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Terry Lin " Telephone Lover " (Frankie Knuckles Classic Club Mix)

DJ Sotofett - Current 82 (12 Mix) Keys Of Life

This offering is part of Public Possession’s 5th anniversary celebrations. 
“Public Possession Rare Dance Disc” includes previously unreleased music by almost all label artists. 
15 Tracks carefully selected, released on Compact Disc in a limited Edition of 300 copies. 
Representative for the label’s output so far, you will find a wide variety of music, fullfilling various D.J. needs, providing everything from bubbling ambient, synth pop and uptempo disco - to peaktime mainstage material, 90s influenced RnB and more. 
To be continued.

14) Henry Gilles - disc 9 SIDE TWO (snippet)

Disco Segreta announces DS M 006 official repress of 1984 italo-boogie track “Tobago” by Pat&Pats.

“Tobago Bay Tobago Night / No quiero casi ni pensar / Será feliz cerca de ti / Verano largo sin final"

Ever dreamt to travel to Trinidad&Tobago? 
Disco Segreta makes this dream come true with its 6th release: the much awaited officially licensed reissue of this tropicalo-disco synth bass boogie atomic bomb, from the original analog masters.

Written in late 1983 by Mario Baldoni aka Miro (of “Real Life Games” LP (1977) and Brina’s “Stranamore” (1984) 7” fame), was originally released in July 1984 on the small Pineapple label  – a sublabel of Armando Sciascia’s “Vedette” – with close to no success and a pressing fault: a glitch on the vocal verse of the instrumental version, that affected all copies.
This tropical summerish blend of italo and boogie, along with the male/female alternate spanish/english singing, turned into a true classic of the genre over the years, slowly making the playlists of the most respected DJs and diggers worldwide. 

The 4-tracks 12" features the original vocal and instrumental versions in their original lenght, carefully dubbed from the analog stereo masters and taken back to new life through Disco Segreta’s usual respectful mastering. Also, two new remixes are featured.

“Miro’s Piano Paradise” on A2, is the truly unique chance of a new revamped version by the track original author, resulting in a balearic-infused mellow rework, inspired to 1989-1993 italian house era, whose key elements were – among others - repeated melodic piano chord progressions alongside lustful female vocals and the blueprint factory presets sounds of the likes of KORG M1, Roland TB-909, and D50.
Flipside sees on B2 the chiefs of Berlin’s “Oscillator” and “Dancing for Mental Health” parties, Tom Bolas & Andrea Dama, working with their “Bolas&Dama Dub”, a contemporary rendition of a possible “Dub” version of Tobago.

Release details and format 

- DS M 006 12" limited black vinyl, includes gimmicks.

A1. Pat & Pats - Tobago  (Original 12” Vocal)
(Phil Sun - Greg)

A2. Pat & Pats - Tobago (Miro’s Piano Paradise)
(Phil Sun)

B1. Pat & Pats - Tobago (Original 12” Instrumental)
(Phil Sun - Greg)

B2. Pat & Pats - Tobago (Bolas & Dama Dub)
(Bolas - Dama)

Credits

Mastered by: Senio Corbini at Narada Studio, Siena (IT).
Tape restoration and transfer: Cesare Marchesini, Soundfan
Master lacquer: Roberto Barbolini, Cutterheadrepairs 
Design: 0timmi
A1/B1 are dubbed from the original analog stereo mastertapes. 

Release Date

June 1st 2018, physically available.

DS M 006 Pat & Pats - Tobago B2. Bolas & Dama Dub PREVIEW

D.E. — Giant Step
Format: 12"/Digital
Cat.No: ITL008
Release Date: July 2018

Tracklist:
A. Giant Step (Club Mix) - 5:15
Programming, keyboards - Akis Daoutis
Mixing by -  Akis Daoutis, Manos Govatzidakis  
Recorded at - CMRC Studios, In Studios (Athens, 1992)

B. Giant Step (Demo Version) - 5:35
Programming, keyboards - Akis Daoutis
Mixing by -  Akis Daoutis, Vangelis Katsoulis
Recorded at - Vangelis Katsoulis Studios (Pallini, 1989)

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into-the-light.bandcamp.com/
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Written and produced by Akis Daoutis
Executive producer: ilias Pitsios 
Mastered by Analogcut Mastering
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour
Layout by Tilt

© INTO THE LIGHT 2018
intothelightrecords.gr/

D.E. - Giant Step (ITL008)

DC Promo Tracks #231: "Sim" by Glenneth is part of the new release "Gaze" on Maquette Records @lauriecarter_glenneth @maquette-recs

Buy Now: https://glenneth.bandcamp.com/

The debut EP from London producer Glenneth (real name Laurie Carter) manages to conjure a sense of enlightened calm and wonder across its three long-form tracks. Gradually unfurling into billowing arcs of gorgeously melodic meditation, it’s music that gets you blissed-in as well as blissed-out.

