Mister Cam-Run and Sean Rowlands present a selection of their favorite records and latest finds. From boogie and beats to jazz, dub and disco - Moods & Grooves will take you there.


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Mood & Grooves with Cam & Sean @ The Lot Radio 11 - 13 - 2022

RADIO.D59B / NEW DAY RISING #24 w/ Rade Banyan

Advocating for a free and self-managed party culture, @abstrack-records's range covers dance music and all its subgenres, under the promise that dancing to good music heals all wounds.

Listen to Abstrack every 3rd Wednesday of the month from 14h to 16h [CET] on rinse.fr

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Following on from the success of Jorkes's Sweet Dream EP on the influential Live At Robert Johnson label, a wealth of innovative electronic talents all serve up their own remixes of it including Paris Böhm, Alinka, ROTCIV, Hard Ton, and more.

German-born but Austria-based Jorkes runs the Freeride Millenium label with her muse, lover, and partner Daniel Rajcsanyi aka. Paris Böhm. Her provocative work centralizes gender, queer and egalitarian attitudes, and her Sweet Dreams EP showed the many different sides of her sound.

It is Radio8000 resident ParisBöhm who offers the first remix of 'CDEvaLo'. It's slow and sensuous, with intimate spoken word vocals and lithe synths while the bubbling melodies add color. Next up is Ukraine-born but Berlin-based Alinka, whose hard-hitting sounds have come on the likes of Rekids and Crosstown. Her version of 'Sweet Dream' is uplifting and glossy with busy arps rising up over prickly drums. Acid gurgles add extra texture to this classy floor filler. Freeride Millenium associates Snecker aka Berghain resident DJ nd_baumecker and musician, singer, songwriter, producer, performer, and DJ Snax tackle the same track. In their hands, it becomes a steamy house cut with floating synth motifs and crisp claps over a tantalizing beat that never stops building.

ROTCIV is another Freeride Millenium artist who has a cultured and colorful sound built on alternating arpeggios, automated synth melodies, and weird vocals. His remix of 'You Will Be Mine' is a zoned-out vocal disco chugger with a rugged bassline. The cosmic rays up top and silky arps help the whole track take off. Italian duo and accomplished disco queens Hard Ton are all about hi-nrg beats and screaming acid bass whenever they release on Freeride Millenium or the likes of Toy Tonics. They remix 'You Will Be Mine' in typically high-impact fashion as crashing hits and drums pump the party underneath astral synths and libidinous vocals. Experimental Berlin art trio New Hook then step up to rework 'Robot Lover' into something beautifully atmospheric and melancholic with thoughtful chords over nu-disco grooves. This package is completed with a final fantastic Форм Remix of 'CDEvaLo' that adds yet another perspective.

All bases are covered in head-turning fashion on this vital remix EP.

Sweet Dreams ( Alinka Remix ) 

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Jorkes - Sweet Dreams (Alinka Remix) - Snippet

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Orpheu the Wizard has a magic touch at finding records that fall between the gaps in music - oddities, curios, the weird, the wonderful. But that's just half the trick. It takes a sensitive and selective ear to construct a coherent, accessible narrative from them. So you get DJs who can play for the crowd and "selectors" adept at mining the black gold. In Orpheu, you've got yourself someone who can do both. On a festival main stage, he can keep it weird enough for the heads. In an audiophile setting, he'll keep the flow. 

These skill sets come into play on the fifth The Sound of Love International compilation. Jumping between genres, decades, continents, the truly rare, and many B-side cuts that passed you by. But never eclecticism for its own sake; this collection makes sense. Orpheu never loses sight of the listener - he's a friendly and knowledgeable guide to the cosmic outer reaches.

