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Marvin & Guy - UWIH (Unprofessional Widow In Hell)

JUNO Review:
Extremely limited, only 300 copies of this 12 minute dub wig-out have been pressed and they've promised no represses and certainly no digital. Cosmic with a heavy lolloping bass plod (think Norway's burgeoning sound in the mid noughties) expect to be completely washed out by shimmering oceanic guitar strums that sound like a really slo-mo, heavily processed sample of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" (but probably aren't). 
As the groove spirals into hypnotic bliss, the 12 minutes pass with a blink of the eye. 
Deliciously deep; Even a 30 minute edit of this wouldn't be long enough.

MIXMAG Review:
Just what you want to hear if you see HARVEY at 3am: a 12-minute long, deep, dubby, trippy, hypnotic disco workout that fuses guitar licks with chunky drums. 
It’s one of those tracks you’re already loving before the vocal drops in, meaning when it does a dancefloor orgasm isn’t out of the question.

Marvin & Guy - UWIH_MGR001

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The latest house duo to emerge from the Parisian underground bid us bonjour with this stellar debut on Dialect, fusing retroist 80s leanings with brain mulching techno voodoo. Title track ‘Scandale’ and ‘Lame De Fond’ share the same pulsing sequenced heart, transplanted from Carpenter soundtracks and Italo disco classics and then zapped with a thousand volts of warped, detuned and malfunctioning synthesizer electricity. ‘El Topo’ replaces the bristling sequences with a spiky post punk snarl courtesy of live guitars, bass and organ (a la Suicide no less) but retains the twisted electronics for a woozy half time experiment in dancefloor psychedelia. Essential for fans of Joakim, Ivan Smagghe and early Gesaffelstein productions.

Scandale

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Il Est Vilaine - Scandale

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French duo from Paris. I'll be honest, I don't know much about them (Patriiiick?!) but they've already garnered support by Chloé, David Shaw, Tim Paris, and Dombrance among others. And rightly so - this is some excellent new musica from our European friends. "Scandale" is both minimal and retroist, utilizing 80s drum machines (Jomox I think) with old sequencers and synths to conjure up that electronic voodoo usually saved for the Norwegian / Swedish crews of Frak, Borft, Sex Tags Mania etc. All those clever things they teach you in synthesis (glide functions, de-tune, oscillator fine tune etc) executed brilliantly and always in sympathy with the dancefloor. "Lame De Fond" uses equally sophisticated synthesis techniques but goes on a late night Italian-tinged theme... that is, I think - by this point the synth lines were completely infiltrating my cerebrum and I started to shut down as a human and slowly metamorphose into a robot. "El Topo" was the final jam I needed before ripping off all my clothes to reveal a fully chrom'd body piece. Then proceeding to strut a half-tempo robo-walk across the saloon, nodding at the cybernetic barmaid and flicking her a wink of my eye before leaving to do laser sword battle with some invader from a unwelcome star cluster. Yagetme?

Lame de Fond

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Il Est Vilaine - Lame de Fond

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The latest house duo to emerge from the Parisian underground bid us bonjour with this stellar debut on Dialect, fusing retroist 80s leanings with brain mulching techno voodoo. Title track ‘Scandale’ and ‘Lame De Fond’ share the same pulsing sequenced heart, transplanted from Carpenter soundtracks and Italo disco classics and then zapped with a thousand volts of warped, detuned and malfunctioning synthesizer electricity. ‘El Topo’ replaces the bristling sequences with a spiky post punk snarl courtesy of live guitars, bass and organ (a la Suicide no less) but retains the twisted electronics for a woozy half time experiment in dancefloor psychedelia. Essential for fans of Joakim, Ivan Smagghe and early Gesaffelstein productions.

El Topo

Il Est Vilaine - El Topo

ALIEN ALIEN - "Sambaca" (Original Mix)

The original version - as featured in the film "Pusher".

This was a double-a side vinyl release limited to 300 copies:

a. Well Alright 
aa. Pleasure Moon (Feat. Helena Ward).

newfinger Records
Cat No: nfr001

This song has been re-released in dj-friendly form by DFA records http://dfarecords.com/artists/marcus-marr/


Marcus Marr - 'Pleasure Moon' (featuring Helena Hertfordshire)

A2 Xen All Of The Sun (Original Mix)

Sometimes, collaborations only make sense when you hear the results for the first time. This isn't one of those times. No, this was a match made in heaven from the get go. Punk attitudes and club aesthetics like peanut butter and chocolate. For our premiere off the 'Caraxes' EP, deviant duo Il Est Vilaine have turned in in a dark 'n' dirty slung out remix of 'Incognito', equal parts psych, dub and synth pop. I wish they'd played this one in school assembly instead of the sh*t hymns we had to sing along to.

Caraxes

PREMIERE: Red Axes & C.A.R. - Incognito (Il Est Vilaine Remix) [Kill The DJ]

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Pachanga Boys -Power (Kompakt Total 11)

Play loud and enjoy.
Written by Boris Pupul.
Recorded, mixed and produced at DEEWEE.

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BOLIS PUPUL - WÈI?

All italian take on the gorgeous Visti & Meyland original. Beware of the nasty HOUSE PIANO! stay tuned for MORE to come from the RODION and MAMMARELLA duo...

Visti and Meyland - STARS [RODION and MAMMARELLA rmx]

This months free edit is courtesy of Carnazza and can be downloaded  over at their bandcamp site.

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Carnazza - Ti Voglio (Carnazza Edit)

Simple Symmetry's HUGE end-of-the-night, top-of-the-morning, spiritual floor-filling remix of Drugface

Drugface - In The Clouds  (Simple Symmetry Remix)

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PREMIERE: Red Axes & C.A.R. - Incognito (Il Est Vilaine Remix) [Kill The DJ]

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