LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/billion-days-incl-40-thieves-mind-fair-remixes

Artwork by Barbora Idesova - https://www.instagram.com/barboraidesova

Setting out to create a future Balearic anthem while doffing a cap to street soul and synth-heavy Italo-disco B-sides of the early 1980s, Orbs of Light’s debut single, ‘Billion Days’ lands on Leng after a tip-off from Mind Fair duo Dean Meredith and Ben Shenton, who booked the duo to play live at their Rotation festival last summer.

Orbs of Light’s Baz Bradley and A Girl Called Kate have been friends for decades and have collaborated musically in the past, though it was only a couple of years ago that they dreamed up this project. It was first trialled via a 2021 remix for Andres y Xavi on Hollis Recordings (‘Perfect Timing’) on which Kate added new vocals to Bradley’s interpretation of the track. Since then, regular recording sessions have taken place, with the duo first crafting tight instrumental tracks before – in Bradley’s words – “dream up the best songs we can” with “melodies that will hopefully stay in your head all day”.

It would be fair to say that they’ve achieved that goal on ‘Billion Days’, a hooky and addictive affair whose vocal hooks and strong chorus could well inspire Balearic sing-alongs in the months ahead. Their original mix (B1 on the vinyl version of the EP, track 2 on the digital EP) is joyous, cheery and kaleidoscopic, with steel pan style melodies, bouncy synth stabs, jaunty lead lines and Kate’s wonderful lead vocal riding a shuffling, post street soul beat and a bubbly bassline.

The accompanying remix package is naturally very strong too. San Francisco crew 40 Thieves, fresh from dropping a killer single of their own on Leng (‘The Gift’, with disco legends Gary Davis and Cinnamon Jones), step up first with a take that stretches out and builds on Orbs of Light’s original mix – think wobbly nu-disco synth bass, fresh flute sounds, dubbed-out vocal snippets and a locked-in groove that’s just perfect for sun-soaked alfresco dancing.

Fittingly, the second and final revision comes from Mind Fair, whose email to Leng HQ about Orbs of Light got the ball rolling. Opting for a rubbery, body-popping beat inspired by vintage electro, they deliver a joyful, effects-laden Balearic dancefloor ‘Dub Mix’ that somehow makes a genuinely life-affirming record even more loved-up and saucer-eyed – despite the presence of only a fraction of Kate’s addictive lead vocal.

LENG SHOP

Orbs of Light - Billion Days (40 Thieves Version)

Commander F is the second single leading up to Wille's debut LP "Shoreline Orbs".

'Commander F' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

The sound is distinctly an 80s affair, while the title is a reference to the infamous USS Nimitz Encounter in 2004, where a certain pilot commander "F" and crew saw a Tic-Tac shaped craft, hovering and making otherworldly maneuvers. In other words, a certain object that was (and still is) unidentified and flying. Intriguing!

As much as any work of instrumental electronic music can be "about" something, Wille's upcoming LP "Shoreline Orbs" is very much about some of these as of yet unsolved mysteries, what their legimaticay may or may not entail for our collective worldview, and about refinding a fundamental curiosity seemingly lost in the wilderness of a bureaucratic adulthood, and putting that feeling to sound.

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

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Max Essa & David Harks - The Clean Trip
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Label:  Paper Recordings (https://soundcloud.com/paperecordings)
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> Max Essa (https://soundcloud.com/max-essa)
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> David Harks (https://soundcloud.com/davidharks)
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Davis Harks and Max Essa return for 4 tracks of impeccably produced dreamy pop, balearic wanderings and hypnotic chug.

Magic Eyes kicks things off with a track that hints at the sunset of acid house with chugging rave keys, back-in-the-day bass synth and a whole heap of soulful melancholia. It's a deep, slow groover with strangely hypnotic, repetitive vocal murmurings that soar.

Plastic Bones has baggy poetry that flows along to a positive mantra shining bright; 'come let it go, take the first step to lighten the load, you're one of a kind'. Joyfully strange and lovely, there's a Beta Band mood to go with dreams of the Mediterranean.

Finally, Blind Horizons is a pure extended odyssey of lilting polished pop. David wrote the song with the idea of taking a listener through a journey aboard a Cosmic Starlight Cutter. An epic and vast voyage, the sentiment is a reminder to keep searching. With a more classic song feel, it is driven by classic piano chords and cycles, drum machines, and layered synths.
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PREMIERE : Max Essa & David Harks - Magic Eyes

Super FU are back with the first single from their forthcoming long player 'Physical Sounds', featuring some heavyweight remixes to get things moving.
 
The original is a perfect blend of disco, funk, pop, and acid house. Rock-solid beats, analogue bass, searing strings, and all kinds of synth action blend seamlessly with live instrumentation. Paul Withy and Sarah Lazenby trade melodies as the chorus swoops for a mid-tempo end-of-nighter.

The Dub strips out the pop and instrumentation but ups the psychedelics. Deep, trippy and electronic, it takes a hypnotic journey into a world of dub and balearica.

Next up, Craig Bratley brings the pianos front and centre, working the riff that comes off like Marshall Jefferson on downers. The vocals repeat as the track builds to chug and weave to the acid; cue smoke, strobe and dancefloor mayhem.
   
Finally, Leo Zero dubs the disco and rolls with the funk. Once again, the song shows it's strength is as it blends with the piano for nu-disco heaven!

Dicky Trisco: "Craig Bratley mix bloody rocks!"

Alice Palace: "Absolute quality from Super Fu, have always loved the 12 inch dub, so glad its getting a release into the wild :-) Craig and Leo's remixes are the icing on the cake!"

Fingerman: "Heavy vibes here! Leo Zero's mix and the dub are class!"

Robot 84: :"All sounding good, very hard to pick a winner, Leo and Craig's mixes doing it for me:"

Siren (Leo Zero Remix)

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LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/

The Emperor Machine - La Cassette (Dub)

A Public Affair (Remixes)

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Life on Planets - Fork In The Path (Luke Solomon's Body Dub)

Monday Fall Blues is a cozy, cinematic journey through the changing seasons — a lo-fi, deep house, and chill jazz fusion perfect for gray skies, slow mornings, and warm drinks.
Each track captures the quiet poetry of fall: amber light, city reflections, soft rain, and the comfort of staying in. Designed for focus, relaxation, or an evening mix in your favorite café.

Let the warmth of Vastel guide you into the rhythm of shorter days and longer nights.

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Sweater Days

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Tambour Trinité By Bongo Percu - Mafaté (Kazamayé Afro Maloya Short play)

Good Times

Olefonken is a musical savant. A musician, an artist, a producer, a DJ, a label owner and a promoter, he embraces and works in every faction of music. He first started making music, playing in various bands in school, and eventually formed hubbabubbaklubb. While working in that group Olefonken has concurrently established a career as a solo artist with two EPs Quaaludes and Till Hanne finding the ears of Norwegian listeners and audiences abroad.

OLEFONKEN | Boiler Room Oslo: Jaeger X Frædag

We met Ichisan last December in Mexico at the Tropico festival and since then we have been discovering his back catalogue of amazing music. If you're not familiar check out his full length LP on Nang entitled 'Polykarp' :)

llustration: Meta Wraber

Ichisan - Outdoor Voices Mix

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