Two heady extended grooves from members of the Portuguese collective Aspen Music. Fausto conjures a close, smoky dub techno mood on 'Rabbit Hole', puncturing swampy chord progressions with crisp percussion and vocal samples that add to the intrigue. On the flip, Pedro Duarte's expansive 'That's True' glides along for a truly cosmic ride that is just made for outdoor dancing as the sun comes up. Carpet's LAB series showcases upcoming Portuguese artists on limited edition vinyl, as part of a fair and sustainable production model.

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[CARPET/LAB02] Fausto / Pedro Duarte - "Rabbit Hole / That's True" EP [OUT NOW!]

Carpet boss Jorge Caiado returns with three tracks to expand your mind and your soul. Stretching across the A, ’Plant A New Garden’ is a cosmic neo-Detroit techno epic that comes accompanied by a life-affirming narrative in the long tradition of UR’s ’Transition’. On the B, ’Find Your Rhythm’ weaves a military kick, febrile percussion and a wicked acid motif into a dangerously groovy web. Finally, the easy, breezy ’Say What?’ smooths things over with classic house aplomb.

Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/new-garden-carpet07

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New Garden EP

[CARPET07] Jorge Caiado - "New Garden" EP [OUT NOW!]

Dublin producer Lukey has his finger firmly on the pulse of the sounds emanating from Berlin and London’s newly awakening dancefloors, as proven by this stellar debut for Carpet & Snares’ LAB series. Contemporary club music is all about opening up the space between genres and filling it with something at once referential and new, and this EP is no exception. Other Worlds Vol. 1 effortlessly blends house, techno, electro and breaks into a mature sound world that’s both tight and expansive, funky and tough, contemplative and right down to business. Get moving with Vol. 1, and watch out for Vol. 2 coming soon!

@lukeymusic420

Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/other-worlds-vol-1-carpet-lab03

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[CARPET/LAB03] Lukey - "Other Worlds Vol. 1" EP [OUT NOW!]

Luhk returns to Carpet & Snares after his 2020 EP ‘Em Casa’. Now the Portuguese producer is seeking ‘Novos Horizontes’ (new horizons) via these five fiery club tracks. Each of the first four cuts has its own jet fuel: acid basslines on ‘Em Missão’ and ‘L.Submundo.D.’, a classic M1 on ‘Não Há Volta Atrás’, and an early 00s bumping tech house groove on ‘Linhas De Espaço & Tempo’. The title track closes the EP with galactic electro, proving that the horizon is just the start.

@zoy23

Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/novos-horizontes-carpet08

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[CARPET08] Luhk - "Novos Horizontes" EP [OUT NOW!]

Shine Grooves (Hanagasumi, ФАКТУРА) is a specialist in live and experimental electronic music, blending software and hardware in his studio in Yekaterinburg, Russia. On this sophomore full-length he cultivates an otherworldly Space Garden on a distant planet, populated by alien organisms that move to their own extraterrestrial groove. Dawn breaks and the garden slowly comes to life on ambient opener ‘Morning Mood’, setting a promising tone for the day ahead. A kick shuffles in to work on the dubby ‘Tribal Acoustic’, which builds and builds before leading us into the industrious bounce of ‘Japan Sequencer’. This latter, first optimistic and later frenetic, ends the A-side’s warm-up and primes us for action on the B. ‘Tool’ is self-explanatory, a refined, stripped-down dub techno weapon honed for an afternoon’s hard work. After that exertion, ‘Evening Radio’ is the perfect cool-down, its delicately skittering percussion contrasting with sweet, improvised synth melodies. Finally,the ambient ‘Night Reverberation Jam’ is the sound of darkness falling, our garden’s lifeforms settling down to rest before the cycle begins afresh.

@shine-grooves

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[CARPET/CIRCUITS03] Shine Grooves - "Space Garden" LP [OUT NOW!]

