Phonica Best Of 2017

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One of my favorite all time albums, I wanted everyone to have a chance to hear it since it's not available for purchase anywhere. I believe it was released in 1991, locally.

The Inspectors - Tim Leighton - Guitar & lead vocals, Craig Record - drums & vocals, Richard Holmes - Bass & vocals, Bob Colwell - Keyboards & lead vocals

All songs written by Bob Colwell and/or Tim Leighton.

The Inspectors - Simple

Mixes - Part 1

Electronic Love Collective 12

Artists Of The Year 2017

Tuinfeest

SONAR 2018

Josey In Space

Phase Two

Claro Intelecto - Peace Of Mind

08 I Know What Love Is And I Want Nothing To Do With It

05 In My World

04 Till The Walls Cave In

03 The Night Drags On

02 Fascinated

01 Sleeping Through A Lifetime

Very excited for this custom-made mix from our pal Patrick Holland
Read his interview with Scott Parsons: 
http://the-editorialmagazine.com/?p=9656

Portrait by Rebecca Storm :)

Patrick Holland's Sky Lounge Medley

Objekt #4

Buy on Bandcamp

Theme From Q

Epic deep house banger with a Jersey nod from French newcomer Sweely. Blazin' summer jams on the new EP :)

All The Reasons

BUY RELEASE

Sweely - Around

'No More Lies', out now on Brainfeeder: thundercat.lnk.to/no-more-liesSo

Show You The Way

Show You The Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)

Saturnz Barz (feat. Popcaan)

Ascension (feat. Vince Staples)

Sleeping Rough

Sleeping Rough (Original Mix)

Humanz

Submission (feat. Danny Brown & Kelela)

Strobelite (feat. Peven Everett)

Momentz (feat. De La Soul)

The American artist came up via footwork, but is now forging a new sound that's all her own making

http://mixmag.net/feature/jlin-gold

Black Origami

Full Gold feature

Gold 027: Jlin 'Black Origami'

Nina Kraviz presents an exclusive new edit for Sónar Festival of her track ‘You Are Wrong’. The edit is a live unmastered cut.

Another version of 'You Are Wrong' previously featured on Nina's mix for fabric. The full version will be released on трип, as part of Nina’s new single for her label, in July 2017.

Nina Kraviz returns to Sónar Barcelona for the second time to play the closing set at SónarPub at Sónar by Night on Fri 16th June. 

Tickets: https://sonar.es/en/2017/tickets

Sónar Premiere: Nina Kraviz 'You Are Wrong' (PREMIER edit)

The noise rattled within the jungle. The green leaves bounced in time with the beat as nature sprung to life in the morning sunshine. The damp rose between the trees turning to steam in the heat of the morning glow as wildlife scattered between the beanstalks. The sky was a dreamy shade of pink but it would soon be blue, much like the waters which surrounded the tropical island. This was paradise and a place called home.

It is with much delight that we are able to premiere an exclusive new track from Superpitcher on Hippie Dance. Keep an eye out for more Hippie Dance affiliated content in the coming weeks. That's a hint.

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PREMIERE: Superpitcher - Burkina [Hippie Dance]

Multi Culti’s lucid-lifestyle dreamer Peter Power takes us on a free-wheeling trip to the motherland on AFRO DAMBA.

The Irish-born Voodoohop resident has returned from the jungles of Bahia with a fresh ep of primal party tracks sampling voices and rhythms from across Africa and it’s neighbouring islands, producing what is easily his most club-oriented work to date. Whereas his tracks for Voodoohop were spiritual flute-heart-openers, these are neo-pagan mating-ritual floor-fillers. The rhythm is set to tribal chug, with rollicking percussion, reverb-soaked vocals, and all the fun jangly bells & bits you expect to be hanging off such a well-traveled producer.

If that weren’t enough, we enlisted Romanian-dance-duo Khidja to double-down and remix both Adama Waro and Dansakoni (available as a digital-exclusive). Resident mix-lord Dreems also weighs in with a subtle remix of Dansakoni, gently upping the tempo and tweaking the knobs in selfless service of the original groove.


• ‘Dansakoni’ samples Guinea’s Famadou Konaté 
• 'Mori Baka’ samples a song of the Baka people, traditionally sung to help children fall asleep
• ‘Mori' comes from Moribyassa; a  traditional malinke rhythm of West Africa
• ‘Adama Waro’ features a vocal sample from Danyel Waro from Reunion Island
• Djembe percussion on 'Dansakoni' and 'Adama Waro' by Adama Dramé

Afro Damba [MC033]

Peter Power - Mori Baka

Nina Kraviz releases for the first time a full solo EP on her own label трип. ‘Pochuvstvui’ and ‘You Are Wrong’ briefly appeared before on her stand-out ‘fabric 91’ mix in December 2016. ‘You Are Wrong’ is a new version written for the EP release.

