N-R-G - Domino (edit)

Brisbane collective Apparatus teams up with Wales producer Aloka for a two-track EP born from a few drizzly days in the city. Not exactly what you’d expect when swapping Wales for palm trees, but the rain kept the crew indoors and turned downtime into a writing session. The result is a snapshot of international collaboration in a city that’s been quietly exporting talent, while building its own stubbornly DIY identity at home.

Bluetongue ; A squelchy, deep, and slightly wonky piece of left-field techno with a sprinkling of latin drums. It moves at 150bpm but trades in weight and atmosphere rather than straight functionality, its warped textures drawing on the blue-tongue lizard living under the verandah of the house where Aloka was staying.


BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : Aloka x joshismyfirstname - Bluetongue

RNT introduces MOTEL PHANTASMA, a new project from a mysterious production duo with their incendiary Claptrap EP. A tasty double A-side 7”, this pair of tracks establishes the MP sound as both club-tough and musically weighty. 

The title track is a peaktime weapon of epic proportions, oozing slippery electronic percussion, razory synth work, and in-your-face vocal incantations delivered in Portuguese. 

The flip side is a bouncey Afro-boogie number, a bit more organic in approach, and with a relentlessly catchy hook by featured singer Kaleta. With a gorgeous full color jacket to match the music’s punch, this one is an absolute late-summer essential.

PREMIERE : MOTEL PHANTASMA - Claptrap

PREMIERE : Polimnia - Me-mo (Canzone)

Canopy is a Portuguese based label now in its fourth year, run by New Zealand born Emmanuel Dalton aka Sumosui. Reissuing forgotten tropical gems of synth infused 70s, 80s & 90s funk, disco, boogie and derivatives of these genres that emerged from the creative meeting pots of West Africa & The Caribbean. The other side of the label presents remixes of these vintage works, in an Afro-disco direction, through to contemporary house stylings as well as original works inspired by these motifs. Canopy artists include Captain Planet, Opolopo, Bosq, Aroop Roy, Kiko Navarro, Joi N’Juno and a host of colourful creative talent

Welcoming Lontra to the Canopy family, this release is the first in a number of exciting projects. Lontra is Brazilian born, Colombian based producer, and musician, Guille Katorzi. The inspiration and influences for this project were drawn from diverse sources, including disco, house, Nigerian boogie and Afrobeat. The instrumentals were written and produced in Bogotá with Guille laying down the guitar and bass parts which the songs were built upon. After sending the demos to vocalist Sir Jean (Voilaaa/Sir Jean & NMB Afrobeat Experience), he was thrilled to receive a warm response and travelled to France in 2023 to record vocals in the singers' hometown of Lyon. Returning to Bogotá, a selection of top brass musicians contributed their blazing horns to the project. 

Opening up, ‘Money, Money’ serves up a lively disco beat with percussive Afrobeat highlights, funky guitar licks and Afrobeat inspired horn parts, backed by an irresistible bassline, setting the scene for  Sir Jean's lyrical warning "money cannot buy your soul". Dropping some of the Afrobeat accents and staying closer to the centre line, ‘Life Is Movement’ is a dancefloor focused track where Katorzi's guitar hook pairs with a restless bassline over which Sir Jean's vocal delivery shines. 

The flipside begins with a sensuous overture on ‘Mysterious’. A loose Afro-beat and guitar syncopation provides an inviting space for the horn section's refrains and solos. The arrangement allows plenty of room for the listener to become intoxicated by the groove, before Sir Jean opens his heart with the emotive ode to someone we learn of only as..."Mysterious". Closing out proceedings with ‘The Lyon & The Hunter’, Sir Jean sings a warning wrapped in metaphors while Lontra throws down a club focused punch that dances between funk, house and Afro while the scorching horns set the lot aflame. The culmination of different inspirations and intonations imbues the project with a vivacity and richness in colour that reflects the multi-cultural assembly of players. 

PREMIERE : Lontra feat Sir Jean - Mysterious

@dolly-records 15 year celebrations continue!! Labelboss @steffi_official has mixed together the latest dolly 15YRS compilation for our podcast series!! Enjoy! 

dolly 15YRS is out now: https://orcd.co/dolly15YRS

Artwork by Philip Marshall

Candy Mountain Podcast #010: Steffi (dolly 15YRS mix)

@jeffreysfire 
This Smoke mix is by no one other then Jeffrey Sfire an household name in the elecontronic music- and queerscene. Originally from suburban Detroit. Behind and in front of the scene pushing sounds and providing platforms. 

As a producer he had a lot of projects: Sfire (with SOPHIE), Looky Looky, and Pushing Movies with releases on labels such as Dark Entries, Cocktail D’Amore Music and Ultramajic. 

With this Smoke mix Jeffrey evokes a timeless contrast between melancholy, heartache, loving and hopeful at the same time. It might be the balance of life or it suits the feeling of the nearing end of summer which is just as finitely as good and bad times. 
 
Thanks for this beautiful journey Jeffrey<3

Jeffrey Sfire - Smoke #25

Velum Waves is a minimalist and atmospheric journey through delicate, organic soundscapes. Its floating, generative character invites calm and contemplation—an elegant sonic exploration that embraces stillness and space.

PREMIERE : Twerking Class Heroes - Cirrus

For those opting for psychedelic enlightenment over psychological terror, Helsinki based artist
Jeku presents ‘Peyote Trance’; further advancements into “the trip”. A nudge towards ascendance
instead of a heavy push, the heads down motion of the music will take you there, and well, a little
bit of peyote might just help, as mother nature intended.

PREMIERE : Jeku - A Dark Reality

COV return with release number 058 - the second in their Label Love mini-compilation series, designed to shine a light on the label's rich back catalogue.

Five originals from Bonnie & Klein, MAKS, Andy Buchan, Lanowa and Gus Paterson get the remix treatment.

Secret Soul Society brings a fresh Balearic twist to "Bourbon Street", while Mass Density Human channels his inner '90s rave spirit with a sunrise take on "North".

Gus Paterson transforms "Piano Hands" into an Italo-driven thumper, before Andy Buchan adds a disco twist to "Feels Like Love".

Rounding things off, Bal5000 - fresh from the success of his "The Lake" EP - turns up the heat on "Montalbano".

BUY on JUNO

PREMIERE : Maks - North (Mass Density Human Sunrise Mix)

Live debut as TM404 at Berghain during the CTM Festival, Berlin. 

Recorded by Esther Schelander. 

First published at Electronic Explorations.

TM404 LP/CD (2013) can be bought thru Kontra-Musik (www.kontra-musik.com)

You can see the recording sessions for the album here: http://www.youtube.com/user/repeatle

N-R-G - Domino (edit)

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