Toronto-based artist and co-boss of Parallel Minds, Ciel, known for her distinctive, precise, playful, and intricately crafted electronic productions, delivers a vibrant new EP on SUZI titled "Sada’s Dream". Originally performed during a live set at MUTEK Montreal, Ciel has refined these initial ideas into a five-track journey that showcases her unique sound palette, marked by meticulous attention to rhythmic and melodic interplay.

The EP opens with "Be That As It May," setting a contemplative tone with complex rhythms and a haunting flute-like melody that gradually unfolds into a brighter, expansive atmosphere.
Following this, the second track "Viral Load" shifts towards a tougher sound, featuring digital bleeps and arpeggiators that swirl around modern dubstep elements, creating a dense auditory texture.

The third piece, "Divide and Conquer," blends airy textures with a robust, infectious bassline and glitchy, compelling melodies, demonstrating Ciel's ability to balance delicacy with power.
Moving forward, "Bubble Gum Pop," the fourth track, adopts a clubbier vibe with its vigorous house vocals and lively breakbeat drums, offering a sharp contrast to the preceding tracks.

Concluding the EP is "Sada's Dream," the title track. This fast-paced, playful composition marries minimalist rhythms with whimsical bleeps and snippets of vocals, ending the EP on a note that feels both conclusive and invitingly open-ended. "Sada's Dream" is a sonic tapestry that weaves together the subtle complexities of Ciel's signature style with a narrative that is both intimate and expansive, capturing the essence of her artistic vision.

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Parallel Minds’ fifth label release is a major landmark for the Toronto-based label. Not only is it their first full length LP, it is also the debut album from co-founder Ciel, who is also making her first solo appearance on the label since its inception.

In 2021, spurred on by a productive creative streak and the economic austerity of pandemic lockdowns, the Xi’an-born and Toronto-based DJ Ciel (real name Cindy Li) applied for grant funding from the government of Canada to write her debut album. Self-proclaimed “DJ first, producer second”, Ciel never thought she would have the self-confidence and desire to write an album. It wasn’t until after spending prolonged time away from clubs & festivals whilst dedicating herself to daily sessions in her studio that she gained the motivation and aspiration to make a musical statement that only an album could express.

Since the start of the covid19 outbreak, Ciel, like many other Chinese diaspora people in the West, had felt a great deal of anxiety and pain at the rise of anti-Chinese sentiment and racism in the media — even in her corner of the dance music industry. Tired of expressing her frustrations fruitlessly online, she felt inspired to channel that into her music, to turn something that was filled with hate into a thing of joy and beauty. It was within this context that Homesick began to take shape.

After researching the rich history of Chinese instruments, a concept began to form around the album in which she could marry her love of sampling and analogue instruments. Using the eight types of traditional Chinese instruments (silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd, and hide) as a guideline, Li began writing each track with a focus on one of the eight. She hired traditional Chinese instrumentalists to play the guzheng and the xiao, whilst purchasing and teaching herself the smaller hand drum instruments like the kuaiban (bamboo clappers), and muyu (temple blocks). With the news that she had successfully been granted funding from Canada Arts Council, she wrote, recorded, arranged, and mixed all nine tracks of her album over the first three months of 2022. More than just highlighting Chinese instruments, the music on this album encapsulates so many musical influences from Ciel’s childhood when she began her lifelong love affair with music. True to her style as a DJ, the LP incorporates a diversity of genres she loves, from drum & bass to house, electro to breaks - even downtempo.

What has come out of these sessions is a deeply personal dancefloor record, a true expression of love for Cindy’s culture that came out of a time of relentless chaos, negativity, and uncertainty. Ciel sees her compositions as a distillation of herself — her life experiences, her wide interests and passions, and her often-turbulent emotions. Immersing oneself in the LP feels like listening to the musical confessions of an artist heading towards the peak of their career, who is finally starting to make sense of her artistic identity. What a joy to witness it.

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Ecstatic Editions is the new label by Eris Drew. Due to changes in the industry, the cost of production, and the wait times for manufacturing, the renowned vinyl-only deejay laments not having more of her favorite producers’ music on vinyl, so she decided to start a label for special vinyl editions, as well as archival releases. The first volume of Ecstatic Editions is an anthology of work previously unavailable on vinyl by the Xi’an-born and Toronto-based musician, Ciel. Her work was the impetus of the label because many of her amazing productions, collaborations and remixes have never been pressed to vinyl. As a producer, DJ, pianist and radio presenter, Ciel’s work is not only prolific and compelling, it involves an international network of individuals, labels, projects and artists; a musical meeting-place of positive intentions and creative interactions. This volume is needed not only because it makes these incredible original productions and remixes available to vinyl DJs, enthusiasts and collectors for the first time, but also because it tells a cohesive story, in a physical object, of an artist with a truly unique rhythmic, melodic and psychedelic style. Included here are three tracks from The Trojan Horse EP, a track from Naive’s “No Justice No Peace” compilation and fund-raising effort, Ciel’s remix for the Stockholm-based band Off the Meds, a track by Psychedelic Budz (a collaboration between Ciel and fellow Canadian D. Tiffany), a track from the Montreal Bass Coast Music festival’s annual digital-only compilation titled 12 Days, a remix of Toronto's downtempo soul saviors, the electronic duo LAL, and Ciel’s remix for Japanese artist Cuushe, which originally came out digitally on Tokyo’s FLAU.

