For the next installment of Manc institution El Diablo’s Social Club’s ‘To Rack & Ruin’ edits series comes from local Manc lads Out of the Basement who bring us two late summer bombs.
These tracks have both been kicking around for over a year now in slightly different forms but now we bring them to you fully refined and suitably mastered heavily for the dancefloor.

Out of the Basement are Steve Leggat and James Ellis. Both have been involved in Manchester's colourful music scene - amongst other things Steve has been running legendary Beat Club with The Stone Roses Mani and James is the founder of Manchester's now defunct deep house label ‘Drenched’.

Side A is a splendid edit of lost soul classic with beats and instruments added for full effect. Side B is a sleazy slo mo cut up of the Brothers Johnson version of the Shuggie Otis anthem 'Strawberry Letter 23'.

300 ltd handstamped vinyl available from all good record stores late September.

RR005 - Out of The Basement - Take Me With You

For the next installment of Manc institution El Diablo’s Social Club’s ‘To Rack & Ruin’ edits series comes from local Manc lads Out of the Basement who bring us two late summer bombs.
These tracks have both been kicking around for over a year now in slightly different forms but now we bring them to you fully refined and suitably mastered heavily for the dancefloor.

300 ltd handstamped vinyl available from all good record stores late September.

Out of the Basement are Steve Leggat and James Ellis. Both have been involved in Manchester's colourful music scene - amongst other things Steve has been running legendary Beat Club with The Stone Roses Mani and James is the founder of Manchester's now defunct deep house label ‘Drenched’.

Side A is a splendid edit of lost soul classic with beats and instruments added for full effect. Side B is a sleazy slo mo cut up of the Brothers Johnson version of the Shuggie Otis anthem 'Strawberry Letter 23'.

RR005 - Out of The Basement - Brothers Dub

***Shortened low res preview***

Forthcoming on Paper Recordings brand new label Paper Disco as part of a compilation.

Other tracks featured on the compilation are coming from Fingerman, Late Nite Tuff Guy, 2 Billion Beats, Yam Who, Leon Sweet, Richard Seaborne, Rune Lindbaek, Ste Spandex and Gran Turismo...

Neil Diablo - Give it to me (OUT NOW! on PAPER DISCO)

Coming out on vinyl in March 2014 on the Magic Wand Edits series...

Neil Diablo - Proud (MAGIC WAND EDITS 9)

Here is a guest mix for Andy Wilson's Balearia show on Ibiza Sonica from my recent trip to the white isle.

Neil Diablo - Balearia / Ibiza Sonica Mix / Oct 21

Love International Comedown Mix 2023

❤️ Love International Comedown Mix 2023 ❤️ // Neil Diablo

Here's a mix I did to help ease my post Croatia blues. This year was a particulalry special one for me. I've included a selection of tracks played on the Crazy P vs. El Diablo's Social Club Boat party at The Garden Festival and my Barbarella's set at Electric Elephant where I played alongside the legendary Chez Damier and Rahaan...

TRACKLISTING -

Frank Booker - The Sun - Whiskey Disco Black Ops
André Laos - Detour (Session Victim Remix) - Let’s Play House
Skylevel - Mellow June - Skylevel
Limited Search - Disco & Boogie Classics Vol. 5 - Giant Cuts
Sure Thing - Holding you tight (Instrumental) - Defected
Tim Green - Cherry - Rebellion
Emperor Machine - RMI is all I want - Southern Fried
Popular People’s Front - Arpin On - PPF
Neil Diablo - Give it up - Paper Disco
My Rules #1 - More Fry - My Rules
Lonely Boy - I like disco (Emperor Machine Remix) - Futureboogie
Ghana - Dorsia (HNNY remix) - Loft Records
KZA - Want no other (Musk Remix) - Endless Flight 
DJ Rocca - Let’s go party - (Brioski Disco Remix) - El Diablo’s Social Club
Space Machine - Macumba - Space Machine
Psychemagik - What a funky night - Discotheque Wreckers
Jamie 3.26 & Cratebug - Hit it n quit it - Lumberjack in hell
Soundstream - Inferno - Soundstream
General Ludd - Woo Ha - Mr Saturday Night
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Ohue (Frankie Francis & Sindab Edit) - Sofrito

Neil Diablo - Garden Festival & Electric Elephant Blues Mix

It's springtime at last; and as the bluebells push your blues aside, so North Of The Island returns with a beatific balm for your soul - four tracks of green house destined for blue skies and a golden sunrise. The first NOTI release since 2022, the 'Earth Positive EP' finds Neil Diablo at one with the vernal vibrations, his Balearic alias sprouting in new directions to incorporate the textures and tones of 90s clubland, hinting at the heady sound of his sweeping DJ sets. 

