The sun is nudging over the horizon and we start to think about easier times with some chilled out psychedelia right alongside club bangers from Africa to California, from Yorkshire to Sweden.

1. A Man Called Adam - Schleißen 7
2. A Man Called Adam - Techno Powers (The Lost Edit)
3. Charles Webster - We Belong Together feat. Thandi Draai
4. Oddio Factory - Got Bolts (Keita Sano on the Shore Remix)
5. Rasmus Faber feat. Magic Woman - Animal
6. Star Feminine Band - Rew Be Me
7. Buyepongo Cantarito
8. El Wali - The People Of El Aain
9. Asu - Basejávr-Hánsa
10. Family of Swede - Set You Free
11. Night Giants - Twist & Drop (Paper Street Soul Remix)
12. Wau Wau Collective - Salamaleikoum
13. Winston Neale - Sinnerman (Quiet Village Remix)
14. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
15. Larry Gus - 23 June 1975
16. Just a Band & Childish Gambino - Who No Know Go Know
17. Flash Atkins - Love You Again
18. Falle Nioke & Ghost Culture - Barké
19. Hama - Houmeissa
20. Sonic Boom - On A Summer’s Day
21. Fire Island - Shout To The Top (HiFi Sean Remix)

Paper Air Waves - Mar '21 feat. Rasmus Faber, A Man Called Adam & Hama

Grammar of Microgestures

Dancing with My Ideas

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'Elegy For Sunlight' Mix

VINYL/DIGITAL - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leng-label-sampler-001

Just over a decade on from the launch of Leng Records, the Simon Purnell/Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy-helmed label is set to release its’ 50th 12” single. Fittingly, it’s the first of a series of sampler EPs that form part of the imprint’s belated 10th anniversary celebrations.

In 2020, label fans will be treated to a celebratory compilation featuring a mixture of Leng classics, overlooked favourites and previously unheard material. Some of this music will also be released on a series of vinyl EPs, with this first volume focusing on unreleased material from long-time friends of the family Q&A and Lex.

Q&A is a collaboration between Phenomenal Handclap Band mainstay Quinn Luke, and long-time friend and musical associate Alexis Georgopoulos, formerly of San Francisco dub disco/punk funk heroes Tussle. The pair worked together extensively at the tail end of the 2000s, but only ever released one single: 2009’s “Tumbling Cubes/Trap Door” on celebrated NYC label DFA.

The two tracks showcased on this Leng Records sampler were recorded during the same period as that celebrated single but are only now seeing the light of day. “RM” is a typically low-slung and percussive affair that sees Luke and Georgopoulos wrap bubbly electronic melodies and glassy-eyed aural textures around a suitably weighty dub disco groove. In contrast, “Pulse” is a deliciously hypnotic, mind-altering affair: a bona-fide late night throb-job in which trippy electronic motifs, chiming melodies and crunchy Clavinet riffs vibrate attractively atop another killer punk-funk bassline and locked-in drums.

Over on side B, Athens scene staple Lex takes over. The Greek DJ/producer – real name Alex Andrikopoulos – first rose to prominence locally when he ran the Radical Soundz record shop in the first decade of the century but has since become better-known worldwide for offering up music and DJ sets that frequently join the dots between disco, house and techno.

The two tracks he’s delivered for the Leng 10th birthday sampler series are typically warm, loose and groovy, drawing more inspiration from ‘70s disco and ‘80s electrofunk than contemporary club culture. For proof, first check the mid-tempo sparkle of “GP Score”, an organic disco-boogie number rich in low-slung bass, razor-sharp flanged guitars, colourful synthesizer lead lines, early house style piano solos and the kind of squelchy electronic bass more often featured on kaleidoscopic P-funk records. 

This attractively rubbery synth-bass sound can also be heard on “Max Pen”, a slightly deeper and more laidback affair crafted from an attractive mix of loose-limbed drums, mazy synth solos, jangling piano motifs and sweet, spaced-out chords. Retro-futurist in nature, the track offers further evidence of Lex’s increasingly expressive, funky and musically rich trademark sound.

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Lex (Athens) - Max Pen

The time that has passed through each of us, leaving traces of the past. Imagine the Middle Ages: dirty knights in their cold armor, diseases claiming many lives, a feast during the plague, the struggle for truth, and the elusive dream of victory. This fate repeats itself in our time and in the future, it most likely will be inevitable too. All of these is feeling in the sound.
All music by Anton Yeroma
Design & art direction by Anton Yeroma

Bow And Arrow

A Feast In Time Of Plague

Toronto producer Brad Weber, a.k.a. Coy Haste releases his third EP, Apicultura: an instrumental interpretation of a San folk origin story from the Kalahari Desert.
The scene is set by blending modern electronica production with 70s inspired afro synth, traditional percussive elements, bubblegum inspired bass, dubbed-out marimbas and chopped up rural folk recordings.

The opening track, ‘Mantis,’ introduces the protagonist with a chugging rhythm, mesmerizing melodies and psyched out, layered tones.

