A Soft Opening (E+E Remix)

The DFA DJ edit of “High horse” has been kicking around for a few weeks, but now we can officially say Proper Monday Number are a Brighton, UK-based electronic duo featuring Suzi Horn (alumnus of the Prinzhorn Dance School) and producer Christoph. Their Deep clean your house EP is out June 6. You can pre-order it now via the buy link. It has more drums, wobbly bits, and phrases that belong on the front of t-shirts.

Deep clean your house EP

High horse

Out now on Cassette/CD: https://dreamchimney.bandcamp.com/album/sunlight-hits 
Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA1YKqPLdJ0

Dream Chimney is super stoked to announce the upcoming release of the new Sorcerer album “Sunlight Hits”. An imaginary soundtrack to Sorcerer's island daydream video game. "Sunlight Hits" features galactic synth tones and golden glow-n-the-dark guitar that swirl and glide over chilled tropical rhythms. Sorcerer combines melodies and chords that rhythmically pull the listener into a fantasy mind state, designed to inspire both dancing and profound dreaming, all while radiating a warm atmosphere and the natural celebratory spirit of Dan Judd's California coastal roots. 

Written & Produced: Daniel Judd
Design: Nathaniel Russell   http://nathanielrussell.com/
Mastering: Anthony Puglisi @ Sentrall Sound   https://www.sentrallsound.com/

Sorcerer - Alien Shore

“No Cigar” is a track that didn’t make it onto 2023’s 5 Songs, which was, technically, five songs, so there wasn’t room. It’s a pokey, plonky bit of dance music from Shit Robot (aka Marcus Lambkin), made with Joe Goddard and Al Doyle at their RAE Studios in London.

It sounded… dubby. Like “what if Adrian Sherwood got his hands on this?” dubby. So we asked. And he said yes!

The b-side is classic Sherwood at the controls—a version that’s not fully exploded, but submerged, warped, a little demented. We’re honored and still hearing crazy new sounds every time we play it.

The “No Cigar” 12-inch is out July 25. Pre-order it now before you can’t.

No Cigar

Buy vinyl + digital: lnk.to/stickydisc

Eric Broucek was the ur-engineer of the most fertile era of DFA Studios, from about 2003 to 2008 (no one knows anything precisely about that time, as it’s all lost in the fog of chaos). His hand was on all of the remixes, LPs, dance 12s. He was there in that over-designed gear dungeon almost every day, recording, mixing, struggling to not roll his eyes at Tim and me. And somewhere in that fog, he quietly dropped limited runs of three 12-inch delayed reaction bombs on his own label Stickydisc Recordings—two under the name Babytalk, and one as Watussi with another DFA regular, Morgan Wiley.

Back in the day, Eric did not want his music released on DFA. He wanted to forge his own identity, which he did, sending out music that wandered from the DFA path with its uniquely wonky, upended and understated power. His music is so unlike everything else of that era, so profoundly singular, that it still sounds completely out of time.

A few years back, I started DJing the tracks again, and saw how the world was still surprised by what Eric had made, and the idea of this compilation was born.

So, in the end, Eric, we totally got to release your records anyway. We heart you, man.

-James Murphy

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Babytalk - Chance (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)

Watussi - If All We Had Was Love

Buy vinyl + digital: lnk.to/lcdhome

It wasn’t really hiding, just sitting quietly online. But Tom Sharkett’s edit of “Home” was too good to ignore. Originally a bootleg we first heard played on Flo Dill’s Breakfast Show on NTS, it wormed its way into our hearts and never left. So we made it official. Sometimes the internet actually makes your life better.

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Home (Tom Sharkett Edit) (instrumental)

MORE BLUE 🖲️ MONDAYS EDITS: part of our edits series for Soul Clap Records SUBSCRIBERS EXCLUSIVELY via @bandcamp

Northern 🇮🇹 Italy’s finest DJs @ferratzingher_bluemondays + @keemani_bluemondays_music = @bluemondays.music bring disco house chuggers from all over the globe 🌎 with their fine touch of rework + edit style + superior mastering (24 bit 48 khz) added you’ll be the king 👑 or 👸 queen of the discos.

“Driving Away From Home” is totally transformed by Blue Mondays from a jangly piece of UK pop into a dubbed out, synth laden, arpeggiated slice of sleek mid tempo Italo Disco / early Italo Riviera House perfect for driving off into the Mediterranean sunset on the Autostrada A10. DJs and dancers will be asking for this track ID. 

Driving Away From Home (Edit)

Forbidden Edit
Opening Season Mix — LTJ Experience

One hour of hypnotic sounds, raw layers, subliminal smudges.
A manifesto that opens a new season: discontinuity as fertile ground, handcrafted grooves stretching time and reshaping community space.

🪩 Forbidden Edit — our idea of a party

🚨 Forbidden Edit Opening Season 🚨
👉 Saturday 20/09 — Forbidden Edit by LTJ
      8+1 Nightclub, Via Zago 16/a, h.22

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🚨 Forbidden Edit Opening Season 🚨

Apre la nuova stagione con un inedito manifesto sonoro:

Opening Season Mix — LTJ Experience

Suoni ipnotici, livelli sporchi, sbavature subliminali, complessità che si scioglie e si dilata.
Un mix che apre il calendario e ci porta dritti al primo appuntamento:

👉 Sabato 20 settembre — Forbidden Edit by LTJ
8+1 Nightclub, Via Zago 16/a, h.22

🎧 ASCOLTA IL MIX ↙
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🪩 Forbidden Edit 
 "Neanche un minuto di non amore"

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Paul Murphy’s Claremont 56 label welcomes a genuine legend of UK music to its roster – Chaz Jankel, the man whose dizzying musicality and love of soul, funk and disco did much to shape the sound of Ian Dury’s Blockheads band in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.

A virtuoso keyboardist with a deep love of Black American music, Jankel’s arrangements and compositional skills were key to the success of their records, the funkiest of which not only became crossover pop hits – see ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’ and ‘Reasons To be Cheerful, Part 3’ in particular – but also saw heavy rotation in now iconic New York clubs including the Paradise Garage and Studio 54. 

This continued during the formative years of his solo career, with ‘My Occupation’, ‘Questionnaire’ and ‘Glad To Know You’ (later famously re-edited and dubbed out for nu-disco dancefloors by Todd Terje) all becoming club hits. The great Quincy Jones also covered Jankel’s infectious single ‘Ai No Carrida’, while experimental, club-ready synth-jam ‘3,000,000 Synths’ was also influential during the early years of the electro movement.

For his Claremont 56 bow, Jankel has delivered an all-new workout recorded earlier this year, the simply titled ‘Rhumba Jam’. A typically warm, groovy and rolling affair, it features Jankel delivering infectious, stretched-out Rhodes electric piano solos over toasty bass, clipped guitar licks, warm bass, accordion-style synth motifs and a densely layered Rhumba rhythm. While relaxed and sun-soaked, it also has bags of Balearic dancefloor potential.

Murphy remixes under his now familiar Mudd alias, leaning into the track’s languid Balearic vibe while keeping a firm focus on the dancefloor. Beginning with an enticing mix of metronomic drums and jangly acoustic guitars, Murphy slowly layers up key elements of Jankel’s original – think rubbery bass, rhythmic handclaps, mazy synth sounds and those wonderful, stretched-out solos. It’s a version that pays due reverence to the quality of Jankel’s musicianship, production and arrangement while subtly extending it and reframing it for 21st century Balearic dancefloors.


A Soft Opening (E+E Remix)

DFA Records