Available March 2023 

Purchase: https://spf-50.bandcamp.com/album/social-life

Stream: https://tr.ee/_hyhcHJwdw

SPF 50, real name Stephan Kimbel Olson, is a resident of the longstanding Bob & Shirley party, runs the Professional Music label, and has graced New York’s finest sound systems with his deep, rolling club sets. In his numerous roles - DJ, engineer, party promoter, label head, producer and dancer - Stephan has become an essential contributor to the city's nightlife culture, a fixture in our extended sonic community. 

Stephan's first release on Bliss Point, Social Life, might well be a transmission from a nearby dimension; perhaps a collection of club artifacts peaking from just behind the thin veil. On Side A, Stephan has channeled two booming workouts, each with modular synthesis evoking the organic: an unruly bassline snakes through the aural fauna of "Body Concept", while breaks and acid fly by on "Liquid USB", an intricate sonic constellation propelling through space, culminating in the release of classic house chords midway.

On the B side, Stephan takes us deeper into the unknown. "Grove Map" is world-building club ambiance aptly named after The Grove, a stage deep in the woods at New York's Sustain-Release festival, where portals have long been known to be opened. "Iris (Bad Water Version)”, rounds out the offering, a drippy dub that time seems to slip off of, perfect for a melted warm up or come down.

I’m proud to welcome Social Life to Bliss Point, an offering for those familiar with the power of the deep, as SPF 50 is.

BP007: SPF 50 - Social Life

Out June 2023
Vinyl & Digital

Following 2020’s Radiant City and 2021’s The Living Dub, Bliss Point's Max In The World has teamed up with saxophonist Kroba for Excursions, four new offerings for club and home listening.

On Excursions, the pair explore a variety of sonic palates: the sun-drenched balearic house of “Don The Don”, the psychedelic downtempo of “Tiqqun”, the jazz inflected minimal dub of “Rain Dub”, and finally the beat-less bliss of “Gigi”, a naturalistic ode to the life-giving catalog of Gigi Masin, perfect for a meditation or a dance floor wash.

Kroba, who cut his teeth in Brooklyn trio Archie Pelago (Mister Saturday Night, Styles Upon Styles), conjures a mixture of free form jazz and effected, ambient saxophone textures over Max In The World’s emotion-laden club grooves, and together they open new portals for the head, heart and body.

A1. Don The Don
A2. Tiqqun
B1. Rain Dub
B2. Gigi

cover art & packaging by Geoffroy Pithon
Mastered by Ruy Mariné at Dubplates & Mastering

BP008: Max In The World & Kroba - Excursions

Friday November 3, 2023

SPF 50’s Social Life EP, released in March 2023, offered refined peak sounds and atmospheric club tools that defied typical genre descriptors, and cemented him as one of the most exciting DJs and producers in New York. 

Further exploring the world conjured in Social Life, SPF 50 has invited three artists he admires greatly - Sam Goku, Davis Galvin, and James Bangura - to reimagine the EP. 

The results are stellar. Sam Goku delivers an ambient techno version of “Grove Map” with a rude acid line, Davis Galvin transforms “Body Concept” into a sub-heavy system lifter, James Bangura digs up a moody deep house groove in “Liquid USB”, and SPF 50 himself rounds out the offering with “Blind Fade”, a reworked track from the Social Life sessions replete with the deep atmosphere and understated moments he has become known for.

SPF 50 - Social Life Remixed

Bliss Point is pleased to share our next release, a reissue of Soft Keys - Bubbles, a lost and long sought after classic from Italy, 1993.

Recorded in Trieste in 1993 by Edoardo Milani and Tullio Battisti, “Bubbles (Soap Mix)” is a slice of colorful, sun-soaked euphoria, a track delightfully leftfield and playful in a way so rarely found in club music. Originally released on Italy’s Promo Music label, it was quickly lost to time, a masterpiece locked away on an extremely hard to find 12”, soon growing in notoriety among DJs and collectors.

