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Luca Mundaca - Há Dias

Rit/2

Dreamwalkin' (Along With Me)

Rit, Vol. 1

Is It You

Chill Factor

This Could Be Real

The Graduate

The Folks

Gloryhallastoopid

Theme From The Black Hole

The 2nd Crusade

Look Beyond The Hill (Album Version)

Glow

Who's That Lady

Urban Dancefloor Guerillas (Expanded Edition)

Hydraulic Pump

Double Vision

Maputo

Vini Reilly

Love No More (2024 Remaster)

Dreamland

Summer Song

Wes Bound

Goin' On To Detroit (Album Version) [feat. Harvey Mason]

Wes Bound (Album Version)

A Little Bumpin' (feat. Harvey Mason & Bob James)

Boss City (Album Version)

4 On 6 (Album Version)

A Twist Of Jobim

Water To Drink (Agua De Beber)

Color Rit

I Can’t Let Go (Remastered)

Just Chillin'

Night Drive

Paul Hardcastle

19 (Destruction Mix)

All The Greatest Hits

Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)

Dark Black

Twist of Marley

Get Up, Stand Up

Rhythm Sessions

Fat Albert Rotunda (feat. Patrice Rushen, Marcus Miller, Melvin Lee Davis & Oscar Seaton)

Volume 5

Ame Strong / Tout Est Bleu (Original Ame Strong S.A. Remix)

Order: https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-blue-compiled-by-phil-mison

Over the years, Phil Mison has become the go-to selector for those looking for Ibiza-themed compilations. None of his previous collections, though, have been quite as personal as Out Of The Blue, a compilation inspired by his first spell behind the decks at the Café Del Mar in 1993 – and the remarkable chain of events leading up to it. 

Mison made his first trip to Ibiza in the summer of 1991 and quickly fell in love with the magical music being played by Café Del Mar resident DJ, Jose Padilla. On his return to the UK, Mison began to cultivate his own take on the laidback, open-minded style, recording mix-tapes of “Ibiza style chill out” tunes to give to friends. 

In November 1992, Mison was hanging out in Tag Records, Soho, when Padilla walked in. He plucked up the courage to speak to the Spaniard because earlier that summer Mison had given one of his friends some tapes to take out to Jose in Ibiza so he wanted to see if he had got them. During the conversation Mison invited him down to his next DJ set at Nicky Holloway’s club, the Milk Bar and less than three months later, and clearly impressed by what he’d heard on the tapes, Padilla invited Mison to fill in for him at the Café Del Mar, beginning in April ’93.

It’s that first trip to DJ in Ibiza – a crazy six-weeks spent dividing his time between spinning records at Café Del Mar, hanging out in Jose Padilla’s house in the hills, and meeting some particularly eccentric White Isle residents – that proved the inspiration for Out Of The Blue.

The compilation contains a mixture of records that Mison played in his earliest Ibiza sets, those that remind him of that period, and recent discoveries that boast a similarly warm, loved-up vibe. Mison is at pains to point out that it’s not a track-for-track representation of his first sets, but rather a collection inspired by this most momentous of experiences.

As you’d expect from a selector of Phil Mison’s standing, Out Of The Blue is an outstanding collection.  Some will no doubt hear the influence of his mentor – the man he credits with effectively turning his DJing career around – in the undulating rhythms and new age melodies of Kamasutra’s “Sugar Step”, the meandering synthesizer solos and Spanish language vocals of Congarilla’s sublime “Sacred Tree”, and the lilting flamenco guitars of “Gambarra”, an unreleased mix from Mison’s popular Cantoma project.

Elsewhere, listeners can marvel at the starry ambient bliss of Belgian legend Frank De Wulf’s “The End”, recline to the saucer-eyed fusion jazz of the Christoph Spendel Group, shuffle along to tactile, hard-to-find period deep house from Language, Moodswings and Don Carlos, and marvel at The Cactus Rose Project’s ridiculously rare “Jelly”, a sparkling, disco-era jazz-rock outing partly inspired by the Doobie Brothers’ “Long Train Running”. 

Out Of The Blue may well be a very personal selection of tracks celebrating a moment in time, but it’s happily one that we can all enjoy.

LENG SHOP

D2 Christoph Spendel Group - Forever

Live In London

Don't Give Up On Me

Sean Malone (Cynic) - bass guitar, Chapman stick, keyboards
John Myung (Dream Theater) - Chapman stick
Trey Gunn (King Crimson) - Warr guitar
Glenn Snelwar (At War With Self) - guitars, mandolins
Ron Jarzombek (Spastic Ink) - guitars
Adam Levy (Norah Jones) - guitars
Sean Reinert (Cynic) - drums, percussion

Gordian Knot - Unquity Road [Pat Metheny & Jaco Pastorius Cover]

Sacha Distel, La belle vie

Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film)

Paranoid Android I

Same River

River Man (feat. Kurt Elling, Dave Grusin, Nathan East & Will Kennedy)

Toys / Die Dreaming

Red Label

For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. During his dazzling five-decade career, the fabled LA guitarist has taken his music to the outer limits, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the rock ‘n’ roll firmament. He’s been an enfant terrible of ’70s fusion, a crossover star of the ’80s pop chart, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind ’90s supergroup, Fourplay. Ritenour’s accolades include: 45 albums,16 Grammy nominations, Alumnus of the year at USC, Los Angeles’ Jazz Society Honoree (2019), plus thousands of sessions with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, among others.