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RUFUS

Headphone Selections by RÜFÜS DU SOL

October 2019

Written, Produced & Performed by Andrew Ashong.

Available on Limited Edition 12" Vinyl and Digital.
Release date: 27th January 2014

For more information, go to www.facebook.com/whichwayrecords

Andrew Ashong - Love The Way

Atlas

Sundream

Tonight

Take Me

Rendezvous

Leko Remixes

Leko (Session Victim Remix)

Berlin-based DJ and producer @Eluize spends her time writing, creating and curating house, techno, acid, and electro. Her sonic leanings span from dubby and spacious, through euphoric and orchestral, to intense and acidic, incorporating unique blends of traditional instruments, drum machines, synths and pristine vocals. With a touring schedule that regularly takes her across the globe, Eluize has proven herself to be one of the most dynamic, exciting and hard working artists out there. 

With releases signed with Night Tide and more, she marches on by venturing with her debut LP on @Craigie-Knowes. A beautiful 7 track journey through voice and sound which comprises a unique blend of Eluize's voice, drum machines, and synthesis have built an album that flows between dancefloor hypnotics and melodies that throw you out to drift in a lonely cosmic ocean.

Release date: 08/04/2019

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4_1b3-qxBk

Sinchi Blog: https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-eluize-still-craigie-knowes/

Confide LP

PREMIERE - Eluize - Still (Craigie Knowes)

Purchase :
https://slowciety.bandcamp.com/album/take-me-back 
https://kuronekomedia.lnk.to/TakeMeBack

After their recent collaborations for Belters and Best Kept Secrets, Dominik Marz & David Kochs are back with their first EP for Slowciety. Blissful pads and sensual voices soften the lively and beefed-up rythmic bass couple on Take Me Back, and Pergola sticks to this magical combination made to win over any dancefloor. Johannes Albert gives Take Me Back extra minutes of pleasure while Cooper Saver sends the record into the stratosphere with a cosmic re-interpretation of Pergola.

https://soundcloud.com/dominik-marz
https://soundcloud.com/davidkochs
https://soundcloud.com/johannesalbert

Dominik Marz & David Kochs - Take Me Back (Johannes Albert Remix)

Rave Against The Machine

Moving to London, producing two sell-out records with Mall Grab’s Steel City Dance Discs, and nailing mixes for Rinse, NTS and Boiler Room, made 2018 a landmark year for Australian-born producer and DJ Loods. Following his extensive touring across the UK and Europe, Loods has been working away in the studio to produce his Classic Music Company debut, making his blissful label outing with ‘Walking Away’. A summer-ready sounding track with soft keys, a soulful vocal sample and lilting beat this is a record that you can expect to hear floating across dancefloors this summer and beyond.

Walking Away

Download & Stream

Loods 'Walking Away'

This, Too, Will Pass

Haven't You Heard

Haven't You Heard (Fitzy's Half Charged Mix)

Solace

Solace (Live from Joshua Tree)

Depak Ine

Taken from the album 'Home', released 31 July on Ninja Tune: https://romare.lnk.to/homeSo

Follow Romare -
Spotify: https://found.ee/romare-sp
Apple Music: https://found.ee/romare-am
Facebook: https://found.ee/romare-fb
Twitter: https://found.ee/romare-tw
Youtube: https://found.ee/romare-yt
Bandcamp: https://found.ee/romare-bc
Soundcloud: https://found.ee/romare-sc

Sunshine

Wildfires

Moon II

Nektar

Cinthie 'Concentrate'

Morning Yawn - A COLORS ENCORE

Management: terry@turbomgmt.co.uk
Bookings: laetitia@decked-out.co.uk

With hardcore support from Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Gerd Janson, Tiga and The Blessed Madonna, who correctly noted that he has “the hardest working hair in show business,” ABSOLUTE. has raised himself above the rabble of contemporary dance music with stone-cold hits “Follow ur <3’,”Ride”, “Don’t Ya Want it’, “Papi’s Pumping Piano” and an official remix of Kylie’s anthem-of-the-decade ‘Padam Padam’ that will ensure free Fuji water in his green room for the rest of his life. As the London-based DJ/producer is a virtual lock to earn the kind of clout that will allow him to scrub the internet of all biographical detail, it seems wise to revisit his early days and career-to-date while we still can. 

As a child, ABSOLUTE. was enthralled by dance music, to the extent that he took the money his father had given him to buy clothes and spent it on a single turntable. While initially furious, once his dad heard the music, he calmed down and said, “Son, that is a low-slung floor-filler, and I have no choice but to respect it.” Later, ABSOLUTE. honed his DJing skills by using the lone deck to beat-match to Pete Tong’s BBC Radio show, a fact that will take on eerie significance if you read this bio backwards. 

A teenage ABSOLUTE. found his chosen family among club kids and drag queens in East London queer spaces, eventually going on to promote and curate spaces like these himself. "For whatever reason, the people in the queer scene hadn’t found liberation in pub trivia nights held at Wetherspoons breeding pits," he says. “So they had to create their own world instead. At this point, my politics are actually less progressive than the British Airways twitter account, so things seem to be moving in the right direction."

These experiences led to ABSOLUTE. to notice that queer spaces are largely dependent on the viability of human existence. As such, his nascent activist streak led him to sample climate icon Greta Thunberg on the track “Rave Against the Machine”, despite the fact that the 40-and-over conservatives who regularly challenge Thunberg to debate and/or wrestle on social media make up a huge part of the acid house market. The track led to a collaboration with the Extinction Rebellion collective, for whom ABSOLUTE. curated the “Rave Against the Machine” queer stage at the activists’ event in London. Unfortunately, the stage was promptly shut down by police. While many of the cops had no opinion on the political message, they were reportedly pissed that the event was overshadowing an after-hours the local station had been promoting.

To the extent that there is a habitable future for anyone at all, ABSOLUTE.’s is looking bright. With official remixes for icons Fever Ray and Tony De Vit, and a mass of original music including EPs on Shall Not Fade, DJ Haus’ Hot Haus, New York Queer stalwart Chrissy’s new label Maximum Airtime, a Radio 1 Essential Mix live from Glastonbury and named 6Music ‘Mix of the Year’ by The Blessed Madonna and a recently completed fourth U.S. tour. “Whether my music helps inspire the advance of cold fusion technology or I end up DJing the Emerging Artists Stage of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I’m going to keep bringing the same BIG NEON ENERGY intensity to everything I do. 

So the next time someone tells you there’s no absolutes, give them a knowing grin and say, 'There’s just one, honey. Just one.’"