Stretching his legs from the off, Neil invites us on an early morning walk through the dewy pads and hazy stabs of "Etherealness", its bassline pressure and chirruping hats providing purpose as we stride past the post-party crowd. An aspirate flute floats from the distance, piercing the mist and pulling a propulsive bassline in its wake, a gateway to Goa or The Garden. 

Lush with medicated synth swells and woody melodies "Earth Positive" sets sun salutations to a snapping electro beat before blooming into a festival of cascading keys and FM horns - this is as Balearic as a roached Bianco Y Negro sleeve and a plasterer's pony tail. 

I've never been to "Fantacity" but based on this introduction I'd imagine it's equidistant from Belfast and Sheffield, and just the sort of place you should be looking to move to. Fluffy little clouds of dopamine-laced pads look down on the unhurried chug of hissing hats and restrained breakbeats as the bleeps, vamps and whistles echo rave's past while facing the future with a smile. When it's time for siesta, harness the healing of the hypnagogic beatless blend and wave your cares away.

A digital delight, available to own via Bandcamp or savour over streaming, this is just the start of a fertile year for North Of The Island.


North Of The Island - Fantacity (Beatless mix)

North Of The Island - Earth Positive

It's springtime at last; and as the bluebells push your blues aside, so North Of The Island returns with a beatific balm for your soul - four tracks of green house destined for blue skies and a golden sunrise. The first NOTI release since 2022, the 'Earth Positive EP' finds Neil Diablo at one with the vernal vibrations, his Balearic alias sprouting in new directions to incorporate the textures and tones of 90s clubland, hinting at the heady sound of his sweeping DJ sets. 

Stretching his legs from the off, Neil invites us on an early morning walk through the dewy pads and hazy stabs of "Etherealness", its bassline pressure and chirruping hats providing purpose as we stride past the post-party crowd. An aspirate flute floats from the distance, piercing the mist and pulling a propulsive bassline in its wake, a gateway to Goa or The Garden. 

Lush with medicated synth swells and woody melodies "Earth Positive" sets sun salutations to a snapping electro beat before blooming into a festival of cascading keys and FM horns - this is as Balearic as a roached Bianco Y Negro sleeve and a plasterer's pony tail. 

I've never been to "Fantacity" but based on this introduction I'd imagine it's equidistant from Belfast and Sheffield, and just the sort of place you should be looking to move to. Fluffy little clouds of dopamine-laced pads look down on the unhurried chug of hissing hats and restrained breakbeats as the bleeps, vamps and whistles echo rave's past while facing the future with a smile. When it's time for siesta, harness the healing of the hypnagogic beatless blend and wave your cares away.

A digital delight, available to own via Bandcamp or savour over streaming, this is just the start of a fertile year for North Of The Island.

North Of The Island - Fantacity

North Of The Island - Ethereallness

Promo mix ahead of my gig for Disco Glitter Love at Constellations, Liverpool on Friday 18th September 2015

https://www.facebook.com/events/928672093838411/

EVENT INFO

Neil Diablo - Disco Glitter Love Mix

To coincide with my first trip to Amsterdam Dance Event this month I have a done a little mix to celebrate.

I'll be playing on the following official ADE programme parties...

Friday 16th October
FEST 
with SHMLSS / PBR Strreetgang / Deadly Sins
http://www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/program/2015/fest/4896207/

Saturday 17th October
Silhouette Music presents: Le Marathon, un voyage du disco
with Mason . L’Equipe du Son
http://www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/program/2015/le-marathon-un-voyage-du-disco/4888934/

Neil Diablo -  ADE 2015 Mix

Neil Diablo - Melbs (Trash The Wax Vol. 2)

Neil Diablo - Lovin Spree (Boogiefuturo)

Naum Gabo - Whop
Beatconducter - Le Club
Casco - Stop!
Runaway - Reinterpretations (Tensnake version)
Fernando - The 87
Alena - Changes (Ron Basejam mix)
Parada 88 - Gonna miss me
Evil K'neil - Get a little
Marius Circus - Marabella
The Shack - Touch it
Bottin & Rodion - Shooting Star (Toomy Disco remix)
Frank Agario - Amore 
Inflagranti - Hallow Discourse (Pete Herbert edit)
SUMO - Nini

