Swedish producer and DJ Rasmus Faber and Berlin based British vocalist David Sanderson have teamed up to produce what is set to be the sound of the summer.

Never Enough is a perfect blend of blue-eyed soul, yacht rock and disco that brings the sunshine. Over immaculate production, the guitar, piano and bass sit perfectly with David's heartfelt vocals. The break brings a touch of gospel before the chorus plays out and is left spinning. The Extended Mix strips things back to give more room to the instrumentation for a more DJ friendly version.

Longtime Paper collaborator Max Essa delivers a remix masterclass with his smooth rework, taking things a touch deeper with extra arp and pads.

The Dub Mix brings delays and EFX as individual elements are broken down and sprinkled with studio magic. The bass is locked, the pad riff casts its hypnotic spell and vocal phrases are worked in and out. One for late nights and early mornings.

Support in from:

Jim Stanton (Horse Meat Disco): "Max Essa again what a fantastic track would totally be playing this!"

Hardway Bros: "Very Balearic indeed!"

Barrie Urquhart (Buddha Lounge): "Lovely to see Rasmus Faber on here. Thanks for this EP, my fave for a long time from Paper. Every single version is usable for me in slightly different situations and locations i play. Personal fave is Max Essa Extended Vocal"

Fingerman: "Wonderful vibes here!"

Quincy Jointz: "Loving the original and the Max Essa Dub!"

Pathaan: "Perfect sunset vibes!"

Never Enough

Rasmus Faber X David Harks - Never Enough (Max Essa Dub Mix)

Composed by Ernest & Shadrack Ndlovu
Produced by Taso Stephanou
Mixed by Dane Stevenson
From the 1985 album 'Taduma' (Blue Tree) 
Reissue coming soon on Afrosynth Records - AFS053

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SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dance-par-amour

Limited edition vinyl with artwork by the brilliant KMG - www.kmgyeah.com

Leng Records has long admired Andrew Meecham’s work as The Emperor Machine. Last year, Meecham made his first appearance on the label via a fine remix of Harks & Mudd favourite ‘Susta’. 12 months on, Meecham returns to Leng with his first Emperor Machine outing of 2021, a typically eccentric, heavily electronic dancefloor outing featuring the seductive vocals of rising star Séverine Mouletin.

Meecham is one of British dance music’s most experienced and lauded producers, with a packed history stretching right back to the acid house era. He first rose to fame as part of Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips (both alongside long-term studio partner Dean Meredith), but over the last two decades has devoted far more time to solo work as The Emperor Machine. In the process, he’s developed a sparse, hypnotic, heavily electronic trademark sound that combines analogue and modular synthesizer sounds with nods to post-punk disco, new wave, trippy proto-house and the mind-altering experiments of the Radiophonic Workshop.

‘Dance Par Amour’, his first solo single on Leng, is typical of his now familiar personal sonic style, with echoing, alien-sounding synthesizer motifs (some reminiscent of those that marked out Chicken Lips’ club classic ‘He Not In’), with bubbly sequenced bass, unfussy machine drums, rubbery slap-bass riffs and flashes of post-punk disco guitars.

Sparse but weighty and pleasingly trippy, the EP-leading ‘Extended Vocal Mix’ is classic Emperor Machine: a near ten-minute workout in which Mouletin’s tender but confident vocals rise above Meecham’s stylish and note perfect backing track, which sits somewhere between early ‘80s ‘no wave’ New York disco, lo-fi European synth-pop and the trippy late night dancefloor dubs that were once a feature of American boogie and proto-house records.

Meecham further explores his love of these sparse, effects-laden “synth-dubs” on the accompanying ‘Erotique Dub’, a thrillingly heavy, heads-down affair awash with echoing vocal snippets, hypnotic drums and synthesizer flourishes that attractively echo across the sound space. Like the best DJ-focused dubs of the early 1980s, the remix is propelled forwards by a strong bassline, around which other elements – guitar, bass guitar, sparkling synth sounds and mind-mangling electronics – appear, make their mark and then drift off into the ether. With key passages of Mouletin’s vocal appearing periodically to encourage people to dance, it’s the kind of delightfully wayward revision that will keep people dancing well into the early hours.

LENG SHOP

The Emperor Machine & Séverine Mouletin - Dance Par Amour (Erotique Dub)

US
1980
Bass, Vocals – Ralph P.J. Johnson
Drums – Howard Morrel
Guitar – Donald Linthicum
Guitar, Vocals – Marco DiBaggio
Keyboards – Steve Allen
Percussion – Robert Gilliam 
Producer – Earth Base One, JSR*
Soprano Saxophone – Ron Bright
Vocals – Renée Sweeting, Susan Cooper

Earth Base One - We Got Time (Nico Jean Rework)

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A1. Andromeda (Respectful Extended)

E2-E4 is an instrumental 59 min track recorded live and in one take by Manuel Göttsching in his Berliner studio the December 12, 1981 and released 3 years later in 1984. This influential album will have truly marked electronic music and repetitive/progressive composition.
Parisian disc-jockey and art director Marius, obsessed by this track since he discovered it, reworked the track by editing it in a shorter format trying to faithfully transpose the progressive side of the original piece, and added a bass (TB303), a beat and percussion instruments.

(Mixed and mastered at Sodasound studio in Paris in December 2014.)

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E2-E4 est un morceau instrumental de 59 min enregistré en direct et en une fois par Manuel Göttsching dans son studio berlinois le 12 décembre 1981, et sorti 3 ans plus tard, en 1984. Cet album mythique aura marqué la musique électronique et la composition répétitive, progressive, couche par couche. 
Le disc-jockey et directeur artistique parisien Marius, que ce morceau obsède depuis sa découverte, a ici retravaillé le morceau en l’éditant dans un format plus court tout en essayant de retranscrire au mieux le côté progressif du montage original, et y a ajouté une basse (TB303), un beat et des percussions.

(Mixé et masterisé au studio Sodasound à Paris en décembre 2014.)

MANUEL GÖTTSCHING - E2-E4 (MARIUS Rework)

A party, a collective, a spirit and now a record label. Behind @jitterparty lie three DJs and friends from French Riviera, @aim-n, @renopasseurdedisques and @zitounnnn , gathering for the first release of their imprint with two afro groovy edits that will be out on a beautiful engraved 7 inches vinyl. This label is the continuity of their parties, reflecting the identity of their crew.

Jitter - Jitter Edits Vol. 1
Release date : October 28th 2019
Pre-order : jitterparty.bandcamp.com/album/jitter-edits-vol-01

[PREMIERE] Jitter - Moi c'est Mio

Diavol is back with various afro-tribalish 4-tracker including 3 originals and 1 edit. The edited ‘Kiddo - Safa Saphela’ got picked up in the early stages by Barbara Boeing playing it in her Dekmantel Podcast 254 says Jerry Hendriks aka Band Of Misfits.

Releases February 14, 2020.
All tracks edited and produced by Band of Misfits soundcloud.com/band-of-misfits-music
Cover Art by Lino Divas: www.linodivas.com
Available on Diavol Bandcamp: https://diavol.bandcamp.com

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DJ Okapi brings a forgotten era of South African pop music back to life.

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