Name: OKESUTORA OF THE VOID ( IVAN SMAGGHE VERSION) by ivan smagghe in Easy
Duration: 4 min 22 s
Description: PRESENT

I’m in love with this track. It’s one of these I wish I could tattoo in my brain and carry with me forever

Easy

It’s a strange world we’re living in and these addictive cuts mirror it well.
Dancing all night in cheerful melancholy with two strictly limited edits. 

The A-side renders gothic synth pop at cruising tempo, spinning a web of tape delay as your mind unravels. A bassline throbs, pistons hiss and a paranoia takes hold of an icy vocal. Lose yourself in the otherwhere.

We step into a pristine wilderness on the B-side, stately pads gliding over a supple rhythm section while tender chimes tug at your heartstrings. Emotion abounds on an instrumental which never was. Big boys do cry, and this dove’s weeping over broken wings…

Purple Desire

Pau Roca - EUPHORIA EP

Out August 2nd vinyl, August 16th digi.  Both are up for preorder on our bandcamp 

Barcelona’s Pau Roca is back with his 2nd release on LA label Pleasure of Love, an EP of cool-hazy balearic house with equal parts sunrise and sunset energy. Roca is a standout in the Barcelona DJ scene, and with his party Libido and labels Escola and Bons Records, he’s established himself as a premiere record collector/DJ and a producer.  


EUPHORIA includes 3 original cuts and a remix from the house legend, Pal Joey.

STREAM ON YOUTUBE - https://youtu.be/uhZwpVjJT0A

follow Pau here- 
@paur
https://ra.co/dj/pauroca
https://www.instagram.com/paurocabcn

Euphoria EP

Euphoria

Pau Roca - Euphoria

Born and raised by CBS/IntergalacticFM's database, LeonxLeon started his machine with several various on Red Laser Record (UK) from 2013 mixing acid, italo and disco influences, to later in 2015 release his own take of "Funk Makossa" on Cerrone's new EP. Playing live sets and DJing all around Paris & Europe with the infamous Les Yeux Orange crew, he released EP's on Mancunian inprint "Red Laser Disco" and Parisian label "Cracki records" in 2019 with "Rokanbo", dancefloor melting Acid-Zouk mixture.
In 2022 be ready for his new EP on Cracki Records, blending even more genres and sounds.
@leonxleon

ALALA 001 - LeonxLeon 27.01.2023

Genji Sawai’s classic LP “Sowaka”, featuring Midori Takada and Bill Laswell, reissued for the very first time.
Sowaka will be re-released on February 10th with remastered audio.

Sowaka, recorded in 1984, displayed an innovative sound that went beyond genre – mixing dub, world, jazz, electro, hip-hop and avant-garde. A perfect match of some of the most experimental artists of that time resulting in an extremely sought after and singular piece of music of the golden Japanese era. A talented crossover.

In 1984, working with Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn and Midori Takada would be unlike working with anyone else Genji Sawai had before, pulling him out of the J-jazz experimental scene he was based on. Rather than work off written music, they’d build songs like cooks. Genji might supply the ingredients, perhaps the tonal choices – sax, FM synths, drum machines, and Bill would task himself to do the “cooking”, creating the overall image of the song. It’s the use of imagery to have a conversation with each other, musically, that just felt so different to Genji.

Unlike the other musicians who contributed to Sowaka, musicians of impressive, rarefied technique like Midori Takada, Shuichi “Ponta” Murakami, and Kazuhiko Shibayama, notation or sheet music wasn’t a part of Genji’s vocabulary with Bill. With him, drawings were how songs were built from the ether. Whatever image a demo conjured up – that’s where the song had to go.

You hear it on songs like “Hikobae” that predicted the chopped and screwed sound that would revolutionize hip-hop years later. On this track what started with a mental picture, of some kind of tree shoot, metastasizes a vision full of no-wave sax skronk dosed with pointillistic dub affectations. Although, Sowaka wasn’t tied inherently to it’s original meaning – the final utterance from the Buddhist Heart Sūtra – it’s philosophical meaning wasn’t too divorced from the true meaning (or at least, his truest meaning) Genji placed on it here: getting things done. Simply put, all his high-minded ideas wouldn’t have come to fruition unless all involved put some serious work into getting the project over the finish line. In five cracking days the album was put on tape and was then jettisoned off to NYC for Bill to put its final touches.

What’s fascinating about Sowaka, or at least what will make it so, is just how it perfectly captures a certain atmosphere, somewhat alien to overground Japanese music at the time. Forget about a starry-eyed, futuristic, technopolis. The Japan heard in songs like “1969 (The Real)” is found in its iconic back alleys and constantly changing cityscape. It would use hip-hop, jazz, folk, and world music, to drop its sonic graffiti. That pull of “tradition” trying to co-exist with increasingly hypermodern ideas is palpably heard in music defined by its mix of organic and synthetic instruments paired with hard-nosed melodies. Genji’s Japan, as heard in Sowaka, pulls no punches, it wants you right in the middle of that public maelstrom. It wants you to sonically be there.