Neil Diablo -  Mean it Mix - Oct 11

That  man Neil Diablo from Manchester's El Diablo's Social Club is back again with another storming double header of disco delights. 'To Rack & Ruin Vol. 1', sold out in a matter of days, and we're expecting similar flying-off-the-shefness here too. 'Volume 2' sees Neil serving up a couple of obscure disco diggers finds that have been tried and tested on the dancefloor at El Diablo's, and proven to have reached club-favourite status. A-side track "Party" is one of those pop-rock disco gems you expect to turn up on an "Originals" CD compilation. Recorded by South African outfit Harari, the track features a simple mid-tempo disco groove that's layered with squelchy, efx-laden bass and clavinet gurgles. Once you hit the first big synth riffs you know you're in for a treat, and then the raw, soulful, but a bit kitsch vocals arrive and we do indeed have a party on our hands. Vocoder vocal interludes? Catchy female vocal harmony? Funky cowbell percussion? Rockin' disco rhythms? Boogie synth-bass? Patrick Cowley's 1981 anthem "Get A Little" has the lot, and then some. It's the kind of track that, when you hear it in a club, made you glad you got off the sofa and went out! A guaranteed party rockin' double A - limited as hell, and twice as hot!

Now available to download from Juno
http://www.junodownload.com/products/to-rack-ruin-vol-2/1893586-02/

RR003 - EVIL K'NEIL - PARTY

That  man Neil Diablo from Manchester's El Diablo's Social Club is back again with another storming double header of disco delights. 'To Rack & Ruin Vol. 1', sold out in a matter of days, and we're expecting similar flying-off-the-shefness here too. 'Volume 2' sees Neil serving up a couple of obscure disco diggers finds that have been tried and tested on the dancefloor at El Diablo's, and proven to have reached club-favourite status. A-side track "Party" is one of those pop-rock disco gems you expect to turn up on an "Originals" CD compilation. Recorded by South African outfit Harari, the track features a simple mid-tempo disco groove that's layered with squelchy, efx-laden bass and clavinet gurgles. Once you hit the first big synth riffs you know you're in for a treat, and then the raw, soulful, but a bit kitsch vocals arrive and we do indeed have a party on our hands. Vocoder vocal interludes? Catchy female vocal harmony? Funky cowbell percussion? Rockin' disco rhythms? Boogie synth-bass? Patrick Cowley's 1981 anthem "Get A Little" has the lot, and then some. It's the kind of track that, when you hear it in a club, made you glad you got off the sofa and went out! A guaranteed party rockin' double A - limited as hell, and twice as hot!

Now available to download from Juno
http://www.junodownload.com/products/to-rack-ruin-vol-2/1893586-02/


RR003 - EVIL K'NEIL - GET A LITTLE

Those disco specialists at To Rack & Ruin are back in business, kicking off their 2016 campaign with an absolute scorcher from Moscovite producer Phil Gerus. After making waves with a string of releases for the likes of Futureboogie and Sonar Kollektiv, Gerus arrives at the Mancunian edit institution in fine form, ready to take over the world with a quartet of fully loaded floor movers for all you dancing fools.



Going hard and heavy from the off, Phil introduces himself with the tumbling toms and zero gravity sequences of ‘Delicious Wishes’, a neon tinged reshape of an Angelic original. Working the loops and FX like a pro, the Russian sprinkles space dust all over this camp cosmic classic, packing a whole host of extra oomph in the warp drive! “Stop! Let’s Slow Down” follows hot on its heels, powering into the peak time in a shimmer of sequins as it supercharges a boogie vintage for the modern DJ. The finest floor shaking boogie reheat since Tiger & Woods last hit a hole in one, this is gonna raise the temperature at any party worth its salt.  

Over on the flip Phil turns his attention to Italo, setting pulses racing and feet stomping with the space age sound of “Bossy Lady”. Playing free and easy with the pitch control, the Moscow magician conjures up a space disco body mover complete with tripped out vocals, chunky guitar and nebulous synth lines. Sticking with the moods and grooves of the Mediterranean, Phil takes us home with a spaced out version of an all time Italo classic. Reworking the percussion and looping up that low slung baseline, our host supercharges the groove for modern club deployment, rounding off another essential release from your favourite edit imprint.

B2. PHIL GERUS - AGENT MEGURO

B1. PHIL GERUS - BOSSY LADY

A2. PHIL GERUS - STOP! LET'S SLOW DOWN

A1. PHIL GERUS - DELICIOUS WISHES

Getting back from such a great festival you always have lots of great music buzzing around your head. I decided I get these out of my head and on to a mix. It's a selection of tracks which either I played on the House of Disco Boat party or I tracks I heard around the beach stage, the olive stage, Barbs, boats and the excellent sunrise sessions.

