"Nice little mix to spice up your daily life" - @regfant

B.P.T. Radio 037: Regularfantasy

Our lastest mix at la Rotonde Stalingrad in Paris for Les Yeux Orange's 10 years party

Disco Bagarre @ Les Yeux Orange 10 years party (miniclub closing)

LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/billion-days-incl-40-thieves-mind-fair-remixes

Artwork by Barbora Idesova - https://www.instagram.com/barboraidesova

Setting out to create a future Balearic anthem while doffing a cap to street soul and synth-heavy Italo-disco B-sides of the early 1980s, Orbs of Light’s debut single, ‘Billion Days’ lands on Leng after a tip-off from Mind Fair duo Dean Meredith and Ben Shenton, who booked the duo to play live at their Rotation festival last summer.

Orbs of Light’s Baz Bradley and A Girl Called Kate have been friends for decades and have collaborated musically in the past, though it was only a couple of years ago that they dreamed up this project. It was first trialled via a 2021 remix for Andres y Xavi on Hollis Recordings (‘Perfect Timing’) on which Kate added new vocals to Bradley’s interpretation of the track. Since then, regular recording sessions have taken place, with the duo first crafting tight instrumental tracks before – in Bradley’s words – “dream up the best songs we can” with “melodies that will hopefully stay in your head all day”.

It would be fair to say that they’ve achieved that goal on ‘Billion Days’, a hooky and addictive affair whose vocal hooks and strong chorus could well inspire Balearic sing-alongs in the months ahead. Their original mix (B1 on the vinyl version of the EP, track 2 on the digital EP) is joyous, cheery and kaleidoscopic, with steel pan style melodies, bouncy synth stabs, jaunty lead lines and Kate’s wonderful lead vocal riding a shuffling, post street soul beat and a bubbly bassline.

The accompanying remix package is naturally very strong too. San Francisco crew 40 Thieves, fresh from dropping a killer single of their own on Leng (‘The Gift’, with disco legends Gary Davis and Cinnamon Jones), step up first with a take that stretches out and builds on Orbs of Light’s original mix – think wobbly nu-disco synth bass, fresh flute sounds, dubbed-out vocal snippets and a locked-in groove that’s just perfect for sun-soaked alfresco dancing.

Fittingly, the second and final revision comes from Mind Fair, whose email to Leng HQ about Orbs of Light got the ball rolling. Opting for a rubbery, body-popping beat inspired by vintage electro, they deliver a joyful, effects-laden Balearic dancefloor ‘Dub Mix’ that somehow makes a genuinely life-affirming record even more loved-up and saucer-eyed – despite the presence of only a fraction of Kate’s addictive lead vocal.

LENG SHOP

Orbs of Light - Billion Days (40 Thieves Version)

Commander F is the second single leading up to Wille's debut LP "Shoreline Orbs".

'Commander F' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

The sound is distinctly an 80s affair, while the title is a reference to the infamous USS Nimitz Encounter in 2004, where a certain pilot commander "F" and crew saw a Tic-Tac shaped craft, hovering and making otherworldly maneuvers. In other words, a certain object that was (and still is) unidentified and flying. Intriguing!

As much as any work of instrumental electronic music can be "about" something, Wille's upcoming LP "Shoreline Orbs" is very much about some of these as of yet unsolved mysteries, what their legimaticay may or may not entail for our collective worldview, and about refinding a fundamental curiosity seemingly lost in the wilderness of a bureaucratic adulthood, and putting that feeling to sound.

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

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Wille - Commander F - s0789

Super FU are back with the first single from their forthcoming long player 'Physical Sounds', featuring some heavyweight remixes to get things moving.
 
The original is a perfect blend of disco, funk, pop, and acid house. Rock-solid beats, analogue bass, searing strings, and all kinds of synth action blend seamlessly with live instrumentation. Paul Withy and Sarah Lazenby trade melodies as the chorus swoops for a mid-tempo end-of-nighter.

The Dub strips out the pop and instrumentation but ups the psychedelics. Deep, trippy and electronic, it takes a hypnotic journey into a world of dub and balearica.

Next up, Craig Bratley brings the pianos front and centre, working the riff that comes off like Marshall Jefferson on downers. The vocals repeat as the track builds to chug and weave to the acid; cue smoke, strobe and dancefloor mayhem.
   
Finally, Leo Zero dubs the disco and rolls with the funk. Once again, the song shows it's strength is as it blends with the piano for nu-disco heaven!

Dicky Trisco: "Craig Bratley mix bloody rocks!"

Alice Palace: "Absolute quality from Super Fu, have always loved the 12 inch dub, so glad its getting a release into the wild :-) Craig and Leo's remixes are the icing on the cake!"

Fingerman: "Heavy vibes here! Leo Zero's mix and the dub are class!"

Robot 84: :"All sounding good, very hard to pick a winner, Leo and Craig's mixes doing it for me:"

Siren (Leo Zero Remix)

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Whilst Ben goes on his holidays, Paper psychonaut The Secret Soul Society raids his record collectiion and lays down 'a mixtape inspired by walking in Bannau Brycheiniog with my daughter, dodging rain clouds and dreaming of jet packs'.


sybil thorndike - tears
weather report - black market
eric agyemang - efa nipo ho
rah & ruffcats - inside out
fruko y sus tesos - tranco seco
norio maeda - hanagasa ondo
sheila & des majek - feeling good
brother noland - look what they've done
secret soul society - clad in peace
reginaldo bessa - canto parar nao chorar
grupo ebano - horas
grupo zambo - salomao
labouzou - balanzan
jesse winchester - nothing but a breeze
latitude - 40 degrees north
raul gomez - poema en la playa
mieke miami - whispering pines
yin yin - pia dance
lea lignanzi - hamadi
chiare - zanzare
aura safari & jimi tenor - your magic touch
grupo los yoyi - el fino
jah gumby - influencers
los reyes 73 - si llegara alli
richard bowen - sorcery
secret soul society - all right with me
orquestre olivieri - maria isibel

Paper Air Waves - August 24 - The Secret Soul Society Takeover

Weekly radio show Monday nights @ radioactivefm.gr/shows/alkalino-radioshow/

19.8.24 - RadioActive Set (FREE DOWNLOAD)

( يا روح روحي - عزازي (جلسات صوت الريان 2014

Payphone talk quarantines and international smark. Following two fairly monster releases on Golf Channel Records there has been a bit of a storm surrounding a four to the floor etiquette which surrounds the music. Secretive and infamous there is a radiant swagger surrounding each release and in the forthcoming weeks a third EP will land on Phil South's Golf Channel imprint in which Payfone fits so well. This mix incorporates worldly influences, dynamic musical flair and crashes through the boundaries of 'acceptable' club music. Listen and read the interview on site...

Payfone: The Ransom Note Mix

Still available online and at our shop : https://discomatin.bandcamp.com/merch

DISCOMAT002 - A1 Show Me

This is where you heard it first:
https://soundcloud.com/krossfingers/podcast-150-charles-bals

God, it's a beautiful record. And you know it. And you don't have it. But you want it. And now you can have it. The only copy on the grid

"Hôtel Des Savannes" 7" by Voyage De Charme - Belgium 1980s - 115€

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