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Tripped-out, leisurely house and breaks comprises the next drop on Haŵs. Perth producer Guy Contact takes the reigns for ‘Euphoria Simulator’, a 6-track EP radiating with all the charm and optimism of a liberated future. The eccentric ‘Whip Crack Cowboy’ takes the camaraderie of country twang into a colourful new world, mediating psychedelic guitar strings into harmony with synths and a cathartic house beat. TIP!

Buy: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/euphoria-simulator

https://soundcloud.com/guycontact
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Premiere: Guy Contact - Whip Crack Cowboy [Haŵs]

https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/clear-skies

For the 17th release on the label, Naarm-based DJ/producer Solar Suite explores the playful liminality of dusk and dawn, taking locked grooves and prog sounds as the tools to transform the strange into something exhilarating.

‘Clear Skies’ comprises 3 high-nrg club-ready tracks and 2 slow chuggers to balance out the up-tempo rhythms, all with dedicated circumstances to be plucked out from record bags and presented to a willing crowd. The only question left: what occasions personal to the selector will they rear their heads?

Distributed by Subwax.
Artwork by Stewart Armstrong.
PR text by Emily Rose Howard.
Mastering by Curved London.
Pressings by R.A.N.D.

𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐅𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 ➟ Solar Suite - Clear Skies

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Premiere: A2 - Sohrab - Out Of Touch [EYA017]

Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Zs7nWfv-UV4

Label: Haŵs
Artist: Solar Suite
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Cat. Number: HAWS017
Release Date: August 12th, 2022.
Support it: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/clear-skies

For the 17th release on Haŵs, Naarm-based DJ/producer Solar Suite explores the playful liminality of dusk and dawn, taking locked grooves and prog sounds as the tools to transform the strange into something exhilarating.

Solar Suite's ‘Clear Skies’ EP comprises 3 high-nrg club-ready tracks and 2 slow chuggers to balance out the up-tempo rhythms, all with dedicated circumstances to be plucked out from record bags and presented to a willing crowd. The only question left: what occasions personal to the selector will they rear their heads?

Haŵs
https://soundcloud.com/hawsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/haws_music

Solar Suite
https://soundcloud.com/solarsuite
https://www.instagram.com/solarsuite

Listen to YouTube

PREMIERE: Solar Suite - Tasman Transmission [Haŵs]

Solar Suite - Clear Skies EP
BUY LINK: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/clear-skies
Label : Haŵs (https://soundcloud.com/hawsmusic)

For the 17th release on our label, Naarm-based DJ/producer Solar Suite explores the playful liminality of dusk and dawn, taking locked grooves and prog sounds as the tools to transform the strange into something exhilarating.

‘Clear Skies’ comprises 3 high-nrg club-ready tracks and 2 slow chuggers to balance out the up-tempo rhythms, all with dedicated circumstances to be plucked out from record bags and presented to a willing crowd. The only question left: what occasions personal to the selector will they rear their heads?

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Solar Suite - Still Life

DAYS BEFORE RODEO

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Italian DJ/producer Gabriele Toma is shaking up the scene with releases on established labels such as Trick,  CUFF, and Hellbent Records, swiftly capturing the attention of industry giants such as The Martinez Brothers,  Cloonee and Hot Creations label head Jamie Jones, to name a few. Positioning himself as an exciting newcomer  to watch, having previously released his bouncing ‘Lit Bit’ EP on sister label Hottrax, Toma now makes his Hot  Creations debut with his knockout four-track EP, ‘You See Me’. 

“I'm so happy to have signed to my idol's label! it's been one of my dreams since I started as a DJ/ producer, and all of this fills me with pride! I want to thank Jamie and all of his staff for making this possible! For the EP, I was inspired by Jamie, following his style and taking tracks like "Percolator" as an example” - Gabriele Toma.
 
