Le son que j'ai le plus joué cet été, fatal !

Born in 1951 and raised in Alexandra township (north of Johannesburg), young Condry learned the guitar from his older brother and went on to play in groups such as The Anchors, Flaming Souls, and Flaming Ghettoes. After his son's unexplained death in 1980, he accelerated his initiation as a "Sangoma" (spiritual healer) and (after slaughering a cow to appease the ancestors) joined the famous Harari in 1981. Following the break-up of Harari he assembled a backing band for exiled artists such as Letta Mbulu and Caiphus Semenya and toured with Harry Belafonte. His extensive travels even earned him a spot on the apartheid government's national security watchlist. The late 1980's saw Mr. Ziqubu launch a successful solo career.

On edit duties is Swedish rising star @LeoAfEkenstam . In his own words;

"This edit came about during a very studio intensive period as I was working on an EP and an album at the same time. I always tended to fall back to this edit in between songs to break from that dreamy state of mind you find yourself in when working on original ideas. When I found this song I immediately fell in love with it. There are so many segments that are absolutely golden. All it needed for my sets was a bit more energy and restructuring. I ended up spending a lot of time on it, and so I thought it’d be worth sharing with others instead of just keeping it to myself. It goes without saying that all credit goes to the legend, Condry Ziqubu."

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SINCHI EDITS 11 - Condry Ziqubu  - Gorilla Man (Leo Af Ekenstam Edit)

For the latest addition to the Sinchi Edits series, Parisian crew @Disco-Bagarre tackle a lesser known track: "J’ai chaud" ("I am hot"), a french electro-disco song from the singer Sonia released in 1982. As a complete rework of the original, from the production to the vocal, this version slows the pace down, going from disco to dark disco with an ever-present touch of acid.

FREE DOWNLOAD - https://hypeddit.com/discobagarre/sinchiedits16soniajaichauddiscobagarreacidrework

SINCHI EDITS 16 - Sonia - J'ai Chaud (Disco Bagarre Acid Re-work)

A keen traveller whose mindset and musical vision has been shaped by her experiences visiting different destinations around the globe, Robinson’s releases as Tigerbalm thrillingly combine her roots in dance music – Robinson has been DJing around her home city of London and much further afield for well over a decade – with rhythms, sounds and instrumentation inspired by all manner of indigenous musical cultures from around the world.

This trademark sound is sonically kaleidoscopic, unflinchingly percussive and undeniably infectious, though attempts to accurately describe it are likely doomed to failure. While confounding those employed to review music not Robinson’s aim – she was much more interested in fusing her eclectic global musical influences and showcasing great female vocalists – her brilliant debut album, International Love Affair, will surprise as much as it delights – and all for the right reasons.

It arrives on the back of a string of celebrated singles and was created with the help of a large archive of recordings of jam sessions with musician friends, and contributions from a talented pool of female singers Robinson has met on her travels around the world. It’s those travels that shaped the sound of International Love Affair, with every track being a personal response to the musical cultures of places she’s visited. Combine these vivid experiences with nods to dancefloor-focused styles she loves – think organic house, nu-disco, Afro-house, dub disco, Afro-disco and Brazilian club cuts – and you have a debut solo album that’s as imaginative and entertaining as they come.

For proof, check the album’s two Bali-influenced tracks:  album opener ‘Kete’, where Joy Tyson’s stylish vocals ride a heady, low-slung midtempo groove wrapped in Indonesian instrumentation, and the extra-percussive, tech-house influenced dancefloor voodoo of ‘La Brisa’ (a cut named in honour of the Bali-based club of the same name). Or for that matter the two tracks inspired by Robinson’s experiences in Berlin, the Joy Tyson-voiced strut of ‘Tokyo Business’ – a dense, squelchy, dark-room ready blend of heavy grooves, punk-funk inspired vocals and ‘80s freestyle synth sounds – and the irresistible peak-time heaviness of ‘Cocktail D’Amore’, a track made in tribute to the legendary LGBTQIA+ party of the same name that sits somewhere between Afro-house, tribal house, dubbed-out late-night hedonism and the most mind-altering of organic percussion workouts.

Robinson’s positive experiences on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, the location of the legendary Flamingo Pier festival, are explored on two tracks, too – superb recent single ‘Waiheke’ and the inspired ‘Cosmic Camel’ – an impeccable, breathlessly brilliant re-imagining of the mid-80s proto-house sound of Paul Simpson and Boyd Jarvis (amongst others) blessed with cut-up Maori vocal samples and the kind of hazy, dubbed-out horn licks that have long been a feature of records by New Zealand outfit Fat Freddy’s Drop.

Such is the quality across the set, attempting to pick highlights is a futile gesture. Some may cite the breezy, Brazil-inspired samba-house/funky nu-disco of ‘Bahia Escapista’ (this features a very special ‘secret guest’ vocalist, whose identity will no doubt promote debate online), or Robinson’s response to visiting Morocco, ‘Riad De Lister’ – a squelchy chunk of 21st century P-funk that’s as heady and intoxicating as it is addictively dancefloor-focused. An instrumental version of that track is also featured on the album, alongside a handful of other vocal-free alternative takes.

Taken as a whole, International Love Affair more than lives up to the promise of its title, marking out Robinson as one of electronic music’s most inventive and on-point global fusionists.

Tigerbalm - Cosmic Camel <Gouranga Premiere>

Download: https://www.beatport.com/release/utopia-part-one/4503817

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Co-founder of the Palestinian "Arabs Do It Better" collective, artistic director of the late Anna Loulou Bar in Jaffa, Marwan Hawash is a prolific Dj and a militant for freedom and love on the dancefloor. Regular of slow psychedelic grooves, for his very first edit, he takes the opposite side and proposes a very clubby version of this rare disco rock classic by the french duo Orient Express. 
Hard Fist is proud to release the first track of this talented artist and very good friend of the collective.

