MaastrichtResearch_'IdleAnimation'_B4_'Balkon' CLIP

MaastrichtResearch_'IdleAnimation'_B2_'Workshop_Heretic' CLIP

MaastrichtResearch_'IdleAnimation'_A4_'Lumenwood_Kin' CLIP

MaastrichtResearch_'IdleAnimation'_A1_'An_Makar' CLIP

Riot

Kiji Suedo, 'Refuser' (Clip)

FEEDBACK
'I LOVE THIS. Will play on next NTS show' IVAN SMAGGHE
'Great stuff! Melodica heaven!' JD TWITCH (Optimo)
'I'm into it' THE MAGHREBAN
'Good work, I will chart it' VINCENT INC (Manuscript Records, Ukraine)
'Yes. WAVs would be great. :)' HARRI (Sub Club)
'Yes. Pls send me WAvs or AIfs?' MARK FARINA
'This is amazing' ARVEENE JUTHAN
'Really good' OLAF FURNISS (Wide Days)
'Will play on EHFM' SNIDE RHYTHMS
'I am into this one for sure, I am a big fan of George's work and this really works as a track, and then with a handy dub for playing out. 
Great release, that I will be supporting out and about and on my Groove City Radio Show' MASH // MARTYN HENDERSON
'It's hot!! Big up woah' JONNY ROCK

RADIO
DON LETTS played it (BBC 6Music, Sun 6.11.22): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dkyl
TOM RAVENSCROFT played 'Dub On, King's Cross' (BBC 6Music, Fri 14.10.22): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cqht
PAT BENSBERG also played the dub, Mon 24.10 (Phonic FM, Exeter: phonicpat.blogspot.com)

PRESS
"His latest musical outing, Roll On, King’s Cross, is under the name George T and was recorded with a vintage melodica picked up on Ebay. Inspired by reggae legend Augustus Pablo, it combines the tones of his purchase with a sparse keyboard sound and a moody vocal, creating a piece of atmospheric brilliance."
ARTIST OF THE WEEK - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
www.newfoundsound.co.uk/blog/george-t-scotland-on-sunday-16-october-2022

"Here George turns his hand to some dynamite digi-dub. Sparse, and dark, the rhythm – somewhere between bogle and samba – accompanies a prose poem. George describing a train journey from the coast, through countryside, toward the smoke, in a manner that recalls Michael Smith and Joe Duggan. Jarv Is` Swanky Modes remixed by Dennis Bovell. A melodica adding memories of The Sabres Of Paradise, and Wilmot`s last skank. Percussion elegantly echoed, like whispers in its shadows. There`s a dub, a ruder rub, resembling stripped-back, hollowed-out house. Full of treated coiled spring sound effects, tambourine breakdowns, and boasting a big phased, fuzzy, buzzing bottom-end. While not due until November, both have been on loop at Ban Ban Ton Ton`s mountain HQ."
BAN BAN TON TON (Sept '22)
banbantonton.com/2022/09/23/looking-for-the-balearic-beat-september-2022/

INTRO
Hot on the heels of the Maastricht Research debut album, HM continues to mine a deeper seam with this delicious slice of dub-wise electronica and moody soul by Edinburgh legend George T (following in a similar vein to last year's collaborative EP with Paranoid London's Quinn Whalley on Optimo Music).

BIO
Emerging from the epic Scottish house and techno scene of the 90s, George started his musical adventures as a dj then promoter, bringing to Scotland DJs from Chicago, New York, Toronto, Paris and London to play at the legendary Tribal Funktion parties in Edinburgh.

Aside from co-founding Edinburgh's Underground Solushn record shop, he also started producing his own blend of techno and house in the mid nineties. This led to a string of releases with seminal labels such as NRK, Stickman, 2020 Vision, Crosstown Rebels, Tirk and more recently Greco-Roman, Optimo and Output Recordings. After a move to London in 2000, the George T moniker began a long hiatus. Nothing was heard until Joe Goddard released an EP of rediscovered gems on Greco-Roman in 2017.

