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7 years ago Exploited has expanded their name to include Exploited Ghetto, a sub-label that brings new acts into the scene and from people yet not in the Exploited roster. The label name Exploited Ghetto was rebranded to Exploited Club in 2021. Exploited Club Trax Vol. 08 sums up 15 Exploited Club Tracks from 2022.

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Shir Khan Presents Exploited Club Trax, Vol. 08

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Making waves previously on Exploited as well as on Blue Shadow and Monaberry (alongside AIKON), dentist-cum-producer Sandhog is back with another hot EP.

Oriental vibes abound on the beguiling ‘Bonifacio’, where a punchy kick underpins on-beat electric bass in driving fashion, and a beautiful plucked Eastern instrument laces the track with metallic, pitch-bending mysticism. Somewhere in the distance a Thai-funk-esque electric guitar solo noodles away as hypnotic Thai vocal wails draw us in further.

‘Oishii’ snaps along with an electro-tinged swagger, with old skool funked-up bass giving the track a real wiggle amidst tight percussion. Subtle chord sequences and sassy male vocals colour in the gaps, with rasping synths heightening the breakdown tension. A sweet double-time synth hook pushes the track along with renewed vigour after the drop, and acidic squelches add a thicc layer to the bass.

Artist: Sandhog
Release: Bonaficio
Label: Exploited Club
Cat: EXP109
LC: 96788
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Beatport Pre-order: 04.03.2022
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 18.03.2022
Releasedate Global Download: 01.04.2022

Bonifacio

Sandhog - Bonifacio I Exploited Club

Buy / Stream: https://ffm.to/packim-tanzen

Packim returns to Exploited following the success of ‘Super Future’, and his signing to hot Israeli label Blue Shadow Records. With a feature on Whomadewho’s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix to boot, his star is well on the ascent.

A rousing Italo disco throwback, ‘Tanzen’ sucks you in with its bouncing off-beat bass groove, authentic ‘80s drum hits and dazzling arpeggios. The tension is kept high with sustained pad notes and more dreamy melodic motifs, before a vocoder-charged breakdown ascends into heavenly reaches. The unfolding chord progression brings a sensual touch as the beat shifts into a peppy breakbeat, and judicious use of reverb fills the edges of the track out beautifully. Dreamy, yet driving stuff, it was written during the pandemic with the inspiration of uniting once again on a dancefloor, and finally gets its chance to make a mark on the world.

‘Zusammen Alleine’ is similarly charged with emotion, focusing on another rampant off-beat groove and soaring leads. Classic synth sounds fill this crisp track, building a blissed-out feel. Gated rhythms and subtle vox synths allude to classic trance, while the gorgeous breakdown has a touch of ambient / new age deliciousness to it.

Artist: Packim
Release: Tanzen
Label: Exploited Club
Cat: EXP111
LC: 96788
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Beatport Pre-order: 29.04.2022
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 06.05.2022
Releasedate Global Download: 20.05.2022

Tanzen

Packim - Tanzen I Exploited Club

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AIKON returns to Exploited with two hot new tracks after storming the Beatport Indie Dance chart in 2021 with releases on Diynamic and Musumeci’s Multinotes label. With further releases on Monaberry and Disco Halal, he has been seriously in demand. He’s also putting out music through Adana Twins’ TAU imprint this year.

‘Night Rider’ is a killer, authentic electro groove, where vintage drum machines mete out a tough breakbeat rhythm and nagging bass synths pulse under formant-shifting mouth harp style synths and a dramatic lead hook. A moody breakdown reveals a juicy 8-bit vibe melody, and everything comes together beautifully after a teasing build and dramatic drum fills provide some punctuation. 

‘Street Dancer’ continues the sparse feel with metallic textures grinding against another stark, spacious breakbeat rhythm, and tightly-clipped synth arpeggios that recall Kraftwerk in their minimalist efficiency. An old skool breakbeat fills in the breakdown, and various subtle FX and vocal samples pad out the track with a heady, atmospheric feel.

