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Unofficial remix that I made of this super song by Fatima Yamaha

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Fatima Yamaha - What's A Girl To Do (Captain Mustache Remix)

After 2 years & being played by infamous names such as The Blessed Madonna, Horse Meat Disco, Tim Sweeney, Carista, Peach, Orpheu The Wizard, Ben UFO, Rune Lindbaek, Dicky Trisco, Double Dancer and the list goes on… Canto Club is back!

From party people with shoulder pads, big hair, white Rolls-Royces, panama hats, the Fragrant Harbour that is Hong Kong had a very unique Hotel / Clubbing scene before places like DD’s, Canton Disco and Hot Gossip opened their doors.

These Discotheques were a place of creativity, panache and mischief of the era. They were all destinations of desire.

For this edition, we have a special duo called Running Hot which is making waves on the web for digging obscure gems alongside our head honcho RFX. This compilation of 8 edits from the harbor.
We have lots of glitter in this one and the usual funky percussive grooves very unique to Cantonese music.

There’s a track for everyone in this compilation.

Storm (RFX Acid Rework)

' Slow Motion / Wrong Era label head Fabrizio Mammarella gives 'Lorella Cuccarini’s' ‘La Notte Vola’ a sophisticated, powerful lift with his unmistakable approach to heavy-hitting, infectious productions. 

Mammarella’s distinctive laser plucks instantly propel this edit into action. Maintaining the charm of the original, he adds respectful weight to the authentic instrumentation. 'Lorella Cuccarini's' electric nature is beautifully preserved.   The 1989 Italo Disco classic is in Mammarella's safe hands from start to finish. A unique gift for consistently compelling arrangements shines through in this edit. 

The original energy is elevated by giving the mix a crisp touch and pushing the percussion. Fabrizio Mammarella appropriately dusts off ‘La Notte Vola’ undoubtedly creating a floor filler that delivers on all levels. ' 

Radondo, Berlin 2022.

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Lorella Cuccarini - La Notte Vola - Fabrizio Mammarella Lullabye Edit (A Ufo)

LTI027 ROB IIN - El Dance (Original Mix)

One Night In The Future #8

Pastures new. This July we made our debut in Puglia for Polifonic Festival.

Jonny Rock | Boiler Room x Polifonic Festival

Franz Scala, the renowned DJ and producer, graced our event as a special guest this year back in February. As the icon of Italian Dance Wave and the boss of Slow Motion label, he brought his expertise to Slimelight by curating an exclusive Dark Obscure Italo and New Beat mix.

SLIMELIGHT #008 - FRANZ SCALA

Hi all, 

I picked tracks from all the Soundcloud mixes I've made in 2011 and put them together here, so we can keep living in the past.

This mix also features my remix for The Rapture " Sail Away " that will be out on 12 Jan 2012. 

Happy new year !!!!

Best of Aeroplane's 2011 Soundcloud Mixes

Siouxsie - Cities In Dust (Facets Edit)

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

One Night In The Future #8

Andrés Vargas (Fr)

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