In 2018 Route 8 after recording hardware only live jams for years, he started to experiment in Ableton Live. 🎹 The result was our "It's Okay To Dance" EP, but during this time, he recorded a few other tracks which were a bit different from his usual mellow house sound including this gem. 🛰
We played this trancey banger at a couple of parties over the past few years and people seemed to enjoy it, so we decided to put it up on the interwebs, so others can experience Route 8's hypnotic visions. 😵
Track is up for grabs at our bandcamp page.

Trancentral

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Route 8 - Trancentral

The night was balmy; the kind that made your hair stick to your forehead and your palms sweaty. It called for nights sat by the river or lazing in the park, constantly following the sun until the last sliver of day light melted away beyond the horizon. If only every day could be like this. As soon as summer appeared it seemed to slip away again, as if it were teasing you... or warning you...

Yet more heat coming from the R.A.N.D Muzik Recordings camp - this time courtesy of Gnork. The Hungarian producer makes his debut on the Leipzig-based label with a batch of cosmic, spaced out house and breaks. Known for previous releases on the likes of Magicwire, Church, Unknown To The Unknown and Earth Plates, Gnork's dreamy blend of twinkling melodies, lush pads and warm shuffling beats are on display yet again across the EP's five tracks.

PREMIERE: Gnork - R Drone [R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings]

4est Bst (Mixed) by Alejo Chaves

E4 Energy

Ex-Terrestrial - Vanilight (Priori Rezone)

Look Like makes his debut on Clone Royal Oak with a great four track ep! A fresh take on classic house music. Italo house, Balearic beat, Chicago's stomp and Detroit's funk all stirred up into a nice loose hybrid that seems to become Look Likes signature sound. Lovely stuff!! If you havent heard from him just yet... also check out his cool releases on DVS1's Misstress label and Drum Poet Society!

Order vinyl: clone.nl/item55041.html

Look Like - Nokia Nostalgia

A1 from the upcoming EP!

Furious Frank returns to Butter Sessions with 'Ahora Sí'. The fully fledged house anthem is the result of a cross-continental collaboration with Barcelona based vocalist and producer Ivy Barkakati. 

We're treated to four versions of 'Ahora Sí', all tested and ready for the dance floor and those special moments! Kicking it off, Frank delivers his "Original Acid Mix". A deep, squelchy lurker with nods to late 80's and 90's house music, peaking with thick piano chords and Barkakati's deep Spanish vocals. On the 'Sunrise' mix, the piano and chords become the focus and set the mood for an uplifting journey, bolstered by the raw thump and jack of the drum machines. 

The flip side see's Barcelona based "IVAN" emerge with their version. The duo made up of Ivy Barkakati and Phran of Klasse Wrecks fame slow things down a touch, mangle the chords and inject the rhythm with flattering top-drawer percussion. Vancouver native D. Tiffany rounds the EP off with sub-heavy bass drops, hi-tek rhythms, euphoric vocal slithers and more stingin' acidic vibes. 

Pure and infectious house music for real people!

A1. Ahora Sí (Original Mix)

Out early February!

Preorder: https://bit.ly/2SYAVZB
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/14588794

A1 @nathanmelja - Synesthesia [06.00 - 130 BPM]
A2 Synesthesia (Anthony Naples Remix) [08.02 - 128 BPM]
B Synesthesia (@pariah_uk Remix) [07.28 - 130 BPM]

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." The steadily brilliant French producer Nathan Melja - who's made the rounds between choice outlets over the past half decade, from Mister Saturday Nights to Antinote, via Ninja Tune offshoot Technicolour and Opal Tapes, seems to have learnt Bruce Lee's lesson by heart, and his seamlessly fluid, no-nonsense debut foray on KOC is here to potently cement his status as one of Europe's number one club trailblazers, and one that knows all too well how to turn any dancefloor into an infinity pool of pure liquid euphoria.

Drawing its name from the physiological and psychological process that results in a confusion of one's sensory perceptions, 'Synesthesia' is indeed the kind of club single that shall trigger off massive reaction amongst right-minded bipeds and chromakey house suckers. Straightforward club business done right, Melja's original is a vivid kaleidoscope of skittish drums, swampy bass stabs and a well-rounded, supremely curvy synthwork, tailored to take ravers on a flash journey through space and time without the help of Richard Branson or Elon Tusk (pun intended).

Called in on remix duty, TTT affiliate and Incienso co-founder Anthony Naples delivers a more fragmented and ambientish variation, though functional and club-ready in its own right. Brushing even wider verbed-out pad tapestries for your brain to wander in, the track expands to deeper organic horizons with a field-depth that can not but recall that of the KLF and Bochum Welt's emotional soundscaping. Meanwhile, Karenn half Pariah takes care of whelming us deep into more techno-friendly terrains, true to his ever masterly touch for epic buildups and multi-level textural innovation, bringing up the acidic phlegm of Melja's original as he treats us to a carefully orchestrated ballet of synthetic whorls, contemplative chords and propulsive drum programming.

https://bit.ly/2ZZCB6C

Nathan Melja - Synesthesia 12" (w/ Anthony Naples & Pariah Remixes) (OYSTER21 - Snippets)

An effortlessly classy exercise in deepness and mesmeric nuance from the Butter Sessions founders.

'SHOUTS - 5 Years of Rhythm Section INTL' is out April 3rd on Rhythm Section International.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3blXrkN

@sleepd
@bradleyzero

Premiere: Sleep D - Hydralite [Rhythm Section INTL]

Daunting is an understatement. Respect to the pioneers who laid the foundations. Out now on Seven Hills.

Look Like - Nokia Nostalgia

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