Balearic blend

Part of a wonderful remixes collection featuring amazing reworks from Louie Vega, The Reflex, Dele Sosimi & Medlar, Local Artist, Pellegrino, Arp Frique, Al Kent, Nuron, Late Nite Tuff Guy, Shield and Sander Mölder.

https://rebirthrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/drumn-voice-remixed-2-louie-vega-the-reflex-dele-sosimi-medlar-local-artist-pellegrino-arp-frique-al-kent-nuron-late-nite-tuff-guy-shield-sander-m-lder-mixes

Billy Cobham Feat. Novecento - Africa’s Sounds (Al Kent Remix)

Pleasure Voyage -  In Vacanza

Dissolve

DR 55 Dub

Prins Emanuel & Golden Ivy - Hidden Love

Noema’s record label The Magic Movement is more than happy to release a new organic house EP by Argentinian duo Kermesse.
Release Date: 08-03-2023
Artist: @kermesselive
Label: @the-magic-movement
Follow us: @sweetspace

PREMIERE: Kermesse - Wawanko (Original Mix) [The Magic Movement]

Push the Rock

Ali alo,
Welcome back with this springy ecuadoristic mood ...

Catalog#RCLP03

“Todo Es Ahora” is an encounter with consciousness in relation to the transit of the present in the events of the body. A contrast between the mysterious forces that draw us to the world, that primal connection, and the deep dissociation created by human beings between them and the Earth.

With his debut album , Quito's Esteban Sanchez aka Isla Saturno has gone searching. In this search, he discovered great depth and peeled back many layers of nuance and emotion. It's an extremely sensitive journey, at times soothing, at times more thought provoking and melancholy. Esteban finds a way to effortlessly blend more traditional rhythms and instrumentation with modern production and synthesis, like it was always meant to be that way. Calling on a number of collaborators, Esteban has produced a series of songs to highlight the title and in fact write in bold, Todo Es Ahora.

✘ isla saturno 
https://soundcloud.com/estebanssb
https://www.islasaturno.net/
https://www.instagram.com/estebanssb/

✘ Random Collective
https://soundcloud.com/randomcollectivecr
https://www.facebook.com/randomcollectivecr
@randomcollectiverecords

Digital Release: March 30th, 2023

PREMIERE : isla saturno - Aquí feat. Paula García [Random Collective]

Vinyl / Digital : https://40thievesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-gift-40-thieves-remixes

Long time Leng recording artists 40 Thieves are back with one of their most notable singles to date – a surprise collaboration with two NYC disco originals, storied vocalist Cinnamon Jones and multi-instrumentalist/producer Gary Davis.

San Francisco outfit 40 Thieves has been serving up cosmic, dubbed-out and otherworldly contemporary disco treats since the mid 2000s, and have been part of the Leng family since 2011. The crew, headed up by Layne Fox, Jay Williams and Corey Black, have released countless killer cuts on the label, as well as an expansive debut album, 2014’s The Sky Is Yours.

They’ve worked with other artists before, but nobody at the same legendary level as Cinnamon Jones and Gary Davis. The latter cut his teeth as a musician working with iconic disco producers Patrick Adams and Peter Brown at their P&P Records stable, before becoming a producer and artist in his own right writing and arranging the disco classic ‘Got To Get Your Love’ performed by Clyde Alexander & Sanction. Jones, meanwhile, has enjoyed a hugely successful career both in her native New York (as Joyce Jones, an original member of First Choice) and on the West Coast, where she not only became an in-demand performer, but also snagged a role in the Supremes biopic Dream Girls.

‘The Gift’ is one of Jones’ most cherished solo songs – a joyful celebration of a new day dawning that has long been popular in her live sets. With input and instrumentation from Davis and a fantastic delivery of her own lyrics by Jones, 40 Thieves has successfully re-framed the track as a sunrise-ready future Bay Area free party favourite; a dubbed-out, suitably cosmic creation that’s presented in three potent versions.

Leading the charge, and stretched across side A of the vinyl version is the band’s ’Disco Mix’ which boasts a fully realised instrumental arrangement and extensive use of passages from Jones’ vocals. Not all the lyrics are present as the Bay Area band has chosen to focus on selected lines that most neatly fit their musical vision and celebrate the joys of dancing at sunrise. There are more spaced-out keyboard solos, sharper guitars (smothered in effects in true 40 Thieves fashion) and sound design that’s as immersive as it is heady and intoxicated.

On the flip is the ‘Disco Dub’. A bona-fide dub disco chugger rich in relentless synth-bass, addictive guitar licks, echo-laden vocal snippets, sparkling nu-disco electronics, tactile, deep house style electric piano stabs and cosmic effects aplenty, it’s a track tailor-made for slowly shuffling while the sun peeps over the horizon.

To complete an inspired package, 40 Thieves have also included a killer DJ tool: a ‘Beats’ take that wraps energy packed percussion hits, trippy electronic noises, trailing dub delays and sparse melodies around a metronomic drum machine beat. It’s a wavy, groovy and pleasingly mind-altering way to conclude one of 40 Thieves’ most magical EPs to date.

