Captain Attractive - Drum Chums Vol. 5
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A1. It's More Fun 2 Make Love
A2. Memories
B1. Dreamer
B2. Ghana Do It

Drum Chums Vol. 5 marks the arrival of Captain Attractive, an international man of mystery, head-nod hero and edit expert whose many masterpieces inspired us to pick up the scalpel in the first place. Last seen leaving Berlin on a world tour, this legend parked the Red Motorbike outside Talking Drums HQ and treated us to a lesson in San Fran sleaze, hippie disco and MPC bump.

The A-side opens with the sticky funk of “It’s More Fun 2 Make Love”, a pitched down disco cruiser extended for the tantric dance floor and mastered on an old porno VHS. Sultry, slinky and rated X. We’re always hungry after the act and graciously Captain Attractive is on hand with a donut called “Memories” to close out the A-side, looping some sweet soul into the kind of hypnotic hip hop as house romper which defined beatdown way back when. 

The Captain takes the yacht to the Med on the B1 with the super Balearic groove of “Dreamer”, an astounding combination of dexterous bass, choral vocals and rolling piano, all set to the shimmy of hippie percussion. It could be a Laurel Canyon memory, an Xtian obscurity or something much deeper, but it’s definitely twelve minutes of sunset bliss - just wait until my guy flips the script after seven minutes! The dude drops the curtain with another bitesize portion of MPC mastery, cutting up some thick wax guitar and cool keys over a swung groove for “Ghana Do It”. Captain Attractive taking you where you want to go.

100% Drum Fun Guaranteed.

Captain Attractive - Drum Chums Vol. 5 Previews

Back in 2018, Argentinian producer Fernando Pulichino released ‘Search of Indigo’ on Leng, a shuffling slab of colourful, Balearic-adjacent dub disco featuring his own distinctive lead vocals and backing vocals from Luca Gasparini. Six years on, the track returns renewed and refreshed thanks to a string of new floor-friendly reworks by LTJ Experience and Pulichino himself.

Fernando kicks off the EP with his ‘AM Mix’, an inspired re-invention that re-frames the song as a hard-wired, acid-fired chugger – all restless, razor-sharp TB-303 lines, low-slung bass guitar and sparkling piano riffs. On the digital version of the EP Pulichino has also offered up his ‘PM Mix’, a deliciously Balearic disco dub rich in colourful synth sounds, elastic bass, flanged guitars and sun-bright piano licks.

It's LTJ Experience’s trio of remixes that lie at the heart of the EP though. The Italian producer, real name Luca Trevisi, initially made his name as a downtempo and nu-jazz producer before perfecting a trademark style of chugging, slow-motion hedonism that draws influence from both deep house and nu-disco. His main Remix foregrounds many of these trademark elements, in the process delivering a bongo-rich chugger laden with delay-heavy bass guitar sounds, head-nodding drums, heady guitar loops and echoing vocal snippets.

On the Dirty Mix, Trevisi reaches for tight, short TB-303 ‘acid’ loops, a more sparse and heavy rhythm track offering a more heads-down, dubbed-out affair that should delight those who love late night and early morning hypnotism with flashes of wide-eyed sonic bliss. Then, to round things off, Trevisi delivers a heady, atmospheric and spaced-out Dub full of jazz guitar licks, bubbling electronics, vocal snippets and effects-laden bass. It’s a winning combination.

Vinyl Tracks:
A1 Search of Indigo (AM Remix)
A2 Search of Indigo (LTJ Xperience Remix)
B1 Search of Indigo (LTJ Xperience Dirty MIx)
B2 Search of Indigo (LTJ Xperience Dub)

LENG SHOP

Fernando - Search of Indigo (Original Mix)

Mindful

So, what is a "Utility Groove" anyway?  

I imagine this like a back-up generator.  When the beat has abandoned you, when the vibe is absent, when you feel everything starting to wind down--you call on your "Utility Groove" and it will get things going again--perhaps not for very long, nor at full power...but enough to get you by.  

This is the latest track from Interbay--and if you've been following along and reading these descriptions, you know that I'm constantly trying to force my neurodivergent/adhd brain to keep things simple.  And usually, my efforts result in something that could be collected and shared by FailArmy.  I just have to color in every blank space--and it can make for some very interesting compositions, but those can often confuse listeners not prepared for lurches into different tempos or the blendings of genres never meant to blend (not to mention the songs that drag out for seven, eight, even nine minutes in length.  Fine if you're an acid rock band or if you're making trance records, but thanks to MTV and TikTok, not really built for modern attention spans.)  

I had a little piano figure I wanted to work with...and I knew I wanted it to be slower paced...and I didn't want to overstuff this one, I wanted to keep it (say it with me now) simple.  

...and I think I did it.  For once, I kept the track simple!  

There's not much too this--it's a little slip of a song, based around that piano, an upright bass and a boom bap beat.  (I couldn't even kid myself long enough to add the hip hop & rap tag--this would only piss off fans of those genres if they got linked to it.)  

