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When Life Was Slow

Addiction

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Free Yourself

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Electronic group Pale Blue returns to Damian Lazarus' label Crosstown Rebels. Dive stems from the pair's upcoming album on the imprint, which will drop next year. Remixes from Fort Romeau and Rebolledo feature on the EP, adding another layer to the shoegaze-tinged tune. 

Mike Simonetti talks about the theme of the track. "'Dive' is a breakup song. It's about when the person you are living with becomes a stranger," he says. "Musically, 'Dive' is an experiment in polyrhythms and textures; the music has a lot of movement, yet Elizabeth's vocals are stoic throughout. The music represents the chaos of the relationship, and her voice is the calm realization of self." The title track opens with Elizabeth's soft vocals and a dreamy synthline, evoking a hazy but potent soundscape. On Fort Romeau's remix, the Oxfordshire native offers a Tranceadelic Mix of the track, combining tribal-flecked percussion with an understated bassline, allowing Elizabeth's lyrics to dominate the atmosphere. Rebolledo pens an acid melody and transposes Elizabeth's vocals to an alien-like pitch—perfect for a tripped-out listen. 

Jersey-born Mike Simonetti is one half of the musical group Pale Blue and the founder of labels Troubleman, Italians Do It Better and 2MR. With over two decades of experience working as a producer and DJ, Mike has released disparate sounds on Crosstown Rebels, Correspondent and several more, building the reputation of a versatile artist who avoids the limelight and instead focuses on making dance music with depth. In 2020, Pale Blue’s track I Walk Alone With Acid landed in Pitchfork’s The 30 Best Electronic Music Releases of 2020 and The 100 Best Songs of 2020. US-born Elizabeth Wight is a vocalist and the other half of Pale Blue. No matter the project she's working on, her vocals add different layers to electronic music, creating a signature mood that only she knows how. I Walk Alone With Acid remains one of the most striking records in her evolving discography. UK-born Fort Romeau merges the tones of house, kraut, ambient, disco, and techno across his work, releasing on Permanent Vacation, Mesh and more. His album Beings of Light dropped on Ghostly International earlier this year, affirming his status as an innovative artist. Mexican DJ and producer Rebolledo is one-half of the electronic duo Pachanga Boys, but as a solo artist, his sound bounces between sun-kissed house and strutting disco. Tracks on Correspondent and Hippie Dance highlight his boundless approach as a producer.

A1. Dive 
B1. Dive (Fort Romeau’s ‘Tranceadelic' Mix) 
B2. Dive (Rebolledo’s 'Distanced Disconnected Limited Edition' Mix)

Pale Blue

Dive

Pale Blue - Dive

I Wanna Dance (At The Nightclub)

Revisiting a Rhye classic from their chart-topping album ‘Blood,’ label family member and leading creative Haider Uppal takes a floaty house approach by retouching Poolside’s warm Nu Disco remix.

Haider artfully plays with the rhythm, chords and nostalgic vocals making this a particularly special moment for the dance floor and beyond.

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Break Me In Pieces

Sublime

Fivetet

Here's our take on Hanni's "Two Brothers." We recorded it at our studio in Brooklyn and centered it around a chugging clav,  stomping live drums, and a syncopated horn line played by our friend Jonathan Powell. Hope you enjoy it as much we enjoyed making it :-)

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Hanni El Khatib - Two Brothers (Holy Ghost! Remix)

Visions

Getting Lonely

Romance is dead? Romance is as alive as you decide to be. Much like death, romance gives us the chance to really work out the balance between who we are and who we want to be, where we’ve been and where we’re going. We get free reign to go a little mad and be a touch more vulnerable than we are usually. It’s the closeness to consciousness coupled with the distance from routine that makes it such a unique experience. In celebration of romance and naked passion, I present to you the first song of five that make up ‘Heart Over Heels’, my sixth EP on Glitter Cowboy.

Vocals: @arumflowers

'Heart Over Heels' will be released on the 24th of January.

Heart Over Heels

Sofia's Theme (feat. Arum Flowers)

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TÂCHES - I See You In My Dreams

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Shirtless and shoeless, TÂCHES sits cross-legged in the dirt gently taking in his mountain surroundings. It’s clear that he’s deep in thought as he mindfully traces the shape of a fallen leaf in his hand and a slight smile gently spreads across his face. There’s a tangible feeling of love and fascination communicated through the way he looks at the world around him and it’s precisely this holistic approach to creativity that makes him such a captivating artist. This is the makeup of a being that finds passion and inspiration anywhere he looks. 

Contradictorily, he is as much a devotee to tradition as he is a breaker of rules. TÂCHES is uninterested in following trends, and instead seeks to provoke the senses through a deeply personal examination of culture and cliche. Conceptual without ever being pretentious, his music shows a deep rooted appreciation for the textures of the times passed and faraway places. There’s a certain urgency to capture the world as he perceives it; albeit a world seen through the rose tinted lenses of a creature forever romantically entangled with his surroundings.

There’s no one way to sum up TÂCHES’s music, as it’s perpetually in growth, bending and swaying like a tree in the wind. This sonic metamorphosis is due to a primal need to experiment coupled with a deep longing to express the continually transforming experience of being human. Drawing heavily from emotion and memory, there’s a clear sense of nostalgia in all that he creates. His pure and unabashed desire to combine the things that he loves manifests itself as rich and evocative music with massive personality and palpable global flavours. 

TÂCHES’s desire to build upon the world in which his music exists led to the creation of his label GLITTER COWBOY - the peculiar home for the sonic documentation of his journey. When you listen to GLITTER COWBOY, you are nakedly experiencing life through the eyes of TÂCHES as he seeks to embody self-awareness and optimism, along with finding inner peace through nature, artistic expression and simplicity of living.

I Wanna Dance (At The Nightclub)

TÂCHES

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