2LP

Electronica-dub-techno-house

Special remarks: Printed Inner Sleeves

Tracklisting:
A1-Trombe
A2-Fordizm
A3-Esika Molimo Ezali
B1-Clair de Lune à Mykonos
C1-Allô?
C2-Mange
D1-Satanique Musette
D2-La Folie Studio
D3-Théâtre de Verdure

Release Info:
This album, a product of two years of studio sessions, saw us engaging in musical dialogues, hitting record when inspiration struck. In the studio, that moment always comes, when a fragile and magical balance happens.

Château Flight says :
• Playing electronic music, whether alone or not, must be joyous, fun, and make you feel good.
• The studio is not a sanctuary but a place of life. Technology must not be intimidating.
• Welcoming friends and new objects in the studio should be an infinite source of inspiration.
• If nothing happens in the studio, turn off the light and play a percussion record.
• With 25 years of experience, Château Flight can make you forget all your troubles, instantly and painlessly.
• The key to success: midi sync + din sync + external trigs.
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Tracklisting:
A1 Introlude
A2 Babel
A3 What We Need To Say
B1 Sick Of This World (Main mix)
B2 Sick Of This World (Gilb R Dub version)
B3 Outrolude


After it became known that the Red Light Complex in Amsterdam had to close Gilb'R invited his friends Satoshi Yamamura and Abel Nagengast down for a session up in the '… studio'.

The trio dived in head first and with eyes closed. The night was buzzing with impromptu music, singing and poetry and one evening lead to another. The gathered results are a raw homage to it's illustrious surroundings and can be listened to on an inspired 6 track 12". The Babel EP is out on Versatile Records.



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Tracklisting:
A1. Triangle Days (Davy Kehoe Vocal Mix)
A2. Triangle Days (Davy Kehoe Remix)
B1. L Inconscient Rebel
B2. Super Spreader (Ruutu Poiss Remix)

3 remixes and 1 new track here.

Davy Kehoe, from Dublin's Wah Wah Wino delivers 2 remixes of Triangle Days, a highlight from Gilb'R's LP On danse comme des fous. While the instrumental remix drives us into a melancholic vibe, where Davy uses harmonica in a subtle way as he did for his latest live show, the vocal mix is an unusual approach to remixing. Davy decided to add his own vocals on top of his mix, and arranged it in a different way. The result is that the track is brought into a total pop territory.
Ruutu Poiss, an Amsterdam based Estonian producer has deconstructed Super Spreader, to rebuild it into a complex yet driving form of club music.
And last but not least, Gilb'R offers an unreleased jam recorded live during the Triangle studio days in Amsterdam. Some latin electronics? Digital guaguancó? A weird groover at 120 bpm to drop in the mix for fearless DJ's.




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Tracklisting:
A1 Session 4
A2 Session 5
B1 Session 6
B2 Session 7

Improvising as a way to end a track, a moment in time lasting forever, a singularity as a constant: this is the illusion created by I:Cube for these Cubo Live Sessions: to jam and to edit, a free conversation with his machines.
This new found freedom is a natural evolution following years of hard work in the Versatile basement. We used to hear Cube sweating for days on a single sound or loop, we know through those Live Sessions that Cube has realised that perfection is not of this world. Or rather that perfection precisely is that ephemeral instant, that will to capture a dream and bring back a fragment from his multidimensional travels.
From this precarious equilibrium, this big bang, proceeds an entire universe, an almost living organism. I:Cube always touched by grace, smiling demiurge building track by track an ever growing intimacy with his listeners.

Gilbert Cohen


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A1. On M'a Dit (Full Length vocal mix) (5:52)
A2. On M'a Dit (Restez Con reprise) (2:31)
B1. On M'a Dit (Bufiman Prog Frog mix) (4:56)
B2. On M'a Dit (Bufiman Disco instrumental) (5:06)

"On m'a dit…" by Floco Floco is a lofi afro-disco stomper hailing straight from the new ghettos created by confinement. Something had to give and we are glad that Floco Floco, whoever he is, has chosen us to ease his lock down mind:

"I've been told to stay at home, on WhatsApp all day long, working in the studio, reading books I haven't read, I hope it won't be too long, I don't know if I can hold, smoking weed day & night, like never I have been before"

Not a message, just a statement.