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Gaze

DC Promo Tracks #231: Glenneth "Sim"

We are proud to present to you part II of cult status Büro-Hahn Edits. 
Bell Towers gifts us w/ five more carefully selected & re-edited dance tracks. High Hopes (Pop non Stop).

A1) Bell Towers "Call Me Please" (snippet)

B - Turner Street Sound - Redback Dub

Since Efficient Space excavated Andy Rantzen’s mind-bending “Will I Dream?”, the rest of the world has become better acquainted with the darker & dubbier side of one of Australia’s rave superstars. We’re excited to present a selection of tracks from Andy’s incredibly diverse oeuvre, 6 songs that sit somewhere between 80s digital reggae, 90s rave and the horizon of our accelerating future. 

Vinyl released September 2018 
Distribution through Rubadub 
Australian orders through Ken Oath Records

KEN009

Andy Rantzen - Lifting The Veil

Ikea Hack

Ikea Hack (Dance Mix)

A selection of unreleased demo's from 1991-1992.

Unreleased Ruffness 1991-1992

Unreleased Ruffness 1991-92 snippets

My tune on the Bad Advice Vol. 1 comp on Nervous Records! Grab it and all the other JAMS here:

https://www.beatport.com/release/bad-advice-vol-1/2425652
https://www.traxsource.com/title/1052120/bad-advice-vol-1

Fatherhood Presents: Bad Advice Vol. 1

Love Child

1432R016 - Bright Blue EP

https://samiyenigun.bandcamp.com/album/bright-blue-ep
1432r.xyz

Sami - Rascal

Roza Terenzi, D. Tiffany and Jayda G are first up on Berlin party Oscillate’s new label, Oscillate Tracks. Terenzi’s  ‘Electronique’ is a slice of wavy, bionic electro with a sophisticated sci-fi twist…

Read more: https://bit.ly/2B4IF2S

OSCT001

Premiere: Roza Terenzi ‘Electronique’

TFGC016
Lucas Croon - Ascona 12"
Release December 2018
4 Tracks
mastered by Carsten Dämbkes
Cover Artwork by Nikolai Szymanski

TFGC016 - Lucas Croon - A1 Ascona

Logtoad - Rat Full Of Coins EP Vol 1

Against Fascism Trax. 

Many small actions combined can have great power, and it is always better to try to do something than to do nothing.  I have long believed this.  It breaks my heart that AF Trax must exist, but sitting back and doing nothing is an option I simply cannot countenance.

Our current global political climate gives grave cause for concern, because when the world tips to the right, those within marginalised communities feel repressive outcomes directly & immediately.  It is easy to think “it surely isn’t so bad”?, but those people precarious in their life circumstances, marginalised in our communities and displaced across the borders of the world are already suffering the consequences - often violently - of this shift in ideology.

We live in an era where talking is endless, but where actions are harder to find.  If AF Trax reaches just one person to make them change their mind over being a supporter of the far right, motivates somebody to work against fascist thinking, informs someone or raises funds - then I will view it as having been a success.  Something solid will have been created, we will have done something.

Confusion seems to exist as to what being against fascism might look like. There are dedicated left-wing groups fighting under the Antifa banner, leading some to think that being against fascism is purely a left vs right ideological divide. But it is not. Surely the only people who aren’t against fascism… are fascists?  This is not left wing vs right wing posturing but a fight everybody, be they conservative, liberal, centrist, apolitical or any other point on the political spectrum should surely support fully.

The culture of dance music that we know and love was born out of the struggles of marginalised and vulnerable communities across the world  - and those who assert politics does not belong in dance music are shamefully ignorant of this essential history.  Dance music as a culture would not exist as we know it shorn from that history.  The dynamics of struggle and celebration has always (and will always) run deep in the DNA of Dance.

AF Trax hopes to harness a tiny fraction of this dynamic, to honour that history, to provoke dialogue that is fundamentally anti-racist, anti-sexist, non-homophobic, non transphobic, non-ageist, non ableist & to question and breakdown the class divide.  In these current political times we all need to stand up and be counted, strive to challenge and dismantle the logic of the status quo with all of our might.

The label’s message is very simple. The far right ultimately wish for the destruction of our way of life and indeed the lives of many of the people we love. The message is love. The message is solidarity. The message is No Pasaran - They shall not pass. It is a call to stand together, it is a call to stand up, it is a call to ACT.  Individually we may be powerless, but together we are strong.  

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!


** All label profits will be donated to Hope Not Hate  (https://www.hopenothate.org.uk) which campaigns to counter racism and fascism. 

Thanks to Lerato Khathi / Bring Down The Walls for permission to repurpose some of her text for the notes here. For Heather Heyer and Jo Cox.

Logtoad - Rat Full Of Coins EP Vol 1

A1)Ratchet Beat
A2)Screw Pump

B1)Drill Beat
B2)Hex Acid

Released on vinyl (and digital) on January 11th 2019. Distributed by Kompakt.