Bliss Point’s reissue of this classic includes two remixes from contemporary luminaries, each interpreting the timeless sound of Bubbles for the 21st century. Tokyo’s boys be kko explores the soaring complexity of the original, and New Yorker Olive T offers a thumping take on its deep and tender heart. The original “Acapella” version is also included.

Bubbles will be available to the public only on vinyl to start.

Vinyl Release Date: June 24, 2024

BP009: Soft Keys - Bubbles [Preview Clips]

Bliss Point is proud to present Ta Kish Kan, an EP from DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist Sol León. Ta Kish Kan is their debut release as aka-Sol, a name that consolidates many years of creativity, collaboration and exploration through various monikers and projects.

Ta Kish Kan is an explosion of color, a defiant rush of life. Over three tracks, aka-Sol has turned their psychedelic approach to sound toward the punk roots of electronic music, employing modular synthesizers and analog sonics to recapture the energy from before dance became homogenized and hard genre lines were drawn, challenging the conventions of modern club music and embracing a wider and more dynamic spectrum of human emotion.

The release is rounded out with a remix from Osáre! Editions head Elena Colombi, who further explores the space between experimental, post-punk and club music, dispensing with comfort and bidding us to embrace what lies beyond.

Vinyl pre-order is live now, and the release will be available on streaming services this Friday, October 4.

Records will land Monday, December 2.

EU/ROW distro: https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/aka-sol-ta-kish-kan-ep/
US distro: blisspointsound [at] gmail [dot] com

BP010: aka-Sol - Ta Kish Kan [preview clips]

BP007: SPF 50 - Social Life

Purchase: https://spf-50.bandcamp.com/album/social-life

Stream: https://tr.ee/_hyhcHJwdw

B2. SPF 50 - Iris (Bad Water Version)

B1. SPF 50 - Grove Map

A2. SPF 50 - Liquid USB

A1. SPF 50 - Body Concept

In four club-geared tracks, Kyoto-based producer Ko Yang maps the allure of floating off-world and the joy still here on planet earth. 

A founder and resident of Osaka’s long-running City Boy Lounge party, Ko Yang has been a steady contributor to Japanese music culture for the better part of a decade, hosting international and domestic artists at the homegrown CBL nights. 

The offering is rounded out by a remix from Alex Kassian, a major talent whose name has become synonymous with quality. 

The opener and eponymous track, A1. “Pony” - made for a friend who shares the name - kicks off with a chopped and distorted rolling break, indistinguishable and yet somehow familiar. Voices suddenly rush past, chords stab, and synths swell like fireworks shooting off an unforgiving planet. Ko Yang has wasted no time - we've arrived on his world. 

A2. “Gianism” opens with a wiggly, subby bass born to make a peak time statement. Soon some kind of pad - or engine - begins to warm up, cutting out suddenly just as dub chords blast off. A voice enters, beckoning in an unidentifiable language. A synth appears midway in some alien signature and time slows. We’re in deep space now. 

On B1., we’ve suddenly returned to planet earth. "Koinobori" is the name of the carp-shaped wind streamers that are flown during Japan's "Golden Week", a series of holidays at the beginning of Spring. Ko Yang's track is a worthy homage to the mood of this celebration: an elated chorus chants, children shout in joyful play, and melodic synths rise and turn our spirits toward the sun, toward warm, toward life on earth beginning again. 

The offering is rounded out by a remix from Alex Kassian, a cut of proggy, tribal euphoria that seems to lift off indefinitely, and is already bringing clubs to a froth internationally. 