Read the Q&A here: carpetandsnares.com/mixseries-ouissam

The latest instalment of our mix series comes from the DJ, booker and club/record store boss Ouissam (@ouissamhk). After stints in China and Hong Kong running a booking agency, festival (Equation) and labels like Homesick and Fragrant Harbour, in 2016 Ouissam moved to Hanoi, Vietnam, to set up the club Savage (@savagehanoi). Now in its fifth year - and at a new venue in the ex-Embassy of Angola in Hanoi's Tay Ho district - Savage has established itself as one of the region's most progressive clubs in terms of both music programming and the diverse crowd it attracts. Since mid 2020 it has also been home to a record store, Pond Records.

Ouissam's mix for us shows off his appreciation for all things italo, synth, boogie and house, mixing cuts from contemporary labels like Public Possession with classics from UBQ Project and others. The set is a lesson in how to build a joyful energy, speaking to his years of experience as a resident DJ in his own club and on the road in places like Panoramabar (Berlin), Folklor (Lausanne), .TAG (Chengdu) and Honcho Campout (Pennsylvania).

In our Q&A he discusses the contribution of Savage and its queer night Snug to the Hanoi scene over the past 5 years, the challenges of running nights and a record store during the pandemic, and his work as a DJ exploring different sonic territories.

Carpet Music: Mix Series 008 w/ Ouissam

Carpet & Snares’ white label Dummy series returns for round two and it’s ready for action. Five modern, lean and club-ready bangers split the difference between house, techno and electro. Don’t sleep.

Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dummy-02-ep-dummy02

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[DUMMY02] Unknown Artist - "Dummy 02" EP [OUT NOW!]

Read the Q&A here: carpetandsnares.com/mix-series-eli-verveine

Our next contributor, Eli Verveine (@eli-verveine), has been DJing for over 20 years, first establishing herself at local Zurich venues like Dachkantine and later on international stages.

Verveine’s DJing is patient, and it rewards that same patience in the listener. In this Q&A we dive into this concept and how it applies more generally to learning the art of DJing over time. Anecdotes from parties over the years – including an earlier epic set at Renate – help illustrate how Verveine has navigated the dilemmas of expressing creativity from the DJ booth.

The accompanying mix is a live recording of a recent gig in Gothenburg, and after a measured opening you can soon hear the crowd roar their appreciation during the breaks in Lil Louis’s ‘Blackout’ – patience, as ever, bringing its just rewards.

Carpet Music: Mix Series 009 w/ Eli Verveine

@Saramagomusic debuts on Lisbon’s Carpet & Snares with four slices of deep and groove-laden house. This is an EP of contrasts, the light skip of the A side shadowed by the more driving pulse of the B. Opening with the dubby, weightless house of ‘The Red Room’, Saramago then treats us to a wiggly banger in “Unicorn”, sure to melt today’s dancefloors. ‘Sakaboto’ takes things into darker territory with a focussed acid groove that opens up halfway through with twinkling pads. ‘Happy Endings’ rounds things off with funk and flair, another sure-fire peak-time bumper.

Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kepler-22b-carpet09

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[CARPET09] Saramago - "Kepler 22b" EP [OUT NOW!]

Saudade aka Fabian Appolaire returns to Carpet & Snares’s Patterns series with four refined explorations of jazz-inflected minimal house. As on his debut EP on the imprint, what interests Appolaire is the fundamental units of jazz – syncopation, swing, improvisation – and how these can combine within a stripped-back dance music template. Take the razor sharp arrangement of ‘52nd Street’, where silence is its own instrument, or the stunning melodic unfurling in the back half of ‘Walking’.

Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-back-to-the-quarter-note-ep-carpet-patterns03

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[CARPET/PATTERNS03] Saudade - "Come Back To The Quarter Note" EP [OUT NOW!]

Temudo aka João Rodrigues – Hayes Collective member and one of the figureheads of Portuguese techno – brings his finely calibrated contemporary sound to Carpet & Snares’ Steam series. Composed between 2016–2021 and boasting three pieces of floating classic techno and one dubby broken stepper, the EP shows off different sides to Rodrigues’s sound and influences following belter releases on Klockworks, Soma, Warm Up and Hayes.

Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/esquece-ep-carpet-steam02

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[CARPET/STEAM02] Temudo - "Esquece" EP [OUT NOW!]

