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A little trip into the New York and Jersey house realms. Originally released on Project X records in 1992, the 'House Ala Carte' project of Jovonn restored and available again.

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Jovonn - House Ala Carte - Clone Classic Cuts 026

Verlaine is a London-based, Chicago-born unknown electronic musician who recorded a number of demos in the mid to late 80s set to be released for the first time in 2014. Read our exclusive interview here: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/unearthed-verlaine/

Verlaine - Mercury (Original 1986 cassette demo)

PRE-ORDER FROM THE SOUNDWAY STORE AND GET AN INSTANT FREE DOWNLOAD OF 'TEOY SALAP PAMAA' 

Soundway’s second foray into South East Asia is focused on North-East Thailand, the epicentre of Molam and Luk Thung Isan music. Hypnotic phin & khaen riffs, pulsing, electrified country rhythms and heartfelt vocals punctuate another journey into the lesser known reaches of 1970s Thai music. 

The first volume of The Sound of Siam, released in 2011, was the first introduction for many to the artistry and innovations of modern Thai music. One of the most popular compilations on Soundway Records the music even made it onto the big screen with ‘Mae Jom Ka Lon’ by Dao Bandon featured on the soundtrack of ‘The Hangover Part II’.  In an interview with LA Times Mick Jagger spoke of discovering the collection that “some nutter put together” after hearing the riff from Jumpin’ Jack Flash on one of the tracks from the compilation.

In this second volume of The Sound of Siam the focus is firmly on the music the sounds of north-east Thailand, or Isan and attempts to show how a genre evolved and developed from essentially an acoustic tradition with specific geographic roots, to one that started to incorporate other instruments and influences that reached out to the Isan diaspora around the country.

The term molam is actually two separate words pushed together: Mo meaning ‘expert’ or ‘doctor’ and lam meaning ‘to sing’. Hence the literal translation means ‘singing expert’. Many molam records have extended intros that allow a vocalist to establish the theme of the song, as well as flex their improvisational muscles.

Luk thung (literally ‘song of the countryside’)is a much broader, rural style that had a bigger impact nationally. Artists like Saksiam Petchompu began fusing this style with molam, a move which propelled him to national fame. You can hear the influence of western funk, as well as Thai arrangements, on the luk thung Isan (as the hybrid became known) smash Jeb Jin Jeb Jai included here.

The Sound of Siam 2 - Molam & Luk Thung Isan from North-East Thailand 1970 - 1982’ features 19 tracks, many appearing outside of Thailand for the first time. Both CD and double LP & is accompanied with detailed liner notes written by compilers Chris Menist and Maft Sai.

PRE-ORDER:  http://www.soundwayrecords.com/product/sndwcd058-the-sound-of-siam-2---molam--luk-thung-isan-from-north-east-thailand-1970---1982

Always a peak record at any Paradise Bangkok event, 'Teoy Salap Pamaa' is another melodic mode. Pamaa is actually the Thai (and Isan) word for Burma, implying that this teoy might have taken its lead from a Burmese rhythm or melody. There is frenetic interplay between the khaen and cymbals creating an urgency tempered only by Kunchai’s ever-authoritative performance with her post- Ubon Pattana Band group, Mueng Dok Bua. Once again, she has the relationship blues as she decries men as being perennially untrustworthy liars.

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Angkanang Kunchai - Teoy Salap Pamaa

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/apolloniamusic">Apollonia  </a> keep moving from strength to strength in the underground and now release the deep steady roller that is Trippin'. Jovonn Armstrong is the New York based producer and DJ that has been deep in the NY house scene since block parties in the 80s and has been a major part of Apollonia's musical influence. Dropping a fresh cut with a classic sound press play on Tripping. 
https://soundcloud.com/jovonn
http://soundcloud.com/apolloniamusic

Pre-order The EP <a href="http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/50974-APO012-jovonn"> here.</a>

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Premiere: Jovonn - Trippin (Body 'n' Deep Vocal Mix)

We've got an exclusive premiere of R$N favourites Days of Being Wild with their second release in their LP series (after Piano Interrupted’s Two By Four at the end of 2012) from French producer and Strasbourg based android Najem Sworb simply entitled LP.

After the warm neoclassicism of Piano Interrupted, they go back to the future to visit much colder reaches with Najem’s Sworb’s LP.

Best known for his releases on AI and Clone, Najem Sworb’s music finds its roots, both stylistically and spiritually in the origins of techno and Detroit’s pioneers but also early 2000’s minimalists such as Villalobos or Isolée. 

LP oscillates between techno for frozen landscapes and a world deserted of humans and blunt, industrial assault from the terminators of Skynet.

