2021_Nov

November 2021

HOUSE

The Upload 164

Crabtree EP

AM006

Truth

Prophet

Harp

PREMIERE: Xinobi - Morangos (Acid Pauli Remix)

You are very welcome to enjoy part of Prima Musica podcast series with Pengi. Questa libertà.

@welcometorimini - Hamburg

Prima Musica with Pengi

Often I wonder what it would be like to be the river blistering down Dwight, doused in sweat and steam, hastily rushing to where the waters meet. She moves with such ferocity and ease, unashamed to be sprinting while being bashful to the untrained eye. Even when her currents are withholding and her roots are spreading thin, I know that one chance meeting in her waters will unload me from the mess I’m in. 

Up-and-coming French producer Less-O releases hypnotic bass track 'Behind Closed Doors' ahead of his debut EP Shenanigans via  his brother Simo Cell's TEMƎT. Recorded during the recent lockdown over lengthy night watch shifts, the track is imbued with dark elation propelled by a manipulated laughing vocal sample and drum programming akin to the dripping of water droplets, clicking like excess time of lockdowns gone by. The infectious breaks and cascading bleeps transform mid-track into a miasma of trance influences, through the lens of arpeggiating synth lines and vast space in the soundscape. This track ensures that Less-O should be on everyone’s radar as a keen emerging producer to look out for.

Shenanigans EP

PREMIERE: Less-O - Behind Closed Doors [TEMƎT]

Milan-based, Chilean-born DJ, producer, and keen digger, Paula Tape joins us for the 89th edition of the Phonica Mix Series.

Although Paula started her musical career out as a drummer in various metal and indie bands, she is best known now for her distinct brand of breezy yet energetic dance music and her musical creations have been picked up by such labels as SOBO and Alzaya Records, as well as her forthcoming Astroturismo EP on Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section International.

Paula is also an active member of the Tempo Dischi crew – a label on a mission to discover and repress Italian gems from the lost era, such as Alexander Robotnick’s Computer Sourire and Contact Music’s Keep On Dance to name but two.

Check out Paula’s interview over on offtherecord.net

Feature & Interview

Phonica Mix Series 89: Paula Tape

Buy & Listen

PREMIERE: Jozef K - Glade (New Jackson Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/chezdemilo
https://soundcloud.com/futureboogie
🛒 https://fanlink.to/Futureboogie10
🔊 https://youtu.be/91WiGixRHzY

Futureboogie Recordings is calling time after ten years with a 20-track compilation that sums up the sound of the lovingly curated Bristol label. From throbbing arps and noirish guitar twangs to errant analogue blips and ceaseless, rolling grooves, it’s a different sound to what you might have heard five years back on the Summer Riot IV compilation, and certainly a long way from the early days. Consider Futureboogie 10² an ode to evolution as much as a toast to all the great tracks and the family of artists that have passed through the wide-reaching Futureboogie sphere since before the label was even a sparkle in the disco ball.

When Futureboogie Recordings launched in 2011 with Julio Bashmore and Javeon McCarthy’s ‘Father Father’, it represented an extended circle of friends close to the label from Bristol’s deep pool of talent and beyond – amongst them Eats Everything, Waifs & Strays, PBR Streetgang, Behling & Simpson and Crazy P. The reach of the label grew in tandem with its reputation, not to mention the endeavours of the team in other areas of the music game. The Boogiefuturo label became a vital entity on its own terms, carrying a lauded DJ Nature remix of Typesun which encapsulates two distinct generations of Bristolian house music at its best. DJ Nature, who cut his teeth as DJ Milo in the Wild Bunch days, has gone on to become a regular feature on Futureboogie, helping define its soulful, adventurous spirit.

It’s also hard to separate Futureboogie from Team Love – events specialists who share some of the same management. From their flagship Love International festival in Croatia (having steered The Garden before that) to the Love Saves The Day weekend in Bristol, the Silver Hayes dance area of Glastonbury to the Waterworks festival with Percolate in London, you can see the unmistakable Futureboogie stamp across an international spread of events now. 

