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Our set from last Thursday's boat party on the Adriatic at Love International festival in Tisno, Croatia. 

BILL BREWSTER, FRANK BROUGHTON & SARAHTONIN | Live at Love International Festival, July 10th, 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

London’s Slothboogie started life as a blog that threw parties – and now, some 15 years on,  it’s grown into anything but slothful record label that’s approaching it 50th release.  The trio behind it, Pat, Danny & Conor, are celebrating a decade and a half of Slothboogie existence with a new comp, and kindly completed this exclusive mix for you, our beloved followers…  Let it roll.

In The Mix: Slothboogie

Such an amazing guest mix from Gez Dewar aka Random House Project! It was aired on QMLS Weekly Show at Radiocafé 98.0.

Random House Project - Hard Day's Night Mix

00:00 Beatles Hard Days Night Outakes 
00:19 Grace Jones - It's Only Rhythm (Mixed)
01:50 Payfone & KYD Nereida - I Feel You (Mudd Remix)
04:24 Jezebell - Vibrations (Cotton Bud Re-master)
07:40 DJ Pippi & Willie Graff - Stimulation Dub Feat. Paul Powell (Original Mix)
10:12 Hot Toddy feat. Ron Basejam - I Need Love
13:55 23 Skidoo - Meltdown (Original Mix)
16:34 Soos - Chula (Dance Mix) 
20:45 Space Ghost - Private Paradise (Original Mix)
24:55 Manhead - Doop (Original Mix)
29:35 Stratus - Footprints (Original Mix)
32:25 Flamingo Pier - Deeper Soul (Make A Dance ‘Frogs In Space’ Remix) 
37:00 Alice Russell - Gravity (Payfone Vocal & Instrumental Remix)
40:59 Bright & Findlay - NY Disco (Smile Mix)
42:40 Suicide Sports Club - I Don't Know (Soul Mekanik Random House Project Dub)
46:21 Lovebirds ft. Declan McDermott - Great Ocean Road (Original Mix)
49:47 Random House Project - The One Forever (Dub Mix)
56:05

Random House Project A Hard Days Night Guest Mix for QMLS @Radiocafé Ep.07

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

Next dates: Aug 16 - Balearic London x Love Dancing @ We Out Here, Dorset | Aug 30 - Balearic London @ Supernature, Hastings | Sept 5 - Balearic London @ Distillery N17 w/ Don Carlos | Sept 20 - Sisyphos, Berlin

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Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations For World Peace (Make A Dance Edit) [Bandcamp]
Yello - Vicious Games (Mark Reeder's Wet&Hard Remix) [Datasound]
Sarr Band - Magic Mandrake (PIEK Rework 2) [n/a]
GerdLou - 1 In The Morning (PIEK Edit) [Bandcamp]
Harvey Sutherland - Chop Chop, Movie Boy [Clarity Recordings] Debt
Ketiov - Shanté (Edit) [Bandcamp]
Catchment - Holding On [WAREBLUES]
FKA Twigs - Two Weeks (Ben Gomori’s Even Higher Edit) [DM me]
Andre Zimmer - That’s Right [Life And Death]
Framboisier - Planetary Vision [Duality Trax] 
Ilya Santana - Cosmovision (Disco Version) [Heavenly Recordings] 
Future Classic: Bootleg Contraband - Dead In The Water (Shaun J. Wright Remix) [Section Eight Music]




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Turned On 570: Shaun J. Wright, PIEK, Harvey Sutherland, Framboisier, Ketiov

This month's selection from Paradis Social in Leeds

As always and id's just give us a shout.

Enjoy

PS x


Paradise Social Radio Show 1BTN Aug 25

Live recording from SIsyphos Wintergarten on a hot sunday morning. The vibes was right. Enjoy ya'll ✌️

Lavan @ Sisyphos 10-08-2025

Trujilo's Mix August 2025

Coyote - The Standard Solar Sessions

We're entering a new decade on an absolutely stomping high thanks to one of our favourite producers... @shansound!

Having released on some of our most cherished labels like Running Back, Beats in Space, Permanent Vacation, The Healing Company, Midland's Regraded and Footjob he's been on our hit list for a while now. We absolutely love his high energy Disco and pumping old school House influences and you'll hear plenty of these vibes in a very special mix he's recorded for us at his home studio just outside Frankfurt.
Strap yourselves in because this one aint for the faint hearted!

