Tom Central & Bodymoves celebrated one orbit with us on Shapes of Rhythm this month. Mellow Jazz, Global sounds, and meditative tones from front-to-back.

Shapes of Rhythm - March 2021

Luca Averna and Ale Doretto are two Venezians living in Ibiza that aim to capture the true musical spirit of the island under their Residentes Balearicos guise. Often collaborating with Chris Coco, Luca and Ale maintain the breezy and free energy so synonymous with the White Isle through their polished productions, deftly moving between languid beach side chillers to intoxicating house music. With two superb outings on Kenneth Bager’s Music For Dreams label, the pair now make an offering on Joe Morris’ nascent Shades Of Sound imprint with the Postales EP.

‘Noche De Verano’ captures the mid to late Eighties Balearic flavour to a tee; chunky drums and big snares, children chanting, heavenly keys and wistful flutes all combine to create that perfect alfresco dancing moment. ‘Soleada’ slows the pace for an early evening ride, with a Larry Heard style deep house groove. Gentle keys and male vocal motifs melt over pulsing arps and gated pads.

Joe Morris flips the energy with his Soleada remixes, creating an Italian dream house inspired take on his Halcyon mix and a blissed out breakbeat version with the Twilight mix. Camilo Miranda twists Noche De Verano into a warm up club cut, respectfully keeping the original tone and adding a subtle italo-disco bass riff and synth stabs,

This is a release perfect for the on-coming warmer months; five tracks designed for dancing under the sun and stars alike where finally we will once again come together with our friends to experience life and music x.

https://shadesofsoundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/residentes-balearicos-postales-ep

Social links:
https://soundcloud.com/camilo_miranda
https://soundcloud.com/joemorrismusic
https://www.facebook.com/residentesbalearicos
https://www.facebook.com/joemorrismusic
https://instagram.com/residentesbalearicos
https://instagram.com/joe__morris

Residentes Balearicos - Noche De Verano (Camilo Miranda Remix) [Shades Of Sound Recordings]

https://www.beatport.com/release/funkin-a/3333855
https://soundcloud.com/uriallgood
https://soundcloud.com/wheretheheartis
https://www.instagram.com/uriallgood/
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PREMIERE: Uri Allgood - Stay Home Get High [Where The Heart Is]

One of our earliest and best finds has got to be our Norweigan maestro, Third Attempt. He's back this Friday with an exquisite, laid-back, easy listening triphop album. Breathable to the fullest, 'Air' eases us into a moody balearic jazz space with finely woven flights of languid trumpets and polychromatic pads.

ARTIST: @thirdattempt
ALBUM: Beats From The Quarantine 
SUPPORT: https://th1rdattempt.bandcamp.com/album/beats-from-the-quarantine
INTERVIEW: https://www.acunalondon.com/post/in-conversation-with-third-attempt

Beats From The Quarantine

ACUÑA PREMIERE: Third Attempt - Air [Beatservice Records]

This premiere is for the House Music heads out there: Italian DJ and producer Nnatn makes his debut on Night Vibez Records, an (also) Italian label devoted to all shades of the beloved good ol’ genre. From Soulful and Deep to Breakbeat and Acid, you can find some proper anthems in their growing catalogue.

Nnatn, in turn, was born in Italy in the early nineties and grew up nourished with big fat portions of classic House, Disco, and Afro. He started to produce in 2015 and has remained hard to pin down stylistically. His “Grooves – Pt. 1” is a five-track EP (all originals – competently crafted, by the way) in which you can easily notice the use of the aforementioned influences of his childhood.

Reviewed here, the Kerri Chandler-esque “Groovin Magic”, a bumping and sparkling theme with a beefy bassline, a colourful piano layer, an emotive synth pad, and an upbeat message: It’s as if the tune is trying to say, even without lyrics, “Hey, champ, tough times, but chin up, will you?”. A small dose of good vibes might be all we probably need today, isn’t it?

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Beatport page of the label: https://www.beatport.com/label/night-vibez-records/62925

Follow @nnatn10 & @nightvibezrecords, peeps!

Grooves Pt.1

PREMIERE203 // Nnatn - Groovin Magic

https://www.deejay.de/Various_SOVIET004_SVT004_Vinyl__969051

Russian Indie Dance / Nu Disco and House label Soviett return with the 4th vinyl release of their club-friendly series «Plastinka»! Ranging from 108 to 124 BPM this time, all four tracks are full-length DJ-versions exclusive to this vinyl and never been available before. «Patchouly Indonesiano» by Saint-Petersburg-based Pavel Korzhensky, aka Ksky, is a lively piece of modern analogue electro. Alexander Prosvetov, aka Marco Lazovic from Moscow, delivers an atmospheric tech-house track with a strong retro feeling of the 80s and 90s dance music scene; it emphasizes how deeply Lazovic explores the roots of electronica. Street Choice is a Russian duo of Artyom Vasiliev and Alexander Rodakov; the guys present a classic house production with a humming rhythm section and a memorable piano line on top. Buzz Compass is Andrey Bychenkov and his «Make A Baby» is a perfect laid back start to an evening pre-party with lots of live instruments and no rush. Plastinka 4 is a proper addition to your current vinyl DJ-set or personal listening pleasure!

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Buzz Compass - Make a Baby (Snippet)

Jaime Rosso was live for 2 hours of sleazy, groove-heavy dancefloor material to welcome the start of summer. Slow motion disco, dubby post-punk and early house throughout, with tracks from the likes of Aurra, Quando Quando and Cassio Ware.

Jaime Rosso - May 2021

Buy : https://ffm.to/enf002

Second in our Break 3000 revisited classics series are three songs from the period 2001-2002. The opener "Sacrifice" was featured on the great DJ-Kicks compilation by Tiga in 2002, a real breakthrough year for Electro Clash! The second track here is from the same period but was never released, we carefully recovered it from the DAT tapes for you. The finale is "Spacemaschinenreise", this one was on the first vinyl release on the Maastricht label Meuse Muzique and rounds of this second archive edition in a fine and spacey way. 

All tracks have been carefully recovered from the vaults and remastered at Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Electro Archive 2

Buy Here!

Break 3000 | Spacemachinenreise (Remastered) | Electron Feel

Antieasy

The Gift of Forgetting

Call of the Ancients

~ Club-rooted electronic music 
~ DJ collective 
~ Event series

Enquiries: 
acunarecords@gmail.com

ACUÑA PREMIERE: Third Attempt - Air [Beatservice Records]

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