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Original track by The Funky Worm in 1988, edited by Jitter in 2022.

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The Funky Worm - Hustle (To The Music...) (Jitter Edit) Free DL

Etiene T. Boy - Coraso (Merchant Edit)
Chop I Chop
Nigeria 🇳🇬
1991

https://www.discogs.com/release/5979367-Etiene-T-Boy-Chop-I-Chop

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Etiene T. Boy - Coraso (Merchant Edit)

Isle of Wax is honored to present Reflex Blue's Kangaroo Jack, the B2 track off his new release on Breakfree Records (@breakfree-records), a sublabel of Leipzig's mighty R.A.N.D. Muzik (rand_muzik_recordings). Hailing from Naarm, Reflex Blue is steadily churning out some of the finest spaced-out progressive house, with this release being no exception. Tune in!

@reflex-blue-x

Head to Bandcamp to cop the physical release or digital downloads: https://randmuzikrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/free002

Free002

PREMIERE | Reflex Blue  -  Kangaroo Jack [FREE002]

Isle of Wax is proud to premiere Good Block's Sleep Bullet, from their new release on the mysterious Duca Bianco records. Hailing from London, the duo has been steadily cranking out some of the finest edits in the game, as well as developing their own unique brand of dubbed-out balearic synth chuggers on three masterful EPs from the past few years. Tune in!

@good-block

Head to Bandcamp now for the digis or hang tight until the physical release drops later this summer: 
https://ducabianco.bandcamp.com/album/db12-016

Released by:
Duca Bianco

PREMIERE | Good Block - Sleep Bullet [DB12 016]

60 mins of selects from Sara Mautone to melt into a friday. 

ID Requests ~ @sara-mautone

1800 triiip - Sara Mautone - Mix 059

Our friend Lago returns to Isle of Wax to share a recent edit of his. Enjoy.
Self released, 2023

@laaago
https://www.instagram.com/lucasxlago/

PREMIERE | Lago - Rendez Vous [Edit]

2023, Germany (Pace Yourself)
From the full-length LP 'Brutal Flowers'
https://paceyourself.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-flowers
@paceyourselfrecords @ysystem

Isle of Wax is honored to present a track off the long-awaited, delicately crafted LP from YS, Brutal Flowers. 

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers.

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavour from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. ‘Untethered’ and ‘Down’ are chopped-up cuts of searching R’n’B - jaded jams of lustful erasure. On the flipside, blunted desire lingers in ‘Fading
Memory’. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers sharing that rare strain of underground synesthesia best located in dark undercurrents of early Mo Wax.

The orchestral ambience of ‘Autumn OST’ is a potent stupor of end credit cinematics. Coming up for air. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. And from here in the album unfolds with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating gently to assured ending with ‘Be Together’ - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. In between there’s flashes of heartbreak reminiscent of Beltran's Ten Days of Blue and Blunt’s Stone Island (‘Look Up’ feels like a sort of spiritual successor to ‘Wake up’), that being said, when push comes to shove it only it ever flirts with its own reality.

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old
friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on re-visits - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart.

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here.

A hill we’d gladly die on

PREMIERE | YS - Look Up [Pace005]

I:Cube live au Forum des Halles, Paris, 18 Mai 2019.

A few words by I:Cube. 
I've always been collecting records—for the pure essence of music, of course, as a sound source for sampling, for my DJ sets in various clubs, and, not to forget, for the weird and captivating album covers.
During my teenage years, I had a unique Saturday tradition. I would explore Parisian public libraries in search of unknown records to feed my sampler. 
Records were expensive, and without the internet, apart from the radio, this was my way of discovering new music and refining my musical taste.

Fast forward more than three decades, a serendipitous encounter took place with Damien Poncet, a cultural mediator who works at the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris. This remarkable institution boasts an impressive collection of over 100,000 records. 
Following an extensive conversation, a captivating idea emerged: to craft a musical composition using samples from this vast vinyl archive. 
The grand stage selected for this daring concert? None other than the iconic Forum des Halles, located in the heart of a historic Parisian district. Once renowned as Paris' largest food market, bearing the moniker "le ventre de Paris," the Forum des Halles underwent a transformation into a massive shopping center in the early 1980s. 

Performing this diverse and otherworldly musical blend live at the very core of this consumer paradise was also an immense source of enjoyment and highly surreal.
The concert was open to all, inviting anyone passing by to join in and listen.
This project was a golden opportunity to pay tribute to Paris's public libraries in a place rich with history and full of personal memories.

