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180 Grs Black Vinyl EP – Limited Edition -

Packaging: 1 x 12’’ Heavyweight Black vinyl, printed 3mm spine sleeve, 45 rpm.

PRODUCT INFORMATION/ SHORT BIOG
• “Collector run – 180 grs Black 12’’ vinyl / 2 tracks – 45rpm.
• “Chiroptera” is the soundtrack of « Acte 2 : Retour à la Caverne », a creation by JR with Thomas Bangalter and choregraph Damien Jalet , performed in Paris in front of the Opéra de Paris (Opéra Garnier) on November 12th, 2023 by more than 150 dancers.


TRACKLISTING

Face A :
1 - CHIROPTERA
Face B :
1 - CHIROPTERA (Solo Intro)



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Packaging: 1 x 10’’ Black vinyl, printed sleeve, includes a poster 10’’

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“Daaaaaali”, the new movie of Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr Oizo) .
Original music / OST by Thomas Bangalter .
2 track Black 10’’ EP , includes a poster. Limited edition.


TRACKLISTING

A SIDE:
Daaaaaali
B SIDE :
Âge Réel



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1 x Fluorescent Green Vinyl , 3 mm sleeve – printed inner sleeve, front sticker

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“TROPIC (OST) ” : 17 new instrumental songs by SebastiAn from Ed Banger Records.
Fluorescent Vinyl , printed inner sleeve – Limitd edition, 1 000 copies for the world.
“Tropic” is Edouard Salier’s new movie, out in France on August 2nd, 2023. Edouard Salier, French director previously did many short films and music videos (Massive Attack, Justice, Air, 30 Seconds To Mars..
Movie synopsis : France, two trained astronaut twins go through a lot when one of them is contamined with a mysterious residue from space.

TRACKLIST
A SIDE
A1 – Instruction -A2 – Twin A3 – Lazaro A4 – Oscuro A5 - Tropic
A6 – Furia A7 – Pogona A8 – Kourou
B SIDE
B1 – Instructor B2 - Black Hole B3 – Tristan B4 - Sad Twin B5 - Mayra
B6 – Monster B7 – Inapte B8 - Things Behind the Stars B9 - Twin (Feat. Oliver Sim) More

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Format: 1 x solid white 140 G vinyl, printed 3mm spine sleeve, white inner sleeve, front sticker


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Ed Banger Records proudly presents “Remedy” , Breakbot’s new EP. Creators of classic songs such as “Baby I’m yours”, Breakbot & Irfane are back with 4 new songs. Following “Remedy”, next single will be “The Light”.
Limited Solid White Vinyl Edition.

TRACKLIST

FACE A
1. REMEDY
2. THE LIGHT

FACE B
1. THE LESS I KNOW
2. DISEASE



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1x Black Vinyl 180 gr, 1x sleeve 3mm spine + UV gloss, 1x black inner sleeve. Sticker

LP
A1 FOIE GRAS 2’04’’
A2 SYLVIE 2’53’'
A3 DATE 2 1’21’'
A4 UN ATTIMO 1’38’’
A5 HOT IN HER 2’45’’
A6 BORRACHOS feat DIO MC 1’06’'
A7 EASYJET 2’19’'
A8 SERENATA BARBECUE feat FRAH QUINTALE 2’26’'
A9 HITS ME 3’14’’

B1 FOIE GRAS (INSTRUMENTAL) 2’04’’
B2 SYLVIE (INSTRUMENTAL) 2’53’’
B3 DATE 2 (INSTRUMENTAL) 1’21’’
B4 UN ATTIMO (INSTRUMENTAL) 1’38’’
B5 HOT IN HER (INSTRUMENTAL) 2’45’’
B6 BORRACHOS (INSTRUMENTAL) 1’06’'
B7 EASYJET (INSTRUMENTAL) 2’19’'
B8 SERENATA BARBECUE (INSTRUMENTAL) 2’26’’
B9 HITS ME (INSTRUMENTAL) 3’14’’


