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Nasanieru x DCvvvl x Zi - 092023

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Ivan Romero returns to Redolent Music with “Aura”, a deep and tribal-driven production crafted for the dance floor and enriched with a masterful remix by the label’s founder and global house music icon, DJ CHUS.
The Original Mix showcases Romero’s refined sound design, blending warm chords, a solid low- end groove, and hypnotic pluck sequences. The result is a track built for warming up sets, offering both drive and atmosphere while maintaining an unmistakably organic essence.
DJ CHUS—The Iberican Maestro and a pioneer of the global house music movement—delivers a powerful reinterpretation that elevates “Aura” to new heights. His remix injects dynamic live percussion, Afro-Cuban rhythmic layers, a captivating flute lead by Ruben Moran, and enhanced tribal chants, all tied together by his signature groove that has defined dance floors worldwide for decades.
With “Aura”, Ivan Romero consolidates his position as one of the most promising talents within the Redolent family, while DJ CHUS reaffirms his role as a visionary tastemaker and timeless reference in electronic music.

Ivan Romero - Aura (Original Mix Snippet)

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Pre-order Opalescent on vinyl:
+ Just Music Store: http://smarturl.it/Opalescent2016
+ Amazon UK: http://smarturl.it/Opalescent2016AmznUK
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Opalescent, the debut album from Mercury Music Prize and Ivor Novello award nominated artist Jon Hopkins has been remastered and reissued for the first time on vinyl for its 15 year Anniversary in a special edition 2 LP gatefold with liner notes. (Pre-order from the Just Music Store now).

Back in 2001, (the year of Opalescent’s original release) the process of creating the album was a joyful one. At the age of 20 Jon had just signed to Just Music, so we bought him a PC and with a hotch-potch of software and some basic equipment, he set to work. His only assistance came from friend and regular collaborator, (another Just Music alumni) Leo Abrahams, who plays Opalescent’s sparkling, plangent guitars.

It was a record which, in numerous, enthusiastic reviews, was filed in the then burgeoning “chill-out” genre. But Jon had no interest in making relaxing or therapeutic music, which may help explain why Opalescent still sounds so distinctive, musically and emotionally complex. It was never meant to be enjoyed passively. It is in the contradictions between beauty and bass, gentleness and volume, ecstasy and elegy, that Opalescent derives its enduring otherness. Even 15 years on, it is never quite what you think it is.

For all Hopkins enjoyed making Opalescent, this was an uncertain period in his life. He was a shy and reclusive musician adrift in London and, like any artist, prey to doubts and apprehension. At its most radiant and awe-inspiring (“Lost In Thought”, “Halcyon”), Opalescent is tinged with something wistful, even mournful. The chilly and hollow, piano-led “Apparition” or the lost-in-deep-space ambience of stand-out track, “Cold Out There” (listen below), contain a kind of universal longing, an ache for love or transcendence, that you can hear in instrumental music as diverse as Tangerine Dream and jazz pianist Bill Evans’s solo pieces.

But while Opalescent was a series of tentative steps, it is also already recognisably the work of Jon Hopkins. In the hypnotic minimalism of “Private Universe” (a precursor to “Light Through The Veins” on Insides), or the dense gloaming of the title track, elements of the drum ‘n’ bass, classical and soundtrack influences that have come to define Jon’s work were clearly asserting themselves. In its passages of drone music, its use of repetition, its cinematic scale, its stark piano lines, the album is an audible antecedent of the very different Immunity – Jon’s acclaimed, recent breakthrough album.

Hopkins currently has an audience waiting in anticipation for his fifth album, a work that he is determined to take as far out-there as he can – and Opalescent is the perfect primer.

Listen to the remastered version of Cold Out There:

Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There (Opalescent Vinyl 2016)

From Sleep

Max Richter - Path 5 (delta)

From 1985, a wonderful original, I just wanted a super extended version that dubbed out and had some unusual twists. . Added sax from Gabe too :)

 You also have a chance for a toilet break or horse ride :)
WAV download at Bandcamp: https://hobermallow.bandcamp.com/track/sade-never-as-good-as-the-first-time-hober-mallow-remix-feat-gabeonsax

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SADE - NEVER AS GOOD AS THE FIRST TIME (Hober Mallow Horseplay feat GABEONSAX)  Final 112bpm

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Not sure if I put this up before...Mushroom Jazz 24  Mix Tape Side A  July 1999

Nasanieru x DCvvvl x Zi - 092023

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