Vinyl available on Magic Feet from 2/6/14

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/rich-lane-peza-flesh/529294-01/

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Written by Ch. Chayell, M. Ickx

Performed and produced by Rich Lane

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In the UK Midlands of late 1988, shortly after the second Summer of Love, a 15 year old schoolboy, already immersed in Acid House and Detroit Techno, reads in one of the pretentious London-centric mags he devours each month about a new sound which could be the next big genre.  It's called New Beat, and it comes, of all places, from Belgium. This makes him pay attention -  he spent every summer holiday of his youth in one of the country's resorts, and had vague memories of stark, pounding electronic music emanating from club doorways late at night.

He makes a trip from his suburban home into the city centre determined to find some examples of this new music. After a lot of searching he comes up trumps: a compilation album called 'New Beat - Take 1'. He buys it on the spot and takes it home to listen to. As with most albums he's ever bought, he feels slightly cheated, after a couple of good tracks there's a fair bit of filler, and certainly no overriding 'sound' other than a somewhat slow and Euro Pop centric approach to House. Nothing like the aural fingerprint of Acid or Techno. But...

Some of the tracks pique his interest. They have a dark, early 80s synth heavy sound which reminds him of both the Synth Pop of his youth, and the mysterious music filtering out of those Belgian clubs as a child...

He has to wait till the very end of the album for the best of these - a track called 'Flesh' by A Split Second. The fascinating sleeve notes of the L.P. tell the story of how an already banging tune in the established Belgian style of 'Electronic Body Music' was played at the wrong speed (33 1/3 and +8 on the Technics deck) by an Antwerp DJ called Fat Ronny. The club went wild, and a new genre was born - Belgian producers trying to replicate the slower groove and dark timbres of this fateful bit of serendipity. The UK schoolboy gets more than a little obsessed by the tune...

The lad in question went on to form a career in dance music production, and after 25 years has decided to revisit this important and very personal piece of nostalgia, fashioning a complete, respectful and sample free rework of the track based on it's 'go slow' speed. 

This one is for the music mad schoolkid in all of us...

R.L.

Rich Lane - Flesh (Dub)

Hold Me Closer

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Navè Mountebank from Finland and Nik partner up together for this track.

Make You Mine

Deep House rendition of Ghetto Superstar by Pras.

Ghetto Superstar - Pras ( Jay Kraft Remix )

Tonight

It burns us, it sustains life, roughly 93 million miles from the rock we exist on is a nuclear reaction which has been raginfor billions and billions of year, and it will be still going on long after we are gone, this aint no god. This is the Sun.
New York based Codek Records host Takuya Nakamura, trumpeter, vocalist, producer and gentleman! Sun displays just the right amount of tech, just the right amount of kick and just the right amount of live instrumentation. Jazzy horns mix seamlessly with a funk bassline and guitar stabs. This is as jazz as it is funk as it is house.
These are summer vibes!

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PREMIERE | Takuya Nakamura - Sun [Codek] 2018

Barbatuques - Baianá (Brasingles vol.2) 12"

A1 Baianá
B1 Baianá (Wolf Müller's Drum Drop)

The fourth release of Selva Discos is one that has been bursting audiences into flames for a good while. Barbatuques, a well-known Brazilian group of body percussionists, adapted "Baianá" back in 2005 (first released on the "O Seguinte É Esse" album) and since then it became a staple of their concerts, getting crazy reactions from the children to the elder, being featured on soundtracks and sampled by trap duo Tropkillaz. The original is a modern folk song from Bahia composed by Maria do Carmo Barbosa, but it was the mouth harp sound and the stomping beat on the Barbatuques' arrangement that imprinted its trademark sound - like the first lightning strikes before the storm.

A couple of years ago, Jan Schulte, the german producer known for his taste for tropical drums (and also for using a few different aliases), heard the song and decided to add an extra punch to it for his DJ sets: more drums, taken from a library record of "drumdrops" (hence the title). In his appearance at 2017's Dekmantel Boiler Room stage as Bufiman, he dropped it to the crowd's awe, and it's been like that wherever its played - believe it, it's been tested all around.

So now for the first time "Baianá" is issued on vinyl. It marks the second volume of the BRASINGLES series, a new series on Selva Discos dedicated to releasing loud 12" singles with the original song on the A side and a rework on the B side, to please both the DJ and the listener.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on June 29th 2018. Distributed by Kompakt.

Optimo Music / Selva Discos - OMSD 004 - Barbatuques - Baianá 12" (sampler)

Friday 25th October 2019 sees the re-release of 'Monkey see..."

Aardvarck shared "A refined mix of his favorite Dubs" to mark the date.

(MEDi105)

Monkey see...

Aardvarck - How Low Can The Monkey Go...

A mashup of Kano's It's a War and Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte

Eddie Example - It's A Troglodyte

Geelong/Melbourne Electronic Producer and Dj.
primarily focusing on the darker and more eclectic side of electronic music.

Tonight

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