Midnight Candy Corn

Solace

The Moors

Il n'est pas de notoriété publique que sous le torrent de musique labélisée "French Touch" qui se déversera en France et sur le reste du monde dès 1990 et pour la décennie à venir, prospérait une communauté de mélomanes férus, entre autre, des sonorités deep-house américaines.

Straight-up Recordings fait partie de ces labels de l'époque qui ont émulé le temps de leur existence cette scène House française, promulguant les compositions d'artistes comme Playin' 4 The City, Dj Deep ou Franck Roger.

Avec ce focus, je souhaitais donner un léger coup de projecteur sur ce label, à mon sens peu connu mais pourtant emblématique du genre, dont les nombreuses sorties peuplent toujours les sacs et les étagères des House-heads aguerris.

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Tribute to Straight Up Recordings

David Astri - Dancing Digits (Todd Terje Mix)

We thought turning five this year would be a good reason to ask some friendly DJs and producers to go through our catalogue and select their favorite track to do an edit or remix on. 

The first selection by DJ Nomad from Berlin is Barbara Hernandez' 'All Nite Tonight', written and produced by Leston Paul from Trinidad. Nomad's edit drives the song's dance floor ambition even further beyond the top. As a DJ Nomad does not necessarily put a label on his style, but always expresses love for Polyrythms, Soulful harmonies and the African drums and Percussion. He's notorious for finding fresh world music dance tracks all around the globe, before they become hits, and a massive collector of Tropical Soul, Funk and Disco. His energetic and surprising , always fresh DJ set's earned him a residency in Paris's infamous ‚Tropical Discoteq’ Parties among the best Dj's of the genre. He is the founder of ‚Vulkandance’ Parties, Blog and Label in Berlin .. He's together with Edna Martinez co-founder of ’El Volcan’ - The first continental European Colombian Pico Soundsystem. As a Producer he's breaking ground and travelling the world together with Dirk Leyers and the transcultural Project Africaine 808, besides working as a master Editor for other artists around the globe. 

Keshav Singh who is part of Trinidadian/British production duo Jus Now put his hands on Trinidad's Mansa Musa's ’Beat The Drum’. Being a percussionist in his own right he transformed the song into a housy Soca track and pure dance floor fiah! With his partner Sam Interface, he has produced soca music with EDM influence for Bunji Garlin, Machel Montano and 3Canal. Keshav commutes between Trinidad and the U.K. 

The next two tracks are taken from our upcoming compilation ’Gotta Nice Buzz - The Funky Sound of Semp Studios Trinidad, W.I.’. French DJ & record collector Waxist gives Zodiac's ’I Believe’ a proper treatment. ’I Believe’, written by Francis Escayg, is an uptempo Caribbean Disco tune with a strong Giorgio Moroder influence with Denise Plummer on vocals. Waxist, based in Lyon, France, started his love story with records as a teenagers when he bought his first reggae 7 inches. If his love for Jamaican music has survived through the years, the DJ has progressively extended his interests to different, more dancefloor-oriented music genres. This Disco, Modern Soul, Boogie or even a touch of House when needed... Being careful with the technique, as well as with the coherency of his selection, his sets are an invite to a dancing musical journey taking the audience from Disco to Modern Soul, through more Caribbean or Brazilian sounds. 

As an old acquaintance Al Kent returns to do an edit of the Hamilton Brother's 1978 Trinidadian Disco classic ‚Music makes the world go 'round’. Al is Glasgow's answer to Walter Gibbons. Million Dollar Disco DJ, record compiler, re-edit producer. When Al Kent launched the Million Dollar Disco label back in the '90s ’Disco House’ was all the rage. A life spent hoarding rare soul and disco records, a keen ear for a sample and a few years of DJing already under his belt stood him in good stead when it came to making music. He made a load of tracks by sticking house drums on top of disco samples and released somewhere in the region of twenty 12'' singles, many of which found their way into top DJs' charts. Ditching house music in favour of disco saw him first emulating his hero Walter Gibbons; cutting between two copies of each record, until he discovered he could save the hassle (and money spent on doubles) and make re-edits instead.

All Nite Tonight- Barbara Hernandez (Nomad's Reel To Realness Mix)(Excerpt)

B1- Bliss-Ezone (Monchan Edit)

Daybreak

Paul Hardcastle and 1st light - Stop The Clock

Arp Frique is back, delivering four dance floor ready cuts in his signature style. 'Minina Bem Li' is loosely based on Arp Frique’s Cape Verdean connection through Rotterdam and Americo Brito, echoing the spacey 70s sounds of some of his favorite music, this time also with a big role on vocals for Mariseya aka Marissa Nyamekye. Expect dancefloor favorites with a thriving zouk flow and arpeggiated synths.