The Gift

LENG SHOP

The Gift (40 Thieves Disco Mix)

Telephones - Lotusland (Sunrise Mix)

Schema is a Balearic Disco track produced by Dan Jarvis

Schema

Ahead of the release of his hotly anticipated ninth album as the Emperor Machine, Island Boogie, Andrew Meecham releases a club-focused 12” featuring some dancefloor dubs and reworks of key LP cuts.

Island Boogie arrives four years after Meecham’s previous full-length, Music Not Safari, and sees the veteran producer deliver his most ‘personal’ set yet – a collection of kaleidoscopic, cosmic-leaning, dub disco-influenced neo-boogie excursions inspired by his love of the custom-built soundsystem at Rotation Garden Party, an annual micro-festival founded by a group of friends including his former Chicken Lips production partner Dean Meredith.

It's fitting, then, that the EP begins with a superb interpretation of ‘'Dévoilez-Vous’ by T-Kutt, AKA Meredith and long-term studio partner Ben Shenton. The pair’s ‘AM FM Club Mix’ sits somewhere between classic Prelude-style electrofunk, NYC proto-house and early British interpretations of American house music. Séverine Mouletin’s chopped-up improvised vocals weave in and out of sun-bright keyboard riffs, colourful synthesiser motifs, heady synth-strings, D-Train style synth-bass and delay-laden machine drums. It’s a superb re-imagination of one of the album’s most stellar moments.

The EP’s other headline-grabbing remix comes courtesy of Leng co-founder Paul Murphy AKA Mudd. He reworks title track ‘Island Boogie’, teasing out the spacey synths and languid jazz-funk grooves of Meecham’s original mix and dialling them up to the max. The resultant revision sparkles with crunchy clavinet licks, mazy synth and electric piano solos, and spacey chords rising above a mid-tempo dancefloor groove.

To complete a strong package, Meecham adds two dubs in his distinctively stripped-back, tape echo-heavy style. He first takes on EP title track ‘Dévoilez-Vous’, wrapping vintage drum machine hits in oodles of space echo and dub delay while devoting more time and space to the killer bassline, Rupert Brown’s infectious hand percussion, and Mouletin’s vocalisations. 

To round off the EP, he dubs out album epic ‘La Cassette’, another collaboration with Mouletin that also features additional percussion by Brown. Like the original synth-powered dancefloor dubs of the early-to-mid-80s that have long been an inspiration, Meecham’s ‘La Cassette’ dub features key musical elements – many drenched in trippy effects – popping in and out of the mix, while his sturdy drums and memorable bassline spar with Brown’s percussion below.

Emperor Machine - Dévoilez-Vous (T Kutt’s AM-FM Club Mix)

Whisper it quietly, but Andrew Meecham’s ninth album as The Emperor Machine, Island Boogie, may well be the long-serving producer’s strongest set to date. Of course, all his albums ripple with vintage synth sounds, colourful lead lines, dub-flecked electronic disco and lashings of cosmic intent, but this one just feels a little more special.

Island Boogie is certainly special. Meecham’s “most personal” full-length to date was inspired by his experiences at the Rotation Garden Party – a beloved micro-festival promoted by a group of friends (including sometime Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips partner Dean Meredith), renowned for the quality of its custom-built Klipschorn soundsystem. “The album’s title sums up the vibe that you get from Rotation,” he explains. “It may be held in a landlocked venue but it gives a wonderful sense of isolation – it is an audiophile paradise.”

Meecham road-tested rough versions of the album’s eight tracks at Rotation 2023, with the feedback and dancefloor reaction guiding the sound and arrangement of the final mixes. Fittingly, Meecham will return to the event to showcase the album at Rotation 2024 this July. Given the inspiration he’s drawn from previous editions of the festival, that will be a very special occasion.

Musically, Island Boogie offers the most fully functioning and expertly constructed expression of The Emperor Machine sound yet, a style Meecham describes as “electronic cosmic disco-boogie”. It’s a sound that takes cues from early ‘80s NYC punk-funk and dub disco, vintage electro, proto-house and left-of-centre synth-boogie, but one that’s instantly recognisable to those who have followed Meecham’s career over the last three decades.

Island Boogie also sees Meecham continue his blossoming working relationship with Séverine Mouletin, whose stylish and distinctive vocals previously graced his popular ‘Dance Par Amour’ and ‘Your Own Style’ singles. Here Mouletin features on four tracks: the acid-flecked retro-futurist wave-boogie of ‘La Cassette’ (featuring additional percussion by Rupert Brown); the infectious, bleep-sporting headiness of recent single ‘Dévoilez-Vous’; and the squelchy analogue synth-funk of ‘Wanna Pop With You’ and ‘Vas-y-Le Chat’.

