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phase space - Sync
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phase space - Some Pluck
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phase space - Generator I
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phase space - Sleep Pressure
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phase space - Loper
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phase space - Generator II
No Return!
Gwenan Spearing, known for her perceptive, groove-oriented DJ sets, and more recently as a live performer working with hardware improvisation, launches a new imprint, Phase Space, with Degrees of Freedom, a debut album diving deep into generative electronics, modular systems, and real-time response.
Composed and recorded in 2019-2020, the album treats constraint as creative fuel, floating between ambient, sonic sculpture, and improvisation, mapping Gwenan's path from rural Wales to Berlin's outer zones of experimental sound.
Sync opens with a theme on a slow triangle wave, expanding the space as it evolves. Some Pluck explores generative counterpoint using LFOs and Euclidean rhythms. Generator I unfolds in an oscillating time where keyboard and bass circuits cross-modulate. Sleep Pressure is a lullaby for grown-ups, capturing that eerie threshold before sleep, followed by Loper, where time flows fluid and unstable. The closer, Generator II, holds machine heartbeats in delicate equilibrium before unraveling into graceful decay, a soft farewell. (That's the Universe waving.) Degrees of Freedom is algorithmic music with a pulse: visceral, hand-wired, and built for deep listening.
A1: Sync (07:10)
A2: Some Pluck (03:49)
B: Generator I (09:34)
C1: Sleep Pressure (06:45)
C2: Loper (02:31)
D: Generator II (11:26)
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Gwenan Spearing, known for her perceptive, groove-oriented DJ sets, and more recently as a live performer working with hardware improvisation, launches a new imprint, Phase Space, with Degrees of Freedom, a debut album diving deep into generative electronics, modular systems, and real-time response.
Composed and recorded in 2019-2020, the album treats constraint as creative fuel, floating between ambient, sonic sculpture, and improvisation, mapping Gwenan's path from rural Wales to Berlin's outer zones of experimental sound.
Sync opens with a theme on a slow triangle wave, expanding the space as it evolves. Some Pluck explores generative counterpoint using LFOs and Euclidean rhythms. Generator I unfolds in an oscillating time where keyboard and bass circuits cross-modulate. Sleep Pressure is a lullaby for grown-ups, capturing that eerie threshold before sleep, followed by Loper, where time flows fluid and unstable. The closer, Generator II, holds machine heartbeats in delicate equilibrium before unraveling into graceful decay, a soft farewell. (That's the Universe waving.) Degrees of Freedom is algorithmic music with a pulse: visceral, hand-wired, and built for deep listening.
A1: Sync (07:10)
A2: Some Pluck (03:49)
B: Generator I (09:34)
C1: Sleep Pressure (06:45)
C2: Loper (02:31)
D: Generator II (11:26)
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Label:Melodies International
Cat-No:MEL24
Release-Date:05.12.2025
Genre:Dub/Reggae
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Label:Melodies International
Cat-No:MEL24
Release-Date:05.12.2025
Genre:Dub/Reggae
Configuration:7" Excl
Melodies International’s next record features a previously unreleased collaboration between the Ariwa camp (Mad Professor’s label and studio) and rising UK R&B artist Abel Miller — a Lovers Rock cover of the classic 1960s Philadelphia soul track “Everytime I See My Baby” by The Delfonics.
A few years ago, Mad Professor teamed up with frequent collaborator and multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Black Steel — who regularly records bass, guitar, keys, and vocals for Ariwa Studios (“he can play anything” Mad Professor tells us) — to record a series of Lovers Rock covers of songs by The Delfonics. Mad Professor’s love for 60s and 70s US soul is no secret and shines through much of his production, but he realised he had never heard this particular song, originally written by Thom Bell and William Hart. For the session, they brought in Ashanti Selah on keys and Horseman on drums, with Abel Miller delivering the lead vocals. Mad Professor and his son Joe Ariwa recorded and produced the track.