‘You See Me’ opens the release with a low-slung bassline, bustling drum funk, and addictive rap-style vocals that  propel the track as a certified bouncer. ‘Move Your Body’ delivers another groove-led house beat with bouncy  bass hits and skittering female calls, while ’Muevete’ sets the dance floor ablaze with vibrant bongo beats in true  Hot Creations style. To close, ‘Magic Flute’ lives up to its name, with whistling flutes at the core alongside pumping  bass to craft an irresistible after-hours workout. 

Tracklist:  
1. You See Me 
2. Move Your Body 
3. Muevete 
4. Magic Flute

Gabriele Toma - Move Your Body

Today we’re having one of the scene’s hot names and his own fresh label. Revivis did a nice job with the debut release on his Santo Tomas last year, and started a series of edits later – now it’s time for the second landing on Santo Tomas. Signature style, quite nice tracks, let’s check them all. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/premiere-a1-revivis-all-over-st002/]

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Premiere: A1 - Revivis - All Over [ST002]

North Phase and ADR share duties on this four track split EP, each dropping two tracks, although all four of them are firm dancefloor-filling candidates. North Face's 'Breaks Away' adds a few retro rave flourishes to a beat that's a distant cousin of Zinc's '138 Trek' and a bouncy, bumping bass holding the whole thing together. 'Sound Connection' has a hypnotic charm that nods to Fluke and early Underworld, although choppier and less linear in rhythmic approach. Aside from being probably the best named track we've come across in 2023 so far, ADR's 'Ned Flanders Hot Chocolate' is skippy enough to be 4x4 garage but with its scratched asides and cheeky, funky b-line has a unique personality, while 'Comet Relief' nods to the progressive house of the early 90s with an unexpected xylophone-like twist. It's all good, as they used to say.

BUY:
https://pilotlondon.bandcamp.com/album/north-phase-adr
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/north-phase-adr-breaks-away-vinyl/970235-01/
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PREMIERE: North Phase - Breaks Away [PILOT]

Renowned for his infectious beats and formidable presence in the electronic music scene, Louden returns with his second release on Sidney Charles' esteemed label, Heavy House Society. Louden, driven by a profound attraction to electronic sounds from an early age, has seamlessly translated his passion into a thriving career. 

BUY:
https://www.beatport.com/release/freaky-jam-ep/4416782

PREMIERE: Louden - Freaky Jam [Heavy House Society]

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Premiere: A1 - Miller - The Ways Are Mystic [RGR002]

OK WILLIAMS @ADONIS NYD 2024

MARICAS comes back with their second compilation,
the most club ready and queer sounding yet. The FLINT*
collective, based in Barcelona, put together the best boat
crew that will take you sailing along the mything lust, sweaty
and affectionate sound that has been gestating in their
party over the last 6 years. Between the capitans of the
ship we can find: Amaliah, Chico Blanco, FAFF, Roza Terenzi,
Regularfantasy’s Rendezvous (Regularfantasy + Kristian North),
Jennifer Loveless, Maara, Introspekt and ISAbella.

MARICAS Compilation Vol 2.

3. Roza Terenzi - Fine Gay

Mix of the Week #522 is by Nebraska
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“My usual eclectic approach, lots of groovy tunes from varied genres.  Some musical references to the “pitched wordless vocal sample” approach of Senza Parole in there – Art Of Noise, Pieces Of A Dream…” - Nebraska

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https://tsvi.bandcamp.com/album/mediterraneo-ep

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Nervous Horizon’s co-founder and label honcho TSVI is back with a new release, Mediterraneo EP.

As a homage to the sonic legacy that influenced the artist’s formative years, the five track EP is inspired by the Mediterranean Progressive movement which became popular in Italy between the late 90s and the early 00s. At the time, italo dance music had a distinctive trance influence; producers like Gigi D’Agostino, Mauro Picotto and Mario Piú were among the most prominent artists of the scene.

In Mediterraneo EP, TSVI combines the elements of this iconic movement with contemporary drum patterns and his signature sound.

