July 2019

Fully expanded mix forthcoming July2014 vinyl release

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Fuga Ronto's second release Greatest Treasure is a musical journey exploring different kinds of territories by blending elements of synth funk, dub, fusion, new wave and ambient with household noises, reverb vocals and quotes from movies to adventure games. Out of playful recording sessions the Zurich duo Schweizer and Shiller created songs with track names that read like movie titles. The treasure quest begins with a tongue-in-cheek intro before the title track kicks in. It’s all about exotic boogie with adventurous lyrics and voodoo magic. The rhythm guitar, percussion and multilingual chanting driven single „Falling Star“, lures even unathletic feet onto the dancefloor. "Columbo De Domingo“, a rolling instrumental based on a four chord sequence creates an illusional staircase moment. The tracks on the B-side guide towards slower and dreamier attempts. "Mirror To Water" builds on swaying synth pads that lead up to a laid-back song with breathy male and female vocals over a shuffling drum beat. It’s epilogue "Wobble In The Pool" sticks to the mood and takes the sounds further into dubby lands. The closing chapter "Mystery Of Zambio" is a delightful two- parter. Nostalgic melodies take the lead at first to be replaced by chords and a choir in the second part, until they dance away into the fade-out. Maybe a hint for a continuation of the story? One would hope so.

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[PHI-19] Fuga Ronto - Greatest Treasure LP snippets

"Stupid" is the first single from Gomina's upcoming album "Prints".
It's available on a 7" blue vinyl here : http://gomina.bigcartel.com
Check the video on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZuO2HbODxw

Stupid

READ - http://inverted-audio.com/premiere-modula-alba-tempesta-notturno-musical-journey

@modulaofficial 'Musical Journey' [@tartelet-records] oozes retro synth-funk from head to toe with its lusher-than-lush slap bass chords, sun-kissed Rhodes stabs and subtle tribal percs emerging from beyond tall walls of vegetation and fantasized waterfalls. When the sun begins to go down and the light attires itself in luscious gold nuances, you know it's time to let the funk speak, and Modula's got plenty of that.

Modula - Alba, Tempesta, Notturno (Musical Journey) [Tartelet Records]

For the third volume of compilations curated by confirmed crate diggers, Spacetalk invites you to take a trip to the magical Mediterranean resort of Club Meduse in the company of Beachfreaks Records co-founder Charles Bals. 

A creative director, designer and curator by trade, Bals spends the majority of his spare time searching for superb, unknown, small-run music releases made between the 1970s and 1990s. While some of these are made available for other enthusiasts to buy via Beachfreaks’ mail-order service, many more make it into the racks of Bals’ private collection. With Club Meduse, Bals is sharing rare, hard-to-find and just plain brilliant gems from his personal stash for the very first time. 

For Club Meduse, Bals was inspired by countless magic childhood summers spent playing amongst the rocks, beaches and warm seas of the Cote D’Azur. The compilation, then, is a soundtrack to the greatest soft-focus, sunlit teenage summer holiday you’ve never had, with a gaggle of forgotten musicians and overlooked artists for company. 

Take a barefoot stroll from the campsite to the beach with Ara Macao, whose warm and lucid “Canyon” is a softly-spun delight, before splashing in the crystal clear waters to the accompaniment of The Clean-Hands Group and their 1984 Balearic blue-eyed soul gems “Night Fly” and “Shake It On”. 

As the sun comes down, clamber across the cooling rocks with the tumbling, sun-kissed guitar solos and sparkling analogue synthesizer motifs of The Keyboys’ leisurely “Savannah” ringing in your ears, before using the words of Gemini’s “Take A Chance” – undoubtedly the most Balearic record to emerge from Sweden in the last 50 years – to get flirtatious under the moonlight. 

Should you fancy a dance down the camp disco, Bals’ selections will gently ease you onto the dancefloor and into the gaze of the boy or girl of your dreams. The fuzzy Italo-boogie of the C.V.Q Band’s “Whatever You Do (Instrumental)” will get you going, while Miss’s 1984 French electro gem “Hip Hop” should guarantee a celebratory conclusion to the night’s party. 

No perfect holiday evening is complete without a stolen kiss in a secluded cove, and happily Bals has it covered. Check the seductive, dub-powered Balearic synth-boogie of Gigi Flag’s brilliant “Nymphomaniac (Instrumental)”, the steamy sweetness of Bals’ own edit of The One “O” Ones “Radio Cosmo 101” – possibly the greatest tune recorded to promote an Italian radio station – and the undulating electronic rhythms and exotic synthesizer lines of Eddy La Viny’s overlooked ‘80s zouk classic “Havan’ Havac”. 

A1 Bastion – Molitva 
A2 The Keyboys – Savannah 
A3 Ara Macao – Canyon 

B1 Chris & Kylie - Feelin' Good 
B2 The One “O" Ones - Radio Cosmo 101 (Bals Edit) 
B3 Gemini - Take A Chance 

C1 The Clean Hands Group - Night Fly 
C2 The C.V.Q Band – Whatever You Do (Instrumental) 
C3 Miss – Hip Hop 
C4 Metal Voices – At The Banks Of The River 

D1 The Clean Hands Group - Shake It On 
D2 Gigi Flag – Nymphomaniac (Instrumental Version) 
D3 Eddy La Viny – Havan’ Hamac

Club Meduse compiled by Charles Bals - Mini Mix

cut out the horrible part and strech the rest for your next very long 'Zugfahrt'

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Veronika Fischer - He, Wir Fahr'n Mit Dem Zug (frwctrl edit)

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Inspiration - Do it

Linda Di Franco - TV Scene

Almost four decades since it’s domestic release, Karen Marks’ 1981 single Cold Café has finally reaped it’s deserved international credit to become one of Australia's most recognised minimal wave recordings. Efficient Space now showcases the Melbourne artist’s brief but entire discography, including two previously unheard demos, all produced with experimental synthesist Ash Wednesday (The Metronomes, Modern Jazz, Thealonian Music). 

