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Afro disco series African Shaketown is back with four outstanding remixes and edits of ultra rare gems that without a doubt will make your summer move.
 
David Benjamin (Noema, Magic Jams) is a DJ, producer, guitarist, and label head from Berlin. You may remember Noema's legendary tribute edit of Ata Kak's ‘Daa Nyinaa’ and the wicked re-rubs of Eddie C, Axel Boman and Soft Rocks. He has released and worked with Apparat, Dj Dixon, and Basement Jaxx as well as underground heroes Lauer, Kalabrese, Shubostar, O/Y, Acid Pauli, Auntie Flo, Dreems, Khidja, Panthera Krause and Mehmet Aslan.  Over 25 years of DJing, he has mastered the ones and twos refining his craft during his 10-year residency at Berlin institution Wilde Renate. While Noema focuses on contemporary electronica and leans towards the psychedelic, Magic Jams has a more acoustic sound inspired by dusty crate digging, the African diaspora, cosmic disco, and Balearic beats. David also runs the Magic Movement label and has released music by artists Nicola Cruz, Axel Boman, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Xique-Xique, and Eddie C.
 
On this killer vinyl only release you’ll find two funky disco weapons on the A, played with a full band set-up and reworked by Magic Jams, while on the flip, Noema presents a more cosmic disco drop featuring dazzling synths and some delectable drum programming.

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PREMIERE : African Shaketown - The Zebra (Noema Remix)

Space tequila (Ilya Santana edit)

Back in 2018, Argentinian producer Fernando Pulichino released ‘Search of Indigo’ on Leng, a shuffling slab of colourful, Balearic-adjacent dub disco featuring his own distinctive lead vocals and backing vocals from Luca Gasparini. Six years on, the track returns renewed and refreshed thanks to a string of new floor-friendly reworks by LTJ Experience and Pulichino himself.

Fernando kicks off the EP with his ‘AM Mix’, an inspired re-invention that re-frames the song as a hard-wired, acid-fired chugger – all restless, razor-sharp TB-303 lines, low-slung bass guitar and sparkling piano riffs. On the digital version of the EP Pulichino has also offered up his ‘PM Mix’, a deliciously Balearic disco dub rich in colourful synth sounds, elastic bass, flanged guitars and sun-bright piano licks.

It's LTJ Experience’s trio of remixes that lie at the heart of the EP though. The Italian producer, real name Luca Trevisi, initially made his name as a downtempo and nu-jazz producer before perfecting a trademark style of chugging, slow-motion hedonism that draws influence from both deep house and nu-disco. His main Remix foregrounds many of these trademark elements, in the process delivering a bongo-rich chugger laden with delay-heavy bass guitar sounds, head-nodding drums, heady guitar loops and echoing vocal snippets.

On the Dirty Mix, Trevisi reaches for tight, short TB-303 ‘acid’ loops, a more sparse and heavy rhythm track offering a more heads-down, dubbed-out affair that should delight those who love late night and early morning hypnotism with flashes of wide-eyed sonic bliss. Then, to round things off, Trevisi delivers a heady, atmospheric and spaced-out Dub full of jazz guitar licks, bubbling electronics, vocal snippets and effects-laden bass. It’s a winning combination.

Vinyl Tracks:
A1 Search of Indigo (AM Remix)
A2 Search of Indigo (LTJ Xperience Remix)
B1 Search of Indigo (LTJ Xperience Dirty MIx)
B2 Search of Indigo (LTJ Xperience Dub)

LENG SHOP

Fernando - Search Of Indigo (AM Mix)

Change your style (Ilya Santana re-work)

Fred Berthet - Dans Le Mélange 11/24

Rule Six - East Side Groove (Gus Paterson's Downtown Fashion Mix)
Roman Flugel - Dragged
Jack Butters - Floor Burner (Rule Six Stomp Mix)
DESTIINO - Imagery
LCD Soundsystem - Pow Pow (Idjut Boys Remix)
Rule Six - East Side Groove
F.U.R.O - Notte Continua (Morali & Yotam Russo Remix)
DESTIINO feat. Inigo Vontier - Somlake
Marshall Watson & Cole Odin - Voyager (Cosmic Rave Remix)
Kolegos - Dopamine Groove
Dirk Sid Eno - Summer In Japan
Move D - To The Disco '77 (Live Rework)
Decius - Satisfy Desire
Joyce Muniz / Sara Bluma - Beats & Lines
Thomass Jackson & Theus Mago - Il Fuoco
Gelato - Mystery Star ft. This Is Jude
Frank de Wulf - The Apprentice

Grab a copy of the East Side Groove EP at https://www.junodownload.com/products/rule-six-east-side-groove/6842019-02/

East Side Groove Mix November 24

CaneOh (take me to the chopper mix)

This was recently mixed down again and remastered and now given away to promote the release of the compilation 'Now That's Magic' which is available to purchase at http://magicfeetrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Buy The Compilation

Four Walls ft Dan Diamond-No Use-Craig Bratley Remix

Pete's splendid remix of the lead track from our EP. Will be out in October backing our remix of Les Crocodiles 'La Nuit Des Tropiques'.

Field Of Dreams Recordings

Pourquoi? (Pete Herbert Remix)

LENG SHOP - 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.

Apiento & Co. - She Walks (Pete Herbert Mix)

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CaneOh (take me to the chopper mix)

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