Special remarks : Isaie - Psycho Remixed by Gerd Janson, Eagles & Butterflies and others

Tracklist 12":

A1] Isaie - Ace (Gerd Janson Special Dance Remix) 6:58
A2] Isaie - Psycho (Kiara Scuro & Tech Support Remix) 6:30
B1] Isaie - VICE II (Eagles & Butterflies Remix) 6:12
B2] Isaie - Hypnosis (SHMLSS Remix) 6:06


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Isaie’s mini album ‘Psycho’ remixed by heavy hitters Gerd Janson, Eagles & Butterflies, Kiara Scuro & Tech Support and SHMLSS.
The remixes have been road tested all over the world by our remixers and their favorite DJ’s.
Supported on BBC Radio 1 and more.

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New mini album from Isaie, new live alias from Simon Weiss, well known from releases on Rush Hour and Voyage Direct with his hit ‘Television’

Genre:Dance/ electronic music

Tracklist 12":
A1] Isaie - Ace 4:30
A2] Isaie - Vogue 3:55
A3] Isaie - VICE II 4:44
A4] Isaie - Psycho 3:21

B1] Isaie - Jacuzzi Jacuzzi 4:09
B2] Isaie - Fire in L.A. 3:46
B3] Isaie - Trance Club 4:14
B4] Isaie - Party Mode Boy Hello 4:48


Release Info:

XXX the label presents its new release XXX014. ‘XXX014 - Psycho’ is produced by Isaie, the new live alias from Simon Weiss. Simon Weiss (Isaie Reuling) already made a name for himself with stellar releases on well known labels like Rush Hour & Voyage Direct and the hit ‘Television’.
XXX014 will be a mini-album with eight tracks on vinyl. Each side contains various genre crossing tracks that could be used on different occasions, whether you are in a sweaty basement, a big festival or obscure radioshow, these tracks will do the trick. High energy guaranteed. More

Genre: EBM, WAVE, Techno,

Tracklist 12":

A1] The Populists - Horror House 5:59
A2] The Populists - Air Rance 7:28
A3] - The Populists - Cockbox 6:12

B1] The Populists - Horror House (Marc Houle remix) 6:58
B2] The Populists - Air Rance (Coloray remix) 5:01

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XXX the label returns strong in 2021 with an original EP by none other than The Populists aka Yan Wagner. Yan Wagner has been making a name for himself in the scene for a while now with his distinctive The Populists sound. XXX012 is no different. With three original tracks on the A-side; EBM, minimalistic synth music, banging drum machines, genre bending, different energy styles, but all are functional club tools in their own way. Just what you would expect from The Populists. The B-side contains two remixes by veteran of the scene Marc Houle and fellow Dutchie Coloray.

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Special remarks : New Beat remix by Nick Berlin (aka San Soda)

Genre: Electro, House, New Beat

Tracklist 12":
A1 - MYTRON - NAVIGATOR
A2 - MYTRON - DRAAI (FT. DREEMS)
A3 - MYTRON - ALLGEGENWAERTIG
B1 - MYTRON - ABCD
B2 - MYTRON - PLAZA
B3 - MYTRON - PLAZA (NICK BERLIN NEW BEAT MIX)


Short Info:
XXX011 exists of 5 diverse electronic tracks by Mytron which could be played at every moment.
From high energy dance music, to dream house, to aggressive chug. This EP has it all.
To top it off, the remix by Nick Berlin (aka San Soda) will certainly be liked among new beat lovers.

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Special remarks : remix by Machinegewehr

Genre: Italo

Tracklist 12":
A1 - LUCA DELL'ORSO - STATIC WORLD
A2 - LUCA DELL'ORSO - WRONG
A3 - LUCA DELL'ORSO - PATTERNS IN OUR HEAD
B1 - LUCA DELL'ORSO - EXCESSIVE DANCE
B2 - LUCA DELL'ORSO - EXCESSIVE DANCE [MACHINEGEWEHR REMIX]


Short Info:

XXX009 provided by a really talented guy from the east of the Netherlands who goes by the name of Luca dell'Orso. Full on italo on this ep from high energy italo to more sophisticated slow burners. This ep is showcasing what Luca dell'Orso is capable of.
Machinegewehr on remix duties who takes one of the originals into a more darker approach suitable for dark basements when we're able to party again.

