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Following her first solo outing and years of experience as one half of the well-regarded Husky project, Ukrainian DJ and producer ALIIRA returns with a confident new step forward. 

Her Escucha EP on Zatar brings together two original tracks and two standout remixes, showcasing both her evolving solo voice and her deep roots in the club landscape.

The title track “Escucha” is a vibrant, punchy, electro-leaning house cut built around infectious vocal chops and crisp percussion. It’s a track that balances energy with clarity, direct and effective, but never overworked. 

Danish producer NILU (DK) and Zatar Labelhead Phonique take the reins on the remix, flipping the track into a more angular and urgent, sharp and edgy rework that leans into tension and groove, tailored for peak-time play.

The second track, “Devi”, dives into warmer, more hypnotic tech house territory. Its rolling rhythm and subtly layered melodies are joined by processed guitar textures, lending the track a slightly psychedelic edge without losing its forward drive. 

London based producer Urmet K strips down the track to its abosulte essentials to create a trippy, grooving house cut for the summer.

Escucha

Devi

ALIIRA - Devi

"Random Forest is a journey through the lush soundscape of organic house, where the tones of ethnic instruments meet the pulse of the modern electronic beat. With tropical warmth, melodic textures, and uplifting spirits, each track leads into the random rhythm of the forest." - Masrit

Written and Produced by Roei Merom
Mastered at Ohxala Records Studios
[OR94]

Random Forest

Eagle Eye

Masrit - Eagle Eye (Original Mix)

Toi mon amie solitude (EXCLU BPM RADIO)

Octave The Cat @ Automaticamore//Nov 16 2018//BeateUwe//Berlin

New 12" a selection of edits from the vaults

A1 ECC003 Canoe Song

In homage to the infamous post rave meet up that exists on the fringes Tisno’s famed festival site Forriner have produced an emotive summer house anthem for the ages. ‘Meet Me At Burgerellas’ is built on tear jerking strings, clever piano hooks and a chest thumping bass riff that all hangs together over super tight, punchy drums. Label stewards Clandestino pick up the house baton and run wild with it, initially going for a deeper vibe until letting rip with firing 909 drums and heady arps. Their slower ‘Sunrise’ take is a more contemplative affair, dropping the beats completely letting the strings breathe and soar while adding subtle fluttering keys and dawn break pianos. ‘The Cat & Dog Stairs’ is aching for open air dance-floors with its genial, atmospheric synths and melodic feel. A polished house track dripping with style. Longhair stick to the summery brief by turning out a shimmering mid-tempo house rework; it’s lush keys sparkling over an infectious bassline conjuring up images of the sun glinting off the sea.

Meet Me At Burgerellas (Clandestino Sunrise Mix)

Fernando Falcão - Memória das Águas (OMSD06) 12" album

A1. Memória das Águas
A2. Amanhecer Tabajara (À Alceu Valença)
A3. Ladeira dos Inocentes 
A4. Revoada 

B1. Mercado (Gravado no Mercado Tanger)
B2. Curimão (Sons Onomatopaicos e Folk da Guiné)
B3. Solito (Solo de Balauê)
B4. Danado Cantador (Balauê, Orquestra e Declamação) (À Fagner)

Selva Discos returns to the LP reissue game with a bang – by giving a new life to the stunning and very sought-after Memória das Águas album by Fernando Falcão. Originally recorded in 1979 in Paris but only released independently in Brazil in 1981, the album comes complete with genre-hopping explorations that swirl around ambient soundscapes, lively jazz, experimental-leanings, Afro-rhythms and a unique blend of Latin grooves and French pop with a Brazilian accent, but it also comes with a story as deeply unique as the music.

To make a long story short, after participating in the political movements against the military regime in 1968 in Brazil, Fernando Falcão left the country and moved to France, where he lived in exile for 15 years. There, after working in music, acting, and sculpting, he involved himself in Jérôme Savary's legendary Grand Magic Circus, where he met his first wife, Valérie Kling. It was from this relationship that a partnership began between the musician and his father-in-law, the artist François-Xavier Lalanne, who guided Falcão in the process of inventing sound sculptures such as the balauê – a horizontal version of the berimbau string instrument whose sound was influenced by a water stream (since there was a hose soaking parts of the balauê wet during the performances). Much of this exploration and experimentation resulted in the album Memória das Águas.

The album still sounds like little else from the time. As audacious and experimental as it is seamlessly listenable, it takes in immersive textures one moment before breaking out into Fela Kuti-esque brass-soaked grooves the next. It’s ultimately a record that captures the spirit and rhythm of Falcão’s homeland combined with the lush production and art-pop approach associated with his exiled home; It’s a polished, well executed and glistening record. Its fusion of African, Brazilian, jazz, pop, classical and avant-garde collides to create a record that spans as many continents as it does genres.

Remastered from the original master tapes, not only the sound but the artwork of Memória das Águas was completely and faithfully restored. Also, the reissue comes with unprecedented liner notes featuring rare photos of the musician and his sound sculptures plus articles that help to explain who Fernando Falcão was and where Memória das Águas sits among other staples of Brazilian music, including one from DJ and selector John Gómez – who helped to connect Selva Discos' Augusto Olivani with Diana Lion, Fernando Falcão's daughter (since the musician died in 2002), for this project.
 
After Memória das Águas, Selva Discos will also reissue another long lost Fernando Falcão LP album – Barracas Barrocas.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on 16/08/2019. Distributed by Kompakt.

Optimo Music/Selva Discos 006, 2019.

Optimo Music / Selva Discos - OMSD 006 - Fernando Falcão - Memória das Águas (album sampler)

DC Promo Tracks #491: "The Word" by The Word is part of the release "Collected Works" on Edition Hawara @editionhawara  

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DC Promo Tracks #491: The Word "The Word"

CVW002 Departure Mix

Closing the weekend is Coolant Bowser w/ Hysteric. 

Melbourne born George Hysteric has been releasing originals and edits on vinyl for over 5 years now, meanwhile running his own Italo-disco centric vinyl imprint Mothball Records. His unique Italian disco and exotic Middle Eastern flavours have found their way to the much coveted Munich based Public Possession, Lisbon imprint Ostra Discos, Parisian label Plaisir Partagé, Bordello A Parigi from Delft and cult edit project Bahnsteig 23. They'll be running Goa Trance, New beat and Italo.

Coolant Bowser w/ Hysteric (Mothball) - Feb 2020

Onde Italo Vol. 1

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Octave The Cat @ Automaticamore//Nov 16 2018//BeateUwe//Berlin

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