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A1. De Luscious (Leo James Remix)
B1. Tu Ne Peux Pas Savoir (Priori Vocal Mix)
B2. Tribu Sauvage (Gilb R Late Night Remix)

Here are three remixes linked to the Head Voices of Ariel Kalma and Gilbert Cohen recent lp.
Australian producer Leo James turned De Luscious into an epic 12 minute monster dub version, in the vein of Rhythm and Sound. On the flip, Canadian producer Priori who recently released his great On A Nimbus, gave a deeper and minimal interpretation of Tu ne peux pas savoir.
An exclusive version of Tribu sauvage(track previously only digitally released), remixed by Gilb'R closes the chapter.
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A1. Prismatic
A2. Vantableu
A3. Gypsotheque
A4. La Grotte Aux Fees
B1. Kaszio
B2. 0_0_01_48
B3. Montsouris
B4. Infinite Melodies

I:Cube has made a new album. It is a very "hands on" album, as the eight tracks on show were created almost entirely by improvising with electronic hardware - synthesizers, sequencers, drum machines and effects units - and recorded in real time, with very little after-editing. It is also his first album in a decade, should you be keeping track.

During the time he spent recording it, which was in part inspired by the processes behind his 'Cubo Live Sessions' series, I:Cube had fun, experimented, unleashed the raw, primitive energy of his machines, and emptied his head of thought. The resultant tracks are instinctive, immersive and otherworldly, driven by the emotion of the moment rather than the formulaic structures of dance music. They are unpolished and immediate, but also immersive and sincere.

Think of it as a soundtrack to time spent alone in the studio, daydreaming in darkness and light, translating mental and physical messages in real time. It is not calculated, overblown or over-produced like much modern electronic music, but gently odd, engaging and pleasingly rough round the edges. In some ways, it is I:Cube's most personal and emotional album to date.
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A. Rex Ilusivii, Goran Vejvoda and Milan Mladeno - Untitled
B. CHBB - NBKE

UPROOTED, the sound of here and there.
Uprooted is a project curated by Vidal Benjamin. The concept behind the project comes from his
own personal experience of being uprooted. Under the wing of Versatile Records, he has
decided to launch a collection of double-sided limited edition, vinyl only, celebrating the duality
of people who take their roots from a place and embrace another culture.
The idea is to ask an appreciated music activist with a double cultural pedigree to choose two
tracks. One track that incarnates the place where he or she comes from (the sound of there,
side A) and another

No digital for this série.
Vinyl only.


#1-Vladimir Ivkovic


From Belgrade to Düsseldorf, uprooted or not, I compiled 2 tracks from my 2 cities.
Tracks that were always meant to be released on one 7".

On the Belgrade side there are Rex, Vejvoda, Milan. Rex Ilusivii, Goran Vejvoda and Milan Mladenovi?.
Summer of 1984, a short nighttime session on an improvised 4 track 1/4¨ tape studio setup in Goran's parents small living room in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Three young men getting away from their dry intellectual framework at the tail end of the influence of "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts". Maybe. Maybe not. A recording that should not exist, from the city that does not exist, from the country that could have shown the world how a melting pot can blend and stick together, no matter how countless obstacles lay ahead.

On the Düsseldorf side there is CHBB. Chrislo Haas and Beate Bartel. One track from the first of their four tapes, recorded and self-released in Düsseldorf in 1981. Rough powerful electronics with attitude, the future that happened more than 40 years ago and that is yet to come.

Untitled licensed courtesy of Ruža Suboti?, Goran Vejvoda and Zadužbina Milana Mladenovi?a.
NbkE licensed courtesy of Beate Bartel CHBB-Musik.

14.9.2022
Vladimir Ivkovic
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A1. Le Couple Coupable
A2. Caltecs Dance
A3. White Layers Over Black Papers
A4. Hephaistos Breeze
B1. Gelbe Schlange
B2. A Zombies Passeport
B3. Le Souffle D'hephaistos Attisant Le Fourneau Qui Crépite D'impatience
B4. L'Incantation Du Heros Aux Yeux Bandes

Imagine Prometheus, the thief of fire, the father of civilisation, had been spellbound by the sirens chanting and never felt pain, when the eagle bit his liver. Total enchantment, created by sound to overcome the pain of existence. A sound, styled by the ideal harmony of body and soul. And yet, the pain is still there, hidden between the notes, driving a romantic vision of salvation.

If Prometheus could have translated his fictitious epiphany into singing, it might sound like Ghédalia Tazartès's chanting in "White Layers Over Black Paper", one of the eight snake dance tracks-not-tracks by German producer Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax and French singer, hurdy-gurdy, spinet and harp player Emmanuelle Parrenin. During some days of intimate plays in Paris they created "Jours de Grève", a bouquet of music full of mirrors, eyes, statues, secret doors, rooms, and blood. With the offhanded help by friends and like-minded souls like Versatile aura mystic Gilbert Cohen, French avant-garde saxophone player Quentin Rollet and his fellow countryman, experimental voice artist Ghédalia Tazartès, they transformed in Cohen's studio impulsive emotions into a kind of medieval cult sound that dances with tribal dub layers in search for a higher ground.