Artist: AIKON
Release: Night Rider
Label: Exploited Club
Cat: EXP110
LC: 96788
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Beatport Pre-order: 08.04.2022
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 15.04.2022
Releasedate Global Download: 29.04.2022

Night Rider

Street Dancer

AIKON - Night Rider | Exploited Club

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Did someone order a piano banger? Black Hawks Of Panama debuts on Exploited with an absolute monster in the form of ‘Hurts’ that’s set to get pulses racing and fists pumping skyward, ready for the Ibiza season.

Supremely chunky ‘90s house beats with a gently distorted techno undertone pummel away underneath the phat bassline whose tone is perfectly balanced between weight and melodic overtones. Piano chords bang a jaunty, rave-influenced hook, and Bisi’s sweet vocals provide a sensual, soulful counterpoint. Little else is needed to make this track thump hard except subtle sustained strings and big cymbal crashes, and there’s an instrumental available which cuts to the meat of the track.

And who is Bisi? She’s better known as British actress Victoria Ekanoye, a woman of many talents who featured on Black Hawks’ previous single on Future Disco ‘Mercer Street’. She starred in the West End musical ‘The Lion King’, toured the US with ‘The Blues Brothers’ and fronted the show as Mistress of Ceremonies at both the London and New York infamous nightspot ‘The Box’. She takes her influences from blues, jazz, Stax-era soul and trip-hop.

“Our mutual friend Lisa Forshaw had worked as a PR for Victoria whilst she was on the nation's most popular TV show” says Black Hawks Of Panama. “Lisa got in touch with me and explained I should work with Victoria. Immediately I was struck with vocal range but also her presence as a performer. So I hired a commercial recording studio in Manchester as we didn’t know each other then and we agreed 'Feel For You' would be a great track to do as it’s a joint favourite! Although I didn’t want a carbon copy of the Chaka classic—I don’t see the point in that—I wanted something more lowdown and sultry! After a great first session we discussed Bowie, Prince and Patti Labelle, so it was pretty clear from this point this was going to work out well!!”

The Mancunian producer behind the track took his name from an inspirational time spent in Panama City and its surrounding rainforests. Born to parents who both had influential roles in the Manchester music scene of the 1970s and 80s, he has spent time living in Ibiza and DJed under another name for many years. Black Hawks of Panama is a project that’s going from strength to strength, and this hot new single looks set to break down yet more doors for him.

Artist: Black Hawks of Panama
Release: Hurts Feat. Bisi
Label: Exploited Club
Cat: EXP117
LC: 96788
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Beatport Pre-order: 17.06.2022
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 24.06.2022
Releasedate Global Download: 08.07.2022

Hurts

Black Hawks Of Panama - Hurts Feat. Bisi | Exploited Club

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Aiwaska's slamming collaboration with LA electro legend The Egyptian Lover ‘Imagination’ gets two hot and fittingly freaky remixes on Exploited from two big ballers.

Ed Banger Records legend Feadz steps up first, teasing us with snatches of the sultry vocal before unleashing one mother one a squiggly acid line and snappy, authentic electro breakbeat. Slipping by turns into a muted 4/4 rhythm, the track delights with phat snare rolls and endless acidic modulation, while the wide panning on the vocal makes it jump out the speakers. String stab chords add a tense undertone, and the acid line gets sprinkled with a distorted synth mirroring its every twist and turn. This will sound HUGE in the club.

Who else to take things up another notch but Detroit booty bass legend DJ Assault? He goes blow-to-blow with Egyptian Lover, adding his own filthy verses and doubling up on the chorus over one of his trademark stripped back bouncing electro beats. Hilarious vocal sound effects / ad libs add to the madness, and his salacious lyrics take the track into a new level of naughtiness. Topping it all off with a mellifluous G-funk style synth line at the end, he’s delivered as only he can.

