Ancient Future Now reaches the jinxed number 013 and welcomes Matt Bruce aka Vanity Project to their circles for necessary celebratory exercitations. Matt is also known for flooding the subcultures with tasteful housey explorations via his own label Claptrap, and tasteful housey explorations he does bring here indeed. Juicy poly synths, thick piano chord loops, rubbery 303s, phat claps - you name it, it’s all in there! But don’t be fooled by these attributes, which basically constitute any given classic house track - this is not some arbitrary ordinary sleep house. It’s delicately arranged, on point and very… Vanity Project! And yes, of course, it’s groovy like hell! We thought that goes without saying.

The EP is rounded off by two very different and very fun remixes by bestie armada RSS Disco and Conga Fever. The former pull all the stops of their beloved summer festival DJ sets and create a disco house beast, that sounds like a love-child of LCD Soundsystem and Prins Thomas. The latter invites us to a supremely tasteful downtempo dub house excursion, including melting organ chords, acoustic drum grooves and dreamy guitar melodies.

The Churn

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Vanity Project - The Churn (RSS Disco's Lifetime Value Mix)

Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye plays himself in his movie Hurry Up Tomorrow. The movie serves as a companion piece to his latest album. We caught this vanity project in theaters.

In the movie, The Weeknd is a pop superstar in crisis who has lost his voice. His manager (played by Barry Keoghan) is trying to boost his ego. Jenna Ortega plays a deranged fan hell bent on tracking The Weeknd down. Trey Edward Shults directs. This movie was reviled by audiences and critics alike.

We'll let you know what we witnessed!

Hawt🔥Takez - Hurry Up Tomorrow Review

synthesizer disco, acid-dripping house & psychedelic techno - RSS Disco's straws slurp across the cosmic melange that is music.

have a dance with us at hello@undundbooking.com
or say hello at hello@rssdisco.com 

we run Mireia Records (@mireiarec) 

here's some upcoming dates:

01.01.25 - Sisyphos / Berlin 
26.01.25 - Island Universe / Berlin
08.02.25 - Ursprung Fi / Köln
22.02.25 - Turtur / Hamburg
15.03.25 - private / CH
29.03.25 - Discoteket / Stockholm / SE
26.04.25 - Nachtasyl / Hamburg
30.05.25 - private / Mainz
31.05.25 - Bosburcht Festival / NL
15.06.25 - Daylight Discotheque / Hamburg
21.06.25 - Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festiwal / PL
29.06.25 - Fusion Festival  / Lärz
05.07.25 - Thalia Theater / Hamburg
12.07.25 - HMV Sonnendeck / Hamburg
19.07.25 - Georgies Wundergarten / NL
27.07.25 - Salt & Silver / St. Peter Ording
09.08.25 - Daylight Discotheque / Berlin
15.08.25 - Dockville Festival / Hamburg
16.08.25 - Bucht der Träumer / Festival
14.09.25 - Sisyphos / Berlin
27.09.25 - Pratersauna / Wien / AT
02.10.25 - Allnighty / Nachtasyl / Hamburg
04.10.25 - 10 Jahre Z-Bau / Nürnberg
11.10.25 - Alter Ego / Amsterdam / NL
18.10.25 - ://about blank / Berlin
24.10.25 - Devozioni Baleari / Turin / IT
15.11.25 - tba / Hamburg
06.12.25 - tba / tba
12.12.25 -  ://about blank / Berlin
31.12.25 - tba / Hamburg
03.01.26 - tba / Berlin

hope to see you soon again!

Matt's Movie Lodgecast™ is a weekly film review podcast of current theatrical and VOD releases hosted by Lodgemaster Matt, along with his fellow Lodgers and co-hosts, "resident hothead" Lucas & Trickster Brother Bischke.

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