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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

In pandemic times of telepresences and social distancing, Live At Robert Johnson and Leipzig’s own Riotvan team up for a magical musical mission. Encompassed by the graphic design of Michael Satter & Panthera Krause, each of the five tracks has been created by teams representing both label crews and their environs, rendering a truly synergetic effort.

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Sello: @controlla
Productor: @lil_zoid

Estrenamos lo nuevo de Lil Zoid para la etiqueta mexicana Controlla.

Otros de los interesantes sellos latinos que nos proporcionan mensualmente interesantes lanzamientos es Controlla, y este no iba a ser uno menos. Con un gran giro en el sonido actual de Controlla, Lil Zoid nos otorga un remix de influencias claramente dub, slow electro y rasgos traperos que lo llevan a otro nivel.

PREMIERE: Lil Zoid - X5 [Controlla]

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]

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Taken from "Club Winston - Guzzle EP". Out October 2021.

The UK’s Club Winston has been steadily unveiling a series of tripped-out club ready cuts via his own UKGEORGE label over the past few years along with remixes from the likes of D.Tiffany and Tim Reaper. Here though we see him join the roster of Spinning
Plates with his latest collection of works, an imprint that’s played host to material from the likes of SHKN, Neksha, Andy Rantzen, DJ Spider and Bruno Schmidt since its inception in 2015.
Title-track ‘Guzzle’ leads, laid out across five minutes with a menacing arpeggio bass lead, howling atmospherics and crunchy analogue drums. ‘Hell’ follows and tips the focus over to heavy doses of sub bass, intricately dynamic, modulating drums and intense swells of processed synths throughout.
Opening the flip-side is ‘Chart’, upping the energy levels with a pacey 4/4 drum groove while twitchy resonant synth lines, low-end pulsations and cavernous reverberations ebb and flow throughout. ‘Partook’ then rounds out the release, a cinematic ambient composition which lays focus on swirling, textural pads, glitched out resonant bleeps and fluttering low end hits.

Artist social media:

https://club.winston.business
https://soundcloud.com/clubwinston
https://www.instagram.com/club.winston

Label social media:

https://soundcloud.com/spinning-plates-records
https://www.facebook.com/spinningplatesrecords

Guzzle EP

PREMIERE : Club Winston - Guzzle (Spinning Plates)

Label boss Thomass Jackson is joined by Colombian artist Thama The Cat. 

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Outsiders: Calypso Records w/ Thomass Jackson & Tama The Cat  @ Kiosk Radio 02.04.2022

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/magic-pink
Track: Timelapse of Blossoms
Label: https://soundcloud.com/bed_of_roses-1
Format: Digital LP
Release date: 07/06/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/InDinq1FBRc

MagicPink aka Tara Swenson delivers her debut EP on Bed of Roses. Starting with the skittering seance of Wetsundream - a brooding introduction sets the table for a dish of tense frozen vocal breaks. The energy builds as Timelapse of Blossoms erupts into pulses of petals floating towards the dancefloor. In Waves hones the edge of the blade, impelling you to seek your internal horizon. The voyage continues with Night Visions, a hammering breathy beam of energy welcomes you into a parlor of the delights you’ve deprived yourself of.
The EP is rounded out with Cole Baby’s playfully twisted mix of Wetsundream followed by Break Mode's Subaquatic Mix, taking Timelapse of Blossoms to the ocean floor, leaving the finale to Toulouse’s own - Blind Delon whose interstellar version of Night Vision is sure to have you dancing in the shadows of the cosmos.

Night Visions

PREMIERE | MagicPink - Timelapse of Blossoms (Break Mode's Subaquatic Mix) [Bed Of Roses] 2022

Coucher De Soleil (DOR Projects )

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DJ Eef - Coucher De Soleil (DOR Projects )

Coucher De Soleil (DOR Projects)

DJ Eef - Coucher De Soleil (DOR Projects)

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

RA Live 2015.08.01 - Peverelist VS A Made Up Sound, Dekmantel

RA Live 2015.08.02 - Sandrien VS Inigo Kennedy, Dekmantel

Cameroonian father, Ukrainien mother, blessed with an innate swoop of energy and trained as classical, modern, hip-hop and salsa dancer: when analyzing the instaurations of William Kouam Djoko one can only conclude that the Amsterdam based artist is blessed with an enviable framework for a prosperous career in music. His vibrant appearance shows he’s an entertainer par excellence; Djoko is able to grab the attention of his audience instantly thanks to an unbridled onstage enthusiasm. In the 30th edition of the Dekmantel Podcast, Djoko demonstrates his versatility and unstoppable love for rhythm with a percussion-soked mix that will shake up your day.

Dekmantel Podcast 030 - William Kouam Djoko

Intergalactic Gary is a Dutch DJ and producer who has many miles on his DJ clock. He first started plying his trade on the raw West Coast of the Netherlands back in the early nineties, where he would rock squat parties and amaze club crowds with his widescreen sets. Ever since then he has been a key player in the Dutch scene, is part of cult crew The Parallax Corporation and is never far away from a pirate radio station. As well as this, nowadays he is a regular on the European circuit at places like Panorama Bar and has long been a Dekmantel favourite.  A real mix specialist who has put out countless official compilations over the years, Gary is behind the next podcast, which is a 3,5 hour live recording, for us and it is a typically well formed affair that takes us deep into his world.  

With more than a hint of the cosmic atmospheres you would expect of someone called Intergalactic Gary, his selection is a dark, moody one full of broken disco and whacked out electro. Shades of new wave, Italo and synth pop also colour the grooves he lays down, and the cumulative effect is an absorbing, slightly unsettling ride through fierce textures, prickly percussive patterns and otherworldly atmospheres. 

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

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