EE08A - 02 Heart On Fire (RFX Extended Edit)

Starting our new GSC mix series with France’s finest 70’s disco wizard @monodominical. Physically in Paris, always daydreaming about sunny italian beaches and ice cold sbagliatos, Gautier is the proverbial digger. From endless researches on discogs for the ultimate goa soundtrack to thorough investigations of St. Ouen’s flea market crates, he is on an endless journey to finding all the obscure records on your wishlist. Find him mixing cocktails (and sometimes records) behind the counter of @lediscobar or on our soundcloud for those of you who can’t make it there ❤️

Gonzo Sport Club Mix01  Monodominical

It was pleasure to open the chill out tent at the @ZMARFestival 2023. Thank you @AdvanceMartin for the recording!
A sitting crowd waving hands in the air around 01:40:00 still gives me goosebumbs - Thank you Wavers!

ZMAR 2023 chill out tent - opening set

All musical movements require a spark to set them alight; in the case of Japanese house music, that spark was provided by the forward-thinking resident DJs of The Bank in Roppongi, Tokyo. In 1989, to celebrate the ground-breaking club’s first birthday, the venue released a 12” EP featuring first-time productions from three of its DJs, Junichi Soma, Shuji Wada and Strong Katsuya AKS Katsuya Sano.

Widely considered to be one of the first ever EP of house music produced in Japan, 1st Unit was never officially released. Instead, 500 of the 1000 copies pressed were given away at The Bank’s first birthday party, with the rest initially being sold not in local record stores, but rather the venue’s own in-house shop. Three decades on, the 12” is finally set to get its first worldwide release via Rush Hour’s Store JPN Series.

The record has its roots in The Bank’s willingness to give its ever-changing roster of DJs a free hand to play what they liked – at the time a rarity in Tokyo nightclubs, whose musical offerings usually revolved around strictly defined playlists. At The Bank in 1989, it was not only common to hear European body music and the kind of post-disco New York productions associated with Larry Levan’s sets at the Paradise Garage, but also acid house – something not offered at the time by other clubs in the city.

This cutting-edge blend of sounds, combined with the venue’s unique decor (it was modeled on the inside of a London bank, complete with a cashier’s window to take entrance fees), made The Bank a go-to spot for young party-goers, celebrities and forward-thinking Japanese musicians (Ryuichi Sakamoto was reportedly a weekly visitor).

When it came to celebrating the club’s birthday by cutting a unique record, it made sense for The Bank’s owners to turn to three of their most exciting resident DJs, who were assisted by Heigo Tani and Jun Ebi. The collective name, 1st Unit, was chosen to reflect the fact that all three resident DJs were debutants with no previous studio experience.

As this reissue proves, the music remains timeless, magical, and authentic to the sound of American house productions of the period – albeit with occasional twists,. Katsuya Sano’s EP opener, ‘I Need Love’, sounds like a twist on Larry Heard productions of the period – all jacking TR-909 drums, undulating analogue bass, dreamy JUNO synthesizer chords and evocative vocal samples.

The influence of Chicago acid house is also evident on Junichi Souma’s ‘Ubnormal Life’, whose unusual title contains what he says was an intentional misspelling. Driven forwards by restless drum machine handclaps, sweet chords and rising and falling melodic motifs, the track is an energetic and uplifting treat.

Perhaps the most influential of the three tracks at the time – within Japan at least – was Shuji Wada’s similarly misspelled ‘Endless Load’. Deeper and more melodic with a more expansive arrangement, the track’s combination of marimba-style lead lines, tribal drum patterns, dreamy chords and jazz-funk influenced bass offered a loose blueprint for the more successful and better-known Japanese deep house tracks that followed.

