July 2019

"Stupid" is the first single from Gomina's upcoming album "Prints".
It's available on a 7" blue vinyl here : http://gomina.bigcartel.com
Check the video on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZuO2HbODxw

Stupid

Winter Lofi Wonderland - Asian Mike

LEG002 Albion - Into Infinity

Love Not Sex is the second Stubb release from Paper Recordings' Ben Davis (Flash Atkins) forthcoming on vinyl and digital.

The original is a melancholic slice of sunshine that draws inspiration from MOR and blue-eyed soul with a hefty dose of balearica. Acoustic guitars, Rhodes, live drums and strings plus Crazy P's Tim Davis on bass provide the perfect cinematic backdrop for the plaintive vocals of Huw Costin (Torn Sail) and Rachel Foster. 

Japanese edit hero Mori Ra delivers his first ever remix and its a doozy. Keeping the bones of the original track, he takes it in to dark psychedelic waters with the help of former_airline's tripped out guitar. A spoken vocal tips it in to full Balearic wonkiness that will have the likes of DJ Harvey and Bjørn Torske getting hot under their disco beards.

Bergen's Leca employs his trademark stripped back crisp production for a warm, dreamy remix. Steel guitar, clicks, whirrs and a Nordic playfulness make for a cosmic journey to the Northern Lights.

Love Not Sex

Stubb - Love Not Sex feat. Huw Costin & Rachel Foster (Mori Ra former_airline Texas Hitters Remix)

Produced & Arranged by Lexx
Written by Alex Storrer & Simon James.
Mixed by Reto C. Gaffuri & Alex Storrer at Fu Music. 
Artwork www.vanjensen.jp

From the forthcoming Album "Cosmic Shift" - Summer 2019

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A. Lexx feat. Woolfy - Too Hot (Snippet)

ASR333 B1 Jaz - Ohh, JAAAZ

Almost four decades since it’s domestic release, Karen Marks’ 1981 single Cold Café has finally reaped it’s deserved international credit to become one of Australia's most recognised minimal wave recordings. Efficient Space now showcases the Melbourne artist’s brief but entire discography, including two previously unheard demos, all produced with experimental synthesist Ash Wednesday (The Metronomes, Modern Jazz, Thealonian Music). 

A rarity in the then male dominated industry, Marks found her footing in music, first through rock journalism and then in band management. Formally of Adelaide, newly arrived synth-punks JAB (Johnny Crash, Ash Wednesday and Bodhan X) approached her for representation, subsequently contributing tracks to seminal 1978 snapshot Lethal Weapons and playing the Crystal Ballroom's opening night. Wednesday and Crash would soon dissolve JAB, enlisting Mark Ferry and Sean Kelly to create Models. Still under Mark's management, Models became one of the fastest rising new bands of the punk movement, playing to full houses of dedicated and frenzied fans everywhere. Sadly, internal frictions forced Wednesday and Marks to leave after two years, with Crash following three months later. 

Her creative relationship with Wednesday fortified with the co-production of his 1980 machine-pop prank Love By Numbers, her swooning chorus uplifting his deadpan count to 100, before the two collaborated on Marks’ own recording persona. Immortalised by the icy Oz wave of Cold Café, her Astor issued 7” also boasted the caffeinated flip Won't Wear It For Long - a should be hit with guitar from future Icehouse member Robert Kretschmer. 

Fans know of one more recording - You Bring These Things, a forlorn arrangement of an otherwise unreleased Paul Kelly song, gifted to her by the revered wordsmith. The track only ever appeared on the Astor promotional LP Terra Australis, sinfully alongside Up There Cazaly and Joe Dolce - hard proof that the label grossly misunderstood her talent (Marks recalls their persistent requests to show midriff and cleavage). Locked in a dissatisfying label arrangement and at this stage unwilling to follow her peers to greener pastures overseas, she felt her only way out was to cease all further activities. 

