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We want to introduce everyone to our new family member, the super talented Lithuanian https://soundcloud.com/monk_ernie, who is in charge of the Secret Potion number 10 with a catchy post funk song.

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Adin (Original Mix)

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Multi Culti return with five mind-altering bangers on SOLSTICE II, an appropriately diverse collection of music for the label’s flagship 12” series AXIAL TILT, celebrating cosmic collisions, chaos magick, transcendent dance and inner balance. 

In a watershed moment for the globally-garnered imprint, SHEILA CHANDRA’s ‘RAQS’ gets a licensed rework by ZILLAS ON ACID and it’s a bonafide spine-shaking psychedelic chakra-elevator. Keeping up the energy level but speeding up the tempo, CALYPSO CULT regular, Mexico's INIGO VONTIER shreds out powerful didgeridoo-based peak-time ignition on the A2. FRENZY, already. 

The B-side kicks off with a massive main-room remix of SABABA 5 ‘NASNUSA’ courtesy of Israeli trance-master KINO TODO & DANELZ, chopping the amazingly catchy and beautiful vocals of Japanese vocalist YURIKA into a club-pumping ear-worm. ANDI OTTO brings things back down to the lower tempos Multi Culti is associated with, joining forces with Rwandan dancer and singer EVARISTE KARINGANIRE for a wonky, stompy and most of all unique track. Finally, cult wizard GOLDEN BUG turns in another spooky, subliminal groove, sounding like Toulouse Low Trax having a puff with Aleister Crowley - witchy incantation meets hypnotic beat.

Mastered by The Wall Studios

Golden Bug - Toro

VA - Earthly Tapes 03 
BUY LINK : https://earthlymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/earthly-tapes-03
Label: Earthly Measures (https://soundcloud.com/earthlymeasures)
https://soundcloud.com/balamok

After just over a year-long hiatus from the Earthly Tapes series – the 3rd Chapter is finally upon us. Offering more mind-altering tracks to the series, we welcome 6 new members to the Earthly Measures familia!

We kick things off with ‘Comets (part I & II)’, the first release by ORSO, the new musical project from Jean Dasso AKA Yeahman, stepping into club and drum music. Alongside faster rhythms, he is influenced by UK Break music, African dances and traditional instruments. In the opening track for Earthly Tapes 03, we’re taken through a two chapter journey led by modular melodic loops, old traditional voices samples, ORSO’s own recordings.

We then take a trip to Argentina as we welcome Balam to the EM family, join him as he takes you on a daydream across the Latin-American rainforest where synthesizers and nature collide to make the perfect mix, guided by a voice from the deep jungle. ‘Ensueño’ is a dance-floor tool for both the start and end of the night.

Japanese native Mamazu brings up the tempo for the third track ‘Tombi’. Transporting us to a hypnotic and hedonistic state as delightful aerophones sound with the exotic chant delivering the feeling of a dry breeze from the unseen frontier. Another dance floor ripper!

The B-side starts with ‘Voces’, a track inspired by the music that Chilean artist DJ Raff’s mum listened to when he was a teenager making beats in his bedroom. He used to take her records and tapes to sample and make boom-bap beats at the time. Every time he showed her a new beat, she had the ability to recognize the track that he sampled. Voces is influenced by both Spanish and Chilean 70’s music, although very deconstructed and hidden.

Ditti takes us through ever-twisting waves as we swim upstream, spot the time and take off... welcome to ‘Poly Party’. The soundtrack to a carnivalesque funked out ballad on a Polynesian beach shifting between slide & ride, cutting synths and dripping flows.

We wrap things up with ‘Small Town Rebellion’, a story told by Scottish producer Kusht – this downtempo chugger reflects the story of a young man in a dead-end town with no future. He needs to break his fate and carve his own path by revolting and manifesting his own destiny.

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PREMIERE : Balam - Ensueño

Multi Culti conjure Calypso Cult once again with this split ep from Iñigo Vontier & Thomass Jackson.

Fresh off back-to-back seasons of Tuluminati rituals, these two well-worn chug warriors of dark disco have kept Mexico dancing throughout the pandemic, maintaining a prolific release schedule on top of a world-leadingly busy calendar of gigs. 

