Our track "Gimme Sum Dim Sum" only on 12" HERE -> http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/De+Fantastiske+To/

Great show ! Cool to hear "Spiral" on it :) I'm looking forward to "Trash The Wax 3" release !!!

Original track is so beautiful. I don't like this :/

mark e

For out latest Burek podcast we have a skillfully layered journey into various shades of house from Birmingham based DJ and producer Mark E.
Mark E’s love affair with electronic dance music started when Manchester was Madchester and rave culture swept through England. Later he tasted house at the hands of legends like John Kelly and Frankie Knuckles at Wolverhampton scene, before moving to Birmingham for University where he is still today creating and feeding the club scene.
Mark  is one of those guys who releases at least a few amazing records each year. Now, nearly a decade of releasing music, Mark  has a discography that contains efforts for top-notch labels like Spectral Sound, Running Back, and Golf Channel and his very own imprint Merc.

Mark E has kindly provided us with second part of a triple mix series, mixed as a straight vinyl set at home, accompanied with a few bottles of fine beer and some stuffed animals. Mix also containing first airing of Mark forth-comer on Spectral Sound. BOOM! Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/merc_music
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/mark-e
http://www.discogs.com/artist/378421-Mark-E

Burek Podcast #17 - MARK E

Shades Of Sound Radio - July 2025

London-born and Tokyo-based, Max Essa has spent over two decades crafting lush, melodic soundscapes that blur the lines between balearic, cosmic disco, and ambient pop. Emerging in the '90s on Warp and Paper Recordings, he found his true artistic stride after relocating to Japan in 2008. Since then, Essa has become a central figure in Tokyo’s underground scene, curating events like Zim Zam Zu! at Bar Bonobo and releasing music on labels such as Music For Dreams, Hell Yeah!, and Is It Balearic?

Essa’s style is warm, escapist, and deeply cinematic-often inspired by specific places: Okinawan beaches, Mediterranean ferries, or late-night Tokyo rooftops. His releases, like Lanterns, When I'm Homeward Bound, and The Clean Trip (with David Harks), radiate nostalgia and serenity, wrapped in silky synths and timeless grooves.

Beyond producing, Essa curates, mentors, and connects cultures-compiling Japanese ambient gems on Oto No Wa, together with Ken Hidaka and Dr Rob, and spotlighting local artists through interviews and collaborations. Whether on record or behind the decks, Max Essa invites listeners into a world where emotion, space, and memory guide the rhythm.

More at https://soundcloud.com/max-essa

Max Essa - SOULMEEX DECKS 162

Long time Dream Chimney contributor, DJ, Producer Dennis Kane is facing eviction and looking for support. https://gofund.me/7db0132b

We are hosting the original Disques Town podcast episodes and making them available to stream/download. Please consider donating to help Dennis. At the moment Dennis finds himself in a serious financial jam, and we are raising funds to help he and Roan stay in their home of 31 years.

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Originally Recorded Sep 21 2011

DJ Harvey has been on his disco horse, riding the plains for some time, carving out a specific lyrical and influential path that many have tried to follow. Harv always shows up ready to get down, and this day was no exception. Enjoying the comedy of our car service adventures, picking up threads of conversation from the week before in Cali, and debating where and what to eat, he is present and good to go. Of late Harvey has been very busy, travelling for gigs worldwide, bringing the Locussolus project to completion, and attending to an increasingly broad range of remix duties and new material. It is always fun to have a friend drop by and play some tunes, even better when they cover such a broad range with energy and grace. Thanks Harv! Now if we can just get a cab to get us to the restaurant.

Special thanks again to Tariq and Sean for their set up and board work.

Disques Town podcast: Episode 2: Dennis Kane w/ DJ Harvey

Cottam-Saudade

August sees the return of the ReFrame DJ mix series with a 2 hour DJ selection of cosmic, Balearic, electronic, house disco and 80s synth music spurred on from a magical few days at Rotation festival and European travels. Featuring music from The ReFrame, Aura Safari, BOOF, Lauer, DD Mirage, Visage, Russ Brown, The Mighty Zaf and Linkwood, Pete Blaker & Dionisis,  Pete Blaker & Aric, Talamanca system, Tony Price, Scott Groves, LDLDN, Harold Melvin, Gang of Four, Marco Passarani, Luke Solomon...