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Throughout her much-lauded career as a DJ and producer, Ciel has worked hard to build community through events and DJ workshops in her home city of Toronto and on a larger scale with podcasts and projects meant to elevate women artists. The title of her latest EP, “All We Have Is Each Other,” reflects her history of mutual support, and in these times when so many of our connections seem broken by the pandemic, it offers a reminder that music still has the power to unite us.

Ciel has never been an artist who lets genres define or constrain her, so it seems only fitting that this release lands on Mister Saturday Night Records, a New York City label with a similar ethos. It’s in this refusal to restrict her sound to narrow definitions that something magical happens.

This 5-track EP spanning dance floor fillers and home listening pieces builds on a frame of tough footwork-paced kick drums, the skip and swing of 2-step garage, broken house, and slow, meditative beats. Woven throughout are hopeful melodies, dappled with sunlight tones and layered with organic percussion. The connective tissue is a deep feeling of joy and hopefulness in the power of music and collective humanity.

When the world goes up in flames, all we have is each other. Music connects us with like-minded communities that both shelter and empower us. With this emotive collection of diverse songs, Ciel reaches out a hand and invites us to be a part of something beautiful and authentic.

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Under the alias Ciel, Xi'an-born/Toronto-based producer, pianist, DJ, and Discwoman affiliate Cindy Li embodies the social conscience of progressive electronic music. She is at once a local and global artist, having flourished at the fringe of cutting-edge club culture since 2015, firmly rooted in her adopted city while reaching increasingly outward, her sets echoing from Berlin’s Berghain to Chicago’s Smartbar to Lisbon’s Lux Fragil. Back in Toronto, she co-runs the label Parallel Minds and event initiative Work In Progress, an extension of her radio show in both name and M.O. to improve female representation in the scene. She’s helped write safe space policies, hosted DJ workshops, and applied activist pressure on promoters through varying methods with a single-minded resolve. Those efforts have evoked responses, which Li has spent time reckoning with over the past two years. Now, manifesting as a self-guided reaction to her experiences as an artist and activist is Ciel’s Spectral Sound debut, Why Me?, a deeply personal and physical work

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Ciel - "when I played it for my mom, she said it made her feel like she was flying in the night sky to the moon."

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The 4th release on Peach Discs is a debut EP from Torontoâ??s very own Ciel, formally known as Cindy Li, sheâ??s been DJ and running parties for some time now so its about time for her first dreamy wicked 12''



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London-based DJ and producer Steven Julien’s career has always been about contrasts. Across a decade of releases on labels including Eglo and his own Apron Records, as well as club sets around the world, he’s consistently mixed light and dark, soft and heavy, yin and yang. From rough-edged house and techno to laid-back soul and boogie, or meditations on his familial and musical heritage with 2018’s Bloodline LP Julien’s music has always moved between moods, styles and emotions.
That eclecticism also defines Julien’s upcoming instalment in !K7’s iconic DJ-Kicks mix series. Featuring a broad spectrum of artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, DaM-FunK and Todd Edwards, alongside a selection of his own exclusive productions, Julien takes us on an imagined journey from day to night: from a bucolic afternoon in nature to heady domestic vibes before a big night out, and finally the euphoric embrace of the dancefloor itself.
Julien describes his creative approach to DJing in general, and this mix in particular, as letting his energy and intuition guide him - it’s only on listening back to the finished session that he realised how often he mixes tracks in key, creating smooth transitions from one moment to the next.
That instinctive approach, where seamless mixing becomes second nature, speaks to Julien’s decade of appearances in DJ booths around the world: he cites sets at Ormside Projects in London, Doka and De School in Amsterdam, or Mitsuki in Tokyo as specific inspirations for this mix.
Julien describes the feeling he’s tried to capture on tape as an out-of-body energy: just letting loose, and being yourself. “When you get in that position of doing what’s true to you, playing what’s true to you” he says, “people just resonate with that.”

