Live recording from September 2021 of our set at The Standard, London.

Lauer – H.R. Boss [Live at Robert Johnson]
Oppenheimer Analysis – The Devil’s Dancers [Minimal Wave]
Eurythmics – Love Is A Stranger [RCA]
Vicious Pink – Cccan’t You See [Parlophone]
Vindahl – Sometimes (12” Groove Version) [Tokyo Dawn]
Conclave & Toribo – Perdón (Louie Vega Remix) [Love Injection]
Andras – cp3 [Public Possession]
Moloko – The Time Is Now (Can 7 Soulfood Extended Mix) [Echo]
Metro Area – Machine Vibes [Environ]
The Galleria – Calling Card (Dub) [Environ]
Charlie – Spacer Woman [Mr Disc Organization]
Mr. & Mrs. Dale – It’s You (New York-London Mix) [Bigshot]
Gisele Jackson – Love Commandments [Waako Records]
M83 – Couleurs [Mute]
The Human League – The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Original Dub) [Virgin]
Gigamesh – Dreams [self-released]
Metro Area – Miura [Environ]
WestBam And Nena – Oldschool, Baby (Piano Mix) [Low Spirit]
Desireless – Voyage, voyage [CBS]
Fox the Fox – Precious Little Diamond (12” Mix) [Sony]
Bullion – Spin2glory [TTT]
Baby’s Gang – Challenger (Swedish Remix) [ZYX]
Company B – Fascinated (Club Mix) [Atlantic]
Night Moves – Transdance (New York Disco Mix) [Dark Entries]
Sky Ferreira – Everything Is Embarrassing [Polydor]
Laid Back – Bakerman [Brother Music]
Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Suspicious Minds [Nobody’s Bizness]

No Bad Days at The Standard with Hollick & Szatan

Double header from Jazz Room Records with two superb jazzy versions of Club Classics by Japan's Cruisic:
Side A is the legendary Brazilian Club Jazz track by Azymuth given a cosmic keyboard revitalisation. Samba style heat and the cool of the contemporary jazz beat merge to breathe a whole new life into this Soul Boy classic.
The Flip is a Jazz Dance version of the 1989 release "Pacific" by Manchester Acid House ravers 808 State. Watch the dancefloor fill from the first jazzbeat!
The singles are now changing hands for 3 figures (if you can find one!), now put together on one fantastic release.

CRUISIC - JAZZ CARNIVAL

When Paul Murphy released his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Claremont 56, in 2006, many thought it would be the first of many. In a way, it was, as in the years since he’s released a string of collaborative sets alongside Benjamin J Smith (as Smith & Mudd), and as part of underground ‘supergroups’ Paqua, Bison and Hillside. But that second solo album? Well, it just had to wait.

In early 2023, Murphy finally decided to scratch that itch, roping in some of his most trusted collaborators (keyboardist and bassist Michele Chiavarini, percussionist Patrick Dawes, guitarist Dave Noble and HF International’s Kashif included) to lay down a sumptuous set of tracks that not only showcases his now familiar (bit hard to pigeonhole) neo-Balearic sound, but also proves how much he has matured as a writer and producer since 2006.

In The Garden of Mindfulness is richly musically detailed, expertly arranged and full to bursting with fluid instrumental solos, with Murphy and his collaborators serving up tracks that brilliantly blur the boundaries between languid jazz-funk, downtempo, vintage synth-laden krautrock, dubby grooves and sun-splashed soundscapes.

It simply sparkles from the moment that opener ‘Eighty Three’ slowly rises like the morning sun, with gentle, undulating synth sounds ushering in a slow-motion jazz-funk excursion rich in twinkling electronics, spacey pads and warming bass. Recent single ‘Katanaboy’, a lusciously layered dub disco-infused dancefloor excursion in Murphy’s familiar style, raises the temperature a touch, before ‘Bonne Anse’ and the sublime ‘Unka Paw’ (whose combination of evocative fretless bass, extended electric piano solos, Clavinet licks and acoustic guitars is genuinely spellbinding) invite a combination of wavy shuffling and flat-on-the-back, eyes-closed appreciation.

And so it continues, with gorgeous title track ‘In The Garden of Mindfulness’ making way for the boogie-influenced, Japanese-British brilliance of ‘Hangsang’ (check the jaunty pianos, yearning breakdown and exotic melodies). Murphy’s long held love of warm, weighty bass, hypnotic disco grooves, colourful analogue synth sounds and jazzy guitars once again comes to the fore on ‘Afternoon Bob’ before the album reaches a fittingly triumphant conclusion with ‘Late In March’. 

A neat sonic summary of all that makes the set such a rewarding and entertaining experience, repeat listens reveals a wealth of musical details, from off-kilter triple-time drums and surprise bass guitar solos, to impeccable piano solos (provided by the immensely talented Chiavarini), fizzing jazz-funk synth doodles and stirring synth-strings. It’s a breathlessly brilliant way to end an album that was genuinely worth waiting for.

In The Garden Of Mindfulness

Melting Steine are multi-instrumentalists and producers Martin Schenker and Luzius Schuler as well as keyboard player and bassist Dshamilja Kalt. Their nostalgic, warm instrumental music combines elements of jazz, bossa and psychedelic synthesizer music and sounds like the soundtrack to your dream island in the Mediterranean Sea. Their incomparable sound is created in a garage in the middle of Switzerland, where they record their compositions on an old Tascam tape machine with guitar, drum machines, flute and analog synthesizer. Lots of chorus, tape delay, vibrato, spring reverb and the warmth of analog recording technology give the music a psychedelic touch and you can hear the musical influences of the 60s and 70s. This is carefully crafted mood music that is sophisticated but has catchy melodies and unique sounds that have earworm potential.

