For the next installment of Manc institution El Diablo’s Social Club’s ‘To Rack & Ruin’ edits series comes from local Manc lads Out of the Basement who bring us two late summer bombs.
These tracks have both been kicking around for over a year now in slightly different forms but now we bring them to you fully refined and suitably mastered heavily for the dancefloor.

300 ltd handstamped vinyl available from all good record stores late September.

Out of the Basement are Steve Leggat and James Ellis. Both have been involved in Manchester's colourful music scene - amongst other things Steve has been running legendary Beat Club with The Stone Roses Mani and James is the founder of Manchester's now defunct deep house label ‘Drenched’.

Side A is a splendid edit of lost soul classic with beats and instruments added for full effect. Side B is a sleazy slo mo cut up of the Brothers Johnson version of the Shuggie Otis anthem 'Strawberry Letter 23'.

RR005 - Out of The Basement - Brothers Dub

Pour rendre hommage à un groupe que j'adore, un des meilleurs bands Français de tous les temps @the-liminanas🤘.

Musique écrite par Lionel, Marie & Serge Limiñana
Label © Because music 2016
Arrangement et programmation par Pamplemousse Rose
Tabla & Shaker par Pamplemousse Rose
Tempo : 100 BPM

SUIVEZ-NOUS

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The Limiñanas - El Beach (Pamplemousse Rose Remix)

Human Animal

'Secret in the Dark' out on October 2, 2015
Buy on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/monitu
Buy on Amazon: http://smarturl.it/monam
Buy on Other Music: http://smarturl.it/monom
Monika Christodoulou has been writing and performing her original songs on the Athens, Greece music scene since she was a teenager. After early breakout success with a string of deeply emotional self-recorded tracks posted online, Monika's 2008 debut LP was a platinum seller in her homeland, and she quickly became a major concert draw across Greece and Cyprus, headlining all the major festivals. Her second LP, released in 2010, continued Monika's success at home, but she was already becoming restless, for a different sound and a new direction. On a trip to New York in 2012, Monika made a pilgrimage to Daptone Records' Brooklyn headquarters, to see where some of her favorite artists recorded -- from Sharon Jones to Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson. Almost on a whim, Monika knocked on the door, and Homer Steinweiss (founding member of the Dap-Kings & Menahan Street Band) answered. Soon she was playing demos she had on her phone for Homer and Thomas Brenneck (MSB, Budos Band, etc). The connection was immediate, and the next stage of Monika's career began. 

The whole of 2014, Homer and Monika worked together on her songs and her sound, and together they shaped what was to become Secret in the Dark (out Oct. 2, 2015 on Other Music Recording Co.). Recorded at Steinweiss and Brenneck's Dunham Sound Studios in Brooklyn, with Homer producing, Brenneck recording, and a band that included most of the Menahan Street Band, and various members of the Dap-Kings, Antibalas, and others from the Daptone family, the album puts Monika's incredible voice and talents as a songwriter and performer into a completely new context, and also pushes Homer and the band in directions they have rarely explored before. A mix of organic '70s-styled leftfield disco, '80s art-pop, and much more, Secret in the Dark is a distinctly New York album with a breezy Mediterranean heart. It's soulful, arty, and a ton of fun -- a dance record that is much more than that, and will serve as the introduction to the world of the amazing artist and personality that is Monika. 

Monika - Secret In The Dark

A friend once told me to think it over to become a producer. So I made him a beat to change his mind and prove the opposite.

Rudy's Doubt

Funky HipHop in tokyo

Psychemagik - Wake Up Everybody.mp3

mastering WAV version :) remix from @lordecho
track: Thinking of you : https://lordecho.bandcamp.com/album/thinking-of-you-7-edit
https://soundcloud.com/lordecho 

Thinking Of You

In the spring of 2007, musician and producer Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy decided to launch his own label. Named after the house he grew up in, Claremont 56 would release beautiful music by friends, associates, collaborators and like-minded musicians.

In the 10 years that have passed since, Claremont 56 has more than surpassed Murphy’s modest expectations. It has built up a cult following around the world, with listeners responding positively to the label’s combination of magical music, beautiful artwork, and impeccable packaging.

To mark the label’s first decade, Murphy has put together a sumptuous vinyl box set of previously unheard material, produced and presented with the same attention to detail that listeners have come to expect.