Sonically, Futureboogie shifted its direction at the halfway point with Fernando’s Mid Decade EP. Artists like Mark E, Felix Dickinson, Kiwi, Lauer, Ponty Mython, Ruf Dug and Toby Tobias are of course still intuitively connected with the foundations of disco and funk, but their sound teases at the edges to shape out a more inquisitive strain of house. The remixers passing through the label at this time speak volumes as well – the late, great Andrew Weatherall, Roman Flügel, I:Cube and Ivan Smagghe amongst them, every one an iconoclast within the strictures of club music.

So we come to Futureboogie 2021, which lands in the wake of a sterling run of 12”s from breakthrough names like Theus Mago, Zakmina, Chez de Milo and Warehouse Preservation Society. Across 20 tracks, this expansive collection celebrates the same omnivorous love of grooves which Futureboogie embodied before it even had a name. There’s a moodier, freakier strain to the sound across the compilation, but the tradition of warm, snagging party starters holds true. It’s a triumphant note to end on. But one has to ask, why, and what comes next?

Tracklist: 

1. Francesca MacKay - Desire
2. Tech Support - Writers Block
3. Natural Sugars - Wormholes
4. Warehouse Preservation Society - Ron's House Feat. Dan Hastie
5. Ponty Mython - I Summoned Rick
6. Rodion - morti DFAMe
7. ID_UA - Think
8. Maia Lee - Less But Better
9. Manami - Narcos.Is
10. James Welsh - Times Square
11. Theus Mago & Jepe - Thief of Time
12. Chez de Milo - Need Someone
13. N-GYNN - Dutch-E
14. Kams - All In Your Mind
15. The Robinson - Scream
16. DJ Nature - Goin' On
17. Lauer - Offset Pat
18. Zakmina - Driving to Nostalgia
19. Toby Tobias - Trippy Steve (Fantastic Man Dub)
20. Hard Ton - Don't Believe The Hype

Futureboogie Compilation 10²

Need Someone

PREMIERE: Chez de Milo - Need Someone [Futureboogie]

https://soundcloud.com/decemberxxx
🛒 https://deathandleisure.bandcamp.com/album/d-but
🔊 https://youtu.be/in4NeXo1CE4

After ten years of producing music and ten years of being terrified of doing this : Tomas aka December finally releases his first album.

The myth of the first album can be heavy on musicians, putting a lot of pressure on artists thinking they have to craft the ultimate record, condensing and transcending their style in one perfect release.
Of course it’s not the case and it shouldn’t be.

It took years for Tomas to realise this and finally get it done.
Oliver Ho aka Broken English Club, who’s always been a crucial supporter of his work, helped him compile extracts from live shows, rough studio sessions as well as careful arrangements and the record slowly took shape : « DÉBUT » was born.

This first album exorcises his fear of confronting this format by channelling a raw electronic punk energy, showcasing his unique vocal signature, his strong minimalistic beats and the melancholic, romantic atmospheres he is known for.

But it’s also a tribute to his first loves and totems , electronic punk, industrial, sci-fi, ebm. It is a homage to where Tomas comes from, his musical origins.

It is a direct, simple,
forward, honest, powerful record and it feels like the beginning of a long series now that Tomas conjured these dark spirits.
This is only the debut.

Tracklist: 

1. Text Me When You Get Home
2. Always
3. Bottom Of The Food Chain
4. Years Ago I Would Have Said Yes Honey
5. Sunday 10.45pm
6. Je Sors Ce Soir
7. Double The Pain!
8. No Game
9. The Day Of The Hunter

Début

Bottom Of The Food Chain

PREMIERE: December - Bottom Of The Food Chain [Death & Leisure]

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/tripjag
Track: Acid Break
Label: https://soundcloud.com/randomcollectivecr
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 02/12/21
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VNYjGsbcVLE

Trippin Jaguar will guide you along with his sound that rides the line between lucid and transcendental.  The thoughtful layering of acoustic instrumentation and captured sounds over electronic foundations mean the intricacies tend to unfold with each listen, like a good trip should.   Acid Break is a credit to his uniqueness and willingness to push the artistic boundaries, with an unrivalled ability to bring seldom heard soundscapes to the dance floor.  Trippin Jaguar enlisted a group of equally experimental remixers. Canadian comrades Nathan Hall & Johnny Posh reworked "Glow" into a cosmic and spaced out number with equal amounts of tension and ease. Analog atmosphere master Oora is back on the label with his dreamy downtempo rendition of Acid Break while Japanese expat turned  Canadian live set specialist Tokiomi makes his debut on the label with a heavy and heady remix of Mar Sara.