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A few years ago, Mad Professor teamed up with frequent collaborator and multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Black Steel — who regularly records bass, guitar, keys, and vocals for Ariwa Studios (“he can play anything” Mad Professor tells us) — to record a series of Lovers Rock covers of songs by The Delfonics. Mad Professor’s love for 60s and 70s US soul is no secret and shines through much of his production, but he realised he had never heard this particular song, originally written by Thom Bell and William Hart. For the session, they brought in Ashanti Selah on keys and Horseman on drums, with Abel Miller delivering the lead vocals. Mad Professor and his son Joe Ariwa recorded and produced the track.
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Idjut Boys & Minjung Kate Kim - Word Salad Version
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Idjut Boys & Minjung Kate Kim - Conical Squares Version
Tracklist
A1. WTF – Word Salad Version
B1. WTF – Conical Squares Version
Info:
Further Adventures of the WTF Band ... because three letters are cheaper than
therapy. The Idjuts and Minjung Kate Kim continue their campaign to replace BPM
with LOL.
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A1. WTF – Word Salad Version
B1. WTF – Conical Squares Version
Info:
Further Adventures of the WTF Band ... because three letters are cheaper than
therapy. The Idjuts and Minjung Kate Kim continue their campaign to replace BPM
with LOL.
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A.Wild - ReportDeluxe
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A.Wild - Balance Board
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A.Wild - Got Me!
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A.Wild - Still Shiny Bright
GENRE/S: House
[Vinyl]
A1. ReportDeluxe
A2. Balance Board
B1. Got Me!
B2. Still Shiny Bright
SHORT INFO:
Bristol-based artist and DJ A.Wild presents his debut EP, ReportDeluxe, a striking collection of four hypnotic tech-house-not-tech-house tracks crafted with meticulous care, showcasing adventurous samples and a distinctive, slightly acidic atmosphere.
Known for exploring the deeper and more immersive aspects of dance music, A.Wild skillfully integrates an assortment of captivating sonic details that thrive both on and off the club dancefloor.
Out on vinyl and digital platforms on July 18, ReportDeluxe firmly establishes A.Wild’s as a true leader of the new school, his fresh and compelling approach to sound set to transport listeners into ever-so-fresh musical spaces.
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[Vinyl]
A1. ReportDeluxe
A2. Balance Board
B1. Got Me!
B2. Still Shiny Bright
SHORT INFO:
Bristol-based artist and DJ A.Wild presents his debut EP, ReportDeluxe, a striking collection of four hypnotic tech-house-not-tech-house tracks crafted with meticulous care, showcasing adventurous samples and a distinctive, slightly acidic atmosphere.
Known for exploring the deeper and more immersive aspects of dance music, A.Wild skillfully integrates an assortment of captivating sonic details that thrive both on and off the club dancefloor.
Out on vinyl and digital platforms on July 18, ReportDeluxe firmly establishes A.Wild’s as a true leader of the new school, his fresh and compelling approach to sound set to transport listeners into ever-so-fresh musical spaces.
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Al Karpenter - 1. We Are All Karpenters
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Al Karpenter - 2. Mundo Chabola
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Al Karpenter - 3. Izugarrizko Buruak (Greatest Heads)
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Al Karpenter - 4. A Brand New Astrophobia
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Al Karpenter - 5. The Most Grudgeful Lie
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Al Karpenter - 6. Tout Avant de Devenir Rein
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Al Karpenter - 7. Stop The Genocide!
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Al Karpenter - 8. Worm City
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Al Karpenter - 9. Death Song
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Al Karpenter - 10.Perfect Love
LP - territory: WW- UK/USA/CA/Benelux
LP LTD 300 with 8 page 12” booklet
Tracklist
1. We Are All Karpenters
2. Mundo Chabola
3. Izugarrizko Buruak (Greatest Heads)
4. A Brand New Astrophobia
5. The Most Grudgeful Lie
6. Tout Avant de Devenir Rein
7. Stop The Genocide!
8. Worm City
9. Death Song
10.Perfect Love
Released by Hegoa Records and Night School Records.
