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enrico mantini - Overflowing
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enrico mantini - low end walker
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enrico mantini - needin' u
UPC 827170546264 Rel date 14.4.2014
Tracklisting: A. Overflowing B1. Low End Walker B2. Needin U
Half Baked records starts 2014 with a release from one of his most recently signed residents: Enrico Mantini.
Having been part of the deep house movement since its earliest age, djing since 1987 and having released on labels such as UMM or Traxx Underground among many others, we can consider Enrico as one of the European founders of the deep house movement. His signature sound is raw, punchy and deep; a pure analog wave that immediately floods the dancefloor with good energy and euphoria. HB004 is no different. A three tracker sporting the Italian’s recipe for House: gangsta basses, rolling kicks, playful vocals and jazzy synth stabs. HB004 marks a detachment from the micro-house aesthetics of the first three releases, drifting towards an old school sound, while preserving the standard of quality associated with the Half Baked name. The fourth instalment of Half Baked records is born under a good sign…the sign of dancefloor!
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Tracklisting: A. Overflowing B1. Low End Walker B2. Needin U
Half Baked records starts 2014 with a release from one of his most recently signed residents: Enrico Mantini.
Having been part of the deep house movement since its earliest age, djing since 1987 and having released on labels such as UMM or Traxx Underground among many others, we can consider Enrico as one of the European founders of the deep house movement. His signature sound is raw, punchy and deep; a pure analog wave that immediately floods the dancefloor with good energy and euphoria. HB004 is no different. A three tracker sporting the Italian’s recipe for House: gangsta basses, rolling kicks, playful vocals and jazzy synth stabs. HB004 marks a detachment from the micro-house aesthetics of the first three releases, drifting towards an old school sound, while preserving the standard of quality associated with the Half Baked name. The fourth instalment of Half Baked records is born under a good sign…the sign of dancefloor!
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More records from enrico mantini
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Enrico Mantini - Who's Better?
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Enrico Mantini - I Need
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Enrico Mantini - Freedom
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Enrico Mantini - I Luv U
“Forgotten Trax” by Enrico Mantini is a celebration of the artist’s contribution to the early 90s house music scene, reintroducing seminal tracks to contemporary audiences in a carefully curated EP. Mantini’s influence on Italian house music and deep house is undeniable, and this reissue EP pays homage to his legacy.
The selection of tracks on “Forgotten Trax” reflects Mantini’s ability to resonate with audiences worldwide, earning him recognition from influential DJs across generations. From Ricardo Villalobos to Jamie Jones, these tracks have found their way into the sets of some of the most respected names in the industry.
Originally released in the early 90s, these tracks have since become coveted rarities, commanding high prices on platforms like Discogs. Now, with this vinyl-only reissue, fans and collectors have the chance to experience these timeless pieces once more, remastered for optimal sound quality.
“Forgotten Trax” is more than just a reissue; it’s a testament to Enrico Mantini’s enduring impact on the house music landscape and a rare opportunity for aficionados to connect with the roots of the genre. Vinyl Only ! More
The selection of tracks on “Forgotten Trax” reflects Mantini’s ability to resonate with audiences worldwide, earning him recognition from influential DJs across generations. From Ricardo Villalobos to Jamie Jones, these tracks have found their way into the sets of some of the most respected names in the industry.
Originally released in the early 90s, these tracks have since become coveted rarities, commanding high prices on platforms like Discogs. Now, with this vinyl-only reissue, fans and collectors have the chance to experience these timeless pieces once more, remastered for optimal sound quality.
“Forgotten Trax” is more than just a reissue; it’s a testament to Enrico Mantini’s enduring impact on the house music landscape and a rare opportunity for aficionados to connect with the roots of the genre. Vinyl Only ! More
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enrico mantini - Don't Make
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enrico mantini - Get Infatuation
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enrico mantini - Lost In A Beat
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enrico mantini - Whenever You Want Me
Re-issue from Italian house instigator Enrico Mantini which is going to set another mark in his discography. 4 of Mantini's best tracks from years 2012 - 2014 personally chosen by the artist from Mantini's very own label Down Da Mountains.
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enrico mantini - Needin U
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enrico mantini - Don't Think About It
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enrico mantini - Take Me Make Me
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enrico mantini - Get Into Da Muzik
Re-issue from Italian house instigator Enrico Mantini which is going to set another mark in his discography. 4 of Mantini's best tracks from years 2012 - 2014 personally chosen by the artist from Mantini's very own label Down Da Mountains.