Melting Steine - Universal Crush (snippets) [PHI-25]

this is a part of my latest listening session, recorded at the "Salon Paradise" at the Hoxton in Vienna.
03.10.2024

Picks From Brazil (live recorded in Vienna, 03.10.2024)

We’ve compiled a new promo mix to celebrate to start of the summer season here in Australia. This one is crammed with plenty of new releases across sun-soaked balearic energy, percussive Afro and Latin rhythms, deep soulful house, Italo classics and 90’s proto chuggers.

Massimo Zennaro - Luxury
Ephemeral Edits 013 - Ritmo Tônico (YPS Edit)
RELATIN, La Pesada - Cumbia y Tambo (Quantic Remix)
Glen S - Give Me Beat (Make A Dance Rework)
Cruisey Camel - By The Bay (Afro Flow Edit)
Mamacita - Hacerte Bien
Kiko Navarro - Chan Chan (Afroterraneo Vocal Dub)
Camilo Salazar - Ayofe (Extended Mix)
Ten City - That's the Way Love Is (Deep House Mix-Extended Version) 
Addison Groove - F1nk
Conclave - Alati Yeye Chege (musclecars Remix)
Belizian Voodoo Priest - Sing It Again (Morttaaaayy Drum & Vox ReTouch)
DJ DASCO - African Power 
Soussol - Sol (Lego's Trompeta Mix)
Itchy + Scratchy - Disco Girlfriend (Spot On Mix)
Voilaaa - Faché (Dub)
Close Counters - I WANT YOU
Dimitri From Paris, DJ Rocca - Disco Shake (In the House Of Disco Edit)
Silicone Soul - Right On, Right On (Fango Remix)
Las Americas - Look, Listen, Love (From House To Disco Remix)
S.U.M.O. - Supra Sumo (Beats)
Lonesome Echo Production - Spirit of Drums (S.U.M.O Afrobounce)
LANDR - Mpemba (Phil Mill Edit)
Trent Voyage, Elena Moroder - Viola, Rosa, Blu 
FUN FUN - Give Me Your Love (US Remix)

*Recorded live and may contain some vinyl pops, skips and bumps

🍋 SUMMER SPRITZ 🍋

CAMBIARE ARIA

Every time I call your number
Seems like your phone's off or busy
So
I lay back and remember
All the times you said you miss me

What a twist
What a twist
What a twist
What a twist

Now you say you want me back
Back to the same old shit
Where was all that when you had it
So
I'ma sit back and let you twist

What a twist
What a twist
What a twist
What a twist

twist

This is a track I made for introspection and healing. Guided by the sun.

Mystic Sun

Casino Times continue on their crusade into the speakers of Earth's hottest dancing spots with the fourth edition of the Casino Edits series.

For the A-Side, the duo encapsulate the energy that has made the previous records in the series so memorable; this time by taking the cosmic sounds of a Space Disco favourite and reconstructing it into a punchy, euphoric, electronic symphony.

The B-Side sees the BPM's drop and the concepts become more left-of-centre. The B1, a cut-up UK Grunge head nodder, features gritty guitars, a sludgy bassline and a pulsating synth lead. Whilst on the B2, a well-loved Italo essential is reincarnated as a dramatic piece of sequenced bliss.

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/casino-times-casino-edits-4-pre-order-casino-edits/147594

Casino Edits 4 - B1

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.

LENG SHOP

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

Operated by Kejeblos & Fuga Ronto (Ron Shiller & Tobi Schweizer)

PHI - 01 Kejeblos - The Family Mattress
PHI - 02 Lexx - Young Corner 
PHI - 03 Foster - Neon Life 
PHI - 04 Kejeblos Feat. Momo Love
PHI - 05 Bing Ji Ling/Lexx
PHI - 06 Your Song Is Good (F.O.N. Remix) / Apiento & Co. (Lexx Remix) 
PHI - 07 Fuga Ronto - Invisible Escape
PHI - 08 V/A - Uncommon Species
PHI - 09 Kay Zee - Barny
PHI - 10 Wavetest - Wrong Planet
PHI - 11 Lexx/Open Space feat. Harriet Brown - Hot Weather
PHI - 12 The Gagosians - Run For My Honey
PHI - 13 Domi Chansorn - Strawberry Moon (incl. Lexx Remix)
PHI - 14 Lexx Feat. Woolfy - Too Hot
PHI - 15 Lexx - Cosmic Shift LP
PHI - 16 Lexx - Cosmic Shift Remixed
PHI - 17 Florin Büchel - The Horizon Problem
PHI - 18 Windsurfer - The Gone Village
PHI - 19 Fuga Ronto - Greatest Treasure
PHI - 20 Windsurfer - The Gone City
PHI - 21 Ethimm - Choices (Fuga Ronto Remixes)
PHI - 22 GINA ÉTÉ & Tillmann Ostendarp - Le Bouquet (incl. Fuga Ronto Remix)
PHI - 23 V/A - Uncommon Species II
PHI - 24 Kay Zee - The Whole Shebang
PHI - 25 Melting Steine - Universal Crush
PHI - 26 Palace Pasador - Footprint Affair

Melting Steine - Universal Crush (snippets) [PHI-25]

PHANTOM ISLAND