Entanglement

Track taken from the bonus album coming with my latest release Magnifico! volume 2

Vodka sunrise with Miles (excerpt / trimmed)

As summer starts edging its way timidly back into our lives, our darker techno and house resolve has weakened and slowly the happier side of music we look out for comes back out to play in the sun.

Step up <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mrkrokett">Rayko</a> who's edits have made our lives an all round smilier affair and saved many a DJ set when we were starting out all those years back. So when we heard the Spaniard had a brand new album out now on UK based Nang Records we decided to reel him in for a little mix to perk us all up.

More Guestmixes...

SlothBoogie Guestmix #37 - Rayko

Eugen Grieg & Vapor Loop-Fragments (Mellon Place Records)

Cruisin

Arno Gonzalez is producing a modern house sound that sometimes ventures into melodic territory close to Electronica, the Angevin artist was first spotted by the Parisian label Missive, then by Timid Records, on which he released his debut album “Encounters”, as well as a number of EPs and remixes...

Today, he is one of the spearheads and leaders of Brique Rouge, David Duriez's label, with whom he is on a mission to perpetuate and reinvent a certain vision of House and Techno music.

With this second album, which marks “the end of innocence”, Arno explodes the codes of his music to better transcend them. We find his inimitable touch, a particular sound that is sometimes minimal, sometimes warm and melodious, a real signature on 13 tracks that tell a real story.

If this is the end of innocence, it's also the beginning of maturity.




Brique Rouge label is a pillar of the French House underground since 1999.

The label continues to disseminate the electronic sound David Duriez believes in, far from formatting and excessive vulgarity. An eclectic electronic sound that remains rooted in the underground and on vibe above all.  In general, the team's artists benefit from a carte blanche, and it's above all the state of mind that counts. The label isn't looking for success, it's a success. The success of being able to release music without compromise. With one release a week on platforms since 2020, the label (and its divisions RZ Muzik & Obliqu3) is seen as a key player on the French underground electronic scene, given the activism it demonstrates.

Faithful to the spirit of this music's beginnings - Acid House, Chicago and New York House, or the power of Belgian or Detroit Techno - the label has been churning out releases for 25 years without ever sinking into cynicism, nostalgia or parody. Brique Rouge has established itself as a key French label for the distribution of emerging and creative artists (known and unknown) who draw their inspiration from the roots of the genre, but also pursue the search for new vibes. Without commercial imperatives, the label innovates and denies itself nothing. No formatting, no time sacrificed on the altar of the platforms of streaming, with Brique Rouge it's not the face of the human behind the machine that is highlighted, but its music.

[briquerouge.fr]



Get That on Vinyl !

07 - Arno Gonzalez - Quatuor

Preview single from Balearic DJ / Producer Chris Coco's forthcoming album How To Disappear Completely (out March 2016)
Portmerion Tide Flow
written by Chris Mellor / Nick Cornu
keyboards, production, vocals by Chris Coco
guitars by Nick Cornu
strings by Cheiko Kinbara
backing vocals by Samantha Whates

It's September. I'm at Portmerion. It's the day after Festival No 6, hot, bright, some kind of perfect. I walk in the sun, on the peninsular, alone, and have this feeling that turns into a sort of dream poem that turns into a song. Strings are by Cheiko, we met in Japan at Yasushi's store. She transformed an idea into a beautiful reality.


Portmerion Tide Flow

Track taken from the new Alex Cortiz album 'Deep Deluxe'.

Available at all major download store and streaming services worldwide.

Taste My Lemonade

Taste My Lemonade (preview / edit)

Another track from the new Alex Cortiz album 'Zooming In'

Available worldwide in all download stores and streaming services

Zooming In

Paluka Days

Paluka Days (long preview)

Bugge Wesseltoft,  live in Berlin - November 3, 2001

1. Change
2. Existance
3. Flimmer
4. Gare Du Nord
5. Moving
6. Sharing
7. G.U.B.N.U.F

Soundboard recording

Source:  CDR trade

1 Change

Track from the new album 'New Tunes Vol. 2' by Alex Cortiz.

Available on all downloadplatforms and streaming-services worldwide.

New Tunes Vol.2

Fly 69

Fly 69 (full version)

From 1998 onwards Alex Cortiz has produced more than 30 albums of deep vibin’ grooves with elements of chill out, nu jazz, cinematic dub, soulful blaxploitation and chilled- and deep house. 
He became one of the leading producers in groovy relax and funky chill out. Often he has been linked to Kruder & Dorfmeister, Air, Nor Elle, Audio Lotion, Dj Cam, Session Victim, Zap, Dazz, Ron Basejam, Solee and lately Nils Frahm.

To dig a bit deeper into the musical carreer of Alex Cortiz... His roots in international dance music go back to 1990, when he produced one of the first worldwide techno club hits as D-Shake with Yaaah / Technotrance. After that he was succesful with a.o. Paradise 3001 (ambient techno) and Flygang (disco) And then, after that… producer / dj Alex Cortiz took over.

Discography: 19 albums: 1) Volume One 2) Moodfood 3) Make Believe 4) Mesmerising 5) Magnifico! 6) Phoenix 7) Lo Tek 8) Camera 707 9) See Me Flowin 10) Magnifico! vol.2 11)New Works Vol.1 12) Deep Deluxe 13) Oddities 14) Zooming In 15) Going Deeper 16) Dope Spheres 17) Lo-Fi Explorations 18) New Tunes Vol. 1 /  19) New Tunes Vol. 2 / 20) New Tunes Vol. 3 / 21) New Tunes Vol. 4 / 22) Heads Up 23) Dancing Naked on Pluto 24) Pensées Melodiques 25) Barista 26) Dancing Naked on Mars

4 EP's: 1) Barfly (remixes) 2) A-Chill (remixes) 3)Magic Touch (remixes 4) Funk Me up Baby (remixes)

You can buy Alex Cortiz' music on cd or on Beatport, iTunes / Apple Music and all other major digital download stores or stream it on Spotify, Apple Music and many others.

Also known as: D-Shake, Paradise 3001, Flygang and many other artists.