Club Seven Bells / kontrapost Records / More Rice Records / Less Is More Records / Boiled Wonderland Records

"...so great a fog that we were fain to ring our bells, beat drums, and fire muskets often to keep us from falling foul one upon another."

People's Potential Unlimited (PPU) is a very special record label in DC known for discovering and reissuing some of the weirdest and best ultra-rare boogie, funk, and other dance music from the 70s, 80s, 90s as well as a new generation of beat-makers who draw inspiration from these strange worlds of sound.

Started by music fiend Andrew Morgan and operated out of his basement, PPU’s is a world that re-imagines funk as outsider art and cosmic-boogie as a modern variant of folk music. What would it be like if your school janitor made rap music in the broom closet or if someone in middle management still nursed a dream of being the next El Debarge? The label’s roster includes Robbie M., Dwight Sykes, Evans Pyramid, George Franklin Smallwood, Uku Kuut—names found on demo tapes abandoned to time, or else unearthed online. But PPU also pushes the present into the future. Newest members of the PPU family include DC favorite sons Beautiful Swimmers,  Dreamcastmoe, King Pari, PPU VHS Video mulcher Luke Wyatt, LA beathead Benedek, Vancouver space cadets Pender Street Steppers and Miami sound machine Mickey de Grand IV. There's a palpable scent of both mustiness and freshness to be found in all of PPU's grooves though, the smell of funk from a parallel dimension.

Isle Of Jura is a record label from @jura_soundsystem focusing on reissues of forgotten musical gems. A sub label, Temples Of Jura caters for original artist material. The labels have an eclectic approach to musical output with Vinyl distributed worldwide by Rush Hour.

“Art is magic. Creating music is like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, you are producing something out of nothing. A thing now exists in the world that was not there before”.

Label Enquiries - info@isleofjurarecords.com

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"Being at an Albion gig is like entering a bedouin tent and for the first time ever smell the scent of an exotic spice that you could imagine living with for the rest of your life." 

He is a DJ who doesn't merely take you on another drum journey, but adds an extra dimension where preconception doesn't apply. It can take a while to get used to it though. Because sophistication never went out of style, it just took a few decades to catch up with it. And when the coin finally dropped, Albion was there to pick it up. In 2004 he realized that he could set out on a musical journey that no DJ had done before him. Over the last years he has recorded more than a hundred mixes and has steadily built up a worldwide following.

With the groundbreaking Mixtura mixes, he rediscovered and brought together European disco tracks that had been lost and forgotten since the heydays, Albion defined his own sound, which he refers to as Continental Disco Sound.

So far, he has been putting dance floors on fire in Amsterdam, Athen, Barcelona, Belgrad, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bristol, Bruxelles, Chemnitz, København, Dresden, Dublin, Göteborg, Hague, Helsinki, Leeds, Leipzig, London, Lyon, Madrid, Malmö, Mons, München, Mockba, New York, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Pescara, Rotterdam, Sofia, Stockholm, Thessaloniki, Turku, Uzés, Veliko Tarnovo and Vilnius.

Each year Albion with friends arrange the disco festival Camp Cosmic.

Guest mixes: Beats In Space, Noise In My Head, Another Night On Earth, Intergalactic FM, Joe’s Bakery, Made Like A Tree, Puff Puff Pass, Rotating Souls, Les Yeux Orange, Esters, Racket Racket, Lovefingers, Voices Collective, Dream Machine, Noncollective, Standeasy Show etc

Label discography: Ambassadors Reception, Frisbee Records, Blackdisco, Forest Jams, Rotating Souls,  Macadam Mambo, Mond Musik, Legalize Lambada, Local Kaffee, Passport To Paradise, People Must Jam, Moon&Mann/MM Discos, SchatziMusik, Mond Musik, Whiskey Disco and Bahnsteig 23.

Favorite Recordings is a French label focusing on Soul, Funk, Jazz and other related genres from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. With a rich catalog combining original productions and reissues. Founded in 2006 by Pascal Rioux aka Charles Maurice, the label quickly established itself as an international reference. Under his artistic direction, Favorite Recordings offers a real journey, from the AOR of Al Sunny and Lucas Arruda, to the Jazz-Funk of Andre Solomko and Aldorande, passing by the plainly Afro and Brazilians territories of Voilaaa or Di Melo.

Along these new artists’ projects, a few other strong markers cannot be missed such as the now classic French Disco Boogie Sounds and AOR Global Sounds compilations series. 

Like both sides of the same coin, reissues and contemporary productions ultimately reflect the same passion for the warm and analog sound of musical production’s golden age. Today, again and again, Favorite Recordings aims to ensure the succession.

I Love the Music! 
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