Various Artists - Dusk Volume 1
BUY LINK : https://duskrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dusk-volume-1
Label: Dusk Recordings (https://soundcloud.com/duskrecordings)
Release date : 4 June 2021
https://soundcloud.com/sonns

Building on their alignment as the DJ collective Surround, who host and DJ some of Los Angeles’ finest warehouse parties, the trio established Dusk Camp, a three-day music and art camp-out/festival in California’s desert lowlands. Born from their ethos to champion their local scene’s emerging talent, Dusk Camp merges their community's artists with invited guests.

The new label is inspired by the same principles as the events; freedom represented by the vast California landscapes where camp-out festivals are held, and independence represented by the renegade DIY warehouse parties in LA. The intersection of empowerment and expression, of light and shadow, of sun and moon—these dualities are the essence of Dusk, a thriving platform for radical inclusivity balanced by the chill vibe inherent to California.

The inaugural compilation, Dusk Volume One, is a love letter from California. Nocturnal household names among the unsung soldiers of the West Coast underground scene—Woolfy VS Projections, John Tejada, C.Love and Dave Aju to name a few—have contributed exclusive and previously unreleased tracks to the cohesive 14 track release, best enjoyed from start to finish. This narrative journey of tracks paints an image of vessels cruising throughout cosmos to dock at deep house islands, a contrast of vivid and subdued sonic textures that interplay like the marine layer haze and rhythmic waves on the Pacific horizon. All tracks were commissioned, conceived and produced during a global pandemic as a way to stay connected locally, and now globally, upon its release.

Tracks :
Dave Aju - Desierto
Woolfy VS Projections - Graffiti Fonta
C.love - Deux Femora
Heidi Höven - Dancefloor Dreams
Warehouse Preservation Society - Body Station Juliet Mendoza - Soul Rhythm
Masha Mar - Last Light
John Tejada - Ashes
Tevo Howard - Television (JP & Vulinej Fantasia Remix) SONNS - Texas 84
Force Placement - Her Feet Never Touched The Ground Initial Sequence - R & R Time
Aldridge Brothers - Traffic Jammers
Tevo Howard - Television (Bonus Track)

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PREMIERE : SONNS - Texas 84

Eddie C, Cem G. - Rise From The Ashes

Johannes brings his magic touch to Claptrap for this 4-track club ready release. With previous releases on Beats In Space, Mule Musiq, Mireia, Fienes Tier and his own imprint Ancient Future now, Johannes has established a strong aesthetic which shines through on this new release.
WARENHAUS is the ideal release to get you back out and onto the dancefloor, with 4 up-tempo dreamy house vibes to choose from.

PREMIERE : Johannes Klingebiel - Whatuneed

Summer may be over but you can keep the vibes alive with this new package from Hell Yeah. It revisits Max Essa's 'The Great Adventure' and serves it up with a couple of fresh remixes from the man of the moment My Friend Dario and a rare appearance from Balearic Gabba Sound System.

Back in 2020, 'The Great Adventure' was the name of an album that collected together all of Essa's tunes on this label, as well as being a single itself. It is a signature sound from the Balearic boss with tropical drum sounds and organic percussion. Airy drums ride on blissful waves with cosmic synths soundtracking the moment that afternoon turns to evening and the dance floor begins to fill up.

Next comes My Friend Dario, who is at the heart of the Balearic new wave thanks to his fresh takes on Nu Northern Soul and his upcoming album on Hell Yeah. He speeds things up and brings warm house grooves underneath the lush and expansive synths. It's a real bubbler with triumphant leads and plenty of Mediterranean magic.

Finally come the in-house Balearic Gabba Sound System crew to bring their fusion of Italo, acid, downtempo, disco and proto-house. It makes for a track of subtle euphoric intensity, always on the rise, powered by loose drum tumbles, snaking acid lines and awash with a rush of melodic joy.

