this such a great song, such a great house mix, spaced out like all of your tunes and mixes, downtown party network come to stuttgart!

BARN 018 07. Axel Boman - Hello

Vinyl available on Magic Feet from 2/6/14

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/rich-lane-peza-flesh/529294-01/

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Written by Ch. Chayell, M. Ickx

Performed and produced by Rich Lane

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In the UK Midlands of late 1988, shortly after the second Summer of Love, a 15 year old schoolboy, already immersed in Acid House and Detroit Techno, reads in one of the pretentious London-centric mags he devours each month about a new sound which could be the next big genre.  It's called New Beat, and it comes, of all places, from Belgium. This makes him pay attention -  he spent every summer holiday of his youth in one of the country's resorts, and had vague memories of stark, pounding electronic music emanating from club doorways late at night.

He makes a trip from his suburban home into the city centre determined to find some examples of this new music. After a lot of searching he comes up trumps: a compilation album called 'New Beat - Take 1'. He buys it on the spot and takes it home to listen to. As with most albums he's ever bought, he feels slightly cheated, after a couple of good tracks there's a fair bit of filler, and certainly no overriding 'sound' other than a somewhat slow and Euro Pop centric approach to House. Nothing like the aural fingerprint of Acid or Techno. But...

Some of the tracks pique his interest. They have a dark, early 80s synth heavy sound which reminds him of both the Synth Pop of his youth, and the mysterious music filtering out of those Belgian clubs as a child...

He has to wait till the very end of the album for the best of these - a track called 'Flesh' by A Split Second. The fascinating sleeve notes of the L.P. tell the story of how an already banging tune in the established Belgian style of 'Electronic Body Music' was played at the wrong speed (33 1/3 and +8 on the Technics deck) by an Antwerp DJ called Fat Ronny. The club went wild, and a new genre was born - Belgian producers trying to replicate the slower groove and dark timbres of this fateful bit of serendipity. The UK schoolboy gets more than a little obsessed by the tune...

The lad in question went on to form a career in dance music production, and after 25 years has decided to revisit this important and very personal piece of nostalgia, fashioning a complete, respectful and sample free rework of the track based on it's 'go slow' speed. 

This one is for the music mad schoolkid in all of us...

R.L.

Rich Lane - Flesh (Dub)

Out Now on W+L Records

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The Unreleased Remixes Pt. 2

Get it.

Lowheads, Naoki Serizawa - Yesterday (Lil'T Intentions Mix)

Midnight Oil serves up the best in italo, nu disco, synth and indie dance on the monthly. You can imagine our delight then when being asked to play their recent edition at @modularnightclub's Lido Bar. Here is a full recording of our closing set in the wee hours of the morning.

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Paradise Citizens @ Midnight Oil | Mødular

2 tracks we made with sexy Babyman aka Erobique.
Out on vinyl and mp3 05.06.2015 on mozzarella rec.
Cover by Babyman, Photo by Pelle Buys Van Houtem.

Deo & Z-Man & Babyman - Belissima (Deo & Z-Man Version)

Here's my remix of the great new Formation single 'Powerful People' on Meno / Warner Brothers. Hope you like it.

Formation - Powerful People (Ewan Pearson Remix)

Made a track this week for B, and for Bandcamp's support of Transgender Rights. 
Today, Bandcamp will be donating their share to the Transgender Law Center
All other proceeds will go to B's family.

B's Groove

Slow and sleazy android disco, from the RODION & KHAN of FINLAND combo:
leave it to Let's motor to vocode your libido up and bring you downover and over and over.... (Et repetens iterumque iterumque iterumque...)
out on LA BELLE records, home of the filthiest grooves in PARIS.

RODION & KHAN - LET'S MOTOR

Inspired by the early morning hours at the Opium club in Vilnius a month ago, when the sunlight slowly started to glow the dancefloor.

Two Thou & Enrico Demuro - Trudu [Gifted Culture]
Jex Opolis - First Stomp (NYC Mix) [Good Timin']
BRS - Spring Dom [Cyclo]
Paolo Di Nicolantonio - Close To Me [Craigie Knowes]
Oki Noki - Fables [Tone DropOut]
Shit Robot - Cubed [Me Me Me]
Talaboman - Brutal Chugga Chugga (L.B. Dub Corp Remix) [R&S]
Will Saul - By Your Side [Aus Music]
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance  (Paul Woolford Jolly Roger Rework) [Running Back]
Art Alfie - Downstreamed (Mount Liberation Unlimited Ethereal Teen Dream Version) [Toy Tonics]

Downtown Party Network - The Rising Sun

Joseph Ashworth - Breathe (Instrumental)

October 2020: Eclectics release Camino (Remixes) by James Bright w/ Vanity Project and Statues

James Bright - Back Roads (Statues Remix)

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Downtown Party Network might once have been a short yet magical period of New York City nightlife. Today the name stands for music from another side of the world - Lithuania. An entity combined of experiences, influences, events, trips, and adventures in music that have come together during the last 20 years.

Downtown Party Network’s music has been signed by german Get Physical Music and Dirt Crew Recordings, british Futureboogie and Anjunadeep, belgian Eskimo Recordings and australian Future Classic to name a few. The releases have been favorited by DJ Harvey, Dixon, Laurent Garnier, Groove Armada, Tensnake, Ame, Jamie Jones, Sasha.

‘Days Like These’ by Downtown Party Network released on legendary Eskimo Recordings back in 2009 became a dancefloor destroyer, hitting record shops’ charts and being played by countless amount of djs all around the world.

‘Space Me Out’, released in October 2013 by Silence Music, became one of the most charted tracks on Resident Advisor in 2013. Mario Basanov, Hannes Fischer and Musk accompanied the original track with brilliant remixes. Each of them received a significant amount of attention, as well as a melodramatic music video that was filmed in spooky Lithuanian nature. A year later, a new version of ‘Space Me Out’ was revamped and presented exclusively on ‘Deep House Amsterdam’ just before Amsterdam Dance Event and a brand new remix of the worldwide hit, crafted by the legendary producer Ewan Pearson. 

In the last years DPN had his shows in New York, San Fransisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bangkok, Seoul, Mexico City, Jakarta, London, Berlin, Bali,  Bucharest, Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, etc.

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