PREMIERE | Trippin Jaguar - Acid Break [Random Collective] 2021

We're very proud to offer Volume 3 in our ongoing "All Welcome" vinyl compilations - celebrating the musical output of another six members of our diverse GMT family.

Available now via our online store & Boomkat.

GMT15 Various Artists - All Welcome 3 (Snippets)

Animal Minded, Dynamo, Psyllium, Fizz, Shadow, Freeze, Temporary

@tristestropiques

Temple of Dreams 13

Luxurious house, courtesy of Regularfantasy, comes to SOS Music’s sophomore compilation.

Read More & Buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/11/11/premiere-regularfantasy-believe-that/
Listen on Youtube: https://bit.ly/RegularfantasyBelieve

Listen on Youtube

Regularfantasy - Believe That (STW Premiere)

Calgames Virtual Reality Club 2021 Edition - 11142021

https://soundcloud.com/komodo-jkt
https://soundcloud.com/visceramusic
🛒 https://visceratransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-claws
🔊 https://youtu.be/9ci1_F94odo

For the debut digital EP on Viscera Transmissions, Komodo spreads his wings and takes his signature low slung psychedelica to the stars, to reap destruction on extraterrestrial dancefloors across the cosmos.

Title track Mirror Claws begins an ember in the desert, slowly stoked by guitar chord stabs and eerie screeches towards a slow yet inevitable psychedelic inferno.

For Night Crawler, the guitar steps back into co-pilot role as the acid bass takes the saddle, spurring the squelch dragon off into the void with a crack of the 303 whip.

Next up is Vanquished Angst with a dubby desert rock workout. Blazing guitar solos tear across the sky like thunderbolts whilst the hypnotic bassline and guitar progression burn through the dunes.

On the flip, Jonny Rock re-dubs the dub with his Vanquished Angst Dragon Remix. No slightly questionable guitar metaphors here, instead, a mind melting whirlpool of spiraling percussion, vocal quips, bass throbs and pads form a completely bonkers but brilliant piece.

Last but certainly not least, Chez de Milo arms Night Crawler with some serious ordnance. After changing up the beat pattern with a breaksy kick, electro warheads are ago, clearing the way for the original 303 line to cruise through. Heavy!

Credits: Thanks to Komodo for the amazing music in support of our new label, Jonny Rock & Chez de Milo for the delicious remixes, James Savage for the incredible masters, Kirsty Carrington for the gorgeous illustration and to Jessica Lau for digital design. 

Tracklist:

Mirror Claws
Night Crawler
Vanquished Angst
Vanquished Angst (Jonny Rock Dragon Remix)
Night Crawler (Chez de Milo Remix)

Mirror Claws

Night Crawler

PREMIERE: Komodo - Night Crawler [Viscera Transmissions]

We are very happy to share the mix that John Zahl, alias J.A.Z. has prepared for us called "Why can't we tickle ourselves and other robot problems”.

J.A.Z. is a Bedford-based selector and editor, from New York, USA. He combines his work as an Episcopal church minister with his lifelong hobby for music. He is a passionate vinyl collector and always delights us all with his musical selections.  <3

Hope you enjoy this mix and for id enquiries, mention @j-a-z-1

Thank you for listening see you soon! 🐬

Dancing Dolphins 008 | J.A.Z.

https://soundcloud.com/sofaholic
https://soundcloud.com/strangelovemusic
🛒 https://cccvvv.bandcamp.com/
🔊 https://youtu.be/rCDiqb2bRq0

CCCVVV is the Brussels based duo of Clara Vellin and soFa elsewhere. The first Covid-lockdown drew these two old friends closer and both a love-story and burst of musical creativity followed.

A wide-eyed electronic record wearing its heart on an innersleeve, Curriculum Vitae chases after no real genre, preferring a very personal colour and style of its own. Music and passion entwined, it has resulted in this collection of intimate avant-pop-oddities. The album collects whispers of 60’s chanson and psyched out chords, holding a playful spirit throughout.