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After meeting on Mr Oizo ’s "All Wet" album, Mr Oizo and his Italian mate Phra went back to studio.
6 years after, this time as an unexpected duet, they wrote and composed together a 9 song "Italian Hip Hop" mini album, also reminding the spirit of mixtapes such as done by Madlib.
Mr Oizo aka Quentin Dupieux, one of the most exciting French music producer & move director, offers a new musical direction. Mainly mid-term, different from some classic powerful French Touch 2.0.
1 x 180 G Black Vinyl. A side: The album / B Side: The Instrumental album as bonus



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Format: Black Vinyl, 12’’, Black 300 Grs Sleeve with 2 central holes, CMYK Vinyl labels , marketing front sticker (round, diameter 60 mm)

TRACKLIST
A SIDE
MYD FEAT JUAN WAUTERS « WHETHER THE WEATHER » LAURENT GARNIER REMIX
MYD FEAT JUAN WAUTERS « WHETHER THE WEATHER » ORIGINAL

B-SIDE
MYD « BORN A LOSER » MAD REY REMIX
MYD « BORN A LOSER » ORIGINAL

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French techno pioneer/DJ/Producer Laurent Garnier – friend of Ed Banger records - and Mad Rey, new signing of Ed Banger (also co-founder of D.K.O Records & Red Lebanese labels) did exclusive remixes of 2 MYD ‘s classic songs.
Family business and definitely a Club 12’’, offering both remixes & original versions.







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Packaging: 2 x 140 G black vinyl, 12’’ sized, 45rpm , printed sleeve with 5 mm spine, 2 x standard dust paper inner sleeve, marketing front sticker

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BUSY P - aka Pedro Winter- the boss of Ed Banger Records is back with his brand new EP “Track Of Time” !
Collector Double Black Vinyl edition .
Features Haich Ber Na & Shay Lia + 3 exclusive remixes by the legendary MASTERS AT WORK .
Former cult Ed Banger designer SO ME back especially to design the Vinyl artwork.

TRACKLIST

A1 TRACK OF TIME – ORIGINAL
A2 TRACK OT TIME – MASTERS AT WORK MIX
C1 TRACK OF TIME – MASTERS AT WORK DUB
C2 TRACK OF TIME – MASTERS ARE WERKIN’ DUB EXTENDED





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Special remarks: 140 G black vinyl, printed sleeve with spine, black dust inner sleeve

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Ed Banger Record proudly presents his new signing : MAD REY.
Mad Rey is co-founder of D.K.O Records & Red Lebanese labels.
His brand new 5 Track EP includes the single “Joe da Zin “ feat. French Rapper JWLES, launched on June 11th with a video directed by Mad Rey himself.

TRACKLIST

A1 JOE DA ZIN
A2 L’AMOUR EST TOUJOURS VAINQUEUR
A3 HEISENBERG
B1 JOE DA ZIN OMAR S REMIX
B2 L’AMERIQUE





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Collector Double Vinyl Edition, UV, Printed Innersleeve

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Packaging : Collector Double Vinyl Edition
2 x 140G Black Vinyl, Gatefold 4/4 ,uncoated stock with special spot UV gloss (special ink with an embossing effect)
2 x Printed inner sleeve (with a central hole on one side), marketing sticker

Informations :
Ed Banger Records presents "Born a loser" , MYD's first album. Featuring Mac de Marco, Juan Wauters & Bakar.
14 songs, Double Vinyl edition. Includes " The Sun ", " Together we stand ", " Moving Men " & "Born a loser".

Tracklist:

A1 WE ARE THE LIGHT
A2 LET YOU SPEAK
A3 TOGETHER WE STAND
B1 BORN A LOSER
B2 THERE'S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT
B3 THE SUN
B4 WHETHER THE WEATHER (FEAT JUAN WAUTERS)
C1 ALWAYS A LIGHT
C2 CALL ME
C3 MOVING MEN (FEAT MAC DEMARCO)
C4 IT'S ABOUT YOU
D1 I FEEL BETTER (I GOT SOMETHING)
D2 NOW THAT WE FOUND LOVE
D3 WE FOUND IT (FEAT BAKAR)









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Packaging : Very limited 12” – 1 run only – Solid Blue 12’’ vinyl. 4/4 printed sleeve. 5 track EP.

