Dance with Me EP

Dance with Me

Dance With Me

Release date: 15 April 2016 on 12" vinyl & digital
Distibuted by Kompakt

I’m a Cliché’s first release of 2016 comes from label boss Cosmo Vitelli. After a five-year hiatus during which he was kept busy by his band Bot’Ox and relocating from Paris to Berlin, this is the very first release to come out of his new studio located in Berlin’s Marzahn district.

A CRUEL STORY
This emotional uptempo track driven by heartfelt synth work explores the territory of dancefloor melancholia. Influences from genres that end in « -wave » but also from the spirit of sentimental electro are obvious and they are creatively used by Cosmo Vitelli for particularly catchy and elegant dance-inducing results.

CHIENS DE L’ENFER
There’s something ominous in this track with a definite rock feeling which is structured around brooding percussion, hypnotic melodies, sinister synths and an entrancing bass line. Darkness prevails and this is the perfect track to take the dancefloor on a date with the hounds of hell.

KETAMINE KARAOKE
Cosmo Vitelli further explores and reinterprets the melancholic and melodic potential of older genres on this catchy tune that sounds like a lost recording from a forgotten yet influential band that used a bass guitar, gently modulating analog synths and vintage drum machines with a taste for dissociatives on the original sound track of a '70s French film.

A CRUEL STORY (I:CUBE REMIX)
One of our favorite producers in Paris delivers a remix which enhances the hypnotic elements of the original track which he turns into tune tense, dark but quite debonair where low end groove is complemented by tribal percussion. Clearlly, this is a track waiting to be unleashed on the dancefloor.

A CRUEL STORY (FX MCHN REMIX)
Fx Mchn is an up and coming producer from London whose tracks are often played by Cosmo Vitelli. This remix focuses on the funkier side of Cruel Story. Instantly danceable, elegantly layered and with added melodic touches, this track conjures element of the Detroit sound and will work wonders on even the most demanding of dancefloors.

COSMO VITELLI — "Ketamine Karaoke"

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And so Especial comes to its 30th release. As with the EES010 and EES020 the 12" is given over as a "Sampler EP" of alternate versions, dubs and unreleased cuts that deserve their time in the spotlight. Again featuring a label's who's who, with Fairplay, Paton and Baha appearing, but also new crews in vogue with Roy Of The Ravers back, joined by the esteemed Freeform Five plus a debut from Bal5000.

First up, sees the return of Junior Fairplay in the mixing desk hands of the ever kenetic Roy Of The Ravers. After turning in a twisted bleeptastic remix on Junior's recent "Faxes From The Future" EP (EES029), here in the aptly titled Remix 2, Roy strips everything back for a succinct and short stormer. Deeper, dubbier, dirtier, Roy does the acid-tinged bass and kick better than any, snapping those hats to ride.

Next comes another of those Jamie Paton reversions that slowly seep in your brain for days. He's all there and more, taking Freeform Five's digi-only Throwing Stones and with drudge beats, soft keys, drunk-funk pads, snap-claps and 909 kick all underpinning (Ali Love's) dubbed vocals to the haunting refrain only he can find. Another Paton love dub for the more open-minded DJ to melt hearts and minds. 

On the flip, we are delighted to release on vinyl Kris Baha's now cult retake of those brightest stars, Red Axes. Only previously released by brethren Multi Culti as an digi-only for the Waiting For A Surprise Remixes EP, after many years of cat calls and reminders, here at last for the vinyl heads is this monster drug-thug. Recorded some 3 years back when Baha was a relatively unknown, now a debut LP imminent for dem CockTail's boyz, this is right time for such a club killer to be spun loud and proud. 

To close, a new "Kids" on the block. Picked up on and then sat on for too long, Bal5000 has since had an acclaimed EP for our Invisible Inc. friends in the north and so it's right to let this pure electro flyer...fly. Coming on like a 6am party lifter, the electro beats nod to Geist and Jesrani, but with it's own funk and vibe that just keeps going higher and higher until the nods are smiles and smiles are skips and shuffles to the beat (the street). 

After 26 releases in 3 crazy years, last years solo (Paton) release was a nice stop and breath, so where Especial goes next is unknown. With some discoveries now flown the coup and new headz bringing their own new sound, plans are afoot to keep on keeping on and to bring something old and new to the floor...or the door. You choose.