Bliss Point is honored to bring you this collection of off-kilter, otherworldly club sounds from one of Japan's most exciting talents. 
credits
releases September 9, 2022 

Produced by Ko Yang 
Mastered by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering 
Artwork and packaging by Chris Harnan

B2. Ko Yang - Pony (Alex Kassian Remix) (Clip)

BP008: Max In The World & Kroba - Excursions

Purchase:
https://blisspointsound.bandcamp.com/album/excursions

Stream:
https://tr.ee/ioVQUOml0M

B2. Max In The World & Kroba - Gigi

B1. Max In The World & Kroba - Rain Dub

A2. Max In The World & Kroba - Tiqqun

A1. Max In The World & Kroba - Don The Don

In October of this year, Bliss Point was invited to host a takeover of @radio80000 to feature the sound of the label & party. The takeover featured hourlong mixes from six artists who have payed the Bliss Point party, released on the Bliss Point label, or both.

@koichisue rounded out the takeover with an hour of melodic club sounds.

Ko Yang | Bliss Point x Radio 80k Takeover

Friday, November 3 2023

SPF 50’s Social Life EP, released in March 2023, offered refined peak sounds and atmospheric club tools that defied typical genre descriptors, and cemented him as one of the most exciting DJs and producers in New York. 

Further exploring the world conjured in Social Life, SPF 50 has invited three artists he admires greatly - Sam Goku, Davis Galvin, and James Bangura - to reimagine the EP. 

The results are stellar. Sam Goku delivers an ambient techno version of “Grove Map” with a rude acid line, Davis Galvin transforms “Body Concept” into a sub-heavy system lifter as only they can, James Bangura digs up a moody deep house groove in “Liquid USB”, and SPF 50 himself rounds out the offering with “Blind Fade”, a reworked track from the Social Life sessions replete with the deep atmosphere and understated moments he has become known for.

SPF 50 - Blind Fade

SPF 50 - Liquid USB (James Bangura Remix)

November 3, 2023

SPF 50’s Social Life EP, released in March 2023, offered refined peak sounds and atmospheric club tools that defied typical genre descriptors, and cemented him as one of the most exciting DJs and producers in New York. 

Further exploring the world conjured in Social Life, SPF 50 has invited three artists he admires greatly - Sam Goku, Davis Galvin, and James Bangura - to reimagine the EP. 

The results are stellar. Sam Goku delivers an ambient techno version of “Grove Map” with a rude acid line, Davis Galvin transforms “Body Concept” into a sub-heavy system lifter as only they can, James Bangura digs up a moody deep house groove in “Liquid USB”, and SPF 50 himself rounds out the offering with “Blind Fade”, a reworked track from the Social Life sessions replete with the deep atmosphere and understated moments he has become known for.

SPF 50 - Body Concept (Davis Galvin Remix)

Friday November 3, 2023

SPF 50’s Social Life EP, released in March 2023, offered refined peak sounds and atmospheric club tools that defied typical genre descriptors, and cemented him as one of the most exciting DJs and producers in New York. 

Further exploring the world conjured in Social Life, SPF 50 has invited three artists he admires greatly - Sam Goku, Davis Galvin, and James Bangura - to reimagine the EP. 

The results are stellar. Sam Goku delivers an ambient techno version of “Grove Map” with a rude acid line, Davis Galvin transforms “Body Concept” into a sub-heavy system lifter as only they can, James Bangura digs up a moody deep house groove in “Liquid USB”, and SPF 50 himself rounds out the offering with “Blind Fade”, a reworked track from the Social Life sessions replete with the deep atmosphere and understated moments he has become known for.

SPF 50 - Grove Map (Sam Goku Remix)

In October of this year, Bliss Point was invited to host a takeover of @radio80000 to feature the sound of the label & party. The takeover featured hourlong mixes from six artists who have payed the Bliss Point party, released on the Bliss Point label, or both.

@chloe_juliette charted a lush path through gospel acapella, fusion, leftfield and modern soul.

Chloé Juilette | Bliss Point x Radio 80k Takeover

Vinyl: softkeys.bandcamp.com/album/bubbles
Vinyl Release Date: June 24, 2024

Bliss Point is pleased to share our next release, a reissue of Soft Keys - Bubbles, a lost and long sought after classic from Italy, 1993.

