The story begins with the original track ‘Back To The Streets’ by Rudy Norman, first out on a 7” as the B side to lead track – ‘Harmony’ in 1980 on New Day Records. It has long been a killer cult cut known in collector circles, with the opening solo Rhodes becoming a sample for underground producers far and wide. It was included on a couple of comps along the way, Late Night Tales Presents After Dark - Nocturne (2015) curated by Bill Brewster, and on Seafaring Strangers - Private Yacht (2017). Rudy Norman got in touch with The @flying-mojito-bros out of the blue as he was into their work and he was keen for them to rework the track.

The Flying Mojito Bros are two disco mescoleros pioneering the great electronic wilderness. With their boots firmly planted in dusty seventies sunsets, their productions take cosmic country rock and funk to modern day dancefloors via New York Latin Disco and Acid house. Think the first summer of love meeting the second, where Crosby, Stills and Nash meet at the Haçienda, The Doors dance at Shoom, where The Orb meets Woodstock, and you’ll be in the right sonic space. These acid cowboys are producer and musician Ben Chetwood, and DJ and collector Jack Sellen, their disco-house-gone-country sound turning crowds loose in clubs, desert dances, late-night festival tents at Glastonbury and around the pool at Pikes.

On this release The Flying Mojito Bros have worked their magic on this cult AOR gem, and in the words of Rudy Norman himself “They’ve brought ‘Back To The Streets’ to the future”. Mastered for the first time on 12” vinyl alongside official remixes commissioned by the artist, in a package to please lovers of glistening disco reworks and those would love to bag a copy of the original. On the digital package, these new versions will resonate with a world that wants to get back out there and bond meaningfully with others. The artwork is a colourful and cosmic reimagining of the original cover art via illustrator Nick Potts, reflecting the bros’ transportation of Rudy’s West Coast vibe into one of their own Southwestern desertscape settings.

PREMIERE : Rudy Norman - Back To The Streets (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito)

Geraldine Hunt -  Can´t Fake the Feeling (Rayko Super Disco Edit) 96 kbps

They say all good things must come to an end and Trash The Wax Vol. 9 has the honour of being our penultimate collection of dance floor heaters and beaters. Believe it when we say we're going out with an almighty kapow!

This ninth outing is packing fire with regular TTW providers such as Paper Street Soul kicking things off with a slab of post-punk electronica on 'Notes On You'. Picotropico has been drinking the same kool aid with the Talking Heads-esque 'Inmovil feat. Sima Itayim'.
 
If low-slung-chuggy-psych-acid-house is your bag then we've got you covered by Dan Wainwright, Coy Dog and James Rod who each crank up the ALFOS-o-meter to 11. House with disco tendencies gets fully represented here by Define, Gina D, Processman, J Kara, Dastardly Bounder and Flying Mojito Brothers who all guarantee a session kicking up dust on the dance floor.

Other Paper and TTW firm members The Secret Soul Society and Andy Buchan go for a housier hat throw into the ring on 'D For Damaga' and 'Road To Barca' whilst Jahn Solo drops an ultimate end of night feel good anthem on 'Dance For Me'.

Bill Brewster: "Some nice gear here"

Will Tramp!: "Lovely stuff!"

Phil Rose: "Great comp!"

Daco: " Lots of goodies involved and particularly diggin' Fabio Santanna and James Rod & Aleito."

Sumthin' Funky

Dastardly Bounder, Flying Mojito Bros - Sumthin' Funky

The Byrds' Eight Miles High – widely regarded as the first ever psychedelic rock song – gets taken to stratospheric new heights with this brand new FMB bruiser.

"Welcome aboard Raga Rock Airways – 
Flying 85 thousand feet
Eight Miles Higher
'66 to '22
London to Los Angeles.
FMB your captains,
Croz, Clarks, Hillman, McGuinn
your hosts.
Brushing the stratosphere"
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Live in London? Come to our next big party Sat 5th March 2022 downstairs at The Social thesocial.seetickets.com/event/flying-mojito-bros-relatively-clean-ravers/the-social/2199356. The last one sold out and went big

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Eight Miles Higher

Wheels Keep Turning

Wheels Keep Turning (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito)

https://flyingmojitobros.bandcamp.com/track/rattlesnake
Sweet jesus of shazamareth, it's time to bop while you double drop. We've had this wry fella on the FMB USB for a little while now, but thought it's high time we cleaned it up and sent it out into the big bad real world to earn a crust of its own. Cooder woulda shoulda, y'know?