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3 new exclusive tracks by Steven Julien
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LP TRACKLIST
A1 Steven Julien - PAYN ME MIND ft. Kristian Hamilton
A2 d’Eon - Transparency
A3 Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Day in the Park
B1 Steven Julien - Retriate ft. Dreamcastmoe
B2 Elli - Just For Me & You
B3 Steven Julien - Number

C1 Brothermartino - KAH
C2 DaM-FunK - Morphing
C3 My Girlfriend - UBER HYPE
D1 Mr Flash - Disco Dynamite
D2 Devin Morrison - Shesbi
D3 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rio

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London-based DJ and producer Steven Julien’s career has always been about contrasts. Across a decade of releases on labels including Eglo and his own Apron Records, as well as club sets around the world, he’s consistently mixed light and dark, soft and heavy, yin and yang. From rough-edged house and techno to laid-back soul and boogie, or meditations on his familial and musical heritage with 2018’s Bloodline LP Julien’s music has always moved between moods, styles and emotions.
That eclecticism also defines Julien’s upcoming instalment in !K7’s iconic DJ-Kicks mix series. Featuring a broad spectrum of artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, DaM-FunK and Todd Edwards, alongside a selection of his own exclusive productions, Julien takes us on an imagined journey from day to night: from a bucolic afternoon in nature to heady domestic vibes before a big night out, and finally the euphoric embrace of the dancefloor itself.
Julien describes his creative approach to DJing in general, and this mix in particular, as letting his energy and intuition guide him - it’s only on listening back to the finished session that he realised how often he mixes tracks in key, creating smooth transitions from one moment to the next.
That instinctive approach, where seamless mixing becomes second nature, speaks to Julien’s decade of appearances in DJ booths around the world: he cites sets at Ormside Projects in London, Doka and De School in Amsterdam, or Mitsuki in Tokyo as specific inspirations for this mix.
Julien describes the feeling he’s tried to capture on tape as an out-of-body energy: just letting loose, and being yourself. “When you get in that position of doing what’s true to you, playing what’s true to you” he says, “people just resonate with that.”

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CD TRACKLIST
01 Steven Julien - PAYN ME MIND ft. Kristian Hamilton
02 ?Hudson Mohawke - Expo
03 d’Eon - Transparency
04 Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Day in the Park
05 The RAH Band - Out On The Edge
06 ?Steven Julien - Retriate ft. Dreamcastmoe
07 Elli - Just For Me & You
08 ?Suze ijó - Call Me
09 Chaos In The CBD ft. Nathan Haines & Dave Koor - Emotional Intelligence
10 Brothermartino - KAH
11 ?brandUn DeShay - Rukunetsu
12 ?Steven Julien - Number (DJ-Kicks)
13 Todd Edwards - Dancing For Heaven
14 DaM-FunK - Morphing
15 Kokoroko - Dide O (Ash Lauryn & Stefan Ringer Remix)
16 Kyle Hall - Sarabi
17 Josh Caffe - Justify My Sex ft. Al White
18 My Girlfriend - UBER HYPE
19 ?Cheek - Venus Sunshine People (DJ Gregory Remix)
20 Mr Flash - Disco Dynamite
21 Devin Morrison - Shesbi
22 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rio

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- 6x 12" LPs, 2 Piece Hard Shell, ribbon pull tab Box Set with 40pp Perfect Bound Book, Gold PMS and Spot UV, A2 Poster. (not returnable)

To celebrate this monumental milestone, we’ve created a limited boxset in 6LP and 3CD of ‘The K&D Sessions’, mastered and cut by LA luminary Bernie Grundman for a luxurious listening experience, with newly designed inner sleeves using unseen photos from the original photo shoot. Inserted in the box is a forty-page booklet containing multitudes more never before seen photos from the same shoot and notes. Included on the 6th LP is their legendary 11 minute shimmering remix of Madonna’s “Nothing Really Matters”.

6LP Tracklist:
A1 Roni Size, Reprazent - Heroes (Kruder's Long Loose Bossa)
A2 Alex Reece - Jazzmaster (K&D Session TM)
B1 Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session TM)
B2 Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid (K&D Session TM)

C1 Count Basic - Speechless (Drum 'n' Bass)
C2 Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (K&D Session TM)
D1 Depeche Mode - Useless (K&D Session TM)
D2 Count Basic - Gotta Jazz (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)

E1 Aphrodelics - Rollin' On Chrome (Wild Motherfucker Dub)
E2 Knowtoryus – The Revenge Of The Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session)
F Truby Trio - Donaueschingen (Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskajütenremix)

G1 David Holmes - Gone ft. Sarah Cracknell (K&D Session TM)
G2 Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
H1 Mama Oliver - Eastwest (Stoned Together)
H2 Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Dub)
H3 Kruder & Dorfmeister - Boogie Woogie

I1 Sin - Where Shall I Turn (K&D Session TM)
I2 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - 1st of Tha Month (K&D Session TM)
I3 Kruder & Dorfmeister - Lexicon
J1 Knowtoryus - Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session TM)
J2 Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (Evil Love & Insanity Dub)
J3 Strange Cargo - Million Town (K&D Session TM)

K1 Count Basic - Speechless (Peter Kruder Vocal Mix)
K2 Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Suicide Mix)
K3 Roni Size - Heroes (Peter Kruder Powercut Mix)
L1 Madonna - Nothing Really Matters (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix)
L2 UFO - L.O.V.E. (K&D Session TM)
L3 Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Reprise Mix)

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- 3xCD, with 40pp Perfect Bound Book, housed in a 12" Flapped 350gsm Slipcase, with Spot UV, A2 Poster. (not returnable)

To celebrate this monumental milestone, we’ve created a limited boxset in 6LP and 3CD of ‘The K&D Sessions’, mastered and cut by LA luminary Bernie Grundman for a luxurious listening experience, with newly designed inner sleeves using unseen photos from the original photo shoot. Inserted in the box is a forty-page booklet containing multitudes more never before seen photos from the same shoot and notes. Included on the 6th LP is their legendary 11 minute shimmering remix of Madonna’s “Nothing Really Matters”.