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Orient Express - Abdullah Dollar (Marwan "Arabs Do It Better" Hawash edit)#7 - Free download

HRDF: How did you find this track, any particular reason why you chose this one to edit?
LD: This track is pretty special to me as it was my son's favourite when he came to life 2 years ago and start listening to Jan Schulte's compilation all day long. 
I've made this edit that I played for the first time during our b2b set with Jan Schulte / Bufiman, a special time for me as I had really good feedbacks.

HRDF: Any favourite place / city?
LD: A place where I loved to play recently is Cocktail d'Amore in Berlin! Also a lovely label where I will release my first album as Lion's Drums 
Also my hometown Marseille, even though there's so many frustrating things in this city... I still love living here. 
Colombia where I travelled recently around Amazonia & Sierra Nevada, amazing biodiversity but sadly some of the most threatened forests.
  
HRDF: Do you fear karma?
LD: No fear but respect karma's laws!

Sanza - Sounouh (Lion's Drums Edit)#11 - Free download

C & T : "The 1st time we heard this track, we thought of making a video edit lasting 24h with the synths in « infinite loop » mode. But we controlled ourselves a bit and produced this proper edit - long live Shangaan Disco and Penny Penny ✊🏿"

Penny Penny - Batoni A Ho Ha (Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï Cosmic Dub Edit)#20 - Free download

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Makyo - Tarab (Jonny Rock "Short Trip" Edit)#22 - Free download

HRDF: How did you discover the original track? Why did you choose to edit it?

@hanzoandyaman : the story of this edit is very unusual. At the time we started the edit we were living together in Vienna. Yaman discovered the track ''The Groove Is In The Heart'' by Deee-Lite in Hanzo's sample folder. It's such a crazy piece of music that even one short line of the vocals makes you think of several different ways to make something new out of it, which was actually the main motivation to start this project. Then we added some keys on it, which we recorded with an old Casio keyboard from the early 90's which gave the whole sample loop another twist. A big part of the percussions are taken from cooking pots and other gadgets from our kitchen.

Deee - Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (Hanzo & Yaman Gonna Dance Edit) #28 - Free download

Tita's Edits 005 X  Mi Figura (Feller Edit)

A Story of Italo Disco, Indie Dance, Slow Motion, New Wave, Breakbeat ...is now starting.

Free Call is the free downloadable series from Minitel, including original, remixes and edits from the talented indie scene.

FREE CALL #07 : Global Village – Robenji Doom Doom (Aaron Maple Edit)

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Mastering by Charles Michaud 
https://www.preferencemastering.com

Aaro Vahtera aka Aaron Maple is a producer and DJ from Finland. He is a member of a collective and label called Free Shelter focusing on obscure and esoteric music.
Aaron Maple is mostly known for his edit releases with support from world known DJs every corner in the world. He has released music for example via Free Shelter, Dar Disku , Awesome orientalists from Europa and Serenades.

About the edit : " "I first got to know to this song via my friend Markus who introduced the Global Village's album to me. I fell instantly in love with the vocals and percussions of the Robenji Doom Doom track. In my edits there is always a functional reason why I start making one. The original track was too restless for my taste and I decided to make a bit deeper and darker than the original was. 
Vocals and percussion was the core and I made the edit around them. I added new drums and made new baseline and synth melodies. I did a massive restructuring in the song's structure and played with some effects. All the elements clicked together very well and fast I was really happy with the result. The edit works really well in the early hours in the club and also as played a bit faster in the peak time hours. Definitely one of the best edits I have made so far. "

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FREE CALL #07 : Global Village – Robenji Doom Doom (Aaron Maple Edit)

Creative offspring of the musical fantasies of @Tushen_Rai and @CorneliusDoctor, Hard Fist brings together a passionate, supportive and activist party scene. Celebrating a globalized - but far from rootless - dancefloor where Turkish psychedelia, Lithuanian cold wave, Central African percussion and Indonesian polyphonic chants blend, Hard Fist crosses time and borders with a singular attachment to the folk music of trance, the kind that marks spiritual gatherings and festive rituals. Shaping the technological meeting of man and machine, the Hard Fist sound brings the experience as much on the dancefloor as in the calm of a Bedouin tent, always off the beaten track, with a free heart and clenched fists.

The label has been releasing collective records with artists such as Bawrut, Balam, A-Tweed, Omri Smadar, Matias Aguayo, Fantastic Twins, Philou Louzolo, Deena Abdelwahed, Curses, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Martin Noise, J.A.K.A.M., Omar Joesoef, MR TC, Pletnev, Anastasia Zems, John Parsey, Errortica, The Juan MacLean, Khidja, Roe Deers, Cosmo Vitelli, Ground, Sascha Funke, Fargo Devianti & Vongold, Daniel Monaco, Fringe Society, Elfenberg, Timothy Clerkin, A-Tweed, Ko Shin Moon, Lokier, Pletnev, nICo, Strapontin, Simple Symmetry, Que Sakamoto, Kubebe, Jonathan Kusum, Kaan Duzarat, Los Ninos Del Parque, Feller, Mekine U Teksi, Bab, Linja, Lion's Drum, Mishell, Ayma, Kincaid, Balam, Juan To Tree, Mytron & Ofofo, Niv Ast, Damon Jee, Thomass Jackson, Rina, Fabio Me Llaman Soltero, Hipless, N.O.Y, Oded Gafni, Radial Gaze, Fabio Fabio, Omar Joesoef, Da Iguana, Neskeh, Warum and all artists that collaborated to our edit series Re-Phrase Collection...

Sanza - Sounouh (Lion's Drums Edit)#11 - Free download

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