With release nr. 11, Luv Shack Records are once again eager to exalt the diversity of their releases, while keeping up the quality.

LUV011 is the split EP of the two up and coming electronic music duos "Manhooker" and "Space Echo". Whilst both projects are still relatively new to the scene, they have equally made a stir with their first releases.

Manhooker consists of the two Berliners by choice Tomasz “Guiddo” Switala and Sebastian “Mavin” Magassouba. Their first release appeared on Ostgut Ton´s sublabel 'Unterton' and their second EP was recently released on german heavy hitters 'Sonar Kollektiv' - a collab with ex New Yorker Snax, featuring a remix by Justus Köhncke.

With 'Pushin & Shovin', Manhooker are once again evoking the spirit of classic soulful house hymns. It's an uplifting mix of 90s organs, filtered arpeggios and thick drums all held together by an acid bassline and Mavin´s shimmering vocals. And not to forget the trumpet solo!

The remix of 'Pushin & Shovin' comes from Brazilian wunderkind ROTCIV (who has already remixed Manhooker on their Unterton release). He strips off the smoothness of the original in favor of a more raw and analogue vibe. Its groove seems like a merger of modern electro and classic house, and although ROTCIV´s trademark stabs and pads are used quite ecstatically on this remix, the song structure remains just as strong as in the original.

On The flipside we have Space Echo, the duo of Viennese producer caTekk and (Luv Shack`s very own) Lee Stevens. Their first ever production as a duo was a remix for none other than Austra on Domino Records.

They're offering two equally powerful cuts on the B-side; 'Soul Power' is nothing short of a club burner. A mighty and continuously building ride of funk organs and disco drums, all with a delightfully modern touch. When the vocal kicks in for the first time, ringing in the break, the audience will surely fall into a frenzy when exposed to it! The disco guitars are just the icing on the cake.

'Soul People' takes a slightly more sensual path. Expect dreamy rhodes, dubbed out percussive organs, an almost reggae worthy bassline, a painfully sweet vocal hook and a sharp rhythm that make this track a perfect choice for every warmup, after-hours and daytime set!

With all its ingredients, LUV011 will provide something for everyone who loves electronic music with soul!

Vinyl tracklisting LUV011:

Manhooker - Pushin` & Shovin`
Manhooker - Pushin` & Shovin` (ROTCIV remix)

Space Echo - Soul Power
Space Echo - Soul People

Digi tracklisting:

LUV011-1DIG
A1. Manhooker - Pushin` & Shovin`
A2. Manhooker - Pushin` & Shovin` (ROTCIV remix)

LUV011-2DIG
A1. Space Echo - Soul Power
A2. Space Echo - Soul People

Mastered by Patrick Pulsinger at Feedback Studio Vienna.
Mastercut by Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.

Out on vinyl on Oct. 11th, 2013, digitally on November 1st, 2013

Soul Power EP

A1. Space Echo - Soul Power - LUV011

Street Life (Original Mix) - Purple Disco Machine

What a year it’s been for the Exploited Crew. Their key artists have travelled the world, headlining festivals and played the world’s coolest parties. 
2014 closes with a selection of 16 Exploited tracks that went down like a storm. 
This year has been a whirlwind for Exploited but this is just the warm up. 
2015 already promises a debut artist album from Claptone on Exploited, live show and remixes for some of the world’s most influential.

Label: Exploited 
Artist: Various Artists
Release: #EXPLOITED 2014 FFWD RWD
LC: 15799 

Releasedate: 22.12.14 What a year it’s been for the Exploited Crew. Their key artists have travelled the world, headlining festivals and played the world’s coolest parties. 
2014 closes with a selection of 16 Exploited tracks that went down like a storm. 
This year has been a whirlwind for Exploited but this is just the warm up. 
2015 already promises a debut artist album from Claptone on Exploited, live show and remixes for some of the world’s most influential.

Label: Exploited 
Artist: Various Artists
Release: #EXPLOITED 2014 FFWD RWD
LC: 15799 

Releasedate: 22.12.14 

#EXPLOITED 2014 FFWD RWD

The Thing

Nils Penner - The Thing

 Support from a variety of cool cats: DJ Yoda, Cats N Dogz, Zev / Wolf & Lamb, Tiga, Erol Alkan, Gerd Janson, Audiojack, Laurent Garnier, Pedro Winter, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Riva Starr, DJ T, SIS, Jaymo, Karotte, Tomas Barfod, Flashmob, XXXY, Jaques Renault, Dubfire, Bodhi, Hackman, Prince Language, Noir, Dirt Crew, Doctor Dru, Fred Everything, Round Table Knights, Peter Kruder, Roberto Rodriguez, Moodymanc, Pete Herbert, Purple Disco Machine, Satin Jackets.

Limited Vinyl directly sold out within days in the Pre-order. 

Six months after their last installment, Shir Khan and Exploited drop another hot to trot collection of disco edits. As usual, there's much to excite, beginning with the familiar guitar solos, Rhodes keys and dub disco pulse of Antilope's "Singing Ghost" rework. Death On The Balcony keep up the reverb and delay-laden dub disco theme on "Addict For Your Love", whose rubbery groove, twinkling pianos and heady vocals have been expertly rearranged to fit house dancefloors. Finally, Matpat go loop crazy on the thumping disco house cut "Only You" which sits somewhere between Rahaan and Soundstream. Excellent stuff all round.

