Name: Monk Belize - Check Your Sockets by Max Essa
Duration: 5 min 58 s
Description: After gracing Jansen Jardin's Music For Homes & Gardens collection last year with their wonderfully laid-back, Love Bathing, Monk Belize return with this beauty, eyes firmly fixed on the dance floor.

New mutant offshoot from the Talking Drums crew…

You know how it goes at the after party, over indulge and you end up hogging the conversation. So, in the interest of better dancefloor discourse allow us to present Drum Chums, a new series of edits by percussion pals from across the globe.

This inaugural edition comes from our good buddy Basso, a Hamburg homie whose digging expertise is rivalled only by his scalpel skills and superb silliness. Dipping into the darkest corners of his ever-Growing Bins, Bussi shines up a quartet of rediscovered delights for an edit EP which oozes grooves and off balance moves.

On an uptempo A-side, the German luxuriates in the spectral arps, glistening licks and uplifting chords of fusion boogie winner 'Do Stay For Breakfast' before serving the steamy, sultry and seductive vampire disco jam 'Soft Choppers'. 

Things take a turn for the Balearic on the B-side thanks to the Afro-tropical pop of 'Simple Stroll', all electroid bass, chugging percussion and playful guitar, and finally the cosmic cool of 'Breaking Bread', a spaced out bossa for heads and feet. 

100% Drum Chums guaranteed...

A2 Basso - Soft Choppers

Joe Morris - Do You Believe In Magic? (Magic Sunrise Mix)

Painting Of The Day EP

Tempo Babadoh

Pau Roca - EUPHORIA EP

Out August 2nd vinyl, August 16th digi.  Both are up for preorder on our bandcamp 

Barcelona’s Pau Roca is back with his 2nd release on LA label Pleasure of Love, an EP of cool-hazy balearic house with equal parts sunrise and sunset energy. Roca is a standout in the Barcelona DJ scene, and with his party Libido and labels Escola and Bons Records, he’s established himself as a premiere record collector/DJ and a producer.  


EUPHORIA includes 3 original cuts and a remix from the house legend, Pal Joey.

STREAM ON YOUTUBE - https://youtu.be/uhZwpVjJT0A

follow Pau here- 
@paur
https://ra.co/dj/pauroca
https://www.instagram.com/paurocabcn

Euphoria EP

Euphoria

Pau Roca - Euphoria

The Charles Webster remix of this track was released in 2015 on the Japan only CD LP, 'Vacations Never Taken' (Victor Entertainment). The Ambient Mix was included on the, 'Miró In The Bathroom' album which came out on Jansen Jardin in April 2021. This is one of two previously unreleased versions available now from the Jansen Jardin Bandcamp page (see buy-link).

Come Come The Rain (Club Mix)

Buy from Jansen Jardin

After gracing Jansen Jardin's Music For Homes & Gardens collection last year with their wonderfully laid-back, Love Bathing, Monk Belize return with this beauty, eyes firmly fixed on the dance floor.

Check Your Sockets

Monk Belize - Check Your Sockets

I Can't Sleep was originally written back in 2012 while working on tracks for the Won Ton Sunrise LP. It didn't make it onto the album, but in 2020 a new version was recorded with Okinawa Delays and released on Archipelago Records. This dub version of the original 2012 demo is available now from Jansen Jardin (see buy link).

I Can't Sleep (Original Demo Dub Version)

All Mutant Disco Radio Show premieres available on :

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Taken from "Nico Lahs - Ancestors Call Part 2 EP (Omena)".  Out March 2023. Buy here 
https://nicolahs.bandcamp.com

By now Nicola Loporchio aka Nico Lahs has a discography that has become respected and sought after among DJs and music lovers in dance music across the globe.
Whether it be deep, atmospheric, jackin' or jazz-flecked deep house, it's all firmly rooted in house music tradition, something that Nico Lahs masters with ease.
With releases on labels like Moods & Grooves, Delusions Of Grandeur, Ovum, HotMix, Adeem plus many more, he shows no sign in slowing down either.
Ancestors Call is a musical story told in two parts. Filled with melodic and spiritual deep house, sitting somewhere between classic deep house and the spiritual end of house royalty Ron Trent's output.
Just like his previous releases Nico is a producer that has both the confidence to blend late night deep house vibes with soulful dance floor magic. It's house music that is very honest.
Part 2 dives deeper and adds additional layers of melody that tie the whole release firmly together. With Nico Lahs talented songwriting, his evolution is endless and bright...
Ancestors Call is something you listen to from start to finish, each song building a musically expansive story

Artist social media:

https://www.instagram.com/nico_lahs
https://www.facebook.com/nicolahsmusic
https://nicolahs.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/48mY5vkGQXH29DlF5DsFRn
RA - https://ra.co/dj/nicolahs

Label social media:

ttps://soundcloud.com/omena-records
https://www.facebook.com/omenarecords
https://www.instagram.com/omenarecords

Ancestors Call Part 2

Love Sets You Free

PREMIERE : Nico Lahs - Love Sets You Free (Omena)

Hormone self-released their eponymous debut in 2017, chiseling out tracks from the bedrock of boogie funk and bedroom disco with forays into the hazier quadrants of dance pop. “Smoothsayer,” their new EP on Dream Chimney, sees the duo leaning into a more focused version of this sound, with smacky drums, luxe synth pads and rubbery bass lines rolling out alongside contrasting tracks with a sense of quiet weightlessness, all tied together with the cool, drizzly beauty of Clement’s vocal layers. 

Rounding out the compact 4 trackers are remixes that give the tracks the full Dream Chimney treatment, with a breakified dreamgaze flip of Smoothsayer by labelmate Sorcerer and our premiere feature, a balearic chug dub of Wallfacer by the Chimney's own.

Buy: https://dreamchimney.bandcamp.com/
@the-dream-chimney

Smoothsayer EP

BUY!

PREMIERE: Hormone - Wallfacer (Dream Chimney dub)[Dream Chimney]

<<<<<<the <original from the eclectic EP with my dear friend JP

Not Alone

Daniela Casavola, J.P. Velardi - Not Alone (Original Mix)

Head Over Heels (Sketches From An Island Sunrise Meditation)

Max Essa has been active as a DJ and producer since the early 90s, initially releasing music on labels including Warp Records and Paperecordings and DJing alongside the infamous D.i.Y Sound System.

His later work, for labels like Is It Balearic? Recordings, went on to be play-listed by legends such as Andrew Weatherall and David Mancuso, gaining him a devoted following and DJ bookings around the world. 

Albums for the Japanese major label, Victor Entertainment ('Vacations Never Taken' 2015) and Music For Dreams ('Lanterns' 2018), plus EPs for the Italian label, Hell Yeah! Recordings and a constant stream of remixes for labels like Compost, Ubiquity, Faze Action and Leng have shown him to be a prolific and deeply imaginative producer.

Since 2008 he has been based in Japan where he plays regularly at clubs and events around the country, from Hokkaido to Okinawa.
From 2010 - 2023 he was a resident DJ at the Lone Star parties, and later the Zim Zam Zu! events at the legendary, Bar Bonobo and for over a decade has been a resident at the ever popular, Aoyama Tunnel in Tokyo.

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