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Support from Annie Mac, Ewan Pearson, Dimitri From Paris, Plastic Plates, Boris Dlugosch, The Aston Shuffle, Blende, Eelke Kleijn, Mighty Mouse, Xinobi.. 

In these fastmoving times, where many acts come and go in the space of a few blog posts, it's becoming harder and harder to find artists with true staying power. Anu Pillai aka Freeform Five is one of those rare artists. Following an impressive series of originals & remixes and productions for artists like Ladyhawke, Santigold, Lana Del Rey and Little Boots, he returned to the scene with ‘Weltareh’, a collaboration with Gambian griot and master musician Juldeh Camara. On ‘Leviathan’ Freeform Five teams up with the legendary Róisín Murphy for an exercise in irresistible vocal power and anthemic, feel good appeal. Tom Trago delivers an incarnation of ‘Leviathan’ that highlights the shimmering synths and melodies and puts the funk edge and drum beats centre stage. Cage & Aviary provide a slice of dirty electro tech in their remix teeming with solid claps and bleeps and FX.

One of the youngest DJs on the Belgian DJ circuit, Maxime Firket aka Compuphonic soon moved onto the international scene with a release on Tiga’s Turbo Recordings. Further releases came on other highly acclaimed labels including Get Physical, Modular, Darkroom Dubs, Systematic Recordings, 2020 Vision and Parquet Recordings. On his ‘Leviathan’ remix, Compuphonic injects a playful bounce into the soaring sonics of the original melody.

South London based Cage & Aviary provide a slice of dirty electro tech in their remix teeming with solid claps and bleeps and FX. The duo started off with releases on the much acclaimed Dissident Distribution and have since appeared on DFA, Tiny Sticks, Astro Lab and Prins Thomas' Internasjonal label. They also run their own label The Walls Have Ears. 

Tom Trago delivers two incarnations of ‘Leviathan’ firstly a dub version that highlights the shimmering synths and melodies and puts the funk edge and drum beats centre stage. His remix closing the package reintroduces Róisín’s unforgettable voice. Tom Trago is one of the Netherland’s finest producers and is the most prominent artist on Amsterdam institution Rush Hour Recordings, his third album came out on the label October last year and he also curates the offshoot label series Voyage Direct.

TRACKLIST
1. Freeform Five feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan
2. Freeform Five feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan (Freeform Reform)
3. Freeform Five feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan (Compuphonic Remix)
4. Freeform Five feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan (Cage & Aviary Remix)
5. Freeform Five feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan (Tom Trago Remix)
6. Freeform Five feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan (Tom Trago Dub Mix)

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Leviathan

Freeform Five feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan (Freeform Reform)

Lemongrass - Got It On The Dancefloor

Volta Cab - Why You Come Back Here

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Mister Gavin - Kind Of Love (Original Mix)

Love is such a beautiful thing
Oh, you make my world a summer day
Are you just a dream to fade away...
Ooh-ooh, well-well
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo...

John Lennon - Woman ( My Interstellar BG's ''Too Much'' LOVE in Heaven Bootleg )

James Blake: Modern Soul (Monumental Men Edit)

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Modern Soul (Monumental Men Edit)

Soul Clap featuring Crew Love - Ex Smokers (The FSQ Suite)

Features songs from Soul Clap's self titled album and Crew Love's "True Story" compilation: 

Unprotected Ex - Dirty Leslie - Smokers Delight - F#@K Sorrow - Future 4 Love - Shine This is It - Funk Bomb

Credits:

Remix Production: FSQ (Funk Style Quality)

Additional Guitars and Synthesizers: One Era (Matt Coogan), GKoop (Rob Mandell)

Additional Drums and Drum Programming: One Era, OMAYGA (John OMAYGA Adams), GKoop

Strings: Shaina Evonuik, Benjamin Wright 

Human Whistling: GKoop

In late 2015 FSQ got a first listen to the new Crew Love album "Based on a True Story" and we were already in love with two tracks from that - "Unprotected Ex" and "Smokers Delight". 

We had the idea of getting with Bobby Eli, guitarist from Philadelphia International Records / Sigma Sound to do a real extended medley disco mix like Tom Moulton would do. Tom Moulton is the first producer to string together multiple songs on a LP in a non stop continuous disco mix - he first did this with Gloria Gaynor and then Grace Jones.  

Bobby is a friend of Nona Hendryx, and she said he should be our go to do guitar on the mix. He worked with Tom Moulton a lot on that real Philly sound. Both FSQ's One Era and Chuck Da Fonk are from Philly and have a real love for the lush disco sounds, replete with full orchestral string sections. 

