This album came together through having an unquenchable thirst to produce and represent my past experiences of warehouses parties back in the early days of house. Those experiences will live with me for a lifetime, and I am very glad to have had them. These tracks represent for me the spirit and feel of those days. The strobe in a dark room, the unmistakable smell of amyl nitrate in a damp corner near a speaker stack in a huge warehouse. The anticipation of what lay inside as you drop your first e in the queue, all while the bass rattles the fixtures & foundations. Then, once all your energy is spent, the after party, early morning, ridiculous amounts of blunts, hot knives and bongs whilst someone loads a cassette of deep house or street soul

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For their next release, Leng Records are offering-up something a little bit different: a 12” compilation of little-known and hard-to-find Balearic gems selected by friend of the label Paul Beckett.

Plucked from the dusty corners of his collection, the five tracks on show are musically rich excursions that effortlessly blur the boundaries between genres and will sound especially perfect on a humid Mediterranean or Adriatic afternoon.

First up is The Ray & John’s languid, disco-tinged ‘Day By Day (Instrumental)’, which originally featured on the flipside of the Italian duo’s sole single from 1984. Rich in rubbery bass guitar, sequenced synth-bass, sharp disco guitar licks and occasional chanted vocals, it sounds like Please-era Pet Shop Boys reclining at a Rimini pool party.

It’s followed by Angel’o’s ‘Angelo’, a turn-of-the-80s gem picked from the band’s long-forgotten album, Dream Machine. Marked out by warming electric piano motifs, squelchy synth-bass and hazy lead vocals, the track successfully mixes krautrock and space rock sounds with the then fresh sound of synth-pop.

Next up is All Trouvee’s ‘Darling’, a thoroughly overlooked 1987 single whose minimalistic sleeve artwork lists each of the now-classic – and then cutting edge – synthesizers used to make the sun-soaked blend of mid-80s synth disco, AOR pop and sunset-ready jazz-funk piano solos.

Equally impactful is Angel’s ‘Tomorrow Night’, a little-known chunk of glossy, laidback synth-pop. Its’ sound of delayed drums, synth-horns, Nile Rodgers style guitar licks and echoing lead lines was actually far sighted for the time but would become more familiar to listeners as synth-pop boomed in the mid 1980s.

Rounding off the package is ‘Feeling Action’ by Eggs Time, a deliciously warm and woozy chunk of Italian pop/West Coast jazz-rock fusion plucked from a real slice of buried treasure: an Italian compilation called Moby Dick. There’s certainly a tinge of both yacht rock and blue-eyed soul about the tracks blend of FM synth sounds, eyes-closed jazz guitar solos, unfussy beats and sweet female vocals.

It provides a fittingly horizontal finish to a collection packed with long-overlooked, sun-baked treats.

LENG SHOP

The Ray & John - Day By Day (Instrumental)

Part Of: Da Cuckoo YaYa
Release Date: 21.07.23
Buy Link: https://reubenvaunsmith.bandcamp.com/album/da-cuckoo-yaya-2

Reuben Vaun Smith
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Ubiquity Records
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Release Text:
Since he made his debut three years ago with sun-soaked first album Warm Nights, Reuben Vaun Smith has grown and evolved as an artist. His aims, objectives and musical output have changed, too – something that’s evident from the opening bars of his third full-length, Da Cuckoo Ya Ya, which also marks his first appearance on Californian institution Ubiquity Records.

Whereas the summery and colourful Warm Nights was the result of time spent teaching himself music and production, not to mention over a year of daily recording, Da Cuckoo Ya Ya was recorded in less than two months. It not only showcases Smith’s sharpened musicianship and his growing love of Eastern exoticism and wide-eyed psychedelia, but also features guest spots from friends (and fellow Leeds locals) Sakura Murakami (a guitarist who also featured on 2021’s Sounds From The Workshop album), bassist Nial Deravairere (on deliciously dubbed-out and hazy closing cut ‘Beams’) and vocalist Lucy Saddler.

While it shares some sonic similarities with its predecessors – not least a greater reliance on live instrumentation and plenty of audible nods towards Malian musical culture – Smith’s new set is his most confident and dynamic yet, with the Leeds-based producer consciously moving closer to the dancefloor whilst polishing his productions further and showcasing all he’s learned to date.

Smith sets the tone with funky and flash-fried opener ‘Da Cuckoo Ya Ya’, a superbly summer-ready statement of intent rich in flanged psych-funk guitar licks, vintage synth riffs and loose-limbed drums, before subtly doffing a cap to highlife on the peak-time-ready dancefloor celebration of ‘Mama’. By the time ‘Oumbadougou’ settles in to its stride in a wave of effects-laden guitars, polyrhythmic breakbeats, lilting violin lines and dusky early evening textures, you’ll be hooked.