Artist: Aiwaska Feat. The Egyptian Lover
Release: Imagination Remixes
Label: Exploited Club
Cat: EXP112
LC: 96788
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Beatport Pre-order: 06.05.2022
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 13.05.2022
Releasedate Global Download: 27.05.2022

Imagination Remixes

Imagination

Aiwaska Feat. The Egyptian Lover - Imagination (DJ Assault Remix) | Exploited Club

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Madrid’s Depaart return to Exploited following their excellent 2021 release Julian (with its hot Bawrut remix), and they’ve come up with the goods once again. With other releases on Diynamic, Sasha’ Last Night On Earth and increasingly their own self-titled label, they are definitely ones to watch.

Blending elements of electro, techno and Italo into one colourful pot, ‘Blitergliter’ is an understated anthem of a track that builds and builds to a spectacular zenith. Beginning unassumingly with a filtered chord stab pattern, a zesty bassline soon buzzes in atop a simple but punchy drum groove. The bass melody unfolds as splashy techno cymbal rides propel the track and a cutesy 8-bit synth line meanders in the background. Bitcrushed, sustained organ chords frazzle the first breakdown as an arpeggiated melody dances below, all the while the energy building. 

Next comes a sweltering acid line, squelching and freaking incessantly as the track threatens to reach fever pitch. The rug is pulled from under us as the 303 emulation segues into a stripped-back section where the track catches its breath, leading into the main break where dainty chimes tease the main melody while the acid and organs interplay with rippling snare fills. The chimes and bassline unite joyously at the drop, capped off with a heavenly synth line, and finally another distorted acid line towards the end of the track to add another dramatic touch as the brooding bass tones swell.

Artist: Depaart
Release: Bitergliter
Label: Exploited Club
Cat: EXP120
LC: 96788
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Beatport Pre-order: 23.09.22
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 30.09.22
Releasedate Global Download: 14.10.22

Bitergliter

Depaart - Bitergliter | Exploited Club

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UK producer Louis De Tomaso pushes a vibrant retro sound that’s laced with euphoric intention and has received support from the likes of Krystal Klear, Jennifer Cardini, Kendal, Pablo Bozzi, Tiger and Woods, Perel and Cormac. He comes up trumps here with two new tracks for the well-reputed Exploited imprint.

Channeling classic Eurodance and Italo, ‘Malfunction’ is a riot of a track that’s brimming with strong melodies and motifs. Within seconds you’re assaulted by an array of potent lines weaving away under ticking hi-hats and roomy snare hits, swelling to a tremendous intensity before the undulating bassline rocks in. Big arpeggios, fizzing chords, soaring leads and dramatic riffs abound, with never a dull moment in this super-colourful track. All is woven together seamlessly, erupting like a volcano as the melodies transpose to higher octaves as the track progresses. Any one of these riffs would be strong enough to be the lead refrain on any given track. Louis De Tomaso’s generous spirit instead packs them all into a huge 5 minutes and 40 seconds.

‘Prince’, a track that lay unfinished for nearly 5 years, is more on the hi-NRG tip. Given a new lick of paint by De Tomaso, it’s driven by a camp, sugary lead riff that bursts through the mix like a buzzsaw. Chugging bass arpeggios provide more forward-thrust as the spacious beats hammer away and classic ravey synth sounds hammer out a delightful selection of colourful hooks. A huge build where pitch risers meet rapid-fire claps sends the track rocketing into the ether, exploding in a rainbow of colour. Fun levels are maxxed out on this one.