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B2. Nina Kraviz - You Are Wrong  (Short Version)

A1. Nina Kraviz - Pochuvstvui

* Read More: http://boltingbits.com/orchestre-poly-rythmo-de-cotonou-djanfa-magni-bosqs-afro-disco-mix
* Pre-order: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/orchestre-poly-bosq-meets-poly-rythmo-uptown/660661-01/
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TGpSBNeYfBE

Washington, D.C. based @SolPowerDC are lining up their next release, this time it's a series of edits from Boston, MA's @Bosqmusic. Slotting perfectly into Sol Power's percussive, afro and disco leaning sound, the edits take four of Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou's songs and give them subtle, tasteful reworks. Bosq has been exploring various afro-latin avenues in many of his works over the last several years, which include three albums and an EP, although the edits here may actually be closer to his roots as one half of the @WhiskeyBarons, notorious for their edits and remixes.

Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou formed back in 1966 in Benin and released hundreds of songs in the decades that followed. The band has recently re-formed and started touring again, also releasing an album back in 2011. Bosq cites them as a major influence on his work to date and wanted to be respectful to the original material when working on his edits. Our premiere today comes courtesy of the B1 on the record. Taking Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou's track 'Djanfa Magni', Bosq introduces a beefier low end while lightly re-arranging parts of the original cut and adding some extra percussion. These DJ friendly edits are sure to heat up plenty of summer's end parties so don't sleep and get your pre-orders in.

Bosq Meets Poly Rythmo Uptown

PREMIERE : Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Cotonou - Djanfa Magni (Bosq's Afro Disco Mix)

patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/afternooners

Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up once more to release the final volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. One of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of disco, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music, “The San Francisco Sound.” Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study at the City College of San Francisco. He founded the Electronic Music Lab at the school, where he would make experimental soundtracks by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer.

By the mid-70’s, Patrick’s synthesis techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco superstar Sylvester, including hits like “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance Disco Heat” and “Stars.” This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. His 18-minute long remix of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and his production work with edgy New Wave band Indoor Life were both of particular note. By 1981, Patrick had released a string of dance 12″ singles, like “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”. He also had founded Megatone Records, the label upon which he released his debut album, “Menergy”. Around this time Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with an unknown illness: that which would later be called AIDS. Throughout 1982, he recorded two more Hi-NRG hits, “Do You Wanna Funk” for Sylvester, and “Right On Target” for Paul Parker, as well as a second solo album “Mind Warp”. On November 12, 1982, he passed away.

In 1979 Patrick was contacted by John Coletti, owner of famed gay porn company Fox Studio in Los Angeles. Patrick jumped on this offer and sent reels of his college compositions from the 70s to John in LA. Coletti then used a variable speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of Patrick’s songs in-sync with the film scenes. The result was the VHS collections “Muscle Up” and “School Daze” released in 1979 and 1980. “Afternooners” is the third collection of Cowley’s instrumental songs, recorded in between 1979 and 1982. Some of these recordings are demos from the album "Mind Warp".  All songs were originally untitled, so we’ve used the titles from Fox Studio’s 8mm film loops. This compilation also includes three bonus tracks found in the archives of fellow Megatone Records recording artist Paul Parker and the attic of teenage friend Lily Bartels. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos, and Giorgio Moroder, Patrick crafted a singular sound from his collection of synthesizers, percussion, modified guitars, and hand-built equipment. The listener enters a world of forbidden vices, evocative of Patrick’s time spent in the bathhouses of San Francisco. The songs on “Afternooners” reflect the advances of the equipment available at the onset of the 1980s. Cowley's unadulterated electronic forms are stripped down and dubbed up. Lush electronic percussion, soaring synthesizer riffs and low slung funk grooves comingle on these magnificent soundscapes.

Featuring 70 minutes of music never before released on vinyl. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl is housed in a gatefold jacket designed by Berlin-based artist Gwenael Rattke, featuring black and white photos of Patrick in his studio that opens to a full color array of x-rated scenes from the Fox Studio vaults. Included is a fold-out poster featuring a handmade collage using photography and xeroxed graphics of classic gay porn imagery and an essay from Drew Daniel of Matmos. For Patrick’s 67th birthday, Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records present a glimpse into the futuristic world of a young genius. These recordings shed a new light on the experimental side of a disco legend who was taken too soon.