Track two, ‘West Plains,’ represents the raging waters of the flooding river –– the source of the mantis’s plight, which manifests as energetic, cascading rhythms.

Followed by the track, ‘Honeybee’ tells the story of our hero: the bee who selflessly weathers the perilous water to rescue the mantis through a pulsing composition of hopeful percussion and cautioning synth melodies.

Closing the EP with ‘Desert Flower,’ the epic journey ends with the exhausted bee resting the mantis on a floating desert flower. Before it dies, the bee plants a seed in the mantis which grows to be the first human. With contemplative percussive pacing and a crescendo of evolving synths, this is the soundtrack to the metamorphosis.

Apicultura

Coy Haste - Honeybee

if you're gonna start the new year with a bang then what better way to do it than with an incredible selection of balearic tinged exotica from a long standing (and personal) friend of us, Mr Dan Wainwright and his 'Hope & Deliverance' E.P.

Lead off track 'I Love You' is all kinds of hazy wooziness & spaced out synths & pads with a slack as heck broken beat that all mixes & swirls in the right places along this cosmic journey.

Nothing Ever Stays The Same keeps on the cosmic path and goes with a dubbed out bass thump for added measure with some full on hypnotic vocal action that sews the package up and feels a bit like Moby when he was really good and not such a bell end.

Feel ups the tempo slightly but keeps things trip and demanding some sun beams at overseas festivals. This is some serious daytime dancing style tackle that will uplift & bliss in equal measures.

Closing track 'I Hope That Joy Will Come To You' is a definite message for everyone to mantra after the rubbish's of 2020. Delay drenched synth chords & kaleidoscope pads wrap around a hooky ukulele (as played live by Dan!) and a psych'd out vocal from the man himself. No beats on this at all, they're not needed. This is pure class in a glass!

Love on this in from:

Bill Brewster: "I Love You is v good"

Black Hawks Of Panama: "Great EP, fantastic abstract electronic beats and sounds.. Will be playing at all sunny venues i visit in the summer"

Marco Giannini: "Really nice 4 track EP, perfect for the poolside parties - when they can start again! Nothing Ever Stays the Same is the standout track. Will support"

Nick Warren: "An outstanding release. 4 lovely tracks from Dan!"

Pete Herbert: "Yes great EP!"

Danny Russell: "Love it, might even include a track in my new Playdate New York mix"

Dan Wainwright - Feel

Rheinzand releases their amazing self-titled debut album 'Rheinzand' on Music For Dreams. Available in all digital stores: music-for-dreams.lnk.to/rheinzandFA

After much anticipation, our Belgian disco diamonds Rheinzand present their debut full-length album. On their self-titled record, The Belgian trio wraps the human heart in synthetic threads of modular electronic disco. 9 songs writhing on timeless dancefloors, morphing in and out of shapes of luxuriant melody and vivid instrumentation.

The album is full of classic disco and electro sounds, wielded with imposing prowess by multi- instrumentalist Reinhard Vanbergen. It’s both an exploration of dance music’s electronic genealogy and the vintage cool that has defined its different eras. Still, an organic atmosphere pervades as the blend of real instrumentation fixes a sort of retro-futurism, imagining an alternative timeline that’s a bit more exciting, more sensuous and libidinal, maybe more human, too, than our current outlook.

We start the engines with Break of Dawn, a compelling beat rises from the basement and soon we’re submerged by the pulsing bassline. Dark sunglasses on, we cruise through the night, letting flashing city lights flow into unbroken torrents of color. Blind awakens us, a splash of handclaps in the face, vivid strings and Charlotte’s trademark slick vocals enter the stage. Tantalizing sunbeams power up circuits of electronic synths blipping and beeping away.

Later down the road, we hit the Latin part of town. Porque fits enchanting vocal spells in beautiful Spanish on playful flamenco rhythms. Fourteen Again is a throwback to early electro, playing around with knobs and buttons. An oscillating synth imagines new worlds of plastic

emotion. Still disco and still very cool, though. A constant velocity is sustained throughout the album by this recurring locomotive synth, trudging away beneath the action. Once in a while, we hear the deep, mighty, trembling voice of Mr. Rheinzand speaking to us in incantations. Someone’s pulling the strings here.

On Slippery People, the trio cover the Talking Heads classic in a characteristic procedure of bouncy funk. We’re swirled around by the delirious glasswork of You Don’t Know Me into the hypnagogic funk noir of Strange World. Drifting through the house of mirrors after the fourth mojito.

Obey collects all these threads in a full-bodied future classic disco anthem, before Queen of The Dawn wraps up the show with a sky-bound epic of operatic choirs and ceremonious drums that lands somewhere between Kate Bush’s Aerial and Peter Gabriel’s most bombastic.

Connect with Rheinzand:
FB: www.facebook.com/Rheinzand/
SC: @rheinzand
IG: www.instagram.com/rheinzand/?hl=da

Obey

Pfundheller releases his second beautiful EP, the 9th of Feb on Music For Dreams.

The single is available in all digital stores: https://music-for-dreams.lnk.to/pfundheller2

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