Read the Q&A here: carpetandsnares.com/mix-series-shine-grooves

Shine Grooves (@shine-grooves) aka Andrey Kurokhtin is a musician, label head and record store owner from Yekaterinburg in Siberia. Over the past ten years he has released leftfield electronic music across a range of labels including his own Hanagasumi (@hanagasumi) imprint, founded in 2019 to release non-commercial, experimental music on vinyl. In 2020, the label grew into a physical record store, which is now a centre for the city's developing scene.

Andrey's mix for our series explores similar territory to his Space Garden LP, released last year on Carpet & Snares's CIRCUITS series. Ambient, experimental, ethereal: it's a real trip through the cosmos.

Carpet Music: Mix Series 010 w/ Shine Grooves

After the success of Vol. 1, Dublin producer Lukey returns for Other Worlds Vol. 2 on Carpet & Snares’s LAB series, once again blending house, techno, breaks and electro into something cutting-edge and distinctive. The loping grooves, tight percussion and yearning harmonies we fondly remember from the first record are present and correct again across four streamlined club-ready tracks, taking in moods from early hours to peak time.

[CARPET/LAB04] Lukey - "Other Worlds Vol.2" [OUT SOON!]

Carpet Music Mix Series 001 w/ @mikehuckaby

It’s a great pleasure to have Detroit hero Mike Huckaby record the first mix in our new series. We caught up with Mike to know what he’s been up to recently.

Follow the link for the interview: https://carpetandsnares.com/mixseries-mike-huckaby/

Artwork by Adília Lima
Picture by Sandra Leidecker

Carpet Music Mix Series

Carpet Music: Mix Series 001 w/ Mike Huckaby

Vinyl only. Carpet/Patterns matures with this debut from French producer Saudade, whose name in Portuguese refers to an indefinable sense of nostalgia and longing. Apt then that each of these reduced house jams evokes half-invented memories of other places and times, be it the smoky live jazz vibe on 'Past Is Your Potential' and 'Cabaret' or the workaday hustle of 'Defense 2000'. 'Trappes' is more upfront, matching deadpan Psycho samples with bumping tobias.-esque rhythms to create a crafty dancefloor killer.

A1. Saudade - Trappes

Vinyl only. Carpet/Steam, the new techno-oriented sub-label from Lisbon's Carpet & Snares Records, launches with this 5-tracker from Nuno Costa aka VIL, including a remix from Rotterdam legend Jeroen Search. Each of VIL's originals finds a unique space in which to incubate, emerge and flourish – sometimes more foreboding, sometimes more expansive, but always tight as a drum. Search's remix of 'Commander' is a masterclass in tension-building, rounding out an assured and battle-ready release.

A2. VIL - Commander (Jeroen Search Remix)

Lisbon's Carpet & Snares comes fresh with a VA release for Record Store Day 2019, featuring four sprightly offerings from a stellar cast of shop regulars. 'Note Repeat' sees Driven (alias VIL) in loopy housey dub techno mode, while Pandilla LTD strip things down for 'Smop', an exercise in regimented percussion and modulating effects. On the flip, 'Bom É Lá No Meio' has Luhk (alias Zoy) getting craftier in a style reminiscent of vintage Akufen, before Carpet boss Jorge Caiado rounds things up on 'Gingko', recalling tobias. at his housiest and, going further back, classic Chez n Trent.

A2. Pandilla LTD - Smop

Carpet Music Mix Series 002 w/ @Stojche

We couldn't be happier with the follow-up to our first mix, coming from Macedonian artist Stojche. We asked him some questions so we could get to know him better and you can read his answers below.

Follow the link for the interview: https://carpetandsnares.com/mixseries-stojche/

Artwork by Adília Lima

Carpet Music: Mix Series 002 w/ Stojche

Vinyl only. Following on from his fast-stepping debut on the Carpet Steps sub-label, DJ Chupacabra aka Davide Piras brings us four more examples of his light-footed, dancefloor-ready, UK garageinfused house sounds. Here Piras shows how to update the familiar sounds of Luomo, Akufen and other luminaries into something fresh and contemporary.

