SOUL FOOD

One of the words that any of us hate to hear in our daily lives is 'admin'. A shudder runs from head to toe as we think about the soul-crushing combination of filing cabinets, staplers and fax machines. As our eyes roll and our shoulders slump, we go about these tasks with significantly less enthusiasm than the rest of our daily lives and feel all the more weary for undertaking them.
HOWEVER, there's a new form of admin that'll have you feeling much perkier and excitable as Admin has the ability to soothe all of your worries with his chilled out sounds. 'Sancho Panza' will turn thoughts of office monotony into visions of beaches, hula dancers and HUGE cocktails. Let your mind drift away and give the world of Admin another chance, you won't be sorry...

Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Release No: BPLS001
Release Type:  WHITE LABEL. / LIMITED PRESS (200) / HAND STAMPED
Various Artists: Christian Jay/Ny*Ak/Contact Ronnie/Embezzlement Society/Admin
Genre: House/ Garage / Minimal / Cosmic / Latin

PREMIERE: Admin - Sancho Panza (Banoffee Pie Records)

Slowed down and a bit tweaked, as recommended by a good friend.

Grace Jones - Private Life- ILOEDIT

Ishi Vu joins the Omena Records crew with 'Green Is The Color Of Love' and we have an exclusive full stream.

https://soundcloud.com/ishivu / https://soundcloud.com/omena-records

Premiere: Ishi Vu - Green Is The Color Of Love (Omena Records)

Buy http://bit.ly/2fr2nwM

I've been a big fan of Danish producer @thorsteinsson for a while now, having signed some of his bits to my label Monologues Records and supported him heavily on the show. He cuts a fine line in woozy, refined deep house and disco cut-ups realisde via oodles of analog gear, and it's great to see Catz & Dogz snapping up a slew of his material for a full album on @pets_recordings in the form of 'Academy Of Heroes'. This one continues his 'Untitled Disco' series and is typical of his sound: warm, vaguely discordant chords, live funk bass and snappy beats.

Listen to our other premieres at bit.ly/turnedonpremieres

Academy Of Heroes

PREMIERE: Thorsteinssøn - Untitled Disco Six [Pets Recordings]

Karl Lumont & Barry Helafonte - Lita

Dj Steef & Mr. Bard - Ritual Of The Body

Frits Wentink returns with the second volume of his Two Bar House Music & Chord Stuff on WOLF Music.

Drawing inspiration from the legendary sounds of Kerri Chandler and Mood II Swing, the release contains four Themes perfect for the nightclub, bar mitzvah, funeral or cruising in your 1989 VW Polo on your way to see your gal (or guy).

Frits Wentink - Theme 5

BUY digital !

17 Days (Nenor Remix)

Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/VgBqgNWN2qU

Released somewhere last year but in full on the web for the first time, "I'm Free" on Italian delivery service of tasty tunes Paradise Pizza. If you don't know the label yet be sure to check them out, their catalogue consists of only 2 releases, but it's the best damn pizza we've ever had!

Artist: Unknown Artist
Title: Green EP
Label: Paradise Pizza
Cat#:  PPPP 01G
Release Date: 09-2018

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Paradise Pizza:
TBA

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Listen Closely is all about spreading love and good vibrations through music and dance, from house and disco to funk and soul. Cruising through life, supporting upcoming artists and labels while we're at it.

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Green

I'm Free

Grab a Copy

PREMIERE: Unknown Artist - I'm Free [Paradise Pizza]

South Londoner DJ Counselling returns to SoSure Music label with new “Tomorrow’s World EP” release.
“One With The Sun” is an atmospheric journey to a carefree summery vibe. Smooth and relaxing guitar licks combined with bumping energizing beat - an easy recipe to effortlessly grooving through the sticky summer days into refreshing night dancing.
Dropping on vinyl and digital on 26th July 2019.

write up by Elena Lisovin: https://soundcloud.com/elena-lisovin

DJ Counselling on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/djcounselling
SoSure Music on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sosuremusic

http://www.itsdelayed.com/

Pre-Order

PREMIERE: DJ Counselling - One With The Sun [SoSure Music]

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Following on from 'City Life' (Scissor And Thread #40) here is a brand new extended EP from composer, producer and musician Black Light Smoke, jam-packed  with pure raw House Music showcasing all the benefits of floating keys and rattling hi-hats, while masterfully interwoven vocal cuts take an infectious lead through the EP.

The title track 'Nothing Makes Me Feel (Good Anymore)' sets the tone with a snappy beat and a slightly melancholic vocal sample. 'Street Emotion' convinces with tasty dryness over a characteristic bass-wobble in the beginning before it opens up with a warm and swelling synth pad. 

In similar fashion 'Get Something' is beat-focused and dressed up with G-House vocal splinters which make it groovy as hell. 
'The Right Way' surfs on a wave of juicy chords and laid back vocals and especially the well-arranged break beat of 'The Right Way' creates the track's uniqueness. 

'Hustle' has some serious jack-flavor, transporting all the best of Chicago's warehouse sound while 'Golden Chains' is driven by a sophisticated garage bass-line, almost contrary to the emotional feel of the track, once more underlined by a distinctive vocal line. Well saturated distortion and Lo-Fi edges add up to a wealth of comfortably warm moods that represent Black Light Smoke's very personal expression of modern House sound, which you will be also be able top experience in his upcoming live set gigs.

Nothing Makes Me Feel (Good Anymore)

Black Light Smoke - Golden Chains

Today we have the pleasure of bringing you a real doozy from New Zealand's own 2XM. Their track "On My Skin" exemplifies everything this immaculate duo hare known for. It's precise, warm, and grooving. A skittering, propulsive beat carries the tune while warbling, moody jazz chords and funk flourishes paint a pretty picture indeed. Combine that with their uncanny ability to pick and employ a vocal sample and you've got an excellent track in our humble opinion. This track and several others are available now on the just released third volume of The Blaq Bunch on Blaq Numbers. Grab yourself a copy of the limited cassettes while they last. Highly recommended. 

