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

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Shooizid (Unexpected Ways)

The Benefit Of The Doubt (Edit)

This release is the result of a collaboration between Nini Nutsubidze and talented sound producers from all over the world, united by the collaba community.

Nini Nutsubidze released the single "To The Sky" in August 2025. This EP continues that narrative as a collection of remixes for the track.

To The Sky (Tvardovsky Remix)

we are excited to share the teaser of our next release by Mindstreaming, a very talented and very young multi instrumentalist from Tbilisi. The is the first EP supported with remixes by house and disco dons from London, Phil Asher & the Mighty Zaf, and the hero of our own, Nika J. The release is due in May and will be available in Vodkast Records and be distributed by Love Vinyl worldwide.

Zaf LoveVinyl, Phil Asher, Roual Galloway, David Lezhava, Nika Japaridze, Sandro Tavartkiladze, thanks for making this happen.

Vodkast Crew

VODKAST.002 - Mindstreaming - Conflict 1 - teaser

For Clandestino's fifth offering Berlin's Italiano in residence José Manuel drops his unique strain of exotic club music; once again exploring deep, ritualistic and 
tribal influences to great dramatic effect. "Human Behaviour" is a woozy nine minute opus. Rich in atmospherics, chanting and ethnic flutes. Clandestino's remix refines the track for the dance-floor, retaining the atmosphere and injecting a driving 303 line and jamming Afro keys. Upping the tempo on Bangalore a great ethnic guitar hook drives along the groove while disorienting chants and tribal percussion flutter underneath. Mushroom's Project turn out an essential blissful sundown version by extending out the pads and adding gentle warm keys.

https://soundcloud.com/clandestinomusic

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PREMIERE : José Manuel - Human Behaviour (Clandestino Remix)

PRE-ORDER: https://safe-trip.org/products/darling-tulipa-moves-album

Tulipa Moves

Estimu

The huge iron door at the end of the corridor stood ajar. Until today it had been bolted shut with a heavy padlock, unwilling to let outsider eyes in. It must be open for good reason, surely this was an invitation to enter. The corridor was lit by flickering candles that cast eerie shadows across the cobbles, the shapes jostling and moving as if they had a life of their own. As they reached the door they peered around it cautiously. As far as the eye could see tall wooden shelves grew up the walls, each with a metal box meticulously slotted in. Moving closer, they realised each box was embossed with a name; some defiled and some in pristine condition. Their eyes searched the rows quickly before halting a few feet above. There they were, their name slashed through with a thick red line.

Montreal-based duo MSL is the project of Edouard Le & Francis Latreille AKA Priori and half of Jump Source, alongside Project Pablo. For this EP on French blog and label Les Yeux Orange they dive deep into the melodic depths of electro. The whole EP is a certified winner.

PREMIERE: MSL - Careful, Thinking Could Become A Habit [Les Yeux Orange]

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Two of Finland's finest combine on this new downtempo gem for @suol's weekly 'Hallo Montag' release series that runs alongside their Monday afternoon/evening (only in Berlin, right?) party of the same name at IPSE. This languid groove channels a Balearic vibe with loose synth undulations, discordant wind melodies, solemn vox synths and a general hazy ambience that make it a weird and wonderful winner.

@jimi-tenor
@sasse (aka Freestyle Man)

PREMIERE: Jimi Tenor & Freestyle Man - Lake Of Lagomar [SUOL]

Three like-minded artists step up on remix duties for Coloray's breaks / Balearic alter ego "TJ Manta": French II, Ramses3000 and Ben Penn.

Out February 21st: https://intercept.bandcamp.com/album/sarahs-private-show-amazonia-the-remixes

TJ Manta - Amazonia (French II Remix)

SIESTA

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