End of the world music you could say then,



Planetary Nebula

The latest Ransom Note Influences Mixtape comes from the marvellous Fujiya & Miyagi. Here's what Steve Lewis (Fujiya) had to say about the mixtape;

"The tracks on this mixtape is some of the stuff I would have been listening to at the time. I quickly sold my Les Paul guitar and bought a Sampler. Luckily, I’m still obsessed by Synths and Samplers to this day."

Read more here - http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/mixes/fujiya-the-ransom-note-influences-mixtape/

Fujiya & Miyagi - The Ransom Note Influences Mixtape

Release Date: 14.07.2014

... support your local record shop www.oye-records.com

A1 Telephones - Lotusland (Sunset Mix)

Hands up who wants to listen to an exclusive stream?

All of you?

Good!

We've managed to plunder Nang's 'Beach Disco Sessions Vol. 5' which features exclusive and classics from the label and its friends for you to wrap your ears around. With remixes from Andy Weatherall, Prins Thomas, Chris Coco and more cleverly slotted in around tracks from Ill Advised, James Bright and Kim and Buran, it looks like summer's out the window/in your ears.

Give it a good old listen here and read more here:
http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/premieres-exclusive-streams/beach-disco-sessions-vol-5/

Escort - Starlight (RAC Remix)

Hands up who wants to listen to an exclusive stream?

All of you?

Good!

We've managed to plunder Nang's 'Beach Disco Sessions Vol. 5' which features exclusive and classics from the label and its friends for you to wrap your ears around. With remixes from Andy Weatherall, Prins Thomas, Chris Coco and more cleverly slotted in around tracks from Ill Advised, James Bright and Kim and Buran, it looks like summer's out the window/in your ears.

Give it a good old listen here...

NANG125 01 - Daniele Baldelli & DJ Rocca - Complotto Geometrico (Andy Weatherall Remix)

Hands up who wants to listen to an exclusive stream?

All of you?

Good!

We've managed to plunder Nang's 'Beach Disco Sessions Vol. 5' which features exclusive and classics from the label and its friends for you to wrap your ears around. With remixes from Andy Weatherall, Prins Thomas, Chris Coco and more cleverly slotted in around tracks from Ill Advised, James Bright and Kim and Buran, it looks like summer's out the window/in your ears.

Give it a good old listen here;
http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/premieres-exclusive-streams/beach-disco-sessions-vol-5/

Proper Heat - For The Love (Monsoon Season Dub)

More info & buy the EP : http://versatilerecords.com/release/vidal-benjamin-presente-disco-sympathie-7-limited-edith-sampler/

Full Track : Marc Chantereau - Gibraltar (Jeff Gets A Single Room ! Edit)

Gino Grasso is a ‘disco don’ and rare record dealer. 
A life-long collector collector of disco music for over 30 years he supplies the big dons like Dimitri from Paris, Kenny Dope Gonzalez and others. Even Peter Brown from P&P Records has asked him personally for catalogue records that he doesn't have anymore. He's always DJing in Italy (where he's very well known) and around Europe. He's also a close friend and big fan of Far Out Recordings. Joe Davis, Far Out label head asked him to put together a mix around the release of the Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra rom the label. 
Here it is...

We chatted to him here too: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/mixes/line-out-6-gino-grasso-live-mixtape/



Line Out #6: Gino Grasso - Live mixtape for Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra

You may have noticed how hot under the collar we got about D'Marc Cantu's remix of Richard Fearless' Higher Electronic States a few months back. We also had a chat to him we were so excited.
Having just signed to desire, D'Marc Cantu has prepared a blinding 5 track EP entitled 'Parisian Summer' for your aural pleasure. We've been lucky enough to get our hands on the exclusive premiere of the whole EP and you listen to it in its entire splendid offering right here.
Here's what D'Marc himself had to say about the record;
"The release was a follow up of sorts to my remix of Ricardo Tobar’s 'If I love you'. Having spoken to Jerome Mestre of Desire a few times since the remix, he and I decided that it would be great to follow it up with a dance focused release.
"The idea behind 'Parisian Summer' came after I played the Weather Fesitval in Paris during the spring of 2013. The atmosphere was amazing and so many new ideas emerged from my experiences there. 'PartyDaze', 'Svetlana' and 'MadDance' were all created ahead of my show at La Machine that weekend. All three of those tracks were made with the purpose of capturing that raw energy that was being given off by some of the best crowds I’ve ever witnessed. In Paris they party with you not to you, so it was important for me to create songs that captured those moments when the crowd was at their most energetic. 'Irregular Bedfellows' was created as a nice counterbalance to high energy drive of the previous three tracks and 'Uneven' was to bookend of the whole EP. Created several years ago it languished in the completed folder on my hard drive. Never really finding its right place until this project came along. It sits squarely in middle of a relaxing dream and a feverish nightmare, truly Uneven."
Listen to the full EP here.
Check the post here: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/premieres-exclusive-streams/premiere-dmarc-cantu-parisian-summer/

D'Marc Cantu - Irregular Bedfellows

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Lost Tribes is the 3rd single from American Interior, the new album, film, book and app project by Gruff Rhys.

