Jacques Greene returns with an essential new work alongside Joel Ford, Satomimagae (RVNG) & Leanna Macomber. Fantasy pushes Greene further into his downtempo & ambient influences than ever before.
Fantasy will be released on streaming / download January 28th. Available on vinyl worldwide April 8th with an exclusive song ‘Restless’.
Since releasing his last studio album, Dawn Chorus, in 2019 - Jacques Greene has scored the short film Exhaust starring Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Glenn Kaino's installation piece Tidepools (alongside Nosaj Thing), and video game Homeschool. He released remixes for artists suchs as Para One, DC Salas, Amtrac, Kllo, Elohim, Kacy Hill and Montreal disco legends Lime. In 2020 he made headlines for creating Promise - the first single released with associated NFT that staked the owner to music publishing. In 2021 Greene released ANTH01, a reissue compiling his first few years of releases across various labels, alongside unheard tracks from the era. More

Since Montreal native Jacques Greene, 24, emerged with his first solo releases in late 2010 - The Look 12" EP (LuckyMe) and Another Girl 12" Single (LuckyMe, a Pitchfork Top 100 Track of the Year) - he has drawn upon real R&B, House & Techno to create a modern palette which served to influence contemporaries from Jamie XX to Disclosure and Julio Bashmore. But with the UK offering such excellent cross-over Dance successes in 2013 it can be easy to forget where our musical landscape was just tree years ago when Jacques Greene’s faceless demos began to creep online. Just prior to the young Canadian’s debut, US R&B had recently combined with the worst of European 4/4 Electro House & Trance to form a bottle-service delivery of compressed Pop-Dance to our charts. Greene represented something wholly contrary. A young outsider who, in isolation, was experimenting with fusing the fraught sentiment and sexuality of modern R&B and movement and soul of classic House and Techno. Not in any way retro, there are very few modern producers who can claim to have mastered their form – using original analogue equipment and the very essence of their influences to create such expressive and rich dance music. LM015 - On Your Side EP is the product of many years of experimentation at the boundary between R&B and Dance music. It is only now after a slew of taste maker releases in dance music that we find Jacques Greene as an accomplished writer and arranger aspiring to work in song format. With our lead single featuring Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well, this is not the exaltation of a lone R&B hook that we are used to but rather a fully developed original song that finds it’s place perfectly balanced between both artists. It’s unashamed hook and addictive bridge in a beautifully delicate falsetto which rides on top of assured shuffle of percussion. No one here can claim this is a Summer record – the air of cool it evokes is for 4am at any time of year. This is the crystallization of something JG has been working towards. All his tastes reconciled into one stunning moment of classic house / modern house, classic pop / modern R&B. The remaining tracks too, show JG’s development. B1 Faithful returns to JG’s vocal sample hallmark but this time without the processing. This is not a percussive use of vocal but rather an upfront gospel-inflected hook in the vein of classic US house courtesy of good friend Olivier Day Soul. Then to close we return to the deep instrumentals we have expect from JG. B2 Quicksand first appeared as an ‘untitled’ highlight in Greene’s takeover at BBC 6Music in October. Now with 160,000+ plays on Soundcloud Quicksand finds its place as the euphoric finale of this satisfying three track EP which further establishes Jacques Greene, still young and evolving; a clear leader in his lane. Now touring with fully analogue live performance and vocalists – with additional visual gallery show and separate DJ sets, Jacques Greene is stepping out like never before.
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Jacques Greene is back with a 4-track EP on his brand new label Vase. The young Montreal producer had a fantastic 2011 with remixes for Katy B, Radiohead and massive support for his debut single 'Another Girl' coming from Pete Tong, SBTRKT and many more. Taking his unashamed love for RnB while pushing the envelope of his mood driven sound the EP opens with a collaboration with long term friend and Montreal artist Ango on the track 'Flatline'. 'Flatline' is a heartfelt story of lost love and long nights - filled with signature analogue sounds and pop sensibilities. Next up 'These Days' and 'Clark' hail back to the classic JG sound with swinging Garage drums and haunting vocals. The final track 'Arrow' is a collaboration with the much hyped producer Koreless - awash with warm chords, glowing piano and driving drums. DJ support comes from Annie Mac, Mary Anne Hobbs, Hudson Mohawke and Oneman.
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Limited white label of bootleg remixes from Jacques Greene who's fresh off remixing Radiohead at the personal request of Thom Yorke. Blink and you'll miss it. More

