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)

Mellow Cat & Kathy Diamond - Accelerate - Pete Herbert Instrumental Mix

DC Promo Tracks #1237: "Lunar Fantasy" by Joe Morris is part of the release "Solar Fantasy" on Shades Of Sound Recordings  

Buy Now: https://shadesofsoundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/solar-fantasy 

More Promo Tracks: https://www.dreamchimney.com/promo

Solar Fantasy

DC Promo Tracks: Joe Morris "Lunar Fantasy"

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)

Col Lawton, Discosteps, Glass Slipper - Let Me In Your Heart  
House Salad Music
Cat: HSMD094 
Buy: https://housesaladmusic.bandcamp.com/album/let-me-in-your-heart

HSMD094 Col Lawton, Discosteps, Glass Slipper - Let Me In Your Heart  [House Salad Music]

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

This track contains a Moodymann's speech. Moodymann talks about his MPCs and why he does what he does.

Grab your copy on Bandcamp:
https://soulseduction.bandcamp.com/album/soulseduction-moodymambomann

SOULSEDUCTION "MOODYMAMBOMANN"

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DJ Eef - Coucher De Soleil (DOR Projects)

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Lost Carnival

Salentino - You’ll Be In Paradise (Instrumental) - 1985

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In Flagranti (Sasa Crnobrnja & Alex Gloor)

The duo has always made a great case demonstrating how “inspiration” from the creative works of others can truly be made into something new and totally distinct from the source material.  But whether you know the source material bears major influence on what their interpretation is going to even sound like to you.  In other words, you could be hearing the same song as another listener is, but if you’re familiar with the source material, you’re going to also be hearing that, while someone who isn’t familiar with it won’t.  Most of their listeners have no idea this is even going on, or could even be allowed.
I figure I follow In Flagranti quite closely, but I only make a connection here, or a connection there.  Sometimes this happens immediately, other times it’s taken years to notice.  Most connections I will never even be aware of, and I don’t listen for them, they just stand out to me or they don’t.  Sometimes I only discover the source material long after I’ve been familar with In Flagranti’s take on it, which you’d think would detract from the latter, but for me, it only adds to it.  In Flagranti’s musical interpretations show a certain ethic and a philosophy that parallels their approach to visual content.  It’s so “meta” that I’m at a loss to describe it, except to say what I often do:  Warhol would be In Flagranti’s biggest fan if he was around to witness them. – truckerdisco.wordpress.com

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”

Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rule #5