This is a versatile package that offers plenty of different and equally delicious Balearic perspectives.

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Max Essa - The Great Adventure (My Friend Dario Remix)

Heritage & Ed Mahon Sand Grown (Pete Blaker Africa Remix)

Mexico City resident La Guardia De La Luz is back on Hell Yeah with a new three-track EP, The Magnetic Field, a perfect follow-up from his Awakenings EP back in late 2021. 

This Balearic-not-Balearic artist has been crafting his seductive sounds for many years. From lush deep house to stoner dub via psychedelic beats, he can do it all with a majestic sense of storytelling. This time out he has his sights set firmly on the dance floor as he mixes up breakbeat, reggae and disco. 

'Kingston Technologies' has an irresistibly wiggling dub rhythm. Dusty breakbeats and digi-synths dance around one another as warm chords and jah-inspired vocals drift up top. It's a super fresh tune that sounds like nothing else out there. 

The epic ten-minute workout that is 'Planetary' builds on deep-cut house drums with funky bass playing and louche percussion. It's an early evening classic that will see any floor slowly fill up as people shake their booty to the loose rhythm and get lost in the soulful melodies that grow ever more cosmic. 

Finally, the title track is another nearly 10-minute masterpiece with silky star-gazing arps circling up through the mix over lazy breaks. It's an expansive track with a widescreen design that has you gazing off to the distance and lost in a loved-up deep disco reverie. 

These are three inventive tunes that take you to another world.

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La Guardia de la Luz - Planetary

DC Promo Tracks #1053: "Cosmic Camel (inst)" by Tigerbalm is part of the release "International Love Affair" on Ubiquity Records @tigerbalmmusic @ubiquityrecords  

Order from: https://tigerbalmmusic.bandcamp.com/album/international-love-affair 

More info: https://www.dreamchimney.com/promo/1053-tigerbalm-cosmic-camel-inst

DC Promo Tracks #1053: Tigerbalm "Cosmic Camel" (Instrumental)

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Monomix - Melodi Sound

A1) Hiroshi Watanabe - Infinity Sign 9.35

AA1) Kuniyuki - Acid Air 9.13

Originally released in Japan in 2015 on DJ Emma’s Nitelist Music as part of its Acid EP series, only a small handful of copies of this 12” made it to Europe. JD Twitch was lucky to score a copy and both tracks became firm favourites in his sets and much asked about. Twitch felt this music deserved a wider audience so was kindly granted permission to reissue it on Optimo Trax. 

Yet another double A side release, A1, Hiroshi Watanabe’s - Infinity Sign is a hypno ecstatic acid piano-tingling monolith. A2, Kuniyuki’s  Acid Air is a slow building organic percussive acid freak out that WILL cause a freak out on the floor.

It is hard to do anything with a 303 that is interesting these days but both the tracks on this 12" are 100% club classic. 

Thanks go to Gonno and Chida Shinsuke for making this 12” happen.

Two track 12" (and digital) released on April 7th  2017. Distributed by Kompakt and Rub A Dub.

Optimo Trax 028 - Hiroshi Watanabe / Kuniyuki - Acid Japan 12" (sampler)

B. Hanstraum (Love Mix)

"If you didn't know, Hell Yeah is the Italian label hell-bent on releasing the best modern disco(ish) you can find. Sometimes it's blissed out and Balearic, sometimes it's squelchy and down-right weird and sometimes it's the sort of elongated, tribal stuff that works dancefloors into a salacious frenzy" (Kristan J Caryl - DJ MAG January 2014)


Hell Yeah Recordings, a descendent of leading Italian dance label Mantra Vibes is an Italian-based electronic music label active since 2006. Releasing from Ferrara, Bologna, and Amsterdam and led by Marco Gallerani “peeDoo” (A&R), the label bases its philosophy on a diversity of artists and recording experiences tied together by a common vision of what defines quality progressive recording. 

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.

info/bookings: 
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