Vital Sales Points:
Already played and supported by Black Madonna, Massimiliano Pagliara amongst others

Artwork by: Niels van Haaften. For this sleeve, instead of using conventional methods for image production, graphic designer Niels van Haaften decided to code his own image processing algorithm from scratch.
The algorithm translated an image of flowers into this colorful and abstract album cover.


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Special remarks : Remix by Manfredas

Tracklist 12":

a1 Stijn Sadée - Zindagi 6:43
a2 Stijn Sadée - Dynamite Fishing 5:53
a3 Stijn Sadée - Satin 6:00
b1 Stijn Sadée - Satin [Manfredas remix] 7:46
b2 Stijn Sadée - Diving With Humpbacks 7:27

Short Info:

XXX starts 2020 fresh with catalog number XXX008. A diverse ep with four original tracks by Stijn Sadée, who had a killer release on Kitjen in 2018. It’s not the first time we see Stijn Sadée releasing on XXX, but this time he delivered a proper EP. Manfredas is on remix duty on the b-side. When Stijn was playing his live set on a festival in Amsterdam Manfredas saw him play. They clicked soundwise and a remix idea was born. Artwork was made by artist Thomas Sadée in collaboration with Stijn himself.

Vital Sales Points:

Already played and supported by massimiliano pagliara, il est vilaine, nuno dos santos, dave harvey, curses and many others
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Special remarks : Split EP with Spencer Miles & Zakmina

Tracklist 12":

A1 Spencer Miles - Left Behind 6:31
A2 Spencer Miles – Inverted Reality 6:06
AA1 Zakmina – GTI 5:47
AA2 Zakmina – Manson Speech 5:35

Short Info:
XXX is back with an Split 12“ EP. On the A side we have Spencer Miles and on the AA side Zakmina. Once again XXX brings artists from all around the globe together on 12“. Spencer Miles brings us some dark brooding tracks all the way from Oregon, while Zakmina from Lithuania adds up to the heat with two bangers that for sure will shudder the dancefloor. The artwork is by upcoming photographer Joost Termeer, who is based in Utrecht in the Netherlands. When he heard the track he thought of fire, which was the inspiration for the artwork. We couldn’t agree more.

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Tracklist 12":
A1] No love no matter
A2] Substance energy
B1] What’s this sound
B2] Ceremony


Short Info:

XXX006 is created by the upcoming duo Younger Than Me. With stellar releases on Bordello A Parigi and Tusk Wax with diverse music that ranges from disco to new wave to what they call themselves '90's rave euphoria’. XXX006 can best be described with one word; Rave.
Artwork by Raymond Teitsma

Vital Sales Points:
Support/played by: Marvin & Guy, Job Jobse, Jennifer Cardini, Roi Perez, Discodromo, Vladimir Ivkovic, Franz Scala, Perel, Pional Musiq, Sean Johnston, Prins Thomas, Curses, Simple Symmetry,
Jason Kendig, Severino


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Four tracks that capture the various emotional moments of the dance floor. Produced by Brian Ring in Berlin. Remixed by Honey Soundssystem member Jason Kendig in New York.
The photo on the cover comes from established Amsterdam photographer Sander Meisner.

Tracklist:
A1] Big Town Boy Small City Dreams
A2] Crumbling Chasm
B1] Big Town Boy Small City Dreams [Jason Kendig Remix]
B2] Safe Space


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Vinyl Only, Hand stamped and hand numbered 12" Vinyl + Downloadlink for bonus track + Sticker

Second and last part of our edit series, pressed on a 12" with sounds from all over the world

Tracklist:

A1] Magnifique
A2] Stijn Sadée
B1] Iñigo Vontier
B2] DJ Rocca

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12" Compilation (XXX004)

Tracklist info:
XXX004 is a compilation that will take you on a trip full of emotions.
We carefully selected nine different tracks by nine different artists released on two different vinyls, suitable for all type of situations.
Part one is dancefloor ready with four tracks produced by artists from all over Europe. The cover is designed by artofsomething, a well known artist in Amsterdam nightlife. His artwork fits perfectly with the infinite nature of this release.

A1] JMII - Spell
A2] Miskotom - Vila Dei Misteri
B1] Damon Jee - Paranoia
B2] Stijn Sadeé - Moiin
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This record is pure Italian craftsmanship and brought to you by Mushrooms Project & Almunia.
Expect dark balearic summer vibes all over this one.
Fellow countrymen Daniele Baldelli & Dionigi gave 'Arena Raindrops' a cosmic makeover.
Artwork coverage comes from the north of The Netherlands where Klaas Jonkman was inspired by the Rupicola Peruvianus to paint the cover of this record.

