Ron Morelli told us to listen your sound, He's right.

Outstanding music creation. Superb. Destined to be timeless classics.

wish you were around in my day... yer wee 'PAL' keep it going...

ace percussion! scott duff is a dude!! ♥

Lækkerier

Defying trends while being perfectly in tune with the times is not a feat that comes easy. @jiminxir (pronounced Jimi Noir) makes it seem like it is. His spell-binding voice and remarkable talent as a songwriter comes with a unique sonic vision that puts the 21-year-old in a league of his own. 

Upon graduating from the Red Bull Music Academy in 2013, the New York-based artists has unleashed a series of astounding tunes - each decidedly singular - making us expect big things from his upcoming 'GXLD' EP. His cut "Since September" is a self-produced, sultry fall hit that has the power to act as substitute for the fireplace on those cold nights.

Cover art: Jason Richardson

http://jiminxir.com
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Jimi Nxir - Since September

The first exclusive play of Danny Daze's remix of 'Naive Response' by Daniel Avery.

Read the full feature here: http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/gold-artist-daniel-avery.

Buy the EP here: http://shop.phantasysound.co.uk/product/daniel-avery-naive-response-reception-danny-daze-perc-remixes-12-vinyl

Full feature here

Mixmag Gold: Daniel Avery 'Naive Response' (Danny Daze remix)

OM 21 - Whilst - Everything That Was There Was There EP. Two track sampler featuring "Goya's Skull" and "Untitled From North Africa". 

Full EP -

A1) Goya's Skull
A2 ) Untitled From North Africa

B1) Umgebung
B2) Wee Moth
B3) Postcard From A Robot

Compass Point, Muscle Shoals, Sun Studios, Studio One, Cargo Studios, Spaceward Studios : all seminal recording studios. Here in Glasgow we are very fortunate to have Green Door Studio which is a free thinking hub for wild, original creativity and great sounding analogue recordings. Several Optimo Music releases including Golden Teacher were born out of recording sessions there and indeed, this will be the 6th release on Optimo Music to be recorded at Green Door. They deserve credit as my secret A&R division occasionally getting in touch and saying "we think you might like this" which inevitably leads to me scraping my brain off the floor and deciding I have to release it as a record asap. This 5 track EP by Whilst was the latest transmission from Green Door that my ears fell in love with. How to describe it? I have no idea except to say that it is wildly inventive and incredibly free music made by several individuals who are unnervingly young to be making these sounds. They describe themselves as follows -

"Formed originally as a jam-based project in the ever-fertile analogue studio ‘Green Door’, Whilst jump seamlessly between free jazz, primitive electronics, dubby post-punk, North African and motorik stlyings, underpinning their sound with a strong punk ethos".

Released February 24th 2014 on 12" with limited edition hand made silk screened sleeve and on digital. If repressed, 2nd pressing will come in a generic Optimo Music sleeve. Distributed by Kompakt. 



Optimo Music 021 - Whilst - Everything There Was Was There 12" EP (2 out of 5 tracks sampler)

This year the Tour De France Grand Départ is in Copenhagen. The route is very close to Music For Dreams HQ, therefore we decided to put out a little EP to celebrate this event.

We asked a few MFD artists to do cover versions of electronic pioneers Kraftwerk from their incredible Tour De France Soundtracks album which was released in 2003.
Charlotte & Reinhard (from Rheinzand) have done a version of Vitamin.
Danish Duo Subnesia have done a modern funky take on the 1983 classic title track with Truck D on vocals.

The Swan & The Lake featuring Rosebud chose Aéro Dynamik for their version.
We think its a nice homage to the original and also a fantastic cover artwork by MSB Creations to finish off the release.
Bon Tour!

Here's Charlotte & Reinhard's cover of 'Vitamin' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

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Charlotte & Reinhard - Vitamin [Kraftwerk Cover] - s0660

Turbo explores the future primitive with NEW JACK TRIBAL. First instalment in this new series comes courtesy of emerging Canadian talent: @Clarian, @Hreno, @MikeMind and label A&R @VonParty.

Bridging the gap between the psychedelic world-beat of newly launched sister-label Multi Culti and Turbo’s forward-looking techno and house stylings, these four tracks offer distinct yet consistently straightforward takes on the tribal trance-out. 

Visionquest-native Clarian’s icy-cool ‘Inuit’ kicks things off with a super hypnotic groove… the perfect soundtrack to an acid-ice-fishing trip gone right and an optimal DJ tool for the very early or very late hours. 

Berlin-resident and Canadian ex-pat Hreno (Fur Trade, Autochtone, etc) is next up with ‘Tree Trunks,’ an expertly assembled rhythm track built on top of a bubbling bassline sure to get the party rolling. 

Turbo and Multi Culti A&R Thomas Von Party takes the party from the forest into the jungle with ‘Pygmy Funk,’ an overtly primitive journey built on wood knocks, bird sounds and the deep throb of tom and bongo. 

Finally, the supremely-talented Mike Mind turns in a downtempo bomb that will highlight your cave-party playlist.

