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https://blaqnumbers.bandcamp.com/album/george-john-oiaio-ep-incl-remixes-from-rhode-brown-donald-dust

We're ready for summer with this new five tracker loaded with Space glitch-house vibes from George John – a keyboard and synth aficionado making his EP debut on the label. While George works the Juno 60 to the limit, we’re sipping a Piña Colada at the poolside. Two remixes complete the package: Munich's finest Rhode & Brown have their eyes squarely set on peak time and Donald Dust’s version smells like Tom Selleck after his daily sunbathe. Coming soon on climate friendly Eco Vinyl.



ʻoiaʻiʻo (Hawaiian) – Truth

Iron is responsible for transporting oxygen in hemoglobin and only generated by type la supernovae. Every time we breath we inhale oxygen produced by natural vegetation and exhale carbon dioxide absorbed by it. The smallest molecules connect us to the biggest dimensions imaginable. And only imagination and the universe are limitless, so let’s breath, connect and create a life-worthy future together. Because One Is All Is One, OIAIO.

Recorded and produced by George John

Artwork by Sam Tomson
Mastering at Reel Mastering, London

Release: 
June, 11th 2021 (a week earlier on Bandcamp)

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George John - OIAIO EP (incl. Remixes from Rhode & Brown + Donald Dust) BLAQNUMBERS008)

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* Pre-order: https://aotns.bandcamp.com/album/mono

Edinburgh-based producer, Linkwood, returns with his first solo material of 2021, with the album, Mono, dropping on fellow Edinburghites’ label, Athens of the North. The album finds Linkwood opting for a more lo-fi, nostalgic sound, one of his major touchstones being 80s synth pop, replete with vintage drum machines and modular synths. This album refrains from becoming an exercise in pure revivalism, however, as Linkwood skillfully infuses these songs with electro and techno flourishes, lending the production a distinctly modern touch.

“Candy Land”, the second track off the album, sounds like it could be a long-lost Dam-Funk cut, with its West-Coast style synth squalls and glistening, sunset-evoking keys. The track starts as a kind of red herring; a heavy, fuzzy synth melody which fools the listener into believing this might be the start of a hard-hitting techno banger. However, the vibe is quickly alleviated with some jazzy, laconic house keys, modular synth washes, and elastic bass. That fuzzy opening synth squall never fully evaporates, though, as Linkwood masterfully reprises it in the second leg of the song, providing a nice structure to this otherwise low-key, funky jam-out.
	
Linkwood wrote this music as a kind of palate-cleanser from the more heady, complex music he had been devoting most of his time to as of late. There’s a sense of playfulness and freedom that reverberates throughout this entire project; the sound of an artist letting his instincts and love for 80’s music lead him into wondrous new terrain.

Mono

PREMIERE: Linkwood - Mono - Candy Land

CLUTCH4LOVE FRIDAY MIX w/ Ruby May Moon

Minor Notes Recordings is always ready to boost a good music. Starting our digital only series we want to give access to underground electronic scene for all young or not yet developed producers, who we love to listen. 

MNRD002 is coming from Moscow local dj and producer Mikhail Orlov aka @maoree, who is professional musician (Yes! He really played trumpet in orchestra, while was young). In 2005 he stepped into dance culture and started to be a DJ collecting his own vinyl and digital library of disco and house. After the long producing journey in 2020 he debuted with Journey To The Sun EP on a Belgium Gents & Dandy’s Records, which we played so much! 

Being a big fan of Motown era and classic synths + drum machines from 80’s he collected all ideas and reconstructed it to a modern vision of his personal deep house thang. Using Maoree’s favourite synth Korg Monopoly he produced strong and solid EP called “Monopolis” for Minor Notes Recordings! 

We are happy to see this man in our roaster and be sure you will see Maoree again and a lot on a house scene!

Buy Now!

Maoree - Long Way

From Septembers's show on margateradio.co.uk

@danellanthony
@bragacircuit

Vertical Rhythm - Margate Radio - Sept 2021

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West Coast mainstay maverick Dave Aju launches his anticipated new artist imprint Elbow Grease with this timelessly sublime dance floor trip, dripping with outer-space soul and deep ocean-floor sonics. “X17”, a reference to the hypothetical particle and potential Fifth Force discovery, is equal parts warm and cold, smooth and ruff, as a raw UR-schooled electro rhythm base plows through various known musical barriers, adorned with worldly percussion hits, moving synth textures, subtle jazz motifs and vocal incantations.

