After a short break, Vibes and Grooves is back in its usual jazzy manner with a new EP from Shaka.  The title track "From Distance To Common" builds up with a beautiful and calm piano solo and merges into a firework of hypnotic rhythmic piano chords and leads for the dance floor.

Artist: Shaka
Title: From Distance To Common
Label: Vibes and Grooves
Cat #: VAG004
Format: Vinyl, Digital
Genre: House, Deep House
Release Date: April 14th 2021
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PREMIERE: Shaka - From Distance To Common [Vibes and Groove]

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"The Time Is (Now) was written during an artist studio residency in the north of Montreal. It was Fall 2021, and after a quick moment of hope and few travels during that summer, we were back in the dark with no opening of clubs in sight and still in this heavy pandemic vibe.

This residency was a way for me to take control of what I could still control, productivity and creativity, instead of giving into dark thoughts and inertia. Armed with 2 synths (Prophet 6, Moog Grandmother) and computer, my goal was to write 1 track per day, no judgement. After 2 weeks, I realized I had a good base for my next album (more on that later) but I also had a few tracks that I thought could co-habitate on a dancefloor driven EP.
The title track was a tricky one. I worked on something all day and felt I wasn’t getting any breakthrough. After dinner, I went back to the studio and suddenly, something happened.

The track is based around this heavy disco beat and the 2 bass lines working together. The spoken word refers to this sense of urgency of trying to grab the bull by the horn. There’s a sense of darkness in it, but also hope. Especially at that mid part when the Rhodes come in to tell us everything is going to be alright. I guess this is something I always try to have in my music — A moment of hope/light. When I got back home, I replayed a few things on my instruments at home to make it sound more live and asked Laroye, a french producer living in the UK, to redo the percussion parts. The Dub and Reprise came naturally after that.

L’Horizon was an easier process, and I tried to fight the instinct of changing it too much when I got home to keep the vibe intact. It certainly doesn’t reinvent the wheel but it has a sort of classic charm, remininscent of late 90s Parisian House and also some of the music I made around the early 2000s. Big organ stabs and bass line, It’s full of clichés and I decided to run with it. Paintings closes things off with a more introspective vibe. Based around a chord memory progression from my Prophet, and a trusty conforting Moog square bass line, mixed in with some dreamy gospel like chants and textures. My version of an abstract painting." 

Fred Everything.

Fred Everything "The Time Is (Now)" EP

PREMIERE: Fred Everything - The Time Is (Dub)

Part Of: Interruptor EP
Catalog: DOG89
Release Date: 08.07.22
Buy Link: https://medlar.bandcamp.com/album/interruptor-ep

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Release Text:
We’re stoked to welcome back Medlar to Delusions for his third EP on the label and you’re in for a proper treat! One of the unsung heroes of UK underground house music, Medlar has released on Wolf Music, Wah Wah 45’s and West Friends. His remixes and edits for the likes of West End, Kon, Dele Sosimi, Glenn Astro, Disclosure and Billy Cobham always hit the spot with an authentic, raw and crunchy sound that work magic on the dance floor.

Here on his Interruptor EP we have 4 tracks which show off his range as a producer, taking in percussive tools, deep and dusty basement jams and blissful late night atmospherics. Lead track Interruptor is deceptively simple but devastating on a big system. Chopped up percussion, speaker wobbling bass and a heavy kick lay the foundation for crazy timbales and filtering syn-toms, all topped off with a familiar sample from back in the rave days.

Next up we have I Wish which features Kim Anh who delivers a brilliant vocal complimenting the low-slung disco drums, 808 percussion and fat bassline perfectly. This is our idea of what a modern day house hit should sound like. Raw and unpolished with a loose, un-quantized groove so you can feel the funk and a dynamic arrangement which keeps the energy high throughout.

Flipping over we have Cable Street which cranks things up with a techy house jam perfect for more peaks time sets. Once again, Medlar knows exactly how to make more with less and keeps the shuffling drums stripped back and simple stabs and modulating FX front and centre for maximum impact.

Finally, Turn Things Around brings a more 90’s deep NYC feel to the EP with floating pads, bouncing bassline, piano stabs and organ riff. Subtley epic and grandiose without being showy, this is a slow-burner that could just be one of those B2 tracks which become your favourite of the release. 

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PREMIERE: Medlar - Turn Things Around [Delusions Of Grandeur]

They say that there are 64 ways to launch yourself into space – whatever space may be. Perhaps you could soar or fly in a rocket or aeroplane beyond the clouds and into the pearly black abyss beyond. Perhaps you could catapult yourself upwards from the earth below or perhaps you could simply fall asleep and drift between the stars a million miles away.

Back down here they all seemed like grand, exciting ideas for the few rather than the many.

However, maybe one day they might all be able to dance together amidst the cosmos and remember a time way back when… back when they were all rooted to the ground.

Amsterdam duo Dam Swindle return with new music on their own Heist Recordings. This time they have invited influential powerhouses of dance music to reimagine their material, a track titled ’64 Ways’ which features Mayer Hawthorne.

Nightmares On Wax and Dj Bone have both been enlisted to rework the song, picking it apart and piecing it back together to offer their own respective takes on the vision. Listen to the Nightmares on Wax version below:

PREMIERE: Dam Swindle - 64 Ways Feat. Mayer Hawthorne (Nightmares On Wax Remix)[Heist]

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Taken from: V/a | The Remixes II | Dirt Crew Recordings
Release : 03.02.2023

We are ready to present you part two of our "look back" at some of the finest remix moments that were released in these past years. From slow deep and soulful to uptempo banging and spacey, spanning the many sub genres in House Music we released over the past 19 years. We hope you enjoy this new selection we compiled. 

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The Remixes II

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S3A | Clarence J. Boddicker (Lorenz Rhode Remix) | Dirt Crew Recordings

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YOSA | The Circus (Dirt Crew Remix) | Dirt Crew Recordings

Nicewon comes through on the winter slump, with some phat and warm joints from Christian James and Jeff Swiff. This EP drips with the flavor you'd expect from these two. We hope you enjoy these four new cuts, strate outta flyover, USA.

APPAREL PREMIERE: Christian James - Jesters Come Back [Nicewon Recordings]

Track taken from "Photoautomat" by Max Newton & Matalo! 

Release date : June 16th 
(C) Omena Records

Photoautomat

Max Newton & Matalo! - Walkin' On

While we wait for the next Dancing With Friends Vol.3 V/A album to drop later this summer SlothBoogie give us our next fix with a new spin off called Remixing With Friends.

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Remixing with Friends

APPAREL PREMIERE: Jesse Bru - Yellow Sunshine Machine (International Dateline Remix) [SlothBoogie]

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Nebraska’s ninth release on his Friends & Relations label presents further explorations of his ‘old records spun in new directions’ ethos. Opener ‘Deep Tune’ places a classic Memphis soul-man monologue in a new, resonant, percussively hypnotic setting. ‘Drum Track 01’ is spacious dub workout, all bass, drum and atmospherics. Side B brings us ‘Shift’; tranced-out 80s soul examined in microscopic detail. ‘Drum Track 02’ is a reframing of a crackly, wild percussion workout with dive-bombing bass drops. 

As per previous F&R releases, this is limited to 300 copies on vinyl and is available from 20th July.

PREMIERE: Nebraska - Deep Tune

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