this one's a gem. glad i picked up the 12''.

TD004 A - Talking Drums - Under The Sky

The Label Mix 2023 presents tracks from current releases and other favorites and discoveries that have accompanied us throughout the year. These are things that should be played at the beach, instead of cheap pop-house. Take a trip to this island!

Tracklist:
Janelle Monae feat. Grace Jones - Oooh La La
Jive Connection - Roots
Kay Zee - Le Rêve
Pachyman - Goldline
Aili - Fashion
Moreeats - Forever Fun (Kejeblos Remix)
Ethimm - Emotional Men
Erobique - Acquamarina
Move 78 - But What If We’re Wrong? (Supertaste Remix)
Nick Carr - Swahili
Tarjei Nygard - Bleusa
Ana Frango Elétrico - Electric Fish (Edit)
Parbleu - Pour Cette Liberté
Maraschino - Hi Desire (Fuga Ronto Rmx Instrumental)
Aura Safari feat. Zeke Manyika - Dancing In The Moonlight
Djosa - Botanica Obscura
Ronald Langestraat - Alpha Centauri
Dream Dolphin - Image Respect Love
Lexx - Rising Tide
Freak Heat Waves - Off My Mind
Nicolay - Indian Summer
ThemTunes - Plz, I Feel Very

Phantom Island for Radio Raheem (07.12.2023)

Coyote teams up with Quinn Luke Lamont for a one off collaboration. Quinns vocals add a distinctly yachty feel to Coyote's chuggy early evening acid groove. Project Sandro tighten up the percussion and strip the vocals back and create a dreamy more contemplative warm weather shuffler.

"Think About It" Project Sandro Remix

B1 – Belly Button

B2 – 7th of April

Two raw cosmic funk tracks based on Frank Herbert's inimitable sci-fi epic, "Dune."

Available digitally here: https://paulatreides.bandcamp.com

Side A vocals by Faye Simms.

Paul Atreides - Arrakis Walk b/w Thinking Machines 7" *SOLD OUT*

Vinyl - https://spacetalkmusic.bandcamp.com/music

A1. Jaz & Party Dad Remix
B1. Mudd's Dub

When Psychemagik’s Danny McLewin decided to launch Spacetalk Records, he didn’t just want to reissue rare material. From the start, one of his stated aims was to deliver fresh new versions of obscure cuts from his record collection.

It’s perhaps fitting, then, that the label’s second 12” breathes new life into a suitably little-known gem: Avant Garde’s 1982 Euro-boogie B-side, “Everybody’s Lover”.

The track was originally featured on the flip of the seven-piece Dutch outfit’s second and final 7”, “Walking Back To Happiness”. It has been a feature of McLewin’s DJ sets for years, inspiring countless track ID requests from excited clubbers.

Earlier this year, McLewin set out to track down the songwriter-turned-producer behind the record, Avant Garde mastermind Hans Van Hemert. Happily, the search was a fruitful one; not only did Van Hemert own the rights to the song, but he’d also kept hold of the tapes from the original recording sessions.

With the Dutchman’s agreement, McLewin asked old friends Jaz and Party Dad, and label co-owner Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy, to put their own spin on the super-smooth ’82 original. Predictably, they’ve done a bang-up job.

On the A-side you’ll find Jaz & Party Dad’s version, which is little less than the extended 12” version that “Everybody’s Lover” always deserved. Smooth, soulful and tactile, the duo’s rework makes full use of the Dutch band’s wonderful vocals, loved-up chords, sparkling synth flourishes and killer bassline, adding a touch of delay to the beats for added ‘80s boogie effect. 

Murphy takes a different approach on the flip, drawing influence from the pioneering 1980s “proto-house” dubs of acclaimed New York producers Paul Simpson, Winston Jones, Boyd Jarvis and Timmy Regisford. Delay-laden guitar flashes and synthesizer flourishes echo in and out of the mix, whilst saucer-eyed pads rub shoulders with reverb-heavy beats and Avant Garde’s rolling bassline. It’s one of Murphy’s most confident remixes of recent times, and makes a fitting partner to Jaz & Party Dad’s vocal-heavy A-side interpretation.