Minina Bem Li Feat. Americo Brito

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Sebastian Gudding - Manjana Banana

Gare du Nord [nom féminin] : contrée sonore et exotique située aux tréfonds de la galaxie. C'est un territoire cosmique régit par des rythmes fiévreux et des mélodies assassines.

French trio from Lyon and Paris • Sets • Tracks • World music, Progressive, Trance, Hard Groove, Italo. 


𝟐𝟎𝟐5 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨
24/01 Gare du Nord invite Disco Paes et Mad Ochi 
21/02 Gare du Nord invite Club Sauvage (Extended Set)
29/09 Gare du Nord invite Zaatar et Ramtarr
08/03 Gare du Nord à la Passagère (résidence)
24/05 MAISON M : Gare du Nord / Bahram Vision 
30/05 Open Air - Pilo - Gare du Nord Full day 
30/05 Gare du Nord invite Brandski Live / Prinze / James Stilton 
07/06 Gare du Nord invite Bahram Vision au Groom
20/06 Gare du Nord invite Britney Speed 
21/06 Fête de la Musique : Giorgio Party invite Gare du Nord
Summer 2025 : résidence Passagère (X4) + Live Station(x2)
22/08 Gare du Nord Crew all night : Nino, Tom, Rico, Riff 
29/08 Gare du Nord résidence all night : Le Groom
13/09 Gare du Nord Crew all night : Nino, Hakim, Chiliconne Piani
20/09 : Fréquences festival (off) : Gare du Nord 

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨
08/02 - Progressive Connexion - La Commune (Lyon)
09/02 - Gare du Nord invite Disco Frenchy - La Marquise (Lyon)
16/02 - Live Station avec Mad Ochi et Ezoteris. (Lyon)
17/02 - MacBar avec Novopol et Evazion Society (Lyon) 
22/03 - Le Groom - All Night (Lyon)
29/03 - Gare du Nord invite Baume and guests (Mad Ochi et Ezoteris) à la Marquise (Lyon)
04/04 - Bamboche - Le Terminal avec Flemme Records et Mad Ochi (All night) 
13/04 - Jungle Disco - La Barge (Troyes) All night
25/04 - Gare du Nord invite Club Sauvage (Angie et Christie) à la Marquise (Lyon) 
11/05 - Love Boat Festival - péniche, Lyon.
24/05 - Gare du Nord invite Novopol à la Marquise (Lyon)
28/06 - Gare du Nord au Panic Room avec Evazion Society.
29/06 -Gare  du Nord invite Hugo Moreno à la Marquise (Lyon) 
06/07 - MLS Fest (Festarn) 
23/08 - Résidence Hugo Moreno / La Kollective au Willie Carter Shape (Montpellier)
30/08 - La passagère (All night) 
13/14 septembre : Fête de l'huma - résidence.
20/09 Voyage Voyage : Gare Du Nord invite Vanroose.
22/11 Gare du Nord invite Karassimeon.
20/12 Gare du Nord invite Valise.


𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨
13/01 :  GiGi Bar (Lyon)
13/02 : Gigi Bar - Lyon 
10/03 : GiGi Bar (Lyon) 
17/03 : La Fourmilière (Lyon)
07/04 : Le Taille-Crayon (Lyon)
21/06 : Le Petit Bleu (Fête de la musique - Lyon) 
18/07 : Willie's Carter Shape / La Kollective (Montpellier)
25/07 : Château de Freyssinet / La Kollective (Valence)
05/08 : Le Groom (Lyon) 
06/09 : résidence La Kollective au Château de Freyssinet (Valence)
15-17/09 : Résidence Fête de l'humanité (Paris)
14/10 : Gigi Bar (Lyon)
8/11 : Résidence Radio Béguin - Super 5 (Lyon)
19/12 : Festival 45 - Club45 (Lyon)


𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨
25/03 : Les Disquaires (Paris)
19/04 : Les Disquaires (Paris)
18/06 : Les Disquaires (Paris)
02/12 : Opening - Le Petit Bleu (Lyon)
09/12 : Le Badaboum - l'Appart (Paris)
30/12 : Before Nouvel An - Le Petit Bleu (Lyon)

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