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"Gravity" (Version by PEAKING LIGHTS)
Taken from the forthcoming ARP 12" EP "GRAVITY" (Smalltown Supersound)
Out 5 Nov 2013.

Featuring remixes by – 
GAVIN RUSSOM (DFA)
NO UFOs (Spectrum Spools)
MASKS (Smalltown Supersound)
PEAKING LIGHTS (100% Silk/Mexican Summer)


The ARP album "MORE" is available on LP/CD/iTunes.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/more/id689069551
www.smalltownsupersound.com
www.arpsounds.com


GRAVITY (Version By PEAKING LIGHTS)

Worriers - Precarity Rules

River of Souls is the third enchantment from the hat of Tim Cohen (The Fresh and Onlys) and his band, Magic Trick. Picking up from where he left us with Ruler of the Night (Hardly Art), Cohen brings us ten new intimate tracks, polished as yet unseen. Recorded in The Tree House, his attic studio, River of Souls whirls with parables of change amidst emotional flotsam and jetsam. Insecurities, sarcasm, escapism, optimism, vanity, honesty, and bona fide love... it is all there, but in comforting form. Tim's well-skewed pop songs remind us that things can always be better, but also that what we have is pretty amazing. 

River of Souls signals a new approach for Magic Trick. As in The Fresh and Onlys, Tim has begun to distinguish his muses from those of the foggy San Francisco lo-fi movement that he helped to shape. Mixed at Lucky Cat Studios with Phil Manley and mastered by Paul Oldham, this album exudes presence and confidence. Now, more than ever, the vocals break through the clouds, and the mix champions the artistry in each player's performance. Tim's baritone spars with angelic female chants (Noelle Cahill and Alicia Vanden Heuvel) over the crisp unmistakable pulse of James Kim's drums, and the melodic drive of Alicia's bass throughout. San Francisco's gifted guitar workhorse, Tom Heyman, channels Mark Knopfler; one-man metal mystery, Steve Peacock, brings the right kind of shred; and Marc Cappelle's horns retort the melodies, as Tim jettisons his woes upriver. It is clear with each downbeat the band has honed its language and perfected its chemistry. 

Change permeates this record, but Tim Cohen diehards need not fear. The songs on this album are classic Tim Cohen jams through and through. Still present are the first-thought-best-thought off-the-cuff style and the genre-spanning I-can't-quite-pinpoint-who-this-reminds-me-of assimilation of influences. Still here are the heartbreaking nonsense and the litany of brilliant guest appearances. River of Souls begins with an invitation to "Come Inside". The songs stick with you from that point forward, and what's more... the record ends before you are ready to leave the party. Altogether, this album makes it clear that there is not a man more worthy of thee Muses than Tim Cohen. 

Keeping with tradition, the LP version is presented in a classic tip-on sleeve featuring artwork by Kevin Earl Taylor. The first 500 copies come in half-red and half-blue vinyl. 

Magic Trick - Come Inside

Pitchfork Premier: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16265-inevitable

Minimalist club cover inspired by Skatta Burrell’s ‘Inevitable Riddim’. Forthcoming on Dubbel Dutch's "Cloud Club" EP. Out November 12th on <a href="http://www.soundcloud/mixpak.com/">Mixpak</a>.

Pre-order at Mixpak:

http://store.mixpakrecords.com/products/cloud-club

CLOUD CLUB EP TRACKLIST

01 LEFT BEHIND
02 INEVITABLE
03 DIP SO
04 DEEPA
05 DEEPA (VOCAL DUB)

Pre-Order

DUBBEL DUTCH - INEVITABLE

Ab-Soul "Dub Sac"
Prod. by Tae Beast & Dave "miyatola" Free
• MixedByAli

Ab-Soul - Dub Sac

from the album 'where shine new lights' available 1/27.

tara jane o'neil 'wordless in woods'

David Shaw and The Beat - Infected (Max Pask Remix)

Freddie Hubbard "Little Sunflower" (1979)

One (Jonny Rock Remix)

2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Heist Recordings and as always, we kick off the year with our Round up where each artist of the last year remixes another artist. We’ve had an all-star cast in 2022 with Crackazat, Byron the Aquarius, Dam Swindle, Orlando Voorn, Nebraska and Makèz, so the anticipation for this year’s Round Up was huge. 

We’ve had Byron the Aquarius remix one of Dam Swindle’s ‘Keep on Swindling’ hits ‘Good Woman’ and turn that afro dancefloor monster into a typical deep and vibey affair that Byron does so well. Crackazat has taken Orlando Voorn’s wonky soul track ‘Be with you’ into a peak time summer anthem, while Nebraska has poured some of his boom-bap disco sauce on Byron the Aquarius classic spoken word song ‘Succes’ Makèz go for an uptempo version of Nebraska’s Chant des Oiseaux that lies somewhere between discofied house and gloriously upbeat tech-house. Dam Swindle take a disco-meets techno approach to Crackazat 2022 hit Demucha and Orlando Voorn turns ‘La grande folie’ by Makèz into a Midwest cosmic jazz jam.

