Name: Pellegrino & Zodyaco - Malìa [EASerie7-03] by Early Sounds Recordings
Duration: 3 min 1 s
Description: "Malía: a spell, a journey through the wonder of life, in search of the Mediterranean essence."

SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dance-par-amour

Limited edition vinyl with artwork by the brilliant KMG - www.kmgyeah.com

Leng Records has long admired Andrew Meecham’s work as The Emperor Machine. Last year, Meecham made his first appearance on the label via a fine remix of Harks & Mudd favourite ‘Susta’. 12 months on, Meecham returns to Leng with his first Emperor Machine outing of 2021, a typically eccentric, heavily electronic dancefloor outing featuring the seductive vocals of rising star Séverine Mouletin.

Meecham is one of British dance music’s most experienced and lauded producers, with a packed history stretching right back to the acid house era. He first rose to fame as part of Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips (both alongside long-term studio partner Dean Meredith), but over the last two decades has devoted far more time to solo work as The Emperor Machine. In the process, he’s developed a sparse, hypnotic, heavily electronic trademark sound that combines analogue and modular synthesizer sounds with nods to post-punk disco, new wave, trippy proto-house and the mind-altering experiments of the Radiophonic Workshop.

‘Dance Par Amour’, his first solo single on Leng, is typical of his now familiar personal sonic style, with echoing, alien-sounding synthesizer motifs (some reminiscent of those that marked out Chicken Lips’ club classic ‘He Not In’), with bubbly sequenced bass, unfussy machine drums, rubbery slap-bass riffs and flashes of post-punk disco guitars.

Sparse but weighty and pleasingly trippy, the EP-leading ‘Extended Vocal Mix’ is classic Emperor Machine: a near ten-minute workout in which Mouletin’s tender but confident vocals rise above Meecham’s stylish and note perfect backing track, which sits somewhere between early ‘80s ‘no wave’ New York disco, lo-fi European synth-pop and the trippy late night dancefloor dubs that were once a feature of American boogie and proto-house records.

Meecham further explores his love of these sparse, effects-laden “synth-dubs” on the accompanying ‘Erotique Dub’, a thrillingly heavy, heads-down affair awash with echoing vocal snippets, hypnotic drums and synthesizer flourishes that attractively echo across the sound space. Like the best DJ-focused dubs of the early 1980s, the remix is propelled forwards by a strong bassline, around which other elements – guitar, bass guitar, sparkling synth sounds and mind-mangling electronics – appear, make their mark and then drift off into the ether. With key passages of Mouletin’s vocal appearing periodically to encourage people to dance, it’s the kind of delightfully wayward revision that will keep people dancing well into the early hours.

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The Emperor Machine & Séverine Mouletin - Dance Par Amour (Erotique Dub)

80s African French Synth-Pop from 'Ylang Ylang' edited by Tucan Discos. Enjoy;)

Ylang Ylang - Récréation(Tucan Discos Edit)

Written and composed by Alessandro La Padula
Arranged and produced by Alessandro La Padula e Pellegrino S. Snichelotto
Executive Producer Pellegrino S. Snichelotto
Recorded at pAd studio (Rome) and The 8 Studios (Naples)
Mixed by Giovanni Roma at L’arte dei Rumori Studio

Agua

Lapa Dula - Agua [EAS024]

"Malía: a spell, a journey through the wonder of life, in search of the Mediterranean essence."

Malìa

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Pellegrino & Zodyaco - Malìa [EASerie7-03]

LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/billion-days-incl-40-thieves-mind-fair-remixes

Artwork by Barbora Idesova - https://www.instagram.com/barboraidesova

Setting out to create a future Balearic anthem while doffing a cap to street soul and synth-heavy Italo-disco B-sides of the early 1980s, Orbs of Light’s debut single, ‘Billion Days’ lands on Leng after a tip-off from Mind Fair duo Dean Meredith and Ben Shenton, who booked the duo to play live at their Rotation festival last summer.

Orbs of Light’s Baz Bradley and A Girl Called Kate have been friends for decades and have collaborated musically in the past, though it was only a couple of years ago that they dreamed up this project. It was first trialled via a 2021 remix for Andres y Xavi on Hollis Recordings (‘Perfect Timing’) on which Kate added new vocals to Bradley’s interpretation of the track. Since then, regular recording sessions have taken place, with the duo first crafting tight instrumental tracks before – in Bradley’s words – “dream up the best songs we can” with “melodies that will hopefully stay in your head all day”.

It would be fair to say that they’ve achieved that goal on ‘Billion Days’, a hooky and addictive affair whose vocal hooks and strong chorus could well inspire Balearic sing-alongs in the months ahead. Their original mix (B1 on the vinyl version of the EP, track 2 on the digital EP) is joyous, cheery and kaleidoscopic, with steel pan style melodies, bouncy synth stabs, jaunty lead lines and Kate’s wonderful lead vocal riding a shuffling, post street soul beat and a bubbly bassline.

The accompanying remix package is naturally very strong too. San Francisco crew 40 Thieves, fresh from dropping a killer single of their own on Leng (‘The Gift’, with disco legends Gary Davis and Cinnamon Jones), step up first with a take that stretches out and builds on Orbs of Light’s original mix – think wobbly nu-disco synth bass, fresh flute sounds, dubbed-out vocal snippets and a locked-in groove that’s just perfect for sun-soaked alfresco dancing.

Fittingly, the second and final revision comes from Mind Fair, whose email to Leng HQ about Orbs of Light got the ball rolling. Opting for a rubbery, body-popping beat inspired by vintage electro, they deliver a joyful, effects-laden Balearic dancefloor ‘Dub Mix’ that somehow makes a genuinely life-affirming record even more loved-up and saucer-eyed – despite the presence of only a fraction of Kate’s addictive lead vocal.

Orbs of Light - Billion Days (40 Thieves Version)

AMPLITUDES - Vendredi Club N°056

DC Promo Tracks #1222: "What A Night" by Comb Edits is part of the release "ITTY03" on I Travel to You @itraveltoyou  

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DC Promo Tracks #1222: Comb Edits "What A Night"

Smeared Canvas  - original performance written by Toshiyuki Sudo, and performed by Anna Sato and Laura Yokozawa (Deep Cut).  Performed for the game Splatoon 3 by Nintendo.  Cover performance by Dan Gale (featuring Inkerbelle).  Copyright 2024 Tenten Music and Digital Media.  All Rights Reserved.

Smeared Canvas

Chas jankel "Boy - DJ Darryn edit"

written by E. Ndlela/ M. Horwitz 
1981 CTV/Music Team
2018 Afrosynth Records AFS037

AFS037 Dance

'Search For Love' - Night Force & The Tom Cats (1981)

Kates Bush (Coyote Nocturnal Edit)

Mediterranean sounds conceived in the shadow of Vesuvius.
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