3CD Tracklist:
DISC 1 (mixed)
01 Roni Size, Reprazent - Heroes (Kruder's Long Loose Bossa)
02 Alex Reece - Jazz Master (K&D Session TM)
03 Count Basic - Speechless (Drum 'n' Bass)
04 Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (K&D Session TM)
05 Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session TM)
06 Aphrodelics - Rollin' On Chrome (Wild Motherfucker Dub)
07 Depeche Mode - Useless (K&D Session TM)
08 Count Basic - Gotta Jazz (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
09 Rainer Trüby Trio - Donaueschingen (Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapi-tänskajütenremix)
10 Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid (K&D Session TM)

DISC 2 (mixed)
11 David Holmes - Gone ft. Sarah Cracknell (K&D Session TM)
12 Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
13 Mama Oliver - Eastwest (Stoned Together)
14 Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Dub)
15 Kruder & Dorfmeister - Boogie Woogie
16 Sin - Where Shall I Turn (K&D Session TM Vol. 2)
17 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - 1st of Tha Month (K&D Session TM)
18 Kruder & Dorfmeister - Lexicon
19 Knowtoryus - Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session TM)
20 Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (Evil Love & Insanity Dub)
21 Strange Cargo - Million Town (K&D Session TM)

DISC 3 (unmixed)
22 Count Basic - Speechless (Peter Kruder Vocal Mix)
23 Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Suicide Mix)
24 Knowtoryus - The Revenge Of The Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session TM)
25 Roni Size - Heroes (Peter Kruder Powercut Mix)
26 Madonna - Nothing Really Matters (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix)
27 UFO - L.O.V.E. (K&D Session TM)
28 Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Reprise Mix)

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Fashion icon, catwalker, curator, historian, commentator, activist, Grammy winner and – damn right – DJ, there ain’t much these days that Ms. Honey Dijon doesn’t do with aplomb. Most of her achievements thus far came via her passion for clubbing and the art of DJing, from those early Chicago parties to her role as a de facto ambassador for world dancefloors.

Tracklist
A1 Honey Dijon - Finding My Way (DJ-Kicks) ft. Ben
Westbeech
A2 Buika x Kiko Navarro - Mama Calling (Tedd Patterson
Remix)
A3 Shaboom - Bessie
B1 D:Ream - U R The Best Thing (Def Club Mix)
B2 Stereo MC’s - Good Feeling (Mr G’s Turn On Dub)
B3 Black Joy - Untitled (Solid Groove Remix)
C1 Scott Richmond & John Selway present Psychedelic
Research Lab - Keep On Climbin’ (Mix 2)
C2 Charly Brown - Freaked Out
D1 Maydie Myles - Keep On Luvin’ (West Tribe Beats)
D2 Johnny Dangerous - Dear Father In Heaven (Mr.
Marvin’s House of Dreams Mix)

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Fashion icon, catwalker, curator, historian, commentator, activist, Grammy winner and – damn right – DJ, there ain’t much these days that Ms. Honey Dijon doesn’t do with aplomb. Most of her achievements thus far came via her passion for clubbing and the art of DJing, from those early Chicago parties to her role as a de facto ambassador for world dancefloors.

Tracklist
01 Honey Dijon - Intro
02 Chestnut - Pot Of Gold
03 Charly Brown - Freaked Out
04 Stereo MC's - Good Feeling (Mr G’s Turn On Dub)
05 Johnny Dangerous - Dear Father In Heaven (Mr.
Marvin House Of Dreams Mix)
06 Psychedelic Research Lab - Keep On Climbin’ (Mix 2)
07 Blow Out Express - You’re Mine (Sound Factory Bar
Mix)
08 The Dance Kings - Climb The Walls
09 Buika x Kiko Navarro - Mama Calling (Tedd Patterson
Remix)
10 Cassio The Cassmaster - Getting Hot (Broad Market
Street Mix)
11 Maydie Myles - Keep On Luvin (West Tribe Beats)
12 Michi Lange - Brothers And Sisters (Radio Mix)
13 Shaboom - Bessie
14 D:Ream - U R The Best Thing (Def Club Mix)
15 Sir Lord Comixx - Soul House
16 Honey Dijon - Finding My Way (DJ-Kicks) ft. Ben
Westbeech
17 Art Of Tones - Praise
18 Waajeed - Right Now
19 Black Joy - Untitled (Solid Groove Remix)

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“Universal.” That is the word that Tristan Hallis proudly states when describing his inaugural entry into DJ-Kicks’ storied lineage. As DJ BORING, the Australian DJ and producer has forged a vibrant and illustrious career that has taken him to all corners of the globe.

