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The Versa's debut on Gitano Records with "Luz De Luna Llena".
With a touch of a latin influence and some smooth deep elements.
Including an edit by Leo Leonski.

The Versa - Luz De Luna Llena (Leo Leonski Edit)

Full length

Get the 12" vinyl now in all fine record stores. You can order your physical copy here:

Juno.co.uk: www.juno.co.uk/products/snacks-p…die-ep/543035-01/
Oye Rec.: bit.ly/Snacks_PurdieEP

For all the digital heads, "Purdie" is now available at 
itunes: smarturl.it/snacks_purdie
or Juno: bit.ly/SnacksEP

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Soundcloud: @snackslive
facebook: www.facebook.com/snackslive

Info:
With only their debut 12" on the newly formed Magic Jams imprint, Snacks
are already killing it. These guys are certainly up for something big!

Imagine Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Dizzy Gillespie and Blaze got stuck in
a studio and you get an idea what this Berlin based live duo sounds like.
In complex arrangements they create funky state-of-the-art house music,
in a class all its own.

Watch out for Snacks stunning live performances: These guys bring back a
smile and sense of playfulness seen much too little in today's clubs!

The Vinyl version comes along with a fantastic artwork by california's
own Steven Harrison.

Snacks - Purdie [Magic Jams 01]

Pull Me In

Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up again to release another volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential people in the cannon of disco music, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music coined "The San Francisco Sound." Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco at the age of 21. He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the Electronic Music Lab. During this time Patrick, along with his classmates Maurice Tani and Art Adcock, would create radio jingles and electronic pieces using the school's equipment, first a Putney, then an E-MU System and finally a Serge synthesizer. He would make experimental instrumental songs by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer. 
By the mid-70's, Patrick's synthesizer skills landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco superstar Sylvester such as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance Disco Heat” and "Stars." This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. By 1981 Patrick released a string of dance 12" singles, like “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”, creating the soundtrack for a generation. Also that year, he founded Megatone Records and released his debut album. Around this time Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with a then-unknown illness: that would later be called AIDS. Prior to his passing on November 12, 1982, he recorded two more Hi-NRG hits, “Do You Wanna Funk” for Sylvester and "Right On Target" for Paul Parker as well as a second solo album “Mind Warp”.
In 1979 Patrick was contacted by John Coletti, owner of famed gay porn company Fox Studio in Los Angeles. John had heard about Patrick's music from the legendary Sylvester and proposed he write music for his films. Patrick jumped on this offer and sent reels of his college compositions from the 70s to John in LA. Coletti then used a variable speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of Patrick's songs in-sync with the film scene.  “Muscle Up" is a collection of Cowley's instrumental songs recorded between 1973 and 1980 found in the Fox Studio vaults. This compilation also includes bonus compositions found in the basement of Megatone Records owner John Hedges and the attic of former bandmate Maurice Tani. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Giorgio Moroder, Patrick forged an electronic sound from his collection of synthesizers, percussion, modified guitars and self-constructed equipment. The listener enters a world of dark forbidden vices, introspective and reflective of Patrick's time spent in the bathhouses of San Francisco. The songs on “Muscle Up” are divided into four sides, from the ambient, jungle journey of side one to the instrumental demo version of “Somebody to Love Tonight” on side two, to the space-funk of side three and finally the interstellar workouts of side four, that further reveal the depth of Cowley's unique talent.  
Featuring 75 minutes of music, this compilation contains soundtrack music from two Fox Studio films, "Muscle Up" and "School Daze", plus additional songs from the same era, never before released on vinyl. The tapes were restored and transferred using the same speed and pitch settings, then remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA.  The vinyl comes housed in a extra wide spine jacket and giant fold-out poster featuring a handmade collage using photography and xerox graphics of classic gay porn imagery from the Fox Studio vaults by Berlin-based artist Gwenael Rattke. Each double album also contains a 8x11 glossy promotional “Muscle Up” replica poster with original VHS artwork plus an essay from Maurice Tani. For Patrick's 65th birthday, Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records present a glimpse into the futuristic world of a young genius.

5oz Of Funk

Our favourite section of any orchestra has to be the Rhythm Section. It's the engine, the driving force - and Bradley Zero's night was more than instrumental, if not a primary component, to Peckham's musical pool exploding the way it has over the last couple of years. 

Read more here; http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/premieres-exclusive-streams/premiere-contours-seven-arched-tongues/

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Don't Ask Me

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint  III. Fast (Röyksopp True To Original Edit)

Patrick Cowley - Somebody To Love Tonight [Dark Entries, 2015]

Voyage - Do It Again

Blood feat Huw Costin /White Elephant

Muscle Up

Deep Inside You- Patrick Cowley

London duo JeanGa & George add breezy, Balearic flair to Safetalk's debut single. Read more here: thump.vice.com/en_us/article/jeanga-and-george-universal-remix-stream

Listen to the original version here: https://soundcloud.com/listentosafetalk/safetalkuniversal

Universal (Single)

Safetalk - Universal (JeanGa & George Remix)

Hula Vortex EP

Mental Marathon

Flash Atkins has pulled in Charlie Sinclair, singer from one of Manchester's hottest new bands, Sylvette for a collaboration that promises to be the start of something special.  The track has already been gathering heat, with Bill Brewster calling it 'one of his favourite house records of 2017' and reports of it rocking ALFOS and The Warehouse Project.

The original has a throbbing sub over clipped techy drums, muted guitar and an incessant Moog riff.  But the killer punch is Charlie Sinclair's soulful, intimate vocals that sit beautifully over the music.  The groove is locked and builds to the break where a hint of disco hits the floor before the final section brings in the bells to devastating effect.  The end result is a track that is destined to knock socks off in the coming months.  You were warned. 

Sean Johnston liked it so much he asked to do a remix and the result is everything you would expect from the Hardway Brothers.  He keeps the original elements but toughens things up with added oomph, taking it in a proto house and techno direction.  

Finally Tal M. Klein strips the track back to it's bare basics with devastating effect. Just a kick, the guitar and serious compression provide space for the tripped out vocal and a truly psychedelic deep house experience.

That Hit

Flash Atkins & Charlie Sinclair - That Hit (Tal M Klein Mix)

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