His various monikers from then and now include Plastic Avengers, George Demure and more recently as one half of Jeanga and George. He collaborates extensively, with some of his most recent projects featuring actor Tam Dean Burn, soul singer Joseph Malik and Paranoid London's Quinn Whalley. He continues to share his eclectic tastes on his monthly radio show All Noise on Edinburgh's EHFM Radio.

Roll On Kings Cross (single)

Roll On Kings Cross (Clip)

Osaka's Kiji Suedo returns to Edinburgh's Hobbes Music label, following the release of his debut album, Riot, in December '22.

Riot was in Mixmag Asia's Top Ten Releases of 2022 following a warm response from respected DJs and producers worldwide (see below).

PREVIOUS DJ FEEDBACK:
‘Thnx...V nice.’ CHARLES WEBSTER
‘I like the tune Searcher’ ANTAL (Rush Hour)
‘It does indeed sound like Theo Parrish doing dub techno’ ROBERT HARRIS (Ban Ban Ton Ton)
‘Sounds really nice. Definitely feeling the beatdown comparisons (plus glitch, obviously)’ NICK CRADDOCK (Gateway To Zen)
‘Thank you for sharing this release with me! Really diggin it’ INTERGALACTIC GARY
Played ‘Drifter’ on Skyapnea Show, NTS Radio GIOVANNI MARCO CIVITENGA (Skyapnea, Rome)
‘Great release!’ LORNA CLARKSON (Down Low Disco, 2Ser 107.3M, Sydney)
‘Interesting. His work gives the label different scope’ RYOTA OPP (Tokyo)
‘Digging Refuser - looking forward to playing on the rooftop in Camden Market later today’ BEN OSBORNE
‘These are quality but I’m going to need some more time to process them as they’re f*cking nuts’ DRIBBLER (Pikes, Ibiza // Paradise Lost, Red Light Radio, Pure)
"Love the album!" TOBIAS FISCHER (15 Questions Blog, Berlin)

RADIO:
STUART MACONIE played 'Refuser' (Freak Zone, BBC 6Music, 13.11.22)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dy1y

PRESS:
“Kiji Suedo makes house and techno indebted to Detroit producers Theo Parrish and Rick Wilhite but adds his own, somewhat skewed experimetnal edge, resulting in a singular sound...  Suedo’s assiduous and subtle deconstructions of dance rhythms are a real delight for the ear.” DJ MAG (Jan '23)

'Kiji Suedo arrives with stunning debut album, 'Riot'. The Osaka-based artist follows up on recent EPs with a gorgeously experimental long-player the album sees Suedo craft an immersive selection of tracks, with eight mesmerising grooves that veer through Detroit beatdown, glitchy electronica, dusty deep house and far beyond... Expansive, introspective and profoundly original, the music bubbles and broods with thick atmospherics. Evolving through dreamy textures into shadowy topography, the steadily morphing grooves have already won over an array of admirers in the discerning end of the electronic music spectrum.... Highlights from the collection include the murky topography and paranoid swells of 'Searcher', the scattered grooves and hypnotic waves of 'Refuser', and the pitch black soundscapes of 'Guardian'. MIXMAG ASIA, 25.11.22: https://mixmag.asia/read/kiji-suedo-riot-new-releases