Greatest Heads is the fourth album by the radical Basque- Berlinesque group Al Karpenter. A
deconstruction of structured “rock” music, here Al Karpenter re-imagine “the band” to explore
the intersection between Free music, afro-beat, the avant garde and gonzo rock.
If Theodore Adorno wrote “To Write Poetry after Auschwitz is Barbaric” in 1949, Al Karpenter
attempts to answer the difficult question today; what kind of music can be done in the face of a
genocide? Álvaro Matilla, Marta Sainz, Enrique Zaccagnini & Mattin’s response to the planet’s
slipping into a vortex of hate is to create a music ecstatic, a music of protest bursting with multiple
musical languages and glossaries, full of overlapping histories and thrilling tensions.
Greatest Heads posits a plurality of musics both in opposition and intertwined: Al Karpenter play rock
instruments pulled apart in the studio in post-production. Distorted rhythm chunks bit-crushed and
dissipated, segments of freedom oppressed by waves of sound invading from every direction. The
interplay between the chief instrumentalists and renowned, storied sound artist Mattin creates
something akin to ESP freedom-seekers Cro Magnon playing in Miles Davis’ early 70s groups, The
Los Angeles Free Music Society tightening up into a clenched fist of plunderphonics and runaway
percussion.
We Are All Karpenters opens Greatest Heads with the most straight-forward song refrain of the record
accompanied by a band that soon crash into eruption, imagining Sun City Girls in full free rock mode.
The modulating synth sound soon sucks the band into its wake to create a spine-chilling climax of
distorted sound, made fully orgasmic with mastering engineer Rashad Becker’s attention to detail. On
Izugarrizko Buruak (Greatest Heads), Matilla intones in Basque over a mangled distorto-beat. A Brand
New Astraphobia creates a black space for a heavily processed guitar to blow up before falling to earth
at night, a gentle figure serenading the coming end.
On Side B, the band begins by being masticated by a brutal phaser, squelching and stretching the
music into new territories. The overt message of Stop The Genocide! is besieged by violence before
Worm City aggressively samples the ghosts of soul music, mixing in noise bursts, prepared piano and
swiping, abstracted sound. Epic closer Perfect Love feels like a beat poetry performance on a burnt
world, still grasping for community, for home, for some sort of human love. A Mad love, then; an angry
love fuelled by solidarity and collaboration.
The band’s cascading layers of references and polyglottal musics attempt to create the perfect lover,
alive with rage and disorientating ecstasy: Al Karpenter.
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LP LTD 300 with 8 page 12” booklet
Tracklist
1. We Are All Karpenters
2. Mundo Chabola
3. Izugarrizko Buruak (Greatest Heads)
4. A Brand New Astrophobia
5. The Most Grudgeful Lie
6. Tout Avant de Devenir Rein
7. Stop The Genocide!
8. Worm City
9. Death Song
10.Perfect Love
Released by Hegoa Records and Night School Records.
Greatest Heads is the fourth album by the radical Basque- Berlinesque group Al Karpenter. A
deconstruction of structured “rock” music, here Al Karpenter re-imagine “the band” to explore
the intersection between Free music, afro-beat, the avant garde and gonzo rock.
If Theodore Adorno wrote “To Write Poetry after Auschwitz is Barbaric” in 1949, Al Karpenter
attempts to answer the difficult question today; what kind of music can be done in the face of a
genocide? Álvaro Matilla, Marta Sainz, Enrique Zaccagnini & Mattin’s response to the planet’s
slipping into a vortex of hate is to create a music ecstatic, a music of protest bursting with multiple
musical languages and glossaries, full of overlapping histories and thrilling tensions.