The Round Up pt. 9

Bandcamp

Byron the Aquarius - Success (Nebraska remix)

Let's Flunck (dub)

Download/Vinyl/Stream: 
https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/GommaDancefloorGemsVol1

Toy Tonics presents GOMMA DANCEFLOOR GEMS VOL.1
It’s all about Y2K, Punkfunk and Indie Disco!
Toy Tonics record brings a collection of tracks originally released on the German GOMMA RECORDS label between 2001 and 2010. Gomma was one of the key labels of the Y2K indie dance wave along with labels like James Murphy’s DFA and Trevor Jackson’s OUTPUT Records. And as the 90ies revival that dominated the last years in fashion and electronic music reached its peak (Techno and Electronica is pure 90s revival music) the Toy Tonics gang thought it’s a good moment to re-mind some of these early 2000’s tracks that connected a more raw, indie disco and punky funk vibe. It was another energy in those party days. Gomma was happening in Berlin off-location clubs like SCALA and RIO, London’s TRASH or 333 parties and Paris KILL THE DJ and PARIS PARIS clubs. 

Those Y2K clubs and the Gomma label brought together 80ies inspired Indie rock artists like NickMcCarthy of Franz Ferdinand (who was producing records on Gomma before getting world-famous) and Electro punk princess Peaches (who did a whole Disco album on Gomma records and is featured on this compilation with a cover of „Maniac“ from the Flashdance movie soundtrack). Italian disco legends like Baldelli or Robotnick were popping up in those times after years of silence (before getting hype again later) as well as Gomma’s own discoveries like WhoMadeWho (their first 2 albums were quite punk funky and produced by Gomma’s head honcho Mathias Modica), Italian disco punkster Rodion, Parisian nasty funk dude Golden Bug, London’s mysterious prince of new wave prince Midnight Mike (who started at Gomma and later ended up on Ed Banger records) and Gomma’s main act Munk. And yes, there is even DJ Severino, who did a proto house remix for the label in the early Horse Meat Disco days.
That raw and nasty Gomma sound that mixed up many genres and made it's own sexy, in your face music mélange that was very in demand in those days from 2000 to 2010 and inspired many artists. Not just music people like James Murphy, who did music with Gomma before, starting his own LCD Soundsystem, or bands like Chromeo, New Young Pony Club or Soulwax, who started later with a similar vibe, but also art, graphic and fashion people took inspiration from the Gomma world: Gomma’s edgy album cover designs, their poster fanzine, their colorful t-shirt designs and the whole style that the bands, DJs and people at their worldwide parties were rocking became a MUST all over the world. In the early 2000’s it was just art students from London’s Central St. Martins or Berlin’s UDK school that played that sound on their parties, later magazine like VICE or i - D invited Munk and the Gomma acts to their parties and later it was fashion brands like Prada, Margiela, Karl Lagerfeld and Hedi Slimane who used Gomma artists to make music at their fashion shows or events.
Gomma then in 2015 finally closed. When a lot of new labels popped up copying the Gomma attitude and styles (till these days).
Gomma’s head honcho and main inventor Mathias Modica stopped the whole thing, changed the name and started something new:  Toy Tonics records. Yes!
Toy Tonics came out of Gomma and that’s why now it’s time to remember the old inspirational days.
(Gomma’s other very important part was the graphic designer Mirko Borsche who created the whole Gomma look with Modica and Jonas Imbery the other Gomma member. Mirko Borsche since then made an exceptional career doing designs for fashion labels like Supreme and Balenciaga and being the creative director of magazines like ZEIT, Spike or Kaleidoskope.)
Mathias Modica aka Munk aka Kapote himself now is busy with Toy Tonics, which basically is bigger than Gomma ever was: Spreading a very own sound of organic house and disco funk. With party happenings all over Europe every weekend and a very young audience. 

Released 27.10.23

Munk - Androgyn

Imagine An Orchestra

London groove masters and Afro Brazilian pioneers Da Lata are back with a new EP featuring an anthemic jazz- samba refresh of 'Asking Eyes'. Originally an unknown Italian obscurity and now reimagined and backed up by two beefy re-edits from London's original, Phil Asher.

Format: DIGITAL ONLY
Pre-order: https://agogo.lnk.to/AskingEyes


1 Da Lata – Asking Eyes
2 Da Lata – Asking Eyes Phil Asher's West Ten Mix
3 Da Lata – Asking Eyes Phil Asher's West Ten Instrumental Mix

Drums - Davide Giovannini 
Bass - Ernie McKone 
Flutes - Finn peters 
Congas, Tamborim, Repinique - Carl Smith 
Lead Vocal - Vanessa Freeman 
Backing Vocals - Adriana Vasques
Keys - Mike Patto 
Guitars, Tamborim, Percussion - Chris Franck  

Recorded at Boogie Back studios by Ernie McKone Mixed by Toni Economides  
Produced by Chris Franck 


Asking Eyes

Asking Eyes EP

Remember When

The Test I Passed

You hear the one about a German, a Scotsman, an Englishman and an Israeli walking into a Disco?… Us neither but this EP is no joke. The A side features big in the game names like Marcel Vogel and Al Kent so you know we’ve got some quality Disco lined up for you on the 9th Editz. 

On the flip, SB deliver their latest offering to the dancefloor gods whilst Davin Varda rounds off the EP with his anthemic rework of an Israeli disco gem.

GRAVITY (Version By PEAKING LIGHTS)

Arp

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