Name: Funk Machine by Alex Cortiz
Duration: 5 min 3 s
Description: Track from the Alex Cortiz album 'Oddities'

Huge tones and cinematic feel, with some great energy as well!

Julian Babou : Bass
Patrick Duvignacq : Editing / Mix

Vienna Experience (draft)

A track from the new Alex Cortiz album 'Pensées Melediques'.

Available on all download-stores and streaming services-worldwide.

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Pensées Melodiques

Haruki (Chiller)

REACHING OUT

Track from the Alex Cortiz album 'Oddities'

Oddities

Funk Machine

Simon Peter makes his Claremont 56 debut with a joyous slice of languid, organic Balearica entitled "Arc Of Lark". The young musician made his debut in February 2014 with the "Double Up EP" on Silhouette Music, which contained the shimmering nu-Balearic disco of “Espacio Temporal”. While that was laden with sun-kissed synthesizers, “Arc of Lark” is a much more organic affair. Blissful electric piano keys, hazy guitars and fluttering flutes cascade over an undulating live bassline and shuffling, bongo-laden beats. Warm and humid, it’s a slice of audible sunshine to brighten up the grim winter months.Long-time friends of the family 40 Thieves handle remix duties, turning Simon Peter’s picturesque original into an effects-laden chunk of slo-mo dub disco goodness. 40 Thieves member Layne Fox loved the track so much that he’s also contributed an additional remix that focues the action around a loose, languid, dub reggae influenced groove, spiralling electronics and Peter’s mesmerizing flute line. It’s a fitting conclusion to a magical label debut.

Simon Peter - Arc Of Lark

Some deep jazzy vibes from Groove Gecko's album 'Slo-Fi Cuisine'

Slo-Fi Cuisine

Push me the hard way

Push Me The Hard Way (Full Version)

Hear & Now’s story is one of friendship and a shared passion for music. It began with a chance meeting on the dancefloor at Red Zone in Perugia, one of Italy’s most legendary clubs of the 1990s. Nearly three decades on, these glassy-eyed clubbers have joined forces to deliver one of the most magical and sun-kissed albums that Claremont 56 has ever released.

By the time Ricky L and Marcoradi first joined forces in the studio in 2016, both had become established producers within Italy’s vibrant deep house scene. Between them, they’d released records and remixes on such labels as Ibadan, Uomo, Reincarnation, Top Tracks, Restricted Tracks and Vega. Keen to step away from the dancefloor, they decided to simply create beautiful music for bleary-eyed after-hours sofa sessions, lazy summer afternoons and early mornings spent blinking at the rising sun.

Aurora Baleare, their debut album, follows on from a fantastic double A-side 12” for Claremont 56 in February 2017. Those two tracks take pride of place amongst an eight-track selection simply brimming with evocative workouts, gentle soundscapes and noon-bright sonic bliss. While you’ll find luscious instrumental cuts designed to inspire baggy, glassy-eyed shuffling – see the mid-tempo, spine-tingling brilliance of “Salsedine”, mind-massaging “Hirundo” and dreamy slow-house treat “Sabbia Magica” – it’s the effortless brilliance of Marcoradi’s improvised guitar playing and the duo’s atmospheric approach that really catches the ear. Check, for example, the heady horizontal shuffle of “Trasimeno”, where poignant ambient chords, jazzy electric guitar solos and deep space electronics tumble down over shuffling beats and a squeezable synthesizer bassline, and the sun-down Adriatic wonder of “Stella Dei Venti”, a track so effortlessly loved-up and blissful that you might be overcome by emotion (it certainly had us daydreaming of days spent exploring the intense natural beauty of Italy’s Adriatic coast).

Moments like this, where the duo’s dreamy electronics and smile-inducing melodies seemingly shimmer across the sound spectrum, can be found dotted throughout Aurora Baleare. There’s the darting digital synthesizer motifs, sparse hand percussion and ricocheting solos of “Airone”, the Italo-disco-inspired chugging positivity of “La Marsa” and the title track’s humid beachside breeze, where intertwined electronic and acoustic lead lines seemingly glimmer like rays of sunshine bouncing off the surface of a becalmed, crystal clear ocean.

Their roots may be on the dancefloor, but Hear & Now are fast becoming down tempo masters. You can dance if you want to, but you may just want to hug a stranger instead.

Hear & Now - Aurora Baleare (Clips)

Track from the new Alex Cortiz album 'Dope Spheres'.

Available on all downloadstores and streaming services worldwide.

Follow Alex Cortiz on Instagram: instagram.com/alex.cortiz

Dope Spheres

Chase 103

Chase 103 (full version)

Habitatmodul

buy on spotify

Album available on CD and digital: https://orcd.co/colombiansoul
To most people across the globe, Colombian music (whether traditional or contemporary) usually means energetic, up-tempo latin sounds made for dancing.

Having resided in Colombia for many years now and become a firm fixture in the country’s grassroots music scene, Tricky D has come to know a softer, smoother side to Colombia’s music that most of us never get to hear; so was born his ‘Colombian Soul’ project. As Dean puts it: “I realised that there is no compilation of Colombian downbeat music, so I decided to dig deep and get together collection of dubby, downbeat, minor tuned songs. The result is this collection of 20 spacey, soulful songs recorded by well recognised Colombian artists, many of whom I’ve collaborated with over the past few years.”

Featuring cutting-edge underground sound-system crews and hip hop collectives and Latin Grammy nominated stars alike (and pretty much everything in between), ‘Colombian Soul’ provides a great introduction to the vibrant, eclectic electronic music scene exploding in Colombia today.

Colombian Soul

Jimena Angel - Óyelo

A track from the new album 'New Tunes Vol.3' of Alex Cortiz.

Available on all download-stores and streaming-services world wide.

Alex Cortiz on Bandcamp: https://alexcortiz.bandcamp.com

New Tunes Vol.3

Nightcrawlers Theme

Nightcrawlers Theme (full version)

From 1998 onwards Alex Cortiz has produced 26 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.

Funk Machine

Alex Cortiz

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