Greatest Heads posits a plurality of musics both in opposition and intertwined: Al Karpenter play rock
instruments pulled apart in the studio in post-production. Distorted rhythm chunks bit-crushed and
dissipated, segments of freedom oppressed by waves of sound invading from every direction. The
interplay between the chief instrumentalists and renowned, storied sound artist Mattin creates
something akin to ESP freedom-seekers Cro Magnon playing in Miles Davis’ early 70s groups, The
Los Angeles Free Music Society tightening up into a clenched fist of plunderphonics and runaway
percussion.
We Are All Karpenters opens Greatest Heads with the most straight-forward song refrain of the record
accompanied by a band that soon crash into eruption, imagining Sun City Girls in full free rock mode.
The modulating synth sound soon sucks the band into its wake to create a spine-chilling climax of
distorted sound, made fully orgasmic with mastering engineer Rashad Becker’s attention to detail. On
Izugarrizko Buruak (Greatest Heads), Matilla intones in Basque over a mangled distorto-beat. A Brand
New Astraphobia creates a black space for a heavily processed guitar to blow up before falling to earth
at night, a gentle figure serenading the coming end.
On Side B, the band begins by being masticated by a brutal phaser, squelching and stretching the
music into new territories. The overt message of Stop The Genocide! is besieged by violence before
Worm City aggressively samples the ghosts of soul music, mixing in noise bursts, prepared piano and
swiping, abstracted sound. Epic closer Perfect Love feels like a beat poetry performance on a burnt
world, still grasping for community, for home, for some sort of human love. A Mad love, then; an angry
love fuelled by solidarity and collaboration.
The band’s cascading layers of references and polyglottal musics attempt to create the perfect lover,
alive with rage and disorientating ecstasy: Al Karpenter.
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Butch - Glory Night
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Butch - Glory Night Tool
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Butch - Just Chill
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Butch - Just Fly
Tracklist
A1. Glory Night
A2. Glory Night Tool
B1. Just Chill
B2. Just Fly
Info:
Butch’s unmistakable music has always worn the influence of disco proudly on its sleeve. Both his mega-hit No Worries and his first contribution to the Running Back catalogue, Desire, are essentially modern-day disco records. The same goes for his return to the label with Glory Night—perhaps even more so, thanks to its vintage engineering and authentic aural treatment. Equipped with the genre’s signature sounds and arranged like a lost disco edit from the late ’70s, Butch applies the lotions and potions that today’s dancers demand, creating one of those peak-time sensations that make him unique—complete with confetti, a firecracker breakdown on top, and an extra rhythm section bonus tool included. Just Chill and Just Fly continue that narrative. While the first appeals to fans of R&B or funk samples (though no recordings were harmed in the process), it is catchy as hell and creates an inescapable maelstrom. The second, meanwhile, draws on the principles of deep house and exercises itself in contemplation. Be that as it may, here are a couple of tracks that work on almost any floor and at any time. Or, to quote Giorgio Moroder: “Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.”
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A1. Glory Night
A2. Glory Night Tool
B1. Just Chill
B2. Just Fly
Info:
Butch’s unmistakable music has always worn the influence of disco proudly on its sleeve. Both his mega-hit No Worries and his first contribution to the Running Back catalogue, Desire, are essentially modern-day disco records. The same goes for his return to the label with Glory Night—perhaps even more so, thanks to its vintage engineering and authentic aural treatment. Equipped with the genre’s signature sounds and arranged like a lost disco edit from the late ’70s, Butch applies the lotions and potions that today’s dancers demand, creating one of those peak-time sensations that make him unique—complete with confetti, a firecracker breakdown on top, and an extra rhythm section bonus tool included. Just Chill and Just Fly continue that narrative. While the first appeals to fans of R&B or funk samples (though no recordings were harmed in the process), it is catchy as hell and creates an inescapable maelstrom. The second, meanwhile, draws on the principles of deep house and exercises itself in contemplation. Be that as it may, here are a couple of tracks that work on almost any floor and at any time. Or, to quote Giorgio Moroder: “Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.”
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L'Empire Des Sons - A1 Venise
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L'Empire Des Sons - A2 Mais Où Est Donc Ornicar ?