LP TRACKLIST
A1 DJ BORING - You Luv Me
A2 Patrick Holland - Fried
A3 Sally C - All Love
B1 Cameo Blush - Art Of Worry
B2 DJ BORING - N15
B3 Sfire - Sfire6
C1 Burnski - Pacific
C2 Leo Pol - I’d Rather Be Getget
D1 Bambounou - Expensive Discogs
House
D2 Matisa - Balet

Listen LP: https://on.soundcloud.com/XJYBH3Cibx4w2piN6

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“Universal.” That is the word that Tristan Hallis proudly states when describing his inaugural entry into DJ-Kicks’ storied lineage. As DJ BORING, the Australian DJ and producer has forged a vibrant and illustrious career that has taken him to all corners of the globe.

CD TRACKLIST
01 Anthony Napels - Orb Two
02 Patrick Holland - Fried
03 Surgeons Girl - Sympathetic Cycle
04 Thomas Fehlmann -Schizophrenia
05 Oscar Jerome - Berlin 1
06 Rampa - 79249 Intro
07 Matisa - Balet
08 Sally C - All Love
09 Teqmun - Nettle Dweller (Pariah
Remix)
10 Beste Hira - Pembe Bulutlar
11 Burnski - Pacific
12 Cameo Blush - Art Of Worry
13 DJ BORING - You Luv Me
14 Shanti Celeste - Cutie
15 Hertz - More Funk
16 Bambounou - Expensive Discogs
House
17 Jennifer Loveless - Back 2 Front
(She Just Keeps Going)
18 Regal86- Fuel (Deep Dish Mix)
19 Tim Taylor Vs. Thor 54 - Over The
Hill (Mr G's Hi Nrg Dub)
20 DJ BORING - N15
21 Odymel - Even Sven
22 Leo Pol - I'd Rather Be Getget
23 Ede & Deckert feat. Sargland -
Immer (Narciss 'Venice' Remix)
24 moktar & Saad El Soghayar -
???? H

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London outfit Kassian continue their broadly- evolving yet highly detailed journey through and beyond sound towards something ever more expansive. Their second release for !K7 Records comes in the wake of creating a dedicated hardware-forward studio in a Northeast London container complex, where they have the freedom to interlink their machines. This renewed focus brought them to Supercontinent EP, named for the ancient geological era when Africa and South America were joined as Pangea.

A reformulation of rhythmic ideas inspired by South= African Amapiano and South American Baile Funk governs the two hemispheres of the record. The pair examine and deconstruct dancefloor material, eschewing 4/4 for interlocking shaker patterns, searing acid lines, cracking breakbeats, and vocal samples in Zulu and Brazil Portuguese.

The immediacy of the restless rhythm and bass-led funk of “Yena” (the word Yena translates to ‘he/him /man’)forms a sweet spot where double-time and half-time can coexist. “Yami” (‘mine’ in Zulu) is a slinkier proposition which sheds prominent percussion in favour of a weighty, fluid, acid-informed bassline undulating from below.

An ascending percussive riff marks the arrival of “Pulgueiro”, followed closely by break beats and the nostalgia of distinctly British acid electro; it is an intentionally future-forward retelling of a vintage sound, replete with a mind-melt breakdown of rave pads.

A dubbed-out groove dominates the bottom-heavy “Sistema” – a groovy, steady roller that chugs and propels and chugs with head-nod hypnotism through an intricately minimalistic approach.

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Suchi’s bouncy, airy productions are so organically deft that they almost belie the complexity that exists within. Prior to her !K7 debut the Oslo-born, London-bred, Delhiinfluenced DJ and producer found herself in a period of creative stagnation, while attempting to rediscover her own voice through production. After going back to the drawing board again and again she resolved to let go of overthinking, eschew the process, and let experimentation lead the way, revisiting some simmering sketches and work in new ways.

Ghungroo EP is the result of this reset, and rediscovers Suchi’s sense of playfulness through different production styles. It’s pressed on eco-friendly vinyl, PVR free and 100% recycled. “Ghungroo” is a homage to Suchi’s early years, and named for the small metallic bells strung around the ankles of classical Indian dancers. The track is equal parts cosmic, bassy and wavy, with a downwards bassline that plumbs the depths of low frequencies. The memory of early music passions emerges as the same melodic loop undresses and redresses in different guises - between breezy pads, glowing chimes and euphoric bells.

“Bla°merke” means bruise in Suchi’s native Norweigan tongue, and it leads heavily with double-time polyrhythmic drums, ravey rhythms and percussive bubbles popping. Triplets of synth stabs are artfully deployed with reverb and warped, stretched pads, bringing a whimsical twist to a track that is otherwise a tough-edged stomper. “Bottlepop” loosens up the tempo for a funky house framework, foregrounded by a big melodic synth riff. The track’s hookiness is enhanced by its old-school school feel, with distorted whistles and evocative pads. “Bla°merke” is then given a rework by Sam Goku who was chosen for his euphoric, dusty-sounding club tracks that hit hard; in his care the remix provides exactly that, via throbbing, shimmering, deep trippiness

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Finally back on vinyl again! A double LP that doesn't need an introduction!


