SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dance-par-amour

Limited edition vinyl with artwork by the brilliant KMG - www.kmgyeah.com

Leng Records has long admired Andrew Meecham’s work as The Emperor Machine. Last year, Meecham made his first appearance on the label via a fine remix of Harks & Mudd favourite ‘Susta’. 12 months on, Meecham returns to Leng with his first Emperor Machine outing of 2021, a typically eccentric, heavily electronic dancefloor outing featuring the seductive vocals of rising star Séverine Mouletin.

Meecham is one of British dance music’s most experienced and lauded producers, with a packed history stretching right back to the acid house era. He first rose to fame as part of Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips (both alongside long-term studio partner Dean Meredith), but over the last two decades has devoted far more time to solo work as The Emperor Machine. In the process, he’s developed a sparse, hypnotic, heavily electronic trademark sound that combines analogue and modular synthesizer sounds with nods to post-punk disco, new wave, trippy proto-house and the mind-altering experiments of the Radiophonic Workshop.

‘Dance Par Amour’, his first solo single on Leng, is typical of his now familiar personal sonic style, with echoing, alien-sounding synthesizer motifs (some reminiscent of those that marked out Chicken Lips’ club classic ‘He Not In’), with bubbly sequenced bass, unfussy machine drums, rubbery slap-bass riffs and flashes of post-punk disco guitars.

Sparse but weighty and pleasingly trippy, the EP-leading ‘Extended Vocal Mix’ is classic Emperor Machine: a near ten-minute workout in which Mouletin’s tender but confident vocals rise above Meecham’s stylish and note perfect backing track, which sits somewhere between early ‘80s ‘no wave’ New York disco, lo-fi European synth-pop and the trippy late night dancefloor dubs that were once a feature of American boogie and proto-house records.

Meecham further explores his love of these sparse, effects-laden “synth-dubs” on the accompanying ‘Erotique Dub’, a thrillingly heavy, heads-down affair awash with echoing vocal snippets, hypnotic drums and synthesizer flourishes that attractively echo across the sound space. Like the best DJ-focused dubs of the early 1980s, the remix is propelled forwards by a strong bassline, around which other elements – guitar, bass guitar, sparkling synth sounds and mind-mangling electronics – appear, make their mark and then drift off into the ether. With key passages of Mouletin’s vocal appearing periodically to encourage people to dance, it’s the kind of delightfully wayward revision that will keep people dancing well into the early hours.

LENG SHOP

The Emperor Machine & Séverine Mouletin - Dance Par Amour (Erotique Instrumental)

On A-Side is the Mushrooms Project 'Virtua Tropik Remix', named after their off-the-hook parties, Mushrooms Project (who just finished a successfull Japan tour) is a mid-paced epic chugger. On a flip we get the original mix of "Tesoro" full of synthy goodness with a touch of the 80s=s, with Discossession (Japan's premier cosmic/disco experimental 3piece) delivering an amazing and equally epic remix.
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Beppe Loda "Mondo virtuale" Mushrooms Project VIRTUA TROPIK REmix ENE JAPAN (Low Version)

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Secret Circuit Moon Stepping ep

Fred Berthet aka DJ Steef signs the 16th release of the label by delivering an EP made of 3 tracks.

Ludodisco is an original disco track that has a groovy start with vocals and arrangements around dub effects. It follows with a mix of violins ascending into an intoxicating melody.  Adversity a down tempo track which reveals a jungle atmosphere with a chorus and subtle percussions. This track evolves as you listen revealing its unique ambiance that we love ! Two Reasons, classic deep house track. The perfect sound to start the evening.

Fred Berthet - Adversity

Weatherall's unfailing 'fingerspitzengefuhle' in picking artists for the festival gets repeated yet again and if you for some unexplainable reason fail to make it to Carcassonne this year, the magic from the old castle still can reach your senses with the help from this compilation! 'Convenanza 2018' contains Berlin based Die Wilde Jagd, whose sound can be defined as some sort of post punk where strong chorus drenched basslines float upon a smooth electronic soundscape with both live drums and drum machines as the back bone to the beat. 

