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Joe Raico & Utofbu - Could This Be The Love

Aquamarine x Breather

Rinse FM guestmix for PBR Streetgang

~ Regularfantasy [Canada] ~

Vancouver stalwart Liv Carmen a.k.a Regularfantasy has come a long way; from singing in a choir, being part of a R&B band, getting her hands dirty with plethora of musical instruments, to founding her first comfort zone in rock music, she finally experimented the playful Canadian underground dance scene during her early 20s. Her borderless creativity stems from her eclectic music tastes, which helps her feel like a fish in the water when effortlessly producing devastatingly dance-driven leftfield house for maximum club effect as well as balmy vocal-driven deep house. Influenced by timeless 90s house jams from MK, Ian Pooley or Daft Punk, her evocative productions have been warmly welcomed by top quality labels such as Mood Hut, Heart to Heart or Pear. Besides, multifaceted Liv has been fluttering around between solo projects, Plush Management Inc. where she shares mental vibes with most in vogue producer D. Tiffany, and Ciao where she plays wacky and energetic live sets with her collaborator Void Mirror.

We are ardently convinced she is an artist to keep an eye on in the coming years, and this catchy and vibrant set filled with fresh material is living proof. Grab your headphones and feel the lively house vibes from Adeva, Saint Etienne and The Opious Project.

Regularfantasy’s latest crush: DJ Tonka

Our team’s recommendations: MSN (w/ D.Futers) [Pear], Party Girl Theme [Pear], Baby's First Track (Club Da Bong Extended Mix) [Heart to Heart Records]

s. // @regfant
f. // www.facebook.com/regularfantasy/
b. // www.regularfantasy.bandcamp.com

017 ~ plastic/vibes x Regularfantasy 🇨🇦

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Shanti Celeste is a vibe. She’s got that magic lightness of touch even when things are getting Jacques Cousteau deep or panel beating heavy. This makes her the perfect candidate for the Sound of Love International 3, channelling the spirit of both those after-hours sessions and the more frivolous daytime boat parties. This is serious music for serious music heads but, after all, everyone is still on holiday. It’s linear and cohesive but plays with the emotions - carnivalesque fun, psychedelic flow-states, heads-down rhythm trax, playful skipping garage, and more abstract moments. Deep joy to deep space and back, often in the space of 3 or 4 well-selected records. 

There’s a deep musical and personal connection to the festival - as she says of her first time playing at the Beach Bar, “there’s a heavy Bristol crew there and it all feels easy and nice. It was just good vibes all round”. And she does make it sound easy too, which belies a DJ with some very serious skills and an ear for a killer tune that others might well overlook. And it’s this that makes the 3rd instalment of the Sound of Love International such a joy - a welcome panacea to all of us suffering from the Croatian blues this year. 

To which end, we get a cheeky exclusive collaboration between Shanti and her sister-in-arms Saoirse in the shape of ‘Solid Mass’. Persian’s uniquely British paean to the post-rave Sunrise ‘Morning Sun’, cavernous dub runnings outta the Bokeh camp from Seekers International. These are the lift- off tunes, setting the mind-state for the journey ahead. 

Things tighten up with cult underground hero Lucas Rodenbush under his E.B.E alias giving us the taught, grooving, dubby tech-house and Gideon Jackson’s ‘Taj Mahal’, crisp, spatial, mystical and criminally slept-on. We go deeper into the night with Perpetual’s Awakenings’, one of those records that is so much more than the sum of its parts. And who knew that Mark Seven was such a dab hand with the dank machine funk? Check 1998’s ‘Crank’ for the skinny. By the time Paco Pack’s rubberised ghetto house reimagining bounces into play it’s GAME OVER. 

The final side leaves us with the soft landing - Cari Lekebusch ‘Output 2’ is both pacey and drifting and Pauline Anna Strom’s ‘In-Flight Suspension’ does what it says, whips away the drums and leaves us floating in space. Will we ever touch down? 

To overuse a phrase, this compilation arrives in strange times but is a glorious reminder of what brought us all together and will again. The music and dancing under the stars. See you in 2021. 