AF Trax 001 - Logtoad - Rat Full Of Coins vol 1 12" EP (sampler)

Artist: BBRB
EP: King Kiang
Label: Fragrant Harbour
Cat: FGHB006
Purchase: https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/bbrb-king-kiang-powder-mr-ho-remixes-pre-ord-fragrant-harbour/156955
Release date: Dec 2018

Hong Kong based label FGHB. (Short for “Fragrant Harbour”) is continuing their steady outputs of two releases a year with this time an EP from BBRB, a Taiwan based duo composed of Riles Jay Bilgo and Benoit Bouquin (who usually released under “L’Amour Fou” along with Move D and Marco Wollenberg) as a 6th release. Powder (Cocktail D’Amore) and Mr. Ho (Klasse Wrecks) completes the EP with a signature space workout of a remix of ‘Cat Slaves’ and a powerful EBM version of “Two Policemen”.

King Kiang

Buy Here!

Cat Slave (Powder Remix)

This player previews Masalo - New Dance (RH-store jams012)
Release: March, 2019

ORDER VINYL:  http://bit.ly/RHSTOREJAMS012
ORDER DIGITAL: http://rushhourmusic.bandcamp.com

Upcoming Amsterdam DJ /producer debuts on Rush Hour with a loud 12-inch two-tracker, New Dance. After his remix for Bassekou Kouyate on Joe Claussell's label and the strong "Testify" track co-produced with Jamie 3:26, he now goes solo with these two Italo infused dance floor igniters.

Tracklist:
1. New Dance
2. Cycles

MASALO - NEW DANCE (RH-STORE JAMS012)

Mental Overdrive - DARTRAX [MUSAR005]
Limited 12" vinyl (150 copies) in transperant sleeve with paper inner.

a1. Mbira-Kalimba (feat. Chiwoniso Maraire & Anania Ngoliga)
a2. Litungu (feat. Maulid Mohammed)
b1. Mbira-Kalimba (Charlotte Bendiks & Boska Remix)
b2. Litungu (DMX Krew Remix)

Following well-received releases from Annie Hall, J. Wiltshire, MANASYt and Ricardo Tobar, MUSAR continues with another distinct slice of hugely satisfying, leftfield dance music, this time courtesy of legendary Norwegian techno producer, Mental Overdrive.

Active since 1990, when he produced the first in a series of legendary, rave-ready EPs for R&S, Mental Overdrive, born Per Martinsen, continues to find inventive new musical paths and approaches thirty years into his career. This deft touch of lifelong curiosity is executed as creatively as ever on the ‘DARTRAX’ EP.

The recordings present on the EP began life in 2004, when Per Martinsen and Aggie Peterson were invited to Tanzania by Norwegian radio producer Sigbjørn Nedland to take part in recording sessions with local musicians in Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo. Despite the “super-inspiring” nature of the sessions, the recordings had been languishing on a hard-drive for over a decade, until their rediscovery leads to them becoming much sought-after, charismatic dancefloor weapons amongst a tight network of DJs.

It should come as no surprise that the mbira itself is key to the lead track ‘Mbira-Kalimba’, forged in partnership with musicians Chiwoniso Maraire & Anania Ngoliga, although others may be delighted, not least relieved, with the precision and creativity with which Martinsen and his collaborators execute the instrument’s unique sound. Far from utilising the usual sample-as-exoticism trope rampant through electronic music, the track instead weaves a delicate and authentic melody that seamlessly expands into surprisingly gritty, yet still playful electro territory, and out the other side.

‘Litungu’, meanwhile, performs a treatment of similar intent on the traditional and more obscure, lute-like instrument predominantly popular in traditional Kenyan music. Here, Martinsen and Maulid Mohammed delicately balance the delicate touch of the original with a layer of charismatic filter and distortion, adding texture to a beat that is somehow both folksy and yet propulsive, resulting in something truly unexpected for open-minded dancefloors.

On remix duty, fellow Norwegians Charlotte Bendiks (one of the first DJs to champion the original) and her equally-skilled studio partner Boska reduce ‘Mbira-Kalimba’ to it’s hypnotic, percussive core, eventually turning the original source to electro liquid for a diverse payoff. Sending heads spinning for the finish, DMX Krew proves to be an inspired choice to remix ‘Litungu’, blending his elastic acid-electro impulses with a particularly wild refix of a more obscure sound, concocting a memorable redo that could only be his own.

This EP is dedicated to Chiwoniso Maraire (1976-2013)

DARTRAX

Vinyl / Digital

MUSAR005 // Mental Overdrive - DARTRAX (incl DMX Krew, Charlotte Bendiks & Boska Remix)

I was recently commissioned by LA based menswear brand c2h4 to score their Spring / Summer runway show that premiered at London Fashion week on January 6, 2019. The final product is "Post-Human". Thank you to everyone at c2h4!

You can download the track via the Veranda Culture bandcamp on a pay-what-you-want basis :)
https://verandaculture.bandcamp.com/track/post-human-from-c2h4-spring-summer-2019

composed by Griffin James
mastered by Corey Kikos

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