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HALLNOATES - MORNING COMES - LEO ZERO EDIT

A trans-Atlantic journey into good times & even better music with my homie JKriv. Vinyl recording is out this week. Your collection needs this!

Sentimental Animals - Dance With Me - Clip

Leisure Dub is a new collaboration from Alex Storrer (Lexx) and Paul Byrne (Apiento) and features a floating roster of friends and collaborators. The first release from the project is 'Weekend Waiting' featuring Armanious consisting of Kat on vocals and Simo on guitar. Armanious are forward thinking r&b heads based in London. The track pulls on a modern r&b side on the a side and references 90s jeep beat on the flip. Wind the windows down and play it loud.

Weekend Waiting

Leisure Dub feat. Armanious - Weekend Waiting [Jeep Beat Mix]

Simple Summer - Pete Blaker Car Stereo Edit (Free Download DL)

Remix I did during lockdown for my good pal https://soundcloud.com/the-revenge for his Roar Groove label.

Loads of admiration for Graeme as a producer and as a human being.

Terrible knees mind...awful drinker.

Available via his Bandcamp page now along with some other tasty remixes.

You know what to do x

The Revenge - A Dream Or Some Substance (Dicky Trisco Remix)

On reprend de nouveau le café d'un peu plus prêt? Pour ce 50ème épisode, une partie d'Amplitudes a parcouru ses bacs pour une sélecta qui annonce le printemps 🌼 🐝

Si vous voulez regarder les Gildas en action : https://youtu.be/Mb9TAeN5EsY

AMPLITUDES - Dimanche Café N°050 [VINYL SESSION]

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera 
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Next up on our OpenLab Presents series, we are delighted to welcome producer, DJ, and co-founder of https://soundcloud.com/razor-n-tape, https://soundcloud.com/jkriv:
“This mix is a nice cross-section of some stuff I’ve been feeling lately that’s more on the more chill and easy end-of-summer vibes. There are some classic digs in there as well as some brand-new music, including an exclusive play of a new remix I’ve done for Flamingo Pier, which will be dropping on their Beneath The Neon EP on my label Razor-N-Tape early September!”

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OpenLab Presents: JKRIV

1. Maxxi & Zeus - American Dreamer
2. Bubble Club - The Goddess
3. Locussolus  - Throwdown (Com Truise Remix)
4. Gatto Fritto - The Curse
5. Gonno - Acdise #2 (Skudge Feels It Version)
6. Hungry Ghost - Illuminations
7. Bepu N'Gali - I Travel To You (Fully Bearded Dub By Tim 'Love' Lee)
8. DJ Harvey Presents Locussolus  - Gunship (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
9. International People's Gang  - Second (Coyote Remix)
10.Boys from Patagonia  - It's So Exciting (High Jingo Love Love Rework)
11.The Young Gentlemen's Adventure Society - Adventure Party
12.Mugwump - Boutade
13.Maxxi & Zeus - MZ Medley
14.EFEEL004 - Do What You Do
15.Mark Barrott - Island Life
16.Gatto Fritto - Invisible College
17.Rocha - Hands of Love
18.Bepu N'Gali - I Travel To You ((Frisvold & Lindbæk meets Todd Terje Uptown)
19.Locussolus - Next To You
20.EFEEL003 - Turmerica
21.Rocha - Night Music
22.EFEEL001 - Forbidden Love
23.Mark Barrott (as 'IFeelStudio') - Morgengruss III
24.EFEEL005 - Dawn Over a Quiet Harbor



The Story of International Feel - a two hour journey into our back catalogue

Produced and arranged by Alex Storrer in 2004/2005.  
Originaly released as part of the Young Corner EP, September 2014 on Phantom Island Records.

Young Corner

Mahogany

Lexx - Mahogany [2005]

Aerials live, dials tuned, Transmission Towers broadcasting. On either side of the river Mersey, transcendental communications are traded back and forth. Two late-night revellers, one firing messages filled with music, the other returning them laced with lyrics. The result, a dopamine hit of oddball machine soul, melded with a highlife, Afrofuturist touch. Wonky and murky yet deeply emotional, Transmission One, is a debut album that also marks the first release on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label, encompassing expertly the off-kilter atmosphere the label sets to orbit. 

A synthesised landscape with a Northern charm, Transmission Towers marry the musical worlds of two artists that last collaborated over a decade ago. 10 years have passed, lives have been led, but a gravitational pull has placed Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante back in each other’s spheres on opposite sides of the city of Liverpool. Energised with a newfound desire to strip it all back to the sounds that influenced their formative years in the late ‘80s and ‘90s - astral travelling, intoxicated on Motor City techno, Black Dog IDM and mystical Sun Ra. 
 
Mark half Irish, half Greek Cypriot, Eleanor half Nigerian, half Ghanian, the music contained within is an alchemy of those roots and the pivotal acts that buried deep into their minds. A cosmic contrast, part machine-made, part distinctly human. Take the opener ‘UP’, an ESG-channelling, sci-fi punk beatdown or the polychromatic hyperspace anthem ‘Roller Skater 23’. 
 
Transportive throughout, you ride the solar waves, pace and emotion ebbing and flowing. Tracks like ‘Go Slow Heart’ and ‘Cosmic Trigger’ step to a slower beat but hit with a punch. The former, a slo-mo blast of celestial tenderness, the latter an otherworldly, chugged-out lunar excursion, micro-dosing on whacked-out Wah Wah and Eleanor’s ethereal vocals. Beaming love letters to space and back, ‘Sparse’ marries the organic with the artificial, pianos and percussion circling around synth pads and broadcasting bleeps.
 
