incredible track! one of my favourites this year.

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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New album and tour in autumn 2015...

Don't Leave Us In The Dark (map.ache Remix)

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

My tech house take on Moonlight by XXXTentacion.

Inspired by Andrea Olivia.

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Moonlight - XXXTentacion (ALON Remix)

Indian Mystic Frequencies (Melodic Techno)

Cosmic Tandava

May Spring Come x Blasphemous Rumours / NA•RO Mash

Remission 2016

Get this and 30 more jams here:

https://100percentsilk.bandcamp.com/album/silk-to-dry-the-tears

"Sorrow’s only silver lining is the selflessness it inspires in others. The nightmare of last year’s fire in Oakland left so many of us shredded, shattered, and speechless. But a communal compassion surged up in response, with artists, allies, and acquaintances from all over the globe re-connecting and re-committing to the power and potential of independent music as a healing, unifying force. So many SILK friends and family reached out expressing the desire to contribute creatively to a relief effort it was clear the emotion deserved an outlet. Silk To Dry The Tears collects 31 such songs from a spectrum of 100% Silk alumni and affiliates, threaded across four sides of fogged house, fantasy acid, nocturnal electronics, sleepwalker pop, and rhythmic reveries of varied internal states. Totaling nearly 170 minutes, it’s a sprawl and a statement, shared in the spirit of inclusion, endurance, and empathy. Music brought us together; music will keep us together.

50% the profits will be donated to Safer DIY Spaces, an Oakland-based coalition offering guidance, financial assistance, and labor to non-traditional creative community spaces: 
diysafetygroup.org"

Silk To Dry The Tears

Lunate - Memory Traces [100% Silk]

Tracklisting: 
A1 - Derrick Harriott - Dub Whip
A2 - Anaalivaihe - 10_11_2012
A3 - Sonny Okosun - Highlife (Dub Version)
B1 - Joe Ariwa - King Moses (33RPM Version)
B2 - Pilgrims Of The Mind - Airplane
B3 - Khan - Turkish Bath (Part 1)
C1 - Code - Parsifal (Ambient Dub)
C2 - Sandoz - Dark Continent
C3 - Mi Ami - Free Of Life
D1 - The Black Dog - Rainbow Bridge
D2 - Nation Of Noiz - Xes Noiz
D3 - Earthquake Studio - 21st Century

PRE-ORDER:  lnk.to/LITPLP001

Available on vinyl, cd and digitally from June 15th 2018

Welcome to the Sound Of Love International 001 complied by Gatto Fritto. Love International is a festival held in Tisno, Croatia now moving into its third season. Held to a soundtrack of the very best of underground dance music and running 24 hours a day - from noon to night and back through again - full circle. This series, masterminded with London’s Balearic culture website, Test Pressing, is curated by some of our favourite artists and DJs. A place for them to choose 12 records close to their heart, and with ties to the festival, that they love and what to share with the world. So to the first compiler - Gatto Fritto a.k.a Ben Williams. 

A lifetime working in the better record shops of London and Berlin and DJing in Europe’s finest underground clubs, Ben is getting the props he deserves. Put into context, although not in a box, on line-ups curated by Call Super, Ben UFO and Palms Trax the word is spreading. It’s partially testament to the increased open mindedness of younger big room crowds but far more to Gatto’s ability as a DJ and a knack for finding an undiscovered mix of music that fits. 

Having previously made freaky Disco mutations for Dissident Records, then an album of Kosmiche inspired sounds for International Feel, it’s proving to be something of an advantage not being easily hamstrung by genre. 

So what about the music here? It’s a collection of tracks that Ben played across his last two sets at Love International’s open air club Barbarellas. There’s a dubby wildness in the stereo field that sounded good on the soundsystem. The clever part is how well suited these sounds are to the balmy outdoor vibe and where and when this music comes from. You can’t copyright these emotions, it would seem and no-one told them in Cologne, Sheffield, Jamaica that the music they were producing would soundtrack a blinky-eyed sunrise in Croatia. 

So we get Mad Professor’s son, Joe Ariwa’s, demented Gabber tempo stepper played on 33. Which is about as House as Reggae is ever going to be. A crash course in Skwee’s year long diversion into afrobeat turned out the cream of the crop in Anaalivaihe’s 10.11.2012 or Mi Ami’s outlier release on Pure Silk that sounds like, in Ben’s words, “Francois K being forced to make a record with a Juno 60”. Or crazy vari-speed tape dubbing from Sonny Okosun in the dub version of ‘Highlife’ – the kind of record that Ben loves, where the end result is a happy accident. The original intention of the maker some distance from the reasons for our enjoyment. 

Musically adventurous, disparate yet harmonious and dance floor friendly. Clever trick, clever bloke. Ladies and gentlemen this is the sound of Love International. 
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LITP001: THE SOUND OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL - GATTO FRITTO

DC Promo Tracks #242: "Flightplan" (Francis Harris Reform) by Emil Abramyan is part of the upcoming release "Movement" on Kingdoms @kingdomsbk

Order: https://kingdoms.lnk.to/Movement

Rounding off this release, label boss Francis Har- ris reworks 'Flightplan', nding new nuances in the sublime atmosphere, and slowly building up to a subtle, understated groove that takes the track to a different place entirely.

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Movement

DC Promo Tracks #242: Emil Abramyan "Flightplan" (Francis Harris Reform)

Leeds-based artist Joe Morris @joemorris presents his first full-length album, the anticipated "Exotic Language". It lands after a decade of music production from Joe Morris, who smoothly sharpened his skills indelibly, gaining a reputation with an ear for music with depth, emotion and feeling. 

The album is designed as a 360 degree view over Joe’s kaleidoscopic musical palette, a nine-tracker taking in dreamy deep house, new age, ambient and afro-beat.  

We are really excited to share with you the spacey and ethereal side of Joe Morris, by premiering the beautiful "Celestial Plantation", an ode to Italian deep house of the early nineties.

Bouzouk

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