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L'Empire Des Sons - A3 Antilope
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L'Empire Des Sons - A4 Celles De La Haute Mer
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L'Empire Des Sons - A5 Opium
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L'Empire Des Sons - B1 Voyage Autour De Ma Tête
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L'Empire Des Sons - B2 Le Trapéziste
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L'Empire Des Sons - B3 Moitié Panthère
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L'Empire Des Sons - B4 L'Année De La Comète
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L'Empire Des Sons - B5 Quand Nos Pères Étaient Des Poissons
LP
GENRE/S: Avantgarde, Lounge, Experimental
TRACKLISTS:
A1 Venise
A2 Mais Où Est Donc Ornicar ?
A3 Antilope
A4 Celles De La Haute Mer
A5 Opium
B1 Voyage Autour De Ma Tête
B2 Le Trapéziste
B3 Moitié Panthère
B4 L'Année De La Comète
B5 Quand Nos Pères Étaient Des Poissons
SHORT INFO:
An elusive cult gem resurfaces through Glossy Mistakes. Originally released in 1986, L'Empire Des Sons is an otherworldly blend of synth pop, folk experimentation, and cinematic percussive layers-dreamlike, poetic, and wildly ahead of its time.
L'Empire Des Sons was a fleeting yet powerful transmission from the fringes of the French underground-an album that blurred genre lines and evaded easy classification. Fusing experimental folk, lo-fi synth pop, and avant-garde textures, the record exists in its own sonic universe: poetic, layered, and fiercely independent.
Formed in Saint-Étienne by percussionist and composer Dominique Lentin (Dagon, Fille Qui Mousse) and first-time vocalist Bipé Redon, L'Empire Des Sons emerged from the vibrant DIY spirit of the early 1980s. Their paths crossed during the interdisciplinary project L'Opéra Quotidien, and what followed was an intuitive, deeply collaborative process. "I would bring in lyrics and my voice," Bipé recalled, "and Dominique would shape the music around the atmosphere or rhythm suggested by the words."
The result is a collection of songs that feel both meticulously constructed and completely free. Ethnic percussion, marimbas, xylophones, and synthesizers dance around Bipé's surreal, fragmented lyrics-little sonic postcards from imagined worlds. There's a theatricality here, but it never feels forced; rather, it's playful, intimate, and raw.
Despite their inventiveness, L'Empire Des Sons remained a well-kept secret-circulating only in select avant-garde circles and eventually becoming an extremely sought-after collector's item.
Now, thanks to Glossy Mistakes, this lost artifact returns to the world with new life: remastered from the original tapes, pressed on vinyl for the first time with extended liner notes.
L'Empire Des Sons was never meant to be boxed in. Like the quote from Brian Eno that opens their liner notes-"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time"-their music resists stasis. It evolves, shifts, surprises. And now, it finally gets the audience it always deserved.
VITAL SALES POINTS:
- One of the most sought-after private pressings from the French avant-garde
- Remastered from source material
- Includes extensive liner notes with unseen pictures of the band
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GENRE/S: Avantgarde, Lounge, Experimental
TRACKLISTS:
A1 Venise
A2 Mais Où Est Donc Ornicar ?
A3 Antilope
A4 Celles De La Haute Mer
A5 Opium
B1 Voyage Autour De Ma Tête
B2 Le Trapéziste
B3 Moitié Panthère
B4 L'Année De La Comète
B5 Quand Nos Pères Étaient Des Poissons
SHORT INFO:
An elusive cult gem resurfaces through Glossy Mistakes. Originally released in 1986, L'Empire Des Sons is an otherworldly blend of synth pop, folk experimentation, and cinematic percussive layers-dreamlike, poetic, and wildly ahead of its time.
L'Empire Des Sons was a fleeting yet powerful transmission from the fringes of the French underground-an album that blurred genre lines and evaded easy classification. Fusing experimental folk, lo-fi synth pop, and avant-garde textures, the record exists in its own sonic universe: poetic, layered, and fiercely independent.
