A Crushing Glow Volume 2 - Compiled By Matt Sewell 

Pre-Order Now ! Limited Double Vinyl Edition (500) & CD (with Art Booklet)
An exciting & uplifting new release on CTR

Here's a short taster for the 14 track album.

First 150 with beautiful fold out Matt Sewell A2 Artprint 

Celebrated UK illustrator & discerning musical globetrotter Matt Sewell has curated & beautifully illustrated this second musical volume on double vinyl & CD. Creating a lush & singular cosmic journey through sound & vision.

Artwork gatefold sleeve & inners with Matt's liner notes & observations track by track. Another musical trip that takes in the ambience of Broadcast, the indo-stylings of Juggy B , cool soundscapes of Farbror Resande Mac & cool French library stylings of Four Trees & much more ...

ACG2 Matt Sewell Minimix

A Crushing Glow Volume 2 - Compiled By Matt Sewell

Matt Sewell's A Crushing Glow Volume 2 Mini-Mix Promo

Darwin David - Helping Hand

Ever since he remixed Abimaro & The Free’s ‘Mark’ back in 2014, NuNorthern Soul boss Phil Cooper has kept in touch with Daniel Stenger, the producer and self-taught multi-instrumentalist behind the Flashbaxx project. Cooper was always convinced that Sanger would be capable of crafting a very special release for the label but was willing to give him time to come up with something special.

With Take Care My Friend, a mini-album inspired by the German producer’s deeply rooted love of jazz-funk, Stenger has repaid the faith shown in him. He’s delivered a collection of quality cuts marked out by audible warmth, effortless musicality and memorable, sun-soaked songs.

As he makes clear in the liner notes included with the vinyl version of the mini album, the project began with the recording of luscious, Rhodes-laden opener ‘Alright’. After staying up all night recording the track, Stenger not only decided to continue recording with the same relatively limited set of instruments (think bass and electric guitars, drums, piano, electric piano, organ, hand percussion and a handful of synthesizers), but also stick to a hybrid sound that added a subtle Latin shuffle to his Balearic-minded take on jazz, funk and soul fusion.

We’re biased of course, but there’s no denying that Stenger’s creative choices have resulted in a superb set of tracks. While the restricted kit list provided focus during the music-making process, there’s still plenty of musical variety across the six tracks that make up the set. 

For proof, compare and contrast the jazzy, loose-limbed headiness of ‘It Just Happens’, where simmering synth-strings, twinkling melodic motifs and glistening guitar licks rise above smooth jazz-funk bass and a gentle broken beat rhythm, and the slow-motion soul brilliance of ‘Strangers’, where Kathryn Kempf’s evocative and poignant lead vocals rise above a sumptuous downtempo groove and heart-aching piano lines.

This subtly varied but musically coherent vibe continues across the mini album. Stenger indulges in a bit of New York daydreaming on ‘Brooklyn Love Boat’, a wonderfully musically detailed chunk of 1970s style jazz-funk heat that offers knowing nods to Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock and the jazz-fusion stylings of Azymuth, before opting for a deeper, slower and even more seductive sound on the Hammond-sporting bliss of ‘Take Care My Friend’.

Closing cut ‘City Lights’, a gorgeous, soft-focus affair smothered in echoing Rhodes riffs and immersive chords, has the feel of an underground classic in waiting: a stirring, string-drenched future sing-along whose emotion-packed lyrics are delivered brilliantly by Glasgow-born singer/songwriter Chris Pookah. 

Despite the song’s subject matter – the painful final breakdown of a relationship – there’s something strangely uplifting about the combination of Pookah’s pitch-perfect vocal delivery and the absorbing warmth of Stenger’s comforting and sonically detailed music. It provides a fittingly impressive finish to a mightily immersive mini album.

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CITY LIGHTS

We kick off FPR with Peter Raou, a Modena-based deejay, producer, and founder of the RJWMachines imprint. We celebrate his latest, the Cables Wynd House EP, with a Balearic array of records selected at Quevida on the Italian Adriatic Coast at the end of the northern hemisphere Summer. 

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Santana - Aqua Marine [CBS]
Queen - Cool Cat [EMI]
Sandoz - Chant To Jah [Soul Jazz] 
Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Liberty City [On-U Sound]
Hoodoo Fushimi - Mochitsuki [Ottagono Design Of Music]
The Residents - Kaw-Liga [Ralph Records]
Fats Comet - Dub Storm [World Records]
Sub Sub - Past [Robs Records]
Pet Shop Boys - How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? [EMI]
Victrola - Maritime Tatami [Electric Eye Records]
Riz Ortolani - L'Intoccabile Mr. Cliff [Cam]

Ep 315 pt.1 w/ Peter Raou

New single released on 10th February 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/68XOPs26pJ5Oeq3FgcDaTR

Bandcamp: https://transmissionsuite.bandcamp.com/track/fade-away-2

Fade Away - Debut Single

Throughout 2022, NuNorthern Soul unveiled a swathe of releases under the Myths of Ibiza banner – a set of digital-only EPs featuring cover artwork by illustrator Emily McGuinness, based on her interpretations of folkloric stories from the Balearic Isles. Now the series is set for its’ belated epilogue, courtesy of North of the Island – the Balearic-minded alter-ego of long-serving Mancunian DJ/producer Neil Scott.