Tracklist:

A1. Moving Men (feat. Mac de Marco) Album version
A2. Moving Men - Gaspard Augé & Victor le Masne «Removing Men» remix
A3. Moving Men - Metronomy remix

B1. Moving Men - Bob Sinclar remix
B2. Moving Men - Panteros666 remix

Informations : Features the original version of “Moving Men” (feat. Mac de Marco) and 4 remixes by METRONOMY, GASPARD AUGÉ (from JUSTICE) & VICTOR LE MASNE, BOB SINCLAR & PANTEROS666.
Teaser of the forthcoming 1st album by Myd to be released in Spring 2021 on Ed Banger Records / Because Music.







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Special Remarks:

Limited edition
COLORED ETCHED VINYL 12'''



TRACKLIST

A1. MANDIBULES (MAIN THEME)
B : ETCHED B- SIDE

Very limited run. Red 140 grs Vinyl, etched B Side.
When Metronomy meets Ed Banger Records. "Mandibules" new song by Metronomy is the music of the new movie "Mandibules" by Quentin Dupieux aka Mr Oizo


LINKS


Promo
"Mandibules" Movie by Quentin Dupieux : released in France on December 16tH


Marketing
- From December 16th announcement and push of the Vinyl collector release by Ed Banger Records /Metronomy / Because Music Socials
- Digital campaign : sponsored posts IG/FB btw December 16th & 24th






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Special Remarks:

Limited edition
12” solid light pink (rosé) vinyl in single sleeve with 3mm spine. Paper inner-sleeve.


Tracklist:

A1. Together We Stand (Club Edit) / A2. Together We Stand (Bullion Remix)
A3. Together We Stand (Wuh Oh Remix)
B1. Together We Stand (Radio Slave & Thomas Gandey Mix) / B2. Together We Stand (Sam Tiba Remix)

Short info:

After building his name as a member of the 4-headed hydra Club Cheval (Bromance) with Panteros666, Sam Tiba and Canblaster, Myd is now one of the rising figures of the celebrated French household Ed Banger Records. After his EP ‘All Inclusive’ and with his first album due to drop in the near future, he releases the sunny track ‘Together We Stand’ alongside remixes from his fellow Sam Tiba, Bullion, Radio Slave and Tom Gandey with a sole limited light solid pink vinyl edition.




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Limited edition
12” translucent red vinyl in single sleeve with 3mm spine. Paper inner-sleeve.

Tracklist:

A. Be Mine Tonight (feat. Delafleur) [Extended Version] / B. Translight

Short info:

As he celebrates the 10th anniversary of his iconic single "Baby I'm Yours", Ed Banger Records household name Breakbot returns with a new EP "Be Mine Tonight", in which French DJ and electronic music composer combines once again his talent and the soft voice of Capucine Delafleur. The instrumental version is currently used to score a worldwide Chanel eyewear campaign starring Pharrell Williams, Sebastien Tellier, Angele and many others. The EP be made available only as a red translucent limited vinyl edition.



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From ‘Viandes Légumes Véhicules’ which sounds like Dopplereffekt scored a movie from Jacques Tati, to ‘Dolce Vita’ on which Italian crooner Phra cries his pain out after being dumped, the French U.F.O. builds a bridge between Flying Lotus and DJ Snake.

Tracklist:
A1. Rythme Plat / A2. Viandes Légumes Véhicules
B1. Dolce Vita (feat. Phra) / B2. Nuque

Short info:
Mr. Oizo plugs in his Korg MS 20 once again to deliver new treats. From ‘Viandes Légumes Véhicules’ which sounds like Dopplereffekt scored a movie from Jacques Tati, to ‘Dolce Vita’ on which Italian crooner Phra cries his pain out after being dumped, the French U.F.O. builds a bridge between Flying Lotus and DJ Snake.
With 4 tracks, 4 rooms, 4 atmospheres and an introduction from Beastie Boys’ Mike D on the track ‘Nuque’, “Rythme Plat” (literally “Flat Beat” in French) is the proper celebration fans have been excepting for the 20th anniversary of Mr. Oizo’s world-famous track ‘Flat Beat’, demonstrating once again the timelessness of his unique music touch.