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For the 15th anniversary of this timeless classic, !K7 Records are re-issuing Tosca’s seminal album ‘No Hassle’ in an audiophile 3LP format.

Tracklist:
1.1My First
1.2Elitsa
1.3Springer
1.4Birthday
2.1Oysters In May
2.2Joe Si Ha
2.3Elektra Bregenz
2.4Fondue
3.1Rosa
3.2Raymondo
3.3Mrs. Bongo
3.4No Hassle

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2LP TRACKLIST
A1 HAAi x Jon Hopkins x KAM-BU - Always Ascending
A2 HAAi - ZiGGY
B1 I. JORDAN - Life on the Wing
B2 Joshua James - We Go Again
B3 DJ PGZ - Quality High
C1 Koreless - Seven (Drumhell)
C2 Cocktail Party Effect - Make It Undone
C3 The Blessed Madonna - Strength
D1 Manni Dee, River Moon - Hot
D2 HAAi - SHiNE


London-based, Australian-born Teneil Throssell, aka HAAi, is known for a strain of sonic psychedelia that metabolises precise sound design, melodic techno, electronic pop and thundering beats. Following the release of her acclaimed 2022 album, Baby, We’re Ascending, HAAi has reached what she calls “another career milestone” - an invitation to steer the next edition of !K7 Records’ acclaimed DJ-Kicks series.
HAAi approached this mix with two concurrent goals: to continue to iterate on her artistic theme - which she named ‘always ascending’ - and to highlight her flair for hyperkinesis and drama behind the decks, which she achieves with BPM left-turns, endless upwards tilts and sharp accelerations, liminal transitions and moments of pure euphoria. Within the sweeping journey she

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CD TRACKLIST
01 HAAi - Intro
02 Lähetys/Transmission - Pan Sonic
03 HAAi - Ziggy
04 The Blessed Madonna - Strength
05 Jaco - Show Some Love (Rhythm Invention Remix)
06 Agoria - Boomerang
07 HAAi - SHiNE
08 Manni Dee, River Moon - Hot
09 I. JORDAN - Life on the Wing
10 Perc & Fractal - Up (Perc Remix)
11 Radiotrance - Plasma
12 Tunnidge - Geddeon
13 Surusinghe - Bet
14 Cocktail Party Effect - Make It Undone
15 Koreless - Seven (Drumhell)
16 Christian Smith, John Selway -Total Departure
17 HAAi x Jon Hopkins x KAM-BU - Always Ascending


London-based, Australian-born Teneil Throssell, aka HAAi, is known for a strain of sonic psychedelia that metabolises precise sound design, melodic techno, electronic pop and thundering beats. Following the release of her acclaimed 2022 album, Baby, We’re Ascending, HAAi has reached what she calls “another career milestone” - an invitation to steer the next edition of !K7 Records’ acclaimed DJ-Kicks series.
HAAi approached this mix with two concurrent goals: to continue to iterate on her artistic theme - which she named ‘always ascending’ - and to highlight her flair for hyperkinesis and drama behind the decks, which she achieves with BPM left-turns, endless upwards tilts and sharp accelerations, liminal transitions and moments of pure euphoria. Within the sweeping journey she

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For Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, the idea of rebirth is a creative driving force – an artistic device which not only informs their work, but anchors it.
As the avant-garde electronic group Tosca, the two artists have lived many musical lives, from their early electronic experiments with tape decks to the blissed-out dub compositions with which they have made their name.

Their most recent album, OSAM, takes this idea of renewal even further. Now they have reworked the source material from their ninth record and selected some of their friends to help make MIRAGE: The OSAM Remixes.

TRACKLISTING 2LP / CD
A1/01 Dementamente (Brendon Moeller Reshape)
A2/02 Clean Up (Balint Dobozi Remix)
A3/03 Clean Up (D'AL SENIO Remix)
B1/04 Shout Sister (Tosca Mirage Ambient Version)
B2/05 Dementamente (Brendon Moeller House Dub)
B3/06 Nobody Cares (Sam Irl Dub)

C1/07 Entrecote (Domenico Ferrari Remix)
C2/08 Osam (Oberst & Buchner Remix)
C3/09 Osam (Tosca Mirage Remix)
D110 Dementamente (Brendon Moeller Campfire Dubu)
D2/11 Make Up (Cay Taylan's Ambient Diary Mix)

Listen: https://listen.k7.com/47723ad2-ab12-458d-84bc-f7a783e6b10b

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For Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, the idea of rebirth is a creative driving force – an artistic device which not only informs their work, but anchors it.
As the avant-garde electronic group Tosca, the two artists have lived many musical lives, from their early electronic experiments with tape decks to the blissed-out dub compositions with which they have made their name.

Their most recent album, OSAM, takes this idea of renewal even further. Now they have reworked the source material from their ninth record and selected some of their friends to help make MIRAGE: The OSAM Remixes.