Formed in Saint-Étienne by percussionist and composer Dominique Lentin (Dagon, Fille Qui Mousse) and first-time vocalist Bipé Redon, L'Empire Des Sons emerged from the vibrant DIY spirit of the early 1980s. Their paths crossed during the interdisciplinary project L'Opéra Quotidien, and what followed was an intuitive, deeply collaborative process. "I would bring in lyrics and my voice," Bipé recalled, "and Dominique would shape the music around the atmosphere or rhythm suggested by the words."
The result is a collection of songs that feel both meticulously constructed and completely free. Ethnic percussion, marimbas, xylophones, and synthesizers dance around Bipé's surreal, fragmented lyrics-little sonic postcards from imagined worlds. There's a theatricality here, but it never feels forced; rather, it's playful, intimate, and raw.
Despite their inventiveness, L'Empire Des Sons remained a well-kept secret-circulating only in select avant-garde circles and eventually becoming an extremely sought-after collector's item.
Now, thanks to Glossy Mistakes, this lost artifact returns to the world with new life: remastered from the original tapes, pressed on vinyl for the first time with extended liner notes.
L'Empire Des Sons was never meant to be boxed in. Like the quote from Brian Eno that opens their liner notes-"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time"-their music resists stasis. It evolves, shifts, surprises. And now, it finally gets the audience it always deserved.
VITAL SALES POINTS:
- One of the most sought-after private pressings from the French avant-garde
- Remastered from source material
- Includes extensive liner notes with unseen pictures of the band
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Label:Maloca Records
Cat-No:MLC020
Release-Date:26.09.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:LP Excl
Label:Maloca Records
Cat-No:MLC020
Release-Date:26.09.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:LP Excl
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Le Motel, Magugu - Bad From Day
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Le Motel, Magugu - Bitter Better
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Le Motel, Magugu - No Fear
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Le Motel, Magugu - Gal Dem
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Le Motel, Magugu - Believe - Magugu
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Le Motel, Magugu - On Topper
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Le Motel, Magugu - Blend
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Le Motel, Magugu - Kindness Weakness
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Le Motel, Magugu - Let Me Down
Territories: World ex US, CA, UK
Tracklist
Side 1 (A)
1. Bad From Day
2. Bitter Better
3. No Fear
4. Gal Dem
5. Believe - Magugu
Side 2 (B)
1. On Topper
2. Blend
3. Kindness Weakness
4. Let Me Down
Blurb:
Label boss Le Motel and versatile pidgin-rap experimentalist Magugu return to Maloca for their second full-length EP, Bitter Better. Drawing roots once again from across the full club music continuum, the release is a tour de force through rugged rhythmic workouts and self-assured vocal flows as the duo continue to develop their shared universe.
Available on vinyl, Bitter Better is also the artists' first ever shared physical release - all 5 tracks appearing on side A. On the B side, the duo's first EP, 2023's Kindness Weakness can be found, making this record a must-have for long standing fans and those just discovering Le Motel and Magugu's output.
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Tracklist
Side 1 (A)
1. Bad From Day
2. Bitter Better
3. No Fear
4. Gal Dem
5. Believe - Magugu
Side 2 (B)
1. On Topper
2. Blend
3. Kindness Weakness
4. Let Me Down
Blurb:
Label boss Le Motel and versatile pidgin-rap experimentalist Magugu return to Maloca for their second full-length EP, Bitter Better. Drawing roots once again from across the full club music continuum, the release is a tour de force through rugged rhythmic workouts and self-assured vocal flows as the duo continue to develop their shared universe.
Available on vinyl, Bitter Better is also the artists' first ever shared physical release - all 5 tracks appearing on side A. On the B side, the duo's first EP, 2023's Kindness Weakness can be found, making this record a must-have for long standing fans and those just discovering Le Motel and Magugu's output.
