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Time seemed to move slower on a Friday, maybe she was clock watching too much. She drummed her fingers on the table and moved her computer mouse about to create the illusion she was still hard at work. The only thing on her mind was signing out and logging on to the night's activities. The weekend held promise of hedonistic experiences, of spaces to dance and play, of meetings with old friends and conversations with new ones. Until Monday arrived, the responsibilities of the week had no place in her thoughts: she'd cross that bridge when she came to it.

There's plenty of celebrations in order for the next release on Violet's naive imprint. It's even in the name. A Celebration Of The Euphoria Of Life is the debut album from London-based producer and DJ ELLES, which also marks the fifth anniversary of naive and the first ever LP to be released on the label. Across its 11 tracks, the album tells 'the story of a night out and all the nights out', and laces her own personal reflections of the bliss and freedom that going out clubbing gives us all - a cathartic subject as the release was predominantly written during a time that we were sorely missing these hedonistic spaces and the communities that frequented them. 

Sonically it brings together off-kilter dance music, acid, rave, Balearic, electro and a whole host of other sounds, all of which contribute to what ELLES dubs as "a love-letter to those vital community spaces for finding your people and pleasures and also about personal healing, processing life and discovering moments of clarity amidst the noise."

A Celebration of the Euphoria of Life

PREMIERE: ELLES - Candyflip 69 [naive]

Pre-order: https://sq.lnk.to/HORNT01

DJ, producer, and Rinse FM host @e_l_l_e_s announces a special remix EP of her debut album 'Celebrations Of The Euphoria Of Life' with its first release, @mbootyspoon’s Hornt Parade remix of ‘Sex’, due to land this month.

On the remix, Bootyspoon takes ELLES’ sultry, after-hours ode to saucy texts, transforming it into a glorious blaze of club filth, 3310 ringtones reverberating through a system-shattering bassline.

More exclusive music

Premiere: ELLES 'Sex' (Martyn Bootyspoon's Hornt Parade Mix)

London-based artist, producer, Rinse FM host and all round polymath ELLES reimagines her Anthem, infusing it with a rave-ready UKG energy:
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-elles-anthem-angel-of-rhythm-refix-pt-2/

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PREMIERE: ELLES - Anthem (Angel Of Rhythm Refix Pt.2)

Fresh from the success of their Major Records debut with the immaculate Too Hot EP, Rinse France’s Whitney Weiss brings ELLES, Needy Beast, Evelyn, and Spatial Awareness into the Chinotto Records fold for The World, Reversed Remixes EP out on the 15th of March.
Released via Whitney’s newly founded imprint Chinotto Records, a label focused on spotlighting ‘moments of true dancefloor euphoria’, the EP gathers choice US and UK producers for five distinctive remixes that take the already warm and vibrant track to the club, the chill-out room, the
rave, and the afters. It also marks the label’s first foray into vinyl, with a limited hand-stamped run of 100 records.

Accomplished London-based producer, DJ, and songwriter ELLES elevates the original to new emotional heights with stirring vocals and ethereal synths, while Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist Needy Beast gives a nod to house classics with a lush groove. Brooklyn-based DJ and producer extraordinaire Evelyn expands the track to seven tightly-coiled moments of
galloping beats for the rave and UK-based producer Spatial Awareness goes deep with nearly eight synth-fuelled minutes for pushing dancers a step beyond. The EP concludes with a new mix from Whitney Weiss: a perfect slice of house that keeps the warmth of the original with a longer run time
for dance floors.

Whitney says:
“I wanted to ask some friends and favourites to re-imagine a track that people kept saying ends too soon and their takes thrilled and moved me.
ELLES is fiercely talented and I was honoured that she chose to add vocals. Hers is the remix that so far has made everyone cry, including me. I think it’s a perfect mood shift at peak time for skilled DJs who want their audiences to find heaven within, etc.
Needy Beast had a storied presence in various New York music scenes and knows his way around a studio. He’s a talented vocalist and fun guy whose version has nods to house classics and an unmistakable lushness of its own (with some great backing vocals).
I’m a big fan of Evelyn’s music and was floored by her guest mix for my Rinse show; I wanted to have her on for a remix so the EP could have the range. She goes harder than I do production-wise as a general rule and I was excited to hear the direction she took this in, which was beats beats
beats.
The Spatial Awareness remix is one for the club at a full-floor hour. Love the synths on this, it’s imbued with that sweat dripping down the walls energy.
I felt like being clever and wanted a longer version that kept the original mood. Kevin from Valence Studios, who does all of our mastering, called it ‘a piece of genius that reminds me of the kind of fun that I miss from the old AVH cuts’ and that felt like winning an award/meant it had worked.”
As a DJ Whitney Weiss is a master of their craft at the centre of some of the world’s cutting-edge queer parties for over a decade. From deeply underground beginnings playing 8+ hour stretches in Argentinean factories and defunct train depots and a residency at the legendary Dengue Dancing
parties in Buenos Aires (where after five years a move to Berlin was a quieter pace of life), to residencies across Europe in the years since - including Club Sandwich, Wanderlust, Strangé in Paris and Dalston Superstore in London. They’ve played regularly to global audiences from Berlin to Milan to Reykjavík to New York, appearing on The Lot Radio, NTS, HÖR, and Teki Latex’s French TV Show Overdrive Infinity and many more. Whitney divides their time between Berlin and Paris, where they
are celebrating their tenth year on Rinse France