TRACKLIST
2X12” vinyl LP
A1. Shanti Celeste & Saoirse - Solid Maass
A2. Persian - Morning Sun feat. Hannah Small
A3. Seekers International – FurdaMurda
B1. E.B.E. – Thinking
B2. Gideon Jackson - Taj-Mahal
C1. Perpetual – Awakenings
C2. Mark Seven – Crank
C3. Paco Pack - Slap That Bass
D1. Cari Lekebusch - Output 2
D2. Pauline Anna Strom - In Flight Suspension

Digital Album
1. Gideon Jackson - Taj-Mahal
2. Perpetual – Awakenings
3. Dark Matrix - A3
4. E.B.E. – Thinking
5. Seekers International – FurdaMurda
6. Persian - Morning Sun feat. Hannah Small
7. Fade 2 End - Feel The Magic
8. Mark Seven - Crank
9. Paco Pack - Slap That Bass
10. Shanti Celeste & Saoirse - Solid Maass
11. Cari Lekebusch - Output 2
12. Pauline Anna Strom - In Flight Suspension

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Shanti Celeste - The Sound of Love International 003 [clips] (Released August 7th)

Music from Ciel, D Tiffany, System Olympia, Telephones, Public Possession, Ilana Bryne, Planet.mu, Roza Terenzi & three tracks from Blaze because I couldn't help myself 💅🏻

Full Tracklist: https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-22nd-july-2020

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Old school dance anthems that represent "her being" from Optimo Music and Biologic Records producer @matisaxx.

Read more: https://www.stampthewax.com/2020/08/05/diggers-directory-matisa/

Diggers Directory: Matisa

Next into the mix series is Josh Caffe - a man you will have no doubt come across at some stage in your musical journey - and if not, you'll almost certainly be grateful for the introduction now. 

It's fair to say Josh is a master of a number trades within music, having made a name for himself as a selector, playing shows from Panorama Bar, live with Hannah Holland, all the way up to one of the world's largest festival crowds, with his residency at BLOCK9 at Glastonbury. 

It's arguably equally, if not more so, as an artist which has enabled Josh to make his imprint on the Sonisphere. His unique production style combined with his vocals has seen him achieve a discography of highly coveted releases on his own label, Night Sheen, as well as outlets such as Nervous Records, Crosstown Rebels, BPitch and Dixon Avenue Basement Jam's to name a few. His collaborations with scene legends such as Honey Dijon and Paranoid London have also received much praise, and certainly worth checking out if you haven't done so already.

This mix encapsulates Josh's penchant and encyclopedic knowledge of selecting in dance music. Notes of Acid, House and Techno combine and echo throughout, providing one of the most intriguing dancefloor temptations we have received in a long while.

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/josh-caffe
Night Sheen: https://soundcloud.com/nightsheenrecords

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all my thoughts, a virtual festival - U-I (live)

* FULL INTERVIEW: https://boltingbits.com/mixed-by-manuel-darquart/

Manuel Darquart are a UK via New Zealand-based duo who have managed to make quite a name for themselves in a short period of time. Blazing onto the scene in 2017 with their Dippin & Tripping EP on Coastal Haze, they've since gone on to release on labels such as Childsplay, Infinite Pleasure as well as Soothsayer and now have a new EP, coming out on the renowned WOLF Music staple. Their own brand of music, though it has evolved over the years, has still retained a very identifiable quality. We got a chance to ask them some questions about their life during quarantine, how they'd describe their own music and what the future holds. Read at the link above while listening to the dancefloor-inspired mix they've put together for us.

INTERVIEW.

MIXED BY/ Manuel Darquart

TASCAM DR-40

#1.7 - Clem

plastic/vibes saw the light of day as your 100% house-oriented - in every shape and form - inspirational podcast channel, which features fast-rising djs from all over the globe.

through high-quality guest mixes, we aim to showcase upcoming and game-changing house selectors we instantly had a crush on.

enquiries/love messages to theplasticvibes@gmail.com 
(we do not take mix submissions)

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