Music I'm listening to at home and/or playing at my live shows, this playlist will be reguarly updated. for info on JN head over to <a href="http://www.zrecords.ltd.uk">www.zrecords.ltd.uk</a>

Dave Lee/JN's play out and home listening chart - reguarly updated

Don't Stop The Music  Edit (BITS & PIECES)

The Balearic Gabba Soundsystem is back, back with a new EP that features three more leftfield remixes from curious electronic specialist Enzo Elia that have all been licensed officially by Irma Records. The source material for his three unhinged reworks is a track by 90s Italian house duo Soft House Company and two from cult Italian DJ and producer Don Carlos.

Soft House Company released only two EPs, both in 1990, but made a big impact with them: pretty much everyone has heard ‘What You Need’ and that’s the track that gets remixed here. Elia turns it into a slightly more bouncy and disco leaning cut with raw silvery drums, huge vamping piano chords and those classic vocal cries and already Eddie C and Gerd Jansen have been playing it. At the breakdown there is the sound of waves breaking on a beach before pianos go wild: It’s a freewheeling and sure fire party starting track that still does the trick nearly quarter of a century after original release.

Don Carlos was behind such seminal club tracks as 1991’s ‘Alone’ and produced five studio albums in the nineties and naughties. He fuses Afro rhythms with deep house vibes and has DJed all over the world since the 70s. The first of his to get re-worked is ‘Overture’, which starts with tropical bird cries, whistles and loon calls. It’s the sound of a humid jungle that gets slowly consumed by lush pads, delicate piano melodies and stirring string sounds. With a truly magical atmosphere and uplifting joyousness permeating the whole thing, it cannot fail to make you feel on top of the world.

Finally, Elia tackles ‘Chicago’ (a track that’s already been supported by Soft Rocks) and does so with swathes of mesmeric effects. Organic hand congas, breathy vocal snippets and a bristling nebula of synths, pads and strings all dance around each other in reservedly euphoric symphony.

This might just be one of the most beautifully and bizarrely Balearic releases yet from the ever unhinged Balearic Gabba Soundsystem.

Soft House Company - What You Need (Enzo Elia Balearic Gabba Style)

"The one that made it"! - Georgie Fame sampling toe tapper, out on Freestyle and also on Norman Jay's Good Times 5 - Silver Jubilee edition. Big ups to the Sleeve!

Sleeve & Lowman - So Fine

It drifted from somewhere deep in the distant blue
A quiet wandering breath unknown
Trying softly to recall
All the shapes it once carried before the world was born around it
It gathers a glow at the edge of an ancient memory

Never reaching close to what it meant to reveal
Only discovering it never found the words

It held a place above the stone
It never made the light feel torn
As it listens to a calling breeze
Anyone else would clearly see
It watches the ground below

But what the air believes, it keeps
No careful mind can puzzle it away
What moves in veil
Feels always better than silence
Better than silence at all

It keeps drifting somewhere lost in a fading glow
Where it still imagines there is room to rise again
Some hour, someplace
Its warmth will settle back
It held a place above the stone
It never made the light feel torn
As it listens to a calling breeze
Anyone else would clearly see
It watches the ground below

But what the air believes, it keeps
No careful mind can puzzle it away
What moves in veil
Feels always better than silence
Better than silence at all

What the air believes
It keeps
No careful mind can puzzle it away
What moves in veil
Feels always better than silence
Better than silence at all

Atmosphere

Black Vintage

Take It To The Limit

No House Big Enough

My Peace of Heaven

The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club

Fish in the Sea (feat. Angeline Morrison)

Good Things: The Story Of Saadia Records

Good Thing

SHOP - https://ZRecords.lnk.to/WeGoTogetherRemix

Los Angeles based Raquel Rodriguez fuses the subcultures of LA style in her music which she has been releasing on her own label over the last few years. Her recent ‘The 310, Part Two’ mini CD features the uptempo boogie style cut ‘We Go Together’ with live drums, bass, guitar and strings, The song caught the ears of JN who wanted to add his own take on the original and this is the result.

I Want To Be Loved By You / FAMILY OF EVE (JEREE)

souldressing

Recent comments

Oral Karess

In This Mode

Related tracks