Enjoy this piece of art.

A1] Mushrooms Project & Almunia - Wave Form
A2] Mushrooms Project & Almunia - Eyo
B1]- Mushrooms Project & Almunia - Arena Raindrops
B2]- Mushrooms Project & Almunia - Arena Raindrops (Daniele Baldelli & Dionigi Remix)

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This first release on XXX, will be accompanied with custom made artwork by PATRICK VAN VLIET.

Patrick's work has evolved from pop surrealistic, psychedelic imagery to a Dutch social realism. He incorporates social annoyances and public degeneration from day to day life in his images. These images seem familiar but alienate. Alienation by disrupting the familiar with uncanny elements and deviant colors. A perfect mix for this release.
"It felt like a long wait for us, but finally we can present the first artist on our label XXX; JACK PATTERN". With great honor we introduce to you this collective consists of three producers who live and breath deep in the heart of Switzerland. They delivered four diverse and atmospheric stellar dance floor tracks with serious hints to the late '80s.

A1] Jack Pattern - John Snailhole's Seduction
A2] Jack Pattern - Revolting Stud
B1] Jack Pattern - Strawbery Galaxy
B2] Jack Pattern - Fault Dizziness
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Vinyl Only, Hand stamped and hand numbered 12" Vinyl + Downloadlink for bonus track + Sticker

Tracklist 12":

A1] JMII
A2] Il Est Vilaine
B1] Marvin & Guy
B2] SHMLSS
Digital Bonus Track: Marvin & Guy


Textextext -
"The first part of our limited edit series.
Four obscure electronic edits pressed on a 12" plus a digital bonus track. Look out for part two following later this year".
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3x12" Gatefold White Vinyl (Download Code Inside)


1. Extrawelt - Dark Side Of My Room (DE-Q20-08-00161)
2. Extrawelt - Wippsteert (DE-Q20-08-00162)
3. Extrawelt - Trümmerfeld (DE-Q20-08-00165)
4. Extrawelt - Must Attack (DE-Q20-08-00164)
5. Extrawelt - Wolkenbruch (DE-Q20-08-00166)
6. Extrawelt - Added Planet (DE-Q20-08-00167)
7. Extrawelt - Daten Raten (DE-Q20-08-00169)
8. Extrawelt - Lost In Willaura (DE-Q20-08-00170)
9. Extrawelt - Kurt Curtain (Skit) (DE-Q20-08-00168)
10. Extrawelt - One Tree Hill (DE-Q20-08-00160)
11. Extrawelt - Messy Machinery (Rough Mix) (DE-Q20-00-01376)
12. Extrawelt - Homing (DE-Q20-08-00171)
13. Extrawelt - Bright Side Of My Room (DE-Q20-22-00014)



Including all the tracks from the original release. But adding "Bright Side Of My Room" to the list as a counterpart of "Dark Side Of My Room" makes this release even more attractive. And to top it all off, as another treat, there's the "Messy Machinery" Rough Mix instead of the Original Mix.

It's all about hooking up our music to the emotional world of electronic music at the beginning of the Nineties, however, without falling for nostalgic references. We don't want to do cowardly Zeitgeist Techno, we want to have the heart to dare big sounds and more melodies. Sunrise scenarios, energy, revolution, and kaput-ness, all these are parts of the Extrawelt." (Extrawelt, 2008)

However, don't panic even if the aesthetics of the debut album of the two Hamburg-born artists Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe is affected by the attentive observation of electronic dance music over the last fifteen years, the "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" is above all this: Premium Techno 2008! The Hamburg-based producer team has been unmistakably imprinting the last three years' club sound with widely noticed releases on Border Community ("Sooper Track"), Traum Schallplatten ("Doch Doch") and Cocoon Recordings ("Titelheld") as well as with remixes for Gregor Tresher, Minilogue or Alexander Kowalski - last but not least due to an excellent live presence, that resulted in the second rank in the Groove Live Act Charts, even still without the accompanying long-player.

