"Always take from the past - avoiding the empty longings of nostalgia - with a view to understanding the new place it might hold in the future. Good Morning Tapes has done just that, and with the 90’s revival in something of a full swing, the label finally gets the chance to release a pivotal 10 year old mix that didn’t just ignite a curious wave of reflection and appropriation, it marked a culmination in the shifting sonic sands for its creator Mr. Alexis Le-Tan. His name needs little light thrust upon it in these hallowed cosmic halls, with his enduring and ever present mixes being a staple for those that know. 

Back to Disco Valley is arguably his most important mix - it both recontextualised a dirty and forgotten sound of the past, and facilitated a wave of new freedoms for those wishing to look backwards in order to move forwards. Most importantly it planted the seed for everything Full Circle to come.

 Back to Disco Valley is above all else a personal reckoning for Alexis and Joakim, it marked a moment when many problems inherent in a trapped older sound - with a sublime yet dated history of its own - could breath fresh life in the present day; a new slower realm was born. The slowing down of dance music is nothing new, and certainly where peak time beats have existed a spiritual shadow that revels in a slower ethereal space to dance has never been far away. 

Stylistically on one level, Back to Disco Valley might seem to build on what Baldelli or Loda were doing many years ago, and it certainly has that effortless charm, but it goes much further, not just in its re-appraisal of the frenetic fast paced sounds of Goa, but as a signifier of where many wanted to head on the dancefloor - towards a slower oasis - incorporating new releases and modern sounding rarities along the way. Indeed, in selecting the 33rpm dial rather than that marked 45, Full Circle at once opened up the new space inside a music some of us went bananas to 30 years ago, and at the same time made sense of a crucial yet forgotten heritage; a confession became a badge of honour.

 Coming back to Full Circle and its genesis: it was only a matter of time before the old Goa records would come back down from the racks and spawn a new life, and perhaps whilst Le-Tan cemented something a lot of us knew, Back to Disco Valley somehow liberated many of those early records from their stylistic shackles initiating a creative project that - along side the collaborative work with Joakim - has released a wave of inspirational edits and re-imaginations. 

Full Circle - in all its conceptual & metaphorical majesty - really has come to represent the most stylish of takes on past sounds, both in the realm of selection and re-working. It is certainly true that Back to Disco Valley - sounding now as it did then (to the select tuned ears that got to listen) - reflects a perfect meeting between an off-tempo past, present and future, being more than a functional assemblage, it revives many a lost memory, inspiring a new batch of ideas, and always looking back with a purpose.

"Back to Disco Valley" is available on cassette via the GMT Online Store.

@alexisletan @joakim

GMT52 Full Circle - Back to Disco Valley (Snippets)

--2025--
19/01: Lion & Lamb, London [RESCHEDULED]
01/02: Old Red Bus Station, Leeds
01/03: Mugpie x Persona, Leeds w/ Kyle Toole
21/03: Levitation, Freedom Mills, Leeds w/ Sybil
21/04: Art Of Dark, London w/ Matthias & Raph Carrau
26/04: D.B.A, Manchester w/ Nathalie Seres
04/05: Mugpie, Leeds w/ Craig Richards
23/05: Paradise Garden, Cardiff
25/05: Levitation, Freedom Mills, Leeds
05/06: Eastern Bloc, Manchester w/ April
11/07: Funk In The Forest, Wales
26/07: Persona, Manchester
15/08: remote., Manchester
14/09: Persona, Manchester w/ Walrus & Olita
27/09: Mugpie 10th Bday, Leeds w/ Ivan Smagghe
04/10: Squares, London w/ Niff & Penelope
17/10: TBA, Paris
07/11: TBA, Barcelona w/ Torrent
31/12: TBA, Manchester

--2024--
26/01: Highhat, Liverpool
01/03: The Loft, Manchester w/ Onur Ozer & Brasi
16/03: Mugpie, Leeds w/ Fonte
29/03: Pic N Mix, Leeds w/ Omar
06/04: Soup, Manchester
13/04: Kinetik, Marseille w/ DJ Tree
14/04: FunkOn, Paris w/ Penelope & Atree
19/04: Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds
20/04: D.B.A, Manchester
26/04: Pushback, Newcastle
11/05: D.B.A, Manchester (Day)
11/05: Remote, Manchester w/ Liquid Earth (Night)
24/05: Golden Lion, Todmorden
25/05: Imaginarium, Leeds
26/05: Manifesto, Leeds
07/06: Flying Colors, London
14/06: TBC, Romania
14/07: The Glove That Fits, London
26/07: Stage & Radio, Manchester
27/07: Common Street Party, Manchester
10/08: SOUP, Manchester
25/08: Ramona, Manchester
29/08: poweredbyREC. Liverpool
14/09: Imaginarium, Leeds
21/09: Bass In The Place, Manchester
28/09: Mugpie 9th Bday, Leeds w/ DJ Masda
29/09: Club Cosmos, Leeds
01/11: LEGRAM x Lumbago, Lyon w/ Matthias
07/11: All My Friends, London w/ Practical [RESCHEDULED]
08/11: Fire, London
23/11: Pressure, Cluj, Romania
07/12: TBC, Barcelona

