JULY 2022 PART II

Following the much-lauded debut single ‘Dansu’, a hymn to dancing the night away that gained support from Soulwax, Bill Brewster and dEUS front man Tom Barman, Belgian-Japanese artist Aili joins forces again with one of Belgium’s most exciting new electronica acts Transistorcake. https://soundcloud.com/ailimakesmusic https://soundcloud.com/transistorcake

Anyone who’s heard Transistorcake’s previous releases will know his love of a 303 and ‘Oki’ sees the pair up the tempo and twist a sinuous acid bass line over Aili’s chopped up vocals and mantra like chant of “Oki ku natara” (“when I grow up”) to create a propulsive club track. With the pair currently working together on a new live show it’s to be hoped it won’t be too long before we can all dance together again.

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"I left Tokyo for Belgium when I was 7 years old. In many ways my Japanese stayed at that level. When I sing in Japanese it puts me into this naive, almost childlike mindset that allows me to express what I feel right away. You don’t need to understand the words just the feeling that they convey." - Aili

こんにちは、アイリと申します。7歳のときに東京からベルギーに引っ越しました。何くれとなく私の日本語はそのレベルにとどまりました。 日本語で歌うと、子供の頃のように自分の気持ちをすぐに表現することができます。皆さんに、言葉が分からなくても伝えたい気持ちを理解してもらいたいです。

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Aili x Transistorcake - Oki [Eskimo Recordings]

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Leng Records has long had close ties with the underground music scene in San Francisco, with low-slung dub disco and psychedelic disco outfit 40 Thieves releasing their acclaimed album The Sky Is Yours on the imprint way back in 2014. Now Leng has turned to another stalwart of the Bay Area scene, Cole Odin, on a single that’s every bit as trippy and engrossing as you’d expect from one of San Francisco’s most frequently overlooked talents.

Cole made his Leng debut earlier in the year, contributing the electro-influenced track ‘Numbers Game’ to the label’s 10th anniversary compilation. On ‘Little Boxes’, he’s joined by good friend Eddie C, a much-loved disco and house producer from Canada best known for his releases on Endless Flight and Red Motorbike. The pair recorded the track while Eddie was staying with Cole in San Francisco last year.

In keeping with the low-slung, hallucinatory sound that has always been a big feature of the San Franciscan scene, ‘Little Boxes’ is a trippy, mind-altering affair in which waves of sitar sounds, cosmic synths, effects-laden guitars and kaleidoscopic electronics rise above a weighty punk-funk bassline and crunchy, snare-heavy beats. It has serious dancefloor chops but is also atmospheric and immersive: perfect 5am music for Bay Area beach parties and mushrooms-fuelled forest raves.

Fittingly, it’s 40 Thieves who provide the accompanying remix, a 10-minute epic created with the assistance of Adonis and Rodney from the psych rock band ‘Guavatron’ for additional synths and the guitars. Beginning with tabla-style percussion, swirling chords, psychedelic guitar licks and mystical sitar sounds, the remix builds in waves, with looser drums and even weightier bass propelling the track forwards at a metronomic and hypnotic pace. By the time the eyes-closed guitar solos drop two thirds of the way through, you’ll be tripping hard and reaching for the lasers. It’s a genuinely stunning remix of a genuinely intoxicating, mind-mangling track.

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Cole Odin feat. Eddie C - Little Boxes

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This release is brought to you by those discerning dealers for chuggy dancefloors and sophisticated sundowns, Higher Love Recordings. With a some heavy hitting releases already under their Brighton belts from Alex Aguayo, Alterleo, Perry Granville and Joe Morris, these Balearic beaus are about to make a deeper impression with this latest offering.

Attraktors have been making chuggy, Kraftwerk inspired electronica in the East Midlands for a while, John Thompson, James Flower and Anthony Hodgkinson released their self-titled album last year on Vivod.  These talented musicians have all spent time in notable bands, the Nottingham trio make glorious noises that reference Depeche Mode, Eno and the Human League.

On this EP Attraktors join forces with Crazy P co-founder under his Ron Basejam moniker. You never know quite what you’re going to get from a Basejam production, which always keeps things interesting on the dance-floor. Championed by Gilles Peterson, he’s had releases on Wolf music, Razor-N-Tape, Futureboogie, Classic and House of Disco, as well as a ton of high-profile remixes for Fouk, Lovebirds, Kelis and The White Lamp. This 10” piece of vinyl is the result of this spectacular pairing.

‘Heavy Water’ rushes in on a siren-like synthetic fanfare, while dramatic percussion promises some kind of imminent lift-off.  Ron Basejam delivers a dynamic, deep, bottom-heavy chug, tested by depth-charge sonar blips. A menacing LFO arpeggio propels the piece out onto the peak-time dancefloor. Its snarl softened slightly as Ron launches that fanfare once more. Moody, magnificent, body-moving, it drops down to a conga break, and then hits you with horns, before bringing that bolshy beat back.  ‘Maximum Minimum’ initially subdues with its cinematic synths, and kosmische squiggles. Counterpointing this gurgling gear with theremin sighs and epic keys, a riot of rumbling motorik funk with chunky bass, gets its punk edges buffed by pretty prog harmonies, as the track evolves into an opulent, vocoder-ed, expanse. The piano rolls, as that robotic voice readies you for ignition on this stomping cosmic disco rocket.