B1. DJ Chupacabra - Milkdrop

A1. DJ Chupacabra - Nitro

Carpet Music Mix Series 003 w/ @XDB

The third mix on our series comes from one of our favourite DJs, Greek artist XDB, and we absolutely loved it. Read the Q&A below and get to know more about one of the finest selectors on the circuit.

Follow the link for the interview: https://carpetandsnares.com/mixseries-xdb/

Artwork by Adília Lima

Carpet Music: Mix Series 003 w/ XDB

The fourth mix of our series comes from German artist and @slices-of-life-records boss @barbara-preisinger. It’s a pleasure for us to host another mix from one of our favourite DJs, and the mix itself is one hour of groove and classy selection. 

Read the Q&A below in the link and get to know more about one of the most respected DJs of the underground.

https://carpetandsnares.com/mixseries-barbara-preisinger

Carpet Music: Mix Series 004 w/ Barbara Preisinger

Our next release in the main catalogue is a concoction from local magicians Pandilla LTD. Over a huge rumbling bassline and syncopated chords, 'Bleu' snaps its fingers and shakes its hips along with the best of them, while 'Muphrid' has a darker, more heads-down approach to keeping the floor locked in. On the B, Dan Andrei takes 'Bleu' for a 10-minute walk on the wild side, clockwork percussion and a cyclical bassline creating some sanity in amongst which all manner of mischief can be found.

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B1. Pandilla LTD - Bleu (Dan Andrei Remix)

A2. Pandilla LTD - Muphrid

A1. Pandilla LTD - Bleu

Besides showcasing new music, our LAB series will be used to test new emerging artists without the market pressure to sell many copies. The first artist to make the cut is Blazout, a new Portuguese producer with a very stripped down grooving house style that will make many dancefloors relish. On remix duties we've got Pandilla LTD member Hélio with a deep and groovy breakbeat track, marking his first effort to get pressed on wax. Highly limited pressing. For early Baaz and Anton Zap fans!

100 copies limited edition, hand stamped.

A2. Blazout - Flower Of Life (Hélio Remix)

A1. Blazout - Flower Of Life

We return to our main catalogue with beguiling house from local favourite Luhk, renowned for his live and dynamic modular workouts. Here we get three tight variations on his elastic bumping house sound, plus a remix from fellow analog junkie Saudade. Both 'Jogar Em Casa' and 'Bom É Lá No Meio' (previously a Record Store Day exclusive) play with smokey jazz samples, the former's laidback irony contrasting with the latter's jauntier groove. Percolating synths and a lean, mean bassline on 'Reminiscência Do Trance' will seamlessly propel any afterparty into the late morning hours. Finally, Saudade steers 'Jogar Em Casa' towards the fresh and organic live-feel of vintage Kalabrese.

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[CARPET06] Luhk - Em Casa EP (ft. Saudade remix) [OUT NOW!]

The 6th mix of our series comes from the mysterious and exceptionally talented S.O.N.S. We have been a fan of his music since the beginning and have in most occasions stocked his highly sought-after releases here at the shop. Now we’ve been presented with an expertly crafted mix of mostly ambient music from the man himself and we couldn’t be happier with the result. Tune in to his mix for a 1 hour trip and read the Q&A below to get to know more about the shadowy artist. @s-o-n-s

FULL INTERVIEW: https://carpetandsnares.com/mixseries-sons/

Carpet Music: Mix Series 006 w/ S.O.N.S

After two much-sought-after releases from DJ Chupacabra, Carpet’s Steps series just had to come back with a third. ‘Finissage’ and ‘Subsonic’ on the A both live up to their steppy billing, the beats dipping and diving in and out of pads and samples that nod unashamedly to UK garage and dubstep. On the B, ‘Wooded’ is a new-school minimal groover for a housier crowd, while ‘Dranzer’ rounds things off with massive bass, R&B-esque samples and just enough of a pinch of acid.

Bandcamp: https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/crop-rotation

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[CARPET/STEPS03] DJ Chupacabra - "Crop Rotation" EP [OUT NOW!]

Established in 2014, Carpet & Snares Records is a label and record store based in Lisbon and managed by Jorge Caiado and Roy.

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