Elsewhere, vibrations move faster. ‘Mega’ strikes, fusing sonic tribalism with psychedelic swirls, as ‘Everything’ sweeps you up in its extra-terrestrial new wave grip. Synth stabs and basslines fizzing from every angle.  
 
Demos of Transmission Towers music surfaced on Luke Una’s radar, making him stop in his tracks. Something magical was emerging, perfectly aligned with the E Soul guardian’s tastes. Guidance followed, quickly turning into conversations about Transmission One becoming the first release on Luke’s own label. 
 
Escapist and futurist yet grounded and relatable. Transmission One is synthesis meets sentiment with a deep, spine-tingling soul at its core.

Transmission Towers - Roller Skater 23

Whisper it quietly, but Andrew Meecham’s ninth album as The Emperor Machine, Island Boogie, may well be the long-serving producer’s strongest set to date. Of course, all his albums ripple with vintage synth sounds, colourful lead lines, dub-flecked electronic disco and lashings of cosmic intent, but this one just feels a little more special.

Island Boogie is certainly special. Meecham’s “most personal” full-length to date was inspired by his experiences at the Rotation Garden Party – a beloved micro-festival promoted by a group of friends (including sometime Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips partner Dean Meredith), renowned for the quality of its custom-built Klipschorn soundsystem. “The album’s title sums up the vibe that you get from Rotation,” he explains. “It may be held in a landlocked venue but it gives a wonderful sense of isolation – it is an audiophile paradise.”

Meecham road-tested rough versions of the album’s eight tracks at Rotation 2023, with the feedback and dancefloor reaction guiding the sound and arrangement of the final mixes. Fittingly, Meecham will return to the event to showcase the album at Rotation 2024 this July. Given the inspiration he’s drawn from previous editions of the festival, that will be a very special occasion.

Musically, Island Boogie offers the most fully functioning and expertly constructed expression of The Emperor Machine sound yet, a style Meecham describes as “electronic cosmic disco-boogie”. It’s a sound that takes cues from early ‘80s NYC punk-funk and dub disco, vintage electro, proto-house and left-of-centre synth-boogie, but one that’s instantly recognisable to those who have followed Meecham’s career over the last three decades.

Island Boogie also sees Meecham continue his blossoming working relationship with Séverine Mouletin, whose stylish and distinctive vocals previously graced his popular ‘Dance Par Amour’ and ‘Your Own Style’ singles. Here Mouletin features on four tracks: the acid-flecked retro-futurist wave-boogie of ‘La Cassette’ (featuring additional percussion by Rupert Brown); the infectious, bleep-sporting headiness of recent single ‘Dévoilez-Vous’; and the squelchy analogue synth-funk of ‘Wanna Pop With You’ and ‘Vas-y-Le Chat’.

Meecham also finds space for a cover of Fox’s 1976 pop-rock classic ‘S-s-s-single Bed’, one of the Stafford-based artist’s all-time favourites. His version, featuring lead vocals by Michelle Bee and guitar from Dave Atherton, re-imagines the track as a subtly Chic-influenced slab of infectious electro-pop rich in kaleidoscopic synth sounds, sing-along choruses and shuffling drums.

The instrumental foundations of the classic Emperor Machine sound come to the fore on the album’s three other cuts. There’s the jazz-funk-flecked warmth of the LP-opening title track; the sparse squelches, bleeps, TB-303 style bass and brightly coloured electronics of ‘Walk The Dog’; and the exotic, slow-motion cosmic electronica of ‘Cha Murrah Etem’, a warm but poignant affair dedicated to his late father. Heady and intoxicating, with hints of Balearica and digital reggae, it offers a fittingly beautiful and tactile conclusion to Meecham’s most expressive and accessible album yet.

Island Boogie

LENG SHOP

Emperor Machine - Cha Murrah Etem

112 KBPS FILES - DON'T BE A DUNCE!

Stream & Buy - https://razor-n-tape.lnk.to/ButIDoEdit

lovetempo returns with an acid-jazz club banger guaranteed to get you crying on the dance floor. “But I Do” navigates the addictive paradox of a tumultuous love that feels too good to relinquish.

Collaborating with multi-instrumentalist/producer Dougie Stu (of Ghostly International’s Brijean) and Conclave’s Cesar Toribio, Safer creates a hypnotic track driven by a looping 303 bassline, a swinging house beat, soulful keys, and a soaring falsetto that captures the pathos of the predicament.

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lovetempo - But I Do

Monster Skies

Carafe Denim

A summery, mellow slo-jam that's forthcoming on the Aural Graffiti imprint some time very soon. 

My ‘Twisted Toungue’ remix is now available exclusively at JunoDownload, check all the other mixes too, it's an ace package - http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-return-remixes-ep/2062789-02/ - chart it, give it some love, tell your friends, bla, bla bla. x

A Return To Space (Leftside Wobble Space Dub) Now available at Juno, iTunes, Amazon & Beatport

Talking Drums - Get Serious [DJ Harvey Live At Rumors]

SlowMotion 2 (Tribute To Olivia) Free D/L

Alex Storrer / Lexx / LX72 

Producer, Dj, Label from Zürich,
Switzerland.  

contact: info@lexxmusic.com

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Leisure Dub feat. Armanious - Weekend Waiting [Jeep Beat Mix]

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