DAYBREAKERS are back from their first dive into the Music Station catalogue and hop from New Jersey to land in Germany’s Black Forest region for 002, more specifically they arrive into a basement in Freiburg.

In 2008, Rainer Trüby started on an album that ended up getting lost due to a crashed macbook. Two tracks were saved from this lost album and see the light of day 17 years later. After playing one of these tracks “Schoko-Bolla” in the woods at “Root Down With Love” at We Out Here 2024, miche and Rainer decided it was finally time to take this secret weapon for a full release.

The A Side is “Schoko-Bolla” features a looping brazilian vocal from an all time great, building gently into a real groove and the B side, a deeper than deep house track with latin elements. House deeper than the Neckar river, perfect for any dancefloor.

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Continuing the hugely exciting Spring Revisited series in collaboration with Ace Records, Acid
Jazz presents a new 12” release – Fatback Band: ‘Snake (Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell’s Sacred
Rhythm Version)’ + ‘Chillin’ Out (Kon’s Cool Out Remix)’
Originally featured on their 1978 album ‘Fired Up ’n Kickin’’, Fatback Band’s ‘Snake’ has long
been a favourite among soul-funk heads. Now, it’s in the hands of one of Brooklyn’s finest –
Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell – who gives it the full treatment. It’s backed with Kon’s ‘Cool Out Remix’
of ‘Chillin’ Out’, which was met with a great response when released as a digital single earlier
this year, and rightly sees a side of wax.
The limited-edition 12” vinyl continues the beautiful design theme of the series, looking as if it
was just sent to a New York DJ pool at the end of the ‘70s

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Raise a snifter to a veteran gem sifter! British Balaearic tastemaker and sonic holidaymaker Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy returns with Balearic Breakfast Volume 4, the latest in her compilation series for Heavenly Recordings. Issued as a limited double 12" and paired with Volume 3 on an extended 19-track CD edition, this fourth instalment continues Murphy's mission to transmute mornings to interstellar beachside joyrides: her Loft-era DJ digging roots shine again once more, as Cosmo pulls on sun-rosed robo disco, jazz, slow-mo electronica and widescreen synthscapery, all eschewing era and origin. Ilya Santana's 'Cosmovision' presages nicely Cosmo's own rework of Saint Etienne's 'Alone Together' and a floor-stretching disco cut of Gloria Ann Taylor's Love Is A Hurtin' Thing rounds out the set sweetly.

“There are curators, and then there's Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy.”
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The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something like this has happened for months and months; the first glow of an approaching summer, whatever date the calendar is currently saying it is. The whole thing acts as a curative meditation, miraculously wiping away all the greyness of the past few months. Right now, optimism abounds, outlooks change and your daily soundtrack has shifted from spiky and uptight into a kind of cosmic space where songs ebb and flow and drift on like rivers run on forever towards the glimmering sea. Bliss, right?

If you’re reading this, we’re assuming that you’re the kind of person who views summer as a state of mind rather than a good looking day on the BBC Weather app. With that in mind, we reckon you already know all about Heavenly Recordings’ series of untouchable, utterly essential Balearic Breakfast compilations, each one lovingly compiled by visionary DJ, producer and broadcaster Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy - the genius club legend whose radio show of the same name (broadcast 10am to high noon every Tuesday via Mixcloud) began as an escape route from the pandemic before rapidly building a global community of dedicated Balearican listeners.

Each Balearic Breakfast album has provided a spiritual getaway from the greyness of the everyday through a handpicked selection of glorious, psychedelically coloured, expansive music. It doesn’t matter where on the planet the music hails from, or when it was made, it just matters that it fits like a jigsaw piece into the musical whole. Be it off world jazz music or vocoder led robo-disco music; whether decades old or pressed to vinyl for the first time, everything on these flawless Balearic Breakfast collections just needs to flow together and bring the listener into the sunshine, whatever time of year they’re listening.

Due for release this August, the fourth Balearic Breakfast compilation sees Cosmo take this head trip further than ever before. From the opening track’s swoop and glide that nods to Vangelis’ Blade Runner soundtrack before gliding into it’s own expansive voyage to the stars (Kandeen Love Song) to Cosmo’s own glorious Parisienne stroll through Saint Etienne’s recent Alone Together to Ilya Santana’s Spanish space disco anthem Cosmovision - a track that rolls through like a turbo powered Supernature - and the phenomenal 2015 disco version of Gloria Ann Taylor’s early ’70s classic Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing, this Balearic Breakfast offers the perfect soundtrack to the summer, whether it’s actually happening outside or just taking place in your head. After all, they don’t call breakfast the most important meal of the day for nothing.

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Disco Edits

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The Oganesson Remixes EP follows the March 2025 release of “Oganesson”, which was the first new music released by Tortoise since 2016. The EP includes the original version of “Oganesson” alongside five new remixes of the track created by collaborators and friends of the band, including poet and activist Saul Williams, prolific mastering engineer Heba Kadry, Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney,
indie music icons Broken Social Scene, and International Anthem labelmate
Makaya McCraven. The Oganesson Remixes EP is released ahead of a new album
by Tortoise, which will be announced and released this fall via International Anthem.

This very limited 12” record features artwork by Tortoise’s John Herndon.

Trackliste
1.1Oganesson
1.2Oganesson (Saul Williams Remix)
1.3Oganesson (Heba Kadry Remix)
1.4Oganesson (Patrick Carney Remix)
1.5Oganesson (Broken Social Scene Remix)
1.6Oganesson (Makaya McCraven Remix)

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Finally, the pioneering first album from the group that epitomized the spontaneous, simultaneous and glorious emergence of the Hip-Hop and Electro Funk genres is back on vinyl. The song "Where's the Beat" has been extracted due to it's not actually being made by the group, but every other note and beat is included as it was originally released, from the opening narration and the sound effects joining the songs to the classic Hip-Hop and Electrofunk in-between.

Also included for the first time anywhere is the previously unreleased track “Disco Kryptonite”. For 40 years following the release of “Jam On It”, one of the most common requests Cozmo had received was to actually do a song called “Disco Kryptonite”. For the rerelease of Jam On Revenge on vinyl, Cozmo figured it was time. Everybody knew that in the Superman battle in the song “Jam On It”, Jam-On used a song called “Disco Kryptonite” to win the battle. So, this new song had to be worthy of the name.

The battle would have taken place in the late ‘70s in Brooklyn, so Coz figured that the track should have the feel of that era and place. According to Cozmo, “back then, we would often battle with uptempo Funk records that broke down into breaks”. In those days, the term “Disco” was much more generic, and was used across dance genres. So, Coz decided that “Disco Kryptonite” should be an uptempo Funk Break record. However, he still wanted it to have that authentic Newcleus sound. So, he decided to create it as if he had done a ‘70s Funk record as Newcleus in ’84. So, only using the same synths and drum machines that were available in his studio in 1984 and 1985, “Disco Kryptonite” was born. As always, Cozmo draws very heavily on Roland synths such as the Juno, Jupiter and JX series, as well as the Roland TR-707 and TR-727 drum machines. So, Finally, the classic Newcleus album Jam On Revenge is back on vinyl. And, the question “What does “Disco Kryptonite” sound like?” is finally answered. And it is only available on vinyl.

Whether you are a big fan of Newcleus, or a serious connoisseur of Old School Hip-Hop or Electro, or just a lover of good music, your collection is incomplete without this incredible reissue of Newcleus' classic Jam On Revenge on vinyl!

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