Following a CD-only release in Japan in 2021, legendary downtempo producer Calm finally releases his Before album on vinyl and digital courtesy of Hell Yeah. The 10-track record is a slow-burning Balearic beauty.

Calm aka Kiyotaka Fukagawa has never been to the White Isle, but he sure knows how to capture its musical essence. He has done so over a long and storied career that has taken in 17 albums and some 35 EPs on many labels including this one over the last 20-plus years. His unique blend of ambient, jazz and leftfield was last showcased on this label in 2018 with his By Your Side album, and now he does it again with another timeless and escapist offering.

The record was written, arranged, mixed and produced by Calm, but with gorgeous musical embellishments, trumpets, flutes, saxophones, violins, bass and keys played by friends and guests like Shiba, Sinsuke Fujieda, Fumiko Takeshita, Tomokazu Sugimoto, Yuichiro Kato and Toshitaka Shibata. Tracks from it have already had support from Cosmo Coleen Murphy on Worldwide FM, while Phil Mison says it is "100% reminiscent of an old Café Del Mar or José Padilla record." He is not wrong.

As soon as the opening chords of 'Beauty on Earth' wash over you there is no escaping the naturalistic charm and beauty of this record. 'Long Summer Dream' layers mystic wind sounds and gentle percussive patterns into suspensory bliss, 'Blue in Void - 限りなく透明に近い青' is a plaintive moment of sombre sax and pensive piano, then 'Liminal Moment - 目を閉じて見えるもの' awakens the soul with its gorgeous flute lines and looping arps.

There is perfect horizontal sunset house on 'I Love You - 月がきれいですね,' 'Feel It' picks up the pace with seductive saxophone motifs and psychedelic synth loops and 'Before Sunrise Blue - あたたかい青' is crushing downtempo melancholia. 'Kunpoo - 薫風' reawakens you with leggy bass and expansive synths that reach for the heavens, while 'Freedom Sunset' is an epic 10-minute journey out to sea. Lastly, 'Let's Make Harmony' is super slow motion jazz-funk that swells the heart.

Before is a superb album that is well-deserving of this double vinyl pressing and is sure to become a Balearic classic.

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Calm - Let's Make Harmony

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Dawn Again - 15.02.24.

Recorded live at Rough Radio (Rome-Italy)
April 16th 2024

Tracklist:
1. Whodamanny - Miranda (Dub Version)
2. Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor - Your Magic Touch
3. Jay Sound - Shades Of Blue
4. Larry Houl - Berberian Nights
5. Spinnage - Seconds in Love (Original Mix)
6. Pixel8 Trax - Alone In The Light (Extended Mix)
7. Hurlee - Flying High Again (Original Mix)
8. Gerald Mitchell - Paradigm 4th Shifter
9. Kid Mark - U Better Tell Me
10. Brian Kage - WilingOut
11. Nawfel - Dubweiser (Original Mix)
12. Wallace - The Function
13. Toby Simpson - French Fried
14. N-Y- House-n Authority, Daniel Steinberg - Fort Green House (Daniel Steinberg Edit)
15. M&R&L - Drop it
16. Kerri Chandler - The Bassline (Kerri-s Dark Mix)
17. Eric Kupper, K-Scope - Drift (EK Ruff Mix 1)
18. basiC realitieS - Celestial Shadows (Deep Night Mix)
19. DJ Deep - What’s GoingOn
20. Euro Nettuno - Diavolo
21. Karen Jones - To the rock groove (Black groove Version)
22. Krewcial-Not_Jazz]
23. Earl's BOOOM!!! - Earls BOOOM!!! - NEP-2 (BOOM003)
24. Zephan, Cool Affair - Let Me Show You

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Special IDM mix recorded 24/01/2024 (vinyl only)

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'JuJu Muzik' Live Radio Show (19th April 2024) 
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'JuJu Muzik' first show broadcasting live in Ibiza & Formentera. 

Featuring new and forthcoming House Music, with a few Ibiza House Classics to mark the occasion, with mentions of Jose Padilla (Cafe Del Mar) (RIP), Joe T Vanelli and DJ Alfredo (health fundraiser) https://www.gofundme.com/f/76armr-alfredo-needs-you 

Also paying respect to the late great Phil Asher (Restless Soul) (RIP) on the day before "Phil Asher record store day" at 'Love Vinyl' in Shoreditch, London (20/04/2024)
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House music all life long ... Please enjoy!

