Song For Ehi

bosq ft Kaleta & The Ibibio Horns - Song For Ehi (192)

Celestial Strut

Found Your Love (feat. Kuyen)

Club to Heaven

Mudai edit (Bonus Track)

Back when the first white labels started floating through the hands of German, British, American and Canadian DJs in late ’84, nobody was ready for what was coming. The official drop hit in early ’85 and the scene was never the same again. This was the moment Mike Mareen broke through the static. Yeah, he’d been working with Chris Evans-Ironside since the ’70s but nothing hinted that together they’d channel something this futuristic. “Dancing In The Dark” sounded like it had slipped through a wormhole: melancholic, hypnotic vocals wrapped in vocoder haze, riding an arrangement so razor-sharp it made most releases of the era feel prehistoric. It didn’t need the pop charts… It owned the clubs. And the clubs listened.

London. Berlin. Madrid. Rome. Paris. Lisbon. Amsterdam. Athens. Toronto. NYC. Tokyo. Mexico City.
One drop of that electro bassline and DJs were hooked. Crowds were hooked. The whole underground was hooked. Soon Europe’s radio charts caved under its pressure, and the track crossed borders on mixtapes, becoming a cult anthem behind the Iron Curtain. It was everywhere, even where it technically wasn’t allowed to be.

Fast-forward four decades and the spell hasn’t faded. “Dancing In The Dark” still shows up in indie dance, italo wave, house and deep house sets. Producers keep re-editing it like it’s sacred material. It’s one of those tracks that DJs treasure, a timeless weapon, one of the top three defining singles of Mareen’s entire career.

And now for the 40th anniversary of its official release, Vintage Pleasure Boutique and Night’n Day Records drop the vinyl every collector and selector has been waiting for: a special reissue loaded with four brand-new remixes spanning the full spectrum of today’s underground indie/disco/italo/house energy.

Tallac - the American Berlin dweller - dives deep into the hypnotic soul of the original, pulling out its buried deep-house DNA and carving out a spacious, emotional roller.
Luksek, Italian producer & DJ, goes raw and dirty: loop-driven, gritty, underground, hypnotic, the kind of edit that eats dancefloors alive.

Flemming Dalum, the Danish Italo grandmaster, finally gets to remix the track he’d always dreamed of touching and of course it’s pure Flemingish electro-italo magic.
And the Polish sparkle: A.P. Mono delivers a shimmering mix of italo disco, glitterbox groove, disco glamour and synthwave glow, all while keeping the spirit of Mareen’s original heartbeat intact.
 
The wax also features two historical heavy-hitters: the 1985 Jens Lissat’s team remix and Luis Rodriguez’s original arrangement, essential cuts in the Mareen universe.

Mike Mareen - Dancing In The Dark (Tallac Remix)

Trus’me feat. Amp Fiddler – Can We Pretend

The Best Of Cerrone Productions

Hooked on You (The Reflex Revision)

You No Fit Touch Am (Retouched)

You No Fit Touch Am (Medlar Remix)

African Funk Experimentals 1979 - 1981 Vinyl

Pasteur Lappe - More Sekele Movement (Papa Ni Mama)

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Courtesy of @kowl

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Goody Goody - It Looks Like Love (KOWL Remix)

Release date end of July.

Pre-Order at http://www.juno.co.uk/products/497414-01.htm

Rahaan Edit -  Make Me Hot (Promo-Snippet low res)

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CNPY015 Lontra - Money, Money  12" Out Now!

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CNPY001 General Ehi Duncan - Africa My No. 1
CNPY002 bosq ft Kaleta - Song For Ehi
CNPY003 Tomede Ehue - Bella Bello 
CNPY004 The Celebrant - Re-Calibrated
CNPY005 Alafia - Assanssan
CNPY006 Kiko Navarro ft Kaleta - Funky Man Dey Sleep
CNPY007 Alafia - The Sam Redmore Reworks
CNPY008-1 OPOLOPO X ALAFIA - AXXANXXAN/AXXIOVE
CNPY008-2 OPOLOPO - AXXANXXAN/AXXIOVE (Instros)
CNPY009 Kiko Navarro - Kéléjé
CNPY010 Poly-Rythmo Reworks
CNPY011 Poly-Rythmo Reworks
CNPY012-2 Joi N'Juno - Samemala
CNPYLP001 Myke Moul - Oppressor LP

CNPYLAP001 London Afrobeat Collective - Esengo LP 
CNPYLAPDIG1 London Afrobeat Collective-Topesa Esengo Na Motema 
CNPYLAPDIG2 London Afrobeat Collective - Freedom (Digital)
CNPYLAPDIG3 London Afrobeat Collective - My Way (Kiko Navarro Remixes) (Digital)

Events

13/10/23 Troyes, France
14/10/23 La Barge, Troyes, France
20/10/23 Strogi Centar, Belgrade, Serbia
21/10/23 Klub Feedback, Niš, Serbia
28/10/23 Malanga Café, Ibiza
15/12/23 Tropical Discoteque, Torino, Italy
29/03/24 Bird Vinyl Bar, Copenhagen
30/03/24 Jolene, Copenhagen
11/05/24 Fiasco, Porto, Portugal

bosq ft Kaleta & The Ibibio Horns - Song For Ehi (192)

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