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RAVE EN LA WEB guest mix by Soos
18 - mar - 2021
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RW028 - Soos

The Kempe Stone Portal is the long awaited debut album from long time musical adventurer The Vendetta Suite. It arrives on Hell Yeah Recordings on June 25th, and spans over 20 years of diverse musical experiments. In the words of label boss Marco, "it's a nice ride."

Gary Irwin started dancing in 1990, when he was drawn to the dubbed out and psychedelic sounds of Andrew Weatherall and The Orb, at the same time falling for the forward looking house and techno played by David Holmes and Iain McCready at their regular nights at Belfast's Art College. After studying music technology and performing arts, Irwin gave Holmes a cassette of bedroom produced techno and it started a long and fruitful relationship that has continued to this day.

In the intervening years, Irwin has been the in-house engineer at Holmes' Exploding Plastic Inevitable studio and label, has engineered and remixed with him, released on his labels and written music for his Holy Pictures album, all while picking up credits on labels like NovaMute, Sabrettes, 13Amp and many more. As time passed, Irwin explored non-dance sounds such as krautrock, library music, synth and 80s b-sides before more recently circling back to acid house, downtempo and Balearic. All of this and more informs this panoramic 12 track album, which is a testament to a life spent submerged in many different sound worlds.

The Kempe Stone Portal opens on the ‘Neon Secrets’, which along with tracks like ‘Morning Star’ and ‘I Am The Ghost In My House’ betray Irwin’s love of wonky, shimmering experimental synth-pop musik. They are glistening tracks with heavenly harmonies that are truly life-affirming in their richness. Elsewhere, ‘Purple Haze, Yellow Sunrise’ is an homage to his early experiences of Balearic acid house music from the late eighties and early nineties with a not too subtle reference to the narcotics of the time. ‘Who Do You Love’ was Irwin’s first non-dance music production in 1998, a cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain's version of the Bo Diddly classic, with guitar feedback and distortion drawing you into a murky world of fuzzy sonics.

‘Della Notte’ came 10 years after, with rumbling toms, bubbling synths and phased Rhodes making for a psyched-out post punk dub. Seasonal sleigh bells and obvious krautrock influences abound on ‘Christmas in Cologne’ while ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ is Air meets Phil Spector on a beach at sunset. ‘Warehouse Rock’ is a dubby acid track that follows on from where 2017 track ‘Shut Up Ya Dub!’ left off, but with a more experimental approach that found the artist limiting himself to a 303, drum machine, dub effects and samples. If King Tubby were to release on Acid Trax, this is how it would sound. Shorter tracks ‘Spring Blues’ and ‘The Adult Section’ were originally made for a modern library music side project and are brilliantly suspensory pieces of lush electronics, yawning chords and gentle rhythms that empty your mind of any tension.

This is a storied album that traverses different musical worlds with style and skill. Some are old, some are new, but they add up to a long player that is both fascinating and timeless.

The Kempe Stone Portal

Neon Secrets

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The Vendetta Suite - Neon Secrets

SC&P Radio #25 with Harry James

Post-punk, dub, electro : pour son retour à la Folie L1, La Mverte ne s'interdit rien.

[DJ SET] La Mverte (Septembre 2021)

There was a strange hypnotic quality to the sound which rumbled between the distant walls of the great cave. They were in the belly of the beast, deep beneath layers of rock which had stood firm and tall for centuries. It had been a long, weary walk to get this far but now they were here it all seemed rather worth it. The drums had begun to bang and bounce from room to room, there were kick's by two, snare's by two and tom's by two. Soon the roar of the band would echo and meander all the way to the core of the earth itself. 

Elite Beat are one of our favourite new groups, a setup which explores the crossover and fringes between dub, electronica, funk and soul. Their new EP is out on Research Records and will make you dance.

PREMIERE: Elite Beat - Tom's By Two [Research Records]

Joi Lau - Gaia In Trouble EP (FUFU003)
BUY LINK: https://fufurecords.com/album/gaia-in-trouble-ep-fufu003
Label : FuFu Records (https://soundcloud.com/fufu_records)

FuFu Records is thrilled to announce the release of a new EP since 2018 and 5 compilations released in 2021/2022.

For this special occasion, we worked with the talented, prolific and legendary producer Joi Lau from Hong Kong.

Joi Lau started his musical career in the early 90s when he got signed by a record label in Hong Kong. His debut Canto-pop album in 1990 went gold and sold over 25000 copies. But soon after, due to personal reason, he left the music industry.

During this past 30 years, Joi’s passion for music still continued and he never stopped making music. Finally, in 2021, Joi Lau returned once again to the music industry with his first dance music album, “3 UR MIND” on Klasse Wrecks. Unbound by traditional genres and classifications, it has drawn the attention of labels, radios and DJ’s from around the world. Among them, a notable DJ in Hong Kong praised him as “an architect of electronic music” and an “local talent with international quality”.

He was part of the FuFu Records Compilation: 88 – Double Happiness Vol.2 released in June 2021.

With a big excitement after our first collaboration in 2021, we have been discussing deeply about a new EP to be released and the wish come true with a beautiful release full of different energies built a story of “Gaia In Trouble”.
You can expect a trip from ambient/tribal to Breakbeat/Techno.

With close to a hundred tracks in his back catalogue of works, fans can only wait patiently and look forward to his next album.