The album is peppered with smile-inducing highlights, from the kaleidoscopic nu-disco/Afro-disco fusion of bona fide dancefloor jam ‘The Waxing Gibbous Moon’, the synth-sporting gorgeousness of ‘Mali’ and the explosion of keys solos, psych guitars and nods to Middle Eastern musical culture that is driving club cut ‘Milano Caravan’, to the hot-stepping, piano-sporting bounce of ‘No Puedo Esperar’ and the immersive, percussive and vividly colourful ‘Help Me Ride’. Then there’s triumphant closing cut ‘Beams’, a chugging, Afro-cosmic masterpiece of the sort more often associated with Daniele Baldelli and Marco Dionigi.

There’s no needlessly clever concept here, just ten killer cuts, expertly imagined and executed, that perfectly encapsulate the evolution and quality of Reuben Vaun Smith’s attractive trademark sound. It’s the sound of an artist who is not only comfortable in his sonic skin, but also laying the foundations of a long and fruitful musical career. 

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Da Cuckoo YaYa

PREMIERE: Reuben Vaun Smith - Beams [Ubiquity Records]

After being dubbed a 'legendary' party and following popular demand to relisten to the sets, we have dug in our archives and pulled out the live recording of Harari's early evening set at the KITCHENSESSIONS Matinée Open Air on the 8th of July 2023 in the secret not-so-secret garden in Chorrillos, Lima. Here it is to listen back wherever you are in the world. Enjoy!

@hararimusic

HARARI live at Kitchensessions 08/07/23 Lima, Peru

Viscardi & Il Duo Magnetico is a project coming from the italo-swiss DJ/singer Pascal Viscardi and members of the Swiss band L’Éclair, Yavor Lilov and Alain Sandri. Together, they’ve curated a unique fusion of italo-pop, drawing inspiration from new-wave, balearic, boogie, disco, and world music. 
Following the release of their first 7” single in the summer of 2023, their debut album "Elka Mare" is set for release on Ed Longo’s excellent Cosmic Romance imprint in January of 2024.

Music is My Sanctuary is proud to present an exclusive from the LP, the anthemic cut “Macchina Furiosa”.

Elka Mare

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Exclusive Premiere: Viscardi & Il Duo Magnetico "Macchina Furiosa" (Forthcoming on Cosmic Romance)

Bold Parade - Risperidone - Simon Sheldon Remix
Klang Kollektor - Garden Pond
Joan Bibiloni featuring Pep Tosar 'Un Adéu' [Instrumental Version]
Joan Bibiloni featuring Rhys Ifans 'Badia On​í​rica' [Instrumental Version]
D-echo Project  - Coffee
Mildlife - Yourself (Instrumental)
Andres y Xavi y Jezebell - Bibbles (Pots & Pans Mix)
Carly Simon - Why (Haners Overdubbed Edit)
Anders Ponsaing - Bossa On The Beach (ft. Troels Hammer)
Troels Hammer - Milk River (feat. Basyani)

Music For Dreams Radio Show 3.2.24

Full version on codekrecords.bandcamp.com/track/is-there-nothing-i-can-say-in-flagranti-edit

Every Saturday night we take a ride down memory lane and fill up our tanks with some great edits that we’ll always love. So here’s a In Flagranti edit that came out on Mindless Boogie a couple of years ago. Killer.

Is There Nothing I Can Say (In Flagranti Edit) The Olson Tinglers snippet

What do you get when one of the UK's finest music makers goes into the studio with one of Norway's fastest-rising producers? Listen to Offshore Sunsets and find out. That's exactly what happened when Fila Brazilia's Steve Cobby & Third Attempt hooked up to create some stunning sounds for their new EP.

B Human kicks things off with the first of two collaborations, and it's all kinds of rolling, hypnotic, spaced-out, Balearic business. Floating minor keys, walking bass and a gorgeous chugging guitar make it sun-blessed.

Language Of The Heart is the solo offering by Third Attempt, and is a tripped out smoker's delight. Soul II Soul, Crazy P and Nightmares on Wax can all be felt, perfect for those early evening or 'back-to-mine' sessions.

Finally, Feeling Seen sees the chaps working their collaborative magic again on a hazy, jazzy, broken beat, doozy of a track that is deep, stripped back and funky as all hell.

Offshore Sunsets

Feeling Seen

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Feeling Seen (Original Mix)

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Tropical Climax w/ Aura Safari Ft. Janky Groove - 14.02.2024

NIGHTINTODAYMIX

Hand selected and mixed by @the-beat-broker for dreamchimney.com

Food For Fantasy - The Spirit of Freedom
Soft Synth Boogie - Technicolour
Mushrooms Project - Fly Away (Grey Eyes) (40 Thieves Remix)
Suzanne Kraft  - Horoscope
Sonna Dummer - Manzana (extended dub)
BlueAzure - Down Low
Beatfanatic - Dont Shout (feat John Silvio)
Gazeebo - Meet Me At The Horizon
Farbror Resande Mac - Mist 
Rompante - How Low Can You Dance
Peter Visti - Illusions In A Twisted Mind
Lovelock - The Fog
the Beat Broker - High Life

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Takedown

Hugh Mane