--2023--
18/02: Mugpie, Leeds w/ Kyle Toole
04/03: Fifty, Leeds w/ Sam Padden
24/03: Truelove, Leeds
09/04: Mugpie, Leeds w/ Sugar Free & Vass
05/05: Pic N Mix, Leeds w/ Tommy Pickles
07/05: Mint Warehouse, Leeds w/ Ricardo Villalobos & Quest
20/05: Foehn, Paris w/ Ika, P.O (Live) & Walrus
02/06: Wire, Leeds w/ Francesco Del Garda
03/06: Persona, Manchester
10/06: IF Rooftop, Leeds
24/06: Club Der Visionaire, Berlin
13/07: Distrikt, Leeds
22/07: Loft Manchester w/ Voigtmann & Truly Madly
29/07: Imaginarium, Leeds w/ Adam Shelton
05/08: Mugpie 8th Birthday, Leeds w/ Binh
05/10: Eastern Bloc, Manchester
14/10: All My Friends, London
20/10: Wire, Leeds w/ Evan Baggs
11/11: Birmingham TBC
18/11: Closer, Kyiv
08/12: On The Button, Leeds
16/12: Mugpie, Leeds w/ LEGRAM
22/12: The Loft, Manchester w/ Laurine & Cecilio
29/12: Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds
31/12: NYE Extravaganza, Manchester

--2022--
31/01: 212, Leeds
12/02: Mugpie, Leeds w/ Nicolas Lutz
05/03: outransa. London @ Star Lane
19/03: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Omar 
17/04: Golden Lion, Todmorden w/ Bushwacka
13/05: Mugpie, Leeds w/ Enrica Falqui
21/05: Golden Lion, Todmorden
17/06: Mugpie 7th Bday w/ Francesco Del Garda
25/06: Headrow House, Leeds
09/07: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Matthias
19/08: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Nicolas Lutz
28/08: Summer Of Love Festival, Manchester [CANCELLED]
03/09 | Opia, Leeds w/ Jorge EB & Jimmy Batt
08/09 | EOS Radio, Frankfurt w/ N.J Quist
16/09 | Wire, Leeds w/ 96 Back
17/09 | Partial, Manchester w/ Junki Inoue [POSTPONED]
07/10 | Huck, Manchester w/ Matthias
08/10 | Real Interactions, Leeds w/ Hicham & Vass
14/10 | Silbergold, Frankfurt
15/10 | Mugpie, Leeds w/ Evan Baggs & Unai Trotti
29/10 | LEGRAM, Switzerland w/ Onur Ozer
05/11 | Penda, Birmingham w/ Colin Lewis Oxley

--2021--
17/04: Distrikt, Leeds
22/05: NARR Radio
19/06: Mugpie @ Distrikt, Leeds
21/06: Mint Warehouse, Leeds 
03/07: Ponder, Newcastle [POSTPONED]
10/07: The Cause, London w/ Z@P & Quest [POSTPONED]
18/07: System, Mint Warehouse
24/07: Pushback, Newcastle [POSTPONED]
29/07: Multistories, Leeds
31/07: Mugpie @ Distrikt, Leeds w/ Jos
21/08: truelove, Leeds
22/08: Summer Of Love Festival, Manchester
25/08: Puglia, Italy [POSTPONED]
28/08: The Cause, London
16/10: Dirty Disco, Leeds w/ Bushwacka
31/12: 212, Leeds

--2020--
07/02: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Quest & Max Vaahs
29/02: Mint Warehouse, Leeds w/ Ricardo Villalobos & The Ghost
04/04: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Vera [CANCELLED]
16/04: Sass Club Vienna  [CANCELLED]
03/05: 512 London w/ Vass  [CANCELLED]
24/05: TDF Garden Party [CANCELLED]
06/06: Butter Side Up w/ Margaret Dygas [CANCELLED]
25/07: Wire, Leeds [CANCELLED]
26/07: Distrikt, Leeds
30/08: Cartulis Showcase w/ Z@P Unai Trotti + more, Leeds [CANCELLED]
19/09: Mugpie, Distrikt Leeds
26/09: Le Gram Lausanne, Switzerland w/ The Ghost
17/10: Ponder, Newcastle [CANCELLED]
31/10: Beatnik, Manchester w/ Truly Madly [CANCELLED]
/11: Distrikt, Leeds 