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PREMIERE : Whitney Weiss - The World, Reversed (ELLES Things Feel Like They’re Upside Down Flip)

An unabashedly peak-time belter of headsy euphoric breaks and rising synths, courtesy of Real Lies.

London-based artist, Rinse FM host and long time R$N orbiter gears up to release another club-ready remix EP  “A Celebration Of The Euphoria Of Remixes”.  The EP features remixes of her debut album by various artists, including Real Lies, Martyn Bootyspoon, and Whitney Weiss, alongside ELLES herself. Real Lies’ remix of “Afterglo” is a headsy euphoric mix of breaks and rising synths which we’re premiering here. Get your lug holes around this…

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-elles-afterglo-real-lies-remix/

@e_l_l_e_s @real_lies

PREMIERE: ELLES - Afterglo (Real Lies Remix)

Elegant taste

@d-tiffany opens up the new four-track various artists EP on Canadian label @00-am with 'Butterfly Foundation'. an angular melodic jaunt through multi-layered textures.

'00AM003' also features @acemo, @florist-official and @maxwyatt and is out soon via 00:AM: https://www.00-am.com/

Premiere: D. Tiffany 'Butterfly Foundation'

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Basic Soul Unit has become one of Dolly's regulars over the years. He is wel known for his perfect blend of stepping Chicago house, Detroit techno and UK broken beat. Every release is guaranteed party material with a deep elegant twist that makes his music stand out like no other. Beautiful basslines, breaks and bleeps make this new Unbound EP a super powerful three tracker for serious dance floor workouts!

Dolly34 Basic Soul Unit - Unbound Preview

A1 - The Long Wait
B1 - Police State
B2 - Drum Tool

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Any proceeds from the sale of this record will be directly donated to organisations supporting black people and efforts to end systemic racism, injustice and police brutality - read more here: https://bit.ly/003LETTER

SKINS003 Previews

The word ‘Isolation’ undoubtedly has a new weight to it. For any person, within communities, it has the ability to starve us of something essential OR positively re-calibrate an individual whose introspection can lead to creation. The title & concept of this release is simply an acknowledgement of a creative process in which going inwards can lead to the discovery of something unique.

We as people move alongside technological advancements & this has the power to ‘connect & isolate’ Our personal relationships with one another also take on new forms as our tools for communication change. This inspires creative action. The human response to modern devices can result in surreal and unfamiliar expressions. In terms of music, our instant access to information from the past & engrained intuitions lead us to revisit atavistic rhythms of the past & reinterpret them with new sensibilities. We create music from the ‘Now’ that traverses the ‘Past’ with sights set on the future!

Bonds created from this expression can withstand and even strengthen even when inter-continental physical distance is imposed - forcing us to look inward to investigate the true depth of relationships forged out of creative expression. Rhythm has been used for millennia to locate the deepest parts of the soul & to re/connect spirits - this is true also in the modern age. Certain feelings cannot be expressed via digital text-communications nor with words alone; Music is the answer. Connection through disconnection.