"Kiji Suedo’s full-length offering, Riot, out this Friday via Edinburgh’s Hobbes Music, finds the Osaka-based producer locating the sound that he’s been searching for. In his own words, something with “A completely unique texture.” Clearly rooted in a history of rigid 4 / 4s, Kiji’s music here takes those influences and tropes somewhere a little different. Try to imagine Detroit beatdown fed through dub techno’s filters, or if The Indelible MCs / Company Flow had turned their hand to house. Drums thud, funky, loose, and kinda outta sync. Their bumpy, broken groove a bit like a hypnotic Theo Parrish production, though more a muted crashing and colliding. An offbeat, but powerful pulse. Bulbous bass-lines emit a Basic Channel-esque boom, and teasing acid twists. Buried in the mix are fragments, suggestions, of familiar classics, but these details, snippets, are submerged, blurred, smudged into a warm, fuzzy, fog. Manoeuvring the murky depths, vocals are pitched-shifted, sleazy, subliminal. Syncopated swings are serrated. Snares are stuttered. Eq`d almost out of existence, Relief Records` raw Chicago jack is reduced a shuffling ghost by Kiji’s machines. Forget Funkadelic`s Cosmic Slop, this is a “cosmic sludge”, an amorphous, evolving, organic ooze. A dose of deep listening for the discerning, leftfield, dance-floor." BAN BAN TON TON (30.11.22): https://banbantonton.com/2022/11/30/kiji-suedo-riot-hobbes-music/

All Sek EP

Kiji Suedo, Hosek II (Clip)

Kiji Suedo, Hosek I (Clip)

Leonidas & Hobbes - What Is In Space?

Leonidas & Hobbes - RSVP

Leonidas & Hobbes - Keep Livin'

Leonidas & Hobbes - Reality 2.0

Leonidas & Hobbes - Reboot

Leonidas & Hobbes - Magik

INTRO:

Now in its eleventh year and following hype for recent releases from Osaka's Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP & Riot album) and Edinburgh's George T (Roll On, King's Cross single), Edinburgh's Hobbes Music label burrows deeper into experimental ambient terrain with brand new signing Galun. With a discography over 15 years deep, Galun brings no shortage of his own props. 

Galun is the solo project of Moscow musician, artist, and producer Sergei Galunenko (currently based in Tallinn), who has performed at numerous prestigious Russian events and collaborated on projects internationally in a career spanning more than 15 years, with a discography to match, turning his attention to myriad styles: IDM, funk, techno, juke, post rock, beatboxing, free improvisation, drone.   

“In my project, Galun, I do not use musical instruments,” he explains. “All the sounds are produced with only the use of my voice through beatbox and special vocal skills.  Some effects are used to produce electronic sounds.” [NB Lately, Sergei has also been experimenting with synthesiser sounds and this album contains two electronic tracks - see below].

Hot on the heels of the new Golos album (out imminently via Berlin's One Instrument) plus a remix for US collaborator Alek Finn via Nevada's Mystery Circles label, Galunenko’s eighth studio album, Glagol (or Glagolь / Глаголь in Russian) is an ambient collection, recorded between 2013 and 2022.  The title is an old Russian word which translates as ‘Speak’.

"This album consists of tracks written in different periods, so it turned out to be diverse," he says.  "There are classic ambient tracks, as well as experimental ones in search of new possibilities for voice processing."

Why "glagol"? “Since the music on this album is 90 percent processed voice, it's a form of conversation for me," he reveals, “where I talk about my thoughts and mood, so speak music, while using my voice, is an amazing way of expressing.”

Five singles will be released on streaming platforms only, at intervals, over summer (starting 23.6.23), with the full album released on limited edition cassette, a series of three lathe cut EPs and digital, 25.8.23.

ARTIST’S NOTES FOR SINGLES:

1981 [out 23.6.23]
“One of the first tracks written after the Solitude album. The idea was to make a rhythmic ambient track, like techno without drums.” 

Choral / Хорал [out 30.6.23]
“Conceived as a classic ambient. I sang a few notes, composed chords from them, then transposed some of the notes up and down an octave, plus processing.”

Quiescence (Grain Version) / Покой (Гранулярная Версия) [out 14.7.23]
“Came about by chance. I recorded a house track using my old recordings, and a good sample was chosen that combined harmony and bass. I placed this piece in the middle of the house composition, before the climax, and then began to play with the slowdown of the whole track with granular processing. It turned out that this sample sounded like a separate composition.”