Afternooners

Patrick Cowley - Surfside Sex

Out now:  https://lifeanddeath.lnk.to/ExitStrategies
2LP / CD / download / stream

Watch the official video for the single 'Drug Dilling' here: https://youtu.be/25PAcJZo4xY

Berlin duo The/Das release their sophomore album, Exit Strategies, on Life And Death. The absorbing 12-tracker is the result of a period of searching that finds the new line-up of Fabian Fenk and Philipp Koller combine multiple ideas, layers, fragments and sounds and refine their distinct idea of techno tenderness. It makes for a soothing and escapist 60 minute listen that works as well at home, on headphones, as it does loud in the club.

Exit Strategies

The/Das - Loveboat (Original Mix)

The fifth piece of The Golden Ravedays puzzle will be released on Hippie Dance in May 2017. Number 5 of the series introduces two further tracks of the sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking us on this year.

The djembe drum on the cover and the two titles of the tracks hint that this edition could potentially include stuff that was inspired by the rhythms and melodies of Africa - a sound legacy that is of great importance to Superpitcher. Side A features Bluesin. Rumor has it that Superpitcher visited South Africa and adventurously traveled into the deep bush-bush where he met new friends with captivating voices who speak in enchanting tongues. Initially, Bluesin is bursting with aching, longing and the oldest story of sorrow but there is also comic relief and pride in this story; typical of the emotional signature of the sound of Africa and the Blues that it gave birth to later on.

Side B features Burkina. It all starts rather innocently with Burkina. One gets carried away by the funky, ethnic drumming thinking yummy yes, this is going to be a virtual trip to the Brazilian amazon, or maybe a corner of the Congo, Cameroon perhaps, and one is not even side-tracked by the arrival of birdsong and something that hypnotizes, like beautiful sirens because it is all too groovy for any dictionary, and then, oh boy, then their Mother Superior arrives and all hell breaks loose. Frogs, kudu horns, rattlesnakes, things that hiss and croak and the haunting voice of Her. As if that is not enough to make you believe you have been propelled to a new continent, wait until the ending of Burkina! It will transport you to another universe altogether!

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Superpitcher - Bluesin' (snippet)

The eighth piece of The Golden Ravedays puzzle will be released on Hippie Dance in August 2017. Number 8 of the series introduces two tracks that will take you to the far side of somewhere you’ve never been before. They are both reminiscent of outer space blues playing spooky games in a dust bowl.

Side A features Tuesday Paris Texas a tastefully arranged track with vintage sounds passing nonchalantly through a wild western aural landscape. The music is announced like a cowboy movie dual complete with bar doors swinging on rusty nails in slow motion. Mournful guitar strings swirl over a steady horseback galloping beat, expanding into a full-on-fire dance track. Halfway through a woman’s haunted voice appears and disappears like an eerie siren, a gunshot is fired (was that a gunshot?), a man whispers “what!?” Tuesday Paris Texas is in no hurry to give an answer.

Side B features Mirage a desert sound collage glued to a steady pulse that rolls and rolls, circumventing any destination. Mirage is a contour map of no surprising peaks just undulating valleys of wistful cathodic sound creeks, sometimes veering off to plains in full view of the moon, in earshot of solitary wolf cries. Like Tuesday Paris Texas, Mirage is testament of Superpitcher’s versatile prospecting beyond the elemental sound tools of the electronic music trade.

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Superpitcher - Mirage (snippet)

Temptation

Salvation

Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher’s third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus- years, emotionally. And full-length it is: The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 longer than usual tracks that was released in January 2017 and is stretching over 12 respective chapter albums during a one-year period.

The 12th and final edition of The Golden Ravedays album will be released on record label Hippie Dance in December 2017.

Side A is the ballad of Late Night Skanking. True to the soul of skanking this track is weaving its delicate elements between the rise and fall of a monumental wave that teasingly never breaks. The main melody so seduces and hypnotizes that before you know it you’re a wide-eyed cobra waving away in a basket.

Standing ovation! Hands in the air! He made it! The very last track of Superpitcher’s epic Golden Ravedays odyssey is a jovial spree, a hullabaloo of merrymaking, the perfect celebration of the beginning to end of this heroic album. Punky Reggae Party is a fantastic collision of festive sounds, beats and voices that bring us undecipherable messages and everything else that is far beyond nice, nice, nice. Encore! Encore!

@superpitcher_official

08 I Know What Love Is And I Want Nothing To Do With It

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