Funk work mix

Buy: dualitytrax.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-fantasy-ep

Holly Lester’s Duality Trax Label has quickly become synonymous for its blend of future facing sonics and mind-warping melodies, served together with a healthy dose of nostalgia. A label just as focused on making dancefloor destroyers as it is exploring left-leaning, personal projects, it’s within this duality where the label has found its success, never afraid to shy away from b side oddities or tracks edging more towards good-old-fashioned-fun.

DUALITY5 steers towards the latter, with Manchester based DJ & producer Aiden Francis providing the serotonin on tap with three lively dancefloor cuts, including a huge remix from Italy’s Matisa. Aiden had a big 2022, releasing music on Magic Carpet, Gestalt and beloved music platform and label Houseum, solidifying himself as one to watch in the euphoric unity of house, trance and techno.

Title track ‘Plastic Fantasy’ is the star of the show, a suitably sassy roller that places everyone's favorite blonde icon front left of the speakers. Subtle old school strings contrast with alien electronics, providing familiarity in an otherwise unfamiliar world. A bubble-gum vocal then rolls in cheekily over a driving bassline and dynamic percussion  - used in a way I’m not sure the original creators had in mind. ‘Future Proof’ meanwhile demonstrates Aidens’ knack for contemporary progressive house music. With warm pads, swirling sonic textures and moments of blissful euphoria, it’s energetic enough to move a dancefloor, but gentle enough for home listening too.

The record comes to a close with ‘Aquamarine’, with Aiden opting in favour of free flowing breakbeats and mind expanding synths, together radiating a feeling of warmth and hope for days to come. Italian DJ and producer Matisa is on hand to round the EP off with a bass-heavy rendition of ‘Plastic Fantasy’ a no-holds-barred speed garage licked stomper, with the power to lure smokers back inside the club with their feet firmly planted on the dancefloor. 

@aidenfrancis
@matisaxx

Original tracks by Aiden King
Remix by Isabella Matilde
Mastered by Zzzzra
Distribution by Inch by Inch
Artwork by AJAM

DUALITY5 - Aiden Francis - Plastic Fantasy EP (ft Matisa Remix)

V/A - Glow Mid Vol.1
Digi Preorder - https://tinyurl.com/Glowmidvol1

"Faint emission of light by a planetary atmosphere"
Glow Mid frequencies erupt with the first edition presented by 
Asphalt DJ | Gzardin | Olsvangèr

credits:
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino
Artwork by Blame Honey

Release date
1 August 2023

V/A - Glow Mid Vol.1 (snippets)

Glow mid frequencies erupt with the first edition presented by Asphalt DJ, Gzardin and Olsvangèr. Sick tunes all around!

Buy: https://glowmid.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-glow-mid-vol-1

https://soundcloud.com/gzardin
https://soundcloud.com/glowmidmusic

Premiere: Gzardin - Stab Felony [Glow Mid]

Four high-octane, pumping prog cuts featuring incessant 303 lines, raging percussion and dream-like synth work coming your way. Asphalt DJ unleashes his foot-stomping creation; a dancefloor demon of ceaseless energy and 4 x 4 glory!

Buy: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-flower

https://soundcloud.com/asphaltdj
https://soundcloud.com/hawsmusic

Premiere: Asphalt DJ - In My Mind [Hâws]

Love On The Rocks celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special Refuge Worldwide takeover. The last guest is Running Hot.

LOTR x RWW - Running Hot - 21 March 2024

Italian tech connoisseurs @e-t-h-italy and @palmizmusic turn up on Gestalt Records with a sublime 4-tracker, smoothly bouncing between big room utility and sweaty club shuffle.

Buy: bit.ly/3JpIyBn

E.T.H (Italy) & Palmiz - Interstellar (GST33)

Diskount Service makes a swift return with Terrazzo affiliate @tomfazackkkkkk unleashing six serious tech house hybrids, designed to cause rapid dancefloor havoc.

Buy: bit.ly/3yUyZZ0

Fazack - Live Wire (DISK03)

Tracklist and download available here: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/waxo-paradiso/

Wax'o Paradiso Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain Festival DJ Set

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-tywi-lifeforms

German powerhouse @furthersessions prepare their next incantation ‘Meliora’, a four-track expedition into machine-driven transcendence, where deep-seated techno collide with trance-infused euphoria. Our pick is ‘Lifeforms’ by Tywi, diving head first into a lucid storm of molten grooves and mind-sculpting hypnosis. Stretching across an 8-minute late-night hallucination, the Haŵs label boss crafts a delirious trance ritual where ultra-filtered kick-drums undulate like tectonic plates beneath a canopy of celestial echoes.

Tywi - Lifeforms [Fur:ther Sessions]

Having defined London’s Sunday daytime clubbing scene, the Secretsundaze series of parties left an indelible mark that the rest of the world could only try to follow. Its co-founding father turned main protagonist, James Priestley remains a driving force in the world music community and continues to spread the good word of music in all its variants across the world. [continue reading at...