Aurora (Feat. Alek Fin) / Аврора (Совместно с Алек Фин) [out 28.7.23
“I invited Alek Fin to record our second joint material. Usually I send my sketches, and he chooses what he likes and continues to refine them. So a little material was recorded, but we could not release it, and decided to disassemble it by compositions into our albums.”

Mirror (Synth Version) / Зеркало (Синтезаторная Версия) [out 18.8.23]
“This is the first composition that breaks my concept of this project (no synths). Here I use voice samples with virtual synths, and processing as always. The idea was to make a classic ambient track from VST instruments.”

https://glagol.netlify.app/contacts.html
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1930329-Галун

Glagol

Galun_Glagol_8_Aurora_Featuring_Alek_Fin_(HM023-4)

INTRO:

Now in its eleventh year and following hype for recent releases from Osaka's Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP & Riot album) and Edinburgh's George T (Roll On, King's Cross single), Edinburgh's Hobbes Music label burrows deeper into experimental ambient terrain with brand new signing Galun. With a discography over 15 years deep, Galun brings no shortage of his own props. 

Galun is the solo project of Moscow musician, artist, and producer Sergei Galunenko (currently based in Tallinn), who has performed at numerous prestigious Russian events and collaborated on projects internationally in a career spanning more than 15 years, with a discography to match, turning his attention to myriad styles: IDM, funk, techno, juke, post rock, beatboxing, free improvisation, drone.   

“In my project, Galun, I do not use musical instruments,” he explains. “All the sounds are produced with only the use of my voice through beatbox and special vocal skills.  Some effects are used to produce electronic sounds.” [NB Lately, Sergei has also been experimenting with synthesiser sounds and this album contains two electronic tracks - see below].

Hot on the heels of the new Golos album (out imminently via Berlin's One Instrument) plus a remix for US collaborator Alek Finn via Nevada's Mystery Circles label, Galunenko’s eighth studio album, Glagol (or Glagolь / Глаголь in Russian) is an ambient collection, recorded between 2013 and 2022.  The title is an old Russian word which translates as ‘Speak’.

"This album consists of tracks written in different periods, so it turned out to be diverse," he says.  "There are classic ambient tracks, as well as experimental ones in search of new possibilities for voice processing."

Why "glagol"? “Since the music on this album is 90 percent processed voice, it's a form of conversation for me," he reveals, “where I talk about my thoughts and mood, so speak music, while using my voice, is an amazing way of expressing.”

Five singles will be released on streaming platforms only, at intervals, over summer (starting 23.6.23), with the full album released on limited edition cassette, a series of three lathe cut EPs and digital, 25.8.23.

ARTIST’S NOTES FOR SINGLES:

1981 [out 23.6.23]
“One of the first tracks written after the Solitude album. The idea was to make a rhythmic ambient track, like techno without drums.” 

Choral / Хорал [out 30.6.23]
“Conceived as a classic ambient. I sang a few notes, composed chords from them, then transposed some of the notes up and down an octave, plus processing.”

Quiescence (Grain Version) / Покой (Гранулярная Версия) [out 14.7.23]
“Came about by chance. I recorded a house track using my old recordings, and a good sample was chosen that combined harmony and bass. I placed this piece in the middle of the house composition, before the climax, and then began to play with the slowdown of the whole track with granular processing. It turned out that this sample sounded like a separate composition.”

Aurora (Feat. Alek Fin) / Аврора (Совместно с Алек Фин) [out 28.7.23
“I invited Alek Fin to record our second joint material. Usually I send my sketches, and he chooses what he likes and continues to refine them. So a little material was recorded, but we could not release it, and decided to disassemble it by compositions into our albums.”