The session took place during an intensive time of public strikes in the French capital, that tied up the public life of Paris and gave birth to the album's title "Jours de Grève". After the jam, Weinrich drove back to his old hometown Düsseldorf, sat down with his friend Jan Schulte aka Wolf Müller and mixed the captured notes, sounds, rhythms and singings into pristine tripping music, that avoids stylistic categorisations. As rather architecture, sculpture, painting, performing or film could express what Parrenin's hypnotic hurdy-gurdy performances, Tazartès's ancient deeply emotive ululations, Rollet's almost religious saxophone notes and Weinrich's toting grooves evoke in the psyche, it might be better to go back to Prometheus and the fire, that brought us light and warmth. "Jours de Grève" does too.

And it is a stolen one. A borrowed one. Affected by art and life outside of sound. Lent from a forgotten monument in a random city around the world. Swayed by an afternoon glass of wine in a Parisian street café. Affected by music of all ages. Unconsciously developed in the spirit of Philippe Doray and Les Asociaux Associés, Théâtre du Chêne Noir d'Avignon or Areski Belkacem's collaborations with Brigitte Fontaine. Above all Emmanuelle Parrenin extramundane voice swings, mutating between speech and chant, while Ghédalia Tazartès mourns like a wise illusionist. In tunes like "Caltec's Dance" you even feel the airiness of early Fun Boy Three recordings. All that is rooted on Weinrich's Tolouse Low Trax magnetic signature grooves, this time floating between dark tribal upbeat sexiness and dubbed-down bass sculpturalism.

If it is true that illuminating music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it, then "Jours de Grève" is an in impulse composed primitive state of rhizomatic paranormal psychic phenomenon, that incorporates all the worlds, that the naked eye cannot see.

Michael Leuffen

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GENRE/S: House, Deep House

TRACKLIST:

[12” vinyl]
A: Stay Here
B: Writer

Two of the most sensitive and sweet big room bangers to ever fill a floor, here’s Stay Here and Writer, the results of a recent machine jam between heavyweights of emotional dance music, Fort Romeau and Gold Panda.

Stay Here strikes first with slowly simmering synthesizers intertwining with slinky guitars and delicate vocal samples, while b-side Writer shows up to the party loaded with restrained euphoria, steady beats paving the path for the fragile acoustic elements of its glorious, beatless ending.

All of this spiked with just the right amount of acid to keep things constantly entrancing!

The record comes wrapped up in designer Eliot Axelsson's blurry shapes and vivid colours, arriving on vinyl and in digital form through Studio Barnhus on November 8.
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Artwork and Typography by Stefan Marx

Smallville Records welcomes Barcelona’s Lis Sarroca onto the imprint this November with her four-track ‘Untitled Thoughts’ EP.
Since 2018, Barcelona, Spain’s Lis Sarroca has been steadily unveiling her take on House, Techno, Disco and Electro via the likes of Shall Not Fade, Hot Haus and Chiwax among others as well maintain a steady presence across the globe as a heavily in demand DJ. Here, we see Sarocca making her debut on Smallville with her latest collection of works, again showcasing her widespread influences and mesmerising sonic aesthetic across four cuts.
Up first is ‘Atacote’, a hypnotic house cut with a Balearic feel courtesy of breathy vocals, cinematic strings, piano lines and hazy atmospherics, intertwined with organic percussion and bouncy sub bass tones. ‘Breaks Reminder’ follows and shifts gear into a broken rhythm section, squelchy acid lines and textural synths throughout.
Opening the flip-side is ‘Early Years’, diving back into deeper realms with a multitude of ethereal pads, dubby synth flutters, plucked bass hits and crisp drums. ‘Might Be’ then concludes the EP on a more chuggy Nu-Disco tip, employing gritty bass stabs, bubbling arpeggios, airy flute melodies and a saturated off-kilter drum groove.
Comes with a Full Cover Artwork by Stefan Marx

Tracklist:
A1 Atacote
A2 Breaks Reminder
B1 Early Years
B2 Might Be

All tracks written & produced by Lis Sarroca
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GENRE/S: indie-disco, disco-house, house, nu-disco

TRACKLIST:
A1 1999 - david bay & gome
A2 strangers - david bay
A3 <3 beat - david bay
A4 dancing on the edge - david bay

B1 1999 (Lauer Remix)
B2 strangers (Marie Lung Dub)
B3 <3 beat (Digitalism Remix)
B4 dancing on the edge (Dylan C. Greene Remix)