Through the genre-no-genre approach, Curriculum Vitae distills down to a vital essence, constantly flirting with smartly infused elements from the past/present for the head, heart and feet.

Highlights include a dreamy version of Nancy & Lee’s ‘Some Velvet Morning’ alongside the acidic slow-mo hypnotics of ‘Ritmo Denso’. ‘Generationen’ floats on a pillow of sonic bliss, while ‘Alla Porta Subito’s vocal and instrument interplay slinks closer to outer-planetary italo-reggae.

C.V.’s production wanders along a retro-futuristic approach throughout, its punkish attitude dancing between an embrace of the modern and a more naive pop-arrangement approach. Along this 37 minute journey the sweet and dark sides of a lifetime are witnessed, light organic harp marries refreshingly to carefully chosen synthesizers. Whimsical lyrics meet with melancholic composition.

Clara Vellin is a classical harp player active in a variety of eclectic musical projects.soFa, known for his highly acclaimed series of the eclectic "elsewhere" compilations, & productions such as Mameen 3, Nyati Mayi and collab with legendary Turkish drummer Okay Temiz & Houschyar on Music From Memory/Second Circle. 

Tracklist:

A1        The Harmonist-
A2        Some Velvet Morning
A3         Generationen
A4        Alla Porta Subito
A5        Die Unglücksreligion
B1        Synthwalz
B2        In Cerchio
B3        Bacin Bacetto
B4        Ritmo Denso
B5        Trost Der Massen
B6        Ein Kosmischer Tag

CCCVVV- Curriculum Vitae

In Cerchio

PREMIERE: CCCVVV - In Cerchio [Strangelove]

Penki iš penkių. Paskutinis #NaujasKailis šiais yra Indré. Įgūdžius jai nušlifuoti padėjo karantinas, o skonį formavo UK scena ir pora Londone praleistų metų. Tai tikrai jaučiasi mums atsiųstame mikse, kuriame pilna šviežiausių madų iš ūkanotos salos. Deja, dėl sudėtingos logistikos į prirašymą Indré nespės, bet vis tiek ją traukiame į bendrą programą. Nes to nusipelnė, būtinai ją išgirsim artimiausiu metu. 

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Last but not least. @indrep is our fifth New Blood of 2021. Unfortunately, she won’t make it to her inauguration night on Saturday due to logistics challenges but we’ll definitely catch up with her later.

Naujas Kailis: Indré

The world was spinning faster than ever before, it was more chaotic and dazzling than it had been. Some were using this opportunity to make amends, building bridges faster than others might attempt to burn them.

Nobody knew when it might stop for that was an uncertainty beyond the imagination of all comprehension. Perhaps it would be today, perhaps it would be tomorrow but for now all they could do was to continue the merry dance upon which kept it all moving.

He watched it all from a cloud up above, little did they know of what time was left way down there.
 
Chambre Noire has announced the release of a new split EP which features a collection of tracks from RW, Bunzinelli and Mild Drama. This EP caught us off guard as it’s perhaps more club focussed and dancefloor ready than the previous material to emerge via the imprint. It’s a stellar EP with label boss Bunzinelli’s track playing a stand out role as far as we’re concerned.

CN004

PREMIERE: Bunzinelli - Building Bridges [Chambre Noire]

5 outstanding edits by the one and only auratekh, an internationally recognized purveyor of the finest trance-inducing sounds and images.

The Earth Question opens the EP and is an invitation for bodies to get in motion and minds to seek elevation. 

The Silence is an anthem that revisits an iconic 80's hit and a reminder of the deep links between new wave and Goa. 

Pan's Domain is one of those chuggers that might cause flashbacks of the highest order. 

Blue Pilot Light is a deep and trippy groover for all your abyss rave needs. 

Traveller is a forward-thinking number, fit for vertical ascent and celestial navigation. 

Per the artist's request, his proceeds from sales of this EP will be donated to IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs - a global human rights organisation that promotes recognition and implementation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
credits
released May 29, 2020 

Edits by auratekh 
A&R by Ed Isar 
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta 
Artwork by João Ervedosa

3 - Auratekh - Pan's Domain - 110.2 BPM

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