The One

In the hot seat this week is UK dance music legend, Redlight. The London via Bristol producer's summer banger 9TS had everyone raving like it was 1990, with his recent follow up - the infections, bass heavy anthem, Gold Teeth -cementing his ability to deliver stone cold club classics. Busy crafting his album, word on the grapevine is that we can expect some mega collabs from certain US hip hop legends. With all this in mind, we knew it was about time to get the Rinse FM regular Redlight back in the mix for i-D. Press play and start your weekend the right way!
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i-DJ: Redlight

Steady Note

Electric Folklore

After years apart, we've finally got the boys back on our screens later this month. What better way to celebrate than by marking another return, to the label of their post-breakout "Stash" victory lap. Aus, Belfast and Boiler Room: there's no place like home.

"Just" wastes no time locking the brisk rhythm into place before a wriggling earworm of a lead pans across the channels. Atmospheric swells are pieced by gatling-gun snares; the tension builds but never releases, making this a surefire precursor to the bulk of heavyweight set climaxes you're likely to hear this summer. As ever, the aural equivalent of 20,000 bicep emojis.

Grip the wax May 25th.

Beatport - http://btprt.dj/1KhNMbE
Juno - bit.ly/1K4d9R4

Bicep "Just" - Boiler Room Debuts

@Theshadowchild takes on "Rumble" by @kda-music.

Via EARMILK: http://earmi.lk/TTrhta

KDA - Rumble (Shadow Child Re-Edit)

DJ Ralf is the Italian icon who runs the much loved Laterra Recordings label and management, and is now back with ‘Er Suonone’, a new track from Margot that is all set to be a late summer smash.

Anyone who has heard the legendary DJ Ralf (a cult figure who has been the subject of a documentary, has played all over the world, runs his own legendary Bella Ciao party and holds a cult residency in Cocorico) play recently will most likely have heard this track in his set, and it has been an unknown but much loved secret weapon for a while now.

As such this one sided vinyl pressing will please many people who have been hunting it down. Margot, of course, is an Italian pair of accomplished producers who have released on, Les Disques de la Mort, Hell Yeah and Border Community and run their own Margot label.

‘Er Suonone’ is a pumping, deep, slow burning bit of cosmic house that builds and builds and teasers listens without ever releasing the pressure. Monstrous kick drums drive it down below, pixelated stabs add suspense in the distance and icy hi hats slither in the foreground. It’s the sort of track to drop right at the peak time and it will surely go right off, with people fist pumping along to the groove. 



LT015 • Margot - Er Suonone

Rinse And Repeat feat. Kah-lo

"It's Alright" EP - available now on iTunes & Beatport:
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Watch the official video for "It's Alright" on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pw-uxOVmcA

Nocturnal Sunshine
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Album out now on iTunes & Beatport: smarturl.it/nocturnalsunshine
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Maya Jane Coles
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Nocturnal Sunshine "It's Alright" (Dense & Pika Remix)

10 years on from our first release with 2020 Vision Recordings, we are back with the 'BLAST FROM THE PAST EP'.
Here's the first track 'Closer', hope you'll diiiiiiiig it :-)
Much love from the catcher,
j&t

Blast From The Past is out 18th January !!!
https://pro.beatport.com/release/blast-from-the-past/1681173

Release's notes :
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It's been 10 years since their last release on 20/20 Vision, but it is with great excitement that we welcome Spirit Catcher back to the label with their aptly named Blast From The Past EP!

As one of the corner stones of 20/20, their early singles and album are legendary label artefacts and these guys were total pioneers of the cosmic, disco infused house sound which then became prominent in following years.

Blast From The Past has been getting heavy rotation in Ralph Lawson's sets over the summer and so we're really glad to finally see it reach the light of day. This one is a trip into hyperspace with cosmic synth pulses leading the way before a killer bass line takes you track straight to planet Spirit Catcher!

On the flip Closer takes the trip further with more expert bass hooks being joined by vox pads and otherwordly fx. The EP is finished off with Routing Madness, a homeage to the duos love for analogue studio gear which you can hear in the intricate synth patterns which pop and weave through the tracks duration.

Blast From The Past is out 18th January.

1. Blast From The Past
2. Closer
3. Routing Madness


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CLOSER

'Creepy Fingers' lives and breathes the winning Shaded formula with weighted, dwarfing low-end coming at you from the start. 