The Feeling Free EP, which features additional production and mixing from PBR Streetgang’s Bonar Bradberry, was originally scheduled for release last year, but major changes in Scott’s life – not least a move to Australia, where the nu-disco scene stalwart now resides – meant pushing it back until he had time to finish the tracks. It was a shrewd move, because the EP now contains some of Scott’s most magical, kaleidoscopic and atmospheric original productions to date.

Proof arrives immediately via opener ‘Sioux You’, a gorgeous mixture of stirring, melancholic synth chords (think Pet Shop Boys’ ‘West End Girls’ and you’re close), deep sub-bass, lilting lead lines, head-nodding drums and layers of Latin-tinged percussion. It’s a terrifically tactile affair that adds a shuffling, sunset-ready lens to Scott’s vibrant, nu-disco-influenced trademark sound.

It's followed by ‘I Feel’, a squelchy, slow-motion, delay-laden nod to synthesiser and drum machine-driven Balearic gems of the 1980s that first featured on NuNorthern Soul’s Summer Selections Four EP this time last year. Blessed with the boldest of synth basslines, authentic drum machine percussion and effects aplenty, it’s an impressive slab of nostalgic retro-futurism.

Scott reaches for glossy, near huggable FM synth melodies on the gorgeous ‘System Junk’, slowly and subtly building up a loved-up groove laden with intergalactic electronics, head-nodding drums, shimmering riffs and a yearning, rising and falling bassline. Even better is astonishing closing cut ‘Tired Sunrise’, a slowly unfurling dusk soundscape rich in clicking drums, yawning pads, echoing effects, blissful synth sounds and the most impeccable of piano solos. It feels like a future Balearic classic.

Emily McGuinness’s cover artwork for the release depicts Hierbas Ibicencas, the “famous spirit of Ibiza” made of local herbs. Hierbas Ibicencas can trace its roots back to monks who lived on Ibiza in the Middle Ages. They grew wild herbs and once preserve them in alcohol, with the resulting liquid being used as a medicinal remedy. According to tradition, Hiberas Ibicencas can only be made with an odd number of herbs – which should preferably be gathered on the morning after a full moon, before the day of San Juan, to guarantee good luck and “add some extra magic to the potion”.

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1 NOTI - Sioux You SAMPLER

A fresh and clean background track perfect for any inspirational, motivational or uplifting projects. Instruments features drums, percussion, piano, strings and electric guitars.

Endless Inspiration

More new records from www.pbvinyl.com

PLAY LIST:
01. CFCF - In The Courtyard 
02. Ruf Dug - Dominica (Kenneth Bager's Sunset Ambient Mix)
03. CFCF - Lighthouse on Chatham Sound
04. CFCF - Fleurs Laisses Dans Un Taxi
05. Cantoma - Monk Island 
06. Cantoma - Abando (Inst)
07. Dip In The Pool - On Retinae (East Version)
08. Yenjit Porntawi - Iam Plearn Toh Lom Nhuo (Soundway Comp) 
09. Golden Teacher - Castlemilk 
10. Ishi Vu - Your Heart Is Melting 
11. Jimi Bazzouka - Sosoye 
12. Tabu Ley Rochereau - Shaluza Max 
13. Rim - International Funk 
14. Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer 
15. Herbie Hancock - Magic Nimber (Todd Terje Edit) - TTJ2215
16. Shitan - Shitan 
17. Nina Hagen - Cosma Shiva (Todd Terje Edit) TTJ2215 
18. Fiero - Standard Hotel - Royal Athlete 
19. Finnitus Edit 7" - Side B 
20. Chas Jankel - Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Edit) TTJ2215
21. Heartbeat Stars - Obsession - Royal Athlete 
22. Splendor Feat. Moni Mendoza - Oasis Blvd
23. Carisma - Breath 7"
24. Fratelli Rivera - Falling - Discotre
25. Shante Celeste - Being (Ambient Mix)

PBV OFFICE MIX NO. 33

For WS23, Clandestino crew member @JoeMorris provides some stunning Balearic house vibes.With remixes from Max Essa, @CoyoteSounds and  @WonderStories label boss Aimes.

Release Date - 26/06/18

Read more on the Sinchi blog -  https://www.sinchi-collective.com/2018/06/21/premiere-joe-morris-cloud-nine-coyote-remix-wonder-stories/
Youtube  - https://youtu.be/aRm7xLHIVJ4

PREMIERE - Joe Morris - Cloud Nine (Coyote Remix) (Wonder Stories)

Galaxy (First Born Version) 
Albion Venables (Synthesizers, Sampler and Drum Machine)
Aradea Barandana (Synthesizer overdubs, Mixing and Production)

New Born is a group of four Italian immigrants who all lived in the area around Ulm/Bavaria. In 1981 they released a 7"-single which featured the track "Galaxy" on the B-side. The label Schatzi Musik, run by Le Discoboulet in Munich is  rereleasing Galaxy on 12". 

Apart from the original and the First Born Version, the EP also contains a remix by Alexander Arpeggio and an edited dance floor version called "Space Rework".

Mastering by Tom Sky at Faible Studio
Cover artwork by Stacoff

New Born - Galaxy

Albion - Galaxy (First Born Version) Schatzi Musik 12"

We are eclectic, we are not a SOUL music label, but a label for music with SOUL.

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