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World excl. France & UK, Formed by German prominent electro producer Boysnoize and French film director/electro producer Mr. Oizo (aka Quentin Dupieux).

Special Remarks:
Single black 12” vinyl in sleeve with 3mm spine

Tracklist:

A1. Discow / A2. Intertwo / A3. Citroën
B1. All Nite Long / B2. Bangyou / B3. Jumpma

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Formed by German prominent electro producer Boysnoize and French film director/electro producer Mr. Oizo (aka Quentin Dupieux), Handbraekes comes back with a brand EP, the third one since the mysterious episodic collaboration started in 2012. Blending Boyznoize electro maestria with Mr. Oizo’s peculiar touch, ‘#3’ will undoubtedly both startle minds and make bodies dance, creating disco riots in clubs and festivals around the world.


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Genres: Rock / Folk / Psych

2LP

Tracklist:

1. Sharkey - Someone Like Me
2. Lynne Ann Kingan - If You Love Me - Hate Me
3. James Thornbury - So Tan
4. Jim Huxley - Only A Song
5. Charlie Webster - Snodland
6. The Bob Hughes Band - You Broke My Heart
7. Goldrust - Going Yesterday
8. Jim Kennedy - You Are The Reason
9. Jon Betmead - Marie Elene
10. Charles Murphy - The Foot That's Holding Me Down
11. Remnant - I Will Set You Free
12. Fred Potts - Following Rainbows
13. The Superwomen - Lowlands
14. Robison Kaplan Ltd. - Don't Say Goodbye
15. Gary Ramey - You Are His
16. John Agostino - Loss of Love
17. Ritchie Tierney - Please Stop Breaking Me Down

Short info:

A humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments, Someone Like Me unites a geographically unbound cast of real people in pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats and the big city bustle of Sydney and Los Angeles, these kindred spirits rendered sheer beauty in the process. Custom pressed folk songs of love, loss and the lord saviour.

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate Of Sound chart-topper Sharkey and late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury, the collection simultaneously honours the fleeting amateurism of hobby musicians. With their one shot at tangible vinyl, freshman Lynne Ann Kingan realised her loose bubblegum rocker on campus time, while U.S. Navy recruit Fred Potts cut his unconditionally serene ballad remotely stationed on a Spanish naval base. Spartan production continues to reign with Jon Betmead’s hair-raising gospel, howling into infinite space, and Goldrust’s stripped back garden hymn.

Throughout the hour-long reflection, faith has an intermittent yet revelatory presence, most overtly with the divine choral soul of Seventh-day Adventist quartet Remnant. More subtly, Gary Ramey and Jim Kennedy both turned to song in their spiritual quests, offering their all to a universal power. An irrefutable compilation cornerstone, the National Office For Black Catholics showcased Charles Murphy’s lionhearted account of the Black experience at a 1971 concert. Five years earlier, high school seniors The Superwomen would use their hauntingly angelic harmonies to address racial inequity with a breathless take on ‘Lowlands’.

Reaching the furthest corners, Someone Like Me secures the inaugural licence of three homespun masterpieces. Discovered by fluke in the digital haystacks of Youtube and Soundcloud, Jim Huxley’s bedroom pop earworm melds peacefully into Charlie Webster’s synthesized reverie. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s John Agostino introduces us to the bizarre world of tax scam records, with the artist only now learning that his tender psych-folk demos were leaked via a 1977 bootleg.