The opening track, ‘Progressiva’, features a synth line evocative of 00s dance hits like Sydney Samson’s ‘Riverside’ or Federico Franchi ‘Cream’. With its steady groove and hands-in-the-air emotional breakdown, it is destined to be a festival anthem.

‘Vitamina H’ and ‘HHG’ take a less emotional approach, focusing on raw club energy. Dark melodies and Italian vocal samples dominate in ‘Vitamina H’, building up to a climatic frenzy of percussive triplets in the second half. ‘HHG’ borrows elements from HandzUp!, a trance subgenre which was popular in Germany and in various parts of Europe in the early 2000s. Both tracks are influenced by Raptor house, a genre of electronic music that originated in Caracas, Venezuela in the early-1990s, and ‘HHG’ features one of the originators of the genre, Dj Babatr, who helped pioneer the sound and is a huge inspiration for TSVI.

The last two tracks, ‘Parhasar’ and ‘Ultimo Impero’, are named after two legendary clubs in Turin, where progressive trance and hardstyle flourished in the early 1990s. Unlike the first three tracks of the project, where the production is almost entirely sample based, in these final tunes there is a particular focus on sound design evoking a hypnotic energy which serves as the perfect closing for the record.

TSVI - Parhasar

Of all the Berlin DJs who make a living spinning strange, I'm-not-sharing-the-tracklist kind of records, Sugar Free, originally hailing from Madrid, might be the most fun. She plays bold, colourful tracks with an air of sci-fi and sleaze, somewhere between Italo, hi-NRG, electro and house. (Her Dimensions Mix last year was one of our favourites of 2023.) She's the kind of DJ who messes with your perception of genres and tempos by how she blends tracks together, and also a DJ with a rare grasp of mixing melodies and moods—just check out the first transition of this RA Podcast for a spine-tingling example.

Sugar Free doesn't speak much publicly, and you won't find a lot about her on the internet. She prefers to let her DJing speak for itself. And her RA Podcast says a lot: proggy basslines, heart-in-mouth descents into reverb-heavy breakdowns, eerie vocals and a general feel of psychedelia and '80s decadence. It's difficult to tell what era these records are from, which is part of the charm. For a bonus point, try and pick out two just-completed Sugar Free originals, some of her first productions ever after her debut track came out on Limousine Dream in 2022.

@freesugarfree

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/927

RA podcast

RA.927 Sugar Free

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PREMIERE: A2 - Natebytheway- Pinkiepipepromise [NUG-NET-08]

Buy link: https://limousine-dream.com/nug-net-08/

Description: 
The Nug-Net Vinyl Winner’s Circle is here. These are 4 of the top 8 tracks we received out of 400+ submissions. These have been played and tested by Gene and are certified for the dancefloor. Nug-Net will continue to shine a light on up and coming producers now and in the future. To take the course, visit http://www.nug-net.com.

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Premiere : Nathan Boost - My P's & D's (Dirty Mix) (NUG-NET-08)

The Nug-Net Vinyl Winner’s Circle is here. These are 4 of the top 8 tracks received out of 400+ submissions. 

These have been played and tested by Gene (@geneonearth) and are certified for the dancefloor. Nug-Net will continue to shine a light on up and coming producers now and in the future. 

To take the course, visit http://www.nug-net.com
Buy track: https://limousine-dream.com/nug-net-08

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PREMIERE: PR.A.DO - Edgy [Nug-Net]

The Nug-Net Vinyl Winner’s Circle is here. These are 4 of the top 8 tracks we received out of 400+ submissions. These have been played and tested by Gene and are certified for the dancefloor. Nug-Net will continue to shine a light on up and coming producers now and in the future.
To take the course, visit www.nug-net.com.

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B2. Cuba Libre - Silverplate [NUG-NET-08]

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Premiere : Nathan Boost - My P's & D's (Dirty Mix) (NUG-NET-08)

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