This summer, NuNorthern Soul celebrates its tenth birthday via the release of a lusciously packaged vinyl box set. After that, there’s the small matter of the label’s 50th release, a gorgeous, download-only EP from Bali-based Joey Fitzgerald AKA Gold Suite. Given that NNS was based for many years in Bali, and Fitzgerald and label boss Phil Cooper are old friends, it seems a fitting way to notch up half a century of releases.

Fitzgerald scored something of an underground hit with his self-released debut EP as Gold Suite, Hideaway – a set of tracks that Mixmag Asia praised to the hilt and ended up reaching Bandcamp’s list of bestsellers following its release in the spring of 2021. It was by no means his first foray into production – he’d previously delivered a handful of well-regarded edits and remixes – but it signalled a new chapter in the career of a DJ/producer who was previously better known for soundtracking sunsets and late night audio excursions at such iconic Bali venues as Potato Head Beach Club, 40 Thieves, Karma Beach and Mano Beach House.

The four tracks showcased on the On My Horizon EP do a terrific job in distilling his influences and inspirations into a colourful, sunset-ready and undeniably Balearic personal style that avoids easy categorization.

He begins with ‘The Cowboy’, a head-nodding and hazy chunk of dub-fired downtempo brilliance rich in warming bass, glistening guitar licks, spacey synth sounds and tropical lead lines, before brilliantly joining the dots between mid-‘80s Mediterranean synth-pop, relaxed nu-disco and Jose Padilla style Balearica on the kaleidoscopic wonder that is ‘Blue Lagoon’.

As the EP progresses, Fitzgerald skips merrily towards the dancefloor whilst retaining the inherently hot and humid atmosphere that marks out his music. ‘Slip On’ is a killer slab of Balearic boogie piled high with delay-laden drum machine hits, dreamy pads, undulating synth-bass and BB&Q Band keyboard riffs, while ‘On My Horizon’ sees Fitzgerald charge towards peak-time dancefloors via a mixture of weighty, Idjut Boys-esque dub disco grooves, flash-fried funk-rock licks and jangling, Gunfight at the O.K Corral guitars. Daniele Baldelli would approve.

As well as being NuNorthern Soul’s 50th release, On My Horizon is also the latest volume in the label’s Myths of Ibiza series – a set of eight EPs to be released throughout 2022, each of which features bespoke artwork from Ibiza-based illustrator Emily McGuinness. Her images for Myths of Ibiza all draw inspiration from folkloric tales of the White Isle. Depicted on the front of Gold Suite’s first NuNorthern Soul EP is “the familiar”, a mythical small goblin born from the stem of an herb that legend says only grows on the night of San Juan, under the old bridge of Santa Eulària des Riu. According to locals, if you manage to pick one of the short-lived plants and take one of its stems, it will come to life and turn into “the familiar”.

BLUE LAGOON

Gemixt von Fabian
1 Pioneer djm 700
2 Pioneer cdj 850


1	Les Baxter / Jungle Flower (Club Des Belugas Remix)	
2	My House (Original Mix)	Purple Disco Machine			
3	Rocco Schamoni - Discoteer (DJ Koze Remix)	
4	Love I Lost	Theo Parrish	
5	Lovers Carvings Edit (Vinyl)	Love Edits	
6	Kuar (Henrik Schwarz Remix)	Emmanuel Jal	
7	Untitled 4 (Original Mix)	Unbroken Dub	
8	Grind (Original Mix)	Les Sins	
9	Myrtle Avenue (Original Mix)	Floating Points	
10	Break Well	Mount Kimbie	
11	What My Last Girl Put Me Through	Nicolas Jaar 		
12	No Good	Ifan Dafydd	
13	Kaini Industries	Boards of Canada	
14	Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)	Caribou	

Hangover Mix (Dj Set)

"Carrie & Lowell" By Sufjan Stevens // Edit // 2015

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (Les Gordon Edit)

Stars across every horizon
(come closer)
Join my rising line, rising line
Stars across every horizon
(come closer)
Join my rising line, rising line

First I reach the faint worlds drifting outward
Then I call the distant clusters into heat
Don’t you feel how my glow is slowly widening?
Let this circle keep on moving, moving through

Let it flow
Let it flow
Let it flow

Stars across every horizon
(hold on)
Join my rising line, rising line
Stars across every horizon
(hold on)
Join my rising line, rising line

Every small companion drifting in my shadow
Pull them all, from faint embers to bright rings
Please don’t linger at the colder edge, I’m calling
If you stay behind, you’ll lose this warming tide

Let it flow
Let it flow
Let it flow

Stars across every horizon
(come forward)
Join my rising line, rising line
Stars across every horizon
(come forward)
Join my rising line, rising line

Let it flow
Let it flow
Let it flow

Stars across every horizon
(join the glow)
Join my rising line, rising line
Stars across every horizon
(join the glow)
Join my rising line, rising line
Stars across every horizon
(join the glow)
Join my rising line, rising line
Stars across every horizon
(join the glow)
Join my rising line, rising line

Red Giant

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* PRE-ORDERS SHIP MAY 31, 2016 *

Aimes brings everything good to this release from sun-kissed synths to chimes lapping around your dancing feet, the most delicious and enticing sort of post-disco can be found on “Pleasure Cruise.” Take a permanent vacation to an aural paradise as you set sail on lathered waves of boogie and crests of love. We have a feeling Larry would be debuting this one at Paradise Garage if he had the chance. As far as the flip side, if the theme to the film “Midnight Express” is the glass half-empty, “Acid Dreaming” is the glass half-full, playing like an electro-futurist vision of the journey beyond consciousness to realms unknown. This is modern funk on psychedelics... 

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LOUISE ROAM - Vera Rubin's Journey

El Hawaiano - Mi Corazón

From the forthcoming 'De Gama - Funktastic EP' [SMS004]

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De Gama - Son Of Slave [Funktastic EP]

quelques rimes nocturnes (freestyle)

That Girl From Ipanema

All I’ve Got

Tracklist :
Minuit - Paris Tropical
Anoraak feat. Sarah Maison - Gang
Laurie Darmon - Laisse-moi t'aimer

All I’ve Got

Astrud Gilberto