House Atmosphere - Tracks Selection | 2023_W34

23.8.23 Groovey House - nickyymendez

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Deep Inspiration Show Records proudly presents Family Things Vol. 2, the second instalment of the various artist 12” series focusing on the inner circle of our global family. 

Assembled as always with love, the release features welcome contributions from friends and collaborators from Germany, Croatia, South Africa, USA and Scotland. 

A1. Our friend Jan Kincl, the Zagreb-based producer, opens the record with Daylight (You Are My), a beautiful slow-burning track that doesn’t hide a serious nod to the original ‘hi tech soul’ blueprint. In line with his previous work, the track touches on the space where techno, house and jazz collide. 

A2. Detroit’s Alton Miller steps up with an ear-catching remix of Daylight. Aside from being there at the dawning of house music, Alton’s subsequent work has secured his status as one of the Motor City’s finest artists. Masterful work on the keys and an infectious groove cast Daylight in a completely new context. 

B1. The flipside starts with Wolford Heifer, aka Ntshabeng Donald Motseo aka Gary Hattenberger, the Limpopo-born producer now based in Johannesburg. The talent behind the Dirty Analog Records label delivers the curiously-named Odd Socks, a warm and organic deep house track featuring Inner Shift Music’s Brad Peterson on flute and keyboards. 

B2. Closing the EP are Johannesburg’s Benklawk and Mabutana, also known as Tebogo Skhosana & Buti Messiase. Having released last year on Do It Now Recordings they now step forward here for DISR with Damage Control, a seriously deep and murky house cut that’s perfect for those hazy late-night moments.

Mastered by Sven Weisemann
Artwork by Mona Be
A&R by Jazzman & Konstantin Olias

OUT NOW

Family Things Vol. 2 / Jan Kincl, Alton Miller, Wolford Heifer feat. Brad P, Benklawk & Mabutana

Saxophone by @jimmy-rainey

Mastered by Tyrone Frost

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Railei Part III (Feat. Jimmy Rainey)

A Story Of Innocence Lost

Goodbye George

https://soundcloud.com/soulwun (Blake Carthew) is an Australian musician navigating the space between dance and emotion. Residing in Newcastle, Australia, Blake draws on a childhood obsession of hip-hop and electronic dance music, collaging samples and synthesized compositions to create deeply emotive, atmospheric dance music.

PREMIERE: Soul Wun - Searching [Sloth Boogie]

Taking his cue from seminal mix albums of days gone by, Glenn Astro is back with a compilation of original productions from a cast of fictional artists on Nothing Is Real, releasing May 4. 

Across 13 tracks, the Tartelet mainstay celebrates the thrill of discovery which came as standard listening to new entries in series’ like X-Mix and DJ Kicks, moving between head-nodding downtempo, ambient techno, broken beat and all manner of chill-out room delights. You might be left wishing artists such as DJ 1999, Mental Trance and Eye Soul8r had actual discographies to go and explore, but as Astro himself is keen to point out, “nothing is real.” 

Astro has never been shy to embrace classic tropes and tones in his past albums for Tartelet, Apollo and Ninja Tune, but he’s drawing on a different set of influences for this album and embracing the flexibility afforded by using imagined aliases for varied production styles. 

“I had the idea to do a mixtape, preferably with unknown dance tracks that also reflect that whole 90s/early 00s vibe,” Astro explains. “Instead of digging for some records that haven’t been sourced yet or trying to find those ‘forgotten’ treasures, I made the tracks myself. That way I had full control over BPMs, feel and the whole arrangement of tracks. I thought of a few alter egos and started producing the tracks in the order that I intended to play them in a mix. In the end a whole compilation of tracks emerged.” 

While the concept might suggest you’re going to hear a lot of over-familiar sounds, don’t be fooled. Astro is inspired and inquisitive, channeling the experimental spirit of the 90s and early 00s when electronic music was still continually being redefined in all kinds of micro-scenes. In many cases, Astro’s productions slip into the cracks between genres rather than specifically mimicking a style. 

In the run up to its release on May 4, the album will be framed by four key single releases which embody the omnivorous attitude Astro brings to the album. As Crystalline Reality, he explores classic breakbeat in detail, fusing it with starry eyed ambient techno synthesis in an unlikely but wholly convincing combination. Eye Soul8r’s ‘Autumn Subs’ injects ambient synth work in a Fax Records style with a rolling drum funk calling back to the trip hop era. ‘Steppers Worldwide, Unite!’ by The Foundation lands somewhere between pitched down breakbeat hardcore and dubstep, echoing the seldom-mentioned breakstep sound but injecting it with a subtle touch of dub techno. Brain Liquor’s ‘Jaque?’ revels in beatless, Detroit-informed machine funk, laces in some wriggling 303 squelch and gives everything a generous dubbing, but hold tight for the plot twist. 

Even if the reference points are detectable, the end result is a curious blend as indebted to ambiguity as the overall concept of the compilation. Like the spine-tingling sensation of hitting play and awaiting the waves of unknown sonics on one of those seminal mixes, you never know exactly what you’re going to get as you take the trip through Nothing Is Real. 

“In terms of dance music, the 90s and early 2000s are pretty much the blueprint for everything that I’ve later on made myself,” Astro admits. “At the same time, I don’t want to be overly nostalgic about it. We often look at those times, specifically the Y2K years, as being a lot simpler, realer, more honest, which in some cases might even be true. Simultaneously, it's insanely naive. Everything plastic isn’t necessarily futuristic, you know?” 