Artist: Louis De Tomaso
Release: Malfunction
Label: Exploited Club
Cat: EXP123
LC: 96788
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Beatport Pre-order: 28.10.22
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 04.11.22
Releasedate Global Download: 18.11.22

Malfunction

Prince

Louis De Tomaso - Prince | Exploited Club

After releasing on Paradiso Records and Midnight People, Remi Wanless drops his new EP on Love Attack. As an 80s enthusiast, Remi is influenced by bands such as Depeche Mode & Talking Heads and you can hear it in the neat synthwork and driving percussion in his productions. Playing an eclectic range of italo, disco and electro, he grew a passion for cosmic and otherworldly bleeps and arps that have all come together to formulate a production style that truly reflects his taste in music.

1. Remi Wanless - Sunlight On The Water MST

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Across the Universe (Mixed)

Hallucinate Feat. Amber Oprins

Jozef K debuts on Maeve 26 with his Loved and Lost EP. This 5-tracker touches on rave, breaks and straight dancefloor fire, complemented with a killer remix from our boy Kev Sheridan.

Loved and Lost

JAMES ROD - Xismology

@frifot - Crystal Crayons
Label -@badabingdiskos

Release Date: 24/03/2023

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Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sd3nFrzl9itGooHqItGFG

Rouge Planet

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@vinnyvillbass - Green Point
Label - Badabing diskos

Release date: 28/08/2023

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Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sd3nFrzl9itGooHqItGFG

Windows (LP)

PREMIERE - Vinny Villbass - Greenpoint (badabing diskos)

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🛒 https://specialplacerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/spr-06-wheres-sister-ep
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A multitalented musician with roots in various genres, from jazz to rock, and a special affection for the trumpet, Paul Callens made his mark performing in diverse settings - jazz bands, philharmonic orchestras, rock bands, and electrifying Berlin nightclubs. An AI developer by day and co-founder of the DJ crew 'La Sacrée Déter' by night, he seamlessly blends his eclectic musical background with his electronic music endeavours.

He makes a perfect fit with the label Special place's quest to present an array of dance music that doesn't necessarily square down to boxes.

So expect an array of tracks that reflect Paul Callens's wide-ranging musical journey. From the distinct trumpet reverberations to the compelling guitar solos and prominent percussion, this EP invites listeners to an absorbing sonic experience with an added trippy club fitting touch by Berlin based musician and producter Johannes Klingebiel.

Tracklist:

Paul Callens - Quiet Cake
Paul Callens - Where's Sister (Johannes Klingebiel Remix)
Paul Callens - Where's Sister

PREMIERE: Paul Callens - Where's Sister (Johannes Klingebiel Remix) [Special Place]

Dreams built on concrete.

Shir Khan started Exploited in 2007. Exploited Rec now plays host to some wide-ranging and innovative electronic talent - including Adana Twins, Claptone, Budakid, Joyce Muniz, James Curd, Shir Khan (to name a few) - and its artists have been receiving numerous supportive spins from the likes of Solomun, Pete Tong, Soul Clap, Wolf&Lamb, Azari&III, Jesse Rose, Axel Boman and A-Trak.
This is serious dance music at it's most cutting edge with all the juice to really get you going. It's totally contemporary, innovative and has a chunky dirty feel. "Exploited" take you on an invigorating roller coaster ride back to your youth when you first listened to dance music with all the thrills and spills you so enjoyed about clubbing. It's heavy, exciting and special.
'"Exploited Records" is a seamless melting pot of varied styles that simply can't fail to please even the most discerning ears. Highlights here are plentyful. Not to be missed at any cost.' (Clash)
'Musical hybrids are truly the flavour of today, but few have managed to capture the atmosphere of an unpredictable microcosm of a night out on a recordlabel - until now. Shir Khan's label "Exploited" bottles the zeitgeist's giddy thrills with plenty of style and substance. This is dance music hybridism in all its most glorious forms, and Shir Khan is an expert at making square pegs fit round holes.' (DJ-Mag)
'"Exploited Records" boss Shir Khan has been gaining a lot of acclaim recently, and deservedly so - as he has shown us the high quality, diversity and forward-thinking nature of his label. Engaging, riveting and diverse.' (Data Transmission)

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