The work on "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" started more than two years ago for Schaffhausen and Raabe. "The initial idea was to present an album covering all styles of electronic music between Ambient, Breakbeats, and Techno. When we had 25 tracks for the album ready, we had to realize that this approach did not work for us. Insofar, we finally decided to use the 4/4 bass drum in all tracks except in the little intermezzo "Kurt Curtain". We have tested all tracks live over the last three months and constantly re-interpreted them. So, the 'danceability' is clearly in our focus, but the sound spectrum and the dramaturgy of the titles should not be solely functioning in the club. Our intention was definitely not to deliver an album full of superficial peak time hits."

Those twelve tracks on "Schöne Neue Extrawelt", all unreleased, are therefore primarily representing a pleasurable 'in-between', the organic development of hypnotically compressed dance music that is more than "just" Minimal Techno, reduced Trance or electronic listening sounds of the Warp era - even all those elements have left their marks. From the richly decorated musical-clock-intro "One Tree Hill" via the stereo singing bowl of "Trümmerfeld" to the Asian-sounding creaking of "Daten Raten", Extrawelt celebrate a vision of futuristic melancholy with organic detail richness, which is permanently in motion but is nevertheless seeming to be well-balanced. However, in the Extrawelt universe, one gets along quite well with antagonisms. "We have always been polarizing, not only in the Techno scene but also in the Trance scene. Because in the end, "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" - freely adapted from Aldous Huxley - is now not only a big neon-colored future but is likewise positioned in the often-disillusioning grey of the here and now."



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Zambon from The Very Polish Cut-Outs have once again sought out forgotten and somewhat obscure artists whose music is in need of a revival. This time, they have chosen the duo MODFUNK, who were active in the Polish electronic music scene from 1999 to 2009. Piotr Jarecki and Martin Tigermann, two Varsovians who shared a love for the "french touch" genre that dominated dancefloors worldwide at the time, showcasing Daft Punk, Cassius, Stardust, and Bob Sinclar, were the brains behind the project.

The compilation comprises a subjective and cross-sectional selection of the ten best tracks from Modfunk's entire discography. While their music evolved over the years, they never abandoned their French-inspired sound, which is why the compilation includes tracks like "Souler" and "The Wav," which draw inspiration from Daft Punk. It also features "Love," a track sung in Polish that echoes Romanthony's work, as well as "Texmex" and "Wishes," two electropop tracks that could have been released on Ed Banger Records

Includes printed insert with the history of the group Modfunk


A1 Souler
A2 The Wav
A3 Funksalad
A4 Love
A5 Juice
B1 Wishes
B2 Possibiity For Significant Other
B3 Tex Mex
B4 Through The Sound
B5 Just…

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Tracklist:
A1 CATHARSIS
A2 ASCENDING TO OUR SOLITUDE
B1 DEPRESSED FUN SEEKERS
B2 2 STEP KING
C1 THE CHECKER
C2 WATS IT MEAN 2 U
D1 GIMME (TIMELESS WORLDS OF SPACE)
D2 MIND DIVING
E ADRIANA’S ANXIETIES
F1 CLOSER
F2 JINGLE ALL THE WAY

Release Info:
Soul departure time. Drowning in a dreamlike state where drifting with the current is free movement. Driven by echoes of serious intentions and playfulness. The order of music takes you further. In time, on the floor, under the skin, melting measures and dimensions. On a way back to where the future of your comfort has dawned. Through zones of whispers and expanding beauty. On a memory lane while passing all your favourite things and sentiments. On a straight, gently quantized line through tunnels of love and liberation. To a vanishing point where the soul is exposed to a scattered radiation of joy, content, revival, liveliness, melancholia. Feels like an arrival, no detour or deviation. Soul: its vulnerability becomes a superpower.
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12”

TRACK LIST
A1 - Impérieux – Fantasmagorii
B1 - Impérieux – Ferishtah
B2 - Impérieux – Reze

PR EN:
The illusive Impérieux ventures into the fantastical world of DJ Koze’s Pampa with three tracks of masterful, genre-bending electronica.

It’s little wonder that the Turkish/Bulgarian native finds himself coming into the orbit of the Hamburg-based label head. DJ Koze has been a long-time supporter of Impérieux’s music, his intrepid DJ sets often finding their most dramatic peaks or existential lows with one of the producer's audacious dancefloor soundscapes.

Now Berlin-based, Impérieux’s music draws deeply on the sounds of his heritage, taking inspirations from Bulgarian folklore, twisted and chopped Turkish dialect as well the gritty underground of his new surroundings.