12“
Decks: bit.ly/1q6c9mk
Amazon: smarturl.it/NewJackTribal 
Juno Records: bit.ly/1tledEm

Digital
iTunes: bit.ly/1uFWUPx
Beatport: btprt.dj/WEFjvU
Juno: bit.ly/1lMO3vw
Traxsource: bit.ly/1rTgfQb
Spotify: spoti.fi/1tElQtI
Rdio: bit.ly/1nFxIEK
Google Play: bit.ly/1q6bzFb
www.turborecordings.com

New Jack Tribal

Mike Mind - Caveman

CHERRYSTONES PRESENTS CRITICAL MASS
Splinters From The Worldwide New-Wave, Post-Punk and Industrial Underground 1978 - 1984

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR002
Monday 25th May
CD / DL / 2xLP
14 Tracks
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Eight years have passed since Cherrystones stayed true to his Word and pulled together the sympathetic sounds of the psychedelic ghetto. We’ve reached Critical Mass and we need to wipe the slate clean.

London’s best kept secret, Cherrystones has been on the underground scene for a while. People kinda speak of his grooved-out genius in hushed whispers.

You might have clocked his genre-busting album of Cherry Edits? Or when he closed down the final night of ATP after a decade long residency? Or when his jams pricked up the ears of a certain Creation Records label boss and he flirted with the mainstream? Or when the heat moved from London to NYC which saw our man deliver an epic Morricone-inspired LP while spending time as DJ Harvey’s sole label-mate. You might be following his endless list of production and remix work for the likes of Goat, The Horrors and Hospital Productions or caught him opening and closing shows at the request of Faust, Sunn 0))), The Oh Sees, Moon Duo, Chrome, Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Kutmah...

Or maybe you just know him from a night in a club with Cherrystones - where his distinctive ability to blend Italian film soundtracks, garage fuzz, krautrock and punk and translate them into a hip hop context defies categorisation.

"...As long as it makes people move on the floor, I'm into it. I've been running a rescue home for the culturally starved and ignored - a sonic soup kitchen within a philanthropic playground. That's the vibe"

On Critical Mass, Cherrystones tunes us in to fourteen groups separated by locale but united by a restless urge to create on their own terms. 
From Rizzo’s nihilistic Moogie-boogie to a pre-teen Chandra’s isolated no-wave. Through Dojoji’s Downtown-via-Lagos inspired punk-funk and Fote’s dark, industrial groove, Critical Mass presents a snapshot of an international underground enthralled with the possibility of the new.

“This compilation was put together through records I was enjoying at that time - loose chips, fragmented discoveries, random punts and the true excitement from that hit of “What the fuck is that?!”
It is an exercise in the good and the rad - solid jams from all corners of the world.
A veritable platter to switch on the uninitiated or those who hear and feel the truth - it is not an exercise in rarity to make people feel alienated.

I know what I feel and I hear the messages and feel the vibrations in these very songs - as will you if you allow them to”

In a world in search of an instant authentic buzz - this compilation is not a five second internet high. It is alchemy - made out of blood and sweat, and pure knowledge on how to make people move.
Don't you think you are worth it? Let Cherrystones shake your bones.
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Words on Critical Mass:

“Cherrystones has rabidly dug through decades of twisted cables and dusty circuits to present a collection of wonderfully obscure yet utterly essential tracks from the dark recesses of a place and time where innovation was a priority and boundaries were non-existent.”
Trevor Jackson

“Next to Weatherall, Cherrystones knows more about music than anyone I know. These killer post-punk rarities are a must for anyone who thinks they've heard it all but obviously hasn’t…”
David Holmes

“Critical Mass perfectly captures that electric moment when punk mutated into apocalyptic, synapse-shredding, cyborg grooves.”
Steven Krakow - Plastic Crimewave / Galactic Zoo Dossier

“Start to finish this compilation is a monster. Once again, Cherrystones makes me feel like I don’t know a thing about ‘post-wave-industrial’ or records in general.”
Gaslamp Killer

“Tough beats and synthetics run throughout Critical Mass. I’ve been Cherrystoned.”
Tom Furse - The Horrors

Dojoji: Quincunx

Gift o. L.

FUNK ATTACK

Emotional Response starts 2017 with a mini-album of ambient-equatorial enlightenment by Australia’s mysterious Tropical Hi-Fi. The final record from an artist appearing on the label’s Schleißen series, this also points to the future.

Based somewhere in the far flung Northern Territories, the music of Hi-Fi’s pre-incarnation Electric Egypt was first discovered via the note-worthy airwaves of L.A’s outstanding Dublab radio station.

As the wonderfully diverse internet shows and project’s dense, hip-hop inspired collages came to fruition with 2012’s Exotica release, a dual awareness and sporadic contact was maintained whenever a signal could be established with Hi-Fi base camp. As the Schleißen series was formed, the studio-DJ-cut-up-mix of Oceanic Mythology was warmly received as an inspired counterpoint to the dense offering from Don’t DJ.

These first real solo recordings from the Hi-Fi crew - whoever he/she/they maybe - moves on from the cut’n’paste of Electric Egypt to seek a meditative vision.