Jacques Greene returns with an essential new work alongside Joel Ford, Satomimagae (RVNG) & Leanna Macomber. Fantasy pushes Greene further into his downtempo & ambient influences than ever before.
Fantasy will be released on streaming / download January 28th. Available on vinyl worldwide April 8th with an exclusive song ‘Restless’.
Since releasing his last studio album, Dawn Chorus, in 2019 - Jacques Greene has scored the short film Exhaust starring Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Glenn Kaino's installation piece Tidepools (alongside Nosaj Thing), and video game Homeschool. He released remixes for artists suchs as Para One, DC Salas, Amtrac, Kllo, Elohim, Kacy Hill and Montreal disco legends Lime. In 2020 he made headlines for creating Promise - the first single released with associated NFT that staked the owner to music publishing. In 2021 Greene released ANTH01, a reissue compiling his first few years of releases across various labels, alongside unheard tracks from the era. More

A huge landmark year for Nathan Micay so far, momentum in 2019 continues apace with ‘Butterfly Arcane’. This new EP follows swiftly on from the smash album ‘Blue Spring’, which was critically acclaimed and fervidly supported by a wide selection of world class DJs.
“Musically the EP contains explorations for the dancefloor with weird-ass melodic structures that stem from the same sound pallet as ‘Blue Spring’” says Nathan.
‘I'm Your Huckleberry’ is a surging flood of serotonin rush, with captivating proggy peaks and troughs akin to classic era Underworld and Leftfield, but with inventive new twists.
The melodic and breakbeat-driven ‘This'll Tell The Tale’ evokes a 6am lazer vortex, whilst ‘Did U Know I Cannot Die’ is part DJ tool and part crystalline ambience that floats somewhere between Tangerine Dream and Vangelis.
Already a massive worldwide anthem, ‘The Party We Could Have Had’ epitomises Micay’s ability to breathe new life info the early/mid 90s purple patch where prog, trance, electronica and techno blurred beautifully together.
The EP offers all those fans who weren’t able to grab Micay’s now highly-sought-after Manga inspired comic that came with the special edition of the album another chance, as an updated version will be available with this release, with an added foreword by music theorist/technologist and Holly Herndon collaborator Mat Dryhurst. More

Toronto born, Berlin based DJ/producer Nathan Micay (formerly Bwana) will release his highly anticipated debut album, ‘Blue Spring’, via LuckyMe.
The impeccable craft found in the huge past anthems that fuelled his rise is still present, but Micay has upped his own ante; a prodigious and natural creator, this is his best work yet. Highly melodic with complex but spacious sound design, this inspired work is a technicolour ride across sub bass, celestial future breakbeat, drum-roll-fuelled dancefloor rollercoasters, soaring euphoria, otherworldly soundscapes, weightless sino and even a bit of ¾ time. Micay has found a sweet-spot between prog, trance, techno, hardcore, jungle, IDM and ambient, in a renewed twist on the magic mix that birthed Future Sound of London’s hybrid classic ‘Accelerator’.
To create the album artwork, Nathan wrote a script outline, which was adapted by Peter Marsden into a comic, in turn illustrated by Dominic Flannigan, in tribute to the highly-influential Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo. The comic sees a young data miner rebel by attending a rave in the woods with her friends, only for the event to be broken up by the ranks of a futuristic police state. ‘Blue Spring’ is the start of the revolution.
With unnamed album tracks having already appeared on multiple RA mixes, Essential Mixes, Boiler Room sets, festival stages and dancefloors, music from this album has stealthily been whipping electronic music fans into a frenzy for some time, most notably in countless Shazams and posts on the Identification Of Music Facebook group. He has released on Whities and ESP institute, plus Aus, Cin Cin, and LuckyMe under his former alias, Bwana. More

