A2 Romain FX  - 結合 Jiéhé (ManuelFischer ToolMachine Remix)

A1 Marcus Paulson - Town 101

Label : @abstrack-records

The Balek Band’s first album, Médecines, is the product of a magma of influences, the emanation of large decade of music infused lives. The emotional tessitura is wide: the dark meadows of “The Balek Bad” reach us through like a mantra from the end of a dark tunnel, while just three track earlier it was a caribbean Zouk euphoria which ruled the world. Inbetween, it’s a wide spectrum of hybrid epiphanies : Hagen & Again is a progressive Dub jewel, even Krauty to an extent, where the instruments play the lead role. Cosmic Barry is across the Channel : thick and broken club music, sweating with subs, yet always disputing it to the Funk accent of the the keys and the slap bass. This list of Geographical and stylistic hybridations simplys goes on, and it’s the XX minutes of the album that put an end to it. But beyond the never-ending list, this first album is alive : its gets us breathing the therapeutical air which fills the world of its creators.

Le premier album, Médecines, de The Balek Band est le produit d'un magma d'influences, l'émanation d'une grosse décennie de vies traversées par la musique. Dans l'orbite de la communauté Abstrack, la danse et la fête ne sont jamais loin : dans Médecines, elle dessinent l'ossature multicolore d’un corps traversé par des impulsions aussi fortes que diverses. La tessiture émotionnelle est large : les brumes obscures de The Balek Bad nous parviennent comme un mantra chanté du fond d'un tunnel, alors que trois pistes plutôt, c’était l'euphorie Zouk caribéenne qui semblait indépassable. Entre les deux, un large spectre de fulgurances hybrides : Hagen & Again est un bijou Dub progressif, presque Kraut, où les instruments sont au centre du jeu. L’outre Manche est incarnée dans Cosmic Barry : club musique épaisse et breakée, qui transpire le sub, mais dialogue en fil rouge avec les accents Funk portés par les claviers et la basse slapée. L’énumération des hybridations spatiales et stylistiques continue presque indéfiniment, et n’est finalement limitée que par les XX minutes de l’album. C’est le temps écoulé qui semble donc être la limite à cet incroyable projet, tout comme il en avait été le catalyseur, s’offrant en quantités pléthoriques au groupe, lors des premiers confinements.

Médecines

01 The Balek Band -  Introspection

Glasgow's Work For Love have once again descended deep into the cellars of Thee J Johanz early 90’s DAT recordings and pulled a companion selection to 2017's Declassified EP. This time they've come back up the ladder clutching a sultry yet sturdy triple-tracker, a little snapshot detailing the  full spectrum of house and techno hybridisation that was rife in the rave at the time. The EP kicks off lovingly lamenting the second summer of love with the proto house jam of Tender Tales which features Johanz himself giving his best Sleazy D impression on vox whilst masterfully tickling the 303 to several squelchy climaxes.
Flip over for Desire, a curled-lip 4am weird and wonky warehouse destroying techno leviathan that captures the stark minimalism of yer best Axis records and ads a real touch of John Carpenter esque menace to the affair. Bringing things to a close is the refreshing twinkly pulse of Prophet to say goodnight.
 
Limited 12" vinyl only.

Thee J Johanz - Declassified Vol2

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Armonics - Distances EP (feat. Massimiliano Pagliara Remix)

A1 Distances
A2 Galactica 987

B1 Indigo Voyage
B2 Indigo Voyage (Massi 7-07AM Remix)

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Available to buy: https://lunardisko.com/album/armonics-distances-ep-feat-massimilliano-pagliara-remix
Record stores can order via: order@dnp-music.net
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The Italian-Irish connection returns on Lunar Disko....

Bari's Armonics delivers yet another EP of Italo wonders! Three tracks of synthesizer magic from a fast rising master of the modern Italo-disco sound.

Massimiliano Pagliara brings us on a cosmic trip with his '7-07AM' remix of 'Indigo Voyage'...a disco bomb for the early morning dancefloors!

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Written & Produced by: Francesco Strippoli
Remix on B2: Massimiliano Pagliara 
Label Artwork: Melanie Ellis
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[LDR_29] Armonics - Distances EP (feat. Massimiliano Pagliara Remix)

Order here:
https://emotional-especial.bandcamp.com/album/african-acid-ep

Especial welcomes the return of Akio Nagase, Osaka’s own 303 specialist, with a second EP of acid infused world music. After the success of his Asia orientated debut, here his ethno-inspired dance comes to and from Africa, the mother. 

With a history of making reggae influenced electronics under the Makedub alias, his development to acid master continues to showcase a skill at fusing samples, effects and found sound in a dub-desk mix that is body moving and catchy in one. 

With a mission to bring the music of the world closer, Acid Maasai Collecthiv sets the scene with TB 303 weaving around dub heavy bass, crossing the Athi river, seeking singers to raise spirits and bind. Countries and continents are tribes and with a reopening world, the dance should encompass all; open minds to bring unity. 

This is exemplified on the ethereal Morisyen Acid. Sound design, Mauritian samples - creole vibrating perfectly with Akio’s acid work and simple but effective “predominately” repetitive beats to uplift like the Tamarind sunrise. 

Acid mantra as mind-gateway continues with Serengeti Summer. An heir to Whoktish, this is not reggae. 808 and 303 in harmony; a jam of man, machine and samples to bring today’s ethno-blue storytelling through consciousness. 

Closing is Jua, interweaving the fabric of life, passing down from generations the primal with the psychedelic beat to communal gathering, Akio presents the music with love and respect.

A1. Akio Nagase - Acid Maasai Collecthiv

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CP Theme 1

Acidic Love

Title : Sadistic EP1
Format : 12” vinyl
Release : september 2011
A Side: Sadistic Beats
B Side: He Is Rain Man (Seahawks 40 Fathoms Deep Dub)
http://soundcloud.com/enetokyo/funene1201-b-cos-mes-he-is/
FUNIKI ENE


Sadistic Beats

Forgotten Corner's Nick Mackrory is back with a wonderful new digital EP of low slung Electro, Acid and Left of Centre dance rhythms! As featured in Sean Johnston's (ALFOS) recent Test Pressing mix - http://testpressing.org/2019/07/mix-492-sean-johnston-alfos-hardway-bros/?fbclid=IwAR0exMIf24Ep0Lj047D2uAf8TLmuQ0qA3fMjeLbJGYlU1l9zgoiMWH8MwTs

The tracks are available to buy now, please follow the link!

https://nickmackrory.bandcamp.com/album/the-infrared-e-p

Nick Mackrory (Forgotten Corner / Colona Records) - Infrared E.P

Skull Valley "Ghost Story" - Exist Dance 12" - US, 1999 - SOLD

House producer based in Manchester

Check the releases here:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/7222278-Marcus-Paulson

The project began in 2018, with the first release on the Purewaxx label with Jeroen Böhm coming in 2019.

After that, “Wrecked in Utrecht” came on Red Laser’s sub label, Peraceamid with a full debut EP following in September 2022 on Aroy Dee’s mighty M>O>S Recordings. Another EP came in 2023 on Non Stop Rhythm with the “Basic Rhythm” EP which explored a more bleep and breaks sound.

More EPs and LP coming in 2023/2024

Thanks for listening, sharing, comments and reposts!

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