Beside the railway depot, beyond the equinox, the atmosphere felt tense. Movement defined the top of the arches, but in the darkness beneath, there was little much kinetic or soulful with which to connect. Bird song crept into the nocturne, it's inky black sky beginning to bleed blue.

A whole year on from his debut on Hot Concept, Bleaching Agent continues his journey "from gabber to Goldfrapp" with another exemplary EP on Hot Concept, the Berlin-based label run by John Loveless. Premiering on R$N is 'Faster Silence', which distills BA's lifelong love of DIY culture into a slowly rising outsider-anthem in waiting, replete with post-punk licks, crashing drums and rich synths; big room house for basement punks.

PREMIERE: Bleaching Agent - Faster Silence [Hot Concept]

Haruka Salt, Tongji - Everything We Love Will Fade in Time (Remixes)
BUY LINK: https://harukasalt.bandcamp.com/album/everything-we-love-will-fade-in-time-remixes-2
Release date: 7 September 2021
Label: toucan sounds (https://soundcloud.com/toucansounds)
https://soundcloud.com/harukanyc999 

Tony G, Drummy, and French Horn Rebellion reimagine Haruka Salt & Tongji’s ‘Everything We Love Will Fade in Time’ EP this September on toucan sounds.

Following Haruka Salt and Tongji’s original EP earlier this year, which picked up support from the likes of Carista, Elena Colombi, Cromby, Ciel, and more, Brooklyn imprint toucan sounds ready a heavy-hitting remix package featuring reinterpretations from French Horn Rebellion, Drummy, and Tony G.

Breathing new life into the original EP, toucan sounds team up with the Sorry Records crew to deliver a family affair featuring some of New Yorks most exciting talents. Leading the release, label boss French Horn Rebellion, via their singer Robert PM, turns in an emotive vocal performance over the original track, utilising dense reverbs to match the dynamic arrangement.

Following is Drummy’s take on ‘Never Satisfaction’, which sees the NYC-based DJ/producer flip the track into a tripped out breakbeat jam complete with flanging FX, dubbed-out vocal hits, and pumping low end. Rounding out the release, Sorry Records honcho Tony G turns in a banging house remix of ‘Scrabble’, reaching for snaking acid lines, snappy drum hits, and dense chords.

Everything We Love Will Fade in Time (Remixes)

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Haruka Salt, Tongji - Scrabble (Tony G Remix)

100% of Disin you (St. David Club Re-Diss)

ambo (esoterica, divinatoria)

Downtempo songs about the beginning of the underground parties in Chicago, Detroit, New York, and throughout the midwest.

Bandcamp

Record Spins

Free Shelter Edits #5

We’re back once again with a fresh new batch of edits for you and your loved one’s pleasure. Just as with our fourth instalment, we’re delighted to have Jeku join us once again, together with our stellar dynamic duo in Miro-Benji and Aaron Maple. 

1. Migrations (Miro-Benji edit)
2. Chiklet (Aaron Maple edit)
3. Hooked On You (Jeku edit)

mastered: Stuster
artwork: Miro-Benji

Free Shelter Edits #5

Hooked On You (Jeku edit)

Edit by @aihki.

Dance for Relief is a project that's been on our minds for a while as a way using our music to help raise funds for causes that we are passionate about. With the world currently struggling with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic now felt like it would be the right time to get this project started.

The first project under this banner is a compilation of edits, remixes and secret weapons from various friends, with Volume 1 focusing on cosmic, tribal and trancey sounds of the 90s.

All money from this release will go straight to Direct Relief (directrelief.org), a charity who's mission is to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, and who are doing great work to ensure that protective gear and critical care medications get to as many health workers as possible. We felt they were a particularly both in the midst of current Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

Finally, we'd like to say a huge thank you to all the artists involved who have given their skills and time during a difficult period to help make this release happen in support of a worthy cause.