I'd call it triphop--and thus, part of electronic music.  There's also some electronic processing, some thunderous 808s...a vintage soulful vocal sample, a couple of saxophones...and that's about it.  It did the job assigned to it, it gets in...it does its thing...and it gets out of there.  

I did have thoughts about adding more vocal samples, possibly explaining the title/narrative with words in the song instead of words in the description, but I think you can "get" what its going for without them...and that opens up the space and lets this track breathe a little--thankfully!  

It always seems like such damnedable faint praise to describe this as "pleasant"--but compared to the often much noisier and abrasive tracks that Interbay has shared with the world in two and a half years...I think "pleasant" is EXACTLY what this track is.  

It is the groove you need when you just need a groove.  Thus, it is your "Utility Groove".

Listen, like, repost, share, comment, playlist and follow for more, please!

(Even, sort of, kept the description simple!  Who am I?????)

"Utility Groove" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

3rd Opening Theme to season 2 of The Apothecary Diaries In My Lofi Style

Buy Track Here

Hyakka Ryouran (From "The Apothecary Diaries") [Lofi]

Dennis Franklyn Williams known as Merchant.
He borne in 1943 at Trinidade where he live all his life and be came one of the must brilliant calypso artists.
We proudly present this maxi single of the track "Tumble Down" taken from the album "Ha Coming Too" original released in 1987.
Now new tree versions inside this 12" to put fire on the dance floors around the world!

Ostra Discos © 2017

Merchant - Tumble Down (Unrealeased Extended)

Joe Claussell joined the MUSHROOM HOUSE series!

The New York City DJ and music originator made one of his rare remixes. For the Toy Tonics series. 
Claussell is a pioneer. Blending African and Brazilian rhythms with Disco and House since the early 1990ies. Inspiring the music world with his labels Spiritual Life Music and Ibadan records and with his legendary Body & Soul parties that he run for 6 years with Francois K and Danny Krivit in NYC. 
For Toy Tonics he remixed an obscure afro funk song by German Afro - Kraut Band Karl Hector & The Malcouns and Nicolas Tounga, singer from Burkina Faso. The original song was released on a limited 7“ on Now Again records/ L.A. in 2008. Sold out for a long time. Claussell’s remix is an amazing 11 minutes afrotechno jam. A great journey though styles.

Also on this EP: Night Masquerade by Vito & Druzzi. Again: NYC guys. You might know the boys also for being part of The Rapture/ DFA. Since a few years they produce electronic music under the name of Vito & Druzzi. Part of New York’s Throne of Blood crew. Some might remember their vocal contribution for Joakim’s Bring Your Love. On their track for Toy Tonics they go tribal. Somewhere between Steve Reich inspired Gamelan pattern, smooth flowing over a 4/4 beat top by a nasty, 1970ies Funk synth solo that turns the whole track into a new direction.

Third track is by Kapote, man behind Toy Tonics and owner of many great records with hot samples. His Besamo Fly is a 110 Bpm slow house jam - makes you think about Mexican beaches or Paris Filter House nights of the 1990ies..

Vinyl & Download

Karl Hector & Nicolas Tounga - Ngunga Yeti Fofa (The Joaquin Joe Claussell's Version)

Originally Released 1986
Licensed from Satari Music
Available on Maxi Single  March 2018
Pre order available : http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=100067

Nobody To Love b/w Smile

Satari - Smile

Unknown album

Inspiration - Do it

Addictive Hiro Ito rarity with Make My Day Today in both instru and vocal versions.

"Make My Day Today" 7" (Vocal) By Hiro-Ito ‎on Miracle! ‎Germany, 1986  👋

Release date 12th of July - via https://afrobotic.bandcamp.com/album/daytime-high and in most specialised shops!

A1 Solima - Potentiometer
A2 Ali Baba - Mad’R
B1 Badaouiah - Articulat
B2 Mustapha - Afrobot

In the beginning of the summer of 2019, AM returns with four exotic edits and reworks to dance to on grass. Solima is a pitched down lush and spatial Afro gem that will cause instant euphoria on any dance floor, followed by a faster and uplifting African jam called Ali Baba. Both have that late 80’s synthetic vibe we dig so much. On the flip there are two tracks which are constructed upon respectively an Egyptian and a Turkish sample. Badaouiah reminds of Carl Craig’s edit of Congo Man, builds up slowly and gets highly hypnotic and deep, while the second track Mustapha rolls out a quirky rhythm pattern with a hysteric Turkish clarinet sample.

Comes in a disco bag, hand stamped with a new drawing by Frank Koedood.

12AM - Daytime High

Welcome to the wonderful weird of Talking Drums - home to poorly executed dance moves, misjudged vibes and narcotic bravery. Semi-Cosmic, way wonky and oozing grooves, this is music for disco mystics and club misfits.