SHORT INFO:
Comic relief serves as a refreshing element that lightens up a tense or tragic situation. It creates a moment of contrast and distraction from the seriousness of the scene. This pattern can also be found in literature and film, in humorous characters like Chandler from the sitcom Friends. Especially in difficult times like these, we all occasionally long for comic relief. With his new EP, David Bay tries to create exactly such a moment of escape.
The songs on the EP unite an organic yet modern approach to indie, disco, and house music. David combines the two worlds he is rooted in: growing up in an indie band and, at the same time, running a disco-house label. After two edit EPs and a collection of singles with classic instrumentation and songwriting, this release brings everything together – music that sounds distinctly indie, but with a pulsating house beat.
Next to the four originals on the A-side, each track was remixed and is to be heard on the B-side of this vinyl: 80ies-influenced and well-known producer Lauer contributed his version of disco-gem „1999“, up and coming Dj- and producer Marie Lung flipped the indie-disco track „strangers“ into a deep and housy groover - Electro-legends Digitalism turned the dance-floor-ballad „<3 beat“ into a French-House belter and Dylan C. Greene hailing all the way from San Francisco remixed „dancing on the edge“. Out now on vinyl, only on Zissou Records.

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Rights: World excluding FR & UK

Packaging: 1 x140 Grs Black Vinyl, 3mm spine sleeve, printer inner , marketing sticker

SHORT BIOG / KEY POINTS

" All Orbital's classic tracks across all albums in one piece of vinyl / 1LP as cult edit versions.
" Extented 1CD edition with 6 additional tracks
" Orbital's own words about "A Beginner's Guide" : " The package you are holding in your hands is your threshold to a transformational psychoacoustic experience. An experience that will take you to spaces familiar, sonic pathways opening different times and different sounds to the chronosonic method of Orbital."


TRACKLISTING
VINYL
Side 1
01 Chime (Edit)
02 Halcyon (Edit)
03 Belfast (Edit)
04 Satan (Spawn)
05 The Box (Edit)

Side 2
06 Lush 3.1 (Edit)
07 Beached (Edit)
08 Are We Here? (Edit)
09 Are You Alive? (feat. Penelope Isles) (Edit)
10 Style (Edit)
11 Dirty Rat (Edit)

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Genre: Electronica Romantica / Nu Disco

System Olympia drops her album debut and, in turn, initiates her Okay Nature label. 'Delta Of Venus' takes elements of minimal synth/wave, pop, contemporary R&B, and fashions them into this steely, icy cool and highly original new form whilst keeping loyal to the DIY tradition. Stunning release that you really don't want to miss.

A Side:
The Only Way To Do It
Sirius Desire
So True
Look With Your Eyes
Possible Worlds


B Side:
Erotic Line
Tommib
You’re Not Talking
6AM Romance
Not Us (U)

Vital Sales Point:

First album from System Olympia
Sold out on presale twice when previously released
Currently selling for £ 100 average on Discogs.


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12"

GENRE:
Deep House


TRACKLISTS:
1. Choreosexual
2. No Respite

SHORT INFO:
The seventh excursion on our beloved Vessel and the joyful return of Jacob Ohrberg. Two lengthy deep tracks.


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Genre: Singer-Songwriter / Folk


Tracklist 12":

A1 – Requiem
A2 – Fled
A3 – Tired
A4 – Flinch
A5 – Catch
A6 – Once
B1 – Any
B2 – Understand
B3 – Two
B4 – Lies
B5 – Shook


Info:

Grief, sadness, goodbye. With "Shook", Rico Friebe returns to the purest form of acoustic intimacy - just his voice and the guitar after the Requiem introduction. Being in daily grief and torment for almost 500 days, he melodized a funeral procession, burying an agony, being the sole attendant, shining a light in darkest night...

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Genre: Balearic, Boogie, Vintage

After a string of ambient and experimental releases across labels such as Bedroom Suck, Best Effort, Ken Oath and Analogue Attic, Matthew Hayes - veteran bassist of Z*F*E*X, welcomes his latest project Xpress Point, designed to keep your hips moving rather than kicked back on your couch. Born out of jam sessions and collaborations with artists such as Dreamcastmoe, Jitwam, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Finn Rees and Allysha Joy and an obsession with reclaiming the nostalgic sound sounds of the Korg M1 and Yamaha DX7, Xpress Point, which takes Its name from a local surf break off the coast of Phillip Island, draws heavily from the boogie tradition with a nod to vapourware, downtempo, balearic and funk breaks.
Assembled in 2023 across Melbourne/Naarm, London and Berlin, from surf breaks to crusty drum breaks, Xpress Point is a vehicle for Hayes to search for the perfect bass line, explore funk minimalism, continue nurturing longtime musical relationships with close friends and offer his own take on music to make you move.


A1. Been Remindin’ Me
A2. Newbutt Lane
A3. Wine w/Me
A4. Gregory
A5. Ohh take!
B1. Feel Free
B2. Boi plz don’t go
B3. Go For It
B4. Follow Me More