One Era and Chuck put together a 9 minute backing track that mashed up "Unprotected Ex" and "Smokers Delight" to give to Bobby Eli. The work on this with Bobby didn't materialize, so we turned to FSQ's GKoop, to add strings to our extended mix. 

So about the time we went to cut strings with GKoop, we started to get to listen to the upcoming, and now released Soul Clap self titled album. We thought to take the Tom Moulton mix idea a bit further into the eighties, when popular new wave artists would offer a not just a continuous LP mix, but a full 12" mix of a medley of songs. 

Using new sampling technology, making medley mixes became easier in the nineteen eighties - you could cut up small snippets of your catalog, sample them and place them in with drum machines.

Hip Hop producer Steinski did this kind of work with Double Dee in a series of hip hop greatest hit medleys that were known as "The Lesson". 

Even Duran Duran got in the action - their medley 12" was called "Decadance". Our favorite 12" medley is by Yello. The swiss electronic funk group turned in two 12" mixes compiling highlights from their catalog titled "The Metropolitan Mixdown I and II". 

GKoop and Chuck Da Fonk went to work to make this mix into an 80s styled medley extended mix, assembling components of the new Soul Clap album into the Crew Love extended track they had started on. 

First GKoop brought in Bay Area drummer and rapper OMAYGA to add some intricate disco styled drums to the track. OMAYGA last worked with FSQ on their remix for Navid Izadi's "Hard to Say". 

Then over the new disco beat, GKoop laid into the tracks from the new Soul Clap album and did a lot of heavy lifting to figure out what could go where in our extended mix. 

Together we added a lot of new bass work and transitions to come up with the layout for the track, which we now called "Ex Smokers (The FSQ Suite)" to reflect the original mash up of "Smokers Delight" and "Unprotected Ex".

Bay Area based Shaina Evoniuk, who leads the string section for the renowned Jazz Mafia, and New York based Benjamin Wright, who writes music for LouisCK TV program among other television work, finally got on the track. Shaina and Benjamin provided the disco strings that we were craving to tie segments of the megamix together. 

After a year of production work, FSQ is proud to present to you the twelve minute and thirty second suite, "Ex Smokers" with Soul Clap featuring Crew Love.

Soul Clap featuring Crew Love - Ex Smokers (The FSQ Suite)

Rayko - (You Stepped) Into My World [Rayko Edit]

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Most of our readers have probably heard of the anonymous collective known as Apparel Wax. If you can’t recall their name, I know for a fact that you've heard the lead track from the label's phenomenal 2017 debut “001A1” that rose to the top of Juno’s deep house best sellers.

Although the title doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, the song’s opening seconds are one of the most memorable and satisfying moments of dance music we’ve been lucky enough to experience last year. We loved it so much we asked the label’s curator Giuseppe D’Alessandro to do an interview and mix for us a few months back. I suggest you read it to get a better understanding of their history and why the label’s contributors are anonymous. Hint: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC!

In their follow-up record, Apparel Wax have once again employed the work of ghost producers to come up with a record simply titled “002.” Similar to the first, this release contains a mixture of four-tracks that fall on different spectrums of the disco-jazz-funk plane - a real taste-tester you can say. We were lucky enough to get our hands on the A1 of the release, and it’s quite the thumper.

Featuring moody vocals and an assortment of looped guitar licks, “002A1” relies heavily on a throbbing bassline to carry the listener and their feet throughout its entirety. However, I would say the real gem of the tune lies within the horns that come in around the 3 minute-mark. Once those bad boys come to the forefront, “002A1” begins to exude a vibe that’s more romantic and care-free than what the yearning vocals signify at its start. Day-time disco enthusiasts and DJs alike are sure to love this track for it’s funky, yet soothing aesthetic.

PREMIERE : Apparel Wax - 002A1

http://www.projectmooncircle.com/releases/132 | http://projectmooncircle.bandcamp.com/album/10-yrs-hhv-de-45-volume-10

Ten years of existence and constant progress is no easy endeavor and it's honouring all the more to celebrate all these years of succesful cooperation with the tenth and concluding release of the '10 YRS hhv.de 45' series.

The limited 7“ contains four exclusive tracks produced, coproduced or remixed by label-avantgarde Pavel Dovgal, Long Arm, 40 Winks and Robot Koch, who could not embody the development of Project: Mooncircle any deeper, and, moreover, introduces just recently signed Pyur and Darius Vaikas, foreshadowing a possible future of the label.

Artwork by <a href="http://www.legendbros.de/code/projects.php">LGB5</a> | Mastering by Sven Friederichs | A&R: Malte Tarnow & Gordon Gieseking.

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40 Winks - Kodak Moment (Long Arm Remix) (10 YRS hhv​.​de 45 Vol. 10)

HOLTOUG bootleg of one of my many favourite The Doors songs!

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Volta Cab - Why You Come Back Here

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