Love Guides Beyond is the follow-up to Find Love & Boogie by Tree Threes, released on Omena. 

This time we get four tasteful and well crafted tracks celebrating all things house, suitable for any club setting. Opening track Bare Strut is one of Jamie aka Tree Threes strongest tracks in a long time, a bona-fide dancefloor gem. 

Release Date February 23rd

Love Guides Beyond

Tree Threes - Bare Strut (Omena 2024)

New York City native and Barcelona resident, Ralph Rodriguez aka Ralph Session, has learned over his career as an International DJ and Producer how to create distinct musical vibes with his unique productions and DJ sets.

Can You Lie is up next, an uplifting house tunes that keeps on going and you never really want it to stop.

Can You Lie

Ralph Session - Can You Lie [Local Talk]

Two deep and soulful UK house aficionados, KingCrowney and Jimpster unite on The Remedy Project featuring vocals from LEGZDINA. KingCrowney is widely regarded for his work as a trumpeter, recording and touring with MOBO and Brit Award winning collective Rudimental ever since UK number one ‘Feel The Love’. As such, lively jazz influences often pervade the London producer’s smooth releases, who now teams up with Freerange Records and Delusions of Grandeur founder Jimpster; the revered UK DJ’s discography of deep house extends back to the late 90s, with his informed sets pulling in house heads ever since those seminal releases. ‘The Back’ combines the two artists propensity for the golden era of house into one, slick Remedy Project release, featuring spoken-word vocals from mother of poetry LEGZDINA – a Latvian artist whose idiosyncratic style has led to collaborations with Idris Elba, lau.ra and Bianca Oblivion on Jamz Supernova’s label Future Bounce, with an EP incoming on Three Six Zero in Spring 2024.

The Back (Extended Mix)

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KingCrowney & Jimspter Feat. LEGZDINA - The Back (Extended Mix)

Download/Vinyl/Stream: https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/epONE

We are familiar with the Neo Soul singer’s work presented as Noah Slee, but who is FAHU?
This first EP brings high energy funk to the dancefloors of today. Influences of Eliza Rose, Blessed Madonna, but also Kerri Chandler and Masters at Work come together in 3 songs and 2 remixes (by Gee Lane and Athlete Whippet). 
The original tracks are almost perfect: super short, uplifting and catchy. You’ll want to hear them again and again… and again.
In case you’ve been to a Toy Tonics Party last year, you might have heard one of these energetic tracks and seen how people went crazy. It’s perfect 2024 dance floor material, but you can imagine them on the radio too. Somewhere in the mix between Folamour and Armand van Helden, Chromeo, Calvin Harris and JUNGLE.
Toy Tonics signed a few new artists for 2024. FAHU, alias to Noah Slee, is probably the most important one. The vocalist has an impressive career in the Neo Soul scene. His biggest song DGAF reached more than 30 million plays on Spotify and as a singer he toured all over the world. 
Always creating, currently his focus is on three projects:  The high speed house project FAHU, more than prepared to shake the dance world.  His soulful journey Noah Slee which will soon release some new melodies too. And A Song For You – the Berlin based vocal ensemble he founded and directs. 
With these different projects he has been making all kinds of stages in Germany and Europe an extension of himself. We’re sure Noah Slee will have a massive entry into the new dance soul world in 2024. And ready for bigger steps in 2025!

Released: 08.04.24

FAHU - Get2gether

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/divorcefromnewyork 'Brick Lane' LP
Out April 26th on Tokonoma Records
Pre-order: https://tokonomarecords.bandcamp.com/album/brick-lane

PREMIERE: Divorce From New York - What´s Jazz [Tokonoma Records]

Download/Vinyl/Stream:  https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/SpeechlessEP

Toy Tonics’ brand-new artist ‘GUINNY’ will be dropping her debut EP this summer. The blue-haired, 24-year-old Londoner is not just a DJ & Producer, but also a soul Singer and multi-instrumentalist, playing violin, guitar & piano! She packs her DJ sets with raw, intense, euphoric energy. 

Much like her music selection on the decks, GUINNY also makes music that spans across many different styles. Bottom line: she makes dance music with soul, with her ethos being “dance music that sounds like it’s come from humans, not just machines”.

While vocally she has been compared to the likes of Roisin Murphy and Jorja Smith, her innovative use of vocal layering and production techniques, somewhat evocative of the early days of James Blake, gives GUINNY’s tracks an exciting new edge dimension. It’s modern, it’s fresh, it’s deep, and it’s full of soul.