Compiled and lovingly restored by armchair digger Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/The Green Child), Someone Like Me pays due service to seventeen rarefied journals of truth and devotion. Adorned with visual artist Chris Fallon’s figure and flora dream extractions, the uniting songbook is further detailed by expansive track-by-track liner notes and a forward from San Franciscan poet Rod Roland.
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Tracklist:

A1. Edwin Schimscheimer – Bon Nuit Michelle
A2. Dancing Fantasy – Mystery Voice
A3. Peak Of Normal – Hava
A4. Christian Ch. Kneisel – Jungle Connection

B1. Beau Michael – Move Away (Extended)
B2. Summer Vee – Judas
B3. Patrick Jahn & Erobique – Moonlight Shuffle
B4. Ikee Largo – After The Storm



This whole text about a compilation of legit chill slippers could be over with one quote of drummer Aaron Sterling. The John Mayer band member and studio guru called Basso (our compiler) the „ECM of chill wave“.

As we all know, even if some words may be hollow, good quotes help to tell a story. And that is definitely a great quote and if someone has a good story to tell, it is Basso.

Best known for his label Growing Bin and probably even more so for the online record shop of the same name, he is one of those miraculous figures in music or record culture who can be called a true believer.

Helplessly addicted to collecting music nonstop (hence Growing Bin) from all corners of the spectrum and with an uncanny knack of finding precious little diamonds, where others only assume slop, his shop features everything from original trance tapes to fake reggae and plain private press folly. Much to the pleasure of his devoted customers and even more so to the nickel nursers who use his website for window shopping and go bargain hunting in the dusty canyons and wide plains of the internet. Unfair, you might think, because knowledge like that comes with a commitment. A commitment that is not only financial in nature, but also involves time, dedication, thrift store and flea market visits and hardships (lacerated cuticles especially).

Sitting in Trees for International Feel is a sampling demonstration of this commitment. Devotees of his previous compiling efforts Proper Sunburn (Music For Dreams) and Lucky Are Those Who Hear The Birds Sing (Growing Bin), know what to expect: some of the best songs you have never heard before, some you would probably never hear without this and even some that you did not know you would even like. Even self-proclaimed record diggers might not recognize more than Mystery Voice by smooth jazz new agers Dancing Fantasy. It is a world of merry music that pretty much is boundary- and genre-free and includes sunshine stepper like Beau Michael’s Move Away. Patrick Jahn’s and Erobique’s previously unreleased Moonlight Shuffle (the soundtrack to a lost Schimanski Tatort) and Christian Ch. Kneisel’s impossible-to-find Balearic digi gem Jungle Connection.
All contextualized, explained and wonderfully described with meticulous liner notes by the king
of record descriptions himself: Basso. But what else would you expect from a DJ turned trip-hop-producer turned artiste turned record sommelier? Magic moments galore that won’t make you move away!



Short: Legit chill slippers by the „ECM of chill wave“ by Growing Bin boss and record collector sommelier Basso. A world of merry music, precious little diamonds and impossible to find records. File under Balearic beats, smooth hardcore jazz, new age ambient or fake reggae.






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FORMAT 12“ vinyl, printed sleeve, dl card

TRACKLIST
1. / A Concave 1 07:28
2. / B Concave 2 07:28

The serene source of captivating musical ideas that is Borderland, keeps on flowing and vibrating with subtle energy.
Two versions form a set of studio-refined sequences. Both parts of “Concave” are the ungraspable manifestation of the wild quietness in which the duo finds itself. Predicting at once, possible outcomes for the craft of electronic sound, while respecting their profound origins..
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Packaging: 1 x 140 grs Black Vinyl, 3mm spine sleeve with UV Gloss finish, Printed Inner Sleeeve,, marketing front sticker

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Following 2022' acclaimed 'Topical Dancer' album with Charlotte Adigéry, here comes 'Letter To Yu', the debut solo album by Bolis Pupul : produced by fellow Belgians Soulwax & released on DEEWEE/Because Music. Exploring many themes including loss, grief, ancestry, culture, belonging/not belonging and identity. It's no coincidence that Bolis Pupul's music sounds the way it does. Born in Belgium to a Chinese mother and Belgian father and raised in the super-cool creative city of Ghent, Bolis' music is a joyous cross-cultural assemblage. Mixing widescreen electronica with the warm-hearted and wonky naivete of Belgian New Beat, Bolis' singular sonics are at once playful, emotive, unrelenting and tender. The real key to unlocking Bolis' musical secret, however, is that conversation he has between his Eastern and Western roots. The creation of the album is built around Bolis' trip to Hong Kong earlier this year, made to reconnect with his late mother's roots.