Many thanks to Damien Poncet and the entire team at the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris. Additionally, I want to express my gratitude to Géraldine Hervé-Dannhauer, Mehdi Herzberg, Stéphane Laporte, Patrick Santos, and all the students from the Ecole Estienne in Paris, who contributed to the visual performance inspired by a selection of record covers during the show.
Music written, produced and performed by Nicolas Chaix.

Versatile records.

I:Cube Live Au Forum Des Halles, Paris, 18 Mai 2019

Wonderfully Japan-loaded MFI 32 by music-lover PHONON, who's part of @communityvibes. 

He was recommended to Music for Indoors by @internationalb who was responsible for the great MFI 20 in our series! www.soundcloud.com/ecoutesauvert/music-for-indoors-20-international-bauer-konstanz

While PHONON's main interest lies in the early House sounds that once lit up Chicago and New York, he’s also always on the hunt for lesser-known records of different (brain-)danceable genres. 

This mix is the result of amazing hours @jan-abekrfcce spent in Japanese record shops during which Phonon mainly rummaged through boxes of domestic productions from the 80s and 90s.

Here some words from him, MFI / EAV asked him to share:

"I grew up in Singen (southwest Germany near the Swiss border) to the sounds of the Flamenco and Brazilian Guitar as well as Jazz - my father was a guitar and music teacher. I learned to play the trumpet and the drums (nowadays I turn to Synths and Drum machines.)  I have a thing for synth - Early Roland Pad sounds are my favorites.

In the context of music I like to research and understand historical contexts and roots and I try to translate that into my mixes. I started my collection with late 1980s House Music, loads of which I found when I studied & lived in NYC. 

I also lived in Milan for some years and return to Italy more than once a year. After that, I was in Leipzig. When traveling, I always try to find and bring back some special records, which might not be easily found back home."

Phonon lives nowadays in Berlin since 2019, although he travels and works remotely a lot. He has put up nights and DJed at Paloma, Beate Uwe and Bars. He also plays in Freiburg, Konstanz and countries where he spends time traveling/working remotely like in Italy, the US and Japan.

Paradise Mirage is a series of events and radio appearances that he organizes, dedicated to the early days of clubbing in the spirit of NYC and Chicago. www.paradise-mirage.com

www.instagram.com/ac_phonon
www.instagram.com/communityvibesproject

Artwork by Miriam & Phonon

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Music for Indoors 32 - PHONON (Community Vibes - Berlin)

2024, Germany (dispari)
From the EP, Tempentary Dance Versions
One of five takes on Cloud Management's grainy 7-inch dubber „Tempentary Dance“ by Trần Uy Đức.

https://cloudmanagement.bandcamp.com/album/tempentary-dance-versions?label=2422551393&tab=music

PREMIERE | Cloud Management - Tempentary Dance (Trần Uy Đức Version) [dispari 005]

THE ARTIST: Manfredas
https://www.facebook.com/manfredasofficial/
https://soundcloud.com/manfredas

A Les Disques De La Mort affiliate and staple in the Lithuanian dance music scene.

SUNDAY MORNING - 24 - Manfredas

Buy: https://fanlink.to/ImprintVol2

Waze & Odyssey's Street Tracks label launches Imprint, a new outlet that aims to shine a light on upcoming artists who are producing across the house music spectrum. Within 'Imprint Vol. 2' is a banging house cut by NYC-based talent Devon James titled 'People Are Still Having Sex', which features Born I adding to the track's seductive motif.

'Imprint Vol. 2' is set for release September 6.

Check out Devon James' tour dates below: 
September 13 IVAR THEATRE Los Angeles, CA
September 14 ATH COMPOUND Portland, OR
September 17 PARIS THEATRE Portland, OR
September 19 Q NIGHTCLUB Seattle, WA 
September 21 ANCHORZ UP BOAT PARTY San Francisco, CA
September 24 SOUND Los Angeles, CA
September 27 THE OLYMPIC Fresno, CA
September 27 RED MEDIA SUITE Fresno, CA
September 28 SECRET LOCATION San Diego, CA
October 1 FOCUS OC Huntington Beach, CA
October 9 BAR STANDARD Denver, CO
October 10 THE SHIM SHAM ROOM Jacksonville, FL
October 11 TBA
October 14-30 EUROPE TBA
October 31 CIRCLE LINE CRUISES New York, NY

More exclusive music

Premiere: Devon James 'People Are Still Having Sex Feat. Born I'

Deep zouk/reggae crossover, not much known from this release other than that it's released on the well known Rythmo-Disc label which put out a lot of good music from the French West Indies.

Djhano - Kouri (1985? - Rythmo-Disc)

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