Ron Basejam Remixes

PREMIERE: Attraktors - Heavy Water (Ron Basejam Remix)

DEEWEE061 James Righton 'Never Give Up On The City' is out now: https://jamesrighton.lnk.to/nguotc

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In 2022 Righton is reinventing himself, via the stunning synth sounds of 'Jim, I’m Still Here' [DEEWEE062], the new album made in collaboration with David & Stephen Dewaele (Soulwax) will be released on July 8 via their label DEEWEE. The 12-track album features the 2021 released single “Release Party” and a guest feature from ABBA’s Benny Andersson. On this third post-Klaxons release Righton downs his family man tools to embody a lavish, rockstar alter ego; Jim…..

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Never Give Up On The City

Never Give Up On the City

Formentera

False Dichotomy

Paths in the Sky

Floating Through The Wonderwave

Can’t Get It To Last

remixes

Plaisir de France feat The chauffeur - Sur La Piste - Badknife REMIX

A Different Place

Slowdown

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'Festa' is the first single from the forthcoming 'Anni Venti' album. Castelli and Luca Urbani are singing together about someone missed in a danceable dark disco atmosphere.

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Anni Venti

Festa

Castelli feat. Luca Urbani - Festa

26.11.2022 Visionary (Soho House, Berlin)

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A new figure sashays their way into Bordello. In one hand, a bouquet of carnations, in the other a 12” record. Lauer. Philipp Lauer. Known for his incredible productions on labels like Running Back and Permanent Vacation, not to mention his collaborations, the German all around good guy delivers four gems. The title piece radiates warmth, clean drum patterns giving way to beaming synth bars with vocoder lyrics bopping to the bass. Light hi-hats and a wet snare are the fertile ground from which choral key shifts break to squelching acid in this addictively diverse work. The energy levels spike, like a cork spearing its way from a champagne bottle, for the unbridled enthusiasm of “Frizzante”. Piano stabs, pulsating percussion and an infectious groove. The Summer sun may have set, but Lauer is still at the “Playa” with his playful finale. An off-kilter melody ebbs and flows on a string of rhythms, dreamy tongue-in cheek synth play sailing this 12” off to the horizon.

PREMIERE: Lauer - Betone

DC Promo Tracks #1084: "It Was The Summer" by The Phenomenal Handclap Band is part of the release "Burning Bridges" on Razor-N-Tape @razor-n-tape  @phenomenal-handclap-band

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NYC leftfield disco darlings Phenomenal Handclap Band made their first appearance on RNT by way of a collab with JKriv in 2022, and now they return for an offering all their own, the Burning Bridges EP. The title track juxtaposes riffy guitar driven funk with plaintive vocals that smack of 1970s Heart in the best way, and Prins Thomas turns the tempo knob up a few clicks and launches into an extended interstellar  excursion with his remix. On the B side the cinematic slow burner ‘It Was The Summer’ begins sparse and hazy and builds to driving peak of backbeat rhythm and an insistent vocal soliloquy. Each Other (Justin Strauss & Max Pask) then take the tune straight the rave with arpeggiated and acidic synths, recasting the haunting vocals as a modern New Wave anthem.

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DC Promo Tracks: The Phenomenal Handclap Band "It Was The Summer"

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/gemwallow
Ep: 鼓動 KODOU
Remixes: https://soundcloud.com/simple-symmetry, https://soundcloud.com/fio
Label: Playground Records
Artwork: @koyasudesu
Mastering: Submarea Estudio
Press & Communication: Avoiding The Issue
Catalogue: PGR053
Release date: 19/10/2023

Japanese artist Gem Wallow makes her debut on Playground Records with her very first solo Ep 鼓動 KODOU.

A solid piece of art composed by three songs coming from nature and its elements. An Ep that crosses different soundscapes like ancient haikus cross generations. Full of life and organicity, groove and fluidity. An impeccable work that is completed with two epic remixes by the Australian Francis Inferno Orchestra and the brother duo Simple Symmetry, who surf in the waters of psychedelia and krautrock to give the final touch to this masterpiece.

The wind is blowing, the leaves rustle in rhythm to nature's heartbeat.

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鼓動 KODOU

I Am 5 Months Old (Simple Symmetry Remix)

'Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late' , settles down to a head - nodding pace with funky bass and key melodies and live drum samples for a real earworm of a track.

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TRAKLIST:
A1. Pink Tango(Original Mix)
A2. Pink Tango (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)
B1. Time Spiral
B2.Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late

Pink Tango EP

Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late

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PRÉMIÈRE: Ponty Mython - Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late [Futureboogie]

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05/04/22

“Very happy to announce my new album JIM, I’M STILL HERE is out now via DEEWEE (@deewee). Produced between myself and Soulwax"

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