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Produced in April 2021, original track released November 2019

(I never actually got permission to release this from Lone, but hopefully it doesn't get taken down! Just a way for me to show appreciation for this amazing track)

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EDIT: This track is Lone-approved 😎

Lone - Boketto (Boa Boa Remix)

'Marble' was produced in 1997 by a guy from Amsterdam. It became known years after, when it was included in a keygen software for Ableton Live. The author himself found out about this fact just a couple of years ago.
The track was available to anyone on Mod Archive, yet still we felt there was a reason it should appear on CRUISE compilation as it reflects the spirit of the time we all cherish and try to recreate at our parties.
We've reached the author and asked whether he'd like to release this track officially. We found out Hans was only 15 when he wrote 'Marble'. Not only he gave us his blessing, but also did a new mixdown of the track for CRUISE tape, almost 25 years later!

Artist: Reactor Grits / @reactor-grits
Title: "Marble"
Label: Cruise Records / @waxninja
Release date: 16 September 2022
Format: cassettes & digital
Buy: https://linktr.ee/cruisewhois

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CRUISE is a Moscow-based night that focuses on 90s finest — old school hip-hop, garage house, breakbeat hardcore and jungle. Every once in a while local vinyl enthusiasts, artists and radio hosts from Wax Ninja crew (Artem Xio, Foxxylove and MB4) and Tiger Balms crew (Skye, Fine) gather nostalgic music lovers so that they can cruise through different BPMs and genres in a home-like atmosphere.

This release is the essence of CRUISE captured on tape: 15 tracks from the crème de la crème of the Russian underground scene. A full-scale journey into the sound of drum machines, analog synths, obscure samples and what not; a heart-warming homage to music from New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, London, Manchester, Essex, Bristol and different cities across Italy.

N-Tone, Maxi Skratch and Luge are there with their beats and scratches; HI TOP and Osipenko Bus Stop (Ant To Be when he makes jungle) deliver some proper UKG; Keroz and DJ 0000 (DJ 1985’s alter ego) are going deep and melodic; Cream Soda, BRTS, Scruscru & S.Timoshenko and Heavy Blunt fill this tape with house bangers; Artem Xio, Mix Master Kutyma, FTRRLT alongside Amsterdam native Reactor Grits do breakbeat and drum’n’bass. And don’t forget about the funny skits that turn this compilation into an 90s style album that tells a story.

To make your CRUISE even more real — this tape release was enriched with an olfactory dimension: look out for a scented scratch & sniff card inside your box!

PREMIERE: Reactor Grits — Marble (2022 Mix)(Cruise Records, 2022)

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"The Visitor" releases on January 7th, 2025.

Written by Ellie Kit
Vocals performed by Austin Rochez (@sos645ar)

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Merely - Hold The Sky
Salt Tank - Sargasso Sea
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Lee Gamble - She's Not
x/o - Wish (Malibu Piano Rework)

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i stab you in your mouth and your right knee

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It takes a certain brand of confidence to name yourself after three towering intellectual concepts. Note is an English term and the basis of all music. Code is the association with computers, electronics, creating something your own to add to the existing world of machines. Luv is the derivative of the word Love, a universal concept that does not need explaining. Together they create the ideal of the total or universal artwork, bringing together music, the visual arts, narrative and more into a single intoxica.

“NoteCodeLuv is an ambitious name,” he admits, “and it is something that just came to me when I was living in Toronto a few years ago. I want my music to be art, with something to say, but Notes and Coding is about details, massive music pieces, science and physics too. That means the small things, the tiny things that change everything, the detail. Just like a laboratory scientist who always keep questioning and refining their ideas. That’s what I strive towards.”

To mainstream audiences NoteCodeLuv is known for collaborating with local artists in Toronto, Lexington, and Chicago on composing music and organizing avant-garde experiences at venues and art galleries. This allows NoteCodeLuv to showcase his unique sound – dark yet light and fun, harsh but beautiful, sometimes brutal but always delicately structured.

“I don’t know why I’m drawn to dark sounds,” NoteCodeLuv admits. “It’s like when you make a movie about love,” he explains. “That’s not your life, it’s the art you have made. It’s a fiction. The music is exactly the same. Although there is nothing dark in my life, I have a facility to understand dark emotion.”

NoteCodeLuv is almost precisely as old as house music. He was born in 1989 in Moscow and discovered electronic music at the age of 16. “I was almost too shy to admit that I liked this music. It was primitive but in a serious way and I really liked that. I kept it to myself for years.” 

“I had to work again and again to find my proper sound,” he says. “The revelation came when I was listening to several artists (CINTHIE, Galcher Lustwerk, and Black Loops) over and over and I realized that my sound will come from synthesizing my life experiences, my musical talent and skill, and using these three authors as my musical mentors and guides. Together I will produce a unique deep and dark yet fun and funky playful - Speak Easy Deeper House (SEDH). It was the first rock of my building.”

"It was a precise moment when I was standing on the dark dancefloor listening to Galcher Lustwerk perform at Hot Mass in Pittsburgh in January of 2019. The music touched my heart and soul in a way that it has never before. It was then and there that I decided that I want to write music." 

NoteCodeLuv has never been a hardcore record collector, or a gig-goer, or even a clubber. ”If the music is really good I have to sit down on my own and listen”. He doesn’t even watch much TV or movies. “When I see other people’s creative work,” he says, “sometimes it overwhelms me.”

But visual art is a different matter. NoteCodeLuv is equally inspired by the impressionist style of paintings. Specifically because up close they are meaningless but from a distance they crystallize into an image. This concept of “The whole is more than the sum of its parts” is an integral component of his music. ”I love the way impressionist artists control the power over people just through the paint.” 

He approaches DJ’ing with the same meticulous way, playing uncompromising mood-driven sets which have earned acclaim. “When I go out I have to forget the technical side of the music and try to have fun,” he says, “DJ’ing can be fun, especially if I'm doing it with my close friends like NFNITI or EI. We’re friends and it’s exciting to work together. But in the end, you are playing mostly other people’s records. I prefer to play live because I feel like it's my work."

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