Released 29.04.24

GUINNY - What Am I (Extended Version)

Download/Vinyl/Stream: https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/RobotSalsaEP

Toy Tonics head honcho Kapote teamed up with the label’s Italian disco king Sam Ruffillo to make a Latin House EP for the summer. Three tracks that fit great with the new wave of latino beats invading the house dance floors this summer. The short versions of these songs might work well on radios, but the long versions are pure DJ and dancer’s fun. The two guys are probably Toy Tonics main DJ duo now. They have been DJing every weekend of the last year in some of the best clubs in Europe. They are residents at Panorama Bar Berlin now and have been invited to share the same stage as Kaytranda and Jessie Ware at Sonar Festival 2024. And they have the right music for this summer. Latin House!

After years of dominance of Afro House, the grooves of South America seem to become the new thing in many DJs sets. The influences from Salsa, Boogaloo and other tropical elements, the hard Latin piano riffs connected with cowbells and a lot of conga grooves were already there last summer. But now it's the time they take over many dance floors. 

On this EP Sam Ruffillo and Kapote played all instruments themself. No samples. Instead pianos, basses, percussion, and guitars were played by the guys. Vocals also performed by the boys. This stuff is made to sing along. The rhythms and the chords catch you immediately. The melodies make you join the „band“. 

People who know Toy Tonics and the guys well, know that the both come from „real“ music-making. The guys have been playing in bands, doing jazz and funk music, before becoming dance producers and DJs. And now they combine all these skills and turn it into musically super catchy dance tracks. 

Latin house is a thing now. And Sam & Kapote have the grooves for it.

Released 21.05.24

Sam Ruffillo & Kapote - La La Tune (Extended Version)

Introducing “Club Companions” - a collection of 13 edits of some of our favourite tracks that we’ve been playing out in our DJ sets. Covering a range of tempos and soulful club flavours: from house to broken beat and beyond. It’s available for download from Bandcamp only, ripe for the dance floor 💌


CLUB COMPANIONS available here: https://closecounters.bandcamp.com/album/club-companions
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HARLEM RIVER DRIVE

HEARD IT ALL BEFORE (HOUSE FLIP)

Buy / Pre Order Link: slothboogie.bandcamp.com/album/port-chalmers-ep
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/djphilippa
Title: Port Chalmers EP
Label: https://soundcloud.com/slothboogie
Cat: SBR015
Format: Digital / Streaming
Genre: Deep House
Release Date: 07/06/24

PREMIERE: PHILIPPA - Lot To Learn [SlothBoogie Recordings]

SiPHUME - Addictive Synth

Naarm/Melbourne-based duo Close Counters kicked off 2022 with a flurry of remixes and their collab 'Rollout' with Young Franco featured UK rappers Scrufizzer and Jay Prince and went on to clock multiple spins on BBC Radio 1, iHeart Radio, triple j, FBi Radio and landed a slew of playlist support from Spotify and Apple Music, winning over new fans across the globe. Most recently, the release was added to the official soundtrack for acclaimed video game FIFA 23.

Close Counters’ original releases of 2022 were premiered by Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 Music) and Jamz Supernova (BBC Radio 1Xtra) respectively, and garnered support from tastemakers Folamour, Jaguar (BBC Radio 1 Dance Introducing), Tarzsa (BBC 6 Music), Complexion (BBC Radio 1Xtra + Future Beats Show), Riz Rollins (KEXP Seattle), Alex Turner (KEXP Seattle), plus earned rotation adds from triple j Unearthed, Double J, SYN and Radio FG. Singles 'SNAP TO IT!' and 'GET DOWN!' were released by The Remedy Project (Defected Records).

The pair have seen widespread tastemaker support from Folamour, Laurence Guy, Dam Swindle, Harvey Sutherland, Bugz In The Attic, plus love from BBC Radio 1Xtra as their #1 'EP of the Week' and the station's 'After Dark Discovery’, spins from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Sirius XM, KEXP Seattle, FLUX FM, NTS Radio, Balamii Radio, Rinse FM and  local frequencies triple j, triple j Unearthed, FBi Radio. Key media outlets Indie Shuffle, Mixmag, NME, XLR8R, Clash Mag, EARMILK, This Song Is Sick, DUMMY, KALTBLUT Magazine have all shows their praise for the duo as well.

The band have continued to sell out shows in Eora/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne (including a massive 2,000 tickets at Sidney Myer Music Bowl with The Murlocs) and their expanded 7 piece tour-de-force live group have ticked off bucket-list festivals Splendour In The Grass, Falls Festival, Let Them Eat Cake, Strawberry Fields, Meredith Music Festival, MONA FOMA and Party in the Paddock / Party in the Apocalypse and supported Sofi Tukker (USA), Tall Black Guy (USA), Confidence Man, The Jungle Giants, Roland Tings, Motez, Mickey Kojak.

With a knack for flow and re-inventing Close Counters have also put their unique remix spin on tracks from Tim Shiel and multiple ARIA Award-Winning Genesis Owusu, Bristol-based Elder Island, Aussie-favs Art vs Science, Bag Raiders' single 'How Long' with Panama and 30/70’s 'Impermanance'.

HARLEM RIVER DRIVE

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