Today sees one of London’s most exciting new talents, ABSOLUTE. (aka Anthony McGinley) announce his debut mixtape Wonderland, due for release on May 7th via Skint Records/BMG. Alongside the announcement, tickets for ABSOLUTE.’s headline show at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on Saturday 19th June are on sale now. 
 
Buy tickets for Islington Assembly Hall here: https://skint.lnk.to/AbsoluteLivePR  
 
Wonderland is a whirlwind ride through dance music as heard through ABSOLUTE.’s ears: emotive house, hard-edged techno, divine disco, and euphoric rave bring the party, while more cerebral downtempo and textural ambient tracks wind things down. It’s party music for a time without parties, all shot through with McGinley’s message of hope and equality for all.  
 
Speaking on the Mixtape, ABSOLUTE. explains: “Writing this album brought me back to life, I was writing music that helped me feel certain ways, freedom and connectedness to something I and many others were missing, longing hard to be around people, or needing a dose of raw euphoric rave energy which gave some release at the sheer desperation to dance and feel joy. Even if just for a short time, to feel transported to 90’s UK raves or New York’s underground gave me some life, and I hope it does for you too. Welcome to Wonderland…” 
 
The mixtape album came to fruition as a result of the recent lockdown where ABSOLUTE., and the rest of the world, was forced to a standstill. Anthony was determined to turn his frustration into art and participated in a creative workshop that helped open his mind to new ideas, taking his music in exciting directions. The title of the mixtape takes its name from Wonderland Arena, a now obsolete rave space in East London that played host to live performances from the likes of Frankie Knuckles, The Prodigy, and Carl Cox during the halcyon days of acid house and early rave, and that is now converted into apartments where Anthony currently lives and works. 
 
ABSOLUTE. Is a project that has steadily gained momentum over the last couple of years, deftly choosing the right path for long term success rather than quick gains. Coming from the vibrant LGBTQ+ club and rave space where he promoted influential events in London, Anthony wanted to make sure foundations were solid before making the break into the live arena with this incredible body of work. He’s DJed at a wide array of parties and festivals from Glastonbury and Creamfields to Fabric and Razzmatazz but performing live has always been the goal. As lockdown came into effect he was packing his equipment to go on the road supporting dance legends 808 State on a 10 date UK tour.  
 
Despite a total shutdown of the live sector during the pandemic, Anthony still managed to perform his debut live set for Radio 1’s virtual Ibiza weekend during the summer and has just announced a headline live show at Islington’s assembly for March next year in partnership with underground gatekeepers Percolate. 
 
Alongside his musical accomplishments, Anthony is a passionate activist for human rights and has a longstanding track record of work supporting issues including climate, race, and LGBTQ+ justice. After attending the first Extinction Rebellion action in London, McGinley wrote “Rave Against the Machine”, a track that sampled a speech by Greta Thunberg which resulted in XR later inviting him to programme the music line-up of their International Rebellion at Trafalgar Square, while at Glastonbury, he played at Greenpeace’s Rave Tree.

Sage Comme Une Image (Good as Gold)

Gonna Get Over YoU (A-Trak & Wev Remix)

France Joli - Gonna Get Over You (A-Trak & Wev Remix)

J Paul Getto - Space Disco (112kbps version)

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Fogbank ZFOG01

J PAUL GETTO - Space Disco (Original Mix)

Poka - 99 Style

KOOKOO Records presents "Outtakes", the second EP by The Director. Following the success of his EP "B-Movie," which brought him to the forefront of stages from Austria, New York City, Paris and Montreal. Intense disco-house, catchy loops and memorable lyrics in "Cliffhanger", flirting with techno in "Quiet On Da Set", echoing the classic "Music Sounds Better With You" for "Take Number One (On & On)", and pure intensity on “Action!”. Mastered by Chab Studios in Paris (Random Access Memories), with support from modern disco-house headliners like Barry Can’t Swim, Duke Dumont, Jamie Jones, Never Dull, Vantage as well as BBC Radio 1, Fun Radio, and others. "Outtakes" remains true to its predecessor: powerful sound, advanced musicality, a unique sensitivity in modern house, and accessible listening without becoming mainstream.

Outtakes

Take Number One (On & On)

The Director - Take Number One (On & On)

reach the sky

Only twice has chords been delivered to me in my sleep. Played these chords over beat and refined to this over 2 years! Enjoy!

Children (Funk Edit)

Funk Legacy are Davis Mouyal & Benjamin Tranchart. This monster tune is dated from 1999, sampled from a Chic classic "Chip Off the Old Block".

Funk Legacy - What You Gonna Do Baby

Artists:SUPERFUNK
Title: “Bangalter” 
Label: COMPUTER SCIENCE
Ref: CS023
Date of release: 04th December 2017

TRACKLIST : 
A1- SUPERFUNK “Bangalter” (Original Mix)
A2- SUPERFUNK “Bangalter” (Lifelike Remix)
A3- SUPERFUNK “Bangalter” (Sedat The Turkish Avenger Remix)
B1- SUPERFUNK “Discoball” (Original Mix)
B1- SUPERFUNK “Discoball” (Dealers De Funk Remix)

“Bangalter” is Superfunk’s new single.
SUPERFUNK are Stephane B & Mike 303, two house music producers from Marseille, France. 
Taking off in the late 1990’s and in line with the French Touch disco house movement at that time, Stephane and Mike released their first album « Hold Up » as Superfunk, in collaboration with Ron Carroll who features the hit single “Lucky Star” (over a million copies sold), licensed on Virgin Records thru their label Fiat Lux.
‘Lucky Star’ became a worldwide platinum hit record and a radio classic still played today. House pioneers like Paul Johnson or Dimitri From Paris went on to work on the album making it the biggest selling dance french record of the year 2K.
They didnt lose anything of their superb French Touch and found home on Computer Science, Lifelike’s parisian house label for this special « Bangalter EP ».
An hommage to the producer Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) who inspired an entire generation of producers and DJ’s, and still does today.
We called our good friend Sedat The Turkish Avenger, one of Crydamoure’s (Guy Manuel de Homem Christo label) favorite, Lifelike and Dealers De Funk to remix that « Bangalter » mad-disco-on-steroids track.
« Bangalter EP » is French Touch’ed House at it’s best, Christmas 2017 will definately be filtered… the right way.

MORE INFO ABOUT SUPERFUNK:
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/mike303superfunk 
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/superfunk

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Chris Malinchak - Talk About It

FRENCH EXPRESS