Four years after wowing listeners with his surprise debut album, All One, Ferdi Schuster is back with a similarly inspired sequel. Taking his distinctive, freewheeling approach to its predecessor, Playing Life  offers a set of inspired instrumentals full of soft-focus grooves, alluring musical motifs, subtle mood shifts and plenty of intricate musical details. In fact, such is the layered nature of the productions, you’ll still be noticing new things on your fifth or sixth listen.

 Those who know Schuster’s story and previous work for Claremont 56 won’t be at all surprised. Arguably the label’s best-kept secret, Schuster ended up on Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy’s label in 2017 after speculatively submitting a demo. Murphy was blown away by the quality of the publicity-shy multi-instrumentalist’s work and asked him to work on an album; two years later, All One appeared in stores and the rest, as they say, is history.

 Just as he did on his celebrated debut album, Schuster played every instrument, note, chord and riff on Playing Life, arranging and producing the whole thing at different points between 2020 and 2023. The results are undeniably spellbinding, with the talented artist arguably delivering an even more assured, attractive and entertaining set.

 For proof, check opener ‘Dream Quality’, a sumptuous affair in which immersive pads, jazzy guitars, twinkling keys and smooth bass rise above a dubby, minimalistic beat, the steel pan-infused gentle jog towards the dancefloor that is ‘A Step Further’, and the Balearic ambient jazz masterpiece that is ‘Due’. Or, for that matter, the lapping waves and deep, dubbed-out grooves of ‘Playing Life’, and the starry magnificence of ‘Light Minded’, where Ferdi offers a few nods to the great Pat Metheny over twinkling synths and sparse, spaced-out beat.

Everywhere you look across the album, you’ll find a softly spun, exquisitely executed highlight. There’s ‘Moving Forms’, whose instinctive beat pattern and sun-bright jazz guitars enrich the soul, the marimba-sporting sunset wonder of ‘Universal Dance’, the chunky dub disco shuffle of ‘Pulsing’ and the awe-inspiring brilliance of ‘Vastness’, a suitably star-gazing, effects-laden excursion that provides a fittingly impressive conclusion to an album dripping with emotion-rich sonic gold.

Pulsing

PMx reaches double digits with this fresh Drum & Bass mix by @kornel

Tracklist:
K-Lone - Hold On Culebra
DJ Swisha - 5X
Tim Reaper - Lights Off, Heads Down (Sully Remix)
Minor Science - Workahol
Peanut Planet - Thru The Fire
Toxe - Big Age
DJ Hype feat. MC GQ - Roll The Beats
Sacred - Kall Da Kops (Remix 1)
DMS & The Boneman X - Life Is A Circle
DJ Rashad x DJ Spinn x Taso - CREAM VIP
Fracture - Loving Touch
benuebermensch - paceplaya

PMx 10 - Kornél Kovács

All This Love

We’ve compiled a new promo mix to celebrate to start of the summer season here in Australia. This one is crammed with plenty of new releases across sun-soaked balearic energy, percussive Afro and Latin rhythms, deep soulful house, Italo classics and 90’s proto chuggers.

Massimo Zennaro - Luxury
Ephemeral Edits 013 - Ritmo Tônico (YPS Edit)
RELATIN, La Pesada - Cumbia y Tambo (Quantic Remix)
Glen S - Give Me Beat (Make A Dance Rework)
Cruisey Camel - By The Bay (Afro Flow Edit)
Mamacita - Hacerte Bien
Kiko Navarro - Chan Chan (Afroterraneo Vocal Dub)
Camilo Salazar - Ayofe (Extended Mix)
Ten City - That's the Way Love Is (Deep House Mix-Extended Version) 
Addison Groove - F1nk
Conclave - Alati Yeye Chege (musclecars Remix)
Belizian Voodoo Priest - Sing It Again (Morttaaaayy Drum & Vox ReTouch)
DJ DASCO - African Power 
Soussol - Sol (Lego's Trompeta Mix)
Itchy + Scratchy - Disco Girlfriend (Spot On Mix)
Voilaaa - Faché (Dub)
Close Counters - I WANT YOU
Dimitri From Paris, DJ Rocca - Disco Shake (In the House Of Disco Edit)
Silicone Soul - Right On, Right On (Fango Remix)
Las Americas - Look, Listen, Love (From House To Disco Remix)
S.U.M.O. - Supra Sumo (Beats)
Lonesome Echo Production - Spirit of Drums (S.U.M.O Afrobounce)
LANDR - Mpemba (Phil Mill Edit)
Trent Voyage, Elena Moroder - Viola, Rosa, Blu 
FUN FUN - Give Me Your Love (US Remix)

*Recorded live and may contain some vinyl pops, skips and bumps

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DC Promo Tracks #1524: "Baila Exotica" by Dennis Liber feat. Yasmin Kademian is part of the release "Family Affair Vol. 4" on Razor-N-Tape @razor-n-tape  

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DC Promo Tracks: Dennis Liber feat. Yasmin Kademian "Baila Exotica"

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Tracklist:
Jam & Spoon – Stella
Art of Trance – Madagascar (Cygnus X Remix)
Way Out West – Stealth (Way Out West Club Mix)
Groove Foundation & DJ Chus – That Feeling (De Poniente Mix)
Nali & Kane – Open Your Eyes (The Child You Are) (El Barco Remix)
Miro – Paradise (Red Jerry's Longdubbyvocal Mix)
Schiller – Ruhe (Humate Remix)
Dove Beat – La Paloma (Ocean Remix)
Manjaro – Apperception (DJ Georgio Mix)
Chicane – Sunstroke (Disco Citizens On The Train Remix)
Humate – Love Stimulation (Paul van Dyk Love Mix)
Paul van Dyk – Pikes
CRW – I Feel Love (R.A.F. Zone Mix)
Sundance – Sundance (98 Remix)
Vincent De Moor – Systematic
Chicane – Offshore (Disco Citizens Remix)
BT – Godspeed (12” Mix)
San – I Know
Chicane – Lost You Somewhere (Heliotropic Mix)
Taucher – Happiness
Groovezone – I Love the Music
DJ Zigi – Fatamorgana (The Break Mix)
Energy 52 – Café Del Mar (Hybrid's Time Traveller Remix)
Southside Spinners – Luvstruck (Marco V & Benjamin 2000 Extended Remix)
Johan Gielen, Airscape – Pacific Melody
Liquid Child – Diving Faces (Vocalized Fairytale Mix)
Vincent De Moor – Flowtation
Friends Of Matthew – Out There (Lange Mix 12 Inch)
The Thrillseekers – 36 Weeks (Original 1998 Mix)
Binary Finary – 1998 (Paul Van Dyk Remix)
The Voyager – Back On Earth

Ibiza 1998 (Fun at the Beach)

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