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London-born and Tokyo-based, Max Essa has spent over two decades crafting lush, melodic soundscapes that blur the lines between balearic, cosmic disco, and ambient pop. Emerging in the '90s on Warp and Paper Recordings, he found his true artistic stride after relocating to Japan in 2008. Since then, Essa has become a central figure in Tokyo’s underground scene, curating events like Zim Zam Zu! at Bar Bonobo and releasing music on labels such as Music For Dreams, Hell Yeah!, and Is It Balearic?

Essa’s style is warm, escapist, and deeply cinematic-often inspired by specific places: Okinawan beaches, Mediterranean ferries, or late-night Tokyo rooftops. His releases, like Lanterns, When I'm Homeward Bound, and The Clean Trip (with David Harks), radiate nostalgia and serenity, wrapped in silky synths and timeless grooves.

Beyond producing, Essa curates, mentors, and connects cultures-compiling Japanese ambient gems on Oto No Wa, together with Ken Hidaka and Dr Rob, and spotlighting local artists through interviews and collaborations. Whether on record or behind the decks, Max Essa invites listeners into a world where emotion, space, and memory guide the rhythm.

More at https://soundcloud.com/max-essa

Max Essa - SOULMEEX DECKS 162

BILL BREWSTER | Live at Armadillo stage, Houghton Festival, Aug 9th, 2025

At the peak of summer, we can’t resist the call of sun-kissed, exotic rhythms, the energy that fuels our Latin House side-project, Danza Estética. This second mix goes even deeper into the genre: expect hidden gems, rare versions of classics, contemporary favorites, and unreleased cuts straight from our studio.. Stay tuned, our Danza Estética debut EP is on the horizon!

Big love to all the DJs, producers and record labels (you know who you are) keeping the spirit still alive, let’s make Latin House great again!

Full tracklist soon available on our Instagram page:
instagram.com/pleasure.voyage/

Vol. UNO

≈ Discoteca Latina Vol. DOS ≈ Pleasure Voyage pres. Danza Estética

Mix of the Week #599 is "Extended Summer" by the Beat Broker
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Mix of the Week #599: the Beat Broker - Extended Summer

It feels quite surreal to say this, but Episode 03 of the Balearic London mix series is brought by none other than Italo house legend Don Carlos. Starting his DJ career in the late 70s, he is best known for his production debut 'Alone'. Widely known as the epitome of what dream house is, the track combines emotive piano chords, crisp percussion, and ethereal pads in what is beautifully floaty yet perfectly punchy perfection. Since then he's released more underground hits under his own name as well as his Montego Bay and Aquanauts monikers. He isn't just a legend of the 90s though, his releases in the recent years on Freerange Records, Utopia, Irma Records, and remixes on Wolf Music and more show that his music sounds as fresh now as ever.

We are so excited to have him as our next guest of our mix series. Get stuck in, and join us at Distillery N17 on the 5th of September where he will be headlining his first gig in London since 2020. Get your tickets at https://ra.co/events/2185010

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Balearic London Episode 03: Don Carlos

Long time Dream Chimney contributor, DJ, Producer Dennis Kane is facing eviction and looking for support. https://gofund.me/7db0132b

We are hosting the original Disques Town podcast episodes and making them available to stream/download. Please consider donating to help Dennis. At the moment Dennis finds himself in a serious financial jam, and we are raising funds to help he and Roan stay in their home of 31 years.


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Originally Recorded Oct 19 2011

Darshan Jesrani is best known as one half of the recording group METRO AREA. (along with Environ records honcho Morgan Geist), their 2002 eponymously named album splashed down with tremendous impact and helped redefine electronic dance music. Darshan tours heavily, does great remixes, (too few if u ask me), continues his stellar work with Morgan, and is working on new material for his Startree label set to debut in 2012.

I have had the great fortune to have Dar as a close pal and partner in the Strobe Lodge parties since their inception in 2005. As a DJ partner Darshan has always brought the ridiculously good business, and a a collaborator he is consistantly thoughtful, gracious, funny as hell, and down to make the party happen. Look for a new Strobe Lodge party soon, and to check out more on all things Jesrani go to: www.environrecords.com, and also www.strobelodge.com

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Just a quick programming note - I thought this self evident, but people have asked - I play the first hour or so of the podcast and then the guest drops their set. Coming up we will have some double booked sets and I'll take those sessions off... ez DK

Disques Town podcast: Episode 3: Dennis Kane w/ Darshan Jesrani

Balearic Potion Volume IV: Issam Dahmani

Here we go! Issam has recorded a silky mix for us, effortlessly gliding through the Balearic and Italo house realms, including rare vinyl cuts and new unreleased material 💙

Featuring tracks from the likes of Bogdan Da, Craft Music Records, Colectivo Miramar, Marius Acke, Manuold + more… 

¡ᴠᴀᴍᴏꜱ ᴀ ʙᴀɪʟᴀʀ!