Thomass Jackson turns in a pair of wonky eyes-closed bangers with the modular-flecked ‘Big Plastic Room,’ and the restrained ecstatic power of ‘Slow Train.’ Iñigo fires back with the twerky, tribal madness of ‘Jungle Tungle’ and the meandering mushroom-inspired-madness of ‘Hipocampos.’

Calypso Cult II

Iñigo Vontier - Hipocampos

With releases on the likes of Hard Fist, Calypso, Get Physical and Playground, Argentina's Balam finally drops his first full artist EP on Multi Culti, a label where his blend of tribal percussion with folkloric samples and modular synth riffs couldn't be more at home. These five trippy sub-120-bpm tracks invoke spine-shaking trance without resorting to the generic tropes of PSY. Mid-tempo ritual chuggers sure to send psychedelically-inclined clubbers into chakra-raising ecstasies, while converting at least a few listeners as-yet-uninitiated in the cult of 'organic house'.

Multi Culti - Balam - Sueños De Tambor

Valentía by @Sonmx (Son.)

"I had such a strong feeling that I needed to turn it into art.
Then Bravery was born.
I brought it to life as a character in an illustration, with its deep message in the form of poetry and its own sound and voice in this song."

Artwork: Andrés Navarro aka. Son.
Produced and mixed by Son.
Master: K-effect

Valentía

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Son. - Valentía

Tell Me What You Want

Purchase: https://hendofroth.bandcamp.com/track/olive-juice
Follow Hendo Froth: https://www.instagram.com/hendo_froth

‘Olive Juice’ draws from my early days of DJing in Los 
Angeles. It’s inspired by Bloghaus-adjacent legends like: Oliver, GLOVES, Mylo, Chromeo, Poolside, and the blogs that paved the way for dance music’s evolution at the time.

I was in studio having a casual YOLO Mojito when I started playing around with a Wurli lead. 
I then added some warm synths, too much cowbell, a splash of cuica, and a 303 lead made from analog. The bass was inspired by lords like Alan Braxe & Fred Falke, while the acid lead draws inspiration from the ledge-dogs of Poolside.

The lyrics of the vocal sample speak of wanting to love—and wanting to love with. Whether that love is romantic, familial, topophiliac, or tied to a person, place, or thing is up to you. I have my own personal meaning, and I hope you find yours.

‘Olive Juice’ is my 2nd 
official release and altho I’ve got a long way to go on my production journey, I continue to enjoy every step of the ride. Thank you for listening, your continued support, and for those of you who continue to inspire me and make me move.
Much Love
- 
Hendo

Mix & Mastering: Rob Darke // Darke Studios

Olive Juice

Billie Jean (Master Chic Edit) 1

Set recorded at Bleck Forest Festival in Stockholm Sweden, amazing energy from the crowd from the beginning to end that 19 minutes into the set a power outage occurs for a few seconds! FUCK IT! NEVER STOP DANCING!!!!! MUCH LOVE TO ALL AND HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS SET.

 LEONOR

LEONOR @ BLECK FOREST FESTIVAL 2019

Fabio Fabio are percussionist and super skilled turntablist (he started djing in the 90’s) Dj Foresta and the technical minded Mattia “Tia” Ricco. The duo's music is a mixture of exoticism, tribalism and downtempo techno.
Masochistas’ sound is a perverse journey in rhythm and dance, the relationship between body and sound. It devours, catalogs and repositions hundreds of samples, distorting their primordial meaning, creating a new magical and eccentric meaning. A velvety sound cut-up in the game of the sound, the relationship between soul and invisible frequencies using a musical language slave of liquid knowledge but which exalts a primordial value with no genre.

https://soundcloud.com/fabiofabioivrea
https://soundcloud.com/ivreatronic

PRÈMIÉRE: Fabio Fabio - Masochistas [Ivreatronic]

"Von der Drehung" is the sixth compilation of the Berlin "Keller" label. Spooled synth-lines and plenty of power are on the agenda this time. With Oberst & Buchner, Beatmörtelz, Ton Globiter, Yolanda Frei, Molto and Monk Ernie, the label puts together a disco-rich package that heats up again at the end of the winter!

Out Feb 28th
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Monk Ernie - The End

Producer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He become interested in music production when he was 14. In former years Ernie was making music for a lot of hip hop artists well known in Lithuania and also for the young talents. From Hip hop to drum and bass, from drum and bass to techno and now he is here.

soundcloud.com/monk_ernie
https://www.instagram.com/ernie_monk_

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