TRACKLISTING 2LP / CD
A1/01 Dementamente (Brendon Moeller Reshape)
A2/02 Clean Up (Balint Dobozi Remix)
A3/03 Clean Up (D'AL SENIO Remix)
B1/04 Shout Sister (Tosca Mirage Ambient Version)
B2/05 Dementamente (Brendon Moeller House Dub)
B3/06 Nobody Cares (Sam Irl Dub)

C1/07 Entrecote (Domenico Ferrari Remix)
C2/08 Osam (Oberst & Buchner Remix)
C3/09 Osam (Tosca Mirage Remix)
D110 Dementamente (Brendon Moeller Campfire Dubu)
D2/11 Make Up (Cay Taylan's Ambient Diary Mix)

Listen: https://listen.k7.com/47723ad2-ab12-458d-84bc-f7a783e6b10b

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Within the transformations of their meticulous processes, London duo Kassian become a vessel for alchemy: filtering and distilling scores of stems, samples and layers until something richer and more complex than the sum of its parts emerges. Uncomfortable in any solitary genre, and at the midpoint of somewhere unexpected and uncharted, the pair describe their sound as “almost techno.”

Since their debut release in 2018, Kassian have drifted leftwards into heavier, more abstract territory, harnessing their individual skills for working in the small pockets and painting the whole cloth of the canvas. In their first outing for !K7, Phase Two EP, the Roland System 1 synth is the throughline as they painstakingly piece together sketches, turning high hats into kick drums, capturing the resonance of percussion and drift further into each other’s heavy-hitting sonic realms.

“X-303” recontextualises the sci-fi inspiration of its name, forging a new style of interstellar acid. A driving kick drum holds steady through a track which oscillates between contrasts: from eerie, suspenseful pads and distorted string sounds, to a minimalistic groove accented with double-time drums and mechanistic pulses. “Tabla” reduces a distinct latin rhythm down to its essence, and is propelled by a thick and distended bass loop. Its hypnotic groove combines the human and the virtual with a glitching vocal sample and the juddering of strummed guitar strings, highlighted by the percussive hits of its namesake instrument.

The pair characterise “Prelude” as “a Frankenstein kind of monster.” Constructed around a radio sample of a legend of the scene, it is a sleek and incremental gradation of shades, with micro layers from their palette of sounds rising and falling, blending and twisting with no obvious lead or bass. Repurposing the same drums as “X-303”, the EP’s final track “Patterns” was inspired by Kassian’s earliest incarnations of live performances, and it unashamedly captures the peaks of communal moments, rounding out the EP with an epic take on deep and techy house.

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2LP TRACKLIST
A1. East-West - Can’t Face The Night (Club Mix)
A2. Omri Smadar, Roy Shpilman - Adama
B1. Herbert - Keep Time (Nobody)
B2. Dan Curtin - Particle Dawn
C1. Jensen Interceptor - Lean Before The Interview (Ft. Assembler Code)
C2. Elkka - Hands
C3. Hodge, Peder Mannerfelt - All My Love
D1. Elkka, Jeigo - Body
D2. Villager - Monocyclical
D3. Breaka - Living

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Elkka’s deep intuition is the unifying thread throughout Cardiff-born DJ and producer’s illustrious career. Vibrant releases for Local Action, Ninja Tune and her own label and party, femme culture, have marked her as an unstoppable force within the London underground. This recognition metabolised when she was awarded BBC’s prestigious Essential Mix of the Year in 2021, spotlighting her radiant blend of classic house, breakbeat and experimental electronica to the world over.

As the next curator of DJ-Kicks, Elkka is voyaging through rave euphoria. “This is a really special moment for me because DJ-Kicks has been a formative part of my musical education,” she says. An intoxicating journey through Chicago house and disco, leftfield techno, UK bass and electro-punk, Elkka conjures up an atmosphere that is as primed for the club as it is the listener’s interior world.

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Two stone cold Roy Ayers classics, get the South Street Disco official reissue treatment, one side the feel-good disco-tinged, jazz funk fire ‘Running Away’ and the other the smooth groove, love letter funk bomb ‘Love Will Bring Us Back Together’. Melting hearts, melting minds, is there a better Valentines gift out there then two slices of joy from Roy?

From hip hop to house, ‘Running Away’ has been a favoured sampling treasure since it came out in 1977. Co-produced alongside Edwin Birdsong and William Allen, joyous vocal harmonies dance around grooving basslines, strutting guitar riffs and Roy’s warm soothing tones. Top it off with some trademark vibes and it’s a one-way ticket to happiness, pure sunshine smiles all round.

Flip it to find ‘Love Will Bring Us Back Together’. Straight up seductive business co-produced by Carla Vaughn. It’s silky, it’s smooth, it’s everything you want it to be and more. Clavinet wizardry, buttery Rhodes layers and fiery vocals. Loved up funk at it’s best.