The Artwork on the B-side of this record is a symbol of the individual, isolated & pinned down by the spindle, falling, spiralling, a metaphor for whatever turns you inward. The needle on the record emanates the rhythm”

PHZ004 - Sedgwick’s first return to Vinyl since PHZ001’s Digitale Djungle. Five cuts of proper underground material for dancers and deejays alike. Sedgwick’s homecoming is aplomb with hot, headsy electro interposed across a lewd landscape of tripped-out transmissions. We get straight to it with ‘Metal Detector’, a bewitching, twisted work-out delivered with such conviction it could be straight from 1997 Anthony Rother. With elements of breaks, electro and techno - ‘Exit’, the A2, is a pulsating peregrination around the geography of underground sound; hybrid heads - take note. On the flip of the record we are greeted with 'Pleasuresque' a quasi-old school breaks track which delivers a vibey electronic grit, balanced carefully with serene pad work and sparse moments in the track - it's the masterful arrangement here which allows Sedgwick to push the musical tension to the next level. Elsewhere, ‘Blue Print’ is a beautifully paced synthetic trip, one for the “sun coming through the shutters” crew. Closing things is ‘Bermuda Dream’, a markedly poised, high-octane dreamscape of emotional intelligence and a confident gaze ahead. Welcome to the future.

Rhythm and Isolation

PREMIERE : Sedgwick - Exit

This year marks 3 years of Needs.

Since humble beginnings in 2017, the label has gone on to release tracks from some of our favourite artists in the scene, as well curating events with essential charities and initiatives such as UN Women's HeForShe campaign, and also Earth Day.

To mark this special occasion we’re back where it all started, raising money and awareness for mental health. October 10th marks World Mental Health Day and this year's theme set by the World Federation for Mental Health is suicide prevention. To recognise and promote this occasion we’ve brought along another all-star cast to help us spread the message far and wide.

Needs 008 is a double vinyl compilation which features the talents of ​Shanti Celeste​, ​OCB​, ​Michelle​, ​Bobby.​, Peder Mannerfelt​, ​Yu Su​, ​Adam Pits​ and ​DJ Sports​.

Stay tuned to the Needs channels during our birthday month for regular updates, plus panels and artist features.

We’d also like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone that has supported us this far: especially Juno Records, For The Record PR, all the artists that have kindly donated music, and of course the music lovers, dancers and forward thinkers that have supported us on this wonderful journey <3

C1. Peder Mannerfelt - Our Levels (NEEDS008)

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/nico-lahs-blow-your-mind

The synth work on 'The Free Life' is @nico-lahs at his best with a day break melody blotting out any lingering darkness from the morning sky.

Blow Your Mind

Nico Lahs - The Free Life [Metamorphic Recordings]

Out now on @iliorecords as curated by @maroilio

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ilio KIPO!
A compilation of songs written by a few isolated persons.

7 tracks of variety, made through the ebb and flow of isolation by artists afd.s, Hank YM, Hobbimann and Greaves.

Meditations to movement inducing breaks. For wherever your mind and body is at during this time of change.

ILIO Kipo!

ILio Kipo!

Greaves - Sattva's Garden

The sun was bright and alive, it danced atop a backdrop of bright, royal blue and the heat radiated down from the heavens up above. Sat in the field he watched as the long grass blew softly in the breeze as sun worshippers lay perched upon hillsides and viewpoints. Insects buzzed amidst the tall flowers, bees swarmed and flitted between bushes in search of something sweet. He liked that, those bees. As he sipped from an ice cold glass he wondered if the world could ever get any prettier than this...

Sentiments is a producer based in Lyon, we met a few years back when he played at a party for us in Lyon and smashed it out the park with fast paced, euphoric hardcore, italian dream house and wild breaks. We are delighted to see he continues on in such style, this is a new track by him on his label Light On Earth.

PREMIERE: Sentiments - I Like That Bee [Light On Earth]

Whether causing chaos on a Boiler Room or soundtracking an old warship in Amsterdam, Holly Lester has had an attention-grabbing ascent into dance music. Originally hailing from rural Northern Ireland, she’s been busy carving her niche in the world of house and techno since emerging from England’s north-west dance scene midway through the last decade. A frequent player for European institutions and one of the founding residents of Manchester station Limbo. With natural progression in her evolution which led to the birth of her own record label - Duality Trax, launched at the start of the year. Her commitment and humble demeanour remains central to her continued success, ensuring her name won’t be going anywhere any time soon.

FOLLOW HERE.
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SC: https://soundcloud.com/hollylester
RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/hollylester
FB: https://www.facebook.com/hollylestermusic
IG: https://www.instagram.com/holly__lester/
BC: https://dualitytrax.bandcamp.com/

YYMS Playlist.

YYMS006 | Holly Lester.

A CELEBRATION OF THE EUPHORIA OF REMIXES 💘
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A CELEBRATION OF THE EUPHORIA OF LIFE OUT NOW 🔮https://naivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/elles-a-celebration-of-the-euphoria-of-life






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