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Charm - Unitra Fonica
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Charm - Lay Your Soul Down On The Floor
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Charm - Because Of You
lim. 2025 Repress / Red Vinyl!
Limited repress of „Charm`s “ first 3 Track Ep, include the original mix of „ Lay your Soul Down on the Floor“ (Red colored Vinyl).Three harmonic and deep tracks which were made mid of the town in a lab of Berlins Underground Basement. Created as a reminiscence to the deep beauty of our souls and the sound of labels like Tonika or Driftwood.
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Limited repress of „Charm`s “ first 3 Track Ep, include the original mix of „ Lay your Soul Down on the Floor“ (Red colored Vinyl).Three harmonic and deep tracks which were made mid of the town in a lab of Berlins Underground Basement. Created as a reminiscence to the deep beauty of our souls and the sound of labels like Tonika or Driftwood.
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Label:Smallville Records
Cat-No:smallville70
Release-Date:05.09.2025
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
Label:Smallville Records
Cat-No:smallville70
Release-Date:05.09.2025
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
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Ashtar Afterhours - Body Music
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Ashtar Afterhours - Lite Of My Life
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Ashtar Afterhours - Intro To Ashtar
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Ashtar Afterhours - Touchy Feely
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Ashtar Afterhours - Taeya Vs. Gia Maria
Artwork and Typography by Stefan Marx
Tracklist:
A1 Body Music
A2 Lite Of My Life
B1 Intro To Ashtar
B2 Touchy Feely
B3 Taeya Vs. Gia Marie
Here's to a special one..
Ashtar Afterhours is Kenneth Graham - originally from Los Angeles, he has been a defining presence in electronic music ever since the 90s. Buying his first classic synthesizer, a Yamaha CS01, in 1984, he delved into music production at an early stage. Kenneth put out over 40 releases over the years- under his own name as well as stepping up under various aliases- Estelle Montenegro, KG Beat, Exit Strategy and many others. Kenneth also formed some super-groups together with friends, his Sun Children / Sunkiss project- together with David Alvarado- put out highly influential music on legendary Peacefrog Records.
Body Music was originally released on Plastic City in 2001 and it has been a Smallville favourite since a long time, so we are super happy to present this beauty as a repress, as always with a full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.
All tracks written & produced by Kenneth Graham, B3 w&p by Kenneth Graham & Gabriel Ortega
Vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at Lathesville
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Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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Tracklist:
A1 Body Music
A2 Lite Of My Life
B1 Intro To Ashtar
B2 Touchy Feely
B3 Taeya Vs. Gia Marie
Here's to a special one..
Ashtar Afterhours is Kenneth Graham - originally from Los Angeles, he has been a defining presence in electronic music ever since the 90s. Buying his first classic synthesizer, a Yamaha CS01, in 1984, he delved into music production at an early stage. Kenneth put out over 40 releases over the years- under his own name as well as stepping up under various aliases- Estelle Montenegro, KG Beat, Exit Strategy and many others. Kenneth also formed some super-groups together with friends, his Sun Children / Sunkiss project- together with David Alvarado- put out highly influential music on legendary Peacefrog Records.
Body Music was originally released on Plastic City in 2001 and it has been a Smallville favourite since a long time, so we are super happy to present this beauty as a repress, as always with a full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.
All tracks written & produced by Kenneth Graham, B3 w&p by Kenneth Graham & Gabriel Ortega
Vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at Lathesville
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
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Aric - I Love Your Love - Original 4:18
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Aric - I Love Your Love - Gerd Janson Remix 6:29
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Aric - Oh What A Night 3:34
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Aric - I Love Your Love - Elado Remix 5:57
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Aric - I Love Your Love - Pete Dub 8:41
Tracklist:
A1. I Love Your Love - Original 4:18
A2. I Love Your Love - Gerd Janson Remix 6:29
A3. Oh What A Night 3:34
B1. I Love Your Love - Elado Remix 5:57
B2. I Love Your Love - Pete Dub 8:41
Lost tracks don’t stay lost forever. Running Back is proud to present the reissue of Aric’s I Love Your Love – a long-forgotten gem from the good-time party days of the early dance era. Originally created in the spirit of celebration and groove, these tracks disappeared into obscurity until a few dedicated DJs and dancers across the globe began bringing them back to life.