This one's a little more sinister than his usual as he swaps the playfulness for riffs that build with menace and drops that come loaded with an almighty bang. 

Check this one right now if you want something to get your dancing crew fired up.

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taken off the upcoming artist album 'Noir' by Steve Bug - out Oct. 01

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Steve Bug, one of the world's most renowned artists in the electronic music circuit, presents his fifth and most mature longplayer. "Noir" doesn't deny its roots, but expands the usual spectrum and invites the listener to an exciting listening pleasure.

The title is ‘Noir’. The cover is dominated by the filmic aesthetics of light and shadow. The title evokes a world of shady transactions and secret crimes. Most of the tracks emit a suitably dark and moody atmosphere, with at least three directly referencing the film noir genre – From the well-known classic ‘The Spiral Staircase’, to more obscure ‘Somewhere in the Night’, and ‘The Seventh Victim’. Is ‘Noir’ a concept album? Origi- nally it was planned that way, but in the end Steve found the concept too rigid.

"I play all over the world on a constant basis, and always come back with different impressions", says Steve Bug. "Accordingly, this changes the music that I produce. I’ve had the idea to make a concept album for some time, but on the other hand, that’s not the way I work. My music expresses my moods, and of course, they are always changing. "

The material for the new album was created over a period of three years, which makes its consistency and coherence all the more amazing. The mood is dark, spooked. Over the relentless beats and basslines ghostly sounds swirl and conspire. Although all the pieces are driven by head-rushing beats, ‘Noir’ is more than ever, a listening album. "If I had worked longer on the album, I probably would have replaced even more of the dance tracks with listening tracks", says Steve. "I think a lot of albums in dance music are not convining as albums - more a collection of tracks, than a coherent whole."

‘Noir’ is definitely different. Although the film noir concept isn’t carried through completely, it infuses the spirit of the record in a way reminicent of the sci-fi obsession of Jeff Mills or Carl Craig. In fact, ‘Noir’ could soundtrack a 21st Century ‘Blade Runner’ - tracks such as the pre-re- leased single ‘Those Grooves’ and ‘No Adjustments’, with their evocative spoken word texts, play in to a vision of an apocalyptic-dystopian disco.

‘Noir’ is very much an electronic album. Richer than its predecessor, these tracks easily transcend the merely functional - Steve Bug has in- jected the harmonies with serious emotion. Avoiding the trap of many house music producers, Steve has resisted the temptation to throw in an album full of live instrumentation, explaining: "the results have never convinced me. You have to find musicians who understand repetitive music, otherwise the whole thing is so watery." ‘Poison of Choice’, with its sensational guitar solo, is the exception - and the result of a techni- cal difficulty. Due to non-compatible plug-ins, access was blocked to a sample, and Steve ended up asking his mixer Hannes Bieger to play the guitar chords. While the recording was made, the idea to add the solo happened and the results were so good they ended up defining the track. Two of the standout tracks involve sublime vocals from performers Steve has a strong affinity for. Emilie Chick, the Portland born, genre- scrambling rising star brings a femme fatale’s touch of jazz to 'Moment of Ease'.

The aforementioned 'No Adjustments' with its driving, edgy groove and out of control synth, is enhanced by the spoken word exhortation to just let the beats flow - the unmistakable work of the Foremost Poet Johnny Dangerous.

Aside from that, Steve Bug has always recorded everything on his own – and similarly, developed his distinctive harmonic knowledge by himself. "I have no training as a musician - I taught myself about harmonies. When I realised that many of my heroes in electronic music, whose mu- sic always seemed so rich, was done with the help of others, I have al- ways been a little disappointed". In this respect Steve can be proud about the fact that his experience producing the intricate and exceptional ‘Noir’ was achieved on his own.

From the driving opener ‘Tell Me Why’ to the emotional closing track ‘The Seventh Victim’, Steve Bug has crafted a rounded, atmospheric al- bum that throws a long and impressive shadow over most contemporary dance albums.

Noir

Steve Bug - Tell Me Why

Tale of Us are Carmine Conte & Matteo Milleri. Born in North America, raised in Italy, at home in Berlin. And this is their first release for Minus.

Both musical and minimal, Tale of Us strip things back to their most basic ingredients.
Circular phrases hinting at the melancholic slowly spiralling downwards.

Tracklist:
1) Another Earth 
2) Discochord 
3) Lost City

Release date:
April 8th (vinyl) 
April 10th (digital)

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