Return to Space Ghost’s celebrated Dance Planet LP with six summer-ready remixes by @central8000, Dirk 81, @Jarrenc, @nelsonoftheeast and @space-ghost-1 himself, releasing June 10.

The Oakland-native’s romantic and empowering house sound has enjoyed a growing audience made up of fans and tastemakers alike. The remix package comes courtesy of friends and label affiliates, each lending their touch to Space Ghost’s work.

Capitalizing on the inherent warmth in the Bay Area-artist’s sound, Tartelet label head Dirk 81 subtly threads a slow, rolling breakbeat into ‘Deep’, channeling 90s RnB and Balearic.

Danish underground powerhouse and Help/Regelbau label affiliate Central injects some up-tempo garage house energy into ‘Be Yourself’ – without losing the swirling romanticism of the original. And LA-based producer Jarren, neighbor to Space Ghost on UK label Apron, leans in to the punchy Lately Bass and turns up the swing on his own version of the track.

Space Ghost comes back to ‘Emotional Healer’ and creates a pointedly club-tooled ‘Dance Mix’ version with a panoply of 90s touchstones delivered in the classiest of ways. To finish, Nelson Of The East’s ‘Forever Dub’ of the track adds a sharp and snappy strain of modern steppas.

Exclusive to the digital release, Space Ghost also offers up an ambient mix of ‘Emotional Healer’ for purely horizontal escapism, with his softly whispered mantras as your spirit guide through the aqueous pads. Nelson of the East closes the EP with trippy acid lines, dubbed out piano and off-kilter rhythms with his floor pleasing Acid Mix.

Releasing June 10, the vinyl comes in two versions; black standard and a limited-edition marbled pink/black.

Dance Planet Remixes

:: Space Ghost - Dance Planet Remixes - Tartelet Records 2022 ::

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Multi-dimensional future-jazz outfit JK GROUP release a new EP, Rising on La Sape Records. The brainchild of award-winning saxophonist, Joshua Kelly (30/70 collective, PBS Young Elder of Jazz 2019), the band returns to the label with a follow up EP to the mind-bending 2021 release, What’s Real? 

Where What’s Real? served as a platform for wild experimentation, Rising returns to a more considered and familiar format for the band, offering up 4 cohesive tracks that are deep in conception and expression, at once original and fresh. Conceived after recording an as yet unreleased body of work written whilst undergoing chemotherapy, Rising celebrates bandleader Josh’s survival and eventual recovery from the intense treatment he received for lymphoma in 2020. 

The band stays true to their honed format of jazz traditions melding with influences from electronica and beyond. Like the first release, The Young Ones, Rising sits comfortably in the crossover of raw, live jazz and electronic dance music,  whilst also throwing an unexpected curveball to the listener expanding the palate of the bands sound to a pigment never before heard in their music. The EP takes you on an emotional journey throughout the four tracks, best listened to start-to-finish.

Rising

PREMIERE: JK Group - Find Strength

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Out All Night (4 AM Version)

VA -Title: Crossroads Project Vol. 3 (Mogan, UC BEATZ, S3A, Mika Blaster)
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Label: Sampling As An Art Records (https://soundcloud.com/s3acontact)
https://soundcloud.com/mogan_is_mogan

When you play around clubs and festival you meet artists. Those Crossroad Projects are the musical meetings done after those gigs. S3A Records is really proud to push those artists! The first track by MOGAN is absolutely stunning, right between UR and Lone. The second is a piano banger from UC Beatz. The third is a brand new S3A Original track, the fourth Is a mix between two promising but unfinished tracks by Mika Blaster and the editing capacity of S3A!

Crossroads Project Vol. 3

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PREMIERE : Mogan - Rainy June

Following a stunning debut LP on Planet Trip in 2021 Two Ends offers up a glorious EP for Shades Of Sound Recordings. Comprised of three original tracks that are rich in colourful melodies and dreamy textures, drifting beautifully between deep house energy and a warm downtempo feeling. Remixes come in the form of a gorgeous blissed out rework from LOVA while Joe Morris offers up both a shimmering downtempo mix and a deeper club cut.

The title track and cover image plays homage to the beautiful Yaverland beach at dusk. That and every other moment happens to us only once, so we may as well savour it with full attention. Frame of Mind is about the inner narratives we tell ourselves to make sense of life events whilst Crossings explores the joys and pains of living between countries, cultures and peoples.

https://shadesofsoundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/two-ends-this-moment-is-for-life
https://soundcloud.com/twoends
https://soundcloud.com/joemorris

PREMIERE: Two Ends - This  Moment Is For Life (Joe Morris Deep Mix) [Shades Of Sound Recordings]

New York City’s tape_hiss makes his debut on Darker Than Wax with A Linear Progression, a deep and meditative dance record born out of the pandemic’s paradigm shift. tape_hiss is an accomplished producer by any measure, with early releases on Love Notes from Brooklyn making his hardware-driven sound known worldwide, and a string of follow up releases on Axe on Wax, Just Jack, Lost Palms, and Echocentric Records solidifying his reputation as one of the deepest in the game. With A Linear Progression, the artist has approached his craft from new angles with stunning results.

While tape_hiss’s previous work had all found its genesis in a kitted-out studio, driven by melodies and chord progressions, the tracks making up A Linear Progression were all built around one tool - the MPC 1000. On weekend trips out of the city to visit family during 2020, the producer would bring only his MPC and put together these tunes, finding inspiration in its limitations and delving deep into 90s sampling techniques. After getting back to the studio, he would record what was created - sometimes nearly fully formed tracks, and other times core ideas to expand upon. The cumulation of this process was an entirely new take on the tape_hiss sound - dubby, euphoric, and exploring a wide range of tempos and beat patterns.

First single ‘W 4th Street (ACE) exemplifies this - a spacey roller thats not a club track, but would work equally well in that environment. Other standouts include ‘Energy Transfer’ with its heavily 90s-inspired electro-not-electro vibe, and the genreless ‘Heartbreaking’, constantly moving its momentum upward, yet remaining an introspective cut. More of a mixtape than a club 12”, A Linear Progression marks a step forward in the producer’s musical growth, and we are ecstatic to be here for it.

A Linear Progression

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This year's compilation is dedicated to Mahsa Amini and the protest movement her tragic death has caused. We mean to make a contribution to support the situation of women in Iran by donating all revenues to the 'Center For Human Rights In Iran' (www.iranhumanrights.org)

The works of long-familiar label associates as well as fresh fellows of Blaq Numbers from all over the globe compile yet another grand collection of sounds covering a broad spectrum from laidback jazzy vibes to glowing house and italo vibes. This one is spiked with 4-to-the-floor crackers and electro disco sensations.

Massive thanks go out to all the artists contributing their music ♡

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Waltz Out

A distinctive piece from the Ballroom Records archive, “Blade Runner” by Purple Kaiser is featured on TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4 — a curated collection exploring the label’s most atmospheric and genre-defying Electronica.

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4

Blade Runner

Bristol based independent record label since 2015.
www.shallnotfade.co.uk

Deeper Meaning

Shall Not Fade

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