Music for sunshine, pool parties, nocturnal manouevres. Chillout, downtempo, sideways, a little disco, some ambient, a few classics and some new stuff all mixed up (best viewed by date added).

Balearic_part2

Written and mixed by Marcos Alonso
Mastered by Colin Oood at oood.net/mastering.html
Artwork by Marcos Alonso

Time On My Side

Bakean - Devoiko Feat. Elitsa Arsova (Original Mix)

Vocals by https://soundcloud.com/internetl0ver1234
Bandcamp : https://autokorrekturofficial.bandcamp.com/album/southbound
Full Album : https://soundcloud.com/autokorrektur/sets/southbound
Artwork @Widersacher

Jesus Was Homeless

Spoonhead & Transcenic: Higher Ground
Catalogue No: BNP509
Label: Beat & Path
Format: Digital
Release date: 27/10/2023
Worldwide all platforms: 10/01/2023

Following an impressive Beat & Path debut (‘Fridgian Dominant’), Transcenic are back to make a statement. The South Island pair – Ray (Spoonhead) and Jimmy (Subminimal) – have years of collective experience on the island’s doof scene which, as Transcenic, they’re channelling into a project with an eastward gaze.

‘Higher Ground’ is a heavy vehicle. A long, poignant vocal call sets the tone; it’s the sort that characterised evocative early rave tracks (think ‘Raincry’ and ’Out of Body Experience’) and lets you know you’re in for some proper dancefloor mysticism. The kick drops alongside swinging highs and low synth growls, and pretty quickly you’re getting pulled through a sound-world of monks, DMT insects and stately columns sculpted from transmuted saw waves. A huge inner landscape to explore while your feet are busy stomping – i.e., exactly what you’d hope for from house producers with psy credentials.

Peruvian instrumentalist Marco Tegui (Kindisch, Stil Vor Talent, Downtempo Love) provides a complete rework, layering his own guitar virtuosity over a pumping vaudevillian beat. It’s the sort of remix that comes rarely in a scene where remixes can be little more than edits, and you may initially struggle to join the dots. But careful attention reveals this for what it is: a meticulous overhaul that bows to its source material before folding it inside out. It’s also a low-key banger.

Follow Spoonhead:
SC: @spoonhead
Web: spoonhead.live/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/spoonhead.music

Follow Transcenic:
SC: @transcenic
IG: www.instagram.com/transcenic/
Web: transcenic.live/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/transcenic

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SC: @marcotegui
IG: www.instagram.com/marco_tegui/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/djmarcotegui

PREMIERE: Spoonhead & Transcenic - Higher Ground (Marco Tegui Remix) [BEAT & PATH]

Pacific Ocean Blue & Bambu - 2 CD Deluxe Legacy Edition

Farewell My Friend

Solid Pleasure

Blue Green (Remastered 2005)

"PLEASURE, JOY and HAPPINESS," AVAILABLE FROM DAY END RECORDS (DE-002).

STREAM: https://ffm.to/rlembdx
VINYL: https://dayendrecords.bandcamp.com/

eddiechacon.com

https://www.instagram.com/eddie_chacon_

https://www.instagram.com/johncarrollkirby

https://www.instagram.com/dayendrecords

Eddie Chacon experienced proper, peak-nineties acclaim in the soul duo Charles and Eddie: they scored a global No. 1 in 1992 with “Would I Lie To You,” appeared three times on Top of the Pops, and featured on soundtracks from True Romance to Super Mario Bros.. Their crooning style was clearly pop-ready, but undeniably reverent: the pair first met when Eddie noticed Charles carrying a vinyl copy of Marvin Gaye’s "Trouble Man” on a New York subway train.

By that time, Chacon had already been navigating music in interesting ways, all the way back to his teen garage rock band with the late Cliff Burton (Metallica) and Mike Bordin (Faith No More). In the late ’80s, he released a full-length on Uncle Luke from 2 Live Crew’s label and signed to Columbia as a solo act. He was a working artist, always popping up in unexpected places: through the course of his career, Chacon would write, sing, or produce ten Top 40 hits around the globe.

In the words of Mac DeMarco: “Eddie Chacon is planet earth’s number one musician. Yesterday, today, and forever.”

Years ago, Chacon retired from music for a second calling as a fashion photographer and creative director. In an interview at the time, he said, “I was fortunate to have a 35-year music career and felt that there wasn’t that much more for me to say or achieve.” Very thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Private experiments, far from the major-label center he once frequented, began to feel urgent and new. “There’s nothing more exciting for me than getting to start from the beginning again,” he says today.

“Pleasure, Joy and Happiness” will be available July of 2020 on the boutique Los Angeles-based label Day End Records. This is a thoughtfully considered album of quiet, confident R&B: it doesn’t jump out at you, but rather gets in you. Produced by John Carroll Kirby, the like-minded artist and collaborator with Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, it features restrained percussion from Kanye West’s Sunday Service drummer Lamar Carter. Celestial soul as a break from chaos, these are quietly challenging songs as timeless as they are contemporary.

“What a rare and cool challenge it was for me to help Eddie re-emerge after a long hiatus,” says John Carroll Kirby. “I was excited to produce a record for him that captured the chill, laid-back wisdom and easy vocal mastery he has that you don’t see that much these days.”

Lead single “My Mind Is Out of Its Mind” finds a deep groove to try and contain spiraling heartbreak, while the sweet and wobbly “Trouble” balances the delightful near whisper of the title track “Pleasure, Joy and Happiness.” But even the project’s lightest moments feel sincere and mature. Altogether: a truly unifying release, coming from a man who’s earned the right to share such a regal, romantic sound.

“I used to think to myself,” Chacon says, “if I ever make a record again, I’d want it to be a record you’d have to be my age to make.”

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