TECHNO (intrumental)

Mothercity

Mothercity (Tom Jarmey Remix)

Lockdown

Afterglow

Tantra- A Place Called Tarot (Idjut Boys Re-Edit)

Bobby McFerrin - Thinkin' About Your Body (Joe Edit)

Somewhere Roses

PREMIERE: gutinstinct - A Friend From Berlin [Music Department]
Release Date Worldwide: 03/10/2025

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PREMIERE: gutinstinct - A Friend From Berlin [Music Department]

02-2009

Bongo Lumbo from 'Thesda's Spaced Out LP(1979). Only 100 copies of this rare jazz/funk LP were originally produced. The album is a cosmic journey blending jazz funk soul and disco flavours resulting in one of the most highly sort after LPs for record collectors. Reissued on vinyl and CD for the first time by Left Ear Records www.leftearrecords.com

'Thesda - Bongo Lumbo

Aroy Dee is proud to present the long awaited return of his peer and friend, Melvin Oliphant III, with a stunning solo-project on MOS Deep. Under his The Poetic Painter M pseudonym, the man here serves up ‘Marie's Transcendance’ backed-up by two reworks from compadre Sean Hernandez aka Chicago Skyway.

‘Marie's Transcendance’ is a frenetic yet hypnotizing house track that echoes memories of downpitched Newbeat material and the hooky coldness of new wave. Olliphant III, though, re-defines rather than regurgitates these influences and re-launches them into a dark and moody acid-flecked future. Drenched in icy and pitch-dark deepness, the haunting strings in the track could have been played by Chris & Cosey themselves.

On the flipside, Chicago Skyway takes “Marie's Transcendance” to another realm, reworking it into a deep, emotional just as acid-version which seems to float into eternity as solid 808-beat programming plays out busily behind.

To complete the project, Aroy Dee edits a second rework of “Marie’s”, creating a simple but highly effective and bouncing track that’s carried along by a psychedelic, out-of-this-world bass line: vintage house sounds from three modern masters…

The Poetic Painter M - Marie's Transcendance
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a1. The Poetic Painter M - Marie's Transcendance
b1. The Poetic Painter M - Marie's Transcendance (Chicago Skyway Rework #1)
b2. The Poetic Painter M - Marie's Transcendance (Chicago Skyway Rework #2 - Aroy Dee Extended Edit)

Marie's Transcendance

Marie's Transcendance (Chicago Skyway Rework #1)

Nelly Stharre - Ready

Kalita are proud to unearth New York-based band Cross Island's highly sought-after 1978 disco single 'East of the Apple'. Originally privately released on Raja Records as a promotional single to attract tourism and businesses to Long Island, New York, the record has since become highly prized by both DJs and collectors alike, in particular for its B side 'Just A Little Different' mix. Here, as a 12” single, we re-release it officially for the first time, twinned with Al Kent remixes of both ‘East of the Apple’ and the band’s unreleased recording ‘Wave’, both sourced from the original multi-track master tapes. In addition, Kalita accompany the release with never-before-seen press photos and extensive interview-based liner notes.

Cross Island consisted of seven Long Island-based musicians, influenced on one side by The Beatles and The Beach Boys and on the other by George Martin, Quincy Jones and Peter Frampton. In 1978 the Long Island Tourism Commission approached the band to ask if they would write and release a record to help promote the local area. The resulting single 'East of the Apple' was recorded over the space of just five days in Syosset, a town on the north shore of the island.

Although ten thousand copies of 'East of the Apple' were pressed, its local purpose and the lack of a distribution network meant that it failed to receive a great amount of airtime outside of the surrounding area, available to purchase only in nearby record shops, on merchandise tables at gigs and as Long Island tourism souvenirs. However, as band co-leader Rob Meade explains, it's purpose had been achieved – “it was written to be a theme song for Long Island businesses and to draw attention to what a cool place Long Island was. After we released the record, many people were singing the hook, 'If you do it, do it better on Long Island', and so in that regard it was a great success”.

Here, Kalita gives this massive disco single its just deserts, with Al Kent's two accompanying remixes extending and remoulding the recordings into two modern club weapons whilst retaining and respecting the authenticity of their original sound.

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