The ReFrame :: August 25

3-5PM Saturday 16 August 2025 in Love Dancin' - music from François K, Tuillo De Piscopo, Max Sedgley, Faze Action, Andrew Weatherall, Siedah Garrett, Carly Simon, Max Sedgley and more.

With huge thanks to the Love Dancin' family.

Don't miss our biggest party yet on Friday 5 September at Distillery N17 in London with Italian house legend Don Carlos' first set in the city of 5 years, and support from Manuel Darquart b2b babyschön. Tickets at ra.co/events/2185010

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Live at Love Dancin' @ We Out Here 2025

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https://hellyeahrec.bandcamp.com/album/buena-onda-adriatic-beats-beyond

Hell Yeah's lovingly curated Buena Onda series is back with a new edition that focuses on Adriatic Beats & Beyond. It has been assembled by label head Marco Gallerani and features four exclusive new tunes that reflect his summer residences at a cosy beach bar on Italy's Eastern and Adriatic coast.

Marco moved back to his hometown of Ferrara after the pandemic and began spending more time at the local seaside, the famous Lidi Ferraresi. It's there, at Lido di Spina, that a friend runs Kai Beach Bar, a small spot where, every Thursday throughout August for the last three years, he has soundtracked afternoons and sunsets under the Buena Onda banner, more than a decade after the party first started in Berlin.

"The beat has become less Balearic, more Adriatic," he explains of the sounds that can be heard up and down the coastline. "There’s no sunset culture yet, but they like a groove for aperitivo. This selection reflects the music I propose there, a kinda sunrise to sunset trip."

The 13-track selection includes four exclusives: the first is Blende's 'Amor,' which is forthcoming on the label. Johan Blende is a Swedish producer, songwriter and DJ who weaves together modern dance with retro sounds of the 70s and 80s and debuts on the label this summer with his Recess EP. 'Amor' is a bubbly groove with a New Age wash and lo-fi pads full of charm.

Hell Yeah regular and Italian magic man Walter Del Vecchio aka Quiroga also offers a new Baia Club Ambient Version of 'French Kiss' which has a lazy acid line worming its way through dubby kicks and tabla drums, and his dreamy electro soother 'Cala Ventosa' also features. Secret Soul Society, aka South Wales's Cal Gibson, also tests a new EP with his 'Orange Surprise' blending off-balance rhythmic shuffles with starry cosmic melodies. The final exclusive is from Balearic Gabba Sound System, who flip The Vendetta Suite aka the legendary Gary Irwin's 'Della Notte' into a quietly epic cinematic closer with icy analogue beats and a warped bassline for dubbed out late night escape. His 'Island Hill Microdot' also offers some warped cosmic ambient house introspection.

Elsewhere, Michele Mininni features twice - once with Gallo's Tropical Hinterhof Remix of the suspensory ambient lushness pop 'Carousel of Tears' and once with the original percussive pressure and hip-house fusion of 'Urban Voodoo' from his Pop Archetypes LP. Buena Onda veteran Feel Fly comes through with an Estatico Danzante Remix of Pedro Bertho's 'Tornei' feat Mariana Gehring and takes us to the stars on twinkling keys, dusty breakbeats and steamy vocals that glow as warm as a setting sun.

Add in further groovy gems such as Bonnie and Klein's synth and vibes laced 'Horizon Avenue,' dreamy, breaks-driven downtempo brilliance from pub wave innovator Dawn Again, hints of Ibiza cool from Willie Graff's remix of Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor and some upbeat synth-laced house from label stalwart Luminodisco and you have a faultless collection of grooves for grown up dance floors.