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enrico mantini - 2003 Ub313
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enrico mantini - Ceres
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enrico mantini - Pluto
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enrico mantini - Earth
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enrico mantini - Neptune
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enrico mantini - Jupiter
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enrico mantini - Saturn
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enrico mantini - Charon
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enrico mantini - Mars
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enrico mantini - Uranus
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enrico mantini - Mercury
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enrico mantini - Venus
Deep house legend Enrico Mantini brings to life PURISM, a new label and artists collective focused on a traditional approach in making and playing music, with no limitation on style. First release delivers three tracks of emotional, intense, warm yet groovy deep house ballads. Pure pleasure for your ears. Food for your soul.
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enrico mantini - Inside Of You
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enrico mantini - Inside Of You (Isherwood Chi Move mix) (Isherwood remix)
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enrico mantini - The Creator
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enrico mantini - The Creator (Domenico Rosa remix)
Verona's finest underground club space Veniceberg is proud to introduce its newly minted label with a brand new deep house EP from Italian maestro Enrico Mantini. Since debuting in 1990, Mantini's tough yet sensuous cuts have appeared on tastemaking imprints such as UMM and Smoothsounds, and have seen him make his mark internationally as a DJ at venues like Tresor, Pacha, Ministry Of Sound, and Space. ToGETher bears the signature of producer's decades of experience, and announces a special outlet for crafted club music. It contains two Mantini's originals, which artfully marry the physicality of a chugging pulse with warmer textural elements. Opener 'Inside Of You' allows smooth keys stabs, a relaxed jack, and a mantralike vocal to gently propel one another forward. A prickly Rhodes line takes the fore on 'The Creator', punctuated by slowmo cymbal crashes, vocal snatches, and seductive convulsions of bass.
Testament to Veniceberg's sense of intimate community, both of Mantini's cuts receive inspired remixes from burgeoning producers working with the deep house templates pioneered by the Italian producer. British producer and Lize Records' affiliate Isherwood submerges 'Inside Of You' under an unnerving layer of haze, and errant machine pops, recalling Actress at his most clubready. But ToGETher's pick is Imprint Records boss Domenico Rosa's sultry take on 'The Creator', where undulating synths and a distant monologue hovers on delicate tinkling percussion More
Testament to Veniceberg's sense of intimate community, both of Mantini's cuts receive inspired remixes from burgeoning producers working with the deep house templates pioneered by the Italian producer. British producer and Lize Records' affiliate Isherwood submerges 'Inside Of You' under an unnerving layer of haze, and errant machine pops, recalling Actress at his most clubready. But ToGETher's pick is Imprint Records boss Domenico Rosa's sultry take on 'The Creator', where undulating synths and a distant monologue hovers on delicate tinkling percussion More
More records from half baked
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Voigtmann - Aesthetic Solutions
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Voigtmann - California Cruise Control
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Voigtmann - Underexposure
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Voigtmann - Areola 51
Fresh off the back of his superb new album, Voigtmann is back with an equally juicy new 12" on Half Baked, a party crew with which he has a long association. His intricate minimal style is laid bare here from the off with 'Aesthetic Solutions' offering up a colourful mix of trippy sound designs and sci-fi moods over slick tech drum programming. 'California Cruise Control' gets deeper, with a more prominent squelchy bassline taking centre stage. 'Underexposure' then ups the ante with a more cosmic and driving techno sound and last of all is 'Areola 51', another one built from silky loops and futuristic synths over crisp tech house beats.
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James Bangura - Range Finder
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James Bangura - Axel's Limp
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James Bangura - Bugbear
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James Bangura - How Are U Feeling?
The always tasteful Half Baked crew looks to one of their own for this fresh slice of delicious minimal. Sam Bangura was a new young resident for the party back in 2018 and since then has really honed his own sound. It's laid bare here across four fine cuts, with opener 'Range Finder' serving up bristling drum machine grooves and cheeky basslines overlaid with cosmic chords. 'Axel's Limp' is a brilliantly vibrant melodic overload with scintillating drums and plenty of neon colours. 'Bugbear' gets more gritty with a standout bassline powering forwards rugged tech house and 'How Are U Feeling?' then gets spaced out and slick.