With Fantasmagorii, Impérieux explores his sonic boundaries with techniques inspired by the label-head himself. As a producer he is becoming known for his ability to build fantasy worlds through aural experimentation, creating productions soaked with fragility and emotion. His music brings a full-body listening experience of it’s own, laden with intensity and mystery, and full of opposites. He has the ability to pluck their listeners out of reality, to bend the rules of time and space and defy genres in a way that is reminiscent of Koze’s various bodies of work, and it’s no surprise that this selection of tracks feels right at home in the Pampa fantasy.

"I am permanently seeking for Music that blows my mind. It’s like digging for gold. Impérieux delivers a psychedelic bullion" (DJ Koze)
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GENRE/S: house, dubtechno, electronica

TRACKLIST:

A1 coco's visa 3:15
A2 canada balsam 6:18

B1 pardon my french 5:26
B2 con o sin 5:42
B3 let's dence 3:32

C1 modernation 5:28
C2 rumour (album version) 6:35

D1 clap gently 2:39
D2 tender date 5:22
D3 7eleven2 4:41


SHORT INFO:
isolée’s fourth album resort island is a record as that's in turns hazy and thumping, euphoric and melancholy, always delivered in brilliant splashes of color. "coco's visa" sets the tone, its soft chords lapping against the drums like waves against a dock. Gentle moments like this and the exquisitely bittersweet "let's dence" offset dreamlike club tracks of the kind only Müller could make. "rumour", the album's first single, is all ghostly strings and loping synths, a mellow joy-ride in magic hour light.
pardon my french (second single)
isolée need not apologize for this flirtation with the sound of French touch. "pardon my french" has the key elements that give the best disco and disco-flavored house records their magic: impossibly smooth bass tones connect perfectly plump kick drums, a strutting rhythm, glittering synths, all joining forces to give you the feeling of having a supremely, impossibly good time. On Resort Island, it's a vacation within a vacation, an artist so skilled at subtle, ambiguous moods going for straight up bliss, just this one time.
canada balsam (third single)
The third single from Resort Island is "Canada Balsam," a dreamlike club track of the kind only isolée could make. The beat is taut and punchy, a welcome echo of the minimalist flair of his early records. The rest draws from the lush sonic palette he's perfected since then: vaporous chords, swirling hand percussion, a subtly dramatic earworm melody that almost sounds plucked from a harp. It's the kind of tune that brings a wash of technicolour onto the dance floor, a cool breeze riding on a perfectly tight groove.
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Territory: World excl. US

Tracklist
A. Melbourne Bolero
B. Madhouse Dub Feat Kristian Harborg


Info Text:
In 2019 we released the Discodrums 12'' on our own newfound The Night Land Records. With its screen-printed cover and limited edition it was a tribute to a format and culture dear to our hearts: Vinyl. Our intention was to keep releasing records in this style, with songs already mixed, mastered and ready to fly. Had we known it would take three years to get the next EPs out we would probably have reconsidered everything. Series of strange incidents, accidents and negligence made us think this project was cursed but the music felt too important to us to let it go. We kept working to get it out and now we finally arrive with two ”new” EPs: Melbourne Bolero and Bosco/Bosca. This is classic Talaboman; Chuggy, hypnotic, dub flavoured Latin-Scando house music, released on vinyl with beautiful screen-printed covers designed by DR.ME in Manchester. Three years too late but a hundred years too soon? Dance is timeless, thanks for listening.


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Territory: WW -FR -UK

Tracklist
1. Aether
2. Je pense A Toi
3. Elevation
4. A Ciel Ouvert
5. Le Passage (feat. Margot Ferro)
6. Between Flesh & Mind
7. Evolution (feat. MieK)
8. Envole-Moi (feat. Margot Ferro)