Ambient, drone and field recordings are all part of a drifting tropical flavour that encompasses the listener. Music truly inspired by it’s surroundings, this is not some music journal, flying in to sample a life and it’s sounds, but the real, living entity and it can be heard deep across 8 short pieces.

None is more typified than here with Tahiti Blue, where fellow traveler Mike Cooper layers his ubiquitous steel blues over simple, lilting drums. 

Enjoy.

Tropical Hi-Fi - Tahiti Blue

Summer is here and it’s time for the Sunday Paper compilation, featuring some of the more horizontal and forgotten corners of the catalogue.  

There are two exclusives with Bergen’s Keyboy making a return to the label and the wondrous GladLaks i Galaxen plus Leftside Wobbles’s unreleased space dub of Leon Sweet’s Sunny Bigler.  Add in artists new and old like Jamie L, Crazy P, Maxx Mortimer, Steve Cobby, Flash Atkins, De Fantastiske To, Kahuun plus many more and it’s sunshine all the way.
  
So crack a tinny / roll a fat one / stick the kettle on / crank the BBQ and dive in.

Sunday Paper Vol. 3

Gladlaks I Galaxen

Keyboy - GladLaks I Galaxen (96kbps)

Taken off our new album "Look Behind You" released July 13th on Bimba records.

Erythroculter

Cómeme is back with a brand new, four track, power-dance-sexy EP- Enjoy the album and please support us by picking the EP up on vinyl or digital from the below shops.

For more info on this release, Cómeme and be sure to check out our new Radio Cómeme station! http://www.musicacomeme.com/

Buy links:

12" Vinyl: http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/free 
Digital: http://www.junodownload.com/artists/Alejandro+Paz/releases/

Free

Bandcamp

Alejandro Paz - Duro

Strapontin: "This song is a poetical statement about a man who doesn't follow society's norms to find his own freedom. It refers to a kind of post-70's hippie utopia but I still find strong connections to our present time. I love the way Brigitte Fontaine & Areski both mock everything with naive and insolent attitude. Although I made it sounds darker (as actual world is), like a looped mantra dub trying to cast a spell, disenchant the blinded and rise the black sheep."

Free Download

Areski Belkacem - Depuis(Strapontin Stateless Edit)#19 - Free Download

Djs Pareja - Saxo Temor

Hello Darling - Mushrooms Project - LENG RECORDS

BUY:

https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-of-leng-records-2010-2020

In 2020, Leng Records quietly reached the ripe old age of 10 years old. To mark the achievement, co-founders Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy and Simon Purnell have compiled a special celebratory compilation featuring a mixture of historic tracks, overlooked gems, inspired remixes and previously unheard exclusives.

When founding the label, the pair wanted to represent the more chugging, mid-tempo end of the dance music spectrum – the point where 21st century nu-disco, Balearica and slow-house meets 1970s art-rock, krautrock and space disco. It’s this trademark cosmic disco-not-disco sound that dominates 10 Years of Leng, proving that the duo has rarely strayed from their sharply defined ethos.

Fittingly, the vinyl version of the compilation – a limited-edition affair which boasts a gatefold double-album and a bonus 10” single tucked inside – kicks off with an exclusive: the never-before-heard instrumental mix of Mudd and Harks’ joyous recent single ‘Susta’. Other exclusives across the collection include a wonderfully spacey and dubbed-out chunk of mid-tempo dancefloor fusion from San Francisco’s Cole Odin (‘The Numbers Game’) and, on the bonus 10”, brand new tracks from rising stars Lex and Harvey Couture.

From day one, Leng’s output has included commissioned remixes that are frequently the equal of, if not arguably an improvement on, the tracks being tampered with. That side of the label’s story is naturally represented on the compilation by a quartet of celebrated reworks: Mudd’s sleazy, mid-altering and insanely heavy ‘Slow Rave Mix’ of Tiago’s ‘The Source’, the glistening Balearic disco bliss of Max Essa’s instrumental version of Cantoma classic ‘North Shore’, Pete Herbert’s legendary piano-sporting nu-disco take on early Apiento gem ‘She Walks’, and an epic, dubbed-out Idjut Boys revision of Mountaineer’s ‘Golden Chalk’.

Elsewhere across the collection, Purnell and Murphy have chosen to showcase cuts from artists who have played a big part in Leng’s evolving story over the last 11 years. San Francisco’s 40 Thieves are represented by the druggy dub disco-meets-psychedelic rock chugger ‘Backwards Love’, while label mainstays Mushrooms Project offer up the even more psychedelic, rock-tinged headiness of ‘Hello Darling’. There’s also room for Turkish producer Ali Kuru’s inspired – and especially exotic – single ‘Luna’, and the low slung, always-rising cosmic disco heaviness of Fernando’s ‘Blue Impala’, an underground club smash for the label that first appeared in stores back in 2012.

Packed with sought-after tracks and overlooked gems, 10 Years of Leng is a fitting finale to the label’s first decade. In parts hazy, hallucinatory and heady, it deftly showcases the imprint’s refreshingly psychedelic and spaced-out take on contemporary electronic music culture. 
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