Mirror (Synth Version) / Зеркало (Синтезаторная Версия) [out 11.8.23]
“This is the first composition that breaks my concept of this project (no synths). Here I use voice samples with virtual synths, and processing as always. The idea was to make a classic ambient track from VST instruments.”

https://glagol.netlify.app/contacts.html
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1930329-Галун

Galun_Glagol_1_Inhalation_(HM023)

Galun_Glagol_10_Soviet_Power_(HM023)

Leonidas & Hobbes - Space Symphony

Leonidas & Hobbes - Pockets Of Light

Leonidas & Hobbes - The Perturbed Mind

Ear Candy Dandy

George Demure, 'Circles' (Instrumental) [HM025-2]

George Demure, 'Circles' (Check Masses Remix) [HM025-2]

George Demure, 'Circles' (Neotropic's 'Take My Hand' Remix) [HM025-2]

George Demure, 'Circles' [HM025-2]

Currently celebrating ten years of releasing music on vinyl & cassette and following hype for recent releases from Moscow (via Tallinn)’s Galun (glagol album) and Osaka's Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP & Riot album), Edinburgh's Hobbes Music label continues to mine a leftfield seam with this brand new album from singer/songwriter George Demure (Tirk, Output) aka DJ/producer George T (Greco Roman, Optimo), better known as George Thomson to his mum. And it’s another absolute peach if you have a taste for post-club sounds of a more leftfield persuasion.

This is the follow-up to his 'The Record Store' EP which came out via George's own All Noise imprint in 2021. He has also released the Roll On, King's Cross single via Hobbes Music under his George T moniker last November (plus various bits for the Paradise Palms and Ramrock labels in the interim).

STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH:

“It all began with the Record Store EP in 2021,” explains George. “Limit my options. No samples, one drum machine, two analog synths (mono and poly), computer simply to record. I was so happy with the results I began with what you hear today. Same drums, same machines (or lack thereof) maybe some real percussion and melodica but hey, I only answer to me.”

IN A NUTSHELL:

Imagine, if you will, Scott Walker jamming with Kruder & Dorfmeister in a very small studio…

WHAT?! THERE'S A BONUS ALBUM ON THE SAME TAPE AS WELL?!

Bonus Album Dandy In Dub features dubs, instrumentals and bonus tracks, with yet more regular flashes of pure brilliance. Be sure to check out opener 'After' and closer 'Blue Lou', which sound like George might well have sound-tracked some French 80s flick of the 'cinema du look' period (Betty Blue, Diva et al) in another life. Plus 'Mr Minilogue' with its clarinet-like synth....

I mean, does it really get any better than this?!!

--

REVIEWS, FEEDBACK ETC:

"On a bobbled and float-y, light sunbeam dappled vapor of deep house, garage, electro, kosmische, leftfield pop electronica, dub and new wave (both the German and UK’s), the Edinburgh DJ/producer and singer-songwriter George Thomson continues the good work he laid down on the last EP...

It’s a most lovely, swimmingly blend of motivations, feels and deep grooves that effortlessly comes together in a generous offering of electronic music: the very epitome of the Hobbes label’s remit in delivering leftfield unique visions of now techno, house and club sounds." MONOLITH COCKTAIL

monolithcocktail.com/2023/12/06/the-perusal-50-lea-bertucci-universal-harmonies-frequencies-june-mcdoom-kenneth-jimenez-george-demure/

George Demure - 'Ear Candy Dandy' A1, 'Hello'

It's True What They Say EP

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Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - B3, 'Dust Tears (Instrumental)'

Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - B2 'Starbed'

Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - B1 'Keep Your Eyes Closed'

Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - A2 'It's True What They Say?'

Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - A1, 'Dust Tears'

First pressing SOLD OUT (ltd. ed. 10").  Second pressing (12"): ow.ly/7uSh30chB2P  - VINYL ONLY (NO DIGITAL, EX. 4 VINYL BUYERS).  ALSO FROM:

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Leonidas & Hobbes, Web Of Intrigue(Original Mix)- CLIP

Leonidas & Hobbes, Web Of Intrigue(Extended Mix)- CLIP

Leonidas & Hobbes make a timely return with Aranath EP, 3 years after their 3rd EP (Rags Of Time, with lead track Web Of Intrigue) was voted No1 in Bill Brewster's 2017 DJ History poll.  Delivering a follow-up to many people’s 2017 summer anthem has been something of a protracted process, not least due to Covid and the 400 miles between us.  