Recorded in Trieste in 1993 by Edoardo Milani and Tullio Battisti, “Bubbles (Soap Mix)” is a slice of colorful, sun-soaked euphoria, a track delightfully leftfield and playful in a way so rarely found in club music. Originally released on Italy’s Promo Music label, it was quickly lost to time, a masterpiece locked away on an extremely hard to find 12”, soon growing in notoriety among DJs and collectors.

Bliss Point’s reissue of this classic includes two remixes from contemporary luminaries, each interpreting the timeless sound of Bubbles for the 21st century. Tokyo’s boys be kko explores the soaring complexity of the original, and New Yorker Olive T offers a thumping take on its deep and tender heart. The original “Acapella” version is also included.

Bubbles will be available to the public only on vinyl to start.

B2. Soft Keys - Bubbles (Olive T's Extra Soap Remix) [Preview]

B1. Soft Keys - Bubbles (boys be kko Remix) [Preview]

Vinyl: https://softkeys.bandcamp.com/album/bubbles
Vinyl Release Date: June 24, 2024

Bliss Point is pleased to share our next release, a reissue of Soft Keys - Bubbles, a lost and long sought after classic from Italy, 1993.

Recorded in Trieste in 1993 by Edoardo Milani and Tullio Battisti, “Bubbles (Soap Mix)” is a slice of colorful, sun-soaked euphoria, a track delightfully leftfield and playful in a way so rarely found in club music. Originally released on Italy’s Promo Music label, it was quickly lost to time, a masterpiece locked away on an extremely hard to find 12”, soon growing in notoriety among DJs and collectors.

Bliss Point’s reissue of this classic includes two remixes from contemporary luminaries, each interpreting the timeless sound of Bubbles for the 21st century. Tokyo’s boys be kko explores the soaring complexity of the original, and New Yorker Olive T offers a thumping take on its deep and tender heart. The original “Acapella” version is also included.

Bubbles will be available to the public only on vinyl to start.

A2. Soft Keys - Bubbles (Acapella) [Preview]

A1. Soft Keys - Bubbles (Soap Mix) [Preview]

Bliss Point is proud to present Ta Kish Kan, an EP from DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist Sol León. Ta Kish Kan is their debut release as aka-Sol, a name that consolidates many years of creativity, collaboration and exploration through various monikers and projects.

Ta Kish Kan is an explosion of color, a defiant rush of life. Over three tracks, aka-Sol has turned their psychedelic approach to sound toward the punk roots of electronic music, employing modular synthesizers and analog sonics to recapture the energy from before dance became homogenized and hard genre lines were drawn, challenging the conventions of modern club music and embracing a wider and more dynamic spectrum of human emotion.

The release is rounded out with a remix from @osare.editions head @elenacolombi who further explores the space between experimental, post-punk and club music, dispensing with comfort and bidding us to embrace what lies beyond.

Vinyl pre-order is live now, and the release will be available on streaming services this Friday, October 4.

Records will land Monday, December 2.

EU/ROW distro: bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/aka-…ta-kish-kan-ep/
US distro: blisspointsound [at] gmail [dot] com

B2. Aka-Sol - Kidz (Elena Colombi's Are The Kids Alright Remix) [clip]

B1. Aka-Sol - Kidz [clip]

A2. Aka-Sol - No Más (feat. Kinamun) [clip]

https://aka-sol.bandcamp.com/album/ta-kish-kan

Bliss Point is proud to present Ta Kish Kan, an EP from DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist Sol León. Ta Kish Kan is their debut release as aka-Sol, a name that consolidates many years of creativity, collaboration and exploration through various monikers and projects.

Ta Kish Kan is an explosion of color, a defiant rush of life. Over three tracks, aka-Sol has turned their psychedelic approach to sound toward the punk roots of electronic music, employing modular synthesizers and analog sonics to recapture the energy from before dance became homogenized and hard genre lines were drawn, challenging the conventions of modern club music and embracing a wider and more dynamic spectrum of human emotion.