As one of the last sonic transmissions put to tape at the mighty yet now-defunct Machine Limited/G-Son Studios of The Beastie Boys’ fame and legacy in Atwater Village LA, it’s fit with a solid spine via a driven TR-909, lush OB-Xa leads and PolySix pads, a serpentine SH-101 arp and tight Linn Drum layers. The generously unfolding “Main Mix” is accompanied by both a potent “Rhythm Dub” stripped back for maximum impact, and an ambient high “Viiibe” version offering a more immersive listen and alternative options for adventurous DJs to work into a mix as they feel. A fine intro to the genre-defiant, focus-on-each-piece Elbow Grease credo.

PREMIERE: Dave Aju - DX17 (Main Mix)

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Prayer For Peace is the latest LP from Melbroune-hailing nu-jazz maestro Ziggy Zeitgeist and his band, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange. This is Ziggy’s first full-length project with his current lineup based in Berlin since having moved there in the summer of 2019, and the first to be released on newly-founded label, Get Together Collective. Recorded over a 3-day period in the revered Jazzanova studios in Berlin, and with engineering and mixing handled by master producer Axel Reinemer, this album serves up an ecstatic 8-track showcase of the band’s freewheeling, live-jam oriented approach to jazz-fusion-inspired groove-making.  

	Clocking in at track six on the album, “Tightrope” balances many of the various elements that make Ziggy and co.’s music so electrifying. The opening half of the track, which features a mix of steady percussion, warbly bass, funky keys, congas and bongos, feels in line with much of the tradition of jazz-fusion pioneers of the past. But what easily could have become mere pastiche soon escalates into something entirely unique and entrancing. The beat steadily grows more erratic and unfettered once it passes the halfway point, with the tempo and build-up hinting at a techno-like drop. The band never quite lets the track devolve into a state of pure sonic catharsis, however, as they wrangle it back into the jazz-fusion rhythm they so expertly established in the opening half, while still allowing it to develop and evolve in organic ways until petering out at the end.

Ziggy and his cohort liberally take elements from various genres and styles to pay homage to them, while effortlessly staging jaw-dropping feats of experimentation and improvisation. A tough balancing act, indeed, but one that they pull off with panache.

PREMIERE: Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Tightrope

MOTE007R
VARIOUS ARTISTS 
‘HAPPINESS IN HYSTERIA’ REMIX EP 
2022

Happiness in Hysteria Remix EP’ features 3 remixes by 1-800 GIRLS, Tom Jarmey and LOOR. Each remix brings out distinctive qualities that innovatively combines sparkling synth patterns, dreamy pads, and fading vocals. 

Will be out on 20th of May! 

Tracks: 
1 - Litherland - Happiness In Hysteria (Tom Jarmey Remix)
2 - Litherland - What If This Is The End (1-800 GIRLS Remix) 
3 - Litherland - Mirror Image (LOOR Remix) 

Tracks 1-2 Mastered by Klas Lindblad at Blackhead Studios. 
Track 3 Mastered by Mete Benli

@joe-litherland 
@1800girls 
@tom-jarmey 
@LOOR 
@mote-records

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MOTE007R // LITHERLAND - HAPPINESS IN HYSTERIA REMIX EP

Don't Forget To Go Home

Mono Monsters (Original Mix)

Bookings : axeonwaxrecords@gmail.com

➤04.09.21 @ BAR 1001 London (UK)
➤21.03.20 @ TBA, Los Angeles (US)
➤20.03.20 @ GOOD ROOM, Brooklyn (US)
➤06.03.20 @ MICKS GARAGE, London (UK)
➤01.02.20 @ ORANGE YARD, London (UK)
➤24.01.20 @ PRATERSAUNA, Vienna (AU)
➤08.08.19 @ TBA Miami (USA)
➤05.07.19 @ Micks Garage Ldn (UK)
➤08.06.19 @ TBA Osaka (JPN)
➤07.06.19 @ Circus Tokyo (JPN)
➤17.05.19 @ Micks Garage Ldn (UK)
➤20.04.19 @ Rose Gold NY (USA)
➤05.04.19 @ Apohis Club Milan (ITA)
➤15.03.19 @ NT's Bar London (UK)
➤09.01.19 @ Onix Club (SPAIN)

Mono Monsters (Original Mix)

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