Name: Road Movie (Blind Voyeurs - 2024 master) by James E Burton
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: "Road Movie" is a song written in 2009 with my band at the time, Blind Voyeurs. We released an album called "Rule Of Thirds." While we were primarily an instrumental band, we occasionally incorporated vocals. I hold a special fondness for this track, which features the fabulous voice of @texlahoma.

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Float w/ James Alexander Bright - March 2023

We are more than happy to welcome Camille (@plasticbamboo) to our hallooo Mix Series. He takes us on a balearic holiday for the ears, traveling through easy listening, synth-pop, library and balearic boogie. Perfect for the first sunny spring moments. 🌿🌼🌴 Enjoy the journey! 🎶

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↓ ↓ ↓ INTERVIEW WITH CAMILLE ↓ ↓ ↓

Q: Thanks for your contribution to our mix series, how did you prepare for this mix, and how would you describe the eventual result?

Thank you for inviting me ! This mix is 100% vinyl. I prepared it going through the records I bought last year, which involve some news and reissues as well as some older stuff I found at flea markets. Once I got a direction, I dug in my record collection to excavate records that fit in which I’d never used in previous mixes, and then tried to make sense out of it all. Somehow once a mix is recorded, I always discover links between tracks that I hadn’t noticed before and tell myself a story. The result is a mix of easy listening, synthpop, library music and balearic boogie.

Q: Is there a record in the mix that you associate with a special story?

Indeed, the Daniele Patucchi soundtrack of Turbo Time, which had been in my wantlist for almost a decade. Last summer I went to visit Florence in Italy, mainly to see its monuments and art legacy, but on the last day of my trip I decided to check out the Mercato delle Pulci, with no expectations whatsoever. After going through records for a few minutes, there it was, in perfect condition, waiting for me. It’s not a crazy story but one of those unexpected and effortless digging moments that stays with me after.

Q: How do you dig for new music, and/or what kind of things arouse your interest in Music? 

I don’t have one particular way of digging, I just keep my eyes and ears open. Right now the social networks play a big part in bringing music to my ears, whether it’s groups, people I follow or friends, especially when it comes to new releases or reissues. But my preference still goes to physical digging, in record shops or at flea markets. It means spending a lot of time on the field but it usually pays off and it’s a priceless feeling. In music, I guess I’m looking for something that makes me feel alive. Sometimes it’s a beat that makes me want to dance, sometimes an emotion through lyrics or a melody. I like to be surprised too.

Q: One record you will never let go, and one that doesn’t want to leave your wantlist?

One that I will never let go is Lait de Coco by Maya. And among the many records that don’t want to leave my wantlist, there is a 12’’ by Eddy Louiss called Caraïbes / Les Éléphants / Taureau. Maybe one day…

Q: Music bonds people. Any djs/projects/shops/etc.. you would like to shout out? 

There are a lot to mention, firstly my friends in Paris : Les Yeux Orange, LeonxLeon, Vidal Benjamin, Masterphil, the record shop Babaluma… Sara Mautone from Florence. Also Patrick Ryder from Manchester. His label Talking Drums is on fire right now, check it out if you haven’t. As Gary’s Gang once said, « keep on makin’ music » !

Hallooo Mix Series No.13 – Plastic Bamboo

The Last Resistance

LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/billion-days-incl-40-thieves-mind-fair-remixes

Artwork by Barbora Idesova - https://www.instagram.com/barboraidesova

Setting out to create a future Balearic anthem while doffing a cap to street soul and synth-heavy Italo-disco B-sides of the early 1980s, Orbs of Light’s debut single, ‘Billion Days’ lands on Leng after a tip-off from Mind Fair duo Dean Meredith and Ben Shenton, who booked the duo to play live at their Rotation festival last summer.

Orbs of Light’s Baz Bradley and A Girl Called Kate have been friends for decades and have collaborated musically in the past, though it was only a couple of years ago that they dreamed up this project. It was first trialled via a 2021 remix for Andres y Xavi on Hollis Recordings (‘Perfect Timing’) on which Kate added new vocals to Bradley’s interpretation of the track. Since then, regular recording sessions have taken place, with the duo first crafting tight instrumental tracks before – in Bradley’s words – “dream up the best songs we can” with “melodies that will hopefully stay in your head all day”.

It would be fair to say that they’ve achieved that goal on ‘Billion Days’, a hooky and addictive affair whose vocal hooks and strong chorus could well inspire Balearic sing-alongs in the months ahead. Their original mix (B1 on the vinyl version of the EP, track 2 on the digital EP) is joyous, cheery and kaleidoscopic, with steel pan style melodies, bouncy synth stabs, jaunty lead lines and Kate’s wonderful lead vocal riding a shuffling, post street soul beat and a bubbly bassline.

The accompanying remix package is naturally very strong too. San Francisco crew 40 Thieves, fresh from dropping a killer single of their own on Leng (‘The Gift’, with disco legends Gary Davis and Cinnamon Jones), step up first with a take that stretches out and builds on Orbs of Light’s original mix – think wobbly nu-disco synth bass, fresh flute sounds, dubbed-out vocal snippets and a locked-in groove that’s just perfect for sun-soaked alfresco dancing.