At the 11th hour of preparing this retrospective, two tracks unexpectedly surfaced via two cassettes - a paranoid demo version of her signature tune Cold Café, and a long-lost fourth song Problem Page. Both living room recordings follow Marks and Wednesday’s ingenious framework of minimal lyrics, minimal chord progressions.

Cold Café EP

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Album Credits:
Original Tracks by: Santi & Tuğçe, @santiandtugce
Cover Art by: Scott Partridge, www.jevaart.com/

Album Description:

Terminal Caribe is the newest album of Santi & Tuğçe who weave timeless, borderless melodies with global, dance floor rhythms. Similar to their previous releases which take listeners on a sonic adventure all the way from the coasts of the Black Sea to the Parana River, Terminal Caribe presents a peculiarly personal, yet undoubtedly universal odyssey exploring the deep interrelations between music, movement, and memory. Named after a bus stop where the duo had the initial inkling for this album, Terminal Caribe serves as the point of departure for an entrancing journey through a wildly varied world of sound. Soulful melodies, captivating harmonies, colorful orchestration, polyrhyhmic percussions and marimbas, and deep bass lines combine with heartwarming vocals and the sounds of sea to tell a tale that is at once epic, melancholic, spacy and irresistibly groovy.

Santi (from Asunción, Paraguay) and Tuğçe (from Istanbul, Turkey) left their homes to follow their dreams of music and have been road companions and musical partners for more than a decade. They collaborated on two full length-albums, four EPs and numerous singles which captivated listeners worldwide. With their 2016 EP El Regreso del Gallito, “Santi & Tuğçe rewrote Paraguayan folklore” (Thump Vice, Brazil) and with their Songs for My Grandmother, selected as one of the best albums from Turkey in 2017 by Beehype, they remade Turkish classics for contemporary audiences. Drawing on their eclectic background and constant pulse for innovation, Santi & Tuğçe once again reinvent an unpredictable and enticing soundscape of the Caribbean and beyond.

Oye! - Lyrics:

Oye, mi ritmo te transforma 
Oye, te mezcla, te desmolda 

Oye mi ritmo te transforma 
Oye, te mezcla, te desdobla, te da sabor 

Te transforma, 
Te desmolda, 
Te desdobla, 
Te da sabor

Oye!

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Santi & Tuğçe - Oye!

Welcome back to the discovery channel with exciting news from the animal world. Follow the heavily transcoastal trail on this 12".  A gamble that paid out with just about 4 people having this in their wantlist on discogs when we listed it. Replaced artwork - original has a cheesy black and white portrait of the maker. Watch out this is the only version to get. The other Remix 12" does not have this version here and is not what you want darling

"Trans Africa Train" 12" by Michel Barth - Rare Balearic France only release EMI, 1991 - 👋

'just for fun' edit of this cult track from the rare "One Giant Leap" compilation (UK 1983)

*DM for WAV file

Rajan James - IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS (Hysteric edit)

Here comes Natural Hugh with his swinging new jam, Bare Groove Parts 1 & 2. Check out the 'Language Lab Rap' for what is quite possibly the first Greek/Japanese language rap recording ever made!

Bare Groove Parts 1 & 2

Natural Hugh - Bare Groove Parts 1 & 2 CLIPS

Mystery 7" just fished out of the blue grotto. Stats: One copy ever sold on discogs, 4 wants... File under: freshest sushi in town. Ocean FX added to shake off audio-hi-jackers.

"Ile" 7" - Balearic Bliss - Not On Label, 1980s - 👋 SOLD

Amajika - Tomati So

Mikki - (Coyote Waves & Waves & Waves Edit)

King Maker (JAZ's rap n slammin drums edit)

Clips were recorded from the actual vinyl. To know availability of some titles just message me, post a comment or contact me via IG https://www.instagram.com/beachfreaksrecs.

"Trans Africa Train" 12" by Michel Barth - Rare Balearic France only release EMI, 1991 - 👋

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