1 Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor - Your Magic Touch (HELL YEAH recordings)
2 Restless Soul (Featuring Nathan Haines) After Ours (Phreak Time Mix) (Chillifunk Records)
3 Tigerskin - City Nights (Forms & Figures)
4 Brian Kage - Waxing Gibbous (Michigander Music)
5 Toronto Hustle & Sean Roman - Fall In Love (feat. Javonntte) (Demuir God Speaks Remix) Freerange Records
6 Gee Lane - Monkeys (Musclecars Remix feat. Kamaal) Toy Tonics
7 Brian Kage - Endless Fantasy (Michigander Music)
8 Isoul8 & Paul Randolph - Clover (Sonar Kollektiv)
9 Franck Roger - Enchanted (Demarkus Lewis Remix) (Vibe Me To The Moon Records)
10 Jose Padilla (RIP) - Day One
11 Kassai - Carino (Vidala Mix)
12 Joe T Vannelli - Don't Be Afraid (another version radio)
13 Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino
14 Arno E. Mathieu - Theme du Soleil - Ultimo Baile Version (EARTHRUMENTAL MUSIC)
15 Hudson's Choice & Franc Spangler - Roots ( Delusions of Grandeur)
16 Phil Asher (RIP) - Bounce In The Sand (Papa Records)
17 Brothers Of Soul - Eyes Of Love
18 Werner Niedermeier - Arrival (Original Mix) (Chillifunk Records)
19 Brian Kage - Still Here (Michigander Music)
20 Isoul8 & Kaidi Tatham - Silent Force (Sonar Kollektiv)
21 Kareem - Rumours And Lies (Restless Soul Ragtime Mix) (Exploding Plastic)
22 Werner Niedermeier - Black Gold (Feat. Sandy Mill) (Original Mix) (Chillifunk Records)
23 Retromigration - Only Well (Wolf Music Recordings)
24 Brian Kage - AnalogIntelligence (Michigander Music)
25 Jimpster - The Passion ft King Crowney (Freerange Records)
26 Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen - Forever Mona (Chez mix) (Balance Recordings)
27 Vortex - Clubtown Beat 
28 970 Club - Ay Mas (Remix/Edit)
29 Jason A - Flow With It

JuJu Muzik Show (Point Blank Radio DAB) 19th April 2024

DC Promo Tracks #1358: "Bewitched by the sea" by Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor is part of the release "Sensory Blending" on Hell Yeah Recordings  

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DC Promo Tracks: Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor "Bewitched by the sea"

Great music is often about chance meetings and impromptu creative sessions and so it is that Hell Yeah proudly serves up Sensory Blending, an album from Italian collective Aura Safari and Finnish musician Jimi Tenor, a nine-track long player that is a lush and luxurious fusion of jazz and funk. This glorious record came about after Tenor was playing a Hell Yeah party at Tangram in Perugia. Aura Safari were local and in some free time the day before the gig, everyone jumped in the studio. They had never met before but soon found plenty of free-flowing common ground and the result of that one-off session is now served up on this vibrant new album that brims with musicality, indelible melodies, and subtly uplifting vibrations.
 
Jimi Tenor has toured the world and previously collaborated with Japanese master Calm. He is a psychedelic space-jazz-funk king, a skilled musician, composer, and producer who, since the mid-nineties, has released more than 25 albums and 45 EPs. Aura Safari is made up of Lorenzo Francioli, Ruggero Bonucci, Nicola Pitassio, Andrea Moretti, Lorenzo Lavoratori, Daniele Melloni, and Nicholas Iammatteo, and they are label regulars who served up their sublime Island Dreams album on Hel Yeah last year.
 
'Bodily Synesthesia' is seductive with steamy sax and gentle grooves, 'Lunar Wind' is a slow and steamy mix of jazzy keys and soulful vocals, 'Bewitched By The Sea', is tropical and with a percussive majestic melody. 'My Bluebell' picks up the pace with jazz-funk grooves, while 'Last Waltz In Perugia' has freeform sax lines soaring over meticulous drums that ebb and flow. 'Gimlet'brings a samba-tinged rhythm and sunny flute leads. There's a laidback, carefree mood to 'It's Too Easy To Love You', while 'Your Magic Touch' is a dance number that exudes melodic joy. 'Indigo' closes out with a conversational sax that will stay long time your memory.

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With a sound as diverse as the artists it represents, Hell Yeah does not limit itself to the constraints of genre but packs a complex palette of sounds ranging from techno to minimal-nu-rave to electro-funk and tech house.  Artists as varied as Radio Slave, Santos, Umek, Oliver Koletzki, Congorock, 3iO, Crimea X and the mighty Balearic Gabba Sound System have helped establish Hell Yeah’s eclectic sound, a distinct take on party music loaded with a sonic Balearic feel good vibe that has made press around the world hail Hell Yeah as a label to watch, always

Hell Yeah aims to build upon its current reputation as a leading Italian Electronic Music play, overseeing the release of a series of progressive productions that straddle genres, defy conventions and blur barriers between listening and dance music. Stemming from Hell Yeah’s initial graphic identity formed by Neverending’s Rocco “the Boghe” Pezzella, new mind-bending web and label artworks from Italian artist Andrea Amaducci and the Berlin-based Ice Cream For Free collective promises complete visual as well as aural stimulation.

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Calm - Let's Make Harmony

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