When Elado stumbled upon the songs and saw the magic they still held for modern dancefloors, he tracked down Aric – now better known as Dr. Aric, a paediatric public health professional – to bring the music back to the world. What followed was a journey through memory, music, and rediscovery.
The result is here: the original cuts, plus fresh remixes from Elado, Pete Blaker, and Gerd Janson. Nostalgia meets new energy, and the dancefloor wins again.
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
A1. I Love Your Love - Original 4:18
A2. I Love Your Love - Gerd Janson Remix 6:29
A3. Oh What A Night 3:34
B1. I Love Your Love - Elado Remix 5:57
B2. I Love Your Love - Pete Dub 8:41
Lost tracks don’t stay lost forever. Running Back is proud to present the reissue of Aric’s I Love Your Love – a long-forgotten gem from the good-time party days of the early dance era. Originally created in the spirit of celebration and groove, these tracks disappeared into obscurity until a few dedicated DJs and dancers across the globe began bringing them back to life.
When Elado stumbled upon the songs and saw the magic they still held for modern dancefloors, he tracked down Aric – now better known as Dr. Aric, a paediatric public health professional – to bring the music back to the world. What followed was a journey through memory, music, and rediscovery.
The result is here: the original cuts, plus fresh remixes from Elado, Pete Blaker, and Gerd Janson. Nostalgia meets new energy, and the dancefloor wins again.
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
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JON GRAVY - Smash
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JON GRAVY - Promise
3
JON GRAVY - Mercy
4
JON GRAVY - Clouds
5
JON GRAVY - Opaque
6
JON GRAVY - Know
7
JON GRAVY - Soar
8
JON GRAVY - Retina
12"
GENRE/S: GENRE/S: Electronica/ UK Garage / Future Garage
TRACKLISTS:
A1 Jon Gravy - Smash (2:25) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00506
A2 Jon Gravy - Promise (2:50) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00503
A3 Jon Gravy - Mercy (3:15) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00504
A4 Jon Gravy - Clouds (3:14) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00502
B1 Jon Gravy - Opaque (3:40) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00505
B2 Jon Gravy - Know (2:47) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00507
B3 Jon Gravy - Soar (2:49) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00501
B4 Jon Gravy - Retina (4:08) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00508
SHORT INFO:
Opaque—a collection of eight tracks that delves deep into the layered, introspective nature of being. Marked by atmospheric textures, warm grooves, and emotionally rich soundscapes, Opaque is arguably Jon Gravy’s most honest and personal work to date. The album drifts between subtle melancholy and moments of light, inviting listeners into a space of quiet reflection and sonic depth.
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
GENRE/S: GENRE/S: Electronica/ UK Garage / Future Garage
TRACKLISTS:
A1 Jon Gravy - Smash (2:25) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00506
A2 Jon Gravy - Promise (2:50) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00503
A3 Jon Gravy - Mercy (3:15) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00504
A4 Jon Gravy - Clouds (3:14) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00502
B1 Jon Gravy - Opaque (3:40) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00505
B2 Jon Gravy - Know (2:47) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00507
B3 Jon Gravy - Soar (2:49) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00501
B4 Jon Gravy - Retina (4:08) ISRC: AT-JA5-25-00508
SHORT INFO:
Opaque—a collection of eight tracks that delves deep into the layered, introspective nature of being. Marked by atmospheric textures, warm grooves, and emotionally rich soundscapes, Opaque is arguably Jon Gravy’s most honest and personal work to date. The album drifts between subtle melancholy and moments of light, inviting listeners into a space of quiet reflection and sonic depth.
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More