Single tracks 2022

Neon Cheap (Lauer Remix)

Snecker - Mandemic
BUY LINK: https://freeridemillenium.bandcamp.com/
Release date: 15 october 2021
Label: Freeride Millenium (https://soundcloud.com/freeridemillenium)

Berghain resident DJ nd_baumecker has been a key voice in house & techno for years. As part of Barker & Baumecker, he has put out essential EPs and LPs on Ostgut Ton. Snax is a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ who brings real character to everything he does, releasing extensively on his Random Records label and many others. The pair have previously teamed up for remixes, bootleg and otherwise, and now expand on that with this inventive release. Says the artist of this new release, “‘Mandemic' sprang from the concept of what it might be like if / when our world’s current situation became eroticised, perhaps even evolving into a queer sex party. The only name for such a party would have to be ‘Mandemic', of course, and Snecker quickly stepped up to deliver its theme song.” It occurred to Snax that he knew another musician friend who would simply love to be on board with this, and that would be none other than Khan, the other half of their disco duo Captain Comatose. Together they provide the lyrical backdrop to this throbbing track for future dark rooms. ‘Mandemic’ is a sexy house tune with bumping drums and rubbery bass. Steamy vocals add intimacy while the pixelated leads lash about the mix next to splashes of acid and plenty of FX. Veteran DJ, songwriter and illustrator Pete Ellison remixes with a more trippy feel. The drums are chunky, and the chords jump about while dripping with naughtiness. Fauve Records boss and lifelong crate digger Romain FX then flips the tune into a stripped-back jack track with a driving bassline. Expressive melodies remain in place to ensure maximum impact on the floor. The second original, 'Things We Got,' is full of flavour from the pulsing bass, the angular drums and sprinkles of cosmic synth. It's warm and humid with an ever-evolving arrangement that keeps you on your toes. ‘Mandemic’ is a typically charming and characterful new take on house music from Freeride Millenium, and once again features striking artwork from Daniel Rajcsanyi.

Mandemic

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Futureboogie Recordings is calling time after ten years with a 20-track compilation that sums up the sound of the lovingly curated Bristol label. From throbbing arps and noirish guitar twangs to errant analogue blips and ceaseless, rolling grooves, it’s a different sound to what you might have heard five years back on the Summer Riot IV compilation, and certainly a long way from the early days. Consider Futureboogie 10² an ode to evolution as much as a toast to all the great tracks and the family of artists that have passed through the wide-reaching Futureboogie sphere since before the label was even a sparkle in the disco ball.
 
Originally founded by Dave Harvey and Steve Nickolls, the roots of Futureboogie lie in an intimate Bristol party called Seen. Started in 2002, this open-hearted session invited the likes of Metro Area, Attica Blues, Carl Craig, Maurice Fulton, Moodymann and Gilles Peterson – based on that heavyweight list, you can see the foundations were laid for what was to come. Futureboogie evolved off the back of these parties as a many-limbed operation – an artist management and booking agency as much as a club night, with Harvey and Nickolls consolidating the sound as DJs around Bristol and beyond. The progression to a record label was a logical one.
 
When Futureboogie Recordings launched in 2011 with Julio Bashmore and Javeon McCarthy’s ‘Father Father’, it represented an extended circle of friends close to the label from Bristol’s deep pool of talent and beyond – amongst them Eats Everything, Waifs & Strays, PBR Streetgang, Behling & Simpson and Crazy P. The reach of the label grew in tandem with its reputation, not to mention the endeavours of the team in other areas of the music game. The Boogiefuturo label became a vital entity on its own terms, carrying a lauded DJ Nature remix of Typesun which encapsulates two distinct generations of Bristolian house music at its best. DJ Nature, who cut his teeth as DJ Milo in the Wild Bunch days, has gone on to become a regular feature on Futureboogie, helping define its soulful, adventurous spirit.

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art:cast °121 | Azo

“The craziest girl from the block is throwing the best parties in Brussels“ and now this crazy artist compiled the latest edition of the art:cast series so everyone can have an own living room Azo experience or wherever you want to have Azo bump through your speakers. Her mixture of Acid, Breaks, broken beats with a Drum'n'Bass note and House in various nuances though certainly aims at the dance floors. Additionally to her outstanding DJ- and selector-skills and the initially mentioned party-hosting talent Azo has also been releasing own music on the latest Duality Trax compilation and had an EP, Infinity, together with Oton out last year. More tracks from Azo can be found on Chineurs de House, C12 or Spitfire Music – just to name a few labels. The “craziest girl“ has way more in the pipe though and just with the tease of her energetic music in the art:cast #121, we are eager to experience more Azo-moments in the future.

