off like Adamski era Seal rerub for the small hours. Replete with hypnotic looped piano and drums sounding like they were lifted from Vaughan Mason's Raze house archive. Simply sweet sweet electronic music. MAKE IT LAST FOREVER The B side is Tee Mango on home turf, with a selection of choice samples under his
cap (from a record you might recognise), some simple loose sampled drums and a smattering of dub delay. Love for this series coming from: Axel Boman, Benji B, Artwork, Fred P, and a heap of others. These #Tribute releases sell out pretty quick, my hunch is that these will not hang about. More

TEE MANGO is the alter ego of Millionhands’ founder Tom Mangan and IMPERFECTIONS VOL. 1 is his debut Long Playing record. After the success of his Theo Parrish inspired TRIBUTE 12s TEE MANGO returns with IMPERFECTIONS VOL. 1.
IMPERFECTIONS VOL. 1. is a celebration of off kilter electronic music. Featuring vocal contributions from FEMME aka Laura Bettinson of Nigel Godrich’s ULTRAISTA, and the Edo Van Breemen of Canadian pysch wizards Brasstronaut. Full of pleasantly discordant musical mistakes and loose sample-laiden coincidences. Fill your boots. x

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Clone Royal Oak 043 delivering fresh new cuts from the dutch west-coast! Adventurous psychedelic house tracks with colorful warm tones squeezed out of an artillery of warm and wooly sounding vintage synths creating futuristic vibes. More

Gerd fired up the legendary Yamaha DX100 synth and proves he's still the master of machines from Planet FMDX. 4 housey techno tracks ranging from the beautiful melancholic to dancefloor stomper. More

Cosmic Garden (from Cosmic Rhythm fame...) new on our Royal Oak Series. 4 tracks of smooth bleepy house that only Italians do right. Deep, timeless, all analog produced tracks for that Pleasure Moment.

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Clone Royal Oak branching out further... Strip Steve makes his debut to the label with a 4 track ep of inspiring and fierce funking sample based tracks. Soaring strings layered over shuffling multi-layered beats, bubbly basslines and elastic melodies. Off-kilter intergalactic House tracks!

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Warm, Balearic tinged deephouse tracks from the italian house master Kekko Montefiori who became immortal with his 1990 Calypso Of House release. Here we have some tracks recently found on some of his old tapes recorded in that era with the same good vibes and spontaneity . Pure house bliss. Essential!! More

Phat grooving bass line driven power house tracks by Fells Point following his debut release on Clone Royal Oak from summer 2016.

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Canadian Project Pablo debuts with a four tracker for Royal Oak. A fresh take on house music with some nods to the classic sounds from Chicago and New York. More

Two highly infectious house tracks deeply rooted in New York's early/mid 90's house culture with an contemporary and true Rotterdam no-nonsense spirit.

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Gerd's return to Royal Oak! For the occasion he dusted of the classic gear and especially the Yamaha DX100. Four tracks from Planet F.M.D.X. More

Person Of Interest goes into deep territories. Steady house rhythms combined with offkilter melodies gives this ep a timeless feel. New music from a past era. More

Bare naked, intense and soulful techno with a housey edge by Nocow. The Clone Royal Oak series started with a black label, and we celebrate release 30 with a limited black label release from this raw talent hailing from St Petersburg. Nocow is crossing borders between house, techno, modern electronica and bass. His productions are versatile and fresh and have a intuitive, seductive feel which pulls you into his fantasy world of forward thinking, futuristic dance music. Royal Oak is offering you a little escape to planet Nocow with this selection of 4 tracks.

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One of our personal favorites from 2015 gets the remix treatment. Remixes by Gifted&Blessed, Mark du Mosh, Duplex and Aera.

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Third installment in the Correlation series by SDC. The four tracks, ranging from deep ambient to rattling electrofunk, are guaranteed to take you on a deep dimensional ride. More

Ukrainan born, Rotterdam transplant Antenna with four house and techno hybrids for the Clone Royal Oak series. Raw machine driven tracks with a seductive melancholic feel.

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Hailing from Lisbon, Portugal Sabre are delivering their debut release from Clone Royal Oak with a fresh take on house and techno. If you're looking for effective formular club tracks, then please skip through! Four playful and emotive tracks without any of the modern club dogma's, however strongly rooted in the more then 30 year long tradition of our musical culture. From Model 500's Detroit techno to even further back to the likes of Gottsching's electronics and Alice Coltrane's spiritual jazz. Sabre is giving us some personal music created from a subjective perspective evoking different kind of moods and emotions with their wide palette of sounds, rhythms and melodies. Even though this might be ''psychology for dummies'' you probably can say there is a heavy influence from their Portuguese culture and their hometown Lisbon. Warm sounding tracks with a cool (sea) breeze and some of the outgoing, yet laidback southern european character. But sticking to the facts... there is some wonderful and special music on this record!

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Finnish worldtraveling musicmaker Arttu delivers the goods once again for Clone Royal Oak. Three tracks of his own brand of 'evvy funk More

Clone Royal Oak Series with its 24th release! And this time it's Canadian Gingy with vocals by singer Starving Yet Full. RAPT is an amazing vocal tune that doesn't follow the ''color by numbers'' dogmas. 2nd track is the equally exiting instrumental cut named VSCUS with abrasive lead synth twisting and turning over haunting strings and shimmering hihats in the best Detroit tradition. Serge & Tyrell team up for a remix version of RAPT. They deliver a straight forward, no nonsense powerful Dub mix! More