He opens his account with the warm, psychedelic electronics of Drawing Future Life, with ‘1969’. Tucked away on the B-side of an LP of ambient/trance hailing from Fukuoka, this is a very pretty piece of music on a truly rare piece of wax. Then, leapfrogging a couple of decades and timezones, we have Rutuu Poiss' "IHATSIN." Off-kilter, experimental sounds with an endearing melodic hook, followed up by the with lethargic ambient breakbeat of Digital Distortion's "Mellow Bug".

On the B-side, things start to get lively. French Audacity featuring Valerie's "That Fine One" is Gallic garage that has simultaneously got it hugely wrong and mas­sively right. Owing as much to new wave as New York house, this is propulsive and quirky dance music at its finest. Next, we're on a ferry over the channel for DJ Spike and "Gaps In Space." Up-tempo electro with a fondness for sampled vocal cut-ups, like its predecessor.
 
lnterdance's "Kurz" (another B-side) is the perfect segway - house from 1990 with that sweet, slightly goofy naivete. Things move toward the gnarly with Bad Behaviour and "Living on Smoke," a lesser-known cut on the legendary Atmosphere records. The tempo edges upward on "Systematic Input" by Frequency, hectic hardcore techno that still retains a lightness of touch. 

"Lushes" by Diffusion spins us off into space, filigree techno with an emotive trance edge. The chiming intro of "Blue to Be Happy" by MFA lulls us into a sense of false security before massively putting the boot in with a pounding kick drum, bassline, and arpeggiation. From there, it's a sharp left turn into the urban psychedelic dub of R.I.P's "E.O Pan" on cult label Digi Dub.

Sticking with UK sound system music but taking it down a notch, Orpheu closes proceedings with a leftfield reggae excursion from the master of the mixing desk, Mad Professor’s"Oh Hell".

It's a compilation as varied as the many moods and grooves of Love International itself - from sun-dappled olive groves to moments deep in the strobes. This is serious music for party freaks or party music for serious freaks. Tisno is calling.

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Digital Distortion - Mellow Bug [clip]

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Max Wyatt - July 2023

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Melodic techno like I do.  Dreamy with many melodies.

Sky of Illusion

Cosmogony (from Greek for "world's birth") is the study or myth of cosmic origins. It encompasses both ancient creation stories – such as those found in Greek or Norse mythology – and scientific theories, primarily the Big Bang. Essentially, it answers humanity's fundamental question: "How did everything begin?" Whether through divine beings or physical laws, cosmogony explains the emergence of the universe from primordial chaos or a singular point into an ordered reality. This timeless concept is powerfully mirrored in CR HERZ's debut solo EP, "Universo," a sonic journey that starts from that very point of mythical genesis. The release features two dark-matter-infused originals and is grounded by a potent, transformative reinterpretation by Vicky Montefusco (FREEDL062).

Following notable appearances on labels such as Belly Dance Services, BAU_HAUS, Internasjonal, Inner Shah, and HEARec, producer Vicky Montefusco now contributes his vision to the inaugural release of the fledgling Italian imprint, Analog Disorder. His reinterpretation of “Cosmogonia” strategically strips away the original’s progressive, guitar-like synth layers, transposing the thematic core into a more minimalistic and driving domain. The track is rebuilt upon a foundation of potent, throbbing bass and animated by frenzied, oscillating synth leads, resulting in a version that carves out its own distinct, dynamic space within the EP's conceptual framework.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Beatport page of the label: https://www.beatport.com/label/analog-disorder/158140

Follow @vickymontefusco and @analog-disorder, peeps!

PREMIERE852 // CR HERZ - Cosmogonia (Vicky Montefusco Remix)

Le Père (Nameless)

As the name states Live at Robert Johnson is the associated label of the respected venue in Offenbach and incorporates what the club stands for. The imprint has been establishing a solid ground for the new Frankfurt sound since 2009. By featuring internationally acclaimed artists LARJ has been providing DJs and audiences with essential tunes in an extensive range of high-quality house music. Laid-back dance-floor awareness with a sense for particularity in sound is what might describe best most of the releases and artists.