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Magaret Dygas - Butterfly Effect
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Magaret Dygas - CC Is 33
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Magaret Dygas - Subliminal 20A7
Margaret Dygas may be based in Berlin but her unique sound can't be tied down to any one city or scene, as she proves on her latest 12" across three tracks for the consistently exciting Half Baked label. Not that there's anything half done here, of course, with A-side tune 'Butterfly Effect' a prime slice of groovy. resonant techno that's understated and restrained enough to gain comparisons to Jaydee's 'Plastic Dreams' classic. 'CC Is 33' is warmer, with nicely slidy, jazzy organ chords and itchy technofunk rhythms, with the most minimal of the three tracks, the static-infused, atmospheric 'Subliminal 20A7', coming last but by no means least. A great showcase for a great, original talent.
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Luca Piermattei - Busy Life
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Luca Piermattei - Vintage Style
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Luca Piermattei - 80's Sound
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Luca Piermattei - Galaxy
Since launching a few years back, Half Baked Records has consistently served up high quality fare from a mixture of underground heroes and rising stars. We'd put Luca Piermattei in the latter category, even though he's been releasing music for a few years and recently featured on Rawax. Memories of a Wonderful City is genuinely excellent, with the Italian doing a good job in combining vintage synth and drum machine sounds in a fresh and ear-pleasing way. Choose between the pleasingly bouncy, sci-fi-fired deep house dreaminess of 'Galaxy', the sleazy late-night brilliance of 'Vintage Style' (which incidentally features a frankly filthy acid bassline), the bustling sweatiness of extra-percussive opener 'Busy Life' and the undulating, analogue-heavy jazz-funk-goes-house hustle of '80's Sound'.
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Giuliano Lomonte - Activator
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Giuliano Lomonte - Control Center
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Giuliano Lomonte - Secret House
Last time we heard from Giuliano Lomonte, back in June 2020, he was working in cahoots with like-minded pal and fellow Berlin resident Alexis Carbrera. Here he makes his first appearance on Half Baked Records, in the process delivering his first solo single since 2019. The standout is arguably A-side 'Activator', a tactile, tech-tinged dancefloor roller in which spoken word snippets and fluttering electronic motifs cluster around a typically chunky and shuffling groove. The Italian producer opts for a deeper and more hypnotic vibe on the deep house/tech-house fusion of 'Control Center', before reaching for starry electronics, bubbly synth-bass and loose-limbed late '90s style tech-house beats on 'Secret House'.
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mike shannon - over and over
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mike shannon - just a glimpse
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mike shannon - pleasure play
UPC 827170576865 Rel date 1.12.2014
Tracklist:
A. Over And Over (Time To Celebrate Mix) B1. Just A Glimpse B2. Pleasure Play
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Half Baked Records proudly presents the sixth instalment of their sought after Vinyl Only series. After having being featured on the second release of the label, the Canadian modular man of mystery, aka Mike Shannon, drops another swinging monster to his already extensive list of wax slabs. This EP celebrates Half Baked's 5th birthday and the A side, "Over and Over (Time To Celebrate Mix") is the perfect embodiment of that, a cybernetic-gospel-funk monster that will drag even your grandmother to the middle of the dancefloor, shaking her ass till she faints. On the flip side we find "Just A Glimpse", featuring Mike's
signature elements, crisp drums, a spooky yet playful bass and teasing electric piano jazzy phrases. The B2, "Pleasure Law", is the deeper and more romantic cut of the record, adding some mellow chords in the equation that eventually get picked up by Detroitish wave of filtered epicness, finally unfolding into an uplifting piano solo outro. HB006 will take no prisoners. More
Tracklist:
A. Over And Over (Time To Celebrate Mix) B1. Just A Glimpse B2. Pleasure Play
Information:
Half Baked Records proudly presents the sixth instalment of their sought after Vinyl Only series. After having being featured on the second release of the label, the Canadian modular man of mystery, aka Mike Shannon, drops another swinging monster to his already extensive list of wax slabs. This EP celebrates Half Baked's 5th birthday and the A side, "Over and Over (Time To Celebrate Mix") is the perfect embodiment of that, a cybernetic-gospel-funk monster that will drag even your grandmother to the middle of the dancefloor, shaking her ass till she faints. On the flip side we find "Just A Glimpse", featuring Mike's
signature elements, crisp drums, a spooky yet playful bass and teasing electric piano jazzy phrases. The B2, "Pleasure Law", is the deeper and more romantic cut of the record, adding some mellow chords in the equation that eventually get picked up by Detroitish wave of filtered epicness, finally unfolding into an uplifting piano solo outro. HB006 will take no prisoners. More
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mike shannon - Slip It
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mike shannon - Slip It - Melchior Productions Ltd Remix (ft edit)
UPC827170563865 Re-Release 18.8.2014
Tracklisting
A. Slip It
B. Slip It - Melchior Productions Ltd Remix (ft edit)
Info:
After its first installment, Half Baked Records is back with a stellar Ep where two milestones of the underground electronic music scene collide: Mike Shannon and
Thomas Melchior. The original cut, crafted by Mr. Shannon, label head of Cynosure and Haunt, carries his typical sound signature; crisp swingy drums, hypnotic stabs and a
haunting modulated bassline. However, this time, we venture into deep house territories rather than techno, with a jazzy delayed chord progression that will no
doubt cause ruckus on the dancefloor. On the flipside, Thomas Melchior, under his “Melchior Productions Ltd.” moniker, delivers his interpretation stripping it down to the essential. A 12 minutes minimal trippy monster that effortlessly locks you in the groove. Needless say more with these two, let the music speak.
