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An excerpt from the Australian master himself. Enjoy!

Tornado Wallace - Live at Honey Soundsystem [4-25-15]

Recording of our weekly Dekmantel Radio show at @redlightradio.

First hour: De Dupe (Bordello A Parigi)
Second hour: Afrobot

Dekmantel Radio

Dekmantel Radio w/ Afrobot & De Dupe (14/07/2017)

1. Anchel 
2. Guam - Le Serpent 
3. Duliatten_Disco_Dancer_-_Surat_Surfin
4. Tumblack
5. Max-B - Super Bwana
6. Drums 
7. Erotic Drum Band 
8. Drums 
9. B.Loda - Oscillator I
10. Laser Cowboy - Killer Machine
11. Walk the beat Edit 
12. Leik - Burner
13. androids - is this a dream
14. Rosebud 
15. Herbie Hancock - Future Shock

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eclectics mix - 105 | Budino |

Live Recording by @kleodisco on 19.05.2019

Kléo - 19.05.19

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El Cuerpo del Disco - Discoteca Podcast 58

Its lockdown 3, we're all a bit weary so what better tonic than a fresh edition of the Reframe. This month we support another of Leeds many up and coming talents with Mezla joining The Reframe with a guest mix for the last hour of the show.

DJ, resident and curator for the established club night Limit and @lwr-music (Limit x Revamp x WTS).  Event manager, booking agent & Resident @distriktbarleedsevent. Mezla has a nice versatility to his repertoire with sets weaving between different realms of house & techno, breaks, acid, leftfield, disco, italo through to slow chugging trippy sonics. His mix for the reframe falls in that latter chug slo mo frame. 

This month the Reframe kicks off the show with ventures into deep electronics with a slow building collection setting out at 90bpm and moving up into mid tempo 19 bpm territories. Featuring tracks from Plaid, Luke Vibert, Com Truise, D-Pulse, Lord Tusk, Romaire, Acid Arab, Cindy, Joes Bakery band, Erol Alkan, Get a Room, Payfone, Statues, Brassica, Move D, Derzian, Seb Wildblood, Acid Elf, Dircsen, Demi Riquismo, PostHuman, Zakmina, DJ Slyngshot, 808 state, Dawit and Pivert the Playmobill 
Keep safe all x

If you are a fan of the Reframe music, regularly listen and would like to support the Reframe we have recently hooked up with Kofi to offer some sustainability Kofi was set up to support artists and creative souls receive income from their supporters so they can keep creating. If you'd like to support the reframe you can do so through our kofi page, no pressure however : ko-fi.com/thereframe

The ReFrame and Mezla (UK) Guest Mix

RADIO.D59B / ABOVE THE CLOUDS #3 w/ White City Soul

LP/Digital - https://harveycouture.bandcamp.com/album/scelle-en-cristal

Who is Harvey Couture? Some say he’s a survivor of French pop music’s sun-soaked synth-pop era of the early 1980s, others that he’s a more suave and stylish Serge Gainsbourg for the nu-Balearic era. There were even rumours circulating that he’s a musical mobster from the Cote D’Azure: a shadowy member of the mafia who deals in synths, drum machines and fretless bass guitars rather than guns, money and drugs.

In truth, not even Leng Records knows much about the man behind the moniker, though his vividly kaleidoscopic, retro-futurist debut album, Scellé En Cristal, does offer a number of crafty clues. Whether listeners will make the necessary deductions to solve the mystery remains to be seen; regardless, it’s the music that matters, and on that score Scellé En Cristal simply cannot be faulted.

Rich in humid, afternoon-bright musical delights, the set sees our publicity-shy hero mix and mangle a multitude of musical influences – think proto-Balearic European synth-pop, Prince style purple funk, immersive ambient, early INXS style synth-rock, the electronic end of zouk and much more besides – with constantly colourful and imaginative results.

Couture is most at home adding his variously seductive, sexy and sleazy vocals to bubbly, upbeat and mid-tempo numbers that combine delay-laden drum machine beats with surging synths, fluid bass, stylish guitars, lashings of leftfield pop nouse and plenty of tongue-in-cheek Gallic flair.

For proof, check the throbbing, off-kilter alien-funk throb of ‘Les Portes De La Perception’, the bustling, percussion-laden cheeriness of ‘Crème Solaire’ and the loose-limbed, toe-tapping brilliance of ‘Je Ne Peux Pas’, where chiming, steel pan style melodies and pots-and-pans percussion hits jostle for position with sliding fretless bass notes and flash-fried guitars. Check to ‘Passion’, a swaggering slab of bustling electrofunk/synth-rock fusion rich in ‘Rockit’-style scratches and restless synth-bass.

The influence of languid, sunset-ready European pop records of the 1980s – those cuts that would later become sought-after amongst dusty-fingered collectors of Mediterranean music – is another recurring feature of Couture’s cultured but joyous debut album. It can be heard amongst the drowsy guitars, yawning bass and tumbling lead lines of ‘Look Within’, the pleasingly laidback ‘Invincible Line’, the elastic bass, fluorescent synth sounds and stuttering machine drums of ‘Marche’.

Yet Couture is no one-trick pony. Horizontal and loved-up moments of a more downtempo hue can be found scattered across the album, with the enveloping ambient awe of ‘Les Portes’ – all swelling chords, gentle melodies and atmospheric field recordings – and slowly unfurling ‘Whale Song’ both lingering long in the memory. 

Harvey Couture may not be ready to step out of the shadows just yet, but his music most certainly is. We have a feeling that Scellé En Cristal is just the start of the mystery monsieur’s musical journey.

LENG SHOP

Marche

Ripped in Glasgow (25/2/21)

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