TRACKLISTING

KHRURANGBIN - PEOPLE EVERYWHERE (MARIBOU STATE REMIX)
BRAND NEW HEAVIES - STAY THIS WAY (DAVID MORALES LUNAR DUB)
MR FINGERS - WHAT ABOUT THIS LOVE
WHOMADEWHO - KEEP ME IN MY PLANE (DJ KOZE HUDSON RIVER DUB)
ILJIA RUDMAN - IN HER EYES
BELABOUCHE - DEEP SLEEP
SELVAGEM & CARROT GREEN - BRONSKI IN RIO EDIT
MARVIN & GUY - MAKING LOVE
NAPOLEON - STEP ON
PONZU ISLAND - SUPER KOTO
SKATT BROS. - WALK THE NIGHT 
RON&NEIL - YOU FEEL IT
SHMLSS - STAND
DITONGO - WALK BETWEEN THE RAIN
SELVAGEM - CHITTY DISCO
FRANK AGARIO - THE LATER THE BETTER
RAFFAELLO & PALERMO - THE SPIRIT
VO - MASHISA
VAGGIO - DON’T YOU WANT SOME MORE
KRYWALD & FARRER - INNACAMO
RED RACK’EM - WONKY DISCO BANGER
FLIGHT FACILITIES - FEELIN
HUBIE DAVISON - SANCTIFIED
NEAL HOWARD - THE GATHERING
MIDLAND - FINAL CREDITS


LOVE INTERNATIONAL COMEDOWN MIX - NEIL DIABLO

"Striving, as always, to underline the link between sartorial distinction and successful DJing, El Diablo’s mainman Neil Scott has put together a mixtape for gentlemen’s bespoke outfitters of note, TukTuk. It’s a deeply cosmic affair, featuring one of his own solo edits, ‘For Your Love’ (on the forthcoming KAT Edits), and comes housed in a Casey Jones striped fabric pocket with button fastening."

http://www.wearetuktuk.com


Neil Diablo - tuktuk Summer 2011 Mix

Returning from the Italian excursion of Vol. 13 before the U.K. pulls up the proverbial drawbridge, Neil Diablo delivers another To Rack & Ruin winner live and direct from the Northern powerhouse. Showing some love for the finerhalf of the county, Neil presents the best the North East has to offer, enlisting ‘Our friends from the north’Yorkshire's Craig Bratley and Newcastle's James Hadfield to do the damage on this slick split 12".
After a relatively quiet 2016, Mr Bratley shuffles his Magic Feet into the studio and sticks his fist directly into the mainframe, coming back with a pair of strangely psychedelic body movers to decorate the A-side. 'Ani Kuni' bursts out the blocks in a swell of fizzing sequencer, throbbing bass and tonking mid tempo percussion, sparking away wildly like a Tesla toothbrush. An East-meets-West affair, the track marries the thrusting electronics of Krautrock with lightly spiced Indian vocals and hippie guitar licks, conjuring visions of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gurning away at a Faust show. Bratley retains the propulsive percussion for A2 number 'Acid Mother', syncing gurgling synth bass beneath loose funk guitars and warbling lead lines as we're slowly sucked through the wormhole. As the track chugs ceaseless through Baldelli's cosmic terrain, rhythmic chants and rubbery bass solos reverberate through the vacuum, locking us into their other worldly gravity. Resistance is futile.
We head up the A1 for the flipside, hooking up on the toon with Elizabeth Collective mainstay James Hadfield, who serves up two reheated treats tastier than your last parmo! Wielding the white stiletto and sweet sequinned shimmer, Hadfield lets loose his disco juice on "Love And Affection", chucking some dreamy Gamble & Huff vocals over a dope and dusty groove. Crackling like a campfire cookout, this infectious cut spits out slick bass, dubbed out guitar and precise percussion, keeping your body in motion while the piano noodle and soulful vocal swirl through your brainspace. Things take a turn for the technologic on "Silent Builder", those organic disco licks replaced by swelling sine waves, soaring siren calls and military breakbeats. The punchy bassline provides a steady hand as the track gradually pulls itself apart, unravelling into squelching synth wobbles, oddball samples and proggy solos.
Wonderfully wonky, this is music for when the walls start to melt. Four freaky cuts from two top talents - To Rack & Ruin for the win.