--2019--
02/02: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Junki Inoue
08/02: The Lantern  w/ IDLES
04/04: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Laurine 
25/04: LEGRAM, Lausanne
24/05: Leeds w/ DJ Koolt
31/05: 5A Club, Porto w/ Joao Manata
04/06: Europa, Lisbon w/ Joe Delon
15/06: Dig Deep, Newcastle w/ Sean Galvin + Vassalo
27/07: The Hills Festival, Derbyshire
13/08: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Gene On Earth
21/09: Distrikt Leeds w/ Francesco Del Garda, Christian AB + KRN
25/10: Distrikt 10th Birthday w/ Sonja Moonear
28/11: Polaris Festival Afterparty w/Nicolas Lutz
26/12: The Lantern: Heavy Petting
31/12: Joshua Brooks, Manchester

--2018--
09/03:  Distrikt Leeds w/ The Ghost
30/03: Dig Deep, Newcastle
18/04: KMAH Radio w/ Bobby O'Donnell
04/05: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Zendid
12/05:  Mass, Leeds w/ Alex Picone & 100hz (Pre-Party)
01/06: Stage & Radio, Manchester
30/06: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Binh, Lamache & Phil Evans
13/07: HHV Festival, Derbyshire
01/09: Distrikt, Leeds
14/09: Wire, Leeds w/ Harry Mcanna
03/10: Distrikt, Leeds w/ Alexandra & Nico Etorena
01/12: Verbier, Switzerland w/ Lamache
14/12: Distrikt, Leeds w/ KRN

For all enquiries please get in touch here:
contact@goodmorningtapes.com

Attendances was born in 1987 in Ancona, a small city on the east coast of Italy. He's an Italian dj and producer influenced by different types of music, mainly progressive, trance, new wave, electrobeat, EBM, industrial, leftfield, techno, indie-dance, dark disco and electronic music.

His interesting in DJing began almost as a game and he started playing and then working in different clubs and social centres such as Thermos and Kontatto (Ancona).

During university years he began studying different softwares for the creation of sounds, producing songs intended as a photograph of the soul within the passage of time.

After several years of working in sound creation, in 2014 he started his project called "Attendances", he then created his podcast series "Retrofuture" and started publishing some songs with different labels such as Play Pal, Maleante, Esthetique and Emerald & Doreen.

In 2018 he became a member of the Italian-Spanish crew "Carajillo electronique" In 2022 he became also a member of another crew "Circuits" playing in different clubs and festivals in Italy, Spain and France such as:

Bunker 83 Club - Urbino (IT) 2018
Torrione Club - Città di Castello (IT) 2018
25 April REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT)2018
Camping Electronique Festival - Caprese Michelangelo (IT)2018
Freedonia Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Sideral Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Slow Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Torrione Club - Città di Castello (IT) 2019
BE ONE’S club - Arezzo (IT) 2019
El Casal - Valencia (ES) 2019
Umami Club - Manresa (ES) 2019
25 April REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT) 2019
Camping Electronique Festival - Caprese Michelangelo (IT) 2019
ÖND 3rd Birthday at UBU in Rennes (FR) 2019
BE ONE’S club - Arezzo (IT) 2021
DONG (Circuit night) - Macerata (IT) 2022
HANGAR - Ancona (IT) 2022
ELECTRIC WAVES Pescara (IT) 2022
PITINO ELETTRICO (Circuit night) San Severino Marche (IT) 2022
DONG (Circuit night)  - Macerata (IT) 2022
MAGMA - Tolentino (IT) 2023
SISMA (Circuit night) - Macerata (IT) 2023
REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT) 2023
REDD BBQ - Bologna (IT) 2023
COPACABANA July - Porto Recanati (IT) 2023
ELECTRIC WAVE Silvi Marina (IT) 2023
COPACABANA August - Porto Recanati (IT) 2023
LIBECCIO 2.0 - Numana (IT) 2023
BORDERBASS Arcobaleno beach - Cingoli (IT) 2023
MAGMA (Circuit night) - Tolentino (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO Oct (Circuit night) - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO Nov (Circuit night) A-TWEED - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO DIC (LUST LAST LOST NIGHT ) - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO GEN (Circuit night) NICK HANZO - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO MAR (Circuit night) OLTREFUTURO - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO APR (Circuit night) - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO APR CLOSING PARTY WINTER SEASON - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO AGO CIRCUIT SUMMER FEST - Porto Recanati (IT) 2024

GMT52 Full Circle - Back to Disco Valley (Snippets)

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