Flying Mojito Bros - Rattlesnake

Let's Get Lost

Deep cut for the nuts! This is an expansive, funk-driven latin viber from Carlos Santana's handsome kid brother Jorge and probably the grooviest song we've ever heard about a partial nuclear meltdown in 1979.

Truly a unique player, Jorge's solo albums are worthy of a heckuva lot more airtime – check them out.

Horse Meat Disco - "F U N K Y"
Idjut Boys - "ye ha !"
Rob da Bank (Bestival, BBC Radio 1, Pikes Ibiza) - "wondrous remix boys!!"
Too Slow To Disco - "FUNKY STUFF!"
DJ Dribbler - "killer"

Three Mile Island (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito)

🌴 This Illusion – by Nexus

Slip into the mirage of This Illusion — a sun-drenched soundscape where Ibiza’s twilight energy meets the dreamlike calm of tropical chill. 🌅💫 Nexus blends shimmering deep house grooves with warm, atmospheric textures, crafting a sonic escape that's both hypnotic and uplifting.

Pulsing rhythms glide under lush synths, distant vocal chops echo like memories on the breeze, and the bass melts into your skin like golden heat. From rooftop sunsets to moonlit waves, This Illusion invites you to drift, dance, and dissolve into a paradise that may never have existed — but always feels real. 🌊✨🌺

Midnight Heat

Enjoy the track!
Want to hear more like this? Then Amazin – The Rapture III on my page is something for you.

Dario Blum- Chasing Sunsets

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A vibrant kaleidoscope of sound, colour and emotion, British multi-hyphenate James Alexander Bright’s songs soundtrack fertile daydreams, esoteric dancefloors, languorous reflection, and wild excursions in nature and beyond. His voice, pitched somewhere between Eddie Chacon, Beck and Michael McDonald, is an immediately recognisable signature while impressive multi-instrumentalism sees him perform on guitar, keys, programming, percussion, production and myriad quirky effects.

The past six years has seen James release a veritable treasure trove of music: ‘Mallorca’ and ‘Strange Folk’ EPs, debut album ‘Headroom’, joyous second ‘Float’, an album of collaborations and reworks with cosmic Americana-disco DJ/producer duo Flying Mojito Bros, and a new project with Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay as Bright & Findlay. 

James’ music making is commonly a family affair. Although initially written and recorded at his home studio in the rolling hills of the Hampshire countryside, his tracks involve regular collaborator Peter Lyons in East London alongside old friends and new to contribute vocals (Kerry Leatham and Katharine Alice) and drums (Gillan McLaughlin and Joris Feiertag). He has also collaborated with Letherette, Daudi Matsiko, Fink, Fred Everything, Scrimshire and contributed three songs to Groove Armada’s ‘Edge Of The Horizon’ album 

James balances music alongside the creative duality of a job in illustration and the responsibilities and constraints that come with raising a young family. Utilising any spare moment to write and record new ideas, his creative output under various projects had been relentless. Turning his back on apathetic major label offers in his early 20s, he’s released through cult DIY label Tape Club Records, German stalwart !K7 Music and now with Scottish tastemaker Athens Of The North, presenting an evolving vision of a sound that has touched on everything from outsider art-rock to machine funk, mystic folk to experimental jazz.

His music has been played across BBC Radio, Amazing Radio, Bandcamp Weekly, FIP Radio France, NTS, KCRW, Soho Radio, Triple J, and Worldwide FM.

Collected press:
“Blissful choruses, sweetly nagging refrains and a lo-fi sensibility. Hard not to love” MOJO
“Intoxicating, highly evocative, sun-dappled soul” Uncut
“Pastoral 21st century electronic psychedelia that knows all the best clubs in town” Electronic Sound
“Brilliantly laidback…an ever evolving journey that feels at once fun and adventurous but also familiar and comfortable” Future Music
“It’s a lush, rich slice of soul that will permeate every pore. It’s the sound of the summer” Louder Than War
“Bringing influence and experience together in a wild, kaleidoscopic world of precarious elevations and cathedral emotions” BPM
“Vivid intermingling of buoyant breakbeat drum loops, sunkissed psychedelic folk song, retrofuturist synthesisers and hot buttered British soul” Test Pressing
“All the musical styles I love. I’m a big fan” Tom Findlay, Groove Armada
“One exceptional album” Bill Brewster
“A timeless record” The Bees’ Aaron Fletcher
“Moves stylishly through psychedelic patterns and multicoloured textures” Jack Wyllie from Portico Quartet

Wheels Keep Turning (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito)

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