Meecham also finds space for a cover of Fox’s 1976 pop-rock classic ‘S-s-s-single Bed’, one of the Stafford-based artist’s all-time favourites. His version, featuring lead vocals by Michelle Bee and guitar from Dave Atherton, re-imagines the track as a subtly Chic-influenced slab of infectious electro-pop rich in kaleidoscopic synth sounds, sing-along choruses and shuffling drums.

The instrumental foundations of the classic Emperor Machine sound come to the fore on the album’s three other cuts. There’s the jazz-funk-flecked warmth of the LP-opening title track; the sparse squelches, bleeps, TB-303 style bass and brightly coloured electronics of ‘Walk The Dog’; and the exotic, slow-motion cosmic electronica of ‘Cha Murrah Etem’, a warm but poignant affair dedicated to his late father. Heady and intoxicating, with hints of Balearica and digital reggae, it offers a fittingly beautiful and tactile conclusion to Meecham’s most expressive and accessible album yet.

Island Boogie

Emperor Machine - Island Boogie

This edit of Yves Simon ‘Au Pays Des Merveilles De Juliet’ first appeared as a free download for a super limited time via the Psychemagik soundcloud page. Blink and you missed it. 

Now, after a long wait and many licensing delays the edit sees an official release on vinyl via Leng Records. Played by many, the edit takes all the elements of Yves Simon’s original, stretching it out from two minutes to over seven making it an instant classic. 

The 12” comes one sided with an acid etched B-side and a plain sleeve.

Leng Shop

Yves Simon - Au Pays Des Merveilles De Juliet (Psychemagik Tour De Force Remix)

Khruangbin - Mr White - Dupont Underground Sessions

'Beamrider' Taken from the album 'System'
Second edition released 28/09/18 on Pre-recordings 

Available on Limited edition hand screen printed CD (300 copies)
Limited Edition hand screen printed Cassette (75 Copies) - Bandcamp Exclusive + Digital Download 

Presale : https://trevorjacksonofficial.bandcamp.com/album/system-2

The final release on Trevor Jackson’s previously unreleased archive label Pre- is an album under his own name titled ’System’ 

8 tracks originally recorded between 2002-2010 these works consist of music taken from the same sessions that became his highly ambitious Vinyl Factory music and installation project ‘Format’ in 2015. Edited and complied from a series of lengthy nocturnal synthesiser, drum machine & 8 bit sampler improvisations they range from melodic IDM, driving electro, motor city techno & tripped out industrial house excursions. 

The album originally launched at the London Independent Label market in May this year, was only available as an ultra limited orange edition of 150 CD’s and sold out immediately. This second final white edition is packaged in a unique screen printed case designed by Jackson, and marks a symbolic end to his musical past (after making over 100 unreleased tracks available during the past 3 years) and a long overdue venture into unchartered new musical territories.

Trevor Jackson - Beamrider

Video @ http://vimeo.com/34697353
Vinyl @ http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Tommy+Awards/, http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/TommyAwards-EP-MagicFeet-83479.html

Blind Andy

'The Rong classic, Mudd - 54B gets the Ray Mang treatment with the whopping 9 minute mix on the A side joined by the 'Acid Reflux' mix and the 'Bonus Beats' on the B side. 

Mang takes all the original parts and toughens it up for the dancefloor adding a twisted acid mix on the B side.

Mudd - 54b (Ray Mang Version)

NEXT UP ON ECLECTICS. Is the Visions ep by Statues. 4 Tracks, comprising of two OG's and 2 remixes one from Flamingo Flame and a label favourite Max Manetti. Due out in the coming weeks...

This clip is of a remix by Flamingo Flame of LeLe by Statues.

Lele by Statues (Flamingo Flame Remix)

Dreems - Meltdown (Angophora Remix)

A few months back, Space Ghost put out a sampled beat tape called ’Between Worlds,’ he quickly returns with the sequel ‘Afterworld.’ 64 minutes of hazy tape loops help guide you through quarantine. This easy listening collection of nostalgic samples supplies a rush of pure escapism from the troubles of 2020.

Recorded Sep. 2020 - Oakland, CA

Instagram: @ spaceghostoakland

Get the cassette tape or download the digital files on Bandcamp!

https://space-ghost.bandcamp.com/album/afterworld

Tracklist:

Opening
580 Ridin’
Walk In The Hills
Summer Rain
Better Daze
Time
I Need 2 Know
Apocalyptic Love
I Belong To U
Twisted Vibe
Lust 4 U
Travel By Night
Long Way Home
Suburban Island
Through The Mirror
Macrodose
Fountain of Feeling
Acid Hits
Burning Sky
Gone
Real
Peace of Mind
Evening At The Lake
Good Luv
Slow Burn
Drippin’
Come Down
Warped Images
Afterworld
Make It Last

Afterworld

UK based record collector and DJ/Producer 😊

Vinyl release on Music for Swimming Pools. 

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/below-the-horizon-volume-1-vinyl/1063069-01/

Balearic blend

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