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Joi Lau - The Hottest Day

RA Live 2015.07.31 - Mark Du Mosch VS DJ Overdose, Dekmantel

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Communal Unrest – Jam 2025-00-11

The UK selector brought some wonderful soul and rare groove records into London listening bar Brilliant Corners.

RA Live - 28.02.17 Josey Rebelle at Brilliant Corners

Two and a half hours of blistering electro from DJ Stingray, recorded live at Studio Spaces for RA In Residence: fabric

RA Live

RA Live 2016.12.17 - DJ Stingray, fabric In Residence, Studio Spaces, London

DjRum - DAM (Felix K Reinterpretation) [2nd Drop]
Ulterior Motive - You Must See (Instrumental) [Metalheadz]
Survival ft. Christina Nicola - In Two Minds [Dispatch Recordings]
Heart Drive - Sindicate [Pleasure District]
Crypticz - Shadodo (Merther Riddim) [Ground Mass]
Moresounds - Gwan Fire [31 Recordings]
Vromm - Prototype [31 Recordings]
Thing - The Repeater [Dubthing]
Homemade Weapons & Red Army - Sleep Terror [Samurai Music]
Thing - Chimping [Dubthing]
Red Army - Creature Dub [Ground Mass]
Mikal - Killa Soundboy [Metalheadz]
Enei - Trainchaser [Critical Music]
Mikal ft. Xtrah - At the Controls [Metalheadz]
Mindmapper & Fre4knc - Apparatus [Dispatch Recordings]
Goldie - What You Won't Do For Love (Left Hand Man Mix) [Metalheadz]
John B - Lava [Metalheadz]
Paragon & Gremlinz - Frost [31 Recordings]
DBR UK - Fortress 2015 [Dispatch Recordings]
Signal - Ennair [Critical Music]
Dabs - Objection [Dispatch Recordings]
Enei - Lessons [Critical Music]
Beta 2 - Speckled Dots [Metalheadz]
Thing - Images For Jungle [Dubthing]

BRAWLcast 208

BRAWLcast 208 Bushby - Haptic Recon 8

recorded live on Saturday March 11th 2017 @ This Ain't Bristol, Weidendamm, Hannover

2017.03.11 MAXIMONO @ This Ain't Bristol, Hannover - Germany

Drumcode Live this week is Alan Fitzpatrick live from Shine, Belfast. Expect to hear tracks from Alan Fitzpatrick, Ramiro Lopez and Tiga.

1. Ramiro Lopez feat. Juliet Fox - Come Closer - Drumcode
2. Unknown Artist - Untitled
3. Alan Fitzpatrick feat. mc r1bbz - Wait A Second - Drumcode
4. Sourmash - Pilgrimage to Paradise (Spektre Re-mash)
5. Unknown Artist - Untitled
6. Tiga - Louder Than A Bomb (Dense & Pika Remix) - Turbo Recordings
7. Arjun Vagale & Ramiro Lopez  - Even Flow  - Odd Recordings 
8. Carlo Lio & DJ Pierre - Destroy This Track - SCI+TEC
9. 2000 and One - Get Down (Len Faki Hardspace Mix)
10. Skober - Now Is Time
11. Unknown Artist - Untitled
12. Alan Fitzpatrick - Brian’s Proper Dun One - Drumcode
13. Tom Budden - Untitled
14. Alan Fitzpatrick - You Got Me
15. Thomas Evans - Bitch Is Back - Phobiq

DCR351 - Drumcode Radio Live - Alan Fitzpatrick live from Shine, Belfast

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Digging 80s pop obscurities has long been part of Emotional Rescue’s mission statement and the unearthing of this cover of the Talking Heads classic by the little known, Italian new wave band Politrio for a limited 7” press is a worthy addition.

Formed by guitarist, songwriter and producer Giorgio Canali alongside Massimo Sbaragli and Roberto Zoli for the short-lived project.  With just one album released of new wave, pop rock, it was their contribution to an Amnesty International benefit LP that spawned this excellent version of Byrne, Franz and Weymouth penned classic.   

Coming out of the CBGBs scene of post-punk downtown NYC, the song, released on their aptly titled 1977 “77” debut album, has gone on to become one of the defining songs of it’s time.  Further enhanced with their mesmeric performance in the 1984 Stop Making Sense film and album, it has been ripe for reinterpretation.   

Politrio’s version keeps and captures much of the original, but with their own swing, rhythm, Italian-English vocal delivery, rock guitar, bells and keys.  While remaining instantly recognizable, this is a unique version, with the straightened drumming giving it some added punch and kick.  

This is backed by a systematically cool, delicate but additional re-edit by the Berlin based Italian duo Dama and Budino aka Double Wave.  Rising names in the Berlin scene they are part of the Oscillator collective, label and parties and can be heard at some of the best parties right now.

Letting the instrumental interplay of funky, slap bass and rock guitar have more time to shine, the edit builds and drops, dubs and builds again to the vocals and lyrics known so well, offering an alternative sing-a-long for the more wonky DJs and dancers out there.

B. Psycho Killer (Double Wave Edit)

Le journaliste Benjamin Durand et Diane Sagnier qui fait aussi partie du groupe Camp Claude sont les invité.e.s de Nico Prat pour le meilleur apéro radiophonique du couvre-feu.

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