KMS Records

Green Velvet  - Leave My Body (Sonny Fodera Remix)

The Golden Vice

nthng follows up his acclaimed debut EP 'Remember Us' with the third entry into the Mörk catalogue, '1996'. Taking a less aquatic approach to production, but still shrouded in warm analogue fuzz and reverb, '1996' sees the young producer on much more reverent form, channeling a wider range of influences from German dub techno to staggered UK bass and Giegling-esque minimal tropes.

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MÖRK003 // nthng - 1996

Inside of me

House Drums

Meet Me In The Lobby 109

Mark Broom - Frontline EP - Beard Man 
Digital Release 11th Dec 2015
Vinyl Release 14th Dec 2015

Mark Broom - Frontline Original Mix

Can You Feel It

Can You Feel It (MK New York Dub Extended)

Heavenly Revisited EP1

Oombah

Heavenly Revisited EP2

The Human Bond

Good Life

Good Life (Remastered)

Pennies From Heaven (Remastered)

Good Life (Remastered) (Dub Mix)

Good Life (Remastered) (Extended Mix)

Slam / @paragraph - Positive Education (Paula Temple+Skream+JD Twitch Remixes)

1. Positive Education (@paulatemple's MEGASHIFT Remix)
2. Positive Education (@skreamizm remix)
3. Positive Education (a @twitch Remix)

Scotland’s premier electronic music event, the Riverside Festival was due to take place this weekend. To mark the occasion there will be a 9 hour fundraising live stream on Saturday from 3pm featuring some of Glasgow’s finest selectors in isolation. TUNE IN HERE: www.facebook.com/events/248245953085490/

On what will be a fantastic day for dance music lovers, Glasgow’s Riverside Festival, along with Soma Records, will also be releasing an exclusive, good causes charity single featuring remixes by 3 of the scene-leaders in house, techno and electronic. Spreading positive vibes through music with their isolation interpretations of Slam’s genre-defining underground anthem 'Positive Education' are the inimitable Paula Temple, the mighty Skream and the maverick JD Twitch of Optimo.

The live stream will be available via Be-At TV on Facebook and Youtube, with donations encouraged to a trio of charities and initiatives to enable them continue to do amazing work supporting some of the most vulnerable in our society : Glasgow’s Children Hospital, Tech Device Network, (launched by RF20 & Soma Records publicist Jenn Nimmo-Smith to keep loved ones in care connected with video calling devices) and the emergency PPE manufacturing and distribution initiative Vise Up which was launched by Glasgow’s renowned arts & music venue SWG3.

Positive Education (Paula Temple, Skream + JD Twitch Remixes) EP

Positive Education (Skream Remix)

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Slam - Positive Education (Skream Remix)

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Platinum-selling recording artist, label boss, festival promoter, true innovator in the pantheon of popular music, cultural champion, cracking DJ: there’s a lot to be said about Kevin Saunderson.

His influence runs deep, through both adopted hometown of Detroit, and music culture as a whole: as one of the Belleville Three, the high school trio which also includes Juan Atkins and Derrick May, he irreparably changed the face of electronic music; with Inner City, he gave it some of its most memorable tunes. 

The genesis of today’s enormous techno scene can be retraced straight to Kevin, Derrick and Juan, as their formative experiments on rudimentary hardware sketched a blueprint for a genre that was yet to exist. By absorbing Kraftwerk, cutting-edge funk, local radio stalwart The Electrifying Mojo’s electicism, and all manner of new synthesiser and drum machine-led pop music, the Belleville Three broke new ground as musicians and DJs in the 80s. 

Saunderson’s comparatively late start as a producer – kicking off in ’87 under the moniker of Kreem, with E-Dancer and Reese two of the more well-known names to follow – inadvertently gifted him a headstart. With the eruption of house music a few hours down the I-94 in Chicago, Saunderson married Detroit’s raw sound to more tactile, pop-leaning sensibilities. Inner City was born, and global success followed.

Between “Big Fun”, “Good Life”, debut album Paradise and a number of follow-up singles, Inner City (Saunderson and vocalist Paris Grey) amassed 12 UK top 40 hits and over six million records sold worldwide during their peak. A dancefloor-dominating remix by Luciano in 2008, and a globetrotting reunion tour in 2012, underscores the longevity of Inner City’s classic sound. 

His nickname of ‘The Elevator’ is apt: for his role in transporting Detroit’s new sound to a wider audience; as anyone who has seen him perform live can attest, his high-energy, high-spirit and high-impact DJ sets; and for spending the past 35 years of his life progressing the culture he helped create. 

Operating in tandem to his golden run as a producer in the late 80s and early 90s, Saunderson’s own KMS record label – a remarkable 30 years strong in 2017 – has chronicled the early footsteps of R-Tyme, Blake Baxter, MK, Chez Damier, Derrick Carter, Bicep and even Saunderson’s son and regular DJ partner Dantiez more recently. 

A special 12” series in 2008 called History Elevate, released in tandem with fellow polymath Carl Craig’s Planet E label, brought contemporary names like Mathew Jonson, Simian Mobile Disco and Loco Dice into the fold, proving his nous for fostering relationships with each new wave to come through techno’s gates. 25th anniversary compilations and numerous reissues have followed suit. 

Saunderson has a behind-the-scenes role to play, too: he is intertwined with the history of Detroit’s flagship Movement (formerly Detroit Electronic Music Festival / Fuse-In). Having produced the event in the mid-2000s, the last handful of years have seen repeated invites from Movement to display his ORIGINS showcase at the festival, bringing acts like Delano Smith, Phuture and DJ Minx under his curatorial umbrella. 

And of course, with a stacked international touring schedule over the decades, playing in nearly every country and at nearly every festival or club worth mention, he has not stopped pushing the feeling of techno on and on. 

The Groove That Won’t Stop, indeed.

Oombah

Kevin Saunderson

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