Release Info

A new artist on the Citizen Records / Clivage Music roster, Vhinz is a musician based in Brussels. After taking his time to break onto the electronic scene, he’s now ready to share Belvédère, his debut, dreamlike album, confidently intense, sweeping between cinematic songs and soaring, epic electronic sounds.
Vincent Honca is Belgian, with Armenian roots and a love of keyboards: the mini synth he used to play as a child, the classical piano of his years of training at the Académie de Musique, the Yamaha synth of his teenage years... During the noughties of his adolescence, electronic music was omnipresent in his life as he listened to and admired Daft Punk, Moby, Vitalic, Air and The Chemical Brothers. He also went out dancing, a lot, in the nightclubs and parties of Brussels and the vicinity, and soon his love of computers, technology and synthesisers led to him producing his own music. “I wanted to create beautiful textures with synths,” he says. “I wanted to have fun and discover the possibilities. As part of the internet generation, I taught myself everything I know through reading magazines and checking the forums.”
Vincent went on to become a computer programmer and decided to make music in as much of his spare time as possible. His first productions came out in 2015, including “Drastical”, one of three deep house dancefloor-orientated tracks recorded with none other than Kris Menace. “At the time I was really searching for my musical identity,” explains Vincent, and progressively his music started to lean towards another of his passions – films and film music. “I’ve listened to soundtracks a lot since I was a teenager, and they’ve been a big influence, in particular the music for Heat by Elliot Goldenthal, Gladiator (Hans Zimmer), Saving Private Ryan (John Williams), The Last Temptation of Christ (Peter Gabriel), The Virgin Suicides (Air) and Leon (Eric Serra).” Coincidentally, Vincent has already worked on two independent Belgian films by director Christophe Karabache, UltravoKal and Vortex, both collaborations with Michel Duprez.
Now Vincent has chosen the name Vhinz, bringing together his expertise with machines and computers, his passion and enthusiasm for the electronic sounds of his adolescence and his adoration of cinema’s powerful, impactful soundtracks. Vhinz’s first track is thus called “Aether”, a track brimming with character and confidence, with sung-spoken vocals that sweeps the listener up in bewitching synthetic themes and drums like an off- kilter heartbeat. The track perfectly encapsulates the Vhinz sound, and Citizen Records – the only label he sent it to – immediately loved it and were ready to release a 12” with more. “Then Covid and the lockdown happened, and everything came to a complete halt,” remembers Vhinz. During those long two years without anything being released, the project continued its gestation and has now grown in a mini-album of eight coherent, fascinating tracks. “I really wanted a strong concept for everything, and so was born this album that I’ve called Belvédère. I imagined myself on a belvedere with a panoramic view of the world, channelling all the emotions it elicited in me into music.”
Belvédère is a dreamlike debut album, confidently intense, sweeping between cinematic songs and soaring, epic electronic sounds. It’s a place for Vhinz to showcase his dreams, talk, sing and invite others too: Margot Ferro sings on “Le Passage” and “Envole-moi”, and Michael Meers lends his vocals to “Evolution”. “My album tells a story, with the tracks in chronological order. There are both times of hope and darker periods of my life, with sadness and love,” meaning that listeners are invited to experience a suite of different emotions and be swept along by the author’s musical daydreams. Musically, the album falls somewhere between Moby, Vitalic, Air and Serge Gainsbourg, with a density and atmosphere that are completely Vhinz. “With Belvédère I was looking for beauty, but also something darker, dirtier, more organic. The album is the culmination of that.”

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202r4 repress

Worldwide no exceptions

LP Format Notes:
Previously unreleased material from Steve’s private recordings, remastered from the original masters, 140g vinyl, 4 page photography insert with liner notes.

LP Track List:

A1 : Are These My Memories?
A2 : Walking Across The Field
A3 : Summer Stroll
A4 : It’s Raining Tomorrow
A5 : Dancing In July

B1 : Shadows Across The Path
B2 : Waiting By The Car
B3 : Kinda Knew Anna
B4 : Love That Bird
B5 : More Rain In The Woods

Release Notes:

Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space finally present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece Down On The Road By The Beach, these ten balearic soul instrumentals are of equal necessity; unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist’s Paris Tapes (1986-1997).

While recordings unintended for release should often be approached with caution, this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as an indispensable and coherent piece. Girls In The Grass is something super special. The light and shadow that defines Hiett’s music is arguably more compelling here. It speaks to us in a language that feels profound, yet entirely comforting and familiar.

Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish. Kentish would cook, pour some wine and then utilise his arsenal of technology. He’d dial up a chugging rhythm, together with some ambient pads or keyboard textures, and anchor the weightless gauze of Hiett’s six-stringed touch.

Hiett’s guitar sings with the same clean, crisp tone as Down On The Road, animated by a carefree weekend groove. Unlike his defining album which was boiled under pressure, these subsequent sessions have all the time in the world. The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys.

Remastered for public pleasure by Simon Francis, these private moments are adorned with Hiett’s singular photography and feature typically idiosyncratic liner notes from Mikey IQ Jones.
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