The release is rounded out with a remix from @osare.editions head @elenacolombi who further explores the space between experimental, post-punk and club music, dispensing with comfort and bidding us to embrace what lies beyond.

Vinyl pre-order is live now, and the release will be available on streaming services this Friday, October 4.

Records will land Monday, December 2.

EU/ROW distro: bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/aka-…ta-kish-kan-ep/
US distro: blisspointsound [at] gmail [dot] com

A1. Aka-Sol - Ta Kish Kan [clip]

Max In The World - Where My Body At

from the "Radiant City" 12"

Out now on Bliss Point:
https://blisspointsound.bandcamp.com/releases

EU Customers:
https://linktr.ee/BlissPoint

B2. Max In The World - Where My Body At

Max In The World - I'm Good (Thanks)

from the "Radiant City" 12"

Out now on Bliss Point:
https://blisspointsound.bandcamp.com/releases

A2. Max In The World - I'm Good (Thanks)

Max In The World - Radiant City

from the "Radiant City" 12"

Out now on Bliss Point:
https://blisspointsound.bandcamp.com/releases

A1. Max In The World - Radiant City

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I am proud to welcome DJ and producer Monolithic to the Bliss Point mix series.

Some time ago I was asked by Mechanical Records to join them for an evening in the Public Records Sound Room. It was then that I first came across Jun, known musically as Monolithic. He played before me on the massive PR system to a crew of very appreciative and engaged dancers. I stood at the merch table at the back of the room with Jakub The Ear and took it all in. It sounded fantastic. I hadn’t met Jun yet - he was hidden behind the small window in the booth, obscured by the flickering shadows of club lighting. I met his music before I met his person, and I was moved!

After that evening I dug deeper, and found that as both a DJ and producer, Jun had developed an impressive sound of his own. His latest release, Voicemail, exhibits exactly the kind of floating feeling I look for in dance music. Give it a listen and tell me you’re not a few inches off the floor at 2:41.

I was so glad when Jun agreed to come on the Bliss Point mix series. The session was one of the most fun we’ve had in a while, with friends old and new swinging by the studio. Things are quite well right now.

Enjoy,
Max

@monolithic-monolithic

Monolithic | February 10, 2020

Purchase: https://koyang.bandcamp.com/album/fp-riza

Next up on Bliss Point is "Fp" / "Riza", two expertly crafted house cuts from Ko Yang, a DJ, producer and promoter out of Kyoto, Japan.

A founding member of the long running City Boy Lounge parties in Osaka, Ko Yang and friends have hosted a number of familiar names - Axel Boman, Soichi Terada, Shinichiro Yokota, and Fatima Yamaha, to name a few.

CBL is a homegrown affair. The crew bring their own system to the back of a cafe once a month to heat up the early half of a good night out. “After the party finishes, everyone relaxes outside the cafe,” Ko Yang writes. “Then they miss the last train and head to the nightclub.”

“Our party is the warm up for night. That’s our responsibility for music culture in Osaka.”

I’m excited to welcome Ko Yang into the Bliss Point family with "Fp" / "Riza", two exquisite dance floor constructions from a well seasoned DJ and party person.

Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering.

@koichisue

Fp / Riza

Ko Yang - Fp

Riza

Ko Yang - Riza

Bliss Point is proud to welcome NY producer Duane Island to the roster with Solar Effect, three enormous and heartfelt club excursions, combining elements of trance, italo and disco to pack as much life as possible into one release.

The title track, “Solar Effect”, twists in on itself like a trip peaking at noon, pairing squelching FM synth lines with airy piano chords to get hands in the air, feet off the ground, and heads in the clouds. “Figo Dream” is an afternoon bike ride through a lifted and euphoric dreamscape, anchored by a pulsing bass line that changes course at just the right moment. “Olio” cruises back to earth by sunset, with cheeky keys and voices from dancefloors past beckoning for another go round.

BP004: Duane Island - Solar Effect (preview clips)

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