Avant Garde - Everybody's Lover (Jaz & Party Dad Remix + Mudd's Dub)

Here's the Lexx mix of E.S.P in it's 'Sunset Ashram Remix' form.

Apiento & Co. – ESP [Lexx Sunset Ashram Remix]

Percussions Pour La Danse

Jean-Pierre Boistel / Tony Kenneybrew - Vas Y Peter

SHOP - https://spacetalkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-city-life-compiled-by-ilan-pdahtzur

Should you find yourself taking a Thames-side stroll in the shadow of the City of London, keep an eye out for the headphone-clad figure of Ilan Pdahtzur. While be-suited bankers and frustrated office workers scurry home to their families, Ilan can frequently be found casting admiring glances towards the blinking lights of towering skyscrapers while filling his ears with the synthesizer-driven sounds of lesser-known 1980s dance music. 

Ilan, an avid but little-known record collector best known for sharing the artwork of obscure and under-appreciated early-to-mid ’80s club cuts on his popular Instagram feed, has been digging for vibrant, kaleidoscopic records since his teens. Now, thanks to Spacetalk, he’s been given a chance to offer a glimpse into his neon-lit nocturnal musical world. 

The result is Night City Life, a killer collection of 1980s synthesizer songs inspired by Ilan’s admiration for the glow of London’s late night skyline. Over the course of 13 essential tunes, Ilan escorts us on a vibrant sprint through rare Italo-disco, steamy South African synth-boogie, fizzing American freestyle, oddball Austrian electrofunk and so much more. 

There are naturally a fair few sought-after cuts present, but also a fine selection of under-appreciated gems that for one reason or other have been all but ignored since they were released three and a half decades ago. In fact, some selections are so obscure that barely any information exists about them online. 

Check for example Preludio’s “Mysterious Nights”, an evocative fusion of slow electronic grooves, dreamy chords and twinkling piano motifs previously buried on a lesser-known album of unremarkable German synth-pop, or the dollar-bin brilliance of Fragile’s sweet synth-pop gem “We’ve Got Tonight, Boy”, a cut that Ilan says is capable of “wrapping itself like tendrils around your soul”. He’s not wrong. 

At the other end of the scale you’ll find the ultra-rare Italo-disco breeziness of Friend of Mine’s incredible “Just Your Pride” and Mac & Monica’s soulful 1986 South African synth-boogie cut “You’re So Good To Me”, copies of which regularly change hands for hundreds of pounds online. Ilan originally reached out to the men behind the record last year to tell them how one of their other forgotten gems had been played on a Boiler Room session; naturally, they were thrilled. 

There’s plenty to admire elsewhere on the compilation, too, from the waves of analogue synths, bubbly melodies and bobbing beats of the instrumental dub version of Brian Tatcher’s “Hot Love” – a cold-war era cut inspired by the idea of love blossoming in the midst of a nuclear meltdown – to the Bobby Orlando-esque freestyle bustle of Janelle’s “Don’t Be Shy (Dub)” and the sparkling post-boogie brilliance of Jarmaz’s “Night City Life (Disco Remix)”, a track Ilan has listened to countless times while admiring the midnight skyline of his home city.

A1. Catherine Brénot - Et Tout Est Yin Et Tout Est Yang (Club Mix)
A2. 1 Plus 1 – Coming Up For Air (Instrumental)
A3. Fragile – We’ve Got Tonight, Boy
B1. Jarmaz – Night City Life (Disco Remix)
B2. Friend Of Mine – Just Your Pride
B3. Mac & Monica – You’re So Good To Me
B4. Sala & H – Feel The Love
C1. Alexandra - Fantasia (Fantasy)
C2. Gioia – No Secrets (Instrumental)
C3. Janelle – Don’t Be Shy (Dub)
D1. Alessandro Scellino - Dinner In The Jungle (Erotic Mix)
D2. Brian Tatcher - Hot Love (Instrumental Dub Version)
D3. Preludio – Mysterious Nights

B2 – 7th of April

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