"Gleiß K" was produced in a Live recording session overseen by Andrea Noce (Eva Geist, As Longitude) at Popschutz Studio in late 2016. The recording was part of a series of projects conducted during the advanced training for Sound Designers at Datenklang, Wiesenweg 5-9, Berlin. 

Recorded by Andrea Noce at Popschutz Studio, Berlin
Guitar & Synths: Sebastian Lee Philipp
Drums: Nico Rommel 
Mix by Hannes Brandt
Additional mixing by Ralf Beck at Uhrwald Orange

EP TRACKLIST:
The Woodleigh Research Facility - Heilige Seidhr
Komodo Kolektif - Daratan Ceremony
The Limiñanas - Witches Valley (feat. Anton Newcombe)
Die Wilde Jagd - Gleiß K
Wild Women & The Savages - Faith, Hope and Charity

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PRÈMIÉRE: Die Wilde Jagd - Gleiß K [Höga Nord]

LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/5-2-9-the-fox-with-the-dog

Leng Records is kicking off its 2019 release program by offering a debut to a previously unheralded producer from Russia’s fast growing nu-disco underground. Given the quality of the two original tracks on show on his first Leng outing, something tells us that we’re going to be hearing much more from Moscow-based Takovoi in the months and years ahead.

On the A-side you’ll find “5-2-9”, an effortlessly dreamy and Balearic affair that ebbs, flows and slowly unfurls over six spellbinding minutes. The track is built around a chunky, acid style bassline and loose, delay-laden drum machine beats. Yet it’s the drifting and dubbed-out musical elements that cluster around the groove – leisurely keys, yearning trumpet solos and kaleidoscopic, arpeggio style synthesizer melodies – that make “5-2-9” such a magical piece of music. Think of it as a statement of intent.

Takovoi’s love of TB-303 style acid lines and mind-altering electronics comes to the fore on “The Fox With The Dog” which sees the up-and-coming producer give his take on the timeless electro sound. It’s as spacey and atmospheric as you’d expect, with exotic electronic refrains and glacial synthesizer lines dancing across the sound-space. The groove – a combination of punchy drum machine hits, heavy acid-style sub-bass, occasional bursts of hand percussion and breakbeats – is pleasingly heavy, too, making this particular electro excursion a bona fide dancefloor delight.

Takovoi - 5-2-9

Dense, stylistic and melodic. Volantis Debut EP is a blend of italo pads, old-school kicks, hats, guitars and hypnotic synths that make the tracks full of dreamy emotions. Irresistible percussive line before elegant chords raise your mood to cloud nine. Listen to premiere of Mille Miglia - fantastic brew of synths, claps, mesmerizing drums, italo boogie chords and general wonkiness that will liven up any set.
12" four tracks record out December 12th, you can buy here: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/117610-alz01-volantis-paesaggio-liquido-ep

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Volantis - Paesaggio Liquido

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PREMIERE #742 | Volantis - Mille Miglia [Alzaya] 2019

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Nico Kubebe, the Lille based producer and member of Volcan La Pété, makes his solo debut with an exotic EP on Fauna Rêve.
In Kubebe's FM Jungle, we take a bath of flames. Wild pet and breathless groove lover, his debut ep is the riverbed on which we lie down to fly away, beyond the waterfalls and the stars.

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PREMIERE : Kubebe - Fanta

“Four Fundamental States of Matter” is a debut EP for the Lithuanian producer Purple. While each piece is a different “state of matter”, Purple lets the listener to decide which one is which, individually. 

Gentle but uncertain currents of water, warm but not constant gusts of wind, solid and clearly visible objects, exotic but untouchable plasmic phenomenons happens around us everyday. But life itself is no different than those states surrounding us. It can feel liquified - unpredictable and shapeless; flowing but having no particular destination. Solid and tangible, giving us first hand experiences. Life can feel like it's disappearing and evaporating, no longer being visible. But sometimes it expands and opens up to us under unusual conditions. Life opens to us if we open ourselves to it.

Release date: August 7th 2020
Pre-Order link: https://witnwats.bandcamp.com/album/four-fundamental-states-of-matter

Fred Berthet - Adversity

numoment recordings