Harmona is the first single from Ichisan’s fourth studio album. A balearic disco jam with filtered moog-ish melody, funky synth bass-line and lush flanger-strings. Dan Tyler of Idjut Boys fame adds his wonky tape delay and signature flange over the main theme, whilst his Acid Casualty mix is gnarly!

Artwork by Meta Wraber

Ichisan - Harmona

t’s A Pleasure To Edit" is a selection from our archive of disco edits we did during the last 10 years, a way to reconnect you all with our roots.
Starting from October 15th, every Friday we’re gonna release one of them for eight weeks in a row.
Every single price for downloads will be upon offer and once the series will end, around Christmas time, we will donate the whole amount collected to Emergency, in honor of Gino Strada, a great activist and Emergency founder who left us last August 2021.

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I Love America (Marvin & Guy Edit)

BUY IT: https://luvshackrecords.fanlink.to/disco-biscuits-2

Disco Biscuits #2

Odmewianie

Das Komplex - Odmewianie | LUV040

You know you’re doing something very, very right when you get regular Radio 1 airplay and you’ve signed music to Running Back, Permanent Vacation and Correspondant. Then again, Alan Dixon has long been a name on the edge of big-time success, marked out as one to watch by industry taste-makers including Mixmag, Defected and Traxsource. A rock kid until he stepped into a club at 16 and thought ‘this is it,’ Alan initially made a name for himself in his native North East of England before becoming one of the Ministry of Sound resident DJs in Singapore for several years.

You know you’re onto a winner when your supporters range from The Chemical Brothers to Bicep, from Job Jobse to Gerd Janson, the latter who is also on remix duty here. Little is known of the illusive Dorothy, also affectionately known as Django the Bastard. Word is he resides in a secret studio in El Santoro, Los Angeles.

Bronx Warriors is a pumping disco banger from Dixon and Dorothys Fortress. You get the disco hit in seconds as the song starts with some sequenced bass stabs and the classic four to the floor beat. As the beat intensifies, the sound fills every space in the mix and build up to a wonderful melody which screams disco and dance. Moving around your ears the production is top shelf and as the beat drops, every layer that has been teased bursts to life as the drums find power and placement in the centre of the mix. To bring the song round full circle, some rhythmic house keys join the party to add one last punch and get you moving. The dynamics and teasers in this song work wonders, leaving you yearning for more after every drop until finally the big one hits and you can't stay still.

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Alan Dixon & Dorothys Fortress - Bronx Warriors

Oliver Schmidt aka Mighty is the mastermind behind the Machia & Velli project. Hailing from the German Hip Hop scene, it took him more than 20 years to finally start dedicating his refined production skills to his "teenage love", the one & only Italo Disco. His debut EP on Bungalo Disco, the Berlin-based label expertly curated by Italo Brutalo (SXDNS091), presents his business card to the Italian genre aficionados and showcases what he is capable of. The “Discorsi” EP delivers four well-constructed originals (five if we consider that “Pentecoste” comes in two versions: Original and Extended) and three vital remixes made with love and prosecco by Moonbootica, Deomid and master Brutalo himself.

Premiered here, the third track of the release is pure bliss! A happy and upbeat theme with a vibrant and positive aura that will put a big smile on your face whenever you listen to, dance to or think about it. With an oh-my-God bassline and a Jesus-Maria-and-Joseph piano layer, “House Of Machia” is a proper Neo-Italo banger devoted to triggering good feelings only. We don’t know about you, but we are very much looking forward to Machia & Velli’s future endeavours.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://bungalodisco.bandcamp.com/music

Follow @machia-and-velli and @bungalo-disco, peeps!

PREMIERE408 // Machia & Velli - House Of Machia

Mexico City resident La Guardia De La Luz is back on Hell Yeah with a new three-track EP, The Magnetic Field, a perfect follow-up from his Awakenings EP back in late 2021. 

This Balearic-not-Balearic artist has been crafting his seductive sounds for many years. From lush deep house to stoner dub via psychedelic beats, he can do it all with a majestic sense of storytelling. This time out he has his sights set firmly on the dance floor as he mixes up breakbeat, reggae and disco. 

'Kingston Technologies' has an irresistibly wiggling dub rhythm. Dusty breakbeats and digi-synths dance around one another as warm chords and jah-inspired vocals drift up top. It's a super fresh tune that sounds like nothing else out there. 

The epic ten-minute workout that is 'Planetary' builds on deep-cut house drums with funky bass playing and louche percussion. It's an early evening classic that will see any floor slowly fill up as people shake their booty to the loose rhythm and get lost in the soulful melodies that grow ever more cosmic. 

Finally, the title track is another nearly 10-minute masterpiece with silky star-gazing arps circling up through the mix over lazy breaks. It's an expansive track with a widescreen design that has you gazing off to the distance and lost in a loved-up deep disco reverie. 

These are three inventive tunes that take you to another world.

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La Guardia De La Luz - The Magnetic Field

Part 5 of the various artists series is at it again with 5 tracks by 5 different producers and a mixture of feel good party time music and contemplative music. You will hear familiar Running Back names like Storken (this time together with JStaaf) refining their comic tropes (or imagine Foreigner doing house music) next to newcomers like Archie Ward. His Pizza Girl puts musical toppings on a pounding underbelly that wouldn’t be out of place in any warehouse, while Moritz and Amount dial it back a bit. Their respective tracks are gleaming with a special kind of elegant end-of-night euphoria that is hard to come by – and all the nicer if it happens. Remember: trance is a state of mind! Last but not least, Australia’s Jonus Eric delivers an IDM-leaning piece of outsider dance. Hot soup, hot swallow!

A1. Moritz - Flying Saucer

a new edit from the vaults
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moody-love

Tronik Youth - Moody Love Edit

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What Lies Beyond

LeSale - What Lies Beyond | LUV040

My remix of "Malente&Dex - Lions" on DJ Shir Khan's Exploited Records. Digital dancehall mixed with old school house beats & fx & chord stabs... and just a little bit of synth-funk. 

Out now, with further remixes by Jan Driver and Bassnectar (and there's an instrumental version of this rmx, too).

Malente&Dex feat. New Kidz – Lions (Lorenz Rhode Remix)

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WHAT?
Imagine Rick James dating Chaka Khan, dancing to Daft Punk and Technotronic, making sweet love to a Stevie Wonder ballad, when suddenly a group of German robots and a Yellow Magic Orchestra come rushing into the hotel suite and… they all decide to go to France instead.