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Aboutface presents - Pensée Sculpture

Following a period of theta wave and hemi-sync techniques, Le Sculpteur d’Esprit (the Mind Sculptor) arrived in this dimension to transport listeners through 4 portals of altered-consciousness into thought-worlds where interactive sculptures are revealed in their own minds, as the artist themselves.

‘Close your eyes. From the darkness, a transparent triangular pentagonal prism appears in the distance, with its soft outlines refracting all colours from the spectrum. As you gently glide closer, you notice an unfamiliar world through the other side of the prism, this is the portal to your thought sculpture (Pensée Sculpture) number 1’

Fomat: Limited edition of 300 carbon neutral ISCC-certified Bio-Vinyl by Deepgrooves, Amsterdam, NL. Includes an artwork insert with the English translation of the Pensée Sculptures.

Credits:
Field recording, clarinet, flute, guitar electronics and all artworks by Aboutface
Additional Violin by Taro. Cello by Abdelrahman Hariry (Cello).

Pensée Sculptures channelled by Aboutface, translated into French by Noemie Decaen. Bonus content & the digital version of this release is available via the included Bandcamp download code. All artworks and music by Aboutface.

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Black Magic Woman, birthed out of the production outfit of Ron Trent featuring Harry Dennis most known for his previous work with Larry Heard. Harry Dennis one of the leading poets to come out of house and contemporary music in the 80's and 90's.
Being on the forefront of songs by storefront groups powered by both Larry Heard and Marshall Jeffereson The IT and Jungle Wonz critically acclaimed dance classics "Donnie" and "Time Marches on" helped revolutionize dance inteligenca world wide . Together with Trent's production they weave a spell with this ode to the power of the feminine form " Black Magic Woman". Previously released and powering dance floors globally, Sacred Medicine brings you a set of revisions by production and DJ master Joe Jouquin Claussell who's edit and revision has been highly sought after for the past 4 years along with our young and upcoming talent producer and DJ Coflo. By the introduction of Casmena from Ocha records Coflo first approached us with his remix 4 years ago and now under our direction we are putting it to work. These magical forms are now ready for you to explore and generate power into your world.

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"Everybody Funk is the first album from Japigia Records, which launches into 2024 with great ardor. This is the first splendid house music album by Pasquale Fanelli, an industrialist from Bari with boundless passion for music and for the show in general, whose greatest merit is of having created a working group full of ideas and talent: the IAPIGI team. The DJ-arranger Paky Fanelli - so called by his friends - with the help of the multifaceted artist-DJ Fabio Ricciuti has dug extensively into the hinterland of the Puglia region in search of his own roots to find the right synergies and give meaning and value to the context, to the habits, to the organization of a city generous in history and culture like Bari, which crossed the ocean via the Adriatic Sea and the Mediterranean. Thanks to IAPIGI we have therefore arrived in New York where Danilo Braca captures Paky's work and shapes it with excellent Italian taste, which is exactly that of a DJ resident for several decades in the Big Apple where he generates surprising and always current sounds. Although radically different, "Daytona" and "Everybody Funk" represent some of the most exciting Italian house songs of this season. In addition to the skilful remix of these two songs, it is worth mentioning "The Edge", whose main melody develops slowly. Once again Danilo Braca has raised the bar and changed the rules of the game. Good boy! The experts Qubiko & Fabio Ricciuti bring a worthy close to this first work by Paky Fanelli with a short piece, originally entitled "Disaccord" and then merged into "Accord", with the aim of putting everyone on the same wavelength. on the same level or musical chord. Comes with an amazing embossed cover too."

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The 2nd of 2 singles from the wizards of editing, with lysergic renderings of some well-known pop/dance classics, just not as you might expect.

Finally on vinyl after some considerable time, this one has a limited pressing!


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An All Star team for edits of Jovonn classics! Ian Pooley, DJ Deep and Mike Huckaby revisit 3 of Goldtone Records finest for Clone Royal Oak.

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Harri Pierson bangs the box with his new EP for Duca Bianco, a full thrill mix of disco and house sounds that want to get the party going. 'Instant Message' has a dense mix of raw drum sounds and squelchy synths with interesting melodic designs and steamy female coos. 'Techno Native' is laced up with piano stabs and a hint of old school energy then 'Trippy Too' cuts loose with a head-twisting mix of drums and whistles and bass and pads. 'Young Australians' then brings some big guitar licks to a Balearic beat that is for dancing under the stars. All four of these cuts are unique and compelling.

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Dan Lacksman is a Belgian electronic music pioneer who co-founded the Electro Pop Dance formation Telex and is credited for their classic 'Moskow Diskow.' He also worked under the Transvolta name but put out only one single, 1978's impossibly hard-to-find classic 'Disco Computer.' Dan himself has carefully remastered the original for this special 12" reissue. It's still a retro-future sound all these years later with the signature talk box vocals and sleek drum machines under cosmic synths. On the flip is a long version of 'You Are Disco' which is a similar vibe but with a slightly more lively groove and vocal. Two serene dancefloor gems by any standards.

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