SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dance-par-amour

Limited edition vinyl with artwork by the brilliant KMG - www.kmgyeah.com

Leng Records has long admired Andrew Meecham’s work as The Emperor Machine. Last year, Meecham made his first appearance on the label via a fine remix of Harks & Mudd favourite ‘Susta’. 12 months on, Meecham returns to Leng with his first Emperor Machine outing of 2021, a typically eccentric, heavily electronic dancefloor outing featuring the seductive vocals of rising star Séverine Mouletin.

Meecham is one of British dance music’s most experienced and lauded producers, with a packed history stretching right back to the acid house era. He first rose to fame as part of Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips (both alongside long-term studio partner Dean Meredith), but over the last two decades has devoted far more time to solo work as The Emperor Machine. In the process, he’s developed a sparse, hypnotic, heavily electronic trademark sound that combines analogue and modular synthesizer sounds with nods to post-punk disco, new wave, trippy proto-house and the mind-altering experiments of the Radiophonic Workshop.

‘Dance Par Amour’, his first solo single on Leng, is typical of his now familiar personal sonic style, with echoing, alien-sounding synthesizer motifs (some reminiscent of those that marked out Chicken Lips’ club classic ‘He Not In’), with bubbly sequenced bass, unfussy machine drums, rubbery slap-bass riffs and flashes of post-punk disco guitars.

Sparse but weighty and pleasingly trippy, the EP-leading ‘Extended Vocal Mix’ is classic Emperor Machine: a near ten-minute workout in which Mouletin’s tender but confident vocals rise above Meecham’s stylish and note perfect backing track, which sits somewhere between early ‘80s ‘no wave’ New York disco, lo-fi European synth-pop and the trippy late night dancefloor dubs that were once a feature of American boogie and proto-house records.

Meecham further explores his love of these sparse, effects-laden “synth-dubs” on the accompanying ‘Erotique Dub’, a thrillingly heavy, heads-down affair awash with echoing vocal snippets, hypnotic drums and synthesizer flourishes that attractively echo across the sound space. Like the best DJ-focused dubs of the early 1980s, the remix is propelled forwards by a strong bassline, around which other elements – guitar, bass guitar, sparkling synth sounds and mind-mangling electronics – appear, make their mark and then drift off into the ether. With key passages of Mouletin’s vocal appearing periodically to encourage people to dance, it’s the kind of delightfully wayward revision that will keep people dancing well into the early hours.

LENG SHOP

The Emperor Machine & Séverine Mouletin - Dance Par Amour (Erotique Dub)

DC Promo Tracks #1053: "Cosmic Camel (inst)" by Tigerbalm is part of the release "International Love Affair" on Ubiquity Records @tigerbalmmusic @ubiquityrecords  

Order from: https://tigerbalmmusic.bandcamp.com/album/international-love-affair 

More info: https://www.dreamchimney.com/promo/1053-tigerbalm-cosmic-camel-inst

DC Promo Tracks #1053: Tigerbalm "Cosmic Camel" (Instrumental)

The Mystic Jungle Tribe are back, this time inspired by the lush island of Capri - more info soon... 

A1: Terrazza Sul Mare
A2: Sguardi
B1: Visioni
B2: Vespro
B3: Il Custode Delle Chiavi


[EAS012] The Mystic Jungle Tribe - "Qvisisana"

RAPHAEL TOP-SECRET & NELSON BISHOP - CHEKEMA

Brand new edit from the fantastic producer Jaz, out of Charleston, SC, US. https://soundcloud.com/j-a-z-1

It's available on STUDS 001 Up for sale at www.discogs.com/Various-STUDS-001/release/11116921 I have copies, you can hit me up here.

STUDS 001

Buy On Vinyl

Jaz - The End (Available on STUDS 001)

Addictive Hiro Ito rarity with Make My Day Today in both instru and vocal versions.