To Rack & Ruin Vol. 14

RR014 - James Hadfield - Love And Affection

Returning from the Italian excursion of Vol. 13 before the U.K. pulls up the proverbial drawbridge, Neil Diablo delivers another To Rack & Ruin winner live and direct from the Northern powerhouse. Showing some love for the finerhalf of the county, Neil presents the best the North East has to offer, enlisting ‘Our friends from the north’Yorkshire's Craig Bratley and Newcastle's James Hadfield to do the damage on this slick split 12".
After a relatively quiet 2016, Mr Bratley shuffles his Magic Feet into the studio and sticks his fist directly into the mainframe, coming back with a pair of strangely psychedelic body movers to decorate the A-side. 'Ani Kuni' bursts out the blocks in a swell of fizzing sequencer, throbbing bass and tonking mid tempo percussion, sparking away wildly like a Tesla toothbrush. An East-meets-West affair, the track marries the thrusting electronics of Krautrock with lightly spiced Indian vocals and hippie guitar licks, conjuring visions of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gurning away at a Faust show. Bratley retains the propulsive percussion for A2 number 'Acid Mother', syncing gurgling synth bass beneath loose funk guitars and warbling lead lines as we're slowly sucked through the wormhole. As the track chugs ceaseless through Baldelli's cosmic terrain, rhythmic chants and rubbery bass solos reverberate through the vacuum, locking us into their other worldly gravity. Resistance is futile.
We head up the A1 for the flipside, hooking up on the toon with Elizabeth Collective mainstay James Hadfield, who serves up two reheated treats tastier than your last parmo! Wielding the white stiletto and sweet sequinned shimmer, Hadfield lets loose his disco juice on "Love And Affection", chucking some dreamy Gamble & Huff vocals over a dope and dusty groove. Crackling like a campfire cookout, this infectious cut spits out slick bass, dubbed out guitar and precise percussion, keeping your body in motion while the piano noodle and soulful vocal swirl through your brainspace. Things take a turn for the technologic on "Silent Builder", those organic disco licks replaced by swelling sine waves, soaring siren calls and military breakbeats. The punchy bassline provides a steady hand as the track gradually pulls itself apart, unravelling into squelching synth wobbles, oddball samples and proggy solos.
Wonderfully wonky, this is music for whenthe walls start to melt. Four freaky cuts from two top talents - To Rack & Ruin for the win.

RR015 - Craig Bratley - Acid Mother

Here is the first original track from me for a while. It's from an ep i've done for the @rothmans folk and will include remixes from #tiago, @dawn-again and #coyote.

Preorder

NEIL DIABLO - BERWUDA (Rothmans)

Nearly 2 hours of big hitters from my New Years eve set in the main bar at the Horse Meat Disco NYE party in Manchester.

Neil Diablo live mix @ Horse Meat Disco NYE 17 at The Deaf Institute, Mcr

♥️ LOVE INTERNATIONAL COMEDOWN MIX 2018 ♥️ // NEIL DIABLO

From Piccadilly Records.....

That Neil Diablo from Manchester's El Diablo's Social Club shows his edit chops again, joining the Kat label roster for this new four tracker. Kicking things off is 'Cannae Believe', an Italo / New York dubbed out-disco slo-mo electro-disco cut with synth stabs and 'Love Is The Message'-esque pads floating over moody proto-house beats with sassy vocals to boot. Hit! Next up is 'Disco Special', a 'walking' mid-tempo melter which drops guitar-led Balearia, funky bass, arpeggiated synths, syncopated hand claps and space toms a-plenty before lifting off into string-filled ecstacy. Big! 

On the flip we have 'For Your Love' is a slinky 2-step soul gem originally released in 1982 by the Fats Gaines Band and featuring sublime vox by Zorina. Stretched, diced and strung beautifully back together, this has summer anthem written all over it. Finishing things off is 'Christina Debs, Behind Bars''. Presumably by Christina Originally out on Ze Records and produced in Detroit by Don Was in 1984, this low-slung nu-wave disco chugger adds another dimension to proceedings and this EP feels all the mightier for it.

Rave reactions from the likes of Greg Wilson, Futureboogie, Ashley Beedle, Huw Morgan, Tristan da Cunha,  Andy Wilson, Jim Baron aka Ron Basejam, Bonar Bradberry, Red Rack 'Em, Andy Ash, Sean Brosnan, Kev Beadle, and many more.....

Neil Diablo - Deb Behind Bars (KAT Records)

Neil Diablo - For Your Love (KAT Records)

A recent hardrive find from the archives! Available exclusively to buy on my Bandcamp page.

https://neildiablo.bandcamp.com/track/bolero

Neil Diablo - Bolero (Bandcamp exclusive)

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