Dance for Relief Vol. 01

Waves (Magnus Blomkvist Edit)

“When the driver reaches ultimate speed, he realised the world as he knew it was morphing. The array of beams and city lights became waves of spectrum entering the quantum realms. The sizzling frequencies became rhythmic melodies and his body started to get lighter and lighter until he reached 0 gravity. This anamorphic world he entered was called The Drive.”

Romain FX
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/romainfx852
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/romainfx852

Warehouse Preservation Society
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/warehousepreservation

Fauve Records
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/fauverecords
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fauverecords

The Drive [RE-MIX]

PREMIERE: Romain FX - Fray (Warehouse Preservation Society remix) (Fauve Records)

Release Title: BOOTS & LEGS VA Vol. 3 
BOOT003 | Release Date: 5 Feb 2021

It’s the start of a new era for the cobbers, as they present their first compilation of 100% original music. Cementing the label’s New Age Italo manifesto, these four tracks straddle neon-tinted nostalgia and sleek futurism. Sounds from yesteryear, for the dancefloors of tomorrow. 

This dichotomy is clear on opener ‘Silicon Horizon’, a propulsive banger from Kayroy which draws inspiration from the threshold of the digital age, evoking the rush of a nighttime race through city streets on a Tron bike. 

The anthemic ‘Make Italo Disco Great Again’ gives tune to the phrase brandished by DJs such as Skatebård. Romain FX faithfully celebrates the ongoing Italo legacy with appropriately tuneful synths and cheesy lyrics, courtesy of vocalists Guido Balboa & Annika. 

On the flip, German synth-wave fanatic Compilerbau delivers an atmospheric masterclass with ‘Raindance’. Here, intricate percussion and retrofuturist synth-scapes create an adrenaline rush of a track which could easily be the theme song from a lost 80’s action movie.

GREETINGS completes the release with ‘Time Is A Thief’, a bombastic trip to the Paradise Garage complete with piano stabs, a throbbing bassline and enough cowbell to cure any fever.

Another limited vinyl-only release, get yours quick before these boots have all danced off the shelves.

Track List:
A1 Kayroy - Silicon Horizon 05:05 
A2 Romain FX - Make Italo Disco Great Again [Ft. Guido Balboa & Annika] 06:15
B1 Compilerbau - Raindance [Fixed Speed DJ Edit] 04:56 
B2 GREETINGS - Time Is A Thief 05:05

About Boots & Legs:
From somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow, the cobblers at Boots & Legs transmit a charismatic cavalcade of bespoke, artisanally crafted musical delights. The label draws inspiration from 80’s Italo-disco and synth-pop, modernising these timeless sounds for the dancefloors of today. Joyous and propulsive with a flair for the romantic, these boots were made for dancing.

look to your feet for guidance as another strictly vinyl release from Boots & Legs is on the way.

Written by the people who wear boots | Produced by sexy legs | All recordings made at some point by shoemakers and sole searchers | Contact: Look at your feet | 2021 | © Boots & Legs

BOOTS & LEGS VA Vol. 3 [BOOT003] PREVIEWS (SOLD OUT)

Following on from this years releases by Longhair and Dr Valentines Claptrap are back with Vanity Project’s new release ‘Big Pharma’. Vanity Project has been managing Claptrap with his partner in crime Dr Valentines since their first 12" release in 2017 and dropped his first full release, a self titled EP in 2018. Since then he’s been DJing & performing live shows around the UK and has most recently dropped the City Elastic EP on London’s Midnight People. Big Pharma features four spaced out original house cuts ready for the dance floor.
A1, 'Letters and Numbers’ opens the EP with a driving groove, tight drums and rubbery
synths.
A2 the title track ‘Big Pharma’ brings a hint of acid alongside a deeper thumping house groove.
B1 Grow Slow, kicks off the second side with a mellow down tempo sizzler, prime for those outdoor parties. 
The final track Index, premiered here  brings the EP to a close with swirling euphoric synth lines and a dance floor moving stomp

PREMIERE : Vanity Project - Index

PREMIERE : Kerr Wilson - Kids

Label & monthly radio-show on IDA Radio Helsinki

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