"Make My Day Today" 7" (Vocal) By Hiro-Ito ‎on Miracle! ‎Germany, 1986  👋

Taken off my forthcoming EP for NuNothernsoul. 'Waves Take Hold' features on the sampler released this coming Friday

Nick J Smith - Waves Take Hold

Selezioni Musica - 01 [Edits]

Boogielicious Synth Pop made in Napoli! 
"Acqua Di Sale" is the first mini-album of the mysterious Rosa. Recorded at the West Hill Studio, this is the umpteenth creation of the well known Neapolitan production team which inaugurates the "Pegaso Series" on Periodica Records. 

https://www.discogs.com/Rosa-Acqua-Di-Sale/release/14681612

"Una spiaggia deserta, un appuntamento al bar. Le onde del mare s'infrangono dolcemente sulla riva, bicchieri di vetro riflettono gli ultimi raggi di sole del tramonto. Il seducente panorama di Posillipo e il fascino di un amore da fotoromanzo. Qualcosa fuori dal normale. Alcune domande ineludibili, i colori di un buio che non fa paura. È la Napoli del cuore. La città non è più un luogo fisico, ma il palcoscenico di un incontro clandestino. Le emozioni più vivide assumono la forma di note sul pentagramma."
(M. Ferretti)

"A deserted beach and a rendezvous at the bar, with waves crashing gently in the distance and wine glasses catching the last rays of the setting sun. The seductive panorama of Posillipo unfolds before the eyes, evoking the charms of a photo-novella, though something mysterious lurks in the emerging dark, leading to unavoidable questions and temptations of the soul. This is the Napoli of the heart…no longer a physical manifestation, but instead, a stage for clandestine encounters and forbidden desires, where the most vivid emotions take the form of notes on the staff." 
(English translation by Octagon Eyes)

Acqua Di Sale

Pre-order on Bandcamp

SP PRD1016 • Rosa - "Acqua Di Sale" (Mini LP)

Legendary Adriatic DJ and producer Verdo doesn't release often, but when he does you need to listen. He always has one foot on the dancefloor, while the other makes a leap into outer space.

Resident at the infamous Gratis Club in Senigallia, a skilled musician who brings virtuoso playing and someone with his own immediately identifiable sound, Verdo is a real hidden treasure. The Italian has previously released on Danny Was A Drag King and also this label back in 2017, and mixes up anything from afro to acid, disco to downtempo in his grooves.

'Symmetry' kicks off in strident fashion, with throwback piano chords lighting up the airwaves as stomping drums make you move. It's the sound of an all out celebration of the sort we have all been missing recently. 'Babbions' strikes a more tender note, with warm chords rising up through the cosmic arps and long legged drums. It's a twinkling track that glows bright and lifts your spirits no end.

'Procida' layers up more retro-future chords with bubbling melodies and star-gazing pads that will soundtrack sunsets by the sea in perfect fashion. "Second Trip' is a thoughtful track that sinks you into warm grooves, with shimmering keys that bring the romance. This one also comes as a bonus beatless version for lush ambient escapism and sentimental moments.

Verdo's back, and back in style.

Symmetry EP

Verdo - Babbions

Periodica Records dives into the heart of the Napoli underground with a scorching two track single from Danger Boys called ‘Danger Zone’, which sees Milord and Whodamanny paying tribute to the their cult party of the same name, which was hosted at the Boudoir Club. In the title track, perilous premonitions of tribal disco intertwine with shadowy strains of post-punk, as propulsive beats pound beneath heady fuzz licks, ringing harmonics, and sheets of solar distortion. Basslines cut the difference between frenetic funk and cosmic rock, galactic winds carry sparkles of deep space detritus, and above it all, a high priest chants in ecstasy, with his mystical musings, echoing affirmations, and messages of defiance pulling the body deeper into the dance. Then in “Haunted Zone,” the Danger Boys slow it down and stretch everything out, while giving further space to computronic sequences, laser-generated birdsong, and weirdo whooshes of interstellar noise. Low-slung drums smack through cavernous reverb, cymbals tick nervously, and the bass reduces to a minimalistic dub throb as guitars converse with alien electronics, sometimes slashing the air with red hot riffs and acid rock leads, other times reducing to a psychedelic slop of scrapes and slides. And here, the vocals are even more dynamic, moving between druidic disco incantations and zany flourishes of outsider pop.

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PRD1019 • Danger Boys - "Danger Zone" (7")

Independent label founded in Naples.
Neapolitan electronic & funk music powered by the West Hill Studio's production crew.

SP PRD1016 • Rosa - "Acqua Di Sale" (Mini LP)

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