Nothing is Real drops May 4th on vinyl and digital. 

All tracks written and produced by Glenn Astro

Nothing Is Real V.A. - DJ MIX - Mixed by Glenn Astro

Luscious, head-nodding beats from Berlin. 

Tracklisting and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_GlennAstro

@glenn-astro

XLR8R Podcast

Tracklist & Download

XLR8R Podcast 798 - Glenn Astro

Klaus Layer aka Rick Flair took part in our new concept compilation album: 
Beats on Boat vol. 2 . pressed on a 2LP black vinyl running at 45 RPM and limited to 300 copies. 

As part of this album each artist recorded a live set whilst crusing down Berlin's river Spree. 
Full set with video is also on youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LlbqCEz86M 

ear-sight
https://ear-sight.com

Klaus Layer
https://soundcloud.com/captain-crook

Educut
https://soundcloud.com/educut

Klaus Layer aka Rick Flair w/ Educut⎪Beats on Boat S2E3 (full set)⎪ear-sight

▶ Soulection ~ The Sound of Tomorrow
▶ Download / Listen ~ https://soulection.lnk.to/MadKeysWL

'Soulection White Label 025' features St. Louis-native producer Mad Keys. Blending the lines of jazz, hip-hop, and R&B, Keys’ sound is filled with unique rhythms, and free flowing instrumentation. This 5 song instrumental EP is designed to inspire.

Make sure to catch up on our whole White label Series here:
https://soulection.com/records/t/white-label

Discover Mad Keys:
https://soundcloud.com/itsmadkeys
https://instagram.com/madkeys_

Discover Soulection:
https://soulection.world

Soulection White Label 025: Mad Keys

Mad Keys - Peaks And Valleys

Retromigration's remix of 'Late Night Caller' is a voyage that kicks off with the rustling rhythm of shakers paired with harmonic chimes of piano keys. The percussion and bass follow suit, laying down a rhythm that carry some house influences into the broken beat. As the vocals come in, they are intermittent and deliberately subdued, receding into the background and giving prominence to the melancholic tones of the saxophone which gracefully intrudes into the funky beat. Halfway through the song, it morphs into a sublime embodiment of 'groovy sadness,' demonstrating Retromigration's ability to evoke complex moods through his music.

APPAREL PREMIERE: Soul Groove (UK) - Late Night Caller (Retromigration Remix) [Feedasoul]

The rain was pouring down hard, it had been all day. There was a dim light which flickered in the window at the end of the street, everything else was dark but for the occasional glimmer of a car passing by up on the hillside in the distance. He wondered how it had come to this - out here in the middle of nowhere. If someone had asked him whether he might find himself in such a situation he'd of laughed before - yet now here he was.

It was a cold night, another bitter winter. He could only hope that he'd find his way back home by the time the warmer months came around. Trouble didn't last that long - it couldn't could it?

Soon everything would be normal again, at least he hoped.

DOTT features on a new split EP from More Rice - the Thailand based record label which continues to evolve and grow from strength to strength as it showcases innovative musicians and artists from across Asia. They team up with Walls & Pals for a special release.  This new record features a collection of deep. playful, experimental House music.

PREMIERE: DOTT - Trouble Don't Last [More Rice/ Walls & Pals]

All I Can Do EP
Label - GETGRV
Released - 25th August 2023
BUY FROM - www.beatport.com/release/all-i-can-do/4211302

Support --
@ghettogroove
www.instagram.com/ghetto_groove/
www.facebook.com/ghettogroovedj

PREMIERE: Ghetto Groove - Vogue [GETGRV]

Snippets of my forthcoming release "Sensitive People EP" on Blur Records ...

Tracks:
1. Erik Ellmann - Sensitive People
2. Erik Ellmann - Troubadour
3. Erik Ellmann - Christa's Beat
4. Erik Ellmann - Taste of Jazz
5. Erik Ellmann - Troubadour (HATT.D Remix)
6. Erik Ellmann - Christa's Beat (Scruscru Remix)

Remixes by: HATT.D (@hatt_d) & Scruscru (@scruscru) ❤️

Label: Blur Records (@blur-records)
Catalogue: BLUR047
Release date: 01. September 2023

Erik Ellmann - Sensitive People EP (incl. HATT.D & Scruscru Remixes) (BLUR047) - Snippets

Give It Up

The beachfront was the place to hang as the sun dipped beneath the horizon. The shadowy figures were dotted in clusters up and down the pier as they smoked in the warm night air. In the evenings there was very little to do around these parts but drink and dance, perhaps move a little under the flickering spotlights of some sleazy nightclub. The summertime madness engulfed this place with a progressive sense of purity and freedom. Hedonism, decadence galore. 

Loure is set to release a new EP on Noire & Blanche, gorgeous deep house with a sun kissed twist.

PREMIERE: Loure - In The Evenings (Hidden Spheres Remix) [Noire & Blanche]

Out now! Erik Ellmann - Suburbs EP  ... 👇
https://esquimaumusique.bandcamp.com/album/suburbs

♫🎹♪ on SlothBoogie, Honey Butter Records, Sundries, Blur Records, Berlin House Music, Poetry In Motion, BEEF Records and more ...