Behind the mysterious chopped-and-screwed-with jazz of songs like “Hikobae” or the no-wave, nu wave-fried jazz of the titular track, there was a new kind of fusion being presented. Moving beyond world music, there was territory to be uncovered that was even more unplaceable. Somewhere, between the mind, body, and spirit, closer to one’s neck and booty, was this music urging you to simply move elsewhere, further, until you’re closer to where Genji’s music would land. Somewhere between history and his story, there’s still room to rewrite our story by absorbing this spectacular music that remains completely, forever, out of time.

Sowaka

BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : Genji Sawai - 1969 (The Real)

Nato da fondamenta underground (proposte sotto altro alias artistico), da oltre 10 anni colleziona e seleziona Dischi in Vinile che spaziano dal ObscureItalianDisco ai molteplici sottogeneri che da sempre hanno influenzato e reso unica  
la DiscoMusic Mondiale ( Afro, Boogie, Napoletanfunk, Brasilian, Latin, French & OrientalGroove) 
AMORE e “ODIO” verso il supporto Vinilico (il vinile lo limita), lo portano a cercare il giusto compromesso, rielaborando/stravolgendo, super hit e obscure track in un continuo livemix digitale, carico di groove e sample aggiuntivi, rendendo più caldi e carichi dischi improponibili in modalità OnlyVinyl

https://soundcloud.com/maximecatena
https://www.mixcloud.com/MaximeCatena/

"Catene d'amore" Guest mix by Maxime Catena

Now Generation [Percussive Underscores][Coloursound Library CS 34][1983]

Eder Croket - The Night of the Bongos (Long Edit) Free Download

A track I've made few years ago, a christmas gift for 2014...

Youtube link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRb3XFZn0bE

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Shocking Blue "Love Buzz" (herr2003 edit)

A2 Xen All Of The Sun (Original Mix)

Out in November 2018
Tracklist:
A1 Pàscal - "Arcipelago"
A2 Pàscal - "Shamizen"
B1 N.D.S. Disco Version mixed by Mystic Jungle & Whodamanny
“Arcipelago” and “Shamizen” written by P. Viscardi and produced by P. Viscardi, D. di Pace & R. Arcella
N.D.S. “Disco Version” written, arranged and composed by Dario di Pace and Raffaele Arcella
Instruments used: Gem Equinox, Yamaha DX 7, Yamaha DX 21, Korg M1, Roland Juno 106, Ibanez Electric Bass
Ethnic percussion from Mali (Balafon, Caxixi, Rainstick) kindly provided by Filippo Colonna Romano
Bongos on “Shamizen” played by E. Fierro
Congas on N.D.S. performed by Christian Brondoloni
Recorded and mixed between July and September 2018 at West Hill Studio, Napoli
Artwork by W.H. Immagine
Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam
© 2018 Periodica Records

PRD1011 • Pàscal - "Arcipelago"

Love Not Sex is the second Stubb release from Paper Recordings' Ben Davis (Flash Atkins) forthcoming on vinyl and digital.

The original is a melancholic slice of sunshine that draws inspiration from MOR and blue-eyed soul with a hefty dose of balearica. Acoustic guitars, Rhodes, live drums and strings plus Crazy P's Tim Davis on bass provide the perfect cinematic backdrop for the plaintive vocals of Huw Costin (Torn Sail) and Rachel Foster. 

Japanese edit hero Mori Ra delivers his first ever remix and its a doozy. Keeping the bones of the original track, he takes it in to dark psychedelic waters with the help of former_airline's tripped out guitar. A spoken vocal tips it in to full Balearic wonkiness that will have the likes of DJ Harvey and Bjørn Torske getting hot under their disco beards.

Bergen's Leca employs his trademark stripped back crisp production for a warm, dreamy remix. Steel guitar, clicks, whirrs and a Nordic playfulness make for a cosmic journey to the Northern Lights.

Love Not Sex

Stubb - Love Not Sex feat. Huw Costin & Rachel Foster (Mori Ra former_airline Texas Hitters Remix)

OKESUTORA OF THE VOID ( IVAN SMAGGHE VERSION)

Edit by @trujillo.

Dance for Relief is a project a way of using our music to help raise funds for causes that we are passionate about. The second release in the series is a compilation of edits, remixes and secret weapons from various friends, with Volume 2 focusing on summery, festival-ready house sounds.

As before all proceeds raised from this release will go straight to Direct Relief (directrelief.org), a charity whose mission is to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, and who are doing great work to ensure that protective gear and critical care medications get to as many health workers as possible. Their work continues to be particularly important in the midst of the current Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

Finally, we'd like to say a huge thank you to all the artists involved who have given their skills and time during a difficult period to help make this release happen, in support of a worthy cause.

Dance for Relief Volume.02

Superdope (Trujillo Edit)

Needed You

The evening entertainment is about to start with what sounds like the Camping '82 Talent Show. What a lovely and snappy AOR vibe and this self-printed sleeve with a nice hand drawing crafted by one of the band member's girlfriends.

"In Another Time" Clip 7" By Free Feeling Band - Priv Finland, 1982 - 👋 SOLD

bookings: nicolas@pieces.live WW/Americas: felix@epiksound.com

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