B1. Red Axes - Waiting For A Surprise (Kris Baha Remix)

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Khidja & Balabas - Mos Ene

Next up on the Social(ist) edits series we have 4 hand picked gems plucked from obscurity to fill your ears from the wonderful Kompleks: AKA Bojan Lüle Gajic, whose CV is as impressive as it is diverse, whether DJing with Baris K, residing at Belgrade's Klub 20/44, or doing a collaboration with the legendary Detroit DJ & Producer Theo Parrish.

The tracks veer between Disco, downbeat, Nu Wave and even tread close to avant garde in places but maintaining that Balkan thread which punctuate the diverse Kompleks sound. The tracks date back to before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc with three of the tracks hailing from the former Yugoslavia and one from Soviet Union (Voskresenje, by Arkadij Horalov). 
This set of tracks showcases the diversity of sounds outside the US sphere of influence during the 1980s in uncertain times, times that produced a wonderful spectrum of music, lovingly picked by Lule and delivered to please your ears and your soul. 

Masters: Kompleks 
Artwork: Marko Vuleta-Djukanov

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K2 (Kornelije Kovac) - The Body (Kompleks Edit)

Following up on his collaborative Ep "Middle Of The Road  Less Travelled" with Michal Turtle, HOVE is back with another solo EP on his imprint Light of Other Days. The ﬁve breezy and balearic-tinged tracks were recorded and produced in HOVE’s home studio in Zurich between December 2018 and June 2019.  On "In Motion" HOVE’s sound evolves from drifting and dreamy ambiences into tape-saturated mid-tempo bumpers  right back into shimmering chords, spiked with echoing guitars  and ﬁeld-recordings. As with its predecessors, he interweaves organic sounds with seductive rhythms and percolated ambient pads into a dense yet familiar HOVE sound. "In Motion"  is inspired by the pure feeling of listening to House, Synth-Pop,  Wave, Dub and New Age records. It is HOVE’s third solo EP  and his ﬁrst release of 2019.  
https://lightofotherdays.bandcamp.com/

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PREMIERE : HOVE - Right Outside (Longer Version)

UK based Tecwaa background is in the early Yorkshire rave scene, which makes you understand his music on a deeper level. His tasteful turning of knobs on the Roland 303 takes you back to in time to an early morning somewhere round 1990 with a diesel generator pushed to the limit roaring somewhere in the background. But Tecwaa music is a lot more than a trip in time: the sound is modern and extremely well produced where the few but exquisite sounds hook in to each other naturally and creates a round solid groove. 
The sound varies from airy and light in ”Xentaeh” to warmer and heavier in the other track ”Ci”. What goes for the sound overall is the somewhat surprising elements in how the songs develop, both in rhythm and sound wise. Teecwa music bare traces of trance, rave, early techno and so on but you could call it ”uplifting, psychedelic leftfield electro” and this is his first release on Höga Nord Rekords. 
7" Record is out November 27th, pre- orders taken at: https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/album/hnr033-c-xent-h-pre-orders-taken-releadedate-2019-11-29

https://soundcloud.com/tecwaa
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PREMIERE #675 | Tecwaa - Xentæh [Höga Nord Rekords] 2019

BSS SPAARNDAMMERBUURT ARCHIEF 001

Weird times call for weird music.. Although life is mostly uncertain and confusing at the moment, we feel it must also lead to a big influx of creativity amongst all people affected by the current situation. Therefore, while reflecting in quarantaine like most of us, we have decided to start uploading some BSS music that got sidelined in past years and finally give them a destination. 'Spaarndammerbuurt Archief 001' is made up of 5 previously unreleased tracks and are now available on the BSS Bandcamp page. Finally, to all Internet friends, please stay positive, stay home and take care of yourself & loved ones. <3 BSS

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Yovav's contribution to our 5 years compilation...
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Yovav - Amba

Moonoton @ TESTFM — 04/05/2020

They glimmered in the pale moonlight, a radiant kaleidoscope of strange colours and shapes.

Her golden lips were the talk of the town as she walked aimlessly between bars under the cloak of darkness. Many had tried their luck but few had ever gotten close to her tainted heart. She was fierce and cold, golden and electric like the flashing lights of the city's underbelly itself. She was back in town..

Now this one is just a little bit special. Chicken Lips are back and mean business on a new EP for Phantasy. The infamous nu disco pioneers return with a wonderful new release, perfectly tied up by a guest appearance from Dj Sotofett who brings the heat on remix duties. Summer is very much here and we're heading to the West Coast...

B1. Red Axes - Waiting For A Surprise (Kris Baha Remix)

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