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Tracklisting
A. Slip It
B. Slip It - Melchior Productions Ltd Remix (ft edit)
Info:
After its first installment, Half Baked Records is back with a stellar Ep where two milestones of the underground electronic music scene collide: Mike Shannon and
Thomas Melchior. The original cut, crafted by Mr. Shannon, label head of Cynosure and Haunt, carries his typical sound signature; crisp swingy drums, hypnotic stabs and a
haunting modulated bassline. However, this time, we venture into deep house territories rather than techno, with a jazzy delayed chord progression that will no
doubt cause ruckus on the dancefloor. On the flipside, Thomas Melchior, under his “Melchior Productions Ltd.” moniker, delivers his interpretation stripping it down to the essential. A 12 minutes minimal trippy monster that effortlessly locks you in the groove. Needless say more with these two, let the music speak.
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UPC 827170563360 Release Date: 1.9.2014
Tracklisting: A1. Five Majors A2. Nobody Loves Bishopgate B1. Nobody Loves Bishopgate (Vera Remix) B2. Kosma
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Half Baked Records is back with his fifth offering, presenting the solo Ep of French dj & producer Robin Ordell. On top of having released on Eklo, Robin is one of the historical residents of Half Baked, an artist present in the family from day one, growing together with the
project while bringing his own touch to it, a delicate balance between light and darkness, drive and delicateness. Robin infuses power to his tracks via a no compromise formula on drums; tight old school rhythms that are then cleverly fused with expert sound design and minimalist aesthetic, showing a lot of maturity in his productions skills. The A1, Five Majors, is a perfect example of this balance, a dramatic club twister that has all the ingredients to rock a dancefloor, while preserving a touch of elegance. The A2, Nobody Loves Bishopgate, has a an eerie underwater
feeling, slowly numbing you with his bubbly bass and filtered melodies, but still keeping you afloat with his funky swing. On the flipside we find the remix of Vera, a “djs’ dj” and renowned producer for her releases on Perlon and Oslo to name a few. Vera strips it down, emphasizing the drugged out atmospheres and delivering an hypnotic laidback re-interpretation that will no doubt be the highlight of many morning sets this summer. The B2, Kosma, is the “brightest” cut of the record where jazzy chords alternate with playful stabs, teasing you throughout the whole the track.
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Tracklisting: A1. Five Majors A2. Nobody Loves Bishopgate B1. Nobody Loves Bishopgate (Vera Remix) B2. Kosma
Info:
Half Baked Records is back with his fifth offering, presenting the solo Ep of French dj & producer Robin Ordell. On top of having released on Eklo, Robin is one of the historical residents of Half Baked, an artist present in the family from day one, growing together with the
project while bringing his own touch to it, a delicate balance between light and darkness, drive and delicateness. Robin infuses power to his tracks via a no compromise formula on drums; tight old school rhythms that are then cleverly fused with expert sound design and minimalist aesthetic, showing a lot of maturity in his productions skills. The A1, Five Majors, is a perfect example of this balance, a dramatic club twister that has all the ingredients to rock a dancefloor, while preserving a touch of elegance. The A2, Nobody Loves Bishopgate, has a an eerie underwater
feeling, slowly numbing you with his bubbly bass and filtered melodies, but still keeping you afloat with his funky swing. On the flipside we find the remix of Vera, a “djs’ dj” and renowned producer for her releases on Perlon and Oslo to name a few. Vera strips it down, emphasizing the drugged out atmospheres and delivering an hypnotic laidback re-interpretation that will no doubt be the highlight of many morning sets this summer. The B2, Kosma, is the “brightest” cut of the record where jazzy chords alternate with playful stabs, teasing you throughout the whole the track.
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