Artist information
Azo: https://facebook.com/azodance // @azodance // https://instagram.com/azomusic

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art:cast #121 by Azo

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art:cast °121 | Azo

Exclusive: J.Wiltshire - Living In The IDE

Berlin's not so socially awkward label Awkwardly Social drums up label affiliates for the third installment to deliver four artistically rich and diverse takes. Besides Lårry, who was responsible for the label's second release, the EP also features tracks from Yushh, Pugilist and Jacob Wiltshire. The UK-producer, who entered the scene with a release on Hypercolour, now (co-) runs not only his own label Super Hexagon, but can already look back at a release on MUSAR among others. With Living In The IDE Wiltshire musically remains true to himself as he comes up with a rather spheric almost cinematic ambient take whose power becomes evident if you let yourself in for this experience of sounds interacting with each other under the umbrella of a contemporary piece of musical art. Wiltshire perfectly and almost mosaic-like puzzles the sounds together to create the track title suggested IDE or rather makes the inner workings of it visible or hearable for an audience.

Awkwardly Social's V/A EP will be released on October 15th, 2021.

Buy the EP: https://awkwardlysocial.bandcamp.com/album/awk003

Artist & label information
J. Wiltshire: https://facebook.com/jwiltshireuk // @jacobwiltshire // https://instagram.com/jaowiltshire
Awkwardly Social: https://facebook.com/awkscl // @awkscl // https://instagram.com/awkwardlysocialberlin

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Living In The IDE

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EXCLUSIVE: J.Wiltshire - Living In The IDE [Awkwardly Social]

The third installation from Ernest’s Way ‘Chrysalis’ sees Featherstone return with another 4 track EP building on his already diverse catalogue. This release features angular rhythms offset against dreamy, introspective yet expansive melodic passages.

Buy: https://subwax.es/product/ern003/

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Premiere: Featherstone - Prism [Ernest’s Way]

The city was tired – it had been standing for too long. It was only a matter of time before the wheels came off and the industry which once was here retreated into the nothingness of empty warehouses and abandoned complexes. This was not how it had been supposed to end…

As the clouds passed over the sprawling metropolis, it were as if they too were leaving this place one by one. They came and went, much in the same way as the investment had done. All that was left here now were good people, kind spirits and the remainder of a once great empire which had stood tall and proud, built upon its machines.

Mark Hand & Neil Iceton channel influences from Detroit on this brilliant new EP for Innate. These tracks could have been recorded in the Motor City way back for all we know. Beautiful, wild, sprawling melodies are paired with fast paced drums and percussion which is built for dancing. This one comes highly recommended with a gold seal of approval.

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PREMIERE: Mark Hand & Neil Iceton - Rigil [Innate]

The first track “Friday Suspense” was made around 2/3 years ago and has a melody ive been holding on to for quite a while now. I was always hoping to have it see the light of day and now it has! 🌞

“Beat Bounce” first started as a drum/tool track, then I made this fun little synth and it ended up being a bit of a crowd pleaser.

“Beeps” was one of those tracks Ive always wanted to make. A simple modulating synth, a four four jungly break and lots of weird beeps over the top. 🥁

1. Friday Suspense
2. Beat Bounce
3. Beeps

Out 13.05.2022

Jigsaw Mind - Dance Trax Vol. 40 - UTTU

Flings finished just as they'd begun, relationships came and went; none of them stuck around for too long. Maybe she was unlucky in love, or she just hadn't found that person who was able to set her heart on fire the way she needed. At times, she felt like just giving up, the person she was looking for might not be out there after all. Some called her a pessimist but she preferred to call herself a realist... 

Morse co-founder and Origins Sound regular Primrose is launching a brand new label, Primrose County. Kicking off proceedings himself, with what also marks his debut EP, Primrose shares Set My Heart On Fire, a blissful four-tracker packed with colourful melodies. The A-Side showcases the more downtempo side of his production, with cinematic electronica and bright synth-pop influences, while on the flip the EP makes a bee-line for the dance floor with vibrant melodies propped up by warm sub bass and spirited rhythms.

Set My Heart On Fire

PREMIERE: Primrose - Set My Heart On Fire [Primrose County]

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Recollection

A Tribute to The King of G-Funk (Deluxe Version)

So Fly

Lauer - F.S.T.

Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OGOWWopsQ8k

Label: Uncanny Valley
Artist: Various (James Booth)
Format: Digital
EP Title: Uncanny Valley 50​.​1
Release Date: March 11th, 2019
Support it: https://uncannyvalleyrec.bandcamp.com/album/uncanny-valley-501

The Dresden label Uncanny Valley celebrates its catalogue number 50 with a compilation series that stretches over several records. That’s also a return to the beginnings of the label, which started in 2010 with four compilation records.

The first record of the series is already a foretaste of an upcoming summer. With FANTA KORN TANKER Hessen's Golden Boy Lauer stomps through the club, while letting the magic speak through keys. SUMMER INTERLUDE by James Booth is playing out on an entire range of feelings, banging hard and showing off the European producer's Pop music sensibilities as well.

On side b we have the two Dresden based producers Sandrow M and Will Dubner with their fun and funky bass line monster DISCO SCHLAMBONI. While Sandrow M is already established on the label with two solo EPs under his belt, it’s the first outingfrom not-so-new-comer Will Dubner. Another new face is Berlin’s Jules Etienne who contributes DUDE’S DEN, a first class Disco affair, complete with beguiling vocals and arousing percussions.

Uncanny Valley:
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James Booth:
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Premiere: Featherstone - Prism [Ernest’s Way]

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