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Albert’s Favourites are extremely proud to present ‘Sunshine’, a new album from Hector Plimmer.

We first approached Hector after watching a live performance of his at the legendary ‘Sounds of the Universe’ Record store in Soho. He stunned us with his attention to detail in his productions, and we were keen to talk further. 

What we weren’t expecting was the full body of work that Hector sent over. Previously released work was mixed in with new unfinished ideas, and as we progressed we realized that there was already a good albums worth of material to work with. “It represents (in no particular order) my musical journey over the past 4 or so years, some of which may never have seen the light of day. All of the music in this album has come about as organically as possible, from tapping a light bulb I was changing to finding a sweet sounding Kalimba at Raw Material in Brixton and recording it on my phone (shout out to Miles laughing in the background of ‘Kalimba 2’).”

We whittled down the original folder to what we present to you today. ‘Sunshine’ is a well-rounded body of work that truly represents Hector’s influences and passions. From the frantic drum work of ‘Eastern System’ that we released back in December on 7” vinyl, to the ambient beauty of ‘Sunshine’, this album unfolds and morphs beautifully to capture the feeling of inner city dwelling. “The process also included finding out my next door neighbours Rob & Lu (Drahla) made amazing music & meeting Andrea (And Is Phi) at the Brainchild Festival Warm Up party in London last year.”

In the same way groups like Portishead and Leftfield captured a moment in time, Hectors work, although influenced by them, is also drenched in tribal rhythms and beautifully crafted bass. Melodies weave and shift to make way for glorious synths or vocal lines. Clearly influenced by beat makers like Flying Lotus and Theo Parrish, but with the subtleties of the classic Metalheadz era Drum and Bass, this album will definitely leave you wanting more.

Anyway, we’ve said enough. Dive in and enjoy.

You can catch Hector around London, playing records and playing live. He has a regular show on NTS Radio – ‘Is This Thing On? w/ Hector Plimmer’ and he also co-curates the ‘Sampled’ project with a crew of DJs, producers and musicians, and can be found playing at various venues in the capital.

“Very very good!’ – Gilles Peterson

Sunshine

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Sunshine (Feat. And Is Phi)

It really feels like we (aka Mad Mats & Tooli) been around way longer than 5 ½ years with Local Talk but its really true what they say, time flies when you’re having fun! From what started as a somewhat simple and almost primitive urge to create a small house imprint has now grown into a much bigger affair. We really tried hard to keep the label from getting stuck in any genre (remember 90s house?) and to always keep the Local Talk relevant, curious, diverse and with a healthy dose of underground mentality. 

From our very first release with Bassfort’s excellent “Moon Shadow” in the summer of 2011 we had a crystal clear vision of what Local Talk should represent…house music in any way, shape or form! Over the years we released soulful, disco, jack, afro, vocal, deep, jazz, tech, latin, old school, acid, UK, Berlin, New Jersey, Detroit and of course Chicago inspired house music. If it made us bump…we put it out!

This brings us up to today and about +80 releases later. We thought about how we best could sum up these first 5 ½ years and immediately the image of Blaze classic album “25 Years Later” popped up. Besides the fact that its an amazing album cover it also a good representation when different musical genres fuse together. Its not strictly a house album but just as well a r&b, reggae and soul album. This fusion and variation of house sounds is something that we’ve tried to capture on our “5 ½ Years Later” compilation, split into two parts.

On part 1 you’ll find a dark bass-line driven house jam from Art Of Tones (check the mad sax!), a proper deep journey jam from NYCs DJ Spinna, a Blaze homage with that classic New Jersey sound from Sean McCabe, a bumpy world/jazz inspired cut straight outta Brescia from wonder kid Corrado Bucci.

Release dates : 
Local Talk 5 1/2 Years Part 1 (Vinyl) March 9th 
Local Talk 5 1/2 Years Part 2 (Vinyl) March 27th 

Local Talk 5 1/2 Years Compilation (Digital) April 21st

Art Of Tones feat. Nicolas Felices - Violation (12'' - LTLP003, Side A1) 2017

Out now on https://soundcloud.com/ghettodub_uk


Way up on the summit of Grumbleweed mountain in an all-mod-cons mud shack resides a mysterious cave-dwelling creature known only as Kickback. He lives mainly on a diet of roadkill sandwiches, which, he claims, fuels his passion for streetwise and gritty underground dance music. He recently sailed into Bristol down the river Severn on his raft, the HMS Delta and thats where he heard about Ghetto Dub from a poster stuck to the wall of the Blue Mountain Club. He knocked on the door, presented us with a USB stick and proceeded to slither off down the street in the direction of Shady Grove, apparently looking for a dead pigeon for a new sandwich idea he has been working on. The USB contained 4 files which under very careful spectral analysis, turned out to be music. We wanted to sign these tunes so without further ado we started our search for the creature hoping he had not yet left the area. After some pretty mind blowing detective work we managed to track him to a blues club in Weston-S-Mare where he was blissfully listening to Radio Million and reading the new novel, 50 Shades Of Weird, by Gareth Clegg. At first we were nervous but we plucked up the courage to approach him. He was incoherent from drinking spinal fluid and didn’t want to speak to us. He was giving us the silent treatment. But after coaxing him with a piece of dry toast and block of extra mature Cathedral City we managed to get a few words out of him. “4U' he said. “The tunes are 4U”. Then he jumped onto a Moto Guzzi V7 motorcycle, obviously stolen from the Saxon Street Hells Angel chapter round the corner, and he disappeared into the distance. We have not seen him since.

GHETT15 Kickback - Severn Delta (Original Mix)

Support : http://bit.ly/sup019BP

Mr Paul Losev AKA @Paul2Paul AKA our favourite Russian-in-New-York is back with his 3rd EP for us, and this one is by far his most accomplished work yet. An Old Story EP features 3 originals as well as a stunning remix by @Giom. 

An Old Story is classic Paul2Paul: emotive, warm, well produced and musical in every way. Here, the Juno 106 meets the grand piano in perfect harmony. Giom then takes the track to the next level, adding extra parts and layers that should please fans of Pampa Records. Nothing But The Bass is the peak groover track of the pack. Simple, yet devastatingly effective, this is one bouncy groove that will not fail any dancefloor with its hypnotic feel. Last but not least, Paul lets loose and explores new territories with No Stars, a one-of-a-kind tracky number with plenty of skips and personality, re-edited and beefed up especially by Giom for ultimate dance-floor satisfaction.

An Old Story EP

No Stars (Giom Re - Edit)

04 Solar Flares Burn for You

Something i did for me ipod & thought i would share, up fro free download.

Tracklist to follow:

www.kickback.co.uk

Kickback - Drum & Bass Mixtape 2018

another mix i did just for my ipod, and thought i would share.

Tracklistings to follow:

Kickback - Old Skool Garage Mix Vol 1

Conditions Of Reality

Hucky began DJing at Clubs, Festivals and free parties across the UK in 1994. As an artist his own productions are deep and soulful, heavily influenced by 90's house and garage. He has collaborated with several well know artists and with his first forthcoming release on replay recordings you can expect good music to come over the next few months..

Conditions Of Reality

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