TRACKLISTING VINYL:
A1. Letter To Yu
A2. Completely Half
A3. Goodnight Mr Yi
A4. Doctor Says
A5. Spicy Crab
B1. Ma Tau Wai Road
B2. Causeway Bae
B3. Cantonese
B4. Kowloon
B5. Cosmic Rendez-Vous












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Tracklist

A1. Fake U
A2. Do It Do Me
B1. Silly Little Games feat. ‘Em
B2. Wild Stream

When it rains, it pours! Which is a good thing, if the soil is dry. The second return of Tiger & Woods in almost no time falls on fertile ground. After DJs on Film has been eagerly embraced, they keep the ingredients, but change the dishes. Consummate and catchy, sweeping and simple DJ music with a penchant for hooks and hits.

Silly Little Games (also featuring long-time collaborator ’Em) evokes the rescue of an unreleased Editainment reel with a hidden new beat feel. Wild Stream is the sort of shattered mirror ball that came out of Shake Shakiest studio and Claude Young would have needed two copies off, while Fake U and Do It to Me are eternal classics Again: No samples were harmed during the filming of this record!


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London-based four-piece Adult Jazz announce their first full-length album in a decade, So Sorry So Slow, out 26 April 2024 via Spare Thought. Alongside the announcement comes lovesick new single ‘Suffer One’ featuring Owen Pallett, a cautious excavation of self and sexuality, clambering across a gorgeously shapeshifting, filmic five-minutes.

Containing some of the band’s most abrasive but gentle, beautiful and melismatic work to date, So Sorry So Slow has many defining characteristics: romance, panic, devotion and remorse, threaded together by an intentionally laser-focused love. It’s deeply personal, bruised and candid in its expressions of tenderness, and deeply pained in its concurrent reflections of ecological regret. Across its hour-long runtime, a delicate, frenetic energy and glacial heaviness coexist, the band pitting those paces against one another. In their richly experimental timbre, dancing strings and fluttering falsettos prang against a bed of brass drones like a wounded bird.

“We started writing in 2017 and began recording in 2018,” says vocalist Harry Burgess. “We genuinely thought it might be finished in 2018! But things kept developing and, having resolutely not struck while the iron was hot, there was no real external push to rush things after that, so we just kept letting things shift and unfold until it felt right. Listening back to my voice notes it’s nice to notice that there are fragments of ideas from the whole period 2017-2023 which have shaped the record.”

Recorded in bursts at studios across London and in the band members’ flats, at Konk, on the Isle of Wight and in Sussex, So Sorry is unambiguous in its evolution. Sonically, there are sparks of the arrhythmic brightness that afforded the band’s critically acclaimed debut album Gist Is its cult adoration, for fans of Arthur Russell and Meredith Monk, but with a blossoming, melancholic darkness often overhead. Piano sprees and luscious string sections appear like low-hanging stars on a night-time drive, whilst plunging vocal distortions and humming brass loops resurrect heavy limbs in a bad dream.

“I usually have objects as kind of totems for ideas,” explains Burgess. “The album initially started out to do with performance… [the totem] was a head mic, one of the subtle skin-tone ones, discreet on the forehead of a West End star. A number of the first songs in their original forms were almost musical theatre piano ballads. I think that was really a device to write about my life as the ‘main character’ (pre internet-speak reframing): regrets about romance, relationships - unsustainable relationships with the self and others.”