Balearic Potion Volume IV: Issam Dahmani

Sam Spence
Sam Spence Sounds
Finders Keepers Records

Release date: 20th November 2015

Born in San Francisco in 1927 Samuel Lloyd Spence is a peculiar piece in the komplicated krautrock puzzle.

As an American expat working in a community of German rock musicians in the early 70s Spence shared his alien status with the likes of David Johnson and Malcolm Mooney (Can), Carole Muriel (Brainticket), Maria Archer (Embryo), Bill Barone (Wallenstein) and the band Sweet Smoke, but in Spence’s case it wasn’t the free-love and communal living that attracted him to Germanic pastures – Spence’s European travel plan was academic.

Over a decade earlier Spence had travelled from California to Paris to study “serious music” composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique with the great composers Arthur Honegger and Francis Poulenc where he conducted alongside Jean Fournier. After settling in Europe he would later make his way to Austria and later Germany in search of a supportive community of symphony orchestras to help him develop music for film and television. Due to Communism it became difficult for Spence to enter the classical epicentre of Eastern Berlin so he settled for Munich.

Throughout the mid 60s Spence kept his hand in popular music via his US connections. His original roots playing clarinet and sax in Californian swing bands had lead to paid work sending compositions to commercial Hollywood groups which lead to a part time interest in electronic instruments and the development of the synthesiser. To balance his classical composition Spence was able to use his Hollywood credentials to score German TV commissions making dozens of groovy symphonic scores with electronic flourishes and towards the end of the decade, with the help of a long term contract composing motivational music for the National Football League, Spence had raised enough capital to bring one of the very first Moog sythesisers to Germany.

While in Munich Spence met an American disc jockey called Mal Sondock who had recently struck a production deal with a new German pop music label called Kuckuck. Sondock introduced Spence to a 24 year old Eckart Rahn who owned the record company and after an initial agreement to release a single of Spence’s soundtrack to the Francis Durbridge thriller series entitled ‘WIE EIN BLITZ’ (‘Like Lightning’) the pair discussed the idea of recording an LP of electronic music which would appeal to ambient and experimental enthusiasts who were searching for cosmic sounds after the rise of krautrock bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. After the release of two moog-fuelled singles including a cover version of Focus’ 1972 hit single ‘Sylvia’ Rahn agreed to release Spence’s debut LP of synthesiser based pop music which would sit amongst his eclectic Kuckuck roster including the minimal electronic pulses of Deuter, the experimental field recordings of Ernst Schultz and the avant-garde releases of Peter Michael Hamel and Terry Riley.

Signed exclusively to Kuckuck in Germany Rahn recognised the potential in Spence’s synthesiser music amongst production music circles and television advertising companies so he struck up deals throughout Europe with library labels such as Brull and Dewolfe who would distribute Spence’s LPs and sublicense new Sam Spence recordings from Kuckuck for potential commercial usage. This included a whole LP of entirely electronic tracks entitled ‘The Art Of The Sythesiser’ on which he used a Moog 55 to stunning effect creating melodic pastoral pop music, freakish suspense themes and a selection of short bursts of bubbling ‘Moog Shots’ which would soon find their way into crime thrillers and action films (such as Taylor Wong’s Kung Fu fantasy film “Ru Lai Shen Zhang”)

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Sam Spence - Water World

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Music by UGO BUSONI


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Breakbeat Paradise Recordings is very pound to welcome back one of the Ghetto Funk scenes finest producers: B-Side for the second installment of his Party Bangers series. This time he’s teamed up with another heavyweighter – BBP’s very own BadboE to line up 4 big tunes designed for maximum dancefloor destruction!

Party Bangers Vol. 2 takes us on a musical journey through different areas of electronic funk: from the peak time ghetto funk bangers – over Reggae grooves, electro swing to end up with a disco anthem. The musicality plays a big role on these tunes and its easy to recognize both producers signature through-out this EP.        

The EP kicks off with a big electric funk bangers Funk Me Again, which takes elements from a classic funk jam and mixes it with some J5 party rap in a progressive ghetto funk arrangement. Rewind it Back takes on some catchy reggae summer grooves and slams on some big beats and wobble basslines. Do You Wanna Ride flips it around with some electro swing vibes to makes sure the party keeps on riding. Last but not least its time for B-Side & BadboE to Get Busy on an extended disco anthem. 7 mins of groovy disco goodness.

For those of you who trying to steer clear of the mash-ups or wants to do you own mixes, all 4 tunes comes in instrumental versions.

Another banging EP from your one-stop-shop for everything you need in funky beats and breaks…

BBP127A B-Side vs. BadboE - Funk Me Again [Preview]

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Record label and music publisher - The golden Italian Library, Soundtrack and groovy music, from past to present.

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Ugo Busoni - VALVOLE

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