Trommel.214 - Secretsundaze

Italian DJ and producer Pancratio lands on Love on the Rocks with ‘Love Letters’, his first EP for the cult Berlin-based label founded by PARAMIDA. The record, another bold and unique entry in the label’s impressive catalogue, arrives after a decade of behind-the-scenes influence and personal artistic evolution for Pancratio, marking a turning point in his journey: from anonymous studio architect to an expressive, full-fledged solo artist.

Pancratio has long been a quiet force in underground music. As the founder of Otta Res Lab, he spent years producing, mixing, and mastering records for other artists, building a reputation among insiders for his meticulous analog workflows and deeply felt soundscapes. Now, with Love Letters, he turns the spotlight on himself.

Crafted in just a matter of weeks during a period of profound personal transition, the EP tells the story of Pancratio’s relocation from Rome to Berlin, a leap of faith that would shape the emotional and sonic narrative of the release. Following a summer immersed in the city's clubs and festivals, the producer returned to the studio with renewed clarity and purpose. What followed was a spontaneous burst of creativity: one track a day, each emerging with fluid ease from his analog-heavy setup.

“I called the record Love Letters because it's a message to all the people I left behind,” Pancratio shared in a personal note. “It’s my way of saying: everything’s going great here. I made the right choice.”

His music caught the attention of PARAMIDA thanks to the encouragement, and quiet hustle, of friends and collaborators Simone de Kunovich and Giammarco Orsini, both longtime allies of Pancratio and contributors to his label One Trip to Avyon. What began as an offhand suggestion turned into a fast-forming collaboration, with Pancratio sending a new track to Paramida every day for a week. The EP took shape naturally from those exchanges.

Pancratio sets the tone from the start on ‘A Neverending Story’, with layers of kicks, vocal samples, huge grooves and deceptively simple and effective percussive loops, then flips the track, without warning, with pads that add unexpected melancholy and emotional depth.

‘Artificial Intelligence’ jumps right into its groove, setting up a left turn into retrofuturistic sci-fi romance. Intimate, softly-spoken vocals lead into an otherworldly, vocoded lullaby, and then Pancratio removes the ground from beneath our feet. Masterfully extending sections of breaks, we’re lifted out of the arrangement before being dropped right back in the deep end, in moments that will destroy dancefloors while enveloping them in complexly touching emotional highs.

From there, the tonal contrasts just get bigger, weirder and more beautiful. ‘I Promise’ builds an irresistible house groove into a hypnotic summer jam, before tearing a hole in it it with a patchwork of vocal samples and off-pitch synths, snapping it out of its comfort zone and into completely unexpected territory before dropping it right back into the deep end. It’s a devastating sequence handled with the lightest touch, mirroring the twists and turns of its subject matter in a moment of sublime sonic storytelling.

Love Letters continues Pancratio’s pursuit of emotional depth through minimalist, analog-rooted production. Each track is a one-take from start to finish, recorded straight from his hardware setup and only minimally mastered, evoking a tactile sense of warmth and spontaneity rarely found in today’s digital-heavy landscape. 

Love Letters is not only a new chapter in Pancratio’s artistic evolution, it’s a heartfelt message delivered in music: to friends, to places once called home, and to everyone just now discovering his world.

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Wholesale enquiries: distribution@loveontherocks.cc

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Love Letters

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LOTR029 Pancratio - Love Letters

Tracklist & download available here: http://blrrm.tv/znNtOL

Fatima Yamaha Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival Live Set

Our Triple J Mixup, lots of fun disco, house + italo xoxo

Track list:

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Face Action – Mangwana
Nu Guinea – Je Vulesse 
BWH – Stop
Shirley Lites – Meltdown
Nature – The Prep
Brass Construction – Got Myself Together (Donald's House Edit)
Joe Cleen – Give You All I Got
Pussy Cat – Le Chat
Delicate Wash – The Undertaker
Donald's House – Dan's Dancing
Jonny 5 – Kaka Kaka
Dina Gad – Crack the whip
Severed heads – Greater Reward (piano power edit)
Donald's House – ????

Donald's House - JJJ Mix Up

Skylab Radio - TWO BROTHERS W Donald's House Ep 4

Ahead of our summer dance with @waxo-paradiso at audiophile venue Giant Steps we have a special ‘turbo’ peak-time-party recording from last year’s warehouse party @ Copeland Gallery, Peckham.

Join us on the 18th August : http://bit.ly/WaxoParadisoTixRA

Wax’o Paradiso & Bradley Zero LIVE @ Rhythm Section 2018

Skylab Radio - TWO BROTHERS W Donald's House Ep 6

For bookings in Oceani and Rest of World  contact: mitchell@tangleagency.com

Skylab Radio - TWO BROTHERS W Donald's House Ep 6

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