Fittingly, the second and final revision comes from Mind Fair, whose email to Leng HQ about Orbs of Light got the ball rolling. Opting for a rubbery, body-popping beat inspired by vintage electro, they deliver a joyful, effects-laden Balearic dancefloor ‘Dub Mix’ that somehow makes a genuinely life-affirming record even more loved-up and saucer-eyed – despite the presence of only a fraction of Kate’s addictive lead vocal.

LENG SHOP

Orbs of Light - Billion Days (Original Mix)

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The Missing Piece

It's Alive

"Road Movie" is a song written in 2009 with my band at the time, Blind Voyeurs. We released an album called "Rule Of Thirds." While we were primarily an instrumental band, we occasionally incorporated vocals. I hold a special fondness for this track, which features the fabulous voice of @texlahoma.

Road Movie (Blind Voyeurs - 2024 master)

Listening Session w/ Luke Una

As a DJ, a part of the Unabombers and as promoter of the legendary Electric Chair nights, Homoelectric, Electric Elephant Festival and Homobloc, Luke Una was not only contributing massively to Manchester’s 80s and 90s club scene but still carries a deep passion to share his music in clubs around the world. He is the curator of seminal compilations such as the Electric Chair and Electric Soul series as well as his latest É Soul Cultura project and label.

This Session was recorded for "Kasheme Conversations", an interview series from, with and for music lovers. This month with Luke Una.
In our conversation, Una shares what caused his relentless pursuit of music, why he would not call himself a record collector and why he is, as he calls it, so evangelical about music.

Watch here the Conversation of Luke Una:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei18vBynCKo

Stay tuned for more!
Kasheme Conversations next month with Kahil El'Zabar

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Listening Session w/ Luke Una

REWARM Records

1BTN Playlist 7th March 24 

Sea Lapping & Show Intro

1, Hania Rani - The Boat (Gondwana Records)
2, Prins Emanuel - Year End (Music For Dreams)
3, Brainchild - Beyond Because (RE:WARM Records)
4, Klang Kollektor - Garden Pond (Before I Die)
5, Fug - from Little Seeds We Grow (4hero folk Soul Remix) (RE:WARM Records) 
6, Dina Ögan - Jag vill ha allt (Playground Music)
7, Rae & Christian - All I Ask (Grand Central Records)
8, Cleo Sol - Self (Forever Living Originals)
9, Cleo Sol - Reason (Forever Living Originals)
10, Payfone - I Feel You (Mudd Remix) (Leng)
11, Fila Brazillia - Hush Hush (RE:WARM Records)
12, UKO - Sunbeams (Klein Records)
13, One Dove - Sirens (Boys Own productions)
14, IF - Saturdays Angels (Mr Mondays last Minute Mellow Mix) (Brainiak Records) 
15, Boy 2000 - Savestate (Not On Label)
16, Orbital - Pay Per View (FFRR)
17, John Martyn - Smiling Stranger (Instrumental) (Another World Records)
18, Ultramarine - Prince Rock (Blanco Y Negro)
19, Open Space x Laura Groves - Tied (Test Pressing)
20, Daisy Glow - Give It All (RE:WARM Records)
21, Hugh Mane - Phased Harmony (Self Released)
22, a.s.o - Love In The Darkness (Low Lying Records)
23, Bô’vel - Coming Back (AOTN)
24, Horsebeach - Pure Shores (RE:WARM records)

1BTN 7th March 24

1BTN 2nd May 2024

1, Gaussian Curve - Winter Sun 
2, George Solar - Moonbeams
3, Dawn Again - Journey Through The Schoonerverse 
4, Torn Sail - Birds 
5, Boci - The Garden 
6, Huw Costin - save The World By Dawn 
7, Robert Williams - I Believe Your Thee One
8, Leonard Grandson - The Sands of Zanzibar
9, A Tribe Called Quest - Description of a Fool (GA's Acoustic Mix)
10, Trevor Walters - Blood Is Thicker Than Water
11, Another Taste - Time Is On Our Side
12, Apiento - Down That Road Ft. Harriet Brown - 03 Down That Road (Padapella into Original Version slight edit)
13, Mark De Clive Lowe - Day By Day (DJ Spinna Remix Edit)
14, Afrobuddha - Zone (Drum Mix)
15, Linkwood Family - Miles Away
16, Rhye - Feel Your Weight  (Poolside Remix)
17, F.M Inc - dub Me Anytime (Nuff Tuff Records)
18, Aritmya - Parabolic
19, Stephen Encinas - Disco Illusion - 01 Disco Illusion
20, BRS -Lovin' Me-(Dubtribe Soundsystem mix)
21, Earl Young - Take Them in Prayer
22, Woodland Atmos

1BTN 2nd May 2024

James E Burton
Electronica, Downtempo, Balearic, Ambient
Bournemouth UK

Road Movie (Blind Voyeurs - 2024 master)

James E Burton

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