Each copy of Claremont 56: 10 Years contains five weighty slabs of wax and a bespoke info sheet, housed in a specially designed, hand-numbered box with de-embossed logos on the front and rear. There is also a limited-edition run of 200 copies which come with an additional 12” containing exclusive remixes and a brand new Paqua track, ‘Dalas’.

However impressive the packaging, it’s the music that makes Claremont 56: 10 Years stand out. Featuring a mixture of unreleased tracks and brand new remixes of vintage label releases, the highlights come thick and fast.

As you’d expect, some of the most impressive contributions come from those artists you could describe as “legendary”, including Chicago deep house originators Larry Heard and Ron Trent. Can legend Holger Czukay kindly contributes one of the standout moments, the eccentric ‘Music To Be Murdered By’, from his own unreleased catalogue, while Afro-cosmic pioneer Daniele Baldelli joins forces with Marco Dionigi to deliver a typically spacey remix of Bison’s ‘Familiar Stranger’. There’s also an epic, Afro-tinged dub disco remix of Smith & Mudd’s ‘Nether’ by Norwegian scene founder Bjorn Torske.

Elsewhere, Good Timin’ man Jex Opolis turns an overlooked track by Paraiso into a samba-boogie killer, Sean P dubs out Zee Erf’s beautiful cover of ‘Southern Freeez’, and Phil Mison turns FreshRo’s laidback electrofunk cut ‘Pacific State’ into a breezy, Balearic gem. Look out too, for the emotion-rich beauty of Statues’ ‘River Darkness’ – a track arguably worth the cost of the box set on its own – and the deep space explorations of Almunia’s Leo Ceccanti.

We could go on, but we’re running out of space. Suffice to say, Claremont 56: 10 Years is a lovingly compiled, curated and presented celebration of the label’s first decade.

Paraiso - Teu Sorriso (Jex Opolis Remix) Clip

The Soul Survivors were a Philadelphia R&B group founded by brothers Richie and Charlie Ingui, known for their 1967 hit single, "Expressway to Your Heart" , which was the first hit by Philadelphia soul record producers and songwriters: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. 
Nice Blue eyed Soul.

Buy & Support

The Soul Survivors - Mama Soul (Ramsey Hercules Edit)

Streamer SC official  page soundcloud.com/streamer
GET IT ON VINYL! A few copies still available on vinyl 12" E.P. "Blissed" and on the CD album of the same name. Inquiries: info@kidnaprecords.nl
Buy it on Discogs from our official retailer SoundChamber: https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/160104104
"Zwing Ting" by the KidNap artist Streamer became a lounge/ nu groove classic in 2001. It is featured in the appraised Hotel Costes series. 
Also available as digital download. 
Streamer SC official  page soundcloud.com/streamer

Streamer - Zwing Ting

• Mixtape, music producer & DJ
• House • Disco • Downtempo
• BPM crew : @leblogdespepitesmusicales
• Label : Nomad Roots Records (www.nomadrootsrecords.com)

Le projet Pamplemousse Rose à vu le jour en 2018, à la suite d'une journée passée dans un entrepôt à charger des palettes de Perrier Pamplemousse Rose dans des camions. C'est à ce moment précis qu'Alexandre s'est dit : "Mon prochain projet musical se nommera Pamplemousse Rose" !

Depuis, il a aussi rejoint le collectif de DJ français BPM, son remix turc "Demiyom Mu" de Neşe Karaböcek a été lancé sur le renommé label new yorkais Gouranga, sa pièce "Ya Mustapha, chérie je t'adore" a été signée sur le label Nomad Roots Records et le remake de “Je dois m’en aller” avec le duo parisien Saint-Honoré s’est hissé au sommet du palmarès  du Buzz Chart en France . 

Alexandre Dionne, connu sous le nom de Pamplemousse Rose, a eu plusieurs projets musicaux dans le passé avec lesquels il a joué en Europe, aux États-Unis et en Asie. Il a également été co-réalisateur en studio durant quelques années et à écrit plusieurs chansons pour différents artistes. Entre 2000 et 2005, il a sorti plus d'une dizaine de disques vinyles sous différents labels de musique électronique et s'est produit dans plusieurs clubs renommés.

Pamplemousse Rose c'est d'abord et avant tout pour l'amour de la musique. Des influences françaises aux grooves brésiliens ou arabes, en passant par des rythmes de musique house et nu disco, toutes les pièces de Pamplemousse Rose ont ceci en commun de vous apporter une dose de soleil.

Du pamplemousse extra pulpe et du soleil: toujours bon pour la santé !