Aranath features the hugely talented multi-instrumentalist Riad Abji and his virtuoso cello & tanpura raga, which inspired us to create 4 mixes, combining Riad's eastern lament with classic house and ambient techno. The release is complemented by the tropical flavours of 'Into It' and 'Out Of It'.  The previously unreleased ambient mix of 'Web of Intrigue' (digital-only bonus track) from 'Rags of Time' rounds off what can certainly be described as a 'deep' release.

The sleeve art was inspired by an Indian painting from the 19th Century and created over the course of many obsessive evenings at the height of lockdown (as was some of the audio).  Needless to say, the whole project has helped to keep us both sane through these crazy months.

Selected Feedback:
'Ah fabulous cheers. Yes I’m a big fan of your work’ JUSTIN ROBERTSON (Soho Radio, LDN)
 ‘Oh yes to all of this please really nice deep heavy <raised fist emoji>.  Really curious about the instrumentation – amazing’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco, LDN)
 ‘I like Aranath.  [Into It] is very very good.’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History, LDN)
 ‘I particularly dug the ambient mixes, especially ‘Arantha’. Mmmm, that cello!! Beautiful. Top work. I dug it all but that was the stand out for me’ JD TWITCH (Optimo, Glasgow)
 ‘Love it all. Great production. Great music’ DICKY TRISCO (Disco Deviance, Maxi Discs, Home Taping etc, UK/Worldwide)
 ‘Really like it – my fave are the ambient mixes. Great stuff’ KENNETH BAGER (Music For Dreams, DK)
'I really like the Ambient versions and Web of Intrigue is A M A Z I N G ! ! !  Sounds like an Alfredo / Leo Mas secret weapon at Amnesia during summer of 87 :)  Since I’m compiling a mixtape for Beats In Space I’m digging more “chill” stuff than dance beats, they will be included of course but I guess this WoI ambient version is perfect for the first minutes. Other tracks are great :)' BAWRUT (Silencio, Ransom Note, Hard Fist, Madrid/SP)
‘Really like Ara, Arantha and the Web Of Intrigue version’ PHIL MISON (Cantoma/Reverso 68, LDN)
 ‘Sounds good mate. Please send best quality files’ NICK THE RECORD (UK)
 ‘I like these. I will try to play something on my next show’ RED RACK EM (SWU FM, Bristol)
 ‘I like Aranatha best. The tripping synth is really cool’ KAY SUZUKI (Time Capsule, LDN)
 ‘I really like all the versions, great job, congratulations, you have all my support” LEO MAS (Balearic legend, IT)
 ‘Absolutely love this’ BALEARIC MIKE (UK)
 ‘Aranath (Original Mix) is super dope’ JONNY ROCK (UK)
 ‘I will get some of these on my various radio shows and live streams :o)’ PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul, SP)
 ‘Ah, yes lads! Lovely stuff!!!  These are really excellent, in the next ALFOS EBS for sure! Was waiting to hear what you did next. I really like all of them very much’ SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space, LDN)
 ‘Lots to like here, very interesting EP. Really like the ambient cuts, especially of ‘Intrigue’, but those housier jams are great too. Def something to play across a range of styles which is always good!’ JOE MORRIS (Clandestino/Balamii, Leeds)
 ‘Interesting release. I really like it, the Balearic crowd are gonna have fun with it. Good DJ tool potential in some of the mixes too’ CHRIS ORR (XLR8R/URB/Revolution Magazine/Mixmag, San Francisco/US)
 ‘It’s excellent’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic, Glasgow)

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Leonidas & Hobbes - 'Web of Intrigue' (Long Haul Mix) [AMBIENT] (clip)

Leonidas & Hobbes featuring Riad Abji - 'Ara' (Club Mix) (clip)

Leonidas & Hobbes make a timely return with Aranath EP, 3 years after their 3rd EP (Rags Of Time, with lead track Web Of Intrigue) was voted No1 in Bill Brewster's 2017 DJ History poll.  Delivering a follow-up to many people’s 2017 summer anthem has been something of a protracted process, not least due to Covid and the 400 miles between us.  

