Mexican DJ and producer La Guardia De la Luz is to serve up the first Buena Onda selection of the year with a collection of long and lazy, stoned and psychedelic Balearic beats for the headz. If you liked his latest Awakenings EP, you will love this. #playasudamericana

tracklist

1. Eelke Kleijn - Defining The Pattern
2. Vincenzo - The Tree Firefly - Supernatural (Acapella)
3. The Out Crowd - Treaty Breaker
4. Grouper - Hold
5. Bhutan Tiger Rescue - Beginner's Waltz
6. Grouper - Vital
7. Mark Barrott - Island Life
8. Helen - Zanzibar
9. Chaka Demus & The Pliers Feat. Sly & Robbie - Murder She Wrote
10. Somerville & Wilson - Klean Shift
11. Willie Graf & Tuccillo - Gliding
12. La Guardia de la Luz - A Starfish Named Acid
13. Jurassic 5 - Jayou
14. The Starseeds - Strange Planet
15. De La Soul - I Be Blowin'
16. Herb Alpert - Rotation
17. Stubb Feat. Huw Costin & Rachel Foster - Love Not Sex
18. Kenkou - Everlasting Dreams (Calm's Still Dreaming Mix)
19. La Guardia de la Luz - Awakenings
20. Sergio Messina - Fly Away (with The Four Twenties)

Buena Onda

La Guardia de la Luz x Buena Onda

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/pannacottasound
Track: Listen
Label: https://soundcloud.com/marcelvogel
Format: 12" Vinyl, LP
Release date: 28/03/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/DNSiWZylgm8

Lumberjacks in Hell is a one-man mission founded in 2010 in Amsterdam by Marcel Vogel, as a family and platform for soulful artists around the globe. The seminal labels output is a testament to Marcel’s impeccable taste and golden eared A&R skill.  No gimmicks required, just a passion for raw, warm, soulful shades of house and disco. LIH has proudly released killer cuts by the DJ’s DJ Rahaan, Red Greg, Jamie 3:26 & Cratebugs, the late Soulphiction, Dan Shake, Karizma, Giovanni Damico,  Mendel, Rayko, Eddie C and the don that is Al Kent. 
For its next release, LIH takes a surprising turn with an eight track LP by Berliners Panna Cotta. This duo came together one summer evening on the legendary Berlin airfield of Tempelhof. Their debut album is the sonically sweet and heartfelt audio delight entitled ‘Sunrise’, produced, and curated with blissed-out, sun soaked, love filled days in mind.
Sitting somewhere between sultry disco and polished pop, French-born Alex Arslan, and Italian Riccardo Pirotto, takes the listener on a journey to the blissful planet joy. All of the tracks are composed, mixed, and mastered on vintage analog gear, maintaining a feeling of past, and making for a sublime combination of warm keys and heart beating drums.  The music is inspired by Panna Cotta’s soulful search for instant happiness and long-lasting love through  poetry in musical moments.

PREMIERE | Panna Cotta - Listen [Lumberjacks In Hell] 2022

Where? started life in Mental Overdrive's Tromsø studio when Flash was visiting in 2019. Analogue and modular synths were broken out and record collections raided as they threw down and got to work. The result is a psychedelic head trip into the far reaches of jazz and Balearica that comes on like E2E4 if it had been made in Africa. Shuffling afrobeat, xylophone, field recordings and chants hypnotise as the bass locks in.

Manchester producer Daco delivers a mix of pure class with nods to MAW and 90s NYC tribal house. It is a percussion driven track of soulful deep beats as keys and samples ricochet. 

Cal Gibson and Mark Limb take things subterranean with their bass heavy BCB dubbed version. Spacey atmospherics delayed broken drums and arps over crisp production make it a go-to for heavy ambience and fans of The Orb.

Rune Lindbæk: "Thumbs aloft!"

Rich Hall (Super FU): "Love the organic percussion and synth vibes on this, beautiful production"

Doc L Junior: "Balearic voodoo-vibes. Lovely combo!!"

Olle Abstract: "Love it. Original mix is the one for me"

Where?

