Aimed at providing a different insight into dance music the label Special place provides both acoustic and electronic sounds that are not sonically linked to a specific era, but all carry a shamanic or esoteric hinge. This EP is just that with the three amazing artists Mushrooms Project, Longhair and Eric Duncan all bringing their own take to this leftfield slomo disco to house vibe. It’s an honor to have them on board!

You gotta love Eric Duncan. Such a laidback, fun and easy going chap! After having turned NY upside down he currently resides in Bali when he's not touring amidst the pandemic. He actually remixed this track whilst in Brazil (how does he do that?). He probably has the vastest collection of selfies with DJ Harvey if this means anything. Berlin based Longhair has a string of releases on labels such as Bordello A Parrigi, Permanent Vacation or Love On the Rocks. He actually does sport long hair and probably has a third ear for turning music into untameable beat dance fury. And what about our hosts Mushrooms Project? Well they paved a solid catalogue with their characteristic shamanic house music releases, go check out for yourself!

PREMIERE : Mushrooms Project - Caldosavana (Longhair Remix)

DAS KOMPLEX - ONION

New York and Oaxaca based musician, songwriter, producer and DJ Quinn Lamont Luke has most probably been in your ears over the years, even if you didn’t realise it.

Formerly known as Bing Ji Ling, and a former member of the Phenomenal Handclap Band, Quinn has recently been working on a variety of solo, band, and production projects. His other active projects and collaborations include Paqua (Claremont 56), Q&A (Leng Records), and Cantoma (Highwood Recordings).  

Not My Day bounces along beautifully with some cheeky synth action and an uplifting 90s feel. The stellar Tokyo Black Star remix takes you deeper in to the late night acid chug category, with tougher beats and a stabby synth, softened by Quinn’s vocal crescendo coming in to make some summer dance floor memories.

These tracks appeared on an extremely limited, vinyl only release on Alex From Tokyo’s World Famous label in 2016.  Seeing the digital light of day for their first time now, the release comes along with a luscious “retouch” by Tokyo Black Star of Quinn’s cover of the Lil Louis classic “Club Lonely.”

Not My Day EP

Not My Day - Tokyo Black Star Remix [El Triangulo] <Gouranga Premiere>

SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dance-par-amour

Limited edition vinyl with artwork by the brilliant KMG - www.kmgyeah.com

Leng Records has long admired Andrew Meecham’s work as The Emperor Machine. Last year, Meecham made his first appearance on the label via a fine remix of Harks & Mudd favourite ‘Susta’. 12 months on, Meecham returns to Leng with his first Emperor Machine outing of 2021, a typically eccentric, heavily electronic dancefloor outing featuring the seductive vocals of rising star Séverine Mouletin.

Meecham is one of British dance music’s most experienced and lauded producers, with a packed history stretching right back to the acid house era. He first rose to fame as part of Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips (both alongside long-term studio partner Dean Meredith), but over the last two decades has devoted far more time to solo work as The Emperor Machine. In the process, he’s developed a sparse, hypnotic, heavily electronic trademark sound that combines analogue and modular synthesizer sounds with nods to post-punk disco, new wave, trippy proto-house and the mind-altering experiments of the Radiophonic Workshop.

‘Dance Par Amour’, his first solo single on Leng, is typical of his now familiar personal sonic style, with echoing, alien-sounding synthesizer motifs (some reminiscent of those that marked out Chicken Lips’ club classic ‘He Not In’), with bubbly sequenced bass, unfussy machine drums, rubbery slap-bass riffs and flashes of post-punk disco guitars.

Sparse but weighty and pleasingly trippy, the EP-leading ‘Extended Vocal Mix’ is classic Emperor Machine: a near ten-minute workout in which Mouletin’s tender but confident vocals rise above Meecham’s stylish and note perfect backing track, which sits somewhere between early ‘80s ‘no wave’ New York disco, lo-fi European synth-pop and the trippy late night dancefloor dubs that were once a feature of American boogie and proto-house records.

Meecham further explores his love of these sparse, effects-laden “synth-dubs” on the accompanying ‘Erotique Dub’, a thrillingly heavy, heads-down affair awash with echoing vocal snippets, hypnotic drums and synthesizer flourishes that attractively echo across the sound space. Like the best DJ-focused dubs of the early 1980s, the remix is propelled forwards by a strong bassline, around which other elements – guitar, bass guitar, sparkling synth sounds and mind-mangling electronics – appear, make their mark and then drift off into the ether. With key passages of Mouletin’s vocal appearing periodically to encourage people to dance, it’s the kind of delightfully wayward revision that will keep people dancing well into the early hours.

LENG SHOP

The Emperor Machine & Séverine Mouletin - Dance Par Amour (Extended Instrumental)

Celebrating 2 years on Internet Public Radio!! For the occasion, I recorded a 2 hours mix with my favorite findings of the last two years. Expect a balearic aperitivo vibe for the first hour and then a more progressive dream house vodka e-jet for the second one ✨🕺🏻  

Huge thanks to all the artists who contributed to this show, it means the world to me, you have no idea :)   

Special thanks to the whole team at @internetpublicradio for trusting me, this journey is far from over, season three coming next month! 🪩

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Pâlm "2 Years Anniversary" #23 @Internet Public Radio - 20/05/2022

DC Promo Tracks #1140: "Carmico" by My Friend Dario is part of the release "Food for Woofers" on Hell Yell Recordings @hell-yeah  

Buy Now: https://myfrienddario.bandcamp.com/album/food-for-woofers-vol-1 
Interview: https://www.dreamchimney.com/interviews/My-Friend-Dario/

More Promo Tracks: https://www.dreamchimney.com/promo

DC Promo Tracks: My Friend Dario "Carmico"

Shabi - Intimate Dancing [Lisztomania]
Buy: https://lisztomaniarec.bandcamp.com/album/intimate-dancing?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR34MixWo_SLQizQQgmQ-gNogGmeasNHLG6Y7jQykqY_40rcvfCRhRof1ys_aem_AXIVHnUIBl2HQJHiBFHpbpkVIf4Q77s2sdy0qlLPkrJYFKSgssZxvWJYh5LsySraPHkpjPmqMjKavAeAblrSgcsK

PREMIERE: Shabi - Intimate Dancing [Lisztomania]

Unouzbeck & Venturi présents Houmous Pour Tous.
This guys join forces and bring to our label this super record with two tracks reach of ethnic energy and amazing exotic vibes.
Out soon on 12" record.

Houmous Pour Tous - Manjula Doll

i Boat Captain - Slower The Backwoods remix

Massimiliano Pagliara - Focus For Infinity (The Remixes Pt. 2) 
Vinyl 12" / Digital

Massimiliano Pagliara - I'll Never Be (Nicholas remix) - Live At Robert Johnson

Bringing Mum To Panorama Bar

Bringing Mum To Panorama Bar (Original Mix)

Mid-tempo dancefloor specialists... plus everything else.

The Emperor Machine & Séverine Mouletin - Dance Par Amour (Extended Instrumental)

Leng Records

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