The American Interior album is available to buy now on iTunes - http://po.st/AIiTunes

Follow Gruff online:
Gruff's website: www.gruffrhys.com
American Interior website: www.american-interior.com 
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Twitter: twitter.com/gruffingtonpost
YouTube: youtube.com/user/gruffrhys24hrs
Instagram: instagram.com/gruffingtonpost

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Lost Tribes

New York, early 90's, the haydays of the New York and Jersey clubhouse!  With labels such as NuGroove, Nervous, Freeze, Strictly Rhythm, Henry Street Music taking all the spot light, there is Jovonn working on a small but sensational catalogue of music that somehow gets overshadowed by the popular releases on the mentioned labels. The honest productions, jazzy melodies and playful vocals (rooted in gospel) were taking things into a more musical, more spiritual way, lacking gimmicks or dispensable samples. For the real diggers, the true lovers of House music Jovonn always was a name to watch, a producer of some of their favorite NY house tracks, tracks that have a raw edge combined with a sincere human touch and pure underground house vibes.
People such as Rex resident Dj Deep was a huge fan, and also collaborated on couple later productions with Jovonn. Slowly he started getting recognition from europe which resulted in a handfull of records on European labels such as Distance, Coco Soul and Estereo. Now after almost 25 years since his first release the man's small discography on his own Goldtone label and Emotive records stand out with his unique musical personality.
More then 20 years after their original release dates these tunes are still very relevant and stand for many things we love about house music!
We are happy to offer this selection of his hard to find early works remastered by Alden Tyrell and pressed on fresh clean high quality vinyl.

Double Vinyl/CD CCC027 Out now
https://clone.nl/item32946.html
12" CCC027.1 Out now
https://clone.nl/item32947.html
https://soundcloud.com/clone-nl/jovonn-goldtones-12-classic-cuts-027_1

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Jovonn - Goldtones [2x12" Clone Classic Cuts 027]

New York, early 90's, the haydays of the New York and Jersey clubhouse!  With labels such as NuGroove, Nervous, Freeze, Strictly Rhythm, Henry Street Music taking all the spot light, there is Jovonn working on a small but sensational catalogue of music that somehow gets overshadowed by the popular releases on the mentioned labels. The honest productions, jazzy melodies and playful vocals (rooted in gospel) were taking things into a more musical, more spiritual way, lacking gimmicks or dispensable samples. For the real diggers, the true lovers of House music Jovonn always was a name to watch, a producer of some of their favorite NY house tracks, tracks that have a raw edge combined with a sincere human touch and pure underground house vibes.
People such as Rex resident Dj Deep was a huge fan, and also collaborated on couple later productions with Jovonn. Slowly he started getting recognition from europe which resulted in a handfull of records on European labels such as Distance, Coco Soul and Estereo. Now after almost 25 years since his first release the man's small discography on his own Goldtone label and Emotive records stand out with his unique musical personality.
More then 20 years after their original release dates these tunes are still very relevant and stand for many things we love about house music!
We are happy to offer this selection of his hard to find early works remastered by Alden Tyrell and pressed on fresh clean high quality vinyl.

Double Vinyl/CD CCC027 Out now
https://clone.nl/item32946.html
https://soundcloud.com/clone-nl/jovonn-goldtones-album
12" CCC027.1 Out now!
https://clone.nl/item32947.html


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Jovonn - Goldtones 12" [Clone Classic Cuts 027.1]

New Order's Stephen Morris remixes 'Daggers' from Fujiya & Miyagi's album Artificial Sweeteners, out now on Yep Roc Records.

Fujiya & Miyagi - Daggers (Stephen Morris remix)

Lo-Fi cassette recording from probably late 1993 or 1994 with some uptempo house tunes. Mix was broadcasted by the VPRO radio (Edwin Brienen's late night show). Recorded in one take on a simple Realistic mixer with no eq's. Break in the middle is from flipping the 60 minute cassette :-)


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Serge - house mix from cassette (around '93'94)

After the Tom Noble release another Clone Loft Supreme... Elitechnique with a new 8 ep/mini album!
A cool mix up of disco and electronic obscurities and 60's and 70's soundtracks! A great versatile ep which feels like a soundtrack for a 70's french movie! 
All instruments and music played, recorded and arranged by themselfs over a period of more then a year. Craftsmanship as we dont see often anymore!! First 500 numbered copies come as collectors edition with full colour artwork and extra heavy vinyl!

Clone Loft Supreme Series 009 - Elitechnique - Intrusion

Boiler Room w/ Holly Herndon, Legowelt, Serge & Gerd.

[Broadcasted on 1st February 2013]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

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