“However, once we started writing, the ideas about unsustainable personal relationships, loving unevenly and heartbreak conflated with a more expressly ecological regret. Like contending with big feelings of loss, endings, beauty, desolation, and with how much joy the earth contains in it. Feeling so much gratitude bound up in waves of sadness. Maybe witnessing a slow-motion goodbye to all that, or its last gasps. I love the earth and the life it supports so much. I love how ecosystems fit together - even the brutal stuff. It may be basic to say, but now is the time to be laser focused on that love. I was thinking about human centrality on earth, us as the ‘main character’, the way that is served by faith and romanticism, and the subsequent disingenuous understandings of our position in the ecosystem, as only stewards somehow, rather than subjects. The totems at this point: a herald’s horn, lorry inner tubes, archaeological tools. I guess from doom, industry, history respectively.”

“Now I would say the record is about gripping. Totems being: crampons, rope, drips, desalination equipment, accruing various survival tech. I think gripping sums up both of the threads. There’s the emotionally correct clinging to the earth that is the substrate of everything we value, or the delusional clinging to our imagined dominant position. But also the practical, technological aspects of creating a sustainable relationship, of remaining here. Then I think of romance again.”

So Sorry So Slow comes out 26th April 2024 on Spare Thought, mixed by Fabian Prynn at 4AD Studios and mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road.

Adult Jazz is Harry Burgess, Tim Slater, Steven Wells and Tom Howe.



Side A

Bleat Melisma

Suffer One

y-rod



Side B

No Relief

Plenary

Marquee



Side C

Dusk Song

Earth Of Worms

No Sentry



Side D

Bend

I Was Surprised

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Format Notes: Part of Bobby Caldwell Reissue Campaign, 2023 first time reissue, 140g vinyl

Track List:

A1 Coming Down From Love 4:01
A2 Wrong Or Right 4:56
A3 To Know What You've Got 3:08
A4 You Promised Me 4:01

B1 It's Over 2:56
B2 Open Your Eyes 3:43
B3 Mother Of Creation 5:05
B4 I Don't Want To Lose Your Love 4:35


Release Notes:

Bobby Caldwell's second album, Cat In The Hat, from 1980, is one of his greatest moments and another masterwork of soulful sophistication. Featuring the eternal "Open Your Eyes", brilliantly sampled by J Dilla for Common's "The Light", it's about as essential as records get. Like its eponymous predecessor, it's been out of print for far too long. To finally release the hugely-anticipated reissue is one of our sincerely proudest moments.

Whilst Ned Doheny is known in Japan as "Mr California", native New Yorker Bobby Caldwell has always been "Mr AOR" to his Far-Eastern friends. His distinct charm is an irresistible blend of soul, jazz, and pop influences. He possessed phenomenal songwriting prowess, smooth vocal performances, was both a great soul guitarist and dextrous keyboard player and known for genius chord progressions. It all added up to a multi-layered brilliance entering the studio, and the singular sound he landed on was laced with soulful, sweeping strings and funky horns, touching lightly on disco, while allowing his supple voice to carry the stunning tracks he'd crafted.

Right from the off, it's easy to tell that Cat In The Hat is a deeply special record. It's fantastically produced and incredibly well-rounded, carving its own lane with deep soul, warm jazz and a stunning vocal delivery that really helped Bobby reach out to some big new audiences at the time. Goosebumps at the ready for the rolling power-piano funk of "Coming Down From Love", opening up the album with a track as good as anything Steely Dan or The Doobies ever crafted, with a vocal performance from the heavens. Pumping AOR wonder "Wrong Or Right" is up there with the slick, classy rhythms of prime Ned Doheny whilst the cool, skipping soul of guitar-drenched "To Know What You've Got" is a funky ballad par excellence, with elemental traces of "What A Fool Believes". No bad thing. Closing out Side A, the folk-funk of "You Promised Me" is a bright, soulful strut with a wonderful vocal coda that just builds. Sensational.