LuckyMe are very proud to present the second release from Cid Rim – Mute City. Continuing the themes of his self titled debut last year- Mute City finds Austrian producer Clemens Bacher still pushing boundaries. Known as an acclaimed jazz drummer and multi-instrumentalist – Bacher continues a fine tradition of Viennese Jazz and maverick electronics programming- bringing a patina of otherworldy musicality to the progressive dance/hiphop niche that he works within. As well as developing his live show- the last 12 months have seen him produce for Theophilus London, Spoek Mathumbo and Mikky Ekko as well as a showstopping remix for Glaswegian band CHVRCHES that has clocked up serious airplay all across the world and been heavily featured by Zane Lowe on Radio 1. Opener Fade oozes positivity between bitcrushed drums and distorted chords leading us to Animus:Anima a beautiful combination of soaring arpeggios and moments of sheer beauty. Title track Mute City ups the tempo and is perhaps the best example of how dancefloor friendly his music can be. Closing the EP are Red Ocean- a slower drum led slice of prog-hiphop and the overture of Extended Ranges which recalls the interludes of his previous release and serves as a dramatic closer.
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Since Montreal native Jacques Greene, 24, emerged with his first solo releases in late 2010 - The Look 12" EP (LuckyMe) and Another Girl 12" Single (LuckyMe, a Pitchfork Top 100 Track of the Year) - he has drawn upon real R&B, House & Techno to create a modern palette which served to influence contemporaries from Jamie XX to Disclosure and Julio Bashmore. But with the UK offering such excellent cross-over Dance successes in 2013 it can be easy to forget where our musical landscape was just tree years ago when Jacques Greene’s faceless demos began to creep online. Just prior to the young Canadian’s debut, US R&B had recently combined with the worst of European 4/4 Electro House & Trance to form a bottle-service delivery of compressed Pop-Dance to our charts. Greene represented something wholly contrary. A young outsider who, in isolation, was experimenting with fusing the fraught sentiment and sexuality of modern R&B and movement and soul of classic House and Techno. Not in any way retro, there are very few modern producers who can claim to have mastered their form – using original analogue equipment and the very essence of their influences to create such expressive and rich dance music. LM015 - On Your Side EP is the product of many years of experimentation at the boundary between R&B and Dance music. It is only now after a slew of taste maker releases in dance music that we find Jacques Greene as an accomplished writer and arranger aspiring to work in song format. With our lead single featuring Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well, this is not the exaltation of a lone R&B hook that we are used to but rather a fully developed original song that finds it’s place perfectly balanced between both artists. It’s unashamed hook and addictive bridge in a beautifully delicate falsetto which rides on top of assured shuffle of percussion. No one here can claim this is a Summer record – the air of cool it evokes is for 4am at any time of year. This is the crystallization of something JG has been working towards. All his tastes reconciled into one stunning moment of classic house / modern house, classic pop / modern R&B. The remaining tracks too, show JG’s development. B1 Faithful returns to JG’s vocal sample hallmark but this time without the processing. This is not a percussive use of vocal but rather an upfront gospel-inflected hook in the vein of classic US house courtesy of good friend Olivier Day Soul. Then to close we return to the deep instrumentals we have expect from JG. B2 Quicksand first appeared as an ‘untitled’ highlight in Greene’s takeover at BBC 6Music in October. Now with 160,000+ plays on Soundcloud Quicksand finds its place as the euphoric finale of this satisfying three track EP which further establishes Jacques Greene, still young and evolving; a clear leader in his lane. Now touring with fully analogue live performance and vocalists – with additional visual gallery show and separate DJ sets, Jacques Greene is stepping out like never before.
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