Vinyl: https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/1st-unit-underpass-records-ep
Digital: https://rushhourmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1st-unit-underpass-records-ep

Katsuya Sano - I Need Luv

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5 track downtempo Balearic house EP by Ex Spiral tribe member Lol Hammond's studio project Wah Wah Planet from 1990 along side Russell Crone featuring female vocals by Lucy Sian. Serving as a pioneering early example of UK Street Soul. A side explores the romantic theme brought to the table by the lyrics in a more pop/radio edit oriented manner whereas the B-side takes things down a more leftfield route with 3 different excursions in early 90's smooth Balearics ranging from early breaky/triphop nuances to elements borrowing from dancehall music. Including a previously unreleased mix found deep in Lol's master tapes.

B2 Wah Wah Planet Love F.X.U. (Sound Metaphors Mix)

DJ 1985 - We Trippin' (Vinyl, 12") (Released August 15, 2024)
Available on Bandcamp (Vinyl/Digital): https://tinyurl.com/27xwtzmb
Label: [Emotional] Especial

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DJ 1985 - The Last One

The notion of house music as a form of uptempo soul music is intrinsic evidence with a record like the one on hand. Professor Supercool’s If You Love Somebody is many things at once: an example of a special brand of British pop music, influenced by US-American soul more or less from the get-go, the Second Summer of Love, the conception of Balearic as a music genre, the cultural interchange of European dance floors and DJs from across the pond and underground music marketing through the vessel of special one-time pressings. The mysterious Professor Supercool is actually a moniker for Dr. Rob of The Blow Monkeys’s fame, who produced the song with a veteran and legendary DJ of the Northern Soul scene „The Real Hector“ – a resident at the famous Wag Club.

Originally a part of the band’s Album Spring Time For The World, it appeared first as a special For-Promotion-Only-12“ in 1989 with limited information as a trial ballon to „avoid preconceptions“. The fear was without reason. Like the band’s other big dance floor record and Balearic fave LA Passionara a year later, it got played and supported by the DJs of its time. Next to Graeme Park at the Hacienda or Paul Oakenfold, it also got picked up by Mastermixer Tony Humphries and became a staple at his radio and club sets for KissFm respectively Club Zanzibar. While the vocal mix found its way on said album, the preferred 12“ instrumental version has never been released anywhere else up until now and made the record go for a substantial amount of Discogs dollars.

Expanded with an edit by the label’s in-house DJ Gerd Janson that is supposed to work as a dub alternative to the vocal mix, the 12-inch and bundle download contain the original plus a faithfully restored and remastered version of the instrumental in demand. If you love this record it is impossible to let it go.

01. Professor Supercool - If You Love Somebody

Responsible for a sleuth of sleeper hits in the mid 90's primarily with a more harder Trance sound, Audio Science also released two CD only albums that have gone on to be well received and lately revered. This EP featuring 3 tracks from those CD albums comes as a precursor to a future LP which we have compiled featuring the standout tracks originally released on Aural X-Perience and Hypnotic in the mid 90's. Rezpekt to Audio Science !

Label: KMA60 Rezpektiva – REZ31thirtyone
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP
Country: Germany
Released: Sep 2024
Genre: Electronic
Style: Progressive House, Techno, Ambient

REZ30thirty

A2. Audio Science - The Livin Lite (Dark Mix)

Artzooai - Tin Skin

La Notte È Mia. Mr. Fantasy is back for Bordello Radio with another obscure selection of italoesque beauties!

'I want to thank in particular for your support and help. Thanks: Otto Kraanen & Bordello A Parigi for this new opportunity, Maestro Carlo Simula & Disco Segreta, Mikey Gee, Flemming Dalum, George Hysteric, Simon J Hartley, Mackan Lindström, Albion, Jussi Kantonen, Antonello Fasano, Daniele Zonza & Glove Club Barcelona, Chico Simon, Gio Bu & Sand Cosmic, Florian Schandelmaier, Johan Ressle, Tom Bolas, Kinzo Chrome, Sacha Mambo, Discoteca Madrid, Edu Reolid, Fernando Galán, Céline Ammeux, Elizabeth Farías, Helene Havro, Andrea Noce, Weronika Banaszek, Martin Folkesson, Johan Solo, Mattias Lodding and my love Kristina.'

Bordello Radio #34 - Mr. Fantasy

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