The delicate bounce and falsetto self-harmonising of "It's Over" offers a truly delightful introduction to Side B, and serves as a great precursor to what follows. Bobby's dynamite "Open Your Eyes" is likely the reason you're all here. As if he needed it, the eternal J Dilla further immortalised Caldwell in the hip-hop canon with his production of Common’s epochal “The Light,” which heavily samples the magical “Open Your Eyes.” On a post paying tribute to Bobby in March 2023, Questlove claimed that he "got word Brother Bobby loved it". Bobby's original has seen new life even more recently from the likes of Dwele and Kendrick Lamar and deservingly so, as its insistent drums and staccato piano created a modern-soul classic. You'd think that would be hard to follow, wouldn't you? Not so, when you're Bobby Caldwell. Indeed, the horn-drenched stepper "Mother Of Creation" is absolutely ace, and, whisper it, possibly the album's finest track, all funky piano and guitars with horn lines to die for. Exquisite ballad "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love" rounds out the album beautifully.

Bobby sadly passed away on 23rd March 2023, after a long struggle with mitochondrial damage and oxidative stress, due to an adverse effect from a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. The reissue of Cat In The Hat will be available on vinyl across the globe, ensuring that fans of his incomparable talent - and soul music enthusiasts worldwide - can radiate in the deep beauty of this seminal album. Meticulously remastered and cut by both Simon Francis and Cicely Balston respectively, it has been pressed to the highest possibly quality at Record Industry in Holland.

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Tracklist:
A-Side
A1) Aroma Pitch - Millennium Surfer (06:00 min)
A2) Aroma Pitch - Balearic Shift (05:40 min)
B-Side
B1) Aroma Pitch - Staub Groove (06:44 min)
B2) Aroma Pitch - Areal Earth (06:11 min)

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Aroma Pitch is back with a 4 Track EP including all traits of their warm analogue sound, that has
gained them so much appreciation in the past. Find a bouquet of styles including driving, balearic nu
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Tracklist 12":

A1) The Party (Extended Version)
A2) The See Me (Extended Version)
B1) The Come On (Extended Version)
B2) The Slide


A new Toy Tonics EP! By label boss Kapote!

4 tracks for the dancefloor inspired by Italo Disco, New Wave Funk and NYC 90ies House. A perfect sound for the new Y2K vibes on 2024 dancefloors.

A new Kapote release is a rare thing. Although he is a musician and producer in the first place he rarely releases music. Why? Because the last years he was busy djing every weekend around the world (as a regular at clubs like Berlin’s Panorama Bar and London’s Phonox but also Festivals like Melt or Kala) and creating the Toy Tonics madness with his label friends. The Berlin based label that is the home base for 15 international artists (Cody Currie, Coeo, Gee Lane, Athlete Whippet, Baby‘s Berserk, Stump Valley…) became THE brand for a colorful and diverse, innovative and ‘organic’ funk oriented post - digital dance music.
Kapote and his friends release music that connects analogue and band vibes with digital production in a very fresh and unique way. Influenced by European underground disco and American house as well as afro beats, new wave and soulful Electronica.
But he and his label also have achieved a great reputation for working with some of the hottest names in Berlin graphic design and art to release the limited edition Toy Tonics Shirts, the label own TT Pocket Poster Magazine, posters and organizing exhibitions and visual shows.
Kapote aka Mathias Modica was and his 3 members TT krew were busy building all this.
Including also the Toy Tonics Jams. The label parties that started in an illegal venue in Berlin 2020 and exploded in 2023. With more than 120 TT events all over Europe. Where the label represents his very own vison of sound, vibe and style. Kapote organized all this with his krew. And it looks like 2024 will be even busier. With Toy Tonics Events at clubs but also museums (Palais de Tokio/ Paris, Milano Design Festjval) or Kapote & Toy Tonics Crew playing with Kaytranada and Peggy Gou at Sonar Festival.

In case you missed the last production works of Kapote check out his album ‘What it is’. Originally relased 2019. Re-released with new songs 2023. Or some of the 5 EPs he did on Toy Tonics in the last 8 years.
In case you don’t know his work under the name of Munk on his former label Gomma records (RIP) check it out. Kapote aka Munk co- produced the first 2 albums of Danish band WhoMadeWho, NYC art freak The Rammellzee, disco albums for Peaches and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, singles with DJ Chloe and many others.

(Words by Clara de Vernies)











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500 limited copies, hand numbered, vinyl only, mastered by DJ Steaw, Made in Europe!

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