Label: Exploited
Artist: Various Artists (Incl. Death On The Balcony, Matpat & Antilope)
Release: Shir Khan Presents Black Jukebox 10
LC: 15799

Releasedate Vinyl: 19.01.15
Releasedate Beatport: 16.02.15 (Only B1 and B2)
Releasedate I-Tunes, ect: 02.03.15 (Only B1 and B2)

Early Feedback:

DJ Yoda: Dope.
Tiga: Nice!
Zev / Wolf & Lamb: More dope edits.
Catz N Dogz: Yes! This one is for me!
Gerd Janson: Sag mal. Kann ich die neue Exploited Platte mit den Edits als WAV haben, bitte?
Audiojack: ’Only You’ is nice.
Erol Alkan: Thx.
Laurent Garnier: 3 great dancefloor cuts.
Pedro Winter: Yummy!
Noir: GREAT!
Tensnake: This is killer!
Tomas Barfod: Great selection.
Dirt Crew: Cool Tracks!
XXXY: Yes!
Jaymo/BBC Radio1: Dope.
Round Table Knights: Geil!
Ray Okpara: ’Only You’ is my fav!
Bodhi: Only You. My jam!
Fred Everything: I like ’Singing Ghost’. Interesting track for sure.
Kiki: ’Addict For Your Love’ is cool!
Mark Farina: Excellent series!
Digitalism: (Y)
Peter Kruder: ’Singing Ghost’ is hot.
Hackman: So good!
Waifs & Strays: Love these edits!
Bag Raiders: Nice package.
Pete Herbert: Spot on!
Justin Miller: Sold edits. Thank you!
Prince Language: Killer. Thanks.
Sonny Fodera: ’Only You’ is tight!
Doctor Dru: Nice! Like them!
Purple Disco Machine: Massive EP!
Alex Barck: Tip Top!
Gary Martin: ’Singing Ghost’ and ’Addict For Your Love’ are definitely nice tracks to have in the music collection for the right moment to play.
Roberto Rodriguez: Digging the ’Singing Ghost’ edit!
Jaques Renault: Cooool. Will test em out.
The C90ies: ’Singing Ghost’ is a wonder rework! And ’Addict For Your Love’ is great too!
Sinden: Love this series: My dawg Matpat track is sick!
Will Clarke: All amazing. Funkkyyyy.
Kevin McKay: Loving Addict!
Yolanda Be Cool: Georgie Porgie:)
Mickey: What a great release. Big up!
Kyodai: Love it!
Human Life: Yes. These are all getting dropped at my gig tonight:)
Forrest: ’Only You’ will do the trick. Quality.
P.Toile: Lovin it..!
Nils Nuernberg: ’Addict For You Love’ is great.
Wehbba: Wow. Amazing edit from The Ghost Song. Love it!!
Flashmob. Will try.
Khan: Lovely.
Satin Jackets: Great!
Animal Trainer: An outstanding EP. Top fav is ’Addict For Your Love’. Printemps Hit.
Smash TV: Yeah!
Djuma Soundsystem: Great re-rub! Thanks!

Shir Khan Presents Black Jukebox 10

Addict For Your Love

Death On The Balcony - Addict For Your Love | Exploited

Beat Mercado

DFA / Visionquest duo Benoit & Sergio return mid October with some fresh and typically unique new material via Matt Tolfrey’s Leftroom Limited imprint.

French artist Benoit & stateside producer Sergio’s collaborative career took a huge leap in 2010 with the release of their anthemic ‘Walk & Talk’ on the Visionquest imprint. Since then the duo have gone on to release via James Murphy’s DFA, Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations, L.A imprint Culprit and now, adding another leading imprint to their affiliations, Matt Tolfrey’s Leftroom.

As always from Benoit & Sergio this new single sees the duo offer up something refreshing, unique and undeniably catchy. Across ‘House With 500 Rooms’ subtly progressing, near ten minute duration, the pair scatter an array on deft production techniques throughout with echoing vocal swells, multilayered bass and piano hooks and soaring synth leads running alongside their signature memorable vocal styling’s.

The latter half of the package sees the duo provide a ‘Dub’ take on the original cut solely focusing on the its smooth and hypnotic vibe, while the ‘Radio Edit’ trims things back to the core of the opening composition to shape up the package.

Benoit & Sergio’s ‘House With 500 Rooms’ is out on Leftroom Limited 16th October 2015.

Tracklist:
1. House With 500 Rooms
2. House With 500 Rooms (Dub)
3. House With 500 Rooms (Radio Edit)

House With 500 Rooms

Purple Disco Machine - Street Life (Original Mix)

Doorly - P&O (Cajual Records)

40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off (feat. Qzen) [Greg Wilson Edit]

In memory of our friend Martin Dawson.

Dear all,

we thought long about how to deal with Martin Dawson's passing, as we have a long scheduled release tomorrow, and it feels strange promoting your new EP when still mourning the loss of a friend.

As it is (technically) very difficult to postpone a release on the next day, and as we believe that Martin would not have wanted this either, we decided to go ahead with it.

As a final goodbye, we would like to give you a free download of our favourite OFF Recordings track of his.

Bye Martin, you will be missed.

Andre Crom & Martin Dawson - In The City - Off20

David Jach & Beatamines - Swaggin

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)