The Blaq Bunch Vol. 3 is the latest generous serving fresh from Leipzig’s forward thinking record label, Blaq Numbers, whom we have been following since the label was established in 2015 are always coming through with impressively original music from the likes of Mangabey, Tilman, Just Jam, LUVLESS and many more exciting artists.

Blaq Numbers: @blaq-numbers
https://www.instagram.com/blaqnumbers/

2XM: @2xmurrays

*Premiere* 2XM - On My Skin

S3A | Pages Remixes | Dirt Crew Recordings

Buy : https://dirtcrew.bandcamp.com/album/pages-remixes
Buy Digital : https://tinyurl.com/DIRT121-Traxsource
Stream : https://tinyurl.com/DIRT121-Spotify

Cat No. : DIRT121
Rel Date : 23.09.2019

Track list:
A1 Clarence J. Boddicker (Lorenz Rhode Remix) 
A2 Friends (Art Of Tones Southern Soul Remix) 
A3 Fever (Dampé French Retouch)
B1 Friends (Nachtbraker Remix)
B2 Fever (Felix Leifur Flexi Leifs Remix)

Digi Bonus 1 - Friends (Art Of Tones Southern Soul Beats) 
Digi Bonus 2 - Friends (Art Of Tones Southern Soul Dub)

Release Info:
After S3A’s “Pages” double album earlier this year we asked some of our friends to re-interpret and re-construct their favorite original track off the album and deliver these fine remixes. We aimed to have a nice variety in styles on this record and hope you enjoy these tunes as much as we do!

Starting off with the live disco funk of “Lorenz Rhode” who sets the tone for a class dance floor EP and followed by the soulful deep house vibes of French master “Art Of Tones” aka “Llorca” who delivered 3 different mixes to this release. The main mix is on the vinyl and there are two bonus mixes added to the digital release, a “Beats” and a “Dub” version. Ending this brilliant first side is London’s newcomer “Dampé” with that deep and jazzy electronica approach we got to love him for on his first debut Dirt Crew Recordings release.

On the flip we pick up the pace and present you the faster dancefloor tracks of Amsterdam’s “Nachtbraker” with his freaky hallucinating sounds placed atop of one of these irresistible bass lines only he can come up with and leading towards an “end with a bang” in best Detroit ghetto house style by our own Icelandic fire “Felix Leifur”.

Each artist perfectly transported his own unique styles into these tracks and we hope this release with its broad approach will serve any dance floor to its best!

Pages Remixes

S3A | Fever (Dampé French Retouch)(Preview)

Side A sees LB aka LABAT offer up two brooding house cuts, textured and tweaked for maximum sonic pleasure and enticing you effortlessly down a rabbit hole of grooves.
On the flip Mr. Fries goes hard with two lo-fi, gritty electro joints full of crunched percussion, low-end weight merging with zaps, bleeps and acidic undertones.
Pre Order: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/lb-labat-mr-fries-split-your-thang/743558-01/

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : LB Aka LABAT - Ultimate Feeling

@manuelsahagun's track "Closest Star" will be released on October 25th as part of his Closest Star EP through @freerangerecords. More Info: bit.ly/TP_ClstStr

Veröffentlicht von: Freerange
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2019

FR252

Manuel Sahagun - Closest Star

Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0HFqn1JjfBE

Label: Tape Leisure
Artist: Grant Turismo
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Cat. Number: TL004
EP Title: Expert Sleeper
Release Date: December 30th, 2019
Support it: https://grantturismo.bandcamp.com/album/expert-sleeper

Grant Turismo supplies 3 choice dance floor fillers on this soon to be released EP. From wonky house to interstellar jams, this is one for the Australia summer.

Tape Leisure:
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Listen to YouTube

PREMIERE: Grant Turismo - Eshays In Laneway [Tape Leisure]

Psssh 001

Really Good

Monday Morning Show 015

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Hidden Spheres is the alter ego of Manchester’s Tom Harris, who first made his mark on the underground circuit with his release 'The Bloos' on Moods & Grooves, before following it up with the much in demand ‘Waiting’ on Lobster Theremin offshoot Distant Hawaii.  

Here, Tom joins the Scissor & Thread family, the Brooklyn label founded by Francis Harris, and home to music that traverses a number of boundaries. Hidden Spheres fits right in - the five track 1985 EP blends house, broken beat, ambient, jazz and other elements into a heady brew. 

'King Tut' starts proceedings, a laid back jazzy groove, rich in textures and soulful flourishes.  

'My Names' touches on the UK broken beat legacy of 4 Hero and Bugz in the Attic - an off kilter groove layered with sweet jazz and house inflected licks.  

'Karl' is a much more direct dancefloor track, albeit with the deepness that we expect from Hidden Spheres.The penultimate track '1985' steps into the unconventional house vibes of Detroit's third wave.

'Soon We’ll' finishes up the EP - a supremely jazzy piece built around the sax, piano and washes of strings and ambient elements - a superb closer for a deep and heartfelt release.

Karl

Hidden Spheres - Karl

City

Good Times

I was 15 in 1999 and was allowed to experience house music on the legendary Globus Floor in the old original Tresor in Berlin. Techno was present. At that time it was a kind of musical anarchy and protest movement after the fall of the wall. After that time, people wanted music to sing and laugh with. I can't wait until techno is over. Everything repeats itself, like back in 1999.

SOUL FOOD

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