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Ess O Ess - Take You To A Secret Place feat Kuniyuki Remixes - OUT NOW

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The dynamic duo known as @esso-ess (aka Chris Stoker and Jamie Blanco) return to Not An Animal Records for their latest release! 'Secret Place' perfectly showcases their uncanny knack for deftly balancing the rockier end of disco with the authenticity of early house.

We're premiering the second of two remixes from revered Japanese producer @kuniyuki-takahashi, whose early four-track tape recordings were recently collected on a new Music From Memory compilation. His 'Soft Mix' comes as a digital exclusive here - flooded with spacious pathos and backwards guitars.

Secret Place

PREMIERE: Ess O Ess - Take You To A Secret Place (Kuniyuki Remix Soft Mix)

Various Artists
Opium of the People
Le Temps Perdu

Tracklisting HHMM-0400D (Digital)
01. Siaubas - Briusly
02. Kris Baha - Fuels a Liar
03. Von Party - Pretty Vape Machine
04. Dreems - Shark Water
05. Capablanca VS La Mverte - Distortion (New Beat Mix)
06. Pletnev - No Hurt Feelings
07. V - TGV 
08. Manfredas - Pink Industry (V Mix)
09. Lauer - Intelligent Home Track
10. Sebastian Voigt & Theus Mago - Endless Encounters
11. Sharif Laffrey - Villainous 
12. Autarkic - Patterns Of An Idiot
13. Plungerbird x Beard in Dust - Stop Talking! (Start Thinking)

Tracklisting HHMM-0400 (Vinyl)
A1 Siaubas - Briusly
A2 Kris Baha - Fuels a Liar
B1 Von Party - Pretty Vape Machine
B2 Capablanca VS La Mverte - Distortion (New Beat Mix)
B3 Autarkic - Patterns Of An Idiot
C1 Manfredas - Pink Industry (V Mix)
C2 Sebastian Voigt & Theus Mago - Endless Encounters 
D1 Sharif Laffrey - Villainous
D2 Plungerbird x Beard in Dust - Stop Talking! (Start Thinking)

Short info: 
It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that Opium is currently the most talked about club North of Berlin. Vilnius based spot has built its reputation slowly but surely to become one of the brightest lights in the night sky of Europe. The club has earned the admiration of local crowd, loyalty of visiting artists and respect of industry insiders by nurturing unique local talent, bringing cutting edge House & Techno acts on a weekly bases, building a devoted community and rocking the parties of the highest intensity and unprecedented intimacy. Its no wonder Boiler Room and Resident Advisor both came knocking on the door in 2017 for special features and events.

2018 marks another milestone in club’s incredible journey: the first ever music compilation entitled “Opium of the People”, a rock solid collection of 13 unreleased tracks by core residents and the members of extended Opium family from all around the world featuring Tel Aviv’s producer and song writer Autarkic, Australia-born-Europe-bound New Age travellers Dreems and Kris Baha, Canadian smooth operator Thomas Von Party, Frankfurt’s Musikmaschine Lauer, German-Mexican studio encounter of Sebastian Voigt & Theus Mago, Berlin based Spanish fashionista Hugo Capablanca, Detroit legend Sharif Laffrey and Russian crate digging trio of Leonid Lipelis, Sergey Krylow and Ilya Simonov under the name of Plungerbird x Beard in Dust. Most of them are coming to Lithuanian capital’s hot spot so often, they could easily start their own fan clubs in town. The local talent also gets a well-deserved attention. Manfredas, Siaubas, Pletnev, and V find their place on the compilation and bring the modern sound of Vilnius nights to the vanguard.  

“Opium of the People” has been conceived and compiled by Vidmantas “V” Cepkauskas, the head of programming and resident DJ of Opium, a well-known contributor to the electronic music scene for nearly two decades. He has reinvented a friends-to-friends after-hours place into an international music institution in a matter of six seasons and is the best candidate to curate and present “Opium of the People”.

Sebastian Voigt & Theus Mago - Endless Encounters Snippet

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"Opium of the People" is available 27 April on Le Temps Perdu

https://soundcloud.com/letempsperduonline
https://soundcloud.com/opiumclub

Opium Of The People

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Premiere: Lauer - Intelligent Home Track (Original Mix) [Le Temps Perdu]

Not An Animal are known for their heated takes on the art of disco-sampling house music, and Ess O Ess is one of the key factors in defining that sound. This comes through in spades on Take You To A Secret Place, where the title track comes marching out atop a deadly bassline that will cut through any mix to get the people freaking out. The dub mix is equally deadly, flying a generous dose of cosmic sparkle into the mix without losing the punch in the original production. Kuniyuki Hard takes a daring approach that slows the track down to a creep and emphasises space and tension. The Angophora version is even more drastic, seemingly stripping all the recognisable elements of the track out and leaving behind a plaintive thread of ambient instrumentation.

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Take You To A Seret Place

Take You To A Seret Place (Dub Version)

Take You To A Seret Place (Kuniyuki Remix 02 Heavy)

Take You To A Seret Place (Angophora Remix)

Danny McLewin (Psychemagik) and Jamie Cruisey have a new label of original signed artists called SPIRITS. The first release is from Mexican hotness ‘Lokier' of She Made Monster and 'Jason Greer' aka ‘The Machine’, one of the Californian undergrounds best kept secrets. They met in 2015 at a festival in London and after spending a few days together, became musically obsessed with each other. That summer, as Jason bounced around Europe, he stayed with Lokier in Barcelona for some weeks and after long night walks, some tapas and absinthe bars they came up with their first EP together.

A1 "White Room's" slo-mo headnod film score, kick starts the EP, brooding synths buzzing with electric cocaine gloss, their oscillators fluttering like cyborg butterflies around the pulsating strobelight beat. Creepy.

A2 "Stained Glass" hits tough straight out the gate with subterranean bubbling acid bass and charges headlong into deep psychedelic territory with a goth-inspired guitar, reverb on 11, turning the track into a next-level robo-Giallo monster!

B1 "Pearly Hate" begins as if a menacing swarm of bionic rave bees is slowly surrounding you, the tension of their impending drone amping up steadily as your brain thinks: Do I run? This midtempo Carpenter-esque jam is atmospheric putty in the hands of sleazoned DJ's and sounds like the beginning of a long, strange trip.

B2 "Red Floor" is a chugging, barely restrained dark disco beast, flagrantly wearing its Weatherall and Neu Beat-ing heart on its tattered sleeve, elliptical melodies keeping you from your sanity with a solid drop for the dancefloor - another one for DJ's who ride it rough.

Thus completes the first release for new label SPIRITS. Four tracks exploring another corner of otherworldly analogue hedonism for extra-dimensional travel. Keep your ear on "Red Floor", as its potential for dancefloor uplift is proven and Machine-ready! Stay jacked in for more missives soon...

Lokier And The Machine

Pearly Hate

3. Lokier & The Machine - Pearly Hate

Ricardo Ruben - Unoina (Dirt Track Remix)

Shake Up Your Mind

Jamie Blanco - Unit Of Pleasure (Kilsha002)

Jamie Blanco - XOX18 (Kilsha002)

Jamie Blanco - Grapefruit Agenda (Kilsha002)

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@jamieblanco
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The Progressive View EP

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Download: Jamie Blanco - Progressive View

ESS O ESS are Jamie Blanco & Chris Stoker. For information & booking contact them on essoess125@gmail.com.