20 Years Of Freerange - 5 x Vinyl Box Set LP

June 2016 sees Freerange Records celebrate 20 years at the top. The label, run by Jamie ‘Jimpster’ Odell and Tom Roberts, is marking the occasion with the summer release of a carefully curated and lovingly assembled 20 track, five vinyl box set featuring exclusive new music from associates old and new, as well as with a worldwide events series.

Over the last two decades, generations of DJs and dancers have gotten down to the Freerange sound. Initially that was a mix of sample-heavy productions incorporating live musicians, flirtations with the broken beat sound and some ground breaking fidget house cuts from Switch and Trevor Loveys. Then, and most enduringly, the label settled into a rich vein of deep house. Shur-I-Kan, Kirk Degiorgio, Milton Jackson, Trackheadz, Stimming as well as Jimpster ushered in this most recent chapter, and in turn the label has helped make household names of many more previously unknown talents from Detroit Swindle to Manuel Tur, Andre Lodemann to Tony Lionni. Wherever you look amongst the hundreds of EP and LP releases on Freerange, you will find nuance and evolution, dance floor sensibility and genuine emotional impact.

That same sense of timelessness characterises this new compilation, which is packed with great music from the likes of KiNK, Pittsburgh Track Authority, Kuniyuki, Kito Jempere, Soul of Hex, Clavis, Detroit Swindle, and of course Jimpster himself, as well as a whole host of other Freerange regulars. There are many highlights across the 20 track package including a warm and skipping house cut from Bulgarian live specialist KiNK, a typically slow burning and beautifully arcing epic from Andre Lodemann and spaced out jack tracks from classically inclined Liverpudlian Tony Lionni.

Big name stars like Detroit Swindle return in style with a robust and acid laced banger, the ever-underrated Milton Jackson builds something melodically magical and Pittsburgh Track Authority layer up majestic string stabs and rubbery bass into soul infused future music. Jimpster himself bolsters the whole package both solo and with Luv Jam as well as remixing Tim Toh, and on each occasion proves why he is one of the pivotal figures of the UK deep house scene.

Few labels make it to twenty releases let alone twenty years strong. Often doing so without making any real fuss, now is the time that Freerange Records deserves its time in the spotlight, and this compilation more than proves that.


The New Tower Generation - Eyes Dont Lie [Freerange Records] (96Kbps)

Artist: Adam Port & Stereo MC’s
Title:  Changes EP
Release Date: 20th Jan (Vinyl) 27th Jan (Digital) 2017
Format: Vinyl/Digital
Cat No: FR221/FRD221

Adam Port and Jimpster have had a special kind of ‘virtual’ relationship the last
few years with a mutual respect for each others productions and output of their
respective labels.  Keinemusik, which Adam runs alongside Rampa, &ME and Reznik,
has grown into one of the most consistent and hottest out there right now with
every release creating a big splash and bringing magic to so many dancefloors
around the world.  Adam recently remixed Jimpster’s Eel Pie Island to devastating
effect bringing his own deep, late night atmospherics to the original and
creating one of 2016’s underground hits in the process.   So now we’re very
pleased to welcome Adam Port (alongside legendary UK artists Stereo MC’s) for a
full release on Freerange in the form of Changes.
Opening the release we have Adam’s own remix which sets the tone with a subtle
and gently building groove providing the perfect backdrop for the Stereo MC’s
esoteric vocal.  This lesson in restraint shows why Adam’s productions work so
well on big systems, letting all the focus shine firmly on the vocal creating an
intense atmosphere with not a single huge breakdown in sight!
Next up we have the original of Changes which takes a more electro approach with
a simple bassline and crisp hats and once again allowing the vocal space to take
centre stage for a deep and memorable track with a message.
Finally we have a remix from our own Jimpster opts to push in a completely
different direction.  Shuffling up the groove and laying down a repeating Rhodes
riff we’re treated to an altogether more soulful and less stark version making
the perfect compliment to the the package.  This one makes us think of his remix
of Osunlade’s Momma’s Groove which is no bad thing we feel!  Enjoy!

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Adam Port & Stereo MCs - Changes (Jimpster Remix) [Freerange Records] (96Kbps)

Adam Port & Stereo MCs - Changes [Freerange Records] (96Kbps)

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A1. Our World (With A Boy On Its Shoulders)

cross modulation filter pinging feedback frenzy.

This is part two of three audio studies, one minute each, accompanying the light installation of Mischa Kuball's "res-o-nant" exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, for which 40 artists created sound installations, amongst them roedelius, bocksrucker, nieswandt, jürgen paape, monika werkstatt and many others. 
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KFB - Über Kreuz (stereo, 24b, 44k, Loopable)

spectral freeze madness made from various modular audio sources, laced with  cassette tape convolution reverb. 

This is part one of three audio studies, one minute each, accompanying the light installation of Mischa Kuball's "res-o-nant" exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, for which 40 artists created sound installations, amongst them roedelius, bocksrucker, nieswandt, jürgen paape, monika werkstatt and many others. 
more information: https://www.jmberlin.de/ausstellung-resonant

KFB - Cassette Fog (stereo, 24bit, 44khz, Loopable)

#52 of the TNTG_Friday series. Every friday 1 new track. All year.

FREE DOWNLOAD : tntg.bandcamp.com/track/fin

written and produced by Daniel Schreiber & Fabian Schreiber

mixed & mastered by Dj Buzz at Buzzment Studio / Vienna

TNTG Logo by Dominik Roitner

Coverphoto by Daniel Schreiber

New Tower Records 2017

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