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Buena Onda - Adriatic Beats & Beyond (Continuous Promo Mix)

Playlist: 

01. AXUS - Pluto
02. Martinez - Soul Glow
03. Dubtribe Sound System - What You Feel In Your Heart
04. Rasoul + McArthy - Retrospect
05. Rasoul + McArthy - Atlantis
06. Martinez - Release The Groove
07. Tuomas Salmela - The Piece (Phonogenic Deep Mix) 
08. Projekt PM - When The Voices Come
09. Callisto - The Cimmerian
10. Fresh & Low - Love Capsule Deluxe (Deep Space Dub)
11. Elements of Soul - Head Above Water (Crazy Penis - Out There Dub)
12. Glenn Underground - Fly With Me (MG's Dub)
13. Solaris - Sunrise
14. Titus - Don't Worry About Me (Soulpusher Vocal)
15. The Aquanauts - Voyage
16. The Aquanauts - Karma (Jazzy Mix)
17. Larry Heard - Guidance (Calm)
18. Callisto - Resistance
19. Mark Grant - Spirit Of The Black Ghost (The Black Mix)
20. Callisto - Need Ur Love (Stalagmite Mix)

#260 - A Tribute To Guidance - mixed by dj ROG

OOFT! - Radio Buena Vida 13.09.25

Coyote Bodega Nottingham - September 2025

Here's the Autumnal edition of Paper Radio with the usual label  bangers, mashers, uppers and downers.  We've a special mix and intervew from Mark E plus Norwegian and Mungolian Jetsetter DJ Strangefruit.
And I drop a major bollack at the end by failing to 
Sit back, pour yourself a vintage port, stuff your pipe and be warmed at the fireside of rave.

Kimo - Born Out
Situation - Get A Taxi (Lovedrop Remix)
Seen On TV - Spiral 2
Rave-enka - Rett I Kroppen

DJ Strangefruit Intervew

Todd Terje - Alfonso Muskedunder (Mungolian Jetset remix)
Daco - Meine Killer
Leon Sweet - Sunny Bigler (Peza Remix)
Flash Atkins - Forbidden Flesh feat. Danielle Moore (Steve Cobby Mix)
Mark E -  Laurentian Abyss

Mark E Interview

Mark E Mix

Kimo - Bow Down
Human League - Fascination (Situation Edit)


Paper Radio - Autumn '15 feat. Mark E & DJ Strangefruit

To celebrate 10 Years since its first release MERCMUSIC is re-releasing Mark E's first edit " Scared ", and the B side has PLASTIC PEOPLE, which until now hasn't been available on vinyl.

Released 15th February 2015.

E - Versions 6 -  Scared

Mark E last delivered on Futureboogie back in November 2014, so it’s a welcome return to the label for the Birmingham based DJ & producer.  With his Merc imprint running on full steam, and previous releases on revered labels like Spectral Sound and Running Back, Mark is becoming an ever dependent exponent of the real and raw house music vibe, and no more so than on the Basement Trax EP.

Basement Trax 1, distorted synths wander over a low-slung beat, the marching hi-hats and filter work are tweaked to perfection.  It’s a track of basic elements, but done so well, the arrangement building steadily and bags of warmth and soul deep at the heart of this track. 

The gnarly bass and classic string sounds of Basement Trax 2 make an ideal companion piece to the A side.  Delivered in the finest wild-pitch tradition, the raw sounding production packs a punch as the stomping drums and repetitive keys ramp up the heat for a real blazer of an underground club cut.

Two quality cuts served up for you here…


Mark E - Basement Trax 1 (FBR041) [clip]

Mark E - Basement Trax 2 (FBR041) [clip]

The shopfront looked gloomy and mysterious in the streetlight. Dust sat layered in the windows and no light could be seen from within. The crew of revellers stood eagerly outside the door, a small queue had already begun to form behind them as they waited. Finally at midnight, the bolts were unlatched and it swung open. One at a time they were ushered inside and in the distance they could hear the sound of drums echoing. Below them there was a party underway, deep down in the basement, and they were going there. 
Mark E is forever on point. His latest EP for Futureboogie is on point and 'Basement Trax' is on point.

PREMIERE: Mark E - Basement Trax 1 [Futureboogie]

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!

Paper Radio - Autumn '15 feat. Mark E & DJ Strangefruit

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