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Flash Atkins – Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys
1. Original 
2. Deaf Boys Dub 
3. Doc L, Junior Mix 
4. Richard Seaborne Mix

Flash Atkins is a drunkard, drug user and general wrong’un. A super hero who has fallen from his purple patch in the 80s to purples stains on his pants in the 00s where he now lives in a campervan in a field in Yorkshire.

He is also the alter go of Paper Recordings’ Ben Davis and Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys is the first single from his forthcoming album Paper album “The Life and Times of Flash Atkins”. Each track title is named after a chapter of a short story to be published as an accompaniment to the long player.

Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys is a slo-mo tech heavy chugger that is locked down with rock sold beats and a throbbing side-chained bass. The track builds with synth lines before a sampled female vocal brings in some sparse melody and reinforces the hypnotic rhythm. An acid line adds to the tension before the reaching it’s peak with all the elements hitting home.

The Deaf Boys Dub goes down a more stripped back route with a Moog synth riff and techy hats along with the sampled vocal. A ricocheting snare heralds the arrival of the sub and things crank up a gear. It’s proper 4am lose yourself in the smoke club music as the synth riff filters in and out.

Doc L. Junior is a Norwegian legend who’s not been active for a few years but is back with a wallop. Deep, synthy and a hint of 80s, this is big room music that brings to mind So Get Up by Underground Sound of Lisbon.

Finally, Richard Seaborne turns in a classic sounding remix recalling Armand Van Helden in his prime. He ups the pace, adds a brutal bottom end, chucks in a jazz break on top of the acid and vocal and it’s dance floor dynamite.

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Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys

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Following the release of the “Eleccio” mix CD in 2014, Especial has continued on it’s path to develop and push a club sound that is slightly more leftfield than the on-going boompty House rehash, the mutation of nu-disco in to something a bit more proggy, trancey and the never ending thud-drug-chug of the 110 bpm ableton-for-beginners brigade, by offering a
mixture of musically psychedelic, twisted, dubbed-out, proto-obsessed club EPs.
Possibly falling between pillar and post, an audience does exist though and to celebrate that fact, a new mix CD - this time helmed by rising shipmates Khidja - is incoming. As before, “Junta” is a best of best from the previous 9 releases (EES011 - 019), plus a few special
extras from our Romanian duo. To accompany the CD release, a Sampler EP again focuses on some unreleased gems, unheard versions and a special remix.
We start with a remix from Khidja and their own take on the very special Masimbabele.  Upon hearing a Remix EP was in the works, the duo begged for a go and rightly so, as here is possibly the best remix, with a dubby groover. 

This is followed by an unreleased cut by another, but not forgotten, combo.  While C&A are M.I.A, here then is an extended rework of a stand out pop-ode taken from their underrated Migration album. 

On the flip is new member, Alphonse, taking his proto-rave-poem deep in to the echo chamber to create a unique dub that is very much for the smokers. 

Finally, Khidja offer the “original” version of Looki.  An ambient version appeared on the in early 2015, but here, finally, with kick, bass and some wiggle, is their balearic masterpiece.  Gracias Discos Especials !!

A1. The Unknown Cases - Masimbabele (Khidja Remix)

Dutch Disco exclusive edit: LUPE - Naked (ReLuped)

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Dutch Disco Exclusive Edit: LUPE - Naked

As he charged victoriously towards the finish life he reflected upon a charmed life. Hardship? No. Pain? No. This was all far too easy, in the distance he could hear the echo of a tannoy blaring out loudly to a crowd of onlookers. 

"We are here today..." 

All that nonsense got old pretty freakin' fast when you were running your socks off upon the bareback concrete in extreme temperatures. Little did they know that he would be just fine. 

Kiwi features as part of the latest edition of the Mushroom House series on Toy Tonics Records. He contributes alongside Ponty Mython, Tom Trago, Munk and The Barking Dogs.

Mushroom House EP 3

PREMIERE: Kiwi - We Are Here [Toy Tonics]

Holger Hiller - Das Feuer (Pilooski Edit)

Paris-based band Vox Low drops a new remixes EP on Alvaro Cabana’s Rotten City Records that features this superb hazy version from ‘My Broken Frame’ aka solo project of Guillaume Leglise, also guitarist of the band. They turned this originally sensible cinematic pop song into an extended cold-blooded kraut cover, mostly built around hallucinogenic synth layers, whipping binary drums, kinky grunge guitars and that haunting sonar bleep that will never leave your mind in peace, for our very pleasure. The track was previously released digitally in 2016 , but its so good that finally he got a deserved vinyl release.  
EP also includes remixes of ‘Ready To Spend’ - killer tune from their last album - from Marvin & Guy, Holographic Planes and themselves. Out on april 5th just to remind you that winter is still not far away.

https://soundcloud.com/mybrokenframe
https://soundcloud.com/voxlow
https://soundcloud.com/rotten-city-records

PREMIERE | My Broken Frame - Black Lake (VoX LoW Remix) [Rotten City Records] 2019

other remixes by Cubenx (infiné, mex) & Turzi (records maker, fr). To be released 22.10.2012 on Infiné records.

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