We're back with our fourth release. Called Sweet Bitter Love, it's a four track EP of manic sample-driven house from Keita Sano, a Japanese producer who's been on a roll lately with releases for like-minded imprints Discos Capablanca, Mister Saturday Night, and Strictly Groove Recordings.

Sweet Bitter Love kicks off with the tripped-out flair of "Once I Found a Diamond." It's an uplifiting bongo-led cut with dubby melodics that sound like the kind of thing Sleeping Bag Records would have put out in the early '80s. Jacques Renault provides a leaner peak-time version — complete with hard-hitting snares and growling bass — via his "Once I Found a Diamond (Jacques Renault Trouble Funk Remix)."

Things take a turn for the delightfully weird on the EP's namesake "Sweet Bitter Love." Starting like a straightforward house cut, it explodes into a psychedelic collage of spaghetti western guitars, tribal calls, displaced jazz fills, and other forms of cleverly sampled soundtrack exotica. The release wraps up with yet another curveball on "Bouzouk." Here Sano lays out a subwoofer-knocking NY garage house rhythm that takes a left turn with frenzied bouzouki playing charting arpeggios through a haze of echoing foreign voices.

Taken as a whole, Sweet Bitter Love is that rare idiosyncratic bomb of an EP that will keep your dancers moving and your trainspotters guessing — In other words, it's Spring Theory through and through.

Keita Sano - Sweet Bitter Love [ST004]

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Annette Peacock (born 1941) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and musician. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s.

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San Francisco/Paris-based label Spring Theory is back with its fourth release. Called Sweet Bitter Love, it's a four track EP of manic sample-driven house from Keita Sano, a Japanese producer who's been on a roll lately with releases for like-minded imprints Discos Capablanca, Mister Saturday Night, and Strictly Groove Recordings.

Sweet Bitter Love kicks off with the tripped-out flair of "Once I Found a Diamond." It's an uplifiting bongo-led cut with dubby melodics that sound like the kind of thing Sleeping Bag Records would have put out in the early '80s. Jacques Renault provides a leaner peak-time version — complete with hard-hitting snares and growling bass — via his "Once I Found a Diamond (Jacques Renault Trouble Funk Remix)."

Things take a turn for the delightfully weird on the EP's namesake "Sweet Bitter Love." Starting like a straightforward house cut, it explodes into a psychedelic collage of spaghetti western guitars, tribal calls, displaced jazz fills, and other forms of cleverly sampled soundtrack exotica. The release wraps up with yet another curveball on "Bouzouk." Here Sano lays out a subwoofer-knocking NY garage house rhythm that takes a left turn with frenzied bouzouki playing charting arpeggios through a haze of echoing foreign voices.

Taken as a whole, Sweet Bitter Love is that rare idiosyncratic bomb of an EP that will keep your dancers moving and your trainspotters guessing — In other words, it's Spring Theory through and through.

Bouzouk

Sweet Bitter Love

Once I Found A Diamond (Jacques Renault Trouble Funk Remix)

Once I Found A Diamond

To The Beat of The Drum is Konrad Black, Natalia Escobar and Jeremy Shaw – longtime partners-in-crime who have decided to return to basics and throw an intimate party of timeless dance music. This mix represents a condensed version of what you may hear at the third instalment of the TTB/OTD party, taking place at OHM, Berlin on April 16, 2015.

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Natalia Escobar 
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LN-CC Store Mix 061 - TTB/OTD

Written, produced & recorded by Moisture
Additional production by Emanuel Sundin
"Orgone" contains samples of "Say Something" by Fra Lippo Lippi 
licensed via Rune Grammofon

Mastered by Darren Ziesing.
Distribution by Rush Hour 
Cover: Ivar Lantz
In stores 7th of March 2020.

This double A-sider is the fruit of a long gestating collaboration with fellow Malmö-based record collector/selector & producer Simon alias Rizzolo DJ (alias Moisture). Closely intertwined with the label in various ways since the start, his path to producing started with re-edits and a more wild-haired approach to deejaying, finally landing into his own groove with the 2018 album A Freak Is Born. Released as a privately pressed cassette, the album featured two tracks co-produced with Fasaan founder Prins Emanuel. 

On that first album, the palette was a lo-fi reverie of minimal waves crashing into depths of goth and heights of camp. Here for the 12” format, we instead get the full onslaught of power tools gleaming in the blast of strobe lights. The weight of GAMMUT unfolds and delivers exactly what the title suggests: a complete scope of percussive barrage unleashed in tight locked grooves and smattering reverberations. In addition to that, we are treated with a spine-tingling re-imagining of the concept of a bass drop. 

For ORGONE, a 1984 track by Norwegian group Fra Lippo Lippi serves as the backbone of the composition. Championed by cosmic DJ Daniele Baldelli and here pitched down to wrongspeeder tempo, Moisture uses the original song to bridge the gap between his roots in the re-edit scene as well as in the cosmic tradition. Thedry  mechanical bassline is flanked by hollow percussion that eventually propels into a crystal-chimmering microcosm of orgone energy.

Moisture - Gammut

Isle Of You

Specifically music from label ECM Records.

ECM Mix

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2. 100Hz - LFO - Cease & Desist
3. Central - Body Issue - Dekmantel
4. Peter Lüdemann & Pit Troja - Southerly - Be With
5. River Yarra - Aorsum Wislhs - Antinote
6. Capablanca - Lap Dance [Lipelis Dub] - Discos Capablanca
7. Reel Houze - No Difference [Dub] - Optimo
8. Toyin Agbetu presents Nemesis - Let's Make Luv 2nite - Frame of Mind
9. Garies - Don Bongo - Future Times
10. Masarima - Freak Like U - Clone
11. Black Devil - “H” Friend - Anthology
12. Steve Pepe - Mileversi - Hivern Discs
13. A-Team - Trouble [Dub] - Seance Centre
14. Wolfram - Automatic Dub [Cable Toy Remix] - Public Possession
15. Alva C - MSL - Bakk
16. Mu - Destory Human Creation - Tigersushi
17. Stingray313 - NKKK4_2 - Naked Lunch
18. RD² - Sharing Angels - WPH
19. Antoine Kogut - Sphere Of Existence (I-Cube Unexpected Dub) - Versatile
20. Konx-om-Pax - Paris 5am - Planet Mu
21. Aleksi Perälä - NLL561606933 - Clone

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