Aranath features the hugely talented multi-instrumentalist Riad Abji and his virtuoso cello & tanpura raga, which inspired us to create 4 mixes, combining Riad's eastern lament with classic house and ambient techno. The release is complemented by the tropical flavours of 'Into It' and 'Out Of It'.  The previously unreleased ambient mix of 'Web of Intrigue' (digital-only bonus track) from 'Rags of Time' rounds off what can certainly be described as a 'deep' release.

The sleeve art was inspired by an Indian painting from the 19th Century and created over the course of many obsessive evenings at the height of lockdown (as was some of the audio).  Needless to say, the whole project has helped to keep us both sane through these crazy months.

Selected Feedback:
'Ah fabulous cheers. Yes I’m a big fan of your work’ JUSTIN ROBERTSON (Soho Radio, LDN)
 ‘Oh yes to all of this please really nice deep heavy <raised fist emoji>.  Really curious about the instrumentation – amazing’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco, LDN)
 ‘I like Aranath.  [Into It] is very very good.’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History, LDN)
 ‘I particularly dug the ambient mixes, especially ‘Arantha’. Mmmm, that cello!! Beautiful. Top work. I dug it all but that was the stand out for me’ JD TWITCH (Optimo, Glasgow)
 ‘Love it all. Great production. Great music’ DICKY TRISCO (Disco Deviance, Maxi Discs, Home Taping etc, UK/Worldwide)
 ‘Really like it – my fave are the ambient mixes. Great stuff’ KENNETH BAGER (Music For Dreams, DK)
'I really like the Ambient versions and Web of Intrigue is A M A Z I N G ! ! !  Sounds like an Alfredo / Leo Mas secret weapon at Amnesia during summer of 87 :)  Since I’m compiling a mixtape for Beats In Space I’m digging more “chill” stuff than dance beats, they will be included of course but I guess this WoI ambient version is perfect for the first minutes. Other tracks are great :)' BAWRUT (Silencio, Ransom Note, Hard Fist, Madrid/SP)
‘Really like Ara, Arantha and the Web Of Intrigue version’ PHIL MISON (Cantoma/Reverso 68, LDN)
 ‘Sounds good mate. Please send best quality files’ NICK THE RECORD (UK)
 ‘I like these. I will try to play something on my next show’ RED RACK EM (SWU FM, Bristol)
 ‘I like Aranatha best. The tripping synth is really cool’ KAY SUZUKI (Time Capsule, LDN)
 ‘I really like all the versions, great job, congratulations, you have all my support” LEO MAS (Balearic legend, IT)
 ‘Absolutely love this’ BALEARIC MIKE (UK)
 ‘Aranath (Original Mix) is super dope’ JONNY ROCK (UK)
 ‘I will get some of these on my various radio shows and live streams :o)’ PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul, SP)
 ‘Ah, yes lads! Lovely stuff!!!  These are really excellent, in the next ALFOS EBS for sure! Was waiting to hear what you did next. I really like all of them very much’ SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space, LDN)
 ‘Lots to like here, very interesting EP. Really like the ambient cuts, especially of ‘Intrigue’, but those housier jams are great too. Def something to play across a range of styles which is always good!’ JOE MORRIS (Clandestino/Balamii, Leeds)
 ‘Interesting release. I really like it, the Balearic crowd are gonna have fun with it. Good DJ tool potential in some of the mixes too’ CHRIS ORR (XLR8R/URB/Revolution Magazine/Mixmag, San Francisco/US)
 ‘It’s excellent’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic, Glasgow)

Leonidas & Hobbes - 'Into It'

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