A rarity in the then male dominated industry, Marks found her footing in music, first through rock journalism and then in band management. Formally of Adelaide, newly arrived synth-punks JAB (Johnny Crash, Ash Wednesday and Bodhan X) approached her for representation, subsequently contributing tracks to seminal 1978 snapshot Lethal Weapons and playing the Crystal Ballroom's opening night. Wednesday and Crash would soon dissolve JAB, enlisting Mark Ferry and Sean Kelly to create Models. Still under Mark's management, Models became one of the fastest rising new bands of the punk movement, playing to full houses of dedicated and frenzied fans everywhere. Sadly, internal frictions forced Wednesday and Marks to leave after two years, with Crash following three months later. 

Her creative relationship with Wednesday fortified with the co-production of his 1980 machine-pop prank Love By Numbers, her swooning chorus uplifting his deadpan count to 100, before the two collaborated on Marks’ own recording persona. Immortalised by the icy Oz wave of Cold Café, her Astor issued 7” also boasted the caffeinated flip Won't Wear It For Long - a should be hit with guitar from future Icehouse member Robert Kretschmer. 

Fans know of one more recording - You Bring These Things, a forlorn arrangement of an otherwise unreleased Paul Kelly song, gifted to her by the revered wordsmith. The track only ever appeared on the Astor promotional LP Terra Australis, sinfully alongside Up There Cazaly and Joe Dolce - hard proof that the label grossly misunderstood her talent (Marks recalls their persistent requests to show midriff and cleavage). Locked in a dissatisfying label arrangement and at this stage unwilling to follow her peers to greener pastures overseas, she felt her only way out was to cease all further activities. 

At the 11th hour of preparing this retrospective, two tracks unexpectedly surfaced via two cassettes - a paranoid demo version of her signature tune Cold Café, and a long-lost fourth song Problem Page. Both living room recordings follow Marks and Wednesday’s ingenious framework of minimal lyrics, minimal chord progressions.

Cold Café EP

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Album Credits:
Original Tracks by: Santi & Tuğçe, @santiandtugce
Cover Art by: Scott Partridge, www.jevaart.com/

Album Description:

Terminal Caribe is the newest album of Santi & Tuğçe who weave timeless, borderless melodies with global, dance floor rhythms. Similar to their previous releases which take listeners on a sonic adventure all the way from the coasts of the Black Sea to the Parana River, Terminal Caribe presents a peculiarly personal, yet undoubtedly universal odyssey exploring the deep interrelations between music, movement, and memory. Named after a bus stop where the duo had the initial inkling for this album, Terminal Caribe serves as the point of departure for an entrancing journey through a wildly varied world of sound. Soulful melodies, captivating harmonies, colorful orchestration, polyrhyhmic percussions and marimbas, and deep bass lines combine with heartwarming vocals and the sounds of sea to tell a tale that is at once epic, melancholic, spacy and irresistibly groovy.

Santi (from Asunción, Paraguay) and Tuğçe (from Istanbul, Turkey) left their homes to follow their dreams of music and have been road companions and musical partners for more than a decade. They collaborated on two full length-albums, four EPs and numerous singles which captivated listeners worldwide. With their 2016 EP El Regreso del Gallito, “Santi & Tuğçe rewrote Paraguayan folklore” (Thump Vice, Brazil) and with their Songs for My Grandmother, selected as one of the best albums from Turkey in 2017 by Beehype, they remade Turkish classics for contemporary audiences. Drawing on their eclectic background and constant pulse for innovation, Santi & Tuğçe once again reinvent an unpredictable and enticing soundscape of the Caribbean and beyond.

Oye! - Lyrics:

Oye, mi ritmo te transforma 
Oye, te mezcla, te desmolda 

Oye mi ritmo te transforma 
Oye, te mezcla, te desdobla, te da sabor 

Te transforma, 
Te desmolda, 
Te desdobla, 
Te da sabor

Oye!

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Santi & Tuğçe - Oye!

Welcome back to the discovery channel with exciting news from the animal world. Follow the heavily transcoastal trail on this 12".  A gamble that paid out with just about 4 people having this in their wantlist on discogs when we listed it. Replaced artwork - original has a cheesy black and white portrait of the maker. Watch out this is the only version to get. The other Remix 12" does not have this version here and is not what you want darling

"Trans Africa Train" 12" by Michel Barth - Rare Balearic France only release EMI, 1991 - 👋

'just for fun' edit of this cult track from the rare "One Giant Leap" compilation (UK 1983)

*DM for WAV file

Rajan James - IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS (Hysteric edit)

Label: Kinetic Records ‎
Country: UK
Year: 1989

Claudette Bonney - Step Inside

Blind buy from 2019, which turned out to be one of our favorite Street Soul tunes ever. So good!

Anne M. "Je T'Imagine" - Indisc 7" - Belgium, 1991 - SOLD

Grant Williams Bournemouth 


Gold Suite is a recording project by tropical island resident Joey Fitzgerald.

When he's not locked away arranging disco edits or writing original material, you can find Joey performing on the weird and wonderful side of Bali's nightlife, soundtracking the sunset and beyond as resident DJ at Potato Head Beach Club, 40 Thieves Club, and Karma Beach.

With guest slots, remixes and original music regularly featuring on NTS and Worldwide FM, early 2021 brings an EP of original sunset chuggers and beachside sleaze released under the Gold Suite alias. Wish you were here x


https://goldsuite.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/gold_suite
https://joeyfitzgerald.carrd.co/

Club Meduse compiled by Charles Bals - Mini Mix

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