Dub In Paris (Zanelato LA Edit)

The JND - Dub In Paris (Zanelato LA Edit)

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P&P01 A2 - Puzzle (Vril Mix)

Chilean DJ @paulatape learnt her craft in an after-hours club back home in Santiago, where she would crib from the residents before launching out on her own. A move to Milan led to her becoming a resident at the city's Rollover night, and now she's starting to make a name for herself with shows across Europe, playing with the likes of Young Marco, Mall Grab and Tornado Wallace. In addition to her regular show on Radio Raheem called 'Music for Plants', Paula has also appeared on Rinse FM and Red Light Radio. Enough words though - this excellent mix, which we're very grateful to Paula for recording for us - should be all the necessary introduction to this exciting DJ.

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Paula Tape: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

Sunshine Sweggae Mix 1

Tracklisting: 
A1 - Derrick Harriott - Dub Whip
A2 - Anaalivaihe - 10_11_2012
A3 - Sonny Okosun - Highlife (Dub Version)
B1 - Joe Ariwa - King Moses (33RPM Version)
B2 - Pilgrims Of The Mind - Airplane
B3 - Khan - Turkish Bath (Part 1)
C1 - Code - Parsifal (Ambient Dub)
C2 - Sandoz - Dark Continent
C3 - Mi Ami - Free Of Life
D1 - The Black Dog - Rainbow Bridge
D2 - Nation Of Noiz - Xes Noiz
D3 - Earthquake Studio - 21st Century

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Available on vinyl, cd and digitally from June 15th 2018

Welcome to the Sound Of Love International 001 complied by Gatto Fritto. Love International is a festival held in Tisno, Croatia now moving into its third season. Held to a soundtrack of the very best of underground dance music and running 24 hours a day - from noon to night and back through again - full circle. This series, masterminded with London’s Balearic culture website, Test Pressing, is curated by some of our favourite artists and DJs. A place for them to choose 12 records close to their heart, and with ties to the festival, that they love and what to share with the world. So to the first compiler - Gatto Fritto a.k.a Ben Williams. 

A lifetime working in the better record shops of London and Berlin and DJing in Europe’s finest underground clubs, Ben is getting the props he deserves. Put into context, although not in a box, on line-ups curated by Call Super, Ben UFO and Palms Trax the word is spreading. It’s partially testament to the increased open mindedness of younger big room crowds but far more to Gatto’s ability as a DJ and a knack for finding an undiscovered mix of music that fits. 

Having previously made freaky Disco mutations for Dissident Records, then an album of Kosmiche inspired sounds for International Feel, it’s proving to be something of an advantage not being easily hamstrung by genre. 

So what about the music here? It’s a collection of tracks that Ben played across his last two sets at Love International’s open air club Barbarellas. There’s a dubby wildness in the stereo field that sounded good on the soundsystem. The clever part is how well suited these sounds are to the balmy outdoor vibe and where and when this music comes from. You can’t copyright these emotions, it would seem and no-one told them in Cologne, Sheffield, Jamaica that the music they were producing would soundtrack a blinky-eyed sunrise in Croatia. 

So we get Mad Professor’s son, Joe Ariwa’s, demented Gabber tempo stepper played on 33. Which is about as House as Reggae is ever going to be. A crash course in Skwee’s year long diversion into afrobeat turned out the cream of the crop in Anaalivaihe’s 10.11.2012 or Mi Ami’s outlier release on Pure Silk that sounds like, in Ben’s words, “Francois K being forced to make a record with a Juno 60”. Or crazy vari-speed tape dubbing from Sonny Okosun in the dub version of ‘Highlife’ – the kind of record that Ben loves, where the end result is a happy accident. The original intention of the maker some distance from the reasons for our enjoyment. 

Musically adventurous, disparate yet harmonious and dance floor friendly. Clever trick, clever bloke. Ladies and gentlemen this is the sound of Love International. 
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LITP001: THE SOUND OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL - GATTO FRITTO

Our 23rd EP in the Tales series is in the hands of the Berlin based artist https://soundcloud.com/shelteronwax. Oranienstrasse starts off with a very atmospheric Detroit vibe in the title track followed by the euphoric dub vibes in Nanne. Joining Shelter on Wax we have https://soundcloud.com/moffandtarkin and long time label friend https://soundcloud.com/gnork have a go on the remixes each with their own rendition of Oranienstrasse. The different approaches make for an interesting combination of sounds on the same EP which should give most electronic music fans something to chew on. We first spotted Shelter on Wax some years ago when he released the track ‘Untitled (Pbar Cut)’ which first appeared on a rare dubplate which ended up getting released on Idealistmusic in 2018.

Oranienstrasse EP

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Tales023 - Shelter on Wax - Oranienstrasse (Moff & Tarkin Remix)

buy there : https://alzaya.bandcamp.com/album/radio-meccanica-ep

After the first output by Volantis, Alzaya is back with homeboy Nicodemo delivering a full EP with the remix cured by the Amsterdam-based producer, Heist regular and Quartet Series honcho, Nachtbraker. 

Ranging from balearic vibes and italo keys to tropical percussions, this release shifts through different moods and blurry edges, building up a classy combination of rhythm and atmosphere. 

This listening will feel a lot of people comfortable, tailored to those searching for dreamy textures, soulful sounds and disco-infused pads.

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PREMIERE : Nicodemo - Radio Meccanica

Claptrap’s (@claptrap_clptrp) latest release comes from Dr Valentines, a London based producer and founder of the label. Dr Valentines has been making those smooth transitions and hauling funk all the way to funky since back in 2000. Whilst avoiding grave responsibility in the field, he has
constructed himself a large music computer, the likes of which you have never seen.
Dr Valentines’ debut release features four dancefloor-ready jams. 

Out on 24th of July. 

Get it here:
https://claptrap-clptrp.bandcamp.com/album/loves-you

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Freshness #003 Dr Valentines - Stealthoscope [Claptrap]

Following on from last year's debut LP 'Exotic Language' Joe Morris assembles a killer line up of diverse producers for the remix package 'Exotic Remixes'.

Premiere : Joe Morris - Echo Station (Coyote Dread Mix)

Just like a beautiful aftermath of a digital chaos, Cyber Dream, the second release of Eddisco which was produced by an original Tunisian sound poet named Henkmann, is a dreamy voyage through a pile of some never-ending emotions. The EP includes 2 original breaky and Housy tracks by the same uprising artist and a remix by Hamdi Ryder whose remarkable signature added a raw Electro aura to the main piece, Cyber Dream.

Cyber Dream

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Henkeman - Cyber Dream EP [EDD02] (Previews)

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

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Eddisco is an independant dance music record label based in Tunis.

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