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SlothBoogie Guestmix #218 - Shan

Another cracking mix from a brilliant Manchester DJ from the local scene.
Roots Before Branches and Peek a Groove resident has given us a lovely eclectic selection for the new year.
Tracklist:

1) Never Gonna Leave you (Joakim & Max Pask Disco Mix)-  Evans Pyramid 
2) Down comes the rain - Rahaan  
3) Nowhere (Danny Krivit edit) - Hokis Pokis 
4) Dreaming a Dream -  Crown Height Affairs 
5) Midnight Rhythm (SIMBAD 12" MIX) -  Right Direction 
6)  Fever - Mood Hut 
7) Dancing in outer space (MAW space version) -  Atmostfear
8) 87 - Unknown 
9) Colombia 26A -  Laroye 
10) Timeless odyssey -  Dawn again & Rothmans 
11)  Blue Moon Tree - Lone

Doodle Mix Series #34 Tom RBB

stayinthecar (classicsoulmix)

Ben Davis eases into the new decade with a selection of super chilled tunes. There’s folk, afro, jazz, an un-released John Martin bootleg and all sort of hazy music to nurse the December hangover. 

1. Manu Delago – The Silent Flight of the Owl
2. Andrew Wasylyk -  Adrift Below A Constellation
3. The Secret Soul Society - African Mystery
4. Key Elements feat. Gerry Franke - Orchestra Mode
5. Lonnie Holley - Looking for All (All Rendered Truth)
6. Psychemagik – Cosmic Forest
7. Stubb - Love Not Sex feat. Huw Costin & Rachel Foster (Leca's Tropic Steel Remix)
8. Hot Toddy- Sometime Last Night
9. Stop The Car – Homebound
10. Laurence Pike – Drum Chant
11. Raw Silk – Storm
12. Hugo Massein - Everything We Call Real (Is Made Up Of Things That Cannot Be Regarded As Real)
13. The Specials – The Lunatics
14. Judy Mowatt – Black Woman
15. Xanadu & Sweet Lady – Rockers’s Choice
16. Arthur’s Landing – Love Dancing (You Got Me Version)
17. Mads Emil Nielsen – Constellation
18. Barton & Jane – It’s a Fine Day
19. Beth Houghton – Golden
20. Llio Rhydderch - Titrwm Tatrwm
21. Gruff Rhys – Con Carino
22. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett – Kestrel
23. Wasis Diop Feat. Lena Fiagbe – African Dream

TPWRS: Jan 2020 - Hazy Music to Nurse the December Hangover.

Live recording from our party in Kake with Fandango resident, Peter Murrin.

LIVE AT FANDANGO  - Peter Murrin

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!

Tune in for sweet trip-hop instrumentals, jazz-inspired electronic, house, disco, techno, and lots of funky bass.

I'm a developer, music lover, and thoroughly mediocre DJ. I dig chill electronic and funky instrumentals, everything from trip-hop, disco, rap, boogie, and Jazz-fusion to psychedelic rock.

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    @razor-n-tape
    @jakarta-records
    @huhwhatandwhere
    @heistrecordings
    @heroicrecordings
    @tokyodawnrecords
    @villainrecordings
    @foolsgoldrecs
    @edbangerrecords
    @onandonrecords
    @mhsm
    @ninja-tune
    @bitbirdofficial
    @saturaterecords
    @gravitas-recordings
    @philosrecords
    @prrrrrrr-records
    @d-licieusemusique-records
    @whitebedroomrecords
    @super-best-records
    @pmrrecords
    @ctlrecords
    @blvntrecords
    @quanta-records
    @darkerthanwax
    @melodysoul
    @gimmemoresound
    @jazz-mafia
    @dezibellerecords
    @flow_theory
    @i-d-online-1
    @cascaderecords
    @cultclassicrecords
    @pushandrun
    @secret-reels
    @steppepper
    @stonesthrow
    @uknowymusic
    @shoeboxxrecordings
    /r/futurefunkairlines
    http://radiomeuh.com
    https://poolside.fm/
    https://musi.sh
    https://soundiiz.com/
    https://freeyourmusic.com/
    https://www.tunemymusic.com

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TPWRS: Jan 2020 - Hazy Music to Nurse the December Hangover.

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