Mental Overdrive & Flash Atkins - Where? (BCB Extended Remix)

Helter Shelter 

Helter, shelter, our society is coming down fast 
Goaded by the loaded, equality ever more exploded 
Oppress the poor and crush the needy, please vote only for the greedy 

A Country divided by the dividend 
And the taxman is broken, taking mostly from those less ‘well spoken’ 
None for you nineteen for them, skim and skam, believe it man 

Net worth fabricates net result 
Rootless, roofless, ruthless, houseless 
Unplaced, unhoused, unharboured, nomadic 

Streets paved with gold, pay attention, that concepts old 
A community within a community, secluded from society 
This ain’t no Russian Doll, it’s a repeated reality 

A slum landlord lets a flat, so let’s let the light in and put out the cat 
Flick the switch 
If we work together, come together 
We can help change lives for the better, forever 

Paul Watt
credits
releases May 13, 2022 

Original Artwork Concept: Nick Burton 
All Tracks Mastered by Rich Lane at Cotton Bud mastering. 

Huge thanks to each and every one of the artists, producers and mastering services that have generously given their time freely to create a unique album of 20 tracks. 
This is a limited release with all proceeds going the Shelter Uk. 

All of us at Shelter Me would like to thank everyone who has helped, supported and contributed along the way. 
Big love, 
Ed Tomlinson, Ells Bells, John Paynter, Julie-Ann Smith, Lyndsey Brown & Stephen Molyneux
license
all rights reserved

Duncan Gray - Purlz

It's an all house affair on the sixth volume of the Wild Army that has its lasers aimed firmly at the dancefloor.

Lanowa's Day After Day oozes class as a gospel vocal drops over nailed on deep house. Arps, acid, guitar, sax, atmospherics and crisp production add to the soul as this demands to be heard on a big rig in the heat of the night.

Benny Pitcher keeps on the soulful tip with Rhodes, driving beats and jacking bass as the music weaves its magic and ups the energy,

Mexico's La Guardia De La Luz gets more dancefloor than his previous releases on Paper and channels the spirit of the 90s. Trance Alemán De Los 90's builds and hypnotises with a locked in groove as synths and arps create music to lose yourself in.

Finally DSD takes nu-disco tribal with his trademark crisp beats and studio skills over a 303 riff and bass with spacey synth stabs and plenty of EFX.

Mark Farina: "Yep, dig this!"

Alice Palace: "Nice EP, especially enjoyed La Guardia De La Luz and DSD"

Dicky Trisco: "Feeling the Trance Aleman number on this one"

Sean Johnston: "All Great!"

Trance Alemán De Los 90's

Buy/Stream

La Guardia De La Luz - Trance Alemán De Los 90's

Coyote - Exodus

It's always a true pleasure to have "Is it Balearic?" heroes on board, in our 23rd release we go back to something lil more relaxed along with the balearica legends Coyote, who land again in MM Discos and presents "Exodus" and "Fragnatize Me". This time the duo from Nottingham turn into a spiritual-balearic mood, moving in between downtempo and deep house with high doses of psychodelia.

For the occasion Ruf Dug and Chida take over the control doing the remix work, going from the Free-Jazz styled rework of "Exodus" by hands of iconic Ruf Dug to the uptempo house anthem version of "Fragnatize Me" signed by the japanese maestro Chida.

@coyotesounds

Exodus / Fragnatize Me

Exodus

PREMIERE: Coyote - Exodus

Kiki Moorse Vs Matt Gunn - CatWalk

Echoes of the past float through the light, forming constellations of feelings that never fade. Memory becomes a gentle current that carries warmth through the stillness of time. Each reflection shines with its own truth: soft, radiant, and ever-present in the intervals between moments.

Voices of Dawn

"Forget My Name" slips into a deep-house groove. Silky female vocals drift through dim neon, while a thick, understated bass hum keeps the room breathing. Mysterious, minimal, made for late nights.

forget my name

Enigma

These tracks were written and produced over the last week; a most unusally quick turnaround for me :) It seems isolation has caused a burst of creativity. The current lockdown also affected the feel of the music; these two tracks are quite sombre in tone but with a note of positivity running through them, hence the titles. Anyway, hope you like the music.

Much love and keep safe x

Joe Morris - A Brighter Future

Paper has been pushing all things deep house and disco from the furthest reaches of the world via the good old North of England since the early Nineties.

The label has already featured a new series of EP's showcasing the best new dance music and future funk, house and disco from the world's finest producers.

We kicked off in 1994, leading the upsurge in popularity of UK house music within an underground scene previously dominated by a soundtrack from US cities like Chicago, Detroit and New York. Enhanced by a strong visual identity, as well as impeccable musical quality control PAPER was, and is one of the world’s most treasured record companies.

